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Cold_Cup_96964 months ago1

to be fair, 3k Mana is just not a lot, considering you even have eldrich battery.

me dying from time to time with a hitpool of 1.6k life, 6k ES and 2k mana... I would be surpised if you would not bite the dust regurarely.

GL1TCH3D4 months ago1

I have huge doubts that a 111% magic adorned is worth running with normal sapphires.

1995TimHortonsEclair4 months ago1

You are probably clearing clearing content as easily as it clears you lol

You've gotta get defenses from somewhere! If you're not going to get it on your gear, you've gotta get it from the tree/jewels. If you don't get it from either, you're just building a glass cannon.

I could almost count the investment into defensive stats and affixes from your gear AND tree on less than one hand!

I think you're gonna have to sacrifice some of that DPS or reconfigure something. It's okay though are already doing overkill DPS.

First order of business I think would be to get more mana/ES with a very high ES chest.

There's also a unique amulet called stone of lazhwar that grants up to 25% block chance while holding a focus along with mana/cast speed. You'd need to double corrupt it for +1 and +1 again to approach the juiciness of your current ammy but the amulet is dirt cheap. You can also slap on some very cheap anoints for huge increased block chance and rolling increased block chance on jewels works with it too, which would be enhanced by your adorned. You'd probably hit +1 and +1 again on a double corrupt for a lot less than 2 mirrors but don't quote me on it. Either way, very very accessible defensive avenue for you. If you need the spirit you can get it on a chest and still have decent ES.

I'd also recommend adverse growth notable along with some more increased energy shield notables from the tree or your jewels. You need to get more investment into increased ES from somewhere. The opportunity cost for using adorned-enhanced jewels is the points pathing to the jewels - the benefit is that you can customize the affixes to suit a build (ie. there aren't notables that will grant you 30% increased energy shield AND 40% increased spell crit bonus on the same notable, along with resistances or attributes - that's why it works well for builds that use a lot of uniques that lack defensive stats). Aim for an absolute minimum of 5k mana. I don't even feel comfortable on more conventional MoM+EB characters without 6k+ mana just for regular mapping in hcssf. Mana on kill is also pretty good if you are farming temple/mapping.

Also - if you go the block route, taking the 4 points to Steadfast Resolve will solve your stun issues. It's even a good annoint if you don't have block.

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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?

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5 months ago
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