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Recently there was a post either on main sub or this sub where ventrua was showcasing that potential starters have generally low disparity and more things than we previously thought are competitive. Especially his take on LA deadeye with Determination stood out to me and I wanted to make a character based on that. Why/how this works: 1) you dont need insane amounts of armour to mitigate small hits very well, especially with small amounts of phys taken as elemental, endurance charges and enduring cry 2) You dont need insane amounts of evasion to evade 80+% of attacks, if you pair it with b

Hey guys, the new unholy might opens up many options and the automation support on Blood rage is very good at enabling broken faith shield without room for error basically. Idea is to have CIP for bosses and obliteration for clear, automate despair with skitterbots. Tankyness comes from broken faith and reaches very absurd numbers with a molten shell up. Since I have no idea how the timeless jewel market is gonna be with the new league I havent opted for divine flesh, but it should be the undisputed best defense and would allow you to drop another 20 points into damage since you would not ha

Warlock for huge HP, heralds for damage, determination for some armour. PB for damage reduction. With eldritch implicits we can get like 8mil and 1.6k leech.

Yo recently theorycrafted around the eye of winter build from jung. Dont get me wrong I could just buy all the items and call it a day but I wanted to maybe create a thread and share budget options. I wanna start an SSF run with freezing pulse+frost bomb into Eye of Winter arcanist brand at lvl38 and prior to that I wanted to theorycraft a bit about possible budget endgame setups. I came up with that one: Basically Tulfall 250c, Boots 100c, 100c or less rares (probably 20c tops for some of those), 400c body maybe for probably simi

Basically the cookie cutter uniques in the title to leverage damage, spectral throw/spectral helix multi hit mechanic to scale damage (PoB is configured for single hit, should be x4 for spectral throw and like x2.5 for spectral helix). Wind Ward + Wind Dancer for defenses, although the build is by no means a defensive powerhouse, just 95% evade if hit recently and some basic mitigation. I put starter in many quotation marks because heatshiver/yoke and lethal pride can be kinda expensive so I dont wanna advertise it as a full blo

Pretty much title. Heatshiver+Cold Ailment Duration+Painseeker to cheese freezes, Shade Of Solaris cheap Wand for Big Damage scaling, Evasion + Flesh and Stone + Blind Effect scaling for 95% Evasion if hit recently. Unsure how to fit in more duration or phys mitigation right now, I just wanna stay evasion based early league since its a lot more budget friendly especially when the occasional death goes unpunished in Softcore. Open Questions: How feasible are 50 Kills in 4 seconds? How much uptime/downtime? Possible to tech in block

Hey Guys, tried to work on the current chieftain iteration of reap and worked it into the new reworked one. Seems pretty decent for such a tanky character, with awakened gems you're breaking into 10-15mil DPS territory easily for sure. More armour/conversion to ele would be nice as phys mitigation could be a tad bit higher. Currently at a loss at what to get for 4th lab, maybe I'll go for some fireborn node conversion shenanigans dunno yet havent figured out TBH.

Basic concept get max fire res, scale spark with nebulis and go ham on fire and chaos res. Hope that the explosion node on chieftain is made more consistant before league start. Scale damage with elemental overload, perma RF and low life condition. Didnt put much effort into the PoB, just a basic concept. &x200B;

Scaling BV through vaal caress gloves, curses and phys as extra chaos mainly. Eplode from double obliteration. High evade chance from Grace + flesh and stone with moderate blind effect scaling. Recovery through LgoK, leech, perma life+mana flasks and ghost dancer. Some thoughts: I could see a world where spellbreaker is the better choice in this case, BV doesnt profit from the cast speed and the ES leech isnt actually that amazing. Endgame is probably +level skin or a +4 dendrobate and dual %DoT damage Cold iron points, confident

Sabo for CDR, easy evasion cap through blind and big damage from explosives expert. LMK what you think &x200B;

Yo guys, ever since widowhail has been introduced I've been looking out for cookie cutter setups with it. This one features scorpions call to leverage elemental Hit. Paired with kaoms gloves, we can get around 7 rage per sec from the quiver alone and the other stats scale ele hit directly too. With a corrupted +1 Quiver you get up to 7 arrows without taking multishot, or 10 on the barrage totem setup. The nature of ele hit allows us to not pick up any offensive aura and invest into determination+grace for around 40k of both assoc

Yo guys, as many people have discovered, Hiero is very potent this patch for casters. I wanted to make a cheap-ish Sparker that is full league start viable. The main selling point is that unlike other early game sparkers, we have so much Damage that we can take both pierce and faster projectiles and still end up at 3.8Mil per projectile. On an inquis, you will not be able to do this in meaningful content early league so you will have very low projectile speed and very low pierce count (1 or 2 from gloves maximum). Let me know what

Yo guys, I really feel like with the addition of vengeant cascade, deadeye became a viable class for frost blades. Far Shot basically gives you 30% more Damage since the icey blades always travel the maximum distance (147% increased Projectile speed), The mark mastery gives massive Base Crit and the tailwind 4 pointer gives potentially massive mitigation as well as 20% action speed (more Damage). The small nodes give some projectile speed which is pretty good to get above the 140-ish threshold. Far shot should also be massive while clearing since most mobs actually only get hit by the icey bl

Yo guys, this is my end goal character, however in early maps I have already noticed that the recovery feels lackluster. What are my options?

Basically scale Damage with the cookie cutter uniques like rathpith, vulconus, anathema, marylenes and the magnate belt. Slap on some Regen rolls on gear+vitality to sustain RF. Opt for heralds to scale damage further, opt into determination+some max res scaling to get a bit of spell damage mitigation. Die Instantly to chaos (at this gear level, its not unsolvable). Without conc effect you're at 20 radius which should be fine for clearing, can use awakened aoe as a swap later. Build has many conditions attached to the damage e.g. b

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.

Thought it would be nice to theorycraft a bit with hiero. Turns out between kugals gaze, new bubonic trail and the hiero ascendancy and a mana mastery, you gain 100% (150 if 1k mana spend recently) arcane surge efficiency which equals 40% more damage with new hiero. On top of that, you gain 25% RMR from hiero, 24% from bubonic and 12% from new mana mastery. If you take souvereignity on top, you're at 83% global RMR that applies to every aura. This build runs 2 heralds and 3 50% auras. This uses reworked tulfall as a (possibly) chea

Basically lightning coil+ToH+Dawnbreaker+helmet implicit to take 100% phys as cold, then stack ward with jacked up iron flask and nightgrip to get huge flat chaos damage. Elusive+Perfect agony to scale DoT Multi, increased damage is a bit on the low side. Possible to take lower proj speed for better bossing. Cap suppression largely through tree. Option to go eternal damnation but I didnt wanna put a ring with double attribute and despair in the PoB, the one I'm using is already a bit too good imo. LMK what you think. Possible to re

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

Hey guys, recently thought about what to league start and somehow ended up with a scion. I noticed that scion builds have an easy time picking up Soul of Steel and Revenge of the hunted+ mastery, Graceful assault+mastery and the champion of the cause and charisma wheels. This allows for the beloved 3 50% auras+defiance banner setup we all enjoyed a couple of patches ago. On top of that, Scions berserker and scions ranger classes offer decent damage or QoL, especially Rage generation is still pretty rare, especially for bow builds. This allows for 30k+ armour and 30k eva flasked, 76%+ max re

Made a quick delve mockup to see whether blood of summer or fragment of eternity is better for a frenzy stacker, turns out its not even close (turns out nighblade is pretty decent kek)! Thought I'd share my PoB mockup since it seems pretty decent. Between 50/50 block and capped suppression you shouldnt really be in danger of dying unless you fuck up (yes tanking a big phys slam is a fuckup). 75% endurance charge on block chance should keep you topped on endurance charges and give a pretty massive 3 endurance charge immortal call w

Hey guys, Recently came across the synergy between heatshiver and alt qual Ice trap and distilled 2 potential paths. One would be grace, one would be determination, both together would result in a major DPS loss which I wouldnt want personally on this character. I plan to do Ubers (eventually) with it - no spell suppression sucks but I count on phasing bosses fast enough to not deal with the mechanics. Both are pretty promising for the initial budget (around 15 divine

So after Obliteration got buffed by quite a significant amount I started thinking about how to make use of those. Obviously you can do Poison with those, but then youre having backloaded Damage and I dont really like that while going fast through maps. This is a BV Char with currently 65% chaos convert and 80% added as Chaos. Im sure you could go higher with a Cluster Setup but I've chosen to not incorporate clusters since those usually inflate the cost quite a bit. Build doesnt really have outstanding rares, just the body armour

After I've posted about Evasion and Armour Based Attack Builds, I thought I would theorize about Armour Based Spellcasters too. I've taken the Standard Inquisitor Spellcaster and worked on its defensive properties a bit - this recycles mostly defensive concepts from the previous posts but I feel like its worth showcasing nonetheless. This is a BV Inquisitor leveraging Phys taken as Element, perma Utility Flask Uptime and some moderate Armour Investment to achieve 0,15 phys Damage Taken multiplier vs a 10k phys hit and under 0.2 dam

I've tried to explore alternate defensive setups for a couple of archetypes and this is what I've came up with for Pure Evasion Characters. I've chosen Deadeye on purpose because its quite a bit easier to get a lot of Evasion on Raider. This build uses the lowest tier of the Body Armour Flask per 3 sec Implicit and the utility flask charges gained mastery to permanently maintain 5 flasks (Jade Flask has only 92% uptime so a good chunk of a second downtime sadly). Again we Convert around 55% of our phys Damage taken to Elemental

So I tried to get as tanky as possible without using any of the mentioned mechanics. Turns out you can get permanent uptime on 4 utility flasks on any class with a flask belt+the 4 pointer flask cluster near elusive nodes and The Traitor Keystone. Without such a belt you would just drop the less duration mods on the flasks and get %chance to avoid, has the same effect basically. That, coupled with 3 points into max res solves ele mitigation, pretty much. This means for 7 points we can get roughly as much as suppression would net us

Hey guys, recently thought about possible offmeta league starters and came up with this Chaos BV, heavily inspired by the trending Cold BV variants. Build has 60% chance to explode ennemies and gull+blunderbore for fast mapping, as well as badge of the brotherhood for high withering step uptime to have it up for almost every pack and get the wither damage multiplicator for the explosions too. The build has actually 3.5M dps with the current config even against sirus which seems pretty decent. Ive found two things a bit worrysome:

20Mil DPS, 14,7 Mil without Focus, 45k AR 45k EVA flasked, 60/45/60k max hit. Leveraging BV with Dual Curse, Dot multi with Crits and some moderate gem level scaling. Besides maybe helmet and gloves, the rares can be made in a couple of essences and a fractured mod. The militant faith is also pretty flexible, opted for aura effect and ele res to completely dodge gear pressure. This PoB is set for single target, I would probably opt for Delirium explodey boots, asenaths or even explodey body armour for clear or just a good old we

10 Days ago or so I posted my White Wind Deadeye Starter, now I thought it would be nice to give an Endgame update and some thoughts. Levelling: Had a late start (sunday morning), bought some leveling weapons for the random currency I dropped, helped me clear campaign in 4:30, nothing special but Helix is top tier for going fast. Mapping: White Wind+5L, Capped Res, Capped Suppression and basic Defiance Banner+grace+determination setup was enough to clear exarch and eater questline, swapped to 6l and better jewelry once progression started to slow down in high red maps. Bossing: Everything I

After playing similar variants over the last few patches I've worked on a White Wind Helix Deadeye for this league. This build only has a bunch of rares with spell suppression, elemental resistances and attributes to cover int/str requirements. An exception are the gloves which have 2 of the most impactful eldritch implicits which you should be able to consistently hit while naturally progressing your exarch/eater quest line. If you tick off the flasks the config drops to 4.5Mil/33k Max Hit which is still very respectable. The PoB has a couple of points allocated in QoL nodes, adjust this t

Hello, after we know Helix and Nightblade is safe next patch I started thinking about how to improve or at least spice up the renown helix variants. After Dawnbreaker+ToH combo got quite some traction recently I tried to tech it into the build. With 2 flask mods on belt, a flask cluster and the traitor keystone its possible to get perma uptime on ToH and quite possibly the 3 other flasks I am using aswell. This build then uses the dex from brutal restraint to get a fairly efficient use of static electricity. In the end, this build hits 1.2mil dps per proj on 160% elusive effect and 5 gale for

Hey Guys, I've been pleasantly surprised by lightning tendrils while leveling and I keep lightning tendrils in my shortlist as a league starter. Maybe you could look at my PoBs! One is life based, the second one is a far tankier CI version which should be my lategame transition. The life version has 1.5Mil DPS while the CI version has 2M DPS, both on modest gear requirements. The CI version has 120k max damage taken, the life version has a merely 12k. Let me know w

Hey there, recently tried to theorycraft around the newly buffed Blade Vortex. While there are a couple of staples out there like the Occultist/Inquis variants, I wanted to try and create a build that can replicate a bit of the former Indigon Glory days. This is an Occultist/Pathfinder Ascendant with 3M DPS, 10k Armour/EV, perma flasks (perma ToH), good aoe while mapping (intensity will be down) and acceptable clear with Herald of Ash (with some Aoe investment aswell). Damage is scaled through omniscience and trinity, overall b

Ever since BV got buffed, I theorycrafted on the possible BV builds and ofc, poison BV has always been a staple. In this build, I tried to find a parallel to the popular nightblade poison builds and looked for an efficient way to scale spell poison. I think this efficient method could be power charge stacking with Fenumus toxins. With a redeemer chest you could later even go badge of the brotherhood for another 30% more damage and better wither uptime. On a side note: Cold iron point scales determination, defiance banner, herald of purity/agony. 60% more in the config is to account for the

Hey guys, reviewed my 3.16 league starter - now featuring more armour. After some playtesting, I also dropped Herald of Ice because it did not add a lot towards clear (not as much as commonly anticipated). With 45k phys/90k ele damage max hit taken (10k hit PoB Input), this build is quite tanky despite its low HP pool. If you have Molten shell up, this goes up to 70k/160k. Real DPS might be a bit lower - you need a couple of seconds till you get power charges and frenzy charges from Assassins Mark, then you also need to have t

Theorycrafted this build around the cheap Consuming dark daggers, ideal for league start. Capped spell suppression, decent critical strike chance, 4k life and 3k Energy shield. No armour whatsover (need flasks to fix this). Cast speed rolls might be a bit generous. Onslaught boots to further maximize your cast speed for really smooth gameplay. Higher Evasion rating would be desirable. Reminds me of chaos incinerate occultist in 3.3 which felt pretty great, maybe I try this as a second character. Edit: if you swap in Immolate

Theorycrafted a Poison build centered around Binos for prolif, elusive stacking for efficient dps scaling and assassin to complement both the efficient poison scaling and the elusive effect. This is not the absolute starter setup, more the red map follow up version. League start would likely include sword mastery for frenzy instead of redeemer chest, no thread of hope and rare jewels but instead crit grand spectrum, dropping some crit nodes in order to fund the pathing to the ranger life nodes. Things I don't know how they turn

Hey, recently started theorycrafting possible league starters. I tried to rely mostly on proven concepts. In this build this happens to be Spectral Helix, a bit of Elusive stacking, Spell Suppression (may get nerfed but It is so easy to cap with Raider so it will still be used). With just Frenzy Charges (Raider), Elusive (refreshed with Withering Step regularly) and Chill (Vortex+Bonechill on LMB) ticked against a Sirus config, this setup nets 3.6Mil Dps assuming 2 Hits (should be the average) but with good positioning, 3 hits are possible; this would net 5.4 Mil dps. Build is a bit glass ca

Hey there. Recently theorycrafted around the endless delve unique blood of summer, first I came up with elemental Hit but that didnt look as promising. This time around, I chose Spectral Helix for its immense scaling with flat damage. Main Idea is to use Ice Bite+9 Frenzy for flat Ele scaling, then stack evasion on gear and convert to armour for Big Molten Shell+Phys Mitigation. For Ele Mitigation, 76% max res and 100% spell suppression should work out rather nicely. This is not a build for Aul or other bosses, but I am confid