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How you guys doing on bosses?
I think I am running quite a different build than most here, but both add clear and bosses have been quite trivial for me.
Its quite funny reading through this thread with everyone talking about their struggles when I have went very defensive on my tree and am stacking ES and just letting Demonform carry 90% of my damage. I do take the powerful chaos nodes that are near where I am pathing anyway but I have breezed through the entire campaign as Infernalist.
Here is roughly my current build, its not entirely up to date but I made this for someone else to show them what I am doing
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/21a13227-9ec7-4c9d-861b-855520d1d045/builds/4b4775cf-5534-4ad2-be5b-9b5ee1b1a2e3
I have nearly 3k ES at this point and tbh probably going to drop Zealot's Oath entirely, its not needed. Grim Harvest + Flask with Eternal Youth has been more than adequate to sustain my ES needs. Because I am running Ghostwrithe my life pool is tiny so I can basically sustsain it with just a single source of flat life regen on armor.
Main thing to note is that running Inspiration on Despair setup is almost mandatory for QoL in my opinion.
It is crazy to me reading about everyone having issues with flask sustain, I often am finishing bosses feeling like I barely even needed my flasks at all. Demonform dash makes avoiding most boss mechanics trivial + my passive mana regen can easily sustain my normal rotation of just dots. The only time I use mana flask is after 2-3 casts of Despair.
What about the chaos damage with such low hp pool?
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Posted bys1lv3rk1n#6938on Dec 10, 2024, 4:37:33 PM
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Also gave it a fair shot but oh boy is the dmg a strugel even with +5to gems around mid cruel it sucks. Bosses it's near perfect play and you might finish with 1 flask charge left.
Blood age with Ed contaigen despair and hexblast with almost all chaos nodes in the north part of the tree and all duration. Am now in maps and it was impossible to do because of the swuishines and 1 portal death. Swapped to a shield and I can veryyyyyy slowly clear the zones 50% of the time still dmg sucks or more precisely the 4+ skill stack up sucks for the trash dmg to be OK. Asuming Asuming you land Ed contaigen in 1 go you still need the despair and dark effigy for the dmg to feel OK otherwise it's not great.
Did someone find some secret sauce and made it work late cruel or maps?
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Posted byMrHobbitFFXIV#3743on Dec 10, 2024, 4:42:41 PM
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What about the chaos damage with such low hp pool?
Chaos damage does not go through ES anymore, only bleeds and specifically poison ignore ES, and bleeds can only apply if the ability does life damage. So the only worry is poison and for me at least a single poison charm has been adequate along with my chaos resistance. If that changes as I push into higher tier in the atlas then I will address it then
Poison also is limited to only one stack dealing damage now, so its not really a high threat at all
Last edited by bonerkill#1301 on Dec 10, 2024, 5:17:55 PM
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Posted bybonerkill#1301on Dec 10, 2024, 5:17:04 PM
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Just to clarify, Despair only really works when you lead with it right? If you lead with Essence Drain / Contagion to Despair, it won't do anything because of snapshotting?
I'm more inclined to do Enfeeble/Temporal Chains then just for convenience.
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Posted byHollabackGuy#6042on Dec 10, 2024, 5:23:50 PM
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so after reading all thread, i assume the only reasonable ascendancy right now for ed on witch is demon form? meh not a fan really, probably will play something else while someone figures a good build lol its and was a blast until act 3 but i can feel now im not scalating really good
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How you guys doing on bosses?
I think I am running quite a different build than most here, but both add clear and bosses have been quite trivial for me.
Its quite funny reading through this thread with everyone talking about their struggles when I have went very defensive on my tree and am stacking ES and just letting Demonform carry 90% of my damage. I do take the powerful chaos nodes that are near where I am pathing anyway but I have breezed through the entire campaign as Infernalist.
Here is roughly my current build, its not entirely up to date but I made this for someone else to show them what I am doing
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/21a13227-9ec7-4c9d-861b-855520d1d045/builds/4b4775cf-5534-4ad2-be5b-9b5ee1b1a2e3
I have nearly 3k ES at this point and tbh probably going to drop Zealot's Oath entirely, its not needed. Grim Harvest + Flask with Eternal Youth has been more than adequate to sustain my ES needs. Because I am running Ghostwrithe my life pool is tiny so I can basically sustsain it with just a single source of flat life regen on armor.
Main thing to note is that running Inspiration on Despair setup is almost mandatory for QoL in my opinion.
It is crazy to me reading about everyone having issues with flask sustain, I often am finishing bosses feeling like I barely even needed my flasks at all. Demonform dash makes avoiding most boss mechanics trivial + my passive mana regen can easily sustain my normal rotation of just dots. The only time I use mana flask is after 2-3 casts of Despair.
You got any gameplay footage ? All IV heard is demon form is like a d tier build . So I'm hesitant to try it and brick my witch .
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Posted byI Honkler I#0068on Dec 10, 2024, 6:09:43 PM
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I went Blood Mage and now I'm wondering if it was a mistake. I don't know how 'Curses don't expire' interact with Decaying Hex, I would think as long as they're in range of Blasphemy, it would reapply, but now I'm not so sure.
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Posted byHollabackGuy#6042on Dec 10, 2024, 6:45:31 PM
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don't bother, chaos spells are pathetic in poo 2
the base damage is awful, the scaling is atrocious, the higher the level i got the weaker i became, i shit you not, it's bad-bad.
maybe try hexblast. ED damage sucks as i see. Hexblast plays a lot better, the only issue is mana
Just to warn, hexblast is bugged and only does damage with 1 curse and not 2. So its only doing half the damage it should atm. I really tried to get Chaos to work with my bloodmage but the damage just doesnt seem to be there.
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Posted byoogre#3144on Dec 10, 2024, 7:35:10 PM
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Can you stay in Demonform with this regen? I had 75% of your nodes, didn't take Full Recovery though and I still got killed in Demonform.
I also realized that Demonform negates weapons and kind of lost interest in it.
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Posted bypharmacopoeia#6971on Dec 10, 2024, 9:51:31 PM
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One thing I missed, is weapon skills/weapon swap.
Making one set for ED with more damage nodes, focus and good+lvl wand and another for other skills with a shieild / mana regen wand and more curse nodes made maps way more enjoyable.
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Posted byadavydow#2566on Dec 10, 2024, 11:43:26 PM
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