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It is a one click skill because of poet pen. One has unearth one has volitile, each casts 4 times a second, which can be taken to 5 times a secon with new elder CD time gear. Thats what makes this build what it is. You use another skill to trigger the poets pens, I use frenzy.
Cool thing is both these skills are 3 linked in poets pen which leaves you to have a kaoms or some other chest without a 6 link requirement.
Cool thing is both these skills are 3 linked in poets pen which leaves you to have a kaoms or some other chest without a 6 link requirement.
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You should probably still get a 6 link. Barrage(or frenzy) - Faster Attacks - GMP - LoH - Accuracy - Blood Magic.
You can put volatile in one pen and unearth in another, but coming up to a new pack with no corpses, that first cast of volatile will do nothing because unearth is a projectile and won't create corpses in time.
You can put volatile in one pen and unearth in another, but coming up to a new pack with no corpses, that first cast of volatile will do nothing because unearth is a projectile and won't create corpses in time.
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Poet's Pen x2 is the most fun ive had this league and Im doing on an assassin since I have 50% fire pen already I don't need to go inquis. I found for clearing PCoC + Unearth + Gmp best in 1, and then Conc + VD + Increased Crit Strikes for the DPS.
The CD gear makes it absolutely ridiculous with the helm enchant.
The CD gear makes it absolutely ridiculous with the helm enchant.
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Ohh yes it does, also you can pre cast it, which you learn to do. Once you get rolling, its non stop since the balls jsut target the next mob they see. Also you can make your character pretty beefy with this build. 6-7K life since you dont need 6 link. I even saw juggs using this with some other skills. Dont get me wrong it can be dangerous, bu you just learn to use positioning and pre casting.
But im not that far, I think I hit act 7 last night so definitely not end game yet. But I have like 1.5K life right now with hardly any armor (just using the shit I equipped at lv 12 jsut to make sure resists are capped) and mobs are not even touching me. The bosses are hilarious too since you pre cast a ton of balls and they just decimate the boss in a second.
And I might do the 6 link if I need it, current plan is for a Koams Heart though since from what I heard you can get like 1-2 million DPS on this build with no 6 links.
Korrupt
would a xophs help this build? I already have one from the nghama cycloner.
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I'm not following you. I played around with poet's pen. It is definitely fun but I ended up ditching it because I didn't like the single target, even with a bodyswap, unearth, glacial cascade setup. But anyway, I found with unearth and bodyswap in the same pen, the body swap wouldn't cast because the unearth was still travelling. It was only when I put faster proj in the pen did it go reliably. How can a volatile cast at the same time as unearth succeed?Ohh yes it does, also you can pre cast it, which you learn to do. Once you get rolling, its non stop since the balls jsut target the next mob they see. Also you can make your character pretty beefy with this build. 6-7K life since you dont need 6 link. I even saw juggs using this with some other skills. Dont get me wrong it can be dangerous, bu you just learn to use positioning and pre casting.
But im not that far, I think I hit act 7 last night so definitely not end game yet. But I have like 1.5K life right now with hardly any armor (just using the shit I equipped at lv 12 jsut to make sure resists are capped) and mobs are not even touching me. The bosses are hilarious too since you pre cast a ton of balls and they just decimate the boss in a second.
And I might do the 6 link if I need it, current plan is for a Koams Heart though since from what I heard you can get like 1-2 million DPS on this build with no 6 links.
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Pen 1 has Unearth, culling,GMP
Pen2 has Volitile dead,Increased crit, conc
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And they both trigger at the same time Im not sure what you mean? also from what I have read if you place 2 triggering skills in the pen it wil cycle them, this is why you only put in one and supports. Seems like you had 2 trigger skills in one pen.
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Korrupt
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Ohh yes it does, also you can pre cast it, which you learn to do. Once you get rolling, its non stop since the balls jsut target the next mob they see. Also you can make your character pretty beefy with this build. 6-7K life since you dont need 6 link. I even saw juggs using this with some other skills. Dont get me wrong it can be dangerous, bu you just learn to use positioning and pre casting.
But im not that far, I think I hit act 7 last night so definitely not end game yet. But I have like 1.5K life right now with hardly any armor (just using the shit I equipped at lv 12 jsut to make sure resists are capped) and mobs are not even touching me. The bosses are hilarious too since you pre cast a ton of balls and they just decimate the boss in a second.
And I might do the 6 link if I need it, current plan is for a Koams Heart though since from what I heard you can get like 1-2 million DPS on this build with no 6 links.
If you're not an inquis I would 100% use Xoph's, I am using one as an assassin for the 10% pen and life. Poets decimates bosses
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you sure you weren't doing something different? The precasting Mko is talking about is amazing, you can inch into a room and load up enough balls to almost 1 shot phoenix or guardians no problem.
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If you're not an inquis I would 100% use Xoph's, I am using one as an assassin for the 10% pen and life. Poets decimates bosses
Cool and thanks, oh and the offer for the keys still stands bro. Look me up tonite. My profile is up top, will be playing the scion.
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I feel like something's lost in communication here. I'm saying if you put Unearth in one pen and Volatile Dead in another, on a fresh battlefield, that very first cast of Volatile Dead will do nothing because it's triggered at the same exact time as Unearth and the projectile will still be in the air when Volatile Dead casts. I was playing the build towards zoom zoom clear, so that delay caused by Unearth travel time was very noticeable. I did try Volatile Dead instead of Bladefall for clearing, didn't like it as much because it took away my Unearth from zoom zoom.
I do see precasting lending itself to great boss damage, probably *feeling* better than Glacial Cascade. Similar effective dps if you account for precasting but much safer since much less time in combat. I'd love for a build that uses volatile dead(it is a cool skill) for zoom zoom clear. I just couldn't figure out how to use Unearth for Bodyswap and Volatile.
Maybe...4 pens!?!? Bladefall - Spell Cascade - Phys to Light and Body Swap - Unearth - Faster Proj for mapping, then weapon swap for bosses.
I do see precasting lending itself to great boss damage, probably *feeling* better than Glacial Cascade. Similar effective dps if you account for precasting but much safer since much less time in combat. I'd love for a build that uses volatile dead(it is a cool skill) for zoom zoom clear. I just couldn't figure out how to use Unearth for Bodyswap and Volatile.
Maybe...4 pens!?!? Bladefall - Spell Cascade - Phys to Light and Body Swap - Unearth - Faster Proj for mapping, then weapon swap for bosses.
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Thank you, I have plenty of flasks + scepters for any FoH that want them. Same goes for maps if anyone needs a nice free package to boost them up.
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Jesus people, phrasing.
The only problem with t13+ ATM is that even the most brutal maps give almost the same rewards, there's no value in rerolling maps, you get more out of sextants/zana/elder/shaper anyway.
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I heard Brahma ask on discord about shapers orb. If you look at your atlas, the maps with the large blue ring/outline around them are the ones that can drop the next level of shapers orb for you, if you hover over that map on the atlas it will say boss can drop orb, it changes depending on which orb you are on level wise.
Also it's impossible to search for laboratory map in large tabs of maps, every map has the word laboratory in the description lol. Onlyl map I have in the yellows and I don't feel like looking thru multiple 80 item stash tabs of maps one by one.
Also it's impossible to search for laboratory map in large tabs of maps, every map has the word laboratory in the description lol. Onlyl map I have in the yellows and I don't feel like looking thru multiple 80 item stash tabs of maps one by one.
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So I bought a couple of Poet's Pens last night and was going to follow EE's guide that was posted, but then I saw this:
I feel like this can take care of both clearing and bossing at once w/o any gem swapping. Plus I can take advantage of a couple cool MTXs which honestly is the most important reason.
Edit: I found the actual guide: Forum - Marauder - [3.1] CHILL POET BERSERKER - Non Crit, Shatter, 8K+ Life, EZ Playstyle, Shaper and Guardians down, - Path of Exile
I feel like this can take care of both clearing and bossing at once w/o any gem swapping. Plus I can take advantage of a couple cool MTXs which honestly is the most important reason.
Edit: I found the actual guide: Forum - Marauder - [3.1] CHILL POET BERSERKER - Non Crit, Shatter, 8K+ Life, EZ Playstyle, Shaper and Guardians down, - Path of Exile
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