Been working on this build most of the league, happy to share the finished version with you guys!

Twin Engine Elemental Vacuum Cleaner (just another Doedre build, mapping + xesht 3)

I decided to try stacking energy shield - at minimum level.

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?

Rakiata who?

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!

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.

Smith of Kitava Endurance Charge Tech

Just tested a tech to generate excessive power charges passively in my Chayula and could see this working really well with Smith Nebuloch or really anyone who wants power or endurance charges. But this could be super good for Smith. Fire Spell on hit with Boundless Energy 2 + Firestorm + Overabundance 1 + Compressed Duration + Elemental Discharge. Then run Siphon Elements with Harmonic Elements 2. You will gain lots of infusions, and a charge per infusion spent. Firestorm can consume one of each infusion, and infusion of power grants a power charge on consuming a charge. With my Chayula I was hitting max charges non stop using reapers invocation with numpad trick to test. Could work really well with CoC on a weapon guarenteed to crit as well. CoEA and CoC also viable.