3.23 EXPLOSIVE ARROW BALLISTA ELEMENTALIST - League-Start to End-Game. Easy mode.

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LadyLoriana wrote:

In practice I also don't think it works that well with devouring diadem since it eats corpses, just gotta hope it doesn't accidentally eat the dark marionette.

THIS! Unequip Devouring Diadem before using the dark marionette item or it will eat it. The affliction monsters can't be summoned with Desecrate, so you'll need to keep your Raise Spectre actively socketed after you raise the dark marionette or they will be lost and you'll need to get the items again.

With this not being a minion based build, really only this unique mob that self-revives is suitable for working any kind of aura into the build.

I messed around with 4L (meat shield, HP and ele army) of the new specters for auras... and eventually they died in a super juiced T16.

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Durahal wrote:

I messed around with 4L (meat shield, HP and ele army) of the new specters for auras... and eventually they died in a super juiced T16.

Yeah, this is probably as far as you can take it with just gems. I'm surprised they even lasted that long without the regen that keeps them alive on a minion build.

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LadyLoriana wrote:

I have 50 divs to spend on my build - any suggestions for upgrades?
I think maybe upgrading cluster jewels, and I haven't touched my quiver in a while. Not sure if it'd be worth it to get a bow that has the added fire damage as chaos mod.https://pobb.in/NDu3JWPiMXIZ

I would say it is worth it to craft/buy that bow as it will increase your DPS by about 9% and you have the money for it. Can probably make back most of your money by selling your current bow too. Quiver with DoT multi will increase your DPS a lot if the accuracy and AS stay high enough for max fuses. If you can't manage to keep the same accuracy, you could switch from Defiance Banner to War Banner.

I would say it's definitely time to get into cluster jewels, and rethink certain choices on your tree. One With Nature and the node next to it are giving you very little benefit and those can easily go into cluster jewels. Same with the Life Regen nodes and socket off of Shaper. The Evasion Mastery node is only giving 5% evade chance, not that big a deal if you need to refund it for more skill points. Ballistics basically doing nothing for you, put it into the cluster jewel you get. Truthfully, all the nodes to the right of EE should be refunded for the cluster jewels.

I know you need the spell suppress from there, but look to min-max your charms with the max +15% spell suppress. If you get the totem damage cluster jewel with the onslaught notable, you can rework your charms to get a second charm with spell suppress on it.

Edit: Forgot to mention That Which Was Taken and your budget should allow for a pretty nice one. That could also help with spell suppression on your charms. Could get the onslaught with nearby allies on that and then not worry about the totem cluster jewel with the onslaught notable.

I also forgot to ask if you felt like you needed more DPS or more defense. If you want more defense, you could try to do a big rework and add in Divine Flesh and Doppleganger like Durahal.

What are people running for their Atlas Passive tree's with this build out of curiousity. I'd love to see how others have theirs set up.

So far its going well, my current gear

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Headtourist wrote:

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Iamdivan wrote:

I think i messed up something, need help to identify weak points, thanks in advance

https://pobb.in/V1JkVdKLjRgn

I think the messed up part is more the survivability. 3 things immediately pop into my eyes :

- Spell suppression isn't capped, it really has to be, big issue.
- Chaos res is highly negative (generally speaking you want at least at 0, then the more the better). You're currently at -52 without pot active. It is probably quite hard with all that unique gear.
- Your hp pool is <3k, that is very very low. Again, many uniques in your build...

For example : I'll admit your boots allow for another curse, but with rare boots you could get suppression, chaos res, hp, and the 15 suppression mastery from tree

Regarding output :
Quality your gems. Try to find or make a 21/20q EA gem. Even a 21/0 is better than your 20/20 right now.

Belt could and should be at 42%, this costs nothing to do (catalysts)

Considering all your gear, you should have a better bow by now -> https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3229979/page/290#p24975728

Lethal pride 12824.

For later, amulet : +2 and dot multi amulet will be a lot better, but it is quite expensive to craft/buy.

(didn't go through the whole build, just a few things i've noted)

Thank you very much, I updated the the points you mentioned and now build feels much better.

What's next upgrade I can do? https://pobb.in/IUyJLryCN8hg

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Iamdivan wrote:

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Headtourist wrote:

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Iamdivan wrote:

I think i messed up something, need help to identify weak points, thanks in advance

https://pobb.in/V1JkVdKLjRgn

I think the messed up part is more the survivability. 3 things immediately pop into my eyes :

- Spell suppression isn't capped, it really has to be, big issue.
- Chaos res is highly negative (generally speaking you want at least at 0, then the more the better). You're currently at -52 without pot active. It is probably quite hard with all that unique gear.
- Your hp pool is <3k, that is very very low. Again, many uniques in your build...

For example : I'll admit your boots allow for another curse, but with rare boots you could get suppression, chaos res, hp, and the 15 suppression mastery from tree

Regarding output :
Quality your gems. Try to find or make a 21/20q EA gem. Even a 21/0 is better than your 20/20 right now.

Belt could and should be at 42%, this costs nothing to do (catalysts)

Considering all your gear, you should have a better bow by now -> https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3229979/page/290#p24975728

Lethal pride 12824.

For later, amulet : +2 and dot multi amulet will be a lot better, but it is quite expensive to craft/buy.

(didn't go through the whole build, just a few things i've noted)

Thank you very much, I updated the the points you mentioned and now build feels much better.

What's next upgrade I can do? https://pobb.in/IUyJLryCN8hg

I'm not seeing any proliferation of the ignites. You should be able to easily add it to your gloves like this

Also you can easily upgrade your Champions Ursine Charm and find one with a useful 2nd mod like phasing on kill or something else. Should be very cheap upgrade

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Brian9824 wrote:

What are people running for their Atlas Passive tree's with this build out of curiousity. I'd love to see how others have theirs set up.

So far its going well, my current gear

Isn't combustion on frenzy useless? Kind of the same as combustion with arcane surge/flame surge, it doesn't proc. (Flame surge can't ignite and frenzy can't either if you have ancestral bond)

Edit: Disregard

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marixalijustice wrote:

Isn't combustion on frenzy useless? Kind of the same as combustion with arcane surge/flame surge, it doesn't proc. (Flame surge can't ignite and frenzy can't either if you have ancestral bond)

@Brian :
From what I understand, i would agree. LTS is a nice friend when there is a need to apply combustion. There is some improvement to make here then, frenzy doesnt need a single support. Could just replace the greater multi proj with lts (needs recoloring tho) and leave the rest as is.

Also still using that headhunter, and i still don't understand why. What kind of content are you doing that makes it better than a dyadian ?

A dot multi/+2 amulet would be a big improvement. now it's certainly expensive to craft/buy. Would also mean you'd need to fix 10%+ cold res. (or not if you FINALLY DECIDE TO USE DYADIAN WHICH ALSO GRANTS A 20% BOOST + TRULY FASTER IGNITES)
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Less expensive, and a "lesser" improvement, crafted hunter quiver, not hard to craft, you can expect something like a 15% boost, maybe even more depending on your luck.

I would also invest a point in farsight.
PS : there's something i don't understand on your clusters, right now (i imported your char directly, might be due to that).

Would resemble something like this : https://pobb.in/PHht_0VVClw7 (i copy pasted my quiver and amulet, added dyadian, allocated farsight, and modified your chest gem setup, or so.

Maybe also try to upgrade some items to their better version, like getting more flat accuracy on gear. Even when we're at max theoretical fuses, it's good to have some "leverage" on fuses value, cause ingame will almost never be ideal like PoB.