Questions Thread - December 27, 2024

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[u/Armored_Girafz]

TLDR: Why do I suck? https://pobb.in/0euvscU4sq45

I haven't seriously played since Delve and I could use some help. I tried making a few of my own builds using my tried and true skills (heavy strike) and I got most of the way through story but got stuck around act 9. I decided to find a build with a new skill to see what I've missed and I saw a power siphon locus mines build. Really fun, and absolutely blasted content. I've made it all the way to tier 16 maps fairly easily (the farthest I have ever gotten.) With a few lucky item drops and some good trades I have basically everything I need for the build with only small improvements seemingly available. However I keep dying. I wish there was something that told me how because everything was smooth until now. I just tried to fight the eradicator and I couldn't get him below 3/4 without using up every portal. Each attack hit me to about 15% and I could hardly get a single mine throw off without getting shot. It's not just that fight. I tried doing t1 maps of Ultimatum and I could do maybe 60% of them. I like doing rituals but sometimes I get overwhelmed and enemies stop dying. I just wish I knew what I could do better. So please any advice would be great. Tell me I'm bad, offer gear ideas, build changes, anything. My goal is to beat shaper once in POE 1. Thank you.

[u/tytyos → u/Armored_Girafz]

Use eldritch embers/ichors to add eldritch implicits to your boots and body armor

Having this low Chaos res is dangerous for how little life you have, chaos bypasses ES.

Your belt revolves around boosting jewels you socket in it, but your jewels are absolutely awfull. Get something with ES/life/flat lightning/phasing on kill/resistance

Your shield and left ring are heinous

Get better rolls on your helmet, you can go from 13 to 21% inc life/ES and it should be cheap

Get a 6L, add awakened support gems

Open poeninja and look up similar builds to see what they are doing, I never played PS mine so I don't really know more of the specifics

[u/Armored_Girafz → u/tytyos]

I really appreciate the reply. I'm going to say some stuff but I don't want to sound like an ass. Most of the gear is there because of resists. If I don't have both those gems in the belt I have lower than 75% resist. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get more chaos resistance if I already have two amethyst rings tbh. And I actually have the passive that makes some chaos damage not bypass es. I just don't know where to get more resistance from. I know about 6 link and awakened gems but there are no awakened on the market for either lightning damage or pen so kinda stuck there, and 6 link will happen eventually when I get more fusing. Helmet upgrade is a good idea, tbh I didn't even realiser I got a low roll. The embers, can they be used to over write themselves? I don't want to screw up my boots. The shield does really need to be replaced, the problem is it's got a tiny amount of fire res and without it I'm under cap. I've actually got backup gems that are quite good with life and added lightning but when I get so much a total of 72% resistance from one jewel it's hard to makeup for it anywhere else. I took alira for the 15% but it's hard to get resistances anywhere other than rings and jewels.