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Sure, but I don't want to be using that come endgame. The UI sucks for flask management. I want to pay attention to the fight. Also, charges.

I'll go first: 6L corrupted blood builds are dead. Mana cost multipliers increasing and Lifetap jumping to 300%(fucking why?!?!) killed the build. 4L was a waste of sockets. 6L with a decent amount of investment was just a thing of beauty. The mechanics of a global on-hit dot hadn't really...

PoB has been updated, cry over butchered DPS. Some builds, like SST, will have to spare some points for mana recovery. Could use lifetap, but damn, I don't want to pay 120+ life for something with 4.5 APS.

Spell totem is the obvious starter. Enjoy your 40% less cast speed. Also enjoy a fairly sizeable missing chunk of cast speed. It's not on Arcane Surge anymore, which Heirophant scales. Ctrl F "speed" in the patch notes, they were on a mission that a few people seem to have missed. Cast and...

You can do crit, but it feels like forcing it since you miss out on weapon and melee crit nodes. Maligaro gloves and crit supports might be options. Not a whole ton of inspiration on poe.ninja. Most are bleed glads, which I don't want to do because I want attack speed. So, it's either impale or...

I don't feign excitement. Lots of criticism in my posts in this thread.

Guilty! Am I missing anything of value?

Mana multiplier changes made 6L Corrupted Fever builds close to impossible. Kinda annoyed. Gladiator with Kinetic Blast and Corrupting Fever was a lot of fun last league. Having trouble scrounging up enough HP to cast Corrupting Fever and then also keep it refreshed since you likely need...

Why lightning strike? Frost Blades is pretty similar without the ground travel projectile faggotry. Don't say VLS. Your window to burst endgame bosses down is much smaller thanks to support gem nerfs.

Did he stick that in there to see if people even read his shit? Because I certainly skimmed right over that.

Kinda repost from reddit(sorry @Bubbles), but the guy that paid a hefty sum for that quicksilver flask of adrenaline must be pissed. Nothing new for someone to pay for a div card that makes you go "ok...?", but this was put in the game just last league. @AladainAF IIRC you have a second card...

Yep, it's a fair point. Lifetap support or full cold convert + inspiration are the only answers I got. I can handle being slower. I can handle having to manage mana *initially*. But if you're on endgame bosses, your survivability is fine, your dps is fine, but you're still sweating your...

Probably going to league start SST. Probably a mistake. Exsanguinate traps into Exsanguinate mines is my backup(can't stand the delay on traps, but mines are wimpy at first). Been practicing various forms of it the last few days, so I know it will work out. I'd love if someone could tell me...

I wonder what that "double-hit" comment refers to. Were shards hitting the main target that emitted them, kinda like old splitting steel and fork? Or is this some this-skill-only Hydrosphere nerf? If not the latter, Hydrosphere might double the single target damage for this skill. Either...

I don't understand the changes to Hypothermia and Bonechill. They basically aren't useful for cold DOT anymore, right?

Not that anyone here was using them in this fashion. But I bet it will cost GGG more in good faith currency, this is like the Perandus Coin change.

Tough to read even with the forewarning. Didn't see anything in there about flask charges gained being reduced in maps. Cinderswallow Urn is dead. Bottled Faith still looks pretty damn good(AURABOT FLASK). Staunching no longer removes bleeding, just provides 1s of immunity. Didn't see...

Where do you find it lacking? Single target?

My guess is a fundamental difference in our playstyle preferences. For example, I can't stand any build that uses minefield support, it's too slow. I find Tremor Rod and managing detonation sequences to be similar.

What's unique about traps in terms of tankiness that miners can't do? Why would trappers want slavedrivers after the change to the cooldown traps? If you want blood magic, I bet Lifetap is better. Is there a specific trap wand you're referring to? Tremor Rod is garbage. They broke something...

Pretty sure I'm going to use Lifetap support once I get the Sabo's regen nodes.

Start as traps, switch to mines when you get enough gear that one toss of traps or mines kills a pack. I was practicing starting as mines yesterday and it didn't feel great with how spammy it was. I wish there was a "start as totems, switch to mines" option, but no ascendancy covers that well.

I'm assuming you're also picking up Chain Reaction? Doesn't that fuck with charge generation since enemies won't be triggering traps?

Trap throwing speed needs a bit of a boost. It feels too slow starting out. Also, not a huge fan of having to aim them at least somewhat close to the enemy as opposed to mines you can just toss where ever the fuck you want.

I don't understand this. Some people were getting fortify who weren't supposed to get fortify so we've nerfed investment into fortify, not the ease of baseline acquisition. ????? They really shouldn't have mentioned "Fortify is for melees" if they weren't going to do anything about it. The...

Was planning on speccing out a couple builds tonight. So far, my pick for starter is either Holy Flame Totems Heiro into Forbidden Rite Inquisitor or Life-based Exsanguinate(or Storm Rain) Mines Sabo. Looked at your PoB briefly. Your cast speed seems way low. Not sure about the cluster, they...

1.4 * 3^0.5 is greater than 4^0.5, but it is concerning to see someone forgot area = pi*r^2 Bodyswap on a 40+ radius might actually be playable! I was tinkering around with it and it just leaves too many stragglers and jumps you around to places you don't want to go. Further details on...

Finishing your flask rework with a still-garbage Coruscating Elixir is just perfect. On purpose?

loldontevenplaytheirowngame There was some nice utility to consecrated ground. Sometimes sticking purifying flame on a trigger for some sustain and INCREASED crit chance. Sounds like Bottled Faith, which is what provide ADDITIONAL BASE crit chance, got fucked over. And honestly deserved to...

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Crit is usually better for elemental skills too! Who knows what diamond flasks are going to look like though. I wouldn't do Divine Flesh and LL since Divine Flesh makes all damage bypass ES. That said, even just Divine Flesh + Life, you're taking 4% of your life per cast. At a cast speed I...

Forgot totems have activation time that you can't do anything about, so definitely not going to start Forbidden Rite Totems. Is there another sane way to build around Forbidden Rite? Inquisitor with Corrupted Soul and Shav's. Some other class with 90% Chaos Res via Divine Flesh and Born to Chaos.

It's just you.

Heard a suggestion for using mines with Storm Rain. Sounds very similar to using mines with Exsanguinate to bypass the 0.8s cast time. I really liked Exsanguinate and it was even better with mines. Only thing I couldn't solve was the life cost since it seems every spell mine build goes LL...

Why subject yourself to such prolonged amount of pain and disappointment when you can just tag @Ossoi and be done with it?

Mines have no HP or ES, so you'd be skipping that facet of the skill. Still, might be good idea for starting. Totems could work too, they'll clear packs before they kill themselves, just don't like how slow they are.

Is it possible to league start with Forbidden Rite? I really want to play it with Necro/Corpse Pact/Kitava's Thirst, but that Life and ES cost seems insurmountable early.

So, did you fuck her sister?

I'd suggest as a baseline, you shouldn't be rocking 0 phys reduction anyway. For an ES character, that usually means using a basalt and/or granite flask, but lol, nevermind! It would be interesting to do some rip clip analysis to see if they are actually one shots you can't mitigate. There...

Tencent approach would be grindier, which nerfing player power implicitly does, but then also break up the progression in artificially small chunks to keep the illusion of progression but not really. Dailies, I believe they are called. Then lump in a whole ton of P2W. Nirgon mad cuz not Brad.