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Barellron said:

One of the most critical parts of the late game is tracking Hybrid Health (flat + % HP in 1 slot) in your loot filter and getting as many of those shards as you can to roll onto your armor pieces. Don't ignore all blue/yellow drops without a Hybrid Health filter above it. Use Runes of Removal on pieces with <4 affixes if it's a high roll until you have a stockpile. Your health is gonna be garbage until you have a few of those bad boys at T5.

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That's one thing maxroll loot filters do well, hybrid health is always in the BIG RED recolor/emphasize category for important affixes, so you can't really miss them(unless they drop offscreen which is another issue, they definitely need the poe thing where you can set minimap icons on drops too) and yeah it's high prio to get a bunch, but then again I haven't used any yet cause I figure I shouldn't use them on garbo gear and since I haven't progressed too far yet as I'm just rolling chars, I'm just stockpiling them, I have like 70 waiting or something for now. You can easily get enough hp for early empowered with just the normal health and health% affixes.

Rolled a Sentinel cause I saw a build that actually looked neat, leveling so far not using leveling uniques, Rive is really cool as a one button wonder for leveling, heals you with passives, decent aoe, good single target after ramping up the weap, really does everything. Shield rush is cool too, once you know the maps you can save a ton of time just rushing through a long line at once. Doing Void Strike/Erasure Strike combo stuff, about to switch off Rive, but I crafted the wrong weapon type(void strike doesn't work with maces) so that's gonna be a bit annoying.

Well health converts into ward via low life uniques or some class specific stuff but if you use any of the poorly balanced ward generation tricks yeah it doesn't really matter as you'll get like 20-50k ward without much investment so it's just a matter of getting a few ward retention things so it doesn't decay too fast.

I kinda hope they nerf some of these things in the patch they said they'd do later this week but they were also saying stuff about not nerfing mid cycle if possible and what not, imo that's kinda horseshot for the first cycle though poe didn't care about nerfing mid league until several years in(and they still do if it's really egregious, which many of the bone curse wall "minions" related shit is for example, or falcon skills not procing the 100% crit neck and such). Well really I don't care that much I just don't use them anyway and I'm not competing with anyone but it's just kinda dumb shit seeing streamers being like "corruption 800 here I go" because they have 50k ward and billions of damage cause they couldn't balance some of this shit properly before release.

Them scaling with minion hp is fine but they should be untargettable with your own stuff. The ward thing isn't the first issue with bone curse walls, there's some 0.9 builds that use it with sacrifice to do stupid stuff like one shotting bosses(takes a bunch of prep but still). The issue then though is that you still have ways to do it. Someone on reddit posted a lazier way to do it with volatile zombies and the unique ring for them where it just constantly resummons zombies so you don't have to press curse, probably less ward generated I'm not entirely sure but yeah the mechanic is kinda weird anyway and feels like it's just begging to be abused with some bullshit summon loop with skeletons or zombies to still give you stupid ward and remove the entirety of the defensive layer concerns when building any acolyte(since you can get all of these skills baseline or by investing into warlock tree which is really strong regardless so you'd likely have some points in there anyway).

On another note, got my Void Knight Erasing Strike to monos, fun class, plays like PoE warcry > exert big aoe stuff. You slap mobs first with Void Strike which does some damage and prepare burst(once you have the mana, atm it's mostly just a setup for me as I can't run the proced dot explosion thing) and then Erasing Strike with 100% crit chance for big boom. With my current garbage gear getting nice 20-25k hits in the early monos, kinda one shots most things and there's a stupid amount of additional dmg left in the tree since I'm only 60.