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Siege Cascade/Hailstorm Rounds seems to be good this league

I've always looked down on siege cascade for how shitty and clunky the skill is, so I decided to try it out this league and to my surprise I'm coping it. **So how does it work?** Siege Cascade does extra 100%base(146% fully corrupt) against Immobilised enemies, hence the use of the skill Freezing mark and Hailstorm rounds for 2nd swap to freeze the enemy. It also works wonder with the spirit skill Mirage Archer shooting more Siege Cascade making the damage even bigger PoE Ninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/AEgliid-0254/character/RottenVagigi](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/AEgliid-0254/character/RottenVagigi)

Is there a reason everyone uses Comet with CoC?

The +1 second to Total attack time means that energy costs for Comet are quite a bit higher than what they would be for something like Frostbolt or Spark or whatever. I know it's a big splashy skill, but wouldn't it be better to run something like Ice Nova, Frostbolt, or Spark? Literally any other spell that doesn't get the total attack time penalty? I did run the numbers, and assuming you're shotgunning with spark and nothing is infused or supported by other gems, Spark does >3x more single-target damage per energy cost. I do see people using spark, but poe.ninja has 77% of CoC users using Comet. Edit: The main crux of the argument is that Comet has an energy cost penalty due to how energy costs are calculated. Any ability with "+X to Total attack time" has that amount included in the energy cost at a 2x penalty. See the tooltip: https://poe2db.tw/Energy#Acronym So the more succinct question is, why are people spending 300 energy casting a single comet when they could be casting spark for 70 and casting it 4.2x more often? Comet does about the same average damage as Spark on a single target (assuming all 9 projectiles hit). Edit 2: Nevermind, I can't read. Spark can't shotgun, so it's single target is ass. Frostbolt is then the next best example I could find, but it's not as obviously better or worse, so I'll test it out. Thanks everyone!

Favorite Twink?

After your first main has been put to bed or lucky drop just sold - what has been your favorite build to play with the best gear you can give it through the campaign? My favorite has albeen mercenary, with a few good items blasting is a breeze and fun to play… Same feels with minions but they never feel truly OP for me

What Builds Do You Use for Sekhema 4th Ascendancy Bus?

Hello, I’m Korean and since my English isn’t very good, I’m writing this with the help of a translation AI. While playing Path of Exile 2 from Season 1 to 4, I’ve been running the Sekhema 4th Ascendancy bus with an Infernal Summoner build. I think the most important points are: 1. You should start running 4th Ascendancy from day 2–3. 2. The build should be made with cost‑effective gear. 3. Each run usually takes about 45 minutes to 1 hour. I’ve tried leveling several different characters with this in mind, but it’s not easy. So I’d like to ask: what characters and builds are you using for the Sekhema 4th Ascendancy bus? Also, I kind of want to push through the Acts again for fun.

What to do with crossbow dps 2,300+

Shield Wall Infernalist – Nebuloch - 2500% Crit Damage

Hello everyone, I’ve been experimenting with a Shield Wall Infernalist setup and ended up finding a pretty fun interaction using Nebuloch that allows the build to reach around 2500% critical damage. The core idea is Nebuloch allows our attacks to consume an Endurance Charge to guarantee a critical strike. To generate Endurance Charges consistently, the build uses Redflare Conduit with the corrupted mod: “Gain a Power Charge every second if you haven't lost Power Charges recently.” Resonance converts Power Charge gain into Endurance Charge gain instead. Interestingly, this conversion does not count as losing Power Charges, so the condition is never broken. In practice, this means the build generates Endurance Charges automatically every second. Once the crit is guaranteed, the next step is stacking as much critical damage as possible from the passive tree. One interesting class choice here is Infernalist. The Grinning Immolation node gives 50% more Critical Damage Bonus. Since this is a “more” modifier, it multiplies the total critical damage rather than just adding to it, which scales extremely well. Another big damage boost comes from Garukhan’s Resolve. It allows our hits to critical strike twice. The downside is that it reduces your maximum critical strike chance to 50%. However, since Nebuloch guarantees our attacks will crit anyway, that downside effectively doesn’t matter. So the build ends up stacking massive crit damage while bypassing the usual crit chance limitations. I tested it mainly as a boss killer and the damage felt surprisingly strong for a relatively budget setup. PoB: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a3f0](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a3f0) Would love to hear if anyone has ideas to push this interaction even further.