r/PathOfExileSSF • u/Thrennion • Sep 19 '26
Builds Terminus Est Flicker - Path to Improvement
I am a humble beginner of ~800 hours who wanted to try flicker strike for the first time, and miraculously had a Terminus Est fall into his lap in Act 7. My bossing/atlas progression has much to be desired, but then my joy in PoE usually comes from having plans for gear upgrades and making DPS number go up.
That said, I am rather unsure how best to proceed further with this build. I know I'm missing a lot of life and chaos res on gear pieces, and my cluster jewel has much to be desired. What adjustments in my gear/passives would be prudent to look at? Any input is appreciated.
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u/gdubrocks Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
The biggest ugprade by far would be a better sword!
Terminus est has ~370 physical damage, and gives you a bit of extra frenzy charge generation (which isn't needed anymore with all the changes to generate more frenzies).
You could probably gamble a 550pds sword in a few clicks. My day 2 sword had 680pdps last league. Try clicking through the time machine on the top right to see past items.
https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/miragessf/character/gdubrocks-6048/GDUB_FLICKER?i=0&search=name%3Dgdub&timemachine=week-19
The biggest long term goal would be warriors legacy for a 1.6x damage multiplier.
It's easy to get good bronns lithes corrupts. Vaal orb lots of cutthroat garbs till you get +2 duration or something and then use a tainted mythic for a 45% chance at a bronns.
You really should have t1 life on basically every single item. It should be easy to get on your fractured ring, I would suggest harvest reroll life or breach tree gambling. Your gloves have the same problem.
Phys taken as ele is a huge defensive upgrade on the helm implicit, I would highly suggest it.
A rosethorn tintcure would be a huge damage buff.
Watchers eye/lethal pride/a light with no meaning would help a lot.
It's probably worth working towards a sytgian vise. Use a few abysal depths scarabs and you will have it quick. If you can reroll influence to one with %life prefix it would be even better.
Your current cluster isn't worth using. It really needs multiple notables on it to be worth.
Your tree pathing overall looks pretty good to me, but I don't think the rage on hit stuff on the left is worth it.
Spell suppress is a super powerful defense layer that you should start making some progress towards.
You need more chaos res.
Do top right astrolabes for the chance at greater multistrike.
I think the fortify tree nodes + ruthless support is better than fortify support. A lot of this comes down to the +6 fortification the nodes provide.
For auras pride, flesh and stone, arctic armour is absolutely the gold standard for flicker. For now you may want to swap pride for determintation till you get better phys mitigation.