[3.24] fezz's Toxic Rain Champion - Step-by-Step PoE Build Guide for Beginners & Casuals
" Makes sense ty, I will pick the loyalty one up for now. So even though theres not many useful dex tattoos, are the dex nodes on skill tree now useless once we have enough to run gems as spell suppression is over capped with mage bane anyway? I can see a few small dex nodes that give, increased movement speed and increased flask duration or projectile speed, would either of these 3 be useful to run over the dex nodes?. Was thinking of doing something like stacking as many movement speeds as possible Do you have any suggestion for the strength/intelligence ones also if we can fit them in, i'm currently over capped on int for example so could fit a few small tattoos in Last edited by brbdinner#2427 on Sep 1, 2023, 3:32:56 AM
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" There's no general tattoo advice I can give since - besides the +1 tattoo - they are super generic and not really "enabling". You can replace the small nodes with whatever suits your build or playstyle the most as long as you meet the attribute requirements, have all resistances as well as spell suppression capped. PS: Be aware of the fact that -10 strength is equivalent to -5 life when replacing strenght nodes with tattoos. PS2: Movement speed sounds good. Flask duration shouldnt be needed, but is also good. PS3: Unfortunately, the build is super boring in terms of tattoos :/. |
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Hey Fezz,
Hope you are keeping well and having a great league! Thoughts on Anomalous Efficacy Support instead of just Efficacy? Also, what about divergent mirage arrow support over faster attacks support in the bow? Figuring out where I can eek out more damage while I continue to gain levels! |
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Hi fezz,
I'd like to ask you about some tips how to do the switch from endgame without cluster jewels to endgame with cluster jewels. Is it better to wait until I got all the jewels - large, mid, viridian and than do the switch? I currently have in use 1 large cluster, but not any of the other jewels and got only 1 Viridian. Also to get the points for the jewel I removed the nodes between Constitution and Path of the warrior lowering my HP pool and I think that might be the reason that my char dies easily on yellow tier maps. What do you think? Also is there a way to decrease the delay between summoning the ballistas and them starting to cast Toxic rain? |
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So how effective is that Maloney's unique compared to a mid-endgame quiverdude?
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" If you can get it, take it. It wont make that much of a difference. " Mapping can be smoother with Divergent Mirage Archer Support. " You damage is absolutely fine, but according to PoB you don't have 75% Chaos Resistance which is a weak spot. Last edited by fezz8386#7997 on Sep 4, 2023, 5:02:18 AM
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" As soon as you have the large cluster, you can switch. " As long as your other defensive layers are set up properly, having a bit less life wont make a big difference. and should not be the reason why you die. " No. By the way: According to PoB, you still have the Despair gem equipped, but since you already have a Curse on Hit ring, you don't need that anymore. Last edited by fezz8386#7997 on Sep 4, 2023, 5:11:04 AM
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" This is highly depenend on your other gear, but I would guess that it's about 10-15% damage increase + quality of life due to Culling Strike - given that you put 20/20 gems into it. Last edited by fezz8386#7997 on Sep 4, 2023, 5:10:45 AM
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Hello Fezz, I'm continuing my question that you saw in reddit, I´ll copy it here for reference:
"Hello exiles, I'm looking for some tips, some crucial things I´m probably ignoring or just unknown, because my damage in t16s and things above is low, my tankiness is ok, but i need more damage to complete some objectives.... I am trying to follow the guide from Fezz´s , Pls with your experience help me with any issue you could detect, tyvm! My pob: https://pobb.in/itP-bvM-JO1Q *Edit: forgot to mention my budget right now is low, like 1 Divine :/" You mention me that you recommend not to speccing out of utility-related nodes.I followed you guide in every single point of the tree talent, only took the Spell supression nodes as another defense barrier... do you recommend me move those points to something else to get more damage??? Or any other mistake you could detect pls to help me improve in damage where I feel I'm struggling Thank you!! UPDATE: I added cluster jewels to my tree and i improved the damage at cost of some life , here is my new pob in case you notice something that could be improved, thank you in advance https://pobb.in/hJtdkLMfCKr7 Last edited by ergit3000#0976 on Sep 8, 2023, 10:53:24 AM
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" Hey mate, Your next investments should be (if possible, in this order): 1. Buy Vaal Molten Shell (check this trade link) and level it to level 16. Then replace it with your current default version. // check the related endgame milestone here 2. Buy a second Medium Cluster Jewel with 2 passive skills (check this trade link) // check the related endgame milestone here 3. Buy a 6-link bow with +2 socketed bow gems / +1 socketed gems / chaos dot multi[/url] (check this trade link). You can easily change the colors of the sockets by using the the crafting bench option with "at least one blue socket" (even with corrupted bows) // check the related endgame milestone here 4. Buy 21/20 gems (or 21/0 gems if they are too expensive) for all your main setup gems. Gem levels are one of your very best ways to scale damage (as explained in the damage scaling section) // check the related endgame milestone here 5. Buy a Large Cluster Jewel with 3 passive skills (check this trade link) // check the related endgame milestone here 6. Buy as much Viridian Jewels with at least Chaos Dot Mulit & % increased Maximim Life as you can fit into your build. They are relatively cheap (check this trade link). // check the related endgame milestone here 7. Buy one Viridian with 'Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you' and at least Chaos Dot Mulit OR % increased Maximum Life (check this trade link) . // check the related endgame milestone here General comments after having a glimpse at your build in PoB: 1. Stop using Grace. This aura is a super late endgame minmaxing upgrade. Once you stop using Grace, you should be able to unskill Charisma and invest the skill point elsewhere. If you have mana problems, try if not using Withering Step helps. If it does, stop using Withering Step (it's not crucial). // check the related endgame milestone here 3. Your Awakened Vicious Projectiles Support has 0 quality which make it worse than the default version. Add 20% quality with Gemcutter's Prism. // check the related endgame milestone here 4. Stop using the Empower Support gem in your main skill setup. This is only beneficial once you have your late engame bow as explained in the milestone. Use Mirage Archer Support instead. // check the related endgame milestone here 5. You have WAY TOO MUCH elemental resistances. You only need 75% (or 105% if you want to run Elemental Weakness map mods, but you can roll these). Eveything above 75%/105% is probably a wasted mod which can be used for something useful. ADDITIONALLY, your Chaos Resistance is WAY TOO LOW. Try to focus on becoming Chaos Resistance capped. // While the importance of Chaos Resistance is mentioned regurlarly in the guide, there currently doesn't exist a dedicated milestone for it. I will add this when updating the guide for the next league. So thank you very much for getting in touch with me, due to that the guide can be improved. 6. Your belt can be way better for a very cheap investment. Check the items sections to what to look for - you want to have a Stygian Vise belt which allows you to put an Abyss Jewel in it. 7. According to PoB, you have 106% Spell Suppression Chance. You only need 100%. Therefore, you can unskill the small 'Evasion and Spell Suppression' next to Magebane and invest it elsewhere. Last but not least: Most of your mistakes or missed opportunities arise from not reading the guide carefully enough (or at all) - I get that you rather want to play the game than reading a bible, but if you feel like you are struggling, checking out the guide for information should be the go-to-strategy - in 99% the information you are looking for is already there ;). That being said: I highly recommend reading all the endgame milestones one-by-one (once again) and check if you can mark them as complete. If not, you should work on them until you can mark them as complete. Last edited by fezz8386#7997 on Sep 8, 2023, 6:04:10 PM
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