PoE Mageblood, Vaal Smite builds

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

Hi guys, quick showcase to show what a geared armor stacker can do to Uber Bosses! &x200B; \edit: added vid link :D &x200B; PoB used for this (set to uber pinacle dps): PoB: Ninja: [

I have been playing Doryani Prototype smite and had an absolute blast of a league. &x200B; But I think its time to transition and make up my own shit and have some fun, and the main downside of Armour Stacking is dealing with mana siphoner. By switching from Doryani to original sin, I can avoid that downside altogether (with the loss of like 75% dps) &x200B; But I figure, I don't need 100m dps to map so this should work in theory, but something I havent considered is if its even worth using smite at all as my main attack. Not sure if there are other options. I am also pretty su