u/DaryltheRigger

Wolf is hard because you want to melee and that’s where heroes die. You also don’t dish out a ton of clear, and building around minions feels bad.

This clip is not optimized. I was exploring tech to create shotgun effects with Fragments of the Past. Later testing showed widening the Fragment dispersion significantly increased clear speed while still allowing Cross Slash to suck in a ton of fragments for shotgun.

Anyways the idea of the build is stack some potion regen. Abuse Amazon for infinite mana and Reverie for 5k hp/sec regen. Stack some ward to enable a better performing Lunar Assault with Olroths Hubris.

It seems that there is a multiplier glitch with Vruun’s Warcry support gem. I end up getting tons of empowered attacks, and when you detonate future fragments those empowered hits count towards the fragment hits. So you create a self-sustaining buff chain.

Another note tha I’ll be exploring soon is that Arctic Howl scales insanely with level. Getting level above 27 seems like it’s going to be a challenge, and you’ll need a perfect corrupt and an instilled notable to get to 29. If anyone has ideas for scaling Howl level I am all ears.

Anyways PoB:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/blgmike-5184/runesofaldur/character/americanwerewolfinparis

I am currently running a Reverie Wolf build focusing on being super tanky. Max hit is low and clear has been slow but I think I found an interesting interaction that makes clear viable (I am able to clear 200% delirium pretty quickly). See build reference if you’d like.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/blgmike-5184/runesofaldur/character/americanwerewolfinparis

Don’t pay attention to damage numbers in PoB, they are much higher, seems it’s not accounting for a lot of buffs and insanely high rage.

So Arctic Howl detonates all fragments near you for empowered attacks, and Vruun’s warcry support seems to give it way more empowered attacks than what the gem say.

Frozen Spite also spawns fragments when a skill kills a frozen enemy, which also get detonated by Arctic Howl.

Then there’s this Kalguran skill gem Fragments of the Past. Turns out every time it erupts it triggers your moonbeams from Lunar Blessing. And when it erupts (which is every 0.5 seconds) it makes fragments that Arctic Howl can trigger.

So you can pop your volcano and chain Arctic Howl, exploding fragments repeatedly. I end up sustaining 50+ empowered attacks while mapping. The fragments can freeze causing frozen sprite to trigger as well, so you can create a chain reaction and just keep howling and exploding.

Still exploring but looks like it’s a really cool interaction for any of you wanting to explore Werewolf.

Vruun’s Aftermath reads:

Supported Warcries cause Ice Crystals to explode
Supported Warcries Detonate your Ice Fragments
Supported Warcries Empower 3 additional Attacksif they destroy at least 5 total Ice Crystals and Ice Fragments

Seems the interaction is glitched because if you freeze a unique monster and hit it with a few Shreds to make some shards, you will get like 40+ empowered attacks when you use Arctic howl.

If you’re AOE is large enough this also acts as an insane shotgun against these big bosses. I run with 85 max rage + Medveds Felling and hit 8 times per second with Shred. Once I freeze a boss, I run 2 quick attack cycles and howl and it vaporizes 200% delirium fully juiced bosses.

Bonus, Arctic Howl also counts fragments from Ice Fragments so if you kill a large pack from an HoI burst and a rare survives, you can howl to instantly kill it and gets a shitload of empowered attacks as well.

For those of you looking for a way to abuse leech on more than one resource, this is the way.

Make sure you scale your skill costs to get the most out of it.

I’m T-4 hours from my league start after a wonderful weekend away with the wife.

How’s everyone’s season? What’s your favorite addition?

What do you think they missed the mark on?

Whats your current build, and why is it not monke?

I got word from a friend they forgot to put Overabundance 3 in again so I’m a bit disappointed in that because I was cooking up some Tempest Bell Ancestral Cry shenanigans.