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billybob630 wrote:

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ArionAthreides wrote:

Ok, I've managed to sell a nice amount of Altered at a good price, therefore, I decided since I've reached 95 too to try to bend to Clusters.

Here a PoB link.
https://pastebin.com/hEt8BmiE

Compared to my previous build it is less powerful, by switching I lost stats, Damage and all! Did I made a mess something? Can someone please give me feedback?

Weren't Cluster supposed to make me more powerful?

Here are some comparisons, try the skill tree for third one
* https://pastebin.com/ffZvuTvd (2.108M Sirus DPS, your old build)
* https://pastebin.com/2xhUQm9K (2.021M Sirus DPS, your current build)
* https://pastebin.com/YRwzFwyB (2.468M Sirus DPS, suggested skill tree)


Basically your current setup gives you 200 more life, so you have to reduce that somewhere to get more DPS back.

The beautify from cluster jewel also comes from using curse (Conductivity for additional resistance penetration), enabling culling strike (Wish for Death), enabling unnerve (Master of Fear). Those are not highlighted in the guide, but from comments you can find useful.

You can check my build setup but it is using Storm Brand as second skill for curse.

Thanks for your help.
Just two notes: according to my PoB my Sirius DPS is way lower. My current build is 1.880.000 and ... I had 4000+ life before going Cluster and once I went down that limit my overall survival ability dropped, I'm not too sure I want to lose even more life. I know this build use Mana as extra life but I noticed a lot of monsters ignore Agnostic.
And why my life regeneration is negative in PoB? Doesn't sound right.

Hi guys, so I returned to the game to try PoE a bit again. When I last quit build was way different, it used was it called orb of storms, storm call or some other skils.

So I had to re-build it. I only had about 50 chaos orbs in total wealth, so I had to bargain hunt a lot. Only item I kept was my Tabula Rasa.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Djuntas (Note I have better gloves, just aint level 70 yet to use them and haven't gotten good flasks yet).

Hope you can see my profile. Tell me what you think. My next aim would be % block shield with mana or life, a belt with regen and abyss socket or a thread of hope jewel, so I could start using cluster jewels. Right now I used Kitava's Teachings in the socket the guide uses for cluster jewels.

Any advice on the items I bought or anything would be helpful. Im a bit clueless on the game, so good to have this guide.

Also in the guide what gems did we keep at level 1? I think it was only 1 4-link that was not leveled. Cast when dmg taken, tempest shield, wave of conviction, desecrate.

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ArionAthreides wrote:

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billybob630 wrote:

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ArionAthreides wrote:

Ok, I've managed to sell a nice amount of Altered at a good price, therefore, I decided since I've reached 95 too to try to bend to Clusters.

Here a PoB link.
https://pastebin.com/hEt8BmiE

Compared to my previous build it is less powerful, by switching I lost stats, Damage and all! Did I made a mess something? Can someone please give me feedback?

Weren't Cluster supposed to make me more powerful?

Here are some comparisons, try the skill tree for third one
* https://pastebin.com/ffZvuTvd (2.108M Sirus DPS, your old build)
* https://pastebin.com/2xhUQm9K (2.021M Sirus DPS, your current build)
* https://pastebin.com/YRwzFwyB (2.468M Sirus DPS, suggested skill tree)


Basically your current setup gives you 200 more life, so you have to reduce that somewhere to get more DPS back.

The beautify from cluster jewel also comes from using curse (Conductivity for additional resistance penetration), enabling culling strike (Wish for Death), enabling unnerve (Master of Fear). Those are not highlighted in the guide, but from comments you can find useful.

You can check my build setup but it is using Storm Brand as second skill for curse.

Thanks for your help.
Just two notes: according to my PoB my Sirius DPS is way lower. My current build is 1.880.000 and ... I had 4000+ life before going Cluster and once I went down that limit my overall survival ability dropped, I'm not too sure I want to lose even more life. I know this build use Mana as extra life but I noticed a lot of monsters ignore Agnostic.
And why my life regeneration is negative in PoB? Doesn't sound right.

I enabled rigorous fire in your skill setup, and disabled vaal rigorous fire. That is the reason you see negative life regen.

I feel vaal rigorous fire is a suicide, while you can run normal rigorous fire when in map mod with mana regen for DPS. You can disable that if you want.

To say drop life. I meant you need to compare DPS with same life, and the old build you shared only has 3500 life. I didn't see a build with 4000 life from your links, can you share that?

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billybob630 wrote:

I feel vaal rigorous fire is a suicide, while you can run normal rigorous fire when in map mod with mana regen for DPS. You can disable that if you want.

Thanks again.

I just followed the guide for Vaal Righteous Fire, I used to have Portal on that slot for a while, I barely use that skill anyway especially against mobs, I never have the time to press the proper key.

Here (https://pastebin.com/qW9TxbAd) I have completely rebuild my skill tree before I went Cluster Jewel.
I can't help but think that going cluster has made me less powerful compared to this build.

It did. You didnt really pick up the effective clusters. How did you pick out your clusters?

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ArionAthreides wrote:

I can't help but think that going cluster has made me less powerful compared to this build.

I won't draw that conclusion easily. The cluster jewel is a big pool of new choices, and it is better to go to check the market and find whether the cheaper notable combinations helps. Best ones are super expensive.

The ones you picked for flask duration helps mapping, but doesn't help life / mana / dps.

You can check other people's choices in their public build. Warning ahead: it can be complex to learn.

One side note: to check survivability, better to leave "Are you always in full life" unchecked in POB. "Agnostic" is the reason of such difference.

The mana regen is not larger enough compared to arc skill mana cost, which means during dangerous situation you have to escape asap, otherwise casting three arcs your mana is empty.

Although it has big pool of life (better one shot tank), it is not convenient setup for survival (a group of mobs are more likely to kill the character). (Edit: I think it is hard to tell which is better, you have to test based on your own playstyle. Personally I would recommend the latter and learn to dodge one shots.)

Comparing with other people's pob, can be one way for you to learn and adjust.

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MadChickins wrote:

https://youtu.be/Qd-1DEUVBzk
Here's a video of me taking him on with 4k hp and 10k mana. 6000 mana regen and 50% MoM. It's fine to go more mana and mana regen over life. 40-50% is enough imo I got to level 98 very quickly and I almost hit level 99 if I didn't quit the league so early last season. 60% or more seems like maybe you wont be able to fully maximize on the ehp pool.
A thing to note is that mana regen is an extremely important stat for MoM users stacking 40% and above. It ties directly with your damage and life resource so dont ignore it.
Armor and evasion can be 8gn9red you're not getting much from those.

Hi MadChickins, learning your video that fights A8 Sirus. I have one question: how do you decide when you want to use the non-reusable flasks in the fight?

e.g. you didn't use them until 3:01.

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

This build is definitely capable of doing all that endgame content deathless! I posted a link to my first A8 Sirus attempt of the league last week: https://youtu.be/85LyLFyq17E

As soon as I get the last fragment needed for the fight, I should be posting an Uber Elder video, too. The fights are mostly about just learning the mechanics and having enough DPS. I'm open to any other video requests if it would help anyone with these.

Hi WorderMostFoul, in your video, after 0:54 the flasks are charged up. I must be missing something here because I don't understand why Atziri's Promise got charges. Where is the source of flask charge here?

Edit: oh found that (reddit), 15 charges for every end of phase

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billybob630 wrote:

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MadChickins wrote:

https://youtu.be/Qd-1DEUVBzk
Here's a video of me taking him on with 4k hp and 10k mana. 6000 mana regen and 50% MoM. It's fine to go more mana and mana regen over life. 40-50% is enough imo I got to level 98 very quickly and I almost hit level 99 if I didn't quit the league so early last season. 60% or more seems like maybe you wont be able to fully maximize on the ehp pool.
A thing to note is that mana regen is an extremely important stat for MoM users stacking 40% and above. It ties directly with your damage and life resource so dont ignore it.
Armor and evasion can be 8gn9red you're not getting much from those.

Hi MadChickins, learning your video that fights A8 Sirus. I have one question: how do you decide when you want to use the non-reusable flasks in the fight?

e.g. you didn't use them until 3:01.

Best time to use it is right when he comes down on his final phase, he will be a sitting duck for about 5 ish seconds. The next best time to use it is when he's doing the criss-cross beam thingy in tthe middle, thats another 3-4 seconds you have on him. These are just small damage windows, if you want the most optimal damage window you could wait out and dodge all of his patterns then he'll kinda go into this groggy state where you got about a good 8-10 seconds on him. It's up to you when you want to use it, I was going for the fast kill.