So I've been playing walking calamity bear shaman and it's been really fun but I'm thinking it's time to try something new. I've put maybe 100 div into my druid and I'm pretty tankyish and have no issues running 6 mod t15s but it's not the fastest in the world, am hoping to make something that can map very fast but still manage to have respectable single target, any suggestions are much appreciated.
Don’t really think there is a build that CAN’T do most content for under 200 div. Theres not a crazy amount of hard content anyways.
Anyways ill always recommend blood mage because it is single handedly the best scaling caster in the game, unless you’re ultra min maxing and then i think adonia’s stormweaver pulls ahead slightly.
Poison pathfinder is also up there right now, very strong, and oracle is just a bit under these
Honestly I think most do. Because of inflation and crafting for profit, the amount of 4/6 perfect affix items that exist on the marketplace for next to nothing is wild.
I did poisonburst as my first time trading. Started with like 10 div because my SSF had a random item that was worth something. Was able to get to t15 maps with just a 1 div bow and basic armor.
I’ve done a bit of farming and I doubt I’ve been even at the 200 div mark and I have a like 700dps bow, +7 global levels for proj across my bow, necklace, and quiver, and even something like 35% move speed and combined 75% rarity and maxed res. The amount of “almost, but not quite” perfect gear that exists makes so many builds worth it now that only the top top tier stuff is worth major money
Around 80 div can clear all content
Compounding ignite witch hunter easily with sub 50div budget
With where prices are now, kind of hard to say.
I can say that I felt I got Galvanic Shards/Stormblast Witch Hunter based off of Woolie's build guide into a good place for probably 200 divs at most (it was in very good shape before that - I didn't start out with 200 divs).
You can get very good, but not top and definitely not uber pieces for the build with that money.
You do not need Rakiata's or even Rigwalds to make it work. The first thing you want to aim for is like a 400 to 500 DPS Crossbow, you can probably even craft one.
Build is fast, good clear, great vs single target and has great survivability through sorc ward.
Woolie has multiple versions of the build - ignore the prices he lists for the variants because they are no longer valid in current state of the economy: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/woolie-run-n-gun-witch-hunter?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C3
If you're looking to spend as little as you can colf spark on either blood mage(for the life as mana) or sorc (for the mana as life) and there's nothing in the build that needs to be expensive and it will clear everything in the game. You take a widowhail with as much % as you can get then a proj speed +level quiver. Boom your projectiles are so fast that it freez3s everything on and off screen so it's very very difficult to die.
Whirling assault Invoker with falling thunder
Adonias Ego CoEA storm weaver; it is the most fun I’ve had since 0.1 stat stacker gemling/CoD temporalis autobomber bloodmage
I cleared t3 delirium and other equivalent “hardest” content and absolutely have great map clear as an armor/es oracle wyvern druid with 1/4th of that total spend. Rend/pounce combo is a great mapping duo (with all of the aoe nodes rend hits all the way to the screen edge), and flame breath is one of the strongest bossing abilities. The most expensive part of the build is building the phys dmg and extra phys damage talisman so you can leach off your elemental dmg, but if you already have an extra phys dmg added talisman from your bear, that would cut your costs in half.
Something like …
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/lolpaladins-6106/character/Trogdormorelikezugdor
Titan whirling assault without uul neto embrace still slaps.
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