Path of Exile 2

The Djinn build is quite fun. But I'm only at act 4 with it. Doing Ghazzy's build. Living Bomb and Fireball to proc the Fire Djinn then nuke with Sand Djinn, shitloads of minions with Muster Support for dmg.

It's quite comfy to play. Been super busy this week so have not played much at all. But will grind a bit this weekend. If anyone got another Djinn version feel free to link it!

Did the beetles end up being good?

Can I get a guild invite ? kinda boring leveling in silence

gogusrl#2167 , char name wtfgogu

edit : got to level 22, ran Sekhemas and figured out I'm a Witch and should have been a Sorceress for Varashta. I'm a fucking idiot.

Respecced to Watering Plant build. It's not fast but it does some dmg and slows stuff down to make it a bit safer.


Tried like 4 builds this league and still looking for something cool to play. I won't touch the bow meta, I hate rangers.

The Bear Drud did great dmg but was clunky as hell. The leveling Djinn builds were quite fun and strong to play. Tried Ghazzys leveling one with fireball/living bomb then respecced to DSLilys Icebomb/frost nova. Both worked great but not quite my playstyle. Now I'm a farmer Sorc planting wines, it reminds me of playing Spark. It's safe and kinda fun, but not sure I'll play it again.

I always go back to minion cuckery even if I don't want to. Well I think I'm done with the league now. Might push to 90 then call it quits. Not much fun doing the Atlas for the same stuff I did last League.

Here's my plant chronomancer if you are curious. its more of a wip. mostly ssf. except the chest.


Theres not a TON of synergy with plants. they do just all scale with cast speed, and aoe, so, quicksand hourglass is just raw power, if not any real interesting mechanic.

Recoup for near immortality.
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18% damage taken from mana
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10% damage taken from wolf pack via loyalty.

Entangle is 102% slow by itself with basically no investment in slow mag..

I am also considering effigy of cruelty.
dps is slowing down at t8. but overall high. its just not CoC comet vomit level.

DPS is very hard to calculate.
shock, impale, overgrowth, armor shred, accelerated growth, fissures, blind.

Thunderstorm 100% shock chance. living lightning. living lighting can proc impale.

Entangle spam with tapping thunderstorm for clearing.

Accelerated growth alone in basic entangle is like 3 blossoms.
with branching fissures 2, is anywhere from 3-8
Accel growth's blossoms scale per hit, at the same rate as entangles fissures.
example level 21 entangle.
127-190 fissure.
33-49 vines. x3/s
127-190 accel growth.

Listed dps is only fissures. spam casting. not even sure if they shotgun.
but accel growth is 4x-9x dps.. of base.

Thrashing vines does list dps.
accel growth seems to spawn 1 blossom per vine gen. which is 2 per cast time.. which will vary with faster cast. again not listed in dps.

blindside in thrashing vines, since entangle is applying blind. That disciple build seems to have this backwards. they have blindside in entangle. which would prevent it from applying blind..
I also don't know why they use Heft over, a bunch of other things. heft is 30% more max phys. which is 15% more overall. Conc effect is 30% more area damage. brutality 3 is 30% more phys damage, and 20% chance to ignore armor.. both entangle and thrashing vines are 100% physical and area damage for us.


Pounce is super good as I noted. As a movement skill which can leap over rivers, etc.
applies predators mark, which is 4% increased damage for each of its enemies within 6 meters of it up to 60%
(Living lighting is 8, wolf pack is 6, im 1, and pounce is another 6-7 potential..but they die too much to count.
8+6+1=15 x4 is 60% anyway.

wolf pack. loyalty for 10% damage taken. also consume impales.

Briar patch. pounce can charge it. more accel growth blooms.


Have to decide if crit is worth it. better gear? maligaros? effigy?
desensitation, and moment of truth..

and same with the arcane surge. the new surge nodes are pretty powerful. 60% increased spell damage, 12% aoe.

don't have 4th ascend yet. when I do, like drop Apex for time stop/rift. I was running rift for awhile before getting recoup set up.

Caliane said:

Here's my plant chronomancer if you are curious. i

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"Stop (time) and smell the roses"

I'm thinking of trying a quaterstaff oracle, can max block with a quaterstaff with the juicy oracle block nodes.

moonarchia said:

Logged in for the first time in a while. Made a druid. Got my ass raped by the big centipede a few times. Logged out. Will go back soon enough, just chaps my hide that I have to go do side quests and level to beat this guy. Melee vs poison is a bad day.

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Check the guild tab, tab 7 bottom right hand corner, care package, all useable at level zero and will easily let you zoom through act one in 20 minutes if you know the act good enough.

First time playing PoE2 and goddamn does it take long to kill stuff. Doing minions druid and not sure if it is supposed to be slow like that. I am not in danger of dying, but bosses are just boring as hell as my DPS just slowly grinds it down.
Guess you really need to optimize even early acts (act2 atm). In PoE I would assume I messed up badly enough to just completely refund passive and try again.

Ridas said:

In PoE I would assume I messed up badly enough to just completely refund passive and try again.

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Why can't you do that in PoE 2, exactly?

Kirun said:

Why can't you do that in PoE 2, exactly?

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I can, but I have no idea what normal is in PoE2 and what it is supposed to look like. Kill speed should be same as in PoE1?

Ridas said:

Kill speed should be same as in PoE1?

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Definitely not. It starts to get "similar" once you reach mapping, but the game in general just plays much slower than PoE 1.

Generally you want to aim at under 1-2 min for bosses during campaign. I'd say if you are hitting 3-5 mins your dps is on the lower side.

Not all builds are created equal in campaign tho so I'm not sure if minions don't come online until later. A lot of builds will be closer to the 2-3min+ in the first act and slowly come online in Acts 2 and 3.

Minion scaling is all about gem level for the most part, so you don't see a huge influx of damage until you start stacking major +skills. Minions are generally slow and steady through campaign and don't really ramp until you've got a few of them 6 linked with a good +7 or so levels.

Monk was the fastest leveling/campaign for me and I've never played bow/crossbow so can't speak to that.

Poison PF really ramps up once you near end of Act 3 and most bosses die in like < 30seconds.

I think Druid has some retarded campaign leveling too depending on what you're doing.