[3.4] Teleports Behind You - Poet's Pen Lightning Warp & Arc, MF / Facetank t16 / Shaper / U. Elder

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Yeezy_Taught_Me wrote:

Once i get into maps, should i run barrage or frenzy? With what supports?

Both. Just follow the guide.

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vetroxbl wrote:

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Fall33n wrote:

Hello YT_HB,

You have a different setup of gems on your chest (on cast crtical strike and shock nova). Is it better than addictionnal accuracy and culling strike?

Thank you !

I think this setup is fully viable, but with a few conditions:
- 6 Link Inpulsa, so you can actually fit both CoC and Shock Nova, since the basic 4 links of Barrage > GMP > Faster Attacks > LGoH should not be replaced with anything;
- Lightning Golem (to offset the attack speed loss from not running +20% quality Culling Strike);
- Both (or rather all 4) Pens being 12% attack speed;

He's also not running Frenzy at all, and has 2 lvl 4 Empowers for the single target setup, so there's that. :)

Thank you very much for those explanations!

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YT_HB wrote:

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Fall33n wrote:

Hello YT_HB,

You have a different setup of gems on your chest (on cast crtical strike and shock nova). Is it better than addictionnal accuracy and culling strike?

Thank you !

I'm just trying some different things out. I usually have Culling and Blind/Accuracy in those slots. I wanted to see how often CoC would proc Shock Nova and it actually does quite often, even while mapping. I may go back to the normal setup or maybe even change SN for something else. We'll see.

I'm also trying out not using Frenzy as I found that I didn't really use it much in game. I put Lightning Golem in there for the lost attack speed. I may try another CWDT setup instead of the curse but I'm not sure where I'll land. That's one of the great things about PoE - so many different combinations, slight tweaks, etc.

Thank you very much for those explanations!

I did away with the Frenzy setup also, and in its place I went full defensive. Here's what I did and if anyone spots something I should have done differently or missed, please enlighten me.



Helm: CwDT/CoH/BV/AssMark. I use Vaal BV so I can cast it on bosses before the fight.

Chest: OoS/PCoC/AS/ID/Vaal Grace/. This increases VG duration to just under 11 secs. Without VG, my attack dodge is 40% and spell dodge is 42% (12% from boots), with VG at lvl 20, both will be capped at 75%.

Gloves: Barrage/GMP/LGoH/Culling. I actually perfer Blind instead of Culling, but I need the inc AS from the quality of Culling.

Boots: CwDT/Blood Rage/IC/Any Offering. I don't have a strong understanding of life recovery rate, life leech rate, and life leech cap, so I won't get into it here other than say that leeching "feels" smoother while face tanking bosses. Offering in a Cwdt setup is use get rid of dead bodys (pick this up from TheUberElite), because dead bodies can still kill you.

Flask: Wise Oak, I matched up my resistances for an extra 10% reduced elemental damage taken. The Jade flask put my evasion up to 42%, can get a little higher with a better roll.

Pantheon: Soul of Arakaali, and leaning toward Soul of Shakari (for the poison immune)

I am aware that I need more mana and attack speed. Here's my pastebin https://pastebin.com/39nGdkpK

I'm currently level 84 and been testing in mostly t9 to t11 maps.

i really enjoy this build.

what about this kind of gloves


i know its low man/life, but i need res for wearing

So, I picked up a MotC with the 40% inc BL damage enchant and thought I'd try BL with the CoC setup in my chest. I've read so many times that the same skill gems will share one cooldown between them, but something that Mark_GGG wrote in the forums made me want to test the cooldowns of the BL in my chest and the BL in my Pen as they are triggered differently. Here's what he wrote, "The socketed spells have a cooldown applied to them by the effect that makes them triggered..." I wasn't aware that the cooldowns could be different depending on how the skill is triggered.

It does appear (possibly?) that my BL triggered by CoC is cast while my BL in my Pen is triggered from Barrage. It doesn't look like my BL from the Pen skips a cast at all but then again it's kinda hard to tell. I gave the CoC BL a different MTX to make it easier to tell apart but since it's not traveling at the same speed (no slower proj.) it passes up the Pen's BL pretty quickly.

Check out approx. 3m50s into the Hydra video here.
And approx. 4m15s into the fight here.

I'm not convinced that this is a better setup than the default Accuracy/Culling/etc. setup in the chest but I just thought I'd share my findings. I was looking for more damage against bosses and starting messing with the CoC setup.

What is the reason to use Barrage over Power Siphon? Wouldn't the culling strike and power charge gain be more useful than the "burst" from barrage? unless you get a poet's pen proc from each of the bursts? I dont really know how barrage works, which I guess is why I dont understand.

I think barrage is the best choice for life gain, because of its many many hits, each one triggering the LGoH support gem.

Also, power charges are only really useful for single target, and are easy to fill with PCoC and Orb of Storms.

great bild. I have a question, you have barrage and frenzy, and 1 gem separately in armor, explain to me the rule. what you use for mobs and what for the boss, for what you replace this 1 gem in armor, thank you

I only have two pens and inpulsa, and im using the recommended unique staff for single target while I'm accruing currency, but I'm having issues with sustain against single targets, and also against packs while clearing in some cases. Until I can afford Berek's or my two pens or the Mind of the Council, how should I go about sustaining life, especially against bosses?