PoE 3.19 Kalandra, 3.20 Sanctum, 3.18 Sentinel Mageblood, Witch, Lightning builds

This league was by far my most successful. I started out as poison seismic sabo and had a great time. The dps was lackluster for endgame so instead of dumping loads of currency I built a CoC Ice Spear Occultist. That character deleted bosses, especially Lycia; the downside was how squishy it was. I had trouble doing invitations and if I wasn't on point with my timing certain pinnacles would make me use a portal. Not the end of the world, but I HATE dying. So I farmed a ton with a(n) RF jugg (made maps so trivial and since you never die you just zip through everything). That got old and I misse

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

I'm looking at some other Poison Spark Occultists on poe.ninja and trying to figure out how their DPS is so much higher than mine. I've got a couple questions on where to go from here: I'm seeing a lot of use of Steady Torment. I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious. But for the life of me, I cannot figure out where bleeding is being applied from. Big differences in gear I'm seeing are Grand Spectrum jewels & weapon. Even adding

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

pob: ninja: feel like a lot of stuff on the build can be swapped around, like going golems instead of shaper of winter, not 100% sure about the cold snap cwdt thing either. Im using vaal pact cause it was cheap and i didnt have regen without the stone golem, but it doesnt feel as great as i thought and might go back to golems. I do like progenesis a lo

pob: cool stuff in the build: Veteran's Awareness Nature's Patience Spectres: Baranite Cleric and Arena Master Animate Guardian Full uptime Spirit Offering automatic rf, bv and molten shell because they're being triggered by vortex

pob: spectres: arena master baranite cleric AG gear: Kingmaker Garb of the Ephemeral southbound gloves with elemental weakness implicit brittle ground implicit boots with 35% lightning and fire resistance \-9 nearby enemies lightning resistance helm

pob: need to get better helm, rare gloves to cap resists and get unnerve/bit more convert on implicits. Can fit in AG, but maybe not spectres because i'm very socket starved. Also will get more levels and try to get storm burst to 4sec duration I am up to 40 orbs at the moment

I would apreciate some comments on this cause i might be going a bit too ham on the aoe :)