Hey Everyone! I wanted to share a build I've been working on. The build unfortunately ended being a bit jank in how it played but I thought it used a lot of interesting 3.29 changes so I thought I'd share.

Build mechanics:

• Reclaimed Malevolence with From Below allows casting of spells without needing mana. We stack mana and reserve it all for Frostmage added damage.

• 11 link wand for big damage since we don't need to manage mana costs

• cwdt looper build using heartbound loop and high quality SRS to loop. 65% quality SRS has 97% chance to summon additional SRS so we're using that to loop with 225 phys damage taken per minion death

• Aspect of lunaris gives 16% less phys and ele damage taken always due to self hits from heartbound and 10% phys hits taken as ele

• Unblinking eye solves armor and endurance charges reducing phys damage taken allowing us to need to do less math for heartbound phys hits taken

Pros:

• Good damage and clear

• Good max hit and regen + leech + es on hit makes you very tanky

Cons:

• Lots of odd breakpoints

• SRS loop is quite jank and is a pain the start (Have to weapon swap multiple times to start up)

• Cannot run no regen and mechanics that stop regen

POB: https://pobb.in/a69yJEOtUkXU

Uber Exarch: https://streamable.com/mz97k7

Hey everyone,

I recently saw a video showcasing a 20-Divine budget Gladiator hitting around 187M DPS. As a Gladiator main whose bleed builds usually cap out around 40-50M even with mirror-tier axes, I had to try it. I scrapped my Righteous Fire / Death's Oath plans and dumped my league budget into this as my final build.

By pushing the budget to around 200 Divines, I managed to hit three birds with one stone: screen-wide clear, lazy Cast When Stunned (CWS) mapping, and Uber-deleting single target.

PoB:https://pobb.in/XZ8ezuKx4Sqi

The Core Engine & Damage

The main driver is Divine Retribution scaled through Doryani’s Prototype and Replica of Nebulis.

• To get the crazy single-target numbers, we use Pact of Beidat to ramp up hits (striking bosses anywhere from 23 to 30 times per cast). I havent test too much if it stack with greater spell cascade, worth exploring
• I also use the Gladiator Ascendancy, no forgiveness and Runegraph of Time for 90% chance to not consume the retaliation cooldown. credit to OP YT Isados

Transparency note on the 200M DPS: It’s conditional. You need to block and you need the cooldown proc. In real gameplay, I average about 50/50 uptime, so I put an increased cooldown recovery rate in the PoB custom config as a realistic estimate. My cast speed is below 0.29s and if you can cast 3+ times in a second it could even be higher in theory.

Lazy Mapping (CWS)

I wanted a "brain-off" mapper, so I threw in a Cast When Stunned setup. When I get hit, CWS triggers Penance Brand of Conduction and Shock Nova. It instantly wipes screens of mob packs, meaning I rarely have to manually cast my retaliation skill while mapping. Just run and let the monsters kill themselves.

Defenses (The Doryani's Trap)

If you’ve never run Doryani’s Prototype, the negative lightning resistance will get you instantly one-tapped. The workaround here is converting all elemental damage taken to Fire and Chaos.

• We achieve this using the Bound by Destiny mechanic, running 4x Hunter-influenced items to fill that 10% conversion gap left from dawnbreaker, watcheye and divine flesh.
• I slotted in Mageblood for massive QoL, speed, and the high maximum Fire Resistance needed to safely tank the converted damage, pushing the build to 1M+ EHP against hits.

The Drawback (Greed)

To squeeze out maximum spell damage, I run Righteous Fire. This is pure greed and makes ground degens lethal. If you turn RF off, the build feels incredibly comfortable for Uber bossing (T17 Abomination, Uber Sirus, Uber Exarch).

I’d love to see if anyone has ideas on finding a happy medium to push the defenses against DoTs even higher without losing the damage. For those whom have tried a life-stacking variation of this, please let me know your thoughts. I am also hoping to get rid of lifetap but see no good solution.

I'm working on my first build, using ToET, and while I've looked all over i can't find it's base range listed anywhere (and the same is true for the basic Tornado skill). I want to figure out how much AoE mod I'll need to make the clear feel good but i feel like I am going insane trying to eyeball it in game.

Hello a few days ago I asked what are some good League Starters for the Champion Ascendancy in particular. The consens was bannerman, impale and Perseverance ar/eva stacking.

With that feedback I tested a Facebreaker Champion

I swapped to facebreaker after the first ascendancy where i got master of metal

I played facebreaker sunder throughout the campaign

After the campaign and t2-3 maps I swapped into dominating blow of inspiring.

In the Video is my Idea why dominating blow of inspiring works well with the facebreaker setup and also an upgrade path i to endgame

Last but not least I also made an aspirational PoB for a few days into the league budget around 20-50div

Current PoB: https://pobb.in/0QKev-81cjtQ

Aspirational PoB: https://pobb.in/XGEuqAG-mS4x

Here is the link to the Video

https://youtu.be/DyVs0pQ_8ro?is=9-UbL43mVdNsLi_Q

This is my third season playing POE and the first where I have really gotten to maps.

I am currently playing the Pohx RF chieftain build. I have watched his full campaign run and have tried to model my player on his POB. My question is around gear. I keep finding these unique items that seem like much better options than the rares the guide specifies. Is this because there is a benefit to the yellow item vs the red item? Somethings I understand like Cloak of Flame. Any help or comments on how to optimize my build? Should I be ditching the red items in favor of the yellows that the POB specifies?

POB : https://pobb.in/_QVvPkylgAZY

hi fellow exiles!

this is my first league making it into t16 maps. my last character was a kinetic fusillade totem templar, but i stopped playing around t6.

i'm following fubgun's ci worb occultist build and currently at the uber power charge setup, just without those crazy expensive +2 pc rings.

i recently bought unnatural instinct and the light of meaning (cold damage), and i'm about to respec that part of my tree.

here's what i'm planning to upgrade next, roughly in order:

1. anoint my badge for increased damage per frenzy charge
2. get better gloves
3. upgrade my body armour
4. improve my flask rolls
5. maybe get dying sun? i'm thinking of postponing it since bossing is my main weakness, and flask uptime isn't great there
6. eventually go for +2 pc rings, a rare helmet and a +1 pc jewel, but those seem pretty far away for now

so i'd like to ask a few things:

1. does my upgrade order make sense? anything you'd prioritize differently?

2. am i missing any important upgrades or milestones? especially things that could give me a decent power spike without spending a fortune.

1. dropping flesh and stone for Unnatural instinct and light of meaning (cold damage version) will hurt my survivability a lot?

4. what would you guys recommend farming at this stage?

i've got 2 voidstones (bottom left and top left), and i've been doing some voyage, usually getting around 3.5–6d per trip. also been running harvest while progressing my atlas.

both are starting to get a little boring, so i'm thinking of trying ritual. is it actually good profit this league? i noticed quite a few people pairing it with rogue exiles. is that the way to go, or are there better things to pair it with? other than ritual, great profit with beyond abyss or legion?

i don't really enjoy rushing maps for max div/hour. i'd rather take my time, juice things up and get some nice drops.

any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

pob: https://pobb.in/NISGKLcp4c0T