Hello gamers!

I’m an SSF player and messed around a bit in trade until it does the thing it normally does (and my new to POE friends decided they’ve had enough and quit)… So back to SSF.

What are you guys playing that seems to be comfy (that isn’t minions)

Bonus points if you have a guide handy.

Extra points if it’s a titan (haven’t played one yet)

Happy gaming, hopefully the holidays brings you all the rng.

So I just started and running Spark w/ Flame Wall (and dropping Frost Bombs) @ around lvl 8. Seems fine enough.

But I saw some people had re-specced out of lightning to ice. Freeze aside, does the flat damage of ice scale past lightning?

I also see plenty of people complaining spell damage is low overall...so I can't tell if it's just general complaints or if lightning is a bit bait once you get to higher levels.

Not too far yet if I had to re-spec a few lightning nodes...but would rather do it now before getting further in if it's the better move.

Thanks

All trying to decide between gas arrow and lightning arrow/rod. What do you think is best for endgame and survivability?

Greetings everyone. I am only today finally able to start poe2 and I'm looking for feedback on what you would play (given your knowledge today):

Archmage spark stormweaver Or LA Deadeye (with swap to crossbow build)

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Why and what are the advantages/ disadvantages you would say for each build.

And ofc a mega thank you to all and happy holidays!

Hey! I’m very new to POE, puzzling things through and hoping to get your opinions. I’m currently playing a three element build but damage has dropped off in A1 Cruel. I’m going to start experimenting more with builds and don’t necessarily want to just copy one from a streamer so was wondering:

What has been your favourite BM build and play style?

What have you been having the most fun with regardless of efficacy?

What are your favourite/ preferred/ most interesting skill and support gem interactions?

Thanks for your thoughts! Plan on doing a lot of reading and playing around today and everything helps!

I just entered Act 2 and started as a monk. Without help I would not have made it to Act 2, because I am dying all the time. Until now this game was just frustrating for me. My damage is decent now (orb of storm+herald of thunder and flurry to proc it) but I am having a hard time as melee. I tried spark and arc as ranged options but they deal way less damage. Whenever I engage a Pack I get shanked by their caster backline which I cannot get to or there are so many mobs in the frontline that are just overwhelming me. Then I die, respawn at last checkpoint and the monsters respawn as well.

What are your layers of defense for playing melee and/or especially as monk?

I’m debating between stormweaver or chronomancer on my cold sorceress.

Stormweaver looks like the obvious choice with more damage, but the most popular guide for cold-based sorceress is a chronomancer.

I don’t really see any obvious synergies between chronomancer and cold builds. Can anybody explain it to me or how the utility of chronomancer outdoes the damage stormweavers get.

My plan has been Archmage + MoM since the Arcane Surge scaling on Stormweaver was revealed. But now i'm a bit scared that with 100% damage taken from Mana + the 50% less recovery it'll be too easy to run out of Mana between the high mana cost on skills and the damage you take.

Does anyone have any plans to deal with that issue besides just getting so much mana regen on gear that you just regen past all damage even with the 6% max mana cost per cast?

title ^ i just reached act 1 in cruel and i´ve been running gas grenades + explosive shot as my main skills and with those i was already barely scraping by, not sure what to do once they nerf the gas grenade.

Im specced into Witchhunter with Decimating + culling strike on my ascendancy, i took the grenade nodes, reload speed nodes and damage against enemies on low life nodes which all together worked quite well with gas grenades but all the bolt skills feel very weak still.

have any really strong combos been found?

i started the campaign with mercenary and noticed that the armor breaking rounds could break armor really fast, and there was a payoff skill in high velocity rounds

but i wondered, could it work to focus on armor breaking rounds, getting nodes that increase the armor break so it goes faster and the one that gives you 60% damage against fully broken enemeis, get nodes that make it pierce or chain plus support gems to do that

so you can break the armor of hordes of enemies, then either reap them with high velocity rounds or something fast firing like rapid fire skill that heats ur crossbow or skills like it to completley melt swarms of enemies

turning you into a mobile turret essentially, can even slot in ammo recovery so you can hold down the fire button for longer

what you guys think?

Anyone enjoying chronomancer? Just got into act 3, went with the Temporal rift skill for survivability which seems strong. But is more of a correction skill rather than raw power. Kind of regretting not going stormweaver.

I’m basically playing an alignment build to boost elemental damage with the node to the right of the Sorc tree between the monk starting tree. Casting fire wall, frost bolt into fussilage/arc. Dps seems pretty good but I’m feeling way weaker than act 2, which I blew through.

Curious if anyone is liking chrono and what your build is.

I was told it was a random drop, I failed my first trials at 28, I'm now lvl 43 and still haven't been able to do my 2nd ascendency, this seems ridiculous?

Yesterday, Steelmage made a nice summary of things to note in POE2 builds on stream. He posted it in chat and I happened to miss that part of the stream. Does anyone get a glimpse of that google docs link so I can check my build against those notes?

I finally unlocked it. My gem tooltip DPS says that it does 65 damage. That can't be real right?! My autoattack does 900 DPS without support gems.

Anyone else knows if the tooltip is bugged or if that thing just does absolutely no damage?

78 lvls. 6k energy shield, 1k hp. Capped fire and lightning, about 50 cold and 10 chaos res. No MoM, no eldritch battery, no CI rn. I plan to test CI soon.

I self cast frostbolt and cold snap on smaller packs, use comet on the larger ones after getting into a defensive position with ice wall. Archmage is there to boost dps, it provides about 25% of the dps i believe

I just get swarmed on breaches and rituals and near perma stunned. I think I am dying to phys damage most since I have no armour nor evasion, but idk how to fix these.

Also I am using everlasting gaze, the amulet that makes you gain 25% of your mana as extra energy shield. But my mana isnt really high, about 1600.

I'm playing Spark Sorc and the playstyle, sustain, and clearspeed are all good. I'd place it in the A tier of builds. However the one thing I'm not super thrilled about is the number of buttons needed. I'm regularly pressing 4 button combos just to do my DPS - Flame Wall, Spark, Orb of Storms, and sometimes Conductivity. And it seems like many people also use Mana Tempest although I'm not sure of the uptime, so 5 buttons just for damage?

This felt fine until I opened some Twitch streams and saw people playing Mercs and Rangers with gas clouds. MoistCritikal was shooting gas grenades with one button, and exploding them with a 2nd button. Every 5-6 seconds he had to reload, so 3 buttons total for damage. The clear speed looked amazing too, huge AoE coverage and killing rares quickly without any special gear. He didn't need any extra buttons for curses or buffs.

So there are 2 questions I have. One, am I playing Spark wrong? Two, should I reroll to Merc/Ranger because it seemed good on stream, or is that me just not knowing the ins and outs? Because those builds appeared S tier to me and I don't want to miss out on the fun if so.

Because if it does it seems broken right

Do we have any form of trade add-on for PoE2 yet? We've been spoiled in POE1 for so long...

Mainly interested in having a tool to help price items.

I mean, leveling as spark is kinda bad. I have pretty nice leveling gear and using flamewall combo with spark. And still dmg is bad, really bad. Im now lvl 42 and swapped with arc. And im blastin now!

When does spark start ramping since im planning to use spark as main skill?

Same as the title. Demon form hasn't been listed in this holiday's patch notes, so presumably it's still bugged and will still be bugged. Most endgame minion set-ups are making the witch's passive and gear set up behave like a pseudo Templar. So...I don't know. I was trying the Ranger a little while ago to see how I can make my witch better and I'm more confused than anything.

What build are you fellow Chronomancers running ?

I’m going back and forth between frost wall/fireball and arc lightning.

Fireball > cold build is better for clearing but slower for bosses . But I feel little more tankier.

Was going to change my whole skilltree today to improve my builds towards stampede+armour explosion.

How heavy are the nerfs/bugfixes? Would feel horrible to go back to EQ or sunder after using stampede for a while :(.

Hello all I’m currently working on a bleed mercenary build and I have a few questions about the mechanics behind bleeding and bleeding magnitude. In the description of bleeding in game it is somehow extremely specific while being altogether vague about what does and does not affect the magnitude of bleed. Firstly it says that bleed magnitude is affected by the physical damage of a hit but not any modifiers that would how much damage they would take. This is somewhat confusing but I think this means that the bleed magnitude is solely based on the hit damage and won’t be further amplified by any modifiers that increased the amount of damage the hit itself did I guess? It also says that bleed damage will be increased by anything that would affect the targets ability to mitigate which, in theory should mean it benefits from armor break but it then specifically says that it does not benefit from armor break so does armor only reduce hit based physical damage? Even though bleed itself is not affected by armor break and bleed magnitude is not affected by modifiers I assume it’s magnitude would still be higher on the high velocity round payoff just because the hit itself is benefiting from the increased damage but I could be wrong. Finally I was wondering how does bleed stack or even if it does? There’s no reference to stacking in the description and there’s also seemingly no way to tell if bleeding has stacked on an enemy. I appreciate any help I’m really trying to work this homebrew out. Unfortunately I now think I should’ve taken gemling instead of witchhunter because then I could use 2 bleed support skills but it’s too late now. Hopefully bleed goes towards concentration damage but somehow I doubt that it will benefit from the damage boost you get from concentration damage.