Poisonburst pathfinder endgame

Hello, got this setup for my pathfinder. I was wondering if there is any "major" improvements I can make. I was looking at builds/top players and it seems like I am checking off all the boxes.

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/rl3mb0o0

I guess the only issue I currently have is if a boss survives my first round of damage, I have to wait a little or attack with my basic attack for my mana to regen. Would it just make more sense to have a normal flask instead?

I have a good amount of currency (I think) about 250 divs, if there is upgrades to be made. Just not sure.

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link-notzelda•5 months ago•1

Yeah, you need to weapon swap. Hand of chayula and pounce are the popular choices. Basically you can socket a mark into either skill and it applies to the boss. It’s also important you use the support gem mark of siphoning II in either skill as it will leach mana and life from attack damage dealt to marked targets.

For my set up, I went with hand of chayula with the despair curse and freezing mark socketed. These are supported by the aforementioned mark of siphoning II. For the weapon swap, I’m using a quarterstaff and increases to curse magnitude on the passive tree.

You can also use voltaic mark as your mark of choice, but my build has incorporated a bunch of freezing tech to get a lot of damage gained as cold so freezing mark works for me. Here’s my build btw: beautriss poision pf. Don’t mind the gear, this league has been profitable for me and some things I rather use than sell. But I’m using the curse magnitude passive in weapon set 1 so I can use rigwald’s on my bow skills.

Edit: also, mana leech on rings/quiver can be beneficial because your damage does scale off physical damage

Toucan952•5 months ago•1

If you want to completely solve your mana issue for bossing just get a talisman for weapon set 2 (anything on it is fine attack speed preferred) and put mark of siphoning 2 support gem inside a pounce skill gem and use it on a boss. You can put some other supports go duration/attack speed/culling strike as well.

Once you do that you’ll open on bosses with pounce then do your normal attack rotation you’ll leech infinite mana effectively until the mark wears off (which you can re-apply by using pounce as well). If you want it to be even more effective you can route to some mark nodes on the tree with weapon set 2.

Your tree also has a lot of wasted nodes and your using a crit tree without a crit bow (no %crit chance on it). Which is effectively halving your crit chance/damage.

TemperatureNo88•5 months ago•1

Use any mark skills with mark of siphoning support ..

Start the boss fight with the mark and you will never run out of mana.

For normal mob I use 3 mana on kill jewels and I have no problem

narsil1•5 months ago•1

I used Mirage Archer with Toxic Growth to just delete anything, it was by far my main source of DPS.

It is 60 spirit but is so worth it.

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