I've been wanting to make an Amazon Werewolf because Open Weakness, and the other node that gives flat phys with accuracy on your weapon, seems like the damage output would be insane with hyper endgame gear. You can get ~1000 accuracy on a talisman, which would be like 250 flat phys. Huge crit damage bonus on that side of the tree, if using Garukhans. Idk, I've tried looking up videos to see if anyones made one, but I can't find anything with super gg gear.
Here's what I came up with. 10k ES with Leech, 100% crit chance, and 250% crit damage. Buffed up I can get my Shred tooltip to over 1 million.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/SmallPettingZoo-1051/character/BBW_BigBadWolf
I haven't done werewolf- but I've made 3 Amazons, so this is my two cents but take it with a grain of salt.
IMO the best node on Amazon tree is the one that gives leech based on elemental damage. So if you're investing in elemental damage it's a great ascendancy.
The extra crit from accuracy is also great, but you prob won't run Garukhans. Amazon's can easily hit 100% crit, but for Garukhans you only need to hit 50% crit if I'm not mistaken.
For phys damage, you might be able to squeeze a little more damage out of this, but I'm not sure it will be that much better than the triple phys weapon others are using. Max accuracy on weapons is actually 750 I believe, and you sacrifice other phys damage mods to do this. If you're talking about adding accuracy runes to hit 1000, it prob isn't your best use of runes.
It could be a great ascendancy for you, but figured I'd share what I've learned. TL;DR elemental leech is goated.
Everything can play werewolf. Although since accuracy number is the same on both single and two handed weapon, I think Amazon is much better using one handed weapon like bow/spear.
I made one with quarterstaff on the weapon swap. Would use ancestral boosted shattering palm, then werewolf to freeze and chain shatter it all. Shred for single target. You can also use frozen locus for more of an aoe burst and it works to shred the frozen locus to create ice shards before the boss even spawns. Very fun. Very fast.
The flat from accuracy really is only (barely) valuable on fast 1h weapons (bows included since they're kinda 1h weapons). It would make no sense to go accuracy ascendancy on a talisman.
I don't really see a point, to move that far from the shapeshifts tree nodes you need to be getting really good value or something unique from the ascension.
Amazon doesn't really fulfill either.
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath