HC SSF "Training wheels" build - ember fusillage minion witch

Warning - spoilers. If you're a HC fan, die first around 30 times with "all" different builds like i did (max lvl 77 so far with the below one), then come back.

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The Training Wheels HC SSF build

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Most builds have one clear, this one has three (fusillage, srs, minions) - goes online at lvl 3, does not require uniques, and has maximum survivability (Armor + ES + MoM + minions as meat shield). As a bonus, does not really need mana regen, despite MoM. Nor cast speed.

Gear:

Helmet: + minion levels
Sceptre: + minion levels (+ spirit, preferably)
Amulet: + minion levels
Wand: + fire spell levels
Body: spirit, preferably
Boots: movement speed, as always
Belt: whatever you manage to find

Skills:

Ember fusillage with scattershot, and controlled destruction. Fast forward ( if you have jewellers).

Wall of flame - concentrated effect, persistence, arcane tempo.

SRS (summon raging spirits): meat shield, infernal legion, minion instability

Skeleton archers (or whatever minion you like), with damage gems.

Grim feast: clarity

Passives:

Witch takes damage nodes + first minion damage branch. Then goes left and takes all armor + energy shield nodes in the vicinity. Then goes up to MoM.

Maxroll tree: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/deac80nb

First ascension:

Infernalist hound

Congrats, you can now run through campaign by two clicks of ember (6 balls), one click of flame wall and cardio (never stop running).

If you change resistance rings & belt to match the bosses, you can only die to the following:

1. Titan bugged (Colossus buggy one shot, both in normal & cruel) -> Stay at 11:30 on the plate to avoid this.

2. Monkey roll + slam combo. Git gud and stay behind him

3. Blackjaw 3 hit combo. Git gud and stay behind him.

4. Viper wall of spears. Git gud and roll.

5. Doriani drop. Git gud, run and roll.

6. eating a pile of exploding plants, corpses or something. Crystals have been removed, but this can still happen.


Besides these, it's a breeze.

The next risk of death are the are the 2nd ascension birds (puke + tornado), both of which have bs attacks. Don't fight them, fight the chimeira only.

Now you're in maps - respec or continue with this overly easy to play build. As you have 3 clears, you can choose which one to prioritize damagewise. Last time (the lvl 77 witch) I tried max minion HP SRS popcorn, and it worked really well.

Could you add a mobalytics or maxroll build to this? looks like something that's great to bookmark and having a visual skill tree and skill gem setup helps a lot

There you go:

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/deac80nb

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Legioona#1076 wrote:

There you go:

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/deac80nb

tyvm, gonna give it a testrun

Training Wheels is now in act 3 cruel, with the following passives:

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/svfot026

I'm behind 2 levels on minions (missing 1 from helmet, 1 from amulet), but so far no clearing issues.

7 archers as minions.

Survivability is high, as I have 1,5 hp, 700 mana (with Mom) and 500 ES - with 50% armor. Can't remember the last time I had to drink from the HP bottle.


Strong recommendation to anyone who struggles staying alive. After Training Wheels you know what is maximum survivability.

And it comes with 9/10 clear & single target damage.

Hello! I apologize if this is the incorrect place to ask, I'm quite new to PoE and to the Forum. I have been using this build in campaign and it is a breeze! Would you be willing to provide an Endgame build/passive tree (or guidelines for it)? I'm just not quite sure how to transition it as I've never made it to Endgame before. Thank you!

This is exactly the correct place to ask!

I did a bit of a mistake by "upgrading" my boots, which dropped my fire res from 60->30ish.

This, combined to walking over an exploding death effect, killed my training wheels witch at level 80ish. Until that, it was indeed a breeze!

At that time, the passive tree looked something like this:

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/autd005y

So, keep your resistances up, they are more important that the quality of life 5% increase in the movement speed of your boots : )

That is really good to know, thank you so much for your reply and for the link to your tree. I appreciate it! :D

Looking at the tree, I think I forgot the necrotic touch cluster -> pretty sure I had taken it as well, as its minion damage and close by our path:

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/zmv2d05p

I see some builds have descriptive pictures in them, so decided to add one for this build too: