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Khane · 2026-03-09T14:08:49-0400

This is an example of one of the more egregious scalars they've ever released in PoE. It happens from time to time and people don't pay attention to it because the numbers aren't readily eye popping

5% per 100 ward is... idiotic. 10k ward = 500% increased cooldown recovery rate. You can easily hit 30k ward with things like Yndas and Faithguard.

People will use that purely for the CD recovery, ignoring the trigger portion. Those numbers don't make any sense. Abuse it while you can if you feel so inclined.

There is nothing else in the game that scales that stat even close to that much. Saboteur is one of the few places to get it and its only 50% and its a feature notable of that ascendancy

Penance · 2026-03-09T14:22:31-0400

Khane said:
This is an example of one of the more egregious scalars they've ever released in PoE. It happens from time to time and people don't pay attention to it because the numbers aren't readily eye popping

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5% per 100 ward is... idiotic. 10k ward = 500% increased cooldown recovery rate. You can easily hit 30k ward with things like Yndas and Faithguard.

People will use that purely for the CD recovery, ignoring the trigger portion. Those numbers don't make any sense. Abuse it while you can if you feel so inclined.

There is nothing else in the game that scales that stat even close to that much. Saboteur is one of the few places to get it and its only 50% and its a feature notable of that ascendancy

At a certain point aren't you just battling tick rate on the server not to mention diminishing returns? For things like coc I don't know if it's worth the less multiplier but maybe for other big cool downs it's worth? I've only used cdr for coc and cwdt.

Khane · 2026-03-09T14:41:49-0400

Well you're always trying to line things up vs server tick rate (33ms). That's global, has no bearing on CDR one way or another other than you need to be aware of it.

More CDR = better. And that one gem can solve all your CDR needs on any skill by itself essentially.

As an example they added this exceptional support this league, there hasn't ever been anything like this for just flat cdr and this is what would be considered a high amount

That's 45%. The cast on ward break is 50% at just 1k ward. 1k ward is nothing. So a gem that has other purposes is better suited at the job this new exceptional gem was created for by leaps and bounds.

Make no mistake. Being able to get hundreds of percents of CDR is game breaking. You can essentially get things like Molten Shell to fractions of a second of CD time, making it *almost* permanent. Warcries can be used over and over (and there is a warcry mastery that restores 15% of life when you use a warcry). These are just 2 small examples.

You can make Frostblink have a CD that is lower than Wintry Blast's cast time...

That shit is broken.

Borzak · 2026-03-09T16:01:44-0400

Mispost.

Xevy · 2026-03-09T18:01:46-0400

Aazrael said:
What's a good regex for avoiding cancer maps with Absolution. Only delete reflects right now but some maps get a bit rough, granted I'm Vaaling for completion.

Ele reflect bad, phys reflect is annoying but doable as long as you're full converting but Big Bernie will kill himself if you're Guardian, +resistances is nullified so it's great, spell suppression on mobs is a big loss of dps, and that's about it outside of your classics like no regen maps.

I forgot but I eventually go skeleton mages with the Blessed Rebirth cluster notable so they're literally invincible for 4 seconds and I recast. Absolution is only "created" when it pops from the mob debuff that summons them, so they just refresh duration rather than being able to use that notable properly.

HOWEVER, Foulborn Fleshcrafter removes the faster energy shield recharge and instead lets minions leech 5% elemental dmg as ES which is really, really good for keeping them up. But I know you 6 linked your regular one and that's perfectly fine the more damage you do the less likely the absolution will ever lose all their ES.

There's more tech I use with Rathpith necromantic Aegis, but then you lose defense and need to scale health and your minions slowly (kind of) kill themselves when they cast, but I'd stick with aiming for a Doryani and doing that as there's several full guides for that setup out there.

Aazrael · 2026-03-10T01:11:07-0400

Xevy said:
Ele reflect bad, phys reflect is annoying but doable as long as you're full converting but Big Bernie will kill himself if you're Guardian, +resistances is nullified so it's great, spell suppression on mobs is a big loss of dps, and that's about it outside of your classics like no regen maps.

I forgot but I eventually go skeleton mages with the Blessed Rebirth cluster notable so they're literally invincible for 4 seconds and I recast. Absolution is only "created" when it pops from the mob debuff that summons them, so they just refresh duration rather than being able to use that notable properly.

HOWEVER, Foulborn Fleshcrafter removes the faster energy shield recharge and instead lets minions leech 5% elemental dmg as ES which is really, really good for keeping them up. But I know you 6 linked your regular one and that's perfectly fine the more damage you do the less likely the absolution will ever lose all their ES.

There's more tech I use with Rathpith necromantic Aegis, but then you lose defense and need to scale health and your minions slowly (kind of) kill themselves when they cast, but I'd stick with aiming for a Doryani and doing that as there's several full guides for that setup out there.

The minions rarely die for me, only the Golem pops once in a while, they are usually full ES with the Guardian node.

The foulborn looks good though but I guess it's more expensive as well.

Edit: I'll get one and try work on the links for it while using the normal one.

Xevy · 2026-03-10T02:46:43-0400

Aazrael said:
The minions rarely die for me, only the Golem pops once in a while, they are usually full ES with the Guardian node.

The foulborn looks good though but I guess it's more expensive as well.

Edit: I'll get one and try work on the links for it while using the normal one.

The one I got just 6 linked after 5400+ fusing (not a joke, I was committed and possibly "testing at one point). Switched from Abso to skelies, my preferred build, but man, Vaal Absolution is an absolute beast. I hope the guide you're following does some Vaal cooldown reduction stuff because if you get him 100% uptime I can't even imagine. Still sucks cold starting on some bosses/areas though.

And for anyone who doesn't know:

This is ~8c and gives you pseudo pops on nearly any ability. If you have trouble with clear, this wil solve it.

Aazrael · 2026-03-10T02:51:48-0400

Xevy said:
The one I got just 6 linked after 5400+ fusing (not a joke, I was committed and possibly "testing at one point). Switched from Abso to skelies, my preferred build, but man, Vaal Absolution is an absolute beast. I hope the guide you're following does some Vaal cooldown reduction stuff because if you get him 100% uptime I can't even imagine. Still sucks cold starting on some bosses/areas though.

And for anyone who doesn't know:

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This is ~8c and gives you pseudo pops on nearly any ability. If you have trouble with clear, this wil solve it.

I followed Ronarrays build but have deviated some with the fleshcrafter.

Just want to farm some currency now and chill with the gear switching for a bit lol. Getting a foulborn though is not a big deal as it's the same base.

He does switch to some chaos damage with a bloodline I think but have not checked his updates.

I'm broke right now so need to farm for a bit anyway before I try something new with the build.

I got a little cool down recovery and I feel I can have the Vaal auto bomber up a lot. But the normal Absolution pets clear pretty well also.

But I feel I'm doing good, just 100/100 and 6/10 the atlas and run T16 with ease. Sometimes I get one shot from shit but that's PoE.

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