[3.7] Essence Drain/Contagion Trickster (the best one)

Can you Say witch Timeless Juwel good is for the build?

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zbodude เขียน:

Can someone make a guide to crafting the helm? I'm brand spanking new at crafting. Thanks <3

Take a Hubris Circlet (ilvl doesnt really matter but for sake of sanity take something 80+).
Buy a bunch of Pristine (for Life) OR Dense (for ES) Fossils (Note: DO NOT USE BOTH IT DOESNT WORK) and use them together with Abberant Fossils in a 2 Slot Resonator.

Spam them on the Hubris until you got something you like.

https://poedb.tw/us/mod.php?cn=Helmet&an=int_armour

If you happen to have a Shaper Base Hubris iLvl 83+ you could also land increased Area of Effect which is nice.

Hi i was just wondering what i would have to do to switch this build into a chaos inoculation build?

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zbodude เขียน:

Can someone make a guide to crafting the helm? I'm brand spanking new at crafting. Thanks <3

Read the second post on this page: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2526526/page/6

To expound on the reply above, you'll want 84 for T1 res or 85 for T1 Int if those are things you care about. Also use Perfect Fossils first to get it higher quality. I used 3 socket resonators and added prismatic to the aberrant+pristine for the resistance.

can trade: 3 ex each

Anyone have tips for killing the portals quickly on Red Elder fights? I did the fight no problem but shaper got down to about 35% HP which is lower than I like. I am self casting Blight with Allelopathy gloves. It was hard to keep all the mobs off of shaper during the last two portal phases due to them being so far apart.

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CrageX เขียน:

can trade: 3 ex each

Those jewels look juicy, but I think one would be losing too much to spec down that far on either side to use them that way. You would basically have to skip the witch area completely for it to make a difference. But, if someone were looking for a glass cannon DOT build (if that's even a thing) those jewels would be pretty ideal.

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Blood88 เขียน:

Can you Say witch Timeless Juwel good is for the build?

maraketh one with onslaught on kill is pretty nice

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Hellsmith เขียน:

Anyone have tips for killing the portals quickly on Red Elder fights? I did the fight no problem but shaper got down to about 35% HP which is lower than I like. I am self casting Blight with Allelopathy gloves. It was hard to keep all the mobs off of shaper during the last two portal phases due to them being so far apart.

Use frostwall (+/- linked with increased duration). Put walls in front of Shaper so he can't be hit by the ennemy.

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primordialiege เขียน:

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Blood88 เขียน:

Can you Say witch Timeless Juwel good is for the build?

maraketh one with onslaught on kill is pretty nice

The Timeless Jewels are really hard to discuss. I only have one Karui, and you can't exactly experiment theoretically. Everything I'm about to say is just from scanning the wiki page

Karui - generally bad for us as they lean melee.

Maraketh - generally good. Maraketh give additive bonuses to small passives and notables, so you won't "lose" any of your passive tree with these. The list of things that can get added to notables is pretty fun (move speed, cast speed, evasion rating, onslaught on kill, frenzy charge on kill, max life). You'll have to get lucky and hope yours happens to give good stuff

Templar - probably sucks, but tiny chance to be awesome. Templar jewels will completely transform your notables into new ones. There are a few good ones (+1 max resist, phys damage reduction, +1 minimum charges, etc.), but most of the new notables are not great.

Eternal - higher risk, higher reward. With these, you completely lose all small passives, and all notables are transformed. Some of the new notables are insanely powerful (+80% spell damage, +10% life, +10% damage per frenzy/power charge, easy charge generation, etc.), but others will do nothing. It will come down to finding a jewel that happens to hit all good transformations.

Vaal - highest risk, highest reward. All passives are just randomized. This is just pure yolo.

The problem is you can't really research it to see what seed number you'd need to get the notables you want in the places we have available. That makes it impossible to target search on trade sites.

Of all the Keystone transformations, only Maraketh Wind Dancer (deshret version) is intriguing (20% damage reduction if you haven't been hit recently, 40% less evasion if you haven't been hit recently, 20% more evasion rating if you have been hit recently). Eternal Jewel's Supreme Ego (chitus version) could combo with using Malevolence in Essence Worm for some huge aura effect, but not sure if it's worth it.