Im curious.
Im asking this because I want to make a build that looks like one thing on the surface but actually has countless techs or crazy mechanic interactions running in the background.
Actually I want to make a build where I fit in as many of these as possible while keeping things really smooth
Can someone point me in the right direction?
So, what your favorite one?
So, I can run fully juiced maps quite easily but bossing is always a little shaky. I feel like I spend too long against unique bosses, giving them too much time to go into their animated attacks multiple times in one fight.
In the first part of the video ive attached, im facing Xesht and as you can see, I use my mirage to help pin him down as fast as possible. Weapon set 2 is a bit more PIN specialised for that very purpose. When the boss is pinned, I get to do 140% more damage using siege cascade, so you would think I would melt bosses considering the impact is averaging 100k dps, and the explosion 300k dps. 140% more of that should translate into melting bosses no?
What am I doing wrong and what can I do to improve my bossing experience? Should I use a different skill? I was thinking of maybe switching out fork for elemental armantent 2 or armour break and use explosive shot for bossing as well but when I do the math, siege cascade should totally outperform it...
Anyone with tips and tricks from crossbow builds? It's my first time trying one.
Thanks a bunch
The second part of the video is just some mapping to show the difference. I didnt include footage with Headhunter on, since I know thats frowned upon here lol, but I use it for temple runs and it definitely smoothens things up
https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1aff8
PS - FULL dps isn’t shown in the POB, Im averaging 75k impact amd 80k explosion on explosive shot so a total of around 150k dps
Ive been working on this build for abt a week or two now! Not all my resistances are capped, I don’t have high armour, life nor evasion.
My main defensive layer comes from temporal chain socketed in blasphemy with some nodes that increase the slow magnitude of debuffs I inflict, coupled with hindered.
I die to bs sometimes, but very, very rarely.
All tips and tricks are welcomed! I want to push this build but not sure how to min max it at this point.
Anybody familiar with siege cascade willing to give some pointers?
Mapping isn’t difficult but id definitely want to increase AOE so the target radius of siege cascade includes more enemies.
I have another siege cascade socketed in a mirage archer on my weapon set 2 for bosses that stacks impales for me to extract.
It’s mostly a one button build outside of using galvanic shards to switch to WS2 when I want to summon my mirage
Tbh, Galv shards is a better mob clearer especially with the chain lineage and ricochet, but kinda struggles against some enemies with high armor, elemental rez or buffed rares. So I stick with siege cascade since it takes 1 attack instance (impact + explosion) to clear most enemies, including rares.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1af1b
Real dps is about 230k and that’s without taking into consideration charge regulation and trinity
Main defensive layer is a buffed blasphemy/temporal chains setup.
All my res are capped except chaos but that doesn’t matter much since enemies barely have time to attack
Next upgrade is getting a really good crossbow with attack speed, high phys and +levels so I can repurpose some passive points into increased AOE to make siege cascade target more enemies and make mapping feel smoother
I also have mirage archer with siege cascade socketed in but I mostly use that on bosses
I came up with the build, but in my experience, Ive yet to create something no one else has. So anyone with experience with siege cascade, please do share some tips and tricks.
POB incoming in the comments