Long story short, i made adonias ego stormweaver build. It feels so overpowered and became boring very quickly. I want to ask for help with picking another build that is not a coc comet or poison pathfinder that can do all content, clear juiced temple and most important - should have smooth upgrade curve, suitable for “zero to hero” vibe
Chayula Chaos Damage. Into the breach is insane.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/blgmike-5184/character/bltchfistV
i made a whirling assault witchhunter with maybe a mirror or two worth of gear, stacking armour for defense. Easily clears "fubgun" temple, but probably can't carry anything past 2p parties.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/fafaedras-0334/character/PatrisGUN
why witchhunter? Zealous inquisition is cool. Zealous inquisition is EXTRA cool with AoE scaling. Also sorcery ward is OP. With everything up, I have a hitpool of 1600 + 5000 sorcery ward, defended with 16k armour and I never die.
For maps, you can spec into the nodes close to vaal pact for movement speed, didn't find it necessary since I used this build for temple mostly
YMMV with lower-budget version, but should be fine. I can see ST being a weak point at lower gear levels.
EDIT: can adjust this to a vipercap version for less damage, but more tankiness and move speed.
Can also do this on titan, but you need to invest into life on titan, otherwise the armour will not be enough.
Have not tried evasion stacking on witchhunter, it might feel even better
try any mace skill build imo will be good for perspective
My most successful build this league was a grenadier witchhunter. Does everything, never dies. Just needs a flashing lights warning :D even for poe this is pretty extreme in that regard
Zero duration Titan with Time of Need + Ember Fusillade
Twister + whirling slash. Super satisfying, can be played on multiple classes, works pretty much from act one (I played it as a first timer in poe2 this league as Amazon so it’s fairly simple to understand). Played by only 1% of players according to Poe.ninja. Capable of doing all content, killing bosses - no problem, zooming around the map at a Mach 10 speed - you’ve got it, projectiles bouncing off your screen and reaching places you never noticed were there on a map - hell ye. Can’t go wrong with it, 10/10 would play again.
Minions
No my friend headhunter is the problem stack modifiers then being immortal make all a the progression from atlas tree all to hyper juiced table irrelevant destroy this belt plz
I started league with Poison Pathfinder which strong but medium fun. Rolled to BM CoC Comet which was totally OP and not much fun. My third and last char this league is... drummroll.. Attribute Stacking Ritualist. Really fun, not ridiculous OP like in 0.1, but fast mapping, lots of explosions and very fun to play. But T16 breach + overrun Abyss maps are killing my PC.
Bleed ritualist with couture of crimsom and life stacking is pretty goated, can do all content and is pretty fast and you will only doe to a telegraphed boss slam everything else you can tank because you regenerate that much life. Also work as titan, gemling, Amazon etc
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