Help with searing exarch please?
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I'm playing SSF Ruthless and managed to get my first voidstone by beating Eater, but I've blown 3 invitations to Exarch now and don't have any more t16 maps at the moment 😅
I manage to whittle him down to about 10%, but always manage to die the 6th time before finishing him. I realize I suck, but boy do I miss flame dash from non ruthless. https://pobb.in/bscV4cUsADZN This is what I have been surviving on without too much problem so far. I did need 5 portals for eater, but otherwise normal red map bosses pose no serious problem. I struggle so badly against exarch though. I don't have time to cast desecrate for bodies I need, I have no flask charges in the later stage, and despite throwing skellis at the meteor balls some still obviously hit me. Any tips appreciated. Including needing to respec if necessary. I have a couple regrets saved up.According to pob, I do halfway ok on damage if I can keep my minions up, but that's the problem when I'm constantly running. Without MoM I find I die too much (hence why I run only envy and have ditched haste, as much as I miss it). Thanks in advance. Underrated stats: Basic human decency, small quantum of respect, microportion of compassion Last bumped on Mar 29, 2025, 12:06:45 PM
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Hey there,
ive played poison SRS multiple times in the past and altho poison isnt even close to being the main dmg stat right now, it very well could or rather should be and that will require some changes. PoB: https://pobb.in/bscV4cUsADZN Changelog: 1. For survivability ALWAYS build into max block as Necro. Its very easy to obtain and much more potent than MoM ever will be. Thats especially true if you can manage to roll life recovery on block on a shaper shield but thats going to be tough. Keep in mind: I did change to annoint, Offering and Ascendancy to achieve higher block numbers 2. Trying to sustain SRS on mana is extremely hard to pull off, especially when combined with MoM. Eldritch Battery is the way to go. 3. Since you are already close to Whispers of Doom after picking up EB, might as well go ahead and grab that so you can run Temp Chains. Thats not just for poison duration but also helpful as a defensive layer 4. You should use Arcanist Brand in your setup to cast Desecrate, Offering and Temp Chains so you can get those out easily and reliably. Its important to note that the order gems matters as they will be casted in that order. So Desecrate needs to be casted before the Offering. 5. I ditched the Skellies, they dont add anything of value. Instead I added Multistrike for bossing (use melee splash for mapclear) and Unleash instead of Predator, which will allow you to maintain the max amount of SRS and deal way more dmg. 6. I added Haste back, since you mentioned you have it anyways. Its not just atk speed but also movespeed for SRS which means you waste less of their duration on traveling around. 7. Drop 1 lifeflask and obviously the manaflask. Add instead a silver flask and whatever else you want and allocate the life flask pantheon for looong bossfights to make sure you wont run out of charges. Also consider ditching the Carrion Golem, it does borderline nothing. Stone or Chaos Golem are the superior option here. 8. If you wanna run either Zombies or AW (not both) give them withering touch and focus on atk speed with faster atks and minion speed so you dont need the wither totem anymore. Trying to run and maintain this giant collection of borderline useless minions is holding you back for no reason. None of those will add a reasonable amount of dmg worth the investment. If you want to utilize them, make sure they do serve a purpose to help SRS killing stuff faster. 9. Your top priority job right now is farming Abyss and make sure to spawn as many abyssal depths as you can for 2 reasons. You want to farm Ghastly Eyes and the Darkness Enthroned belt. Once you have the jewels use the chaos reforge option on your Horticraft station until you roll minion chance to poison and then slot 2 of them into the belt. The next best stats you could roll would be flat chaos or flat phys dmg but poison chance is always superior until you max it out. After that you wanna grab as many jewel sockets on the tree as you can get and keep stacking those jewels so you can get rid of the poison chance support gem asap. If you get extremely lucky, you might even drop Amanamu´s Gaze jewel in the depths, which honeslty wont happen but the belt is fairly common and not only a very viable farming target in SSF, its also way better than HH or Mageblood for this build. Best of Luck Last edited by Orbaal#0435 on Mar 26, 2025, 4:46:30 PM
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"Not likely in Ruthless. "Doesnt exist in Ruthless. Edit: Its still likely possible to naturally drop a minion poison chance jewel though. No wonder it's lost, it's in the middle of the jungle! Last edited by Zrevnur#2026 on Mar 26, 2025, 5:44:40 PM
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" thanks much, I appreciate the length and detail and time you invested in answering! I'll certainly keep a number of things you mention and suggested in mind and try to remedy those. One thing to mention: I am already running Temp Chains! I have an Ancient Suffering who puts it up consistently and thus with no need for Whispers of Doom. A couple of questions: - Carrion Golem, according to PoB, gives a 7% damage increase, that seems non-trivial to me? While Stone would give more regen -- I don't seem to die, however, to being whittled away, I die to one-shots. Do you think it is worth it? Since I have basically no armour anyway, would 5% phys damage reduction from Chaos Golem actually do something for me? - According to PoB, disabling skellies removes more than 35% dps? (And my meatshield.) And multistrike doesn't seem to make up for that? (only +8%?) Similar for Animate weapon. What am I missing? - The PoB that you posted seems to be ... mine? I think you are answering a question I didn't really ask, though (namely: how would you make my "build" in general better?). I am overall pretty satisfied with what and how I patched together in Ruthless, doing moderately rolled T16 is fine, and while I realize I won't be killing the Maven (I just lack the skill) but I would really want to kill Exarch. Your tips don't seem tailored to that. Without Skeletons and a travel skill there is no way my skill level will have me survive the meteor orbs, and those can not be mitigated by blocking. Since I do not have the resources in ruthless to respec so massively anyhow, I don't really want to play something else (namely your poison SRS suggestion) but rather what I am playing, but just tweak it to beat the Exarch. I don't see how this would get me closer to that goal? Especially, as zrevnur pointed out, I AM playing Ruthless. Many of your suggestions are either impossible (there is no pantheon, there is no crafting) or simply practically impossible (you can't "farm abyss" even if you wanted to, you cannot count on being lucky on any drops since almost nothing does drop, including currency you might need for rerolling). Underrated stats: Basic human decency, small quantum of respect, microportion of compassion Last edited by onomastikon#6270 on Mar 27, 2025, 3:53:43 PM
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Frost wall is probably the best skill i've found for blocking them, maybe not much better than blocking with the minions, but might be worth a try. Also stay close to Maven so she can shoot as many nearby ones as possible. Certainly harder without movement.
I think the exarch defense get stronger in the second half of the fight, so you want to be getting through the first half with out much difficulty. If you're not that confident on the fight, other than your build, maybe do some practice on non ruthless where you're not wasting your resources. I don't really have any good advice on how your can beat the fight. It's largely a fight where either your build can handle it or not, beyond being able to dodge the ball phase. The main thing I find is making sure you don't touch the degen. In ruthless if you build is not able to tank the balls there's probably not a lot you can do change that. If you have purity of fire you could try it, but it might not make that much of a difference. Guard skill might also be useful if you have one. POB has exarch balls in the boss skill presets, so you can see how close your build is to being able to tank them. Often if you get hit by one you end up getting hit by multiple thought, so it may not actually matter. If it is not something you can mitigate effectively, you will need to either not get hit or have enough dps to beat him with a death on each ball phase. Last edited by Belegur85#5784 on Mar 29, 2025, 8:57:08 AM
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Life/Mana Flask charges: If these are your main bottlenetck then: Get them per gain-charges-per-second on body or passive or anoint or cluster.
Abyss Jewels: In Settlers you can (Ruthless likely too) ship for jewels, IIRC these include Abyss, there are likely other ways to get them too. Jewels (all kinds) can be spam-shipped (tiny amount of Bismuth per Ship Te Onui) in non-Ruthless, likely works the same way in Ruthless but dont know. Exarch: What works best for defense IME is stacking max fire resist. Other than that circling round relatively close to Exarch gives plenty of windows to cast things. This will work worse later with Runes on the ground though. Gear: You can craft much better wand with fossils: Shuddering + Corroded + Metallic on 82 (or lower) base. Gear: Your body looks bad and should be replaced (Shipping should work too here?) or at least recrafted. Gear: If you got enough Power Runes (no idea how hard to get these in Ruthless) then going for VSS + Shepherd of Souls would likely be a huge build upgrade. You probably want a proper wand before that though. Passive: The Melding/Tolerance branch looks like a waste of points to me. Similar likely other Endpoints on the tree. Try to get/use at least one large cluster, IIRC clusters drop aplenty in Ruthless and AFAIK with Shipping you can get enough currency to craft them. Edit: Passive 30 life mastery almost always bad. Edit: The whole MoM + mana efficiency investments thing looks inefficient to me too. No wonder it's lost, it's in the middle of the jungle! Last edited by Zrevnur#2026 on Mar 29, 2025, 12:09:47 PM
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