Is it me or Mercenary make a better mace fighter than Warrior?
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Faster both in movement and attack speed
Have multiple defensivs layers Have easier acces to coodown and other effects than, warrior. Ascension help in getting lots of stats to get high hp or culling and other effects to clean faster. What do you feel about that? and other class that work better with other class signarture weapon. Ranger/warrior seems to be better crossbow user since they can stack poison or shatter armor/stun way faster than mercenary Last bumped on Feb 4, 2025, 8:36:07 PM
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well yeah. just depends what you're playing too i guess.
im doing an earthquake build so titan is basically mandatory with hulking form or else it'll be too slow of a delay to play with. but otherwise, gemling is pretty much a better version of most things |
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" earthquake titan? arent earthquake unstackable? |
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" He's probably using the 50% increased effect of small nodes to increase the effect of -duration nodes, so Earthquake fires off quicker. That said... Armour is borked, and we all know it. And there is a general lack of hp options that warriors desperately need. Until that is fixed, can't really judge beyond that. Merc is definitely better if you want to go for evasion, because it starts closer to Acrobatics. But Warrior is better if you want to go with ES, because it starts closer to the node that lets armour nodes apply to ES shield recharge, while also still having shield nodes and Giant's Blood accessible. And for DW, I'd say Monk is the best place to start, because of pickaxes and crit nodes. |
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" well earthquake is unstackable on itself, but you can lay up to 8 maximum jagged ground patches, with an added 2 from quality. but yes im stacking reduced duration. -80% reduced duration puts the aftershock at 0.8s delay, which is more than manageable. i also have an exact 0.8s attack time, so it works out well. because im stacking reduced duration i also have time of need going off every 1.43 seconds to cleanse me of ailments/curses and heal me. its pretty sweet. warrior has some strong builds with totems and other things, but i was sick of not slamming things to death myself like a real man so i had to make EQ work. it works out really well actually. my clear is pretty damn good. single target is hammer of the gods so of course its good. |
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interesting How do you stack so much reduce duration? support gem only give-30% and there isnt a lot of gems
Last edited by Kanjejou#7620 on Feb 4, 2025, 8:06:50 PM
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Gemling is like a safe char to start poe2 journey, able to play majority of build IMO
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" titan has hulking form which gives you 50% more effect from small passive nodes. so i go get all of the reduced skill effect duration passives on the tree. there is one cluster by warrior start, this gives a total of 12/12/16 (40%) and there is another cluster north east tree near Chaos Innoculation for another 12/12/16 (40%) for 80% reduced. i don't even use a support gem on earthquake, because it isn't worth it. with 80% reduced it has a delay time of 0.8 seconds. if i use the support gem swift affliction for another 20% less duration it only gives me a delay of 0.6 seconds. i'd rather have a damage support than 0.2 second less delay. the support gem fast forward for 30% less duration goes on time of need. much more important there. but even with it on EQ the delay just goes down to 0.6s still. |
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