Path of Exile

fucker_sl said:

which mean shit cause half my attack miss due to lag. but i do have a shitty connection

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It still means that every attack that connects properly doesn't then roll a miss and do no dmg. Even if you desync a lot, it's still a good passive. Max hit rate is 95%, and that requires such a stupid amount of accuracy at higher levels that you wouldn't even reach that most of the time anyway. Generally hit rate is going to be 90-92% if you have good dex and at least one accuracy item, so RT always boosts you damage by a fuckton and unless you're doing a dagger build you're never going to get that much crit anyway.

Tbh, normal is balanced around being easy regardless of what you do. Cruel is a bit harder, Merciless is where it starts getting serious. Thing is it doesn't take very long to clear the first 2 modes later on when rerolling and shit, I can generally do all of normal in about 2h30 or so and all of cruel in maybe 4-5hours more. First time you play though you'll probably take a ton longer.

Freezing Pulse is also super strong because of the innate chill+freeze chance and pretty good dmg, so you shouldn't run in too many issues. You'll eventually want a totem to tank bosses for you, you could start leveling one atm if you get the gem(Decoy totem, it taunts all mobs around it every second and gets additional hp per lvl) or you can wait until 31 to use the skeleton totem(spell totem support on a summon skeleton gem, it summons skeletons non stop which act as canon fodder and distractions).

Try to trade for a LMP gem too at lvl 19(LMP is Lesser Multiple Projectiles, it makes you shoot 3 freezing pulses at once instead, they do less dmg per hit but since they overlap it's still more overall dmg).

Detonate dead(corpse explosion) build:
A standard fire/aoe templar build. Could do a witch or marauder variation, possibly Shadow too but there is no real need for crits I feel. Most of the specifics for detonate are gonna be done skill based.

Detonate Dead does 18% of a corpse. +119% dmg from the passives, can add about 100% from gear, so +219% or 57% of a corpse. Add concentrated effect which increases this by 70%, so 97% of a corpse. Add culling strike to reduce the dmg needed by 10%, or in other terms increase by 10%, 107%. At that point you one shot any similar mob on the first detonate dead, not accounting for resists. Flammability or Elemental Weakness is a given here to reduce those resists, but still you should be at a good point. Other supports would be Fire penetration, Added Chaos and Added Lightning. Faster Casting is probably not required due to 20% quality Detonate Dead having 60% faster casting already. Life Leech is also an option obviously. To kill first mob, Bear Traps with Added Fire, probably 2 sets for safety, and also one set of Fire Trap since they benefit heavily from the spec. Zombies/Totems as you need, zombies especially could be good and with a few modifications it could be a decent pet build also.

For the other builds, it's more vague and there's a few ways to do the same thing. Well not bard, not happening for that, there's isn't really any similar mechanics besides Conduit sharing but that's not really close at all.

For teleporting monk, there's a few variations. For example you could do a ranger/duellist 2H sword flicker build, which was fairly common in the past. Its biggest weakness is it's prone to desync, but it otherwises does very high dmg while teleporting your around to instantly hit mobs. Think the D3 monk 7sided strike attack, but as your main spam attack. This is done by generating frenzy charges via Blood Rage(which means you'll want very high chaos resist for it to be worth it) and spamming Flicker. Flicker would need to be buffed by the usual, melee physical dmg, faster attacks, life leech and/or LoH, culling strike/added fire. Build would need to be super tanky also, basically all the health in the duellist ranger marauder area, with all the regen in that too. Maybe drop the ranger area, get the templar area for more regen. Most likely Blood Magic build. Build something like that, that's a ranger version, templar version possible too as I said but not sure which is better just making it quickly haven't done indepth comparison.

The other variation would be more similar to the dash monk skill, which would be to use very fast attack speed melee, dual wield most likely. I'd do a shadow. It would have very fast movement via whirling blades+faster attacks, high damage via dual strike+meleephys+faster attacks, can add flicker to move around instantly too at time, frenzy to generate charges. The problem is killing trash, the only good aoe for claws would be lightning strike or cyclone, both of which aren't necessarily very monkish. Something like this maybe

Made these builds quickly, there's probably some optimization and as I said there's variations, I haven't ran all the variations to figure out which is the most efficient and stuff like that. That's really where PoE shines, making builds. While I haven't played in a couple of weeks, I still sometimes pop the builder open and start making build for 30mins-1hour, see what kind of stats I can get for a particular build style and such. For now the limiting factor is the amount and variety of the skills. However since a few weeks ago, they've started adding 1 skill every week. While I don't think it'll keep going at this rate forever, I think they will for at least a couple of months, so build variety will naturally appear as they add more and more skills that make more and more builds viable. For example for the dual claw I'm not very happy with the 2 current skills for your main aoe spam, which makes the build a bit weak in my opinion. Relying on swords and cleave would be a lot better for efficiency. With the melee supports coming though, it might be viable to use only Dual Strike as your main skill, and in this case it'll become very interesting I think.

Anyway these were just made as examples, mostly the passives are there to support the playstyle but most of your build choices are made through your skill choices. You pick a skill you want to use, then pick the weapons that work with this skill, figure a way to run the skill with all its supports in terms of ressources(mana, blood magic, hybrid, and how much you need so you know if you have to take EB, mana% nodes or mana leech support etc) then figure what to use to help with that skill.

On your question, GR+CI(which are the acronyms, CI especially is very common), it works out alright but you need pretty decent gear. Also you need Life Leech supports, and for CI builds in generally you'll want a Chayula amulet(makes you immune to stuns) and a Dream Fragment ring(makes you immune to freeze). While not required, because stun, shock and freeze duration is based on your health and because you don't take any health with CI, you will get frozen/stunned/shocked for a long time when you get hit by a crit(or just a hit for stuns) which can be very annoying. But yes it's a viable build and obvious combo. Also getting Vaal Pact(near the center) is a very solid idea for this type of build, since Vaal Pact downside has no effect when you already can't use potions since you're CI, and it makes the build more solid by providing life leech instantly.

Edit 2: Also forgot about the charming build, while not charming, there's an insanely strong build relying on Dominating Blow(melee attack that converts mobs when you kill them). Add Conversion Traps to the mix and you can "charm" every mob you meet and have them fight for you. The only "requirement" for the build is to get the 45% increased skill duration near the ranger area toward the center. And obviousoly increased duration supports on these skills. It's quite a boring build though as you don't do a whole lot, but it works fine.