[3.14] Gannicus, God of the Arena – Deathless Uber Elder for Everyone

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Diomhdhs_o_Argeios wrote:

I don't think PoB has a bug for dread banner. At least for me it counts as it should. It's easy to see in the impale section of calcs it shows all impale sources.

Bleeding is irrelevant for us. We don't scale it.

Upgrading lots of gear at the same time is the best way. You don't need to balance resists every time you get one piece which severely lowers your options. You can get a helm with the enchant you need and then craft it. That's what I did and it was easy and cheap because all I needed was lots of life and int. Crafting something decent isn't hard. It's definitely MUCH easier than getting a good helmet and hoping that you'll get the enchant you want on it.

Why do you keep mentioning empower? That's a bad choice. Getting 21 on gems is good but not really needed. Getting quality on them is necessary though.

If this is your first attack build then you probably haven't noticed that active skill gem levels do almost nothing for damage. It's very different from spells where levels are everything. Try it out on PoB, you'll be amazed.

I only mentioned empower in saying it was pointless to raise gems beyond 20/21. I'm not using it. What do you mean we don't scale bleeding? of course we scale bleeding we have 700% to bleeding (ailments) from the tree.

700% of almost nothing is almost nothing. If you want to do serious bleed damage you need a different ascendancy (gratuitous violence), changes in the tree and different supports for BS. This is an attack build not a DoT build.

Just saying.. I went full elemental by converting 100% of my damage to fire and changed some passives to include elemental/fire damage and penetration.

I still have trash gear, except for a Xoph's Blood amulet that allocates free Lava Lash, but my DPS tripled after doing this and my sandstorms actually destroy packs now. Even with %quantity gear I breeze through maps. Single target dps also went up.

The playstyle I use is dish out 2-3 bladestorms, leap away, loot later if needed. I no longer need to stand in place and attack a bunch of times like OP in videos, not even in red maps.

Raally don't understand the logic behind focusing on phys damage, imo you're seriously limiting the build here. I'm dual wielding cheap Razor's Of the Seventh Sun swords and doing great. When I swap one for a good rare 1h I'll do even better. These swords are pretty nice though, I recover 2% of my life when igniting an enemy so that's a lot of healing going on.

I'm also running trash low level gems so this has room to improve even further. I got rid of Pulverise in favor of Combustion Support.

I can't, for the life of me, get a good shaper sword like you showed in your guide and I am at a loss as to what I should do for an upgrade. Im currently using a saviour and a rigwalds savagery. Should I replace the rigwalds with a paradoxica or just continue using it?

I believe I say it clearly in the guide. You can use two non-block swords. So either a paradoxica or any high PDPS rare sword will do. Just get block from some other source like an armour craft.

Hey,

Just came back to POE after a long break and wanted to say a big thank you for this detailed guide.

Really helped me get back into the game with a good old tanky and easy to play build.

After a few days playing around with the build and now getting into map progression i would love to get my build to the next level.

Here is my current setup : https://poe-profile.info/profile/Freeezty/Freeztykekw?realm=pc

I have a few exalts stocked and would love to invest it in the right upgrades (I have some trouble finding a good shapper Block weapon).

Any feedback greatly appreciated

Glad you're enjoying the build. Just get a good Paradoxica (double damage, impale, crit, etc.), it's cheap and high damage. Then craft block on your armour. Then craft of the order on a flask, get a Stygian and better jewellery. And a protector. It's free damage, like a flask.

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Aias_o_Telamonios wrote:

Glad you're enjoying the build. Just get a good Paradoxica (double damage, impale, crit, etc.), it's cheap and high damage. Then craft block on your armour. Then craft of the order on a flask, get a Stygian and better jewellery. And a protector. It's free damage, like a flask.

Awesome thanks for the quick reply and clear advise !

Hi, Is there some sort of passive tree walkthrough?

You mean leveling trees? No, just take life or damage as needed. The only thing you need to get quickly is mana leech.