u/Scytrus

Path of Building Link: https://pobb.in/Qe3uy_zXa9Su

Full Video Guide: 3.28 Legacy of the Rose Inquisitor

Hello everyone, so a few leagues ago I randomly dropped this staff, and it looked sick so i wondered if we can actually make a coherent build around it. So, a few leagues and another cool belt later, behold, the thing I made. PoB is a bit weird for this since it is a newer item, mainly the dps, since we can only use this skill every 5s or so, divide the average dps by the attack rate to get per hit damage (jank, but cbf doing spreadsheet calcs).

Shaper slam per hit damage: 10-15 million. Yes its a big range, nothing we can do though

WoTC dps: 2.3 million. Can clear all content, including T17s.

The item basically allows us to summon shaper after spending 2000 ES, and I picked the Shaper's Slam variant, which seemed like the most fun. The other variants are the shapers balls and laser, which will be a bit different.

We scale the damage by going diamond shrine for 100% crit, which is important since you can only use this every like 5-6 seconds. Since we are using new belt, we can't use flasks, so we go all in on this idea by going Omni, nameless bloodline and get an extra ring. Since there are not many good ways to scale the damage, we go Omni for massive pen and take away pressure of having resists on gear. Since for omni builds get a ton of stats from the rings, the extra one is pretty sweet.

We go inquisitor for battlemage and more attack damage on spell cast, so we can take advantage of the +5 all skills on the staff and use a cast while channeling WoCT. Because we have a diamond shrine, we can use controlled destruction and ignore the downside. DPS is good enough to clear all maps (around 2.3m WoCT). Then the standard consecrated ground and ES regen/MoM.

We then use 4 runegrafts: Gemcraft(+1 Supports), Fury(rage gen since all life flasks), Warp (buff/debuff duration), Jeweller(10% damage per unlinked socket in weapon)

Forbidden Flame/Flesh for Bastion of Hope to cap block. This is our main defense layer, its a bit rough and only part of the build that feels a bit clunky during play

We then use frostmage to inflate our mana(ES) cost of WoTC to spend 2k es faster with no jank corrupting fever set-up.

Is this build uber viable? I have killed ubers, with each slam dealing around 10-20% of Uber Shaper's hp bar per hit. It is not pleasant, but you can do it lol.

Is this build good? I enjoyed clearing all the content with this and one-shotting things. It will never get close to even a B-tier build but I had fun calling in daddy shaper to dunk on the unbelievers lol

PoB Link: https://pobb.in/47jnEXDMLxp_

Note: Video is an older version of this build, currently sitting at around 9200 ES, since PoB doesn't take into account Runegraft of the Fortress (10% reduced attributes, 40% increased global defences) <— edit: not true, thanks to a kind stranger I now know my discipline is not set up. Will update PoB later but shouldn’t change anything aside from more EHP

Hello everyone, as a chaos dot enthusiast, I decided to see how far I can push a chaos dot build. I have always struggled with Sirus, so in regular PoE player fashion, i decided to see if i can tank everything he throws at me while murdering him as well. So, I cooked this build up. It's mostly the same as a standard BoC build, but I made a few changes in the defensive layers so I can safely (albeit slowly) clear every uber in the game.

We scale BoC with +4 from amulet, +6 from Empower (boosted by cane of Kulemak) for a total level 30 BoC. Corrupted with coin for level 1 infused channeling.

Running Grace, malevolence, discipline, purity of ice and clarity. Only possible from the Megalomaniac (50% reservation Malevolence, 50% Reservation Grace, 80% Reservation Purity of Ice) and level 4 enlighten.

Using melding of the flesh for max res. To get to 90% cap: Sapphire flask with 70% increased effect, level 23 purity of ice (+2 levels from amulet) and aura effect from tree, glove eldritch implicit +1 max cold res, +2 max cold res jewel.

Is this build replicable? Kinda, since the Megalomaniac is hard to come by, but you can sacrifice a medium jewel slow for another reservation small cluster.

I self-crafted all my gear, so if you have any questions on how it was made, I can reply with a crafting guide. Anyway, was a fun project and fun build to do content with, especially exploding half the map with two button presses.

As an Essence Drain/Contagion enthusiast, I’m running a blight of contagion trickster build and wanted to see how far I can push Chaos DoT. Since there’s very few of these types of amulets on the market, I’ll share how you can make one yourself.

Overview: You will need to recombination two amulets, so I’ll break up the two bases as two separate crafting trees.

Focused Amulet Base:

1. Buy a clean Focused Amulet. (Can be split)
2. Chaos spam/ alt regal to get DoT multi (I settled for T2 because my hand started to cramp after 3000 chaos orbs. Should be around 1/710 so I was a bit shafted lol)
3. Suffixes can’t be changed, scour to isolate suffix mod if not isolated already
4. Craft suffixes can’t be changed, harvest add/remove chaos to guarantee the +2 chaos gems
5. You want a Focused amulet with Dot Multi and +2 Chaos ONLY

Feeder Base:

1. Get ilevel 75+ base
2. Alt spam for +1 all. This will take a while
3. beast imprint to preserve base (optional, although if next step fails, you'll have to alt spam again, and my recommendation is preserving your carpal tunnel for another league)
4. Regal/annul until the item is rare and only has the +1 all gems. If you annul the +1, go back to imprint and try again
5. Craft multi mod, prefixes can’t be changed and one other random suffix. This is to prepare the base to make sure the next two steps don't brick the item
6. Harvest add/remove chaos for the guaranteed +1 chaos gems
7. Recraft the crafted mod the last step removed. You need 3 suffixes, so the next step doesn't brick
8. Elder exalt for a guaranteed elder prefix (the type of influenced exalt you use doesn’t matter, elder is just one of the cheaper ones). Even with prefix can't be changed, since the item ONLY has a free prefix, the exalt will guarantee to hit a prefix
9. Harvest reforge influence and hope to RNGesus you only add an elder suffix. If it adds one elder and one other, craft prefix can't be changed and annul. If it removes the influenced suffix, harvest reforge influence again. If this step fills up the item, yolo annul, if you lose a prefix, annul again to try and safe the item. If you lose two prefixes, go back to imprint. This is one of two steps that's complete RNG, with the other being the coin toss at the end.
10. You want a feeder base with +1 all, +1 chaos, 1 elder prefix and 1 elder suffix ONLY.

Finale: chuck both into recombinator and clench your ass for the coin toss. If you get focused amulet, relax, consume the dopamine and spend 7 divines on dextral catalysts and oils for anointment. If you hit the feeder base, cry and go back to step 1.

I’ve managed to hit 750k-ish tool tip DPS, which is the highest I’ve ever seen blight of contagion go on a functional build, even with a mage blood.