Lv96 Poutsos' Flicker Nuke - Outdated

Yeah it seems like just spell dmg modifiers from passive tree and gear will increase the damage. Not sure how much or if it's really worth utilizing... can get quite a lot more ES on helm and I'm not hurting for life/mana leech at all. Still very interesting though!

MortalKombat3 - Nice to hear it works!86% Hit chance is pretty decent.Also good points on the cold damge.Definetely physical is the king.However there are some benefits,like freezing easier for crowd control,and well less reflected damage.Plus the aura buffs also work with discipline for higher ES.

Make_A_Witch_Foundation - Good job on the guide :)I really apreciate the credit man,thanks.These skins looks awasome.She's hot!Lindz - I beleive u can get better help there if u wanna run it as a witch!

swizzleigh - The helmet would many inredible options if the spell crit modifiers worked.Notably u could get the "doom cast" passive for 60% crit chance and the "spell power" for 40% multiplier,for 1 point each,and they would have been very good investments.However now that i read that they dont work,it hardly worths it.Rat's Nest is a very good helmet.One of the best "on budget" in the game IMO.I haven't tested the new version,and u know,with the dagger i have there's no reason :P,but overall i think it would work pretty well.Personally,if i was to wear it though,i would get iron reflexes and used the grace aura as well.U ll get pretty good DR.Of course the DPS without hatred would be much lower,but with high crit chance u ll have lower,but pretty consistent damage,and good tankability.

Goredealer - Unfortunately u can't buy a full respec.The only way is to horde orbs of regret and it doesn't worth it.Your options is to either rerol and start over.Will only take a few days.Or to farm obsessively without caring that u ll die,to gather currency to buy decent ES staff and go CI early.I personally beleive that the first option is better though

hi poutsos

this is my gear

plz advice about change my gear



what do you think change my helmet to abysus

i'm in chaos now

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bsh2004kr wrote:

hi poutsos

this is my gear

plz advice about change my gear

what do you think change my helmet to abysus

i'm in chaos now

Hi bsh2004kr!

Your gear is pretty good.I think u might be doing fairly well.I think that in time you get more resists on your gear,to replace purity with hatred.the DPS boost will be redicilous,and the survivability,since u will be freezing everything around you.After that.When u r about to start high level maps,u will need to increase both your ES,and get a dagger with higher crit chance.That part is very very hard :/ About abyssus,well u ll die alot,especially to reflect,but it will give u DPS u won't beleive!

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Poutsos wrote:

MortalKombat3 - Nice to hear it works!86% Hit chance is pretty decent.Also good points on the cold damge.Definetely physical is the king.However there are some benefits,like freezing easier for crowd control,and well less reflected damage.Plus the aura buffs also work with discipline for higher ES.

Yeah, freezing is cool, but even 36% more cold damage is enough to freeze most mobs and sometimes - even bosses (and in +75% coldres maps freeze usually doesnt occur anyways). The least i care is reflected damage. With Cast When Damage Taken gem, linked to Enduring Cry, Immortal Call and Increased Duration, i can faceroll reflect maps with ease, because damage taken from reflect ensures that Immortal Call pop-ups and saves me from further taking damage. Even with a recent stupid nerf.
As for higher ES - it's also a nice bonus, but i decided to take +24% ES from 3 witch nodes first, this gives me almost 2.5 times more ES than Influence, and i'm pretty satisfied with my current DPS anyways.
However, there also is another downside in no-powercharge build - socket colours. If we remove PCoC from equation, the best gems with cant support Flicker with are Increased Critical Damage (Blue), Multistrike (Red), Melee Splash (Red), Melee Damage on Full Life (Red), Melee Physical Damage (Red). So, we have to put on 6-L chest with 1 Blue, 1 Green and 4 (!) Red slots. It's almost impossible to recolor pure-ES chest into that combination, so you probably will be forced to use armour+ES chest.
I have no problems on that, because i support Flicker with IR and IQ gems (that means an extra Blue slot instead of Red). I also use armour+ES chest ATM -
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However, 500 ES on chest is too low for me now, and i want to buy pure ES chest instead, with at least 750 ES. When i'll buy it, i wont be able to swap for DPS gems back anymore.

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Poutsos wrote:

Let's start:

JustAMemory - Hey mate!Your HP and your resistances are very very very low.At this point,don't care about absolutely anything else than getting HP and resists on your gear.Try to have HP on most gear pieces,and resists on rings etc.Doesn't matter if it is armour,evasion or ES.Just get HP.


bowen123 - Thanks bro!i'm happy to help whenever i can :).Now regarding Auras,yeah i should update abit my original post,some things are out of date.However that links are still correct.Now u can only use 2 auras,which should be hatred and discipline-while u still have capped resists-and purity should stay linked to use it instead of hatred on elemental weakness maps,cause it is very hard to have capped resists,even on elemental weakness maps,just from the tree and the gear.The tempest shield thing was a suggestion to a variation of this build that uses HP instead of CI.


Goredealer - I know that feels since i was self found untill level 79,and now on standar it is much much harder to trade than before,cause it is flooded with GG items.However your passive tree really really suffers.You are not CI(and you shouldn't be yet).but you haven't got any HP on your tree.Grabing as much life as possible is the most important thing until you re level 60+.Refer to the leveling trees on the first page.See how your tree should look before the transition to CI.



cemsaftekin - Sure it can work with the witch.Abit less damge,but abit more ES and mana.End game tree:

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMABLEFfQW1B2MM8g5IEHsRLxFQEZYV1xjbGtsbrSFgJJ0k_Si1KjgrCiy_L284ljvhPeI-z0CgRwZI7kxgUEJRR1ZjVupW9Vb6Vytbr19qYlpjQ20ZcFJwVnC7cNV08XiufeN_xoauiEKIa4w2jb-QG5Vml9CZmpoTnaOeuaIuoqOly6crpzS0xbb3txe307k-uXy71r3mvjrAUcEAwcXB88Lsw23N6tN-1QDXhtfL2RPbGttu29TdDeL344TmgedU6f7rY-wY7g7vTvLh8-r1S_lj_Kv8xQ==

Supernukem - That chest is pretty awasome for now,despite the low ES(just make it 20% :P).OTher than that,are u CI or still HP?If u are still HP,get HP on your gloves and boots.If u already are CI,definetely change the shield for a higher ES one,and the boots.Also get eye of chayula ASAP for stun immunity.You gear looks fine otherwise.U d definetely need to change that dagger at some point,but build your defenses fist

Thanks man I really appreciate the time and effort you put in helping people.

Im in level 70 i cant progress :/ just have 1 ex u.u

MortalKombat3 - Propably ur right.I would priorize the witch ES points as well over influence.For my build though,the last points on influence was the option for balancing defense and offense.About the 6L,i actually don't use PCOC on flicker strike,but on lightning strike.It is perfect for my playstyle that uses 3 attacks.Of course if i was to use only flicker,then i would link it.My personal favourite,with the dagger i have for the 6th socket is actually additional accuracy.Increased critical strike is useless cause my crit is 92.5%,and melee physical, would be a certain death on reflect,before immortal call trigers.I have managed to roll a RRRGGB pure ES chest.Now all i have to do is roll it :P.I ll buy some chaos when i have currency

cemsaftekin - My pleasure!


supernukem - HMm,i need more info about your gear and stats.I do not know what you consider progress at level 70,but generally,if u can efficiently farm docks is alright for now.DOn't excpet to clear maps easily,even 66-69 ones before around 80,if u don't have good gear already :/ .The game's a gear check

Any changes you would made to your build in 1.01 patch?

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Poutsos wrote:

MortalKombat3 - Propably ur right.I would priorize the witch ES points as well over influence.For my build though,the last points on influence was the option for balancing defense and offense.About the 6L,i actually don't use PCOC on flicker strike,but on lightning strike.It is perfect for my playstyle that uses 3 attacks.Of course if i was to use only flicker,then i would link it.My personal favourite,with the dagger i have for the 6th socket is actually additional accuracy.Increased critical strike is useless cause my crit is 92.5%,and melee physical, would be a certain death on reflect,before immortal call trigers.I have managed to roll a RRRGGB pure ES chest.Now all i have to do is roll it :P.I ll buy some chaos when i have currency

Yeah, i dont have as many damage as you, so i dont care about being oneshotted with reflect. Obviously, for pure damage output, melee physical damage is the best. However, it also requires proper itemization and, probably, passives. You will have to get accuracy from gear (i mean, have it on every gear piece where it's possible), and you will have to get mana from gear (and passives, probably) too. Quite a lot of mana, to cover 140% mana multiplier...
While Melee Physical Damage provides immense damage with certain drawbacks, Additional Accuracy, on contrary, removes drawbacks and provides consistency (increased chance to hit and crit), but DPS output is weaker. For my character, it will be ~19% more DPS. As for 40% mana multiplier, let's assume you have to invest into 5 "+8% mana" nodes to sustain it. Putting that into equation (i've done some math) will give a total of ~30% more DPS (compared to 51% more DPS from Melee phys damage). I wouldnt use that in my MF-oriented build, but if you use 6 combat gems, abyssus, etc, then accuracy can be a nice decision.

Increased Critical Strikes is shit. Too small bonus for a single gem, and it has mana multiplier even!

I also have another question for you - why you didnt taken Unwavering Stance? To get it, you should spend just 8 points, but instead, you gain 1 endurance charge, 50 strength and ability to use any amulet you want. A rare amulet can have up to 70% increased crit multiplier (equal to Throtseeker or Heartseeker cluster), up to +20% maximum ES (equal to decent 3-point ES cluster), up to +35% increased crit chance (better than 2 crit nodes), up to 400 accuracy, and a lot of other useful stats. An amulet that fits into few exalteds budget, will be worth more than 8 nodes in skill tree, i think.
As an example, i'll put my own amulet. I have bought it recently for 3 exalteds:

It has more IR than Chayula, and provides a variety of useful stats as well.