Weekly Question + Crafting Thread – March 03, 2026

A weekly thread for all your simple questions and crafting queries!

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mr_rib004 months ago1

Can someone explain what fast metabolism does exactly? Does it just make leech instant? Does it let me overflow life?

PolishedBalls19844 months ago1

Whats my best route of trying to finish crafting this staff? Ideally would like spell crit, another extra damage mod and spell damage. https://imgur.com/a/EMwPlk2https://imgur.com/a/EMwPlk2

PolishedBalls19844 months ago1

I've been trying to check out some stormweaver CoC builds that utilize choir of the storm and I've come across several that seem to be using 2 mana flasks while wearing headhunter, how is this possible?

mr_rib004 months ago1

Is there anything that does the opposite of crown of eye? A way to turn attack damage into spell damage?

PolishedBalls19844 months ago1

Anyone know why I would be unable to submit a new text post to this sub? I've tried several times and after hitting submit it doesn't make the post, but it also doesn't give me any error or reason for not making the post. I just made the same exact post in the PoE 2 sub with no issues.

PolishedBalls19844 months ago1

So I've found a few builds on PoE Ninja that have their passive tree set up with weapon set skill points but they're not using a secondary weapon setup, trying to figure out what the benefit of that would be. If you lock your primary setup are you still able to somehow utilize the weapon set passives?

PolishedBalls19844 months ago1

Anyone doing adonias build know why it won't allow me to activate pinnacle of power even though I'm at max power charges?

PolishedBalls19844 months ago1

anyone else having issues with trade site doing searches?

Prestigious-Oven34654 months ago1

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First off, sorry for the crap pic. I’m on PS5 and can’t take in game screenshots while holding the button to show tier.

Recombined stuff and got T1 cast speed and fire damage. Used too many catalysts and got mana on kill, + mana, and by some amazing luck all resistances which I needed. I’m gonna desecrate with an echo for last prefix. What should I go for?

I’m playing shaman as all spell casting, mostly fire build. I’m leaning in to CoC comet but not based off a build.

I’m thinking % cold damage would be best; however there’s also a Kurgal modifier I can try to get with an omen, “+15-25% spell damage while on max energy shield.”

What would you all go for? Either of those? Other options? More spell damage would help everything, but cold would also be helpful and probably make the ring worth quite a bit if I ever sold it. If anyone has a price estimate I’d be curious to hear.

Thanks for you alls help. Hoping to do this without an omen as I started with 150 divs as my net worth and am down to 78 now.

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

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?

4 months ago
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Rakiata who?

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!

4 months ago
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“That’s no moon”

“That’s no moon”

The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath

5 months ago
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