PoE Vaal Smite builds without Replica Dreamfeather

Build Philosophy I haven't played my favorite ailment builds in a while - ignite. Chieftain is much more tanky than Elementalist, with less damage. Chieftain, however, leverages its physical damage reduction with decent damage. It also is my most played ascendancy pog. This build utilizes the shift from phys to fire on gear, with a combination of the consistency of Endurance Charges, to pretty much tank all phys damage. Dawnbreaker is a two-fold synergy, as it does not only shift phys to fire and cold/ lightning to fire, but also supplies the only sour

Basically title. Additionally, frenzy generation through mark mastery. How are you planning to roll your spark tricksters? Additional thoughts: Maybe wanna opt into hypothermia for higher freeze consistency, might wanna go dual CoTB+Heatshiver. Think anathema is not the way to go anymore for early league since the inversion mastery is pretty much equivalent to the lightning lucky mastery in terms of average DPS. Might want to opt for more Energy Shield from tree.

So I was thinking of league starting as Righteous Fire. The new masteries makes leveling a breeze, but how realistic do you think it is to migrate to this after a week or two? Are these clusters really expensive? I'm a HC player who just farms red maps...so this seems pretty cool to me to be able to play that Auto Bomb style while remaining semi tanky. Thoughts?

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone tried poison spark in e.g. SSF setting and got some results on a cookie cutter setup. The prevalent variants all use ashes and alt qual which is actually perfectly achievable and a comparably decently low entry point for an all content viable build but ofc we're always trying to go lower. I've theorycrafted a very basic poison spark trickster, using the old fans favourite vulkuurs guidance, cospris will for +1 curse and guaranteed poison and fat ES, singularity as a cheap damage source and shavronnes revelation to get huge ES and decentish mana regen. [htt

Hey guys I have recently thought about spark raider with a similar approach as the prevalent spark trickster, but life based over ES based. Results are promising, with all the Buffs up (highly unrealistic TBH but many spark PoBs include vaal smite these days so its the benchmark) the build has 6.6mil per Proj with double duration cluster, meaning 4.19s duration or 6 possible hits under ideal scenarios (only 4 pierce though so 5). Since I didnt opt for algor mortis the build gains some leech at the tradeoff of losing a major defens

I commented in a thread about my CI Poison Spark build the other day, and there seemed to be some interest about my approach to what is quite a popular build this league, so I thought I'd make a post. My philosophy is that I want to hit the DOT cap, with good Wither uptime, and after that I focus on hit damage and defenses, namely in the amount of a high ES pool. At 10.31 casts per second (11.27 with Smite active), the build is extremely mobile and generally hits the DOT cap in 2-3 seconds, depending on the arena. I eschew Awakened Deadly Ailments and Awakened Unbound Ailments in favor of A

Saw somebody post their Poison Winter Orb build earlier today and thought I'd share the Poison Ball Lightning I made. It's more or less identical to Poison Spark, both in tree and gameplay feel, except for bossing when I swap gems and rings. You (probably) shouldn't play this? It does feel a tiny bit worse than Poison Spark in doing most things. But it was a nice change of pace for a bit, and I have a strong suspicion that as long as you have an Original Sin, you could get Ball Lightning going farther on a smaller budget than Spark. (i.e. if I had no Mageblood or Nimis or Grand Spectrums e