[3.17] The Warchief | [Facebreaker] Ancestral Warchief | Uber Boss Farmer | Beginner -> Expert

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xtrl9 wrote:

Hello, I'm quite new to poe but I do have some facebreakers

Clearly they are low level, at what point should I look for a new pair?

Secondly, how do you have black cats following you around?

you can buy pets in the mtx shop ;)

https://www.pathofexile.com/shop/category/pets#microtransaction-BlackCat

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xtrl9 wrote:

So it actually doesn't matter that they are for level 27 I'm noticing as the stat difference between mine and the above pair is minimal. My roll for dmg is higher by %50 but the above pair has +20% quality...So I should not attempt to reroll or improve these until the rest of my gear is sorted?

The only roll on the gloves that benefits this build is the "more physical damage roll." As legacy facebreakers, yours are better than any that currently drop in game. Do not use a divine orb on these gloves as they will then become non-legacy.

If you want, you can use armor scraps to make your gloves 20% quality - this will improve the evasion and energy shield for the gloves as well as making it easier to roll more sockets/more links - but it really doesn't help much for this item. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and usually get quality to 20% on on all my gear since it's very easy to do so.

DPS for this build depends on getting high flat physical damage rolls on rings/amulet/shield and on getting good jewels with at least 2 nice damage rolls on each on.

Guggelhupf has put a good guide in place here so if you just copy what he's done you'll be in good shape.

Wanted to thank you for this build! Currently level 70 doing T4 yellow maps any mods with ease haven't died once (still new player) in normal league.

my current gear:


this build starts very cheap and gets way stronger with better gear so can say its somewhat budget build since most of unique gear has cheaper alternatives or even rare gear.

Slight update T6 and 7 blue maps done with different mods like twinned/reflect.

I have been playing this build for the past few weeks. I'm satisfied with how it works, however,I am having a few problems.

1. damage is nowhere close to the numbers shown in the screenshots. 110k with inc aoe, 160k with conc effect. I am using BOR.

2. totems die REALLY fast in high tier maps (im talking about T12)

3. build feels like paper... even with almost 5k life and decent defense, i STILL get chunked quite often. (EDIT : this is mostly in high tier maps (T10+ Colonade boss is a PITA, died 2 times to High Gardens boss (totems died REALLY fast so i had to use inc AOE, loooong fight, made mistakes... this one was on me) and lost an atziri set because totems hit reflect atziri.... how do u recognize the reflect version??? done atziri 4 times now, i still dont know how to see reflect atziri)

4. I have not been able to do uber lab even till now, izaro 1 shots me. I am 80% confident I can kill him unbuffed (but who runs uber lab without buffs?), and main problem seems to be lack of dps.

Please help!

Char name is Ancestral_Memechief

i just noticed something weird with your tooltips, why are the in format XXX.YYY,Z?? normally tooltips are like XXX,YYY.Z

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Disconaut wrote:

1. damage is nowhere close to the numbers shown in the screenshots. 110k with inc aoe, 160k with conc effect. I am using BOR.

2. totems die REALLY fast in high tier maps (im talking about T12)

3. build feels like paper... even with almost 5k life and decent defense, i STILL get chunked quite often.

Nr 1 I know, too. Damage screenshots in guides are most often taken with fancy buffs, flasks etc. and not with just auras on.

2: Your totem is only level 16 - that's the reason. Respec your totem points in more totem life, resis instead of these minor damage nodes. A stunned or killed totem deals no damage, so 15% totem life > 8% damage.

3: Damage is high - I was playing tank too long with another char, and got used to stomping through everything besides signaled boss smashes.

5K life is glass cannon in the current enviroment, if not backed by an aegis, 25k+ armor and maxblock(and I prefer even with an aegis tank 6-7k) . If you play a bit things will improve, at least with my playstyle.

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Llyrain wrote:

2: Your totem is only level 16 - that's the reason. Respec your totem points in more totem life, resis instead of these minor damage nodes. A stunned or killed totem deals no damage, so 15% totem life > 8% damage.

totem is in BOR, lvl 19, 12% quality.

I will try your suggestion to pick totem hp, thanks.

Why are we using face breakers?

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Lichtwink wrote:

Why are we using face breakers?

i recommend you to read this guide: this should clear all your questions about facebreaker

[2.4] How to smash Heads. Extremely detailed guide about the Facebreaker gloves and builds!

I understand that but I don't see how it benefits this build because I don't see any bonuses in the tree and I don't see how it would help totems.