Assuming I have a +energy shield discipline watcher's eye, how much of an impact will spider aura + fenumus boots make? Disregarding deep delves (my short term goals right now are just mapping and having fun with betrayal league mechanics + shaper/uber elder). Would it be worth it to use 2 ring slots for warlords mark + spider aura or should I just stick with 1 warlords mark + call of brotherhood.
Also, wanted to ask anyone using this build at end game (basically Duality), how is survivability against Betrayal stuff? Are you getting 1 shot alot?
Well aspect of the spider not only hinders the movement of your targets but it also increases the damage they take, so I will, at some point, be running it in my setup. That said I wouldn't sacrifice an additional ring slot for it. Typically I only run Call of the Brotherhood when I am starting to feel squishy, so basically in delves at lower depths, otherwise I go with Mark of the Shaper for the extra damage.
About my survive-ability I don't get 1 shot anymore, I will admit I hated the Betrayal mechanics for awhile, but once I got my ES to about 7k and managed to get an ES on hit watchers eye my issues pretty much disappeared. I actually just helped a friend get this build started and he said it was night and day between having the watchers eye and not.
Thank you for the awesome insight. A few more questions (sorry im such a noob).
1. You mentioned you will eventually go with the spider aura set up. Im guessing you will be using a aspect spider aura + warlord mark ring correct? I ask because I read that you have to beastcraft the spider aura aspect onto the ring but that is as much information I can find. Perhaps I am just confused because I am rather new and still dont full grasp the crafting mechanics. Happen to have a TLDR for the process? Cost?
2. Also wanted to know what the best way to get a 3 red socket shavs is. Not sure if there is a 3 red socket recipe or I just havent unlocked it yet. Any tips? I planned on buying the cheapest Shavs and using a jeweler's touch to 5 link it for budget reasons. Let me know your thoughts, thanks!
Yo earlier we talked about ball lightning and that it does the most damage.
I was thinking about it today and i want to be sure about something.
So in PoB ball lightning has a lot less DPS than Arc. I figured thats the damage each ball does and since we hit the boss with multiple balls it gets multiplied and thats the true DPS of this skill. Then i thought that's dumb, PoB should take into account how many balls would hit the target with the appropriate cast rate and show that as DPS.
So how does that work for dmg calculation?
Is it something like one ball hits the same target multiple times (every 150 ms according to the wiki) and thats the stat PoB doesnt take into account?
I am sure Cyrix will have a detailed response to this question, but I believe one of the reasons we use Slower Projectiles is because Ball Lightning continues to deal damage every 150 ms, Cyrix hints at this when he says "depending on some things like positioning of the enemy and how long the ball is connecting". This becomes very noticeable when you take slower projectiles off, because if the ability did not hit multiple times based on its projectile speed then I would assume taking Slower Projectiles would actually be a damage loss.
This is correct. BL will continue to hit targets every 150ms as it travels past as long as the target is within its AoE. The slower it goes, the longer the target is within BL's AoE and thus the more times BL can hit the target.
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Assuming I have a +energy shield discipline watcher's eye, how much of an impact will spider aura + fenumus boots make? Disregarding deep delves (my short term goals right now are just mapping and having fun with betrayal league mechanics + shaper/uber elder). Would it be worth it to use 2 ring slots for warlords mark + spider aura or should I just stick with 1 warlords mark + call of brotherhood.
Also, wanted to ask anyone using this build at end game (basically Duality), how is survivability against Betrayal stuff? Are you getting 1 shot alot?
Well aspect of the spider not only hinders the movement of your targets but it also increases the damage they take, so I will, at some point, be running it in my setup. That said I wouldn't sacrifice an additional ring slot for it. Typically I only run Call of the Brotherhood when I am starting to feel squishy, so basically in delves at lower depths, otherwise I go with Mark of the Shaper for the extra damage.
About my survive-ability I don't get 1 shot anymore, I will admit I hated the Betrayal mechanics for awhile, but once I got my ES to about 7k and managed to get an ES on hit watchers eye my issues pretty much disappeared. I actually just helped a friend get this build started and he said it was night and day between having the watchers eye and not.
Thank you for the awesome insight. A few more questions (sorry im such a noob).
1. You mentioned you will eventually go with the spider aura set up. Im guessing you will be using a aspect spider aura + warlord mark ring correct? I ask because I read that you have to beastcraft the spider aura aspect onto the ring but that is as much information I can find. Perhaps I am just confused because I am rather new and still dont full grasp the crafting mechanics. Happen to have a TLDR for the process? Cost?
2. Also wanted to know what the best way to get a 3 red socket shavs is. Not sure if there is a 3 red socket recipe or I just havent unlocked it yet. Any tips? I planned on buying the cheapest Shavs and using a jeweler's touch to 5 link it for budget reasons. Let me know your thoughts, thanks!
1. Beast crafting is something from Beastiary which was added to the core game this patch. You have to capture certain required animals/ insects to meet the requirements for certain crafts. Aspect crafting comes from meeting the recipe requirements to open a portal to fight a boss, once that boss is captured (I believe) then you can craft the aspect onto an item.
I think https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/8468xv/aspect_of_the_spider/ explains most of the process in this case.
2. Anytime you're dealing with off colours it can be a bit difficult, if you're trying to figure out what is the best strategy for your particular situation then https://siveran.github.io/calc.html is a good tool. Another option might be the jewelers trick which is illustrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kXPc8IomRI.
I saw some folks suggesting to farm Scriptorium for Poets Pen cards, but the Wiki does not list that card in that map (although it does for Museum). Is the Wiki out of date? Does Script drop Poets Pen cards?
I saw some folks suggesting to farm Scriptorium for Poets Pen cards, but the Wiki does not list that card in that map (although it does for Museum). Is the Wiki out of date? Does Script drop Poets Pen cards?
Yes they both drop it confirmed. Script also drops shav's divination card and has better layout too
I saw some folks suggesting to farm Scriptorium for Poets Pen cards, but the Wiki does not list that card in that map (although it does for Museum). Is the Wiki out of date? Does Script drop Poets Pen cards?
The wiki is very out of date regarding the Atlas since Betrayal changed it. I did get Cards from there - and it makes thematically sense too that they would put 'A Dab of Ink' which grant's 'The Poet's Pen' in a map which is basically a giant library.
All cards so far have been placed in this thematic manner in one way or another. The Doctor in Burial Chambers (da vinci cut open dead bodies; doctors learn by exhumaning corpses etc), the cards for the twilight temple in the temple map, Inventor cards in the vaal temple (which grants a stack of vaal orbs), the Survivalist in Grotto/Underground Sea. The Throne (which depicts Kaoms on the toilet) in wastepool and toxic sewer. (har-har some attempt at humour here)
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I saw some folks suggesting to farm Scriptorium for Poets Pen cards, but the Wiki does not list that card in that map (although it does for Museum). Is the Wiki out of date? Does Script drop Poets Pen cards?
The wiki is very out of date regarding the Atlas since Betrayal changed it. I did get Cards from there - and it makes thematically sense too that they would put 'A Dab of Ink' which grant's 'The Poet's Pen' in a map which is basically a giant library.
All cards so far have been placed in this thematic manner in one way or another. The Doctor in Burial Chambers (da vinci cut open dead bodies; doctors learn by exhumaning corpses etc), the cards for the twilight temple in the temple map, Inventor cards in the vaal temple (which grants a stack of vaal orbs), the Survivalist in Grotto/Underground Sea. The Throne (which depicts Kaoms on the toilet) in wastepool and toxic sewer. (har-har some attempt at humour here)
That is brilliant, I had never really paid attention to the div cards The Throne before. Even the writing at the bottom of the card "A king's movement is unwavering"... LOL
That is brilliant, I had never really paid attention to the div cards The Throne before. Even the writing at the bottom of the card "A king's movement is unwavering"... LOL
Between the ability 'Unwavering Stance' and bowl-movements there is quite some tongue in cheek writing in this game. ^^'
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Hello, can you look at my profile and tell me what can i do to make more mana unreserved to spam more frenzy? i get around 20 mana and it's for only one frenzy, with discipline/purity of elements i got too problem, i can make work them both. i know i must make merc lab, just tell me what i can change, and what to do now, thanks for respons, be peace
Bikon
Hello, can you look at my profile and tell me what can i do to make more mana unreserved to spam more frenzy? i get around 20 mana and it's for only one frenzy, with discipline/purity of elements i got too problem, i can make work them both. i know i must make merc lab, just tell me what i can change, and what to do now, thanks for respons, be peace
Bikon
Level 4 enlighten is what you need.
What I would do: I would deactivate Herald of Thunder/Arctic Armor for the time being.
I would buy a lv 19+ blood magic and take the lv3 enlighten you have and put that together with discipline and purity of elements into your vertex. That way those Auras work.
Once you get a lv4 Enlighten put that into your gloves and activate Herald of Thunder/Arctic Armor again.
Also break the link on your boots. You want cwdt + IC on a seperate link from phase run + arcane surge.
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