Corrupting Cry feels lost in 3.26

Heyo,
I've been trying to make corrupting cry work despite all of the unfortunate changes over the last couple of leagues which dumpstered it's QoL.

A few things contribute to the skill feeling very bad to play:
1000% cost and reservation multiplier seems completely out of line with other warcry QoL items/skills.

150% base reservation cost for autoexertion, 1500% life cost (lol) with howlcrack.

I've stacked every source of warcry cooldown recovery rate on tree, and I plan to add CDR on my boots and belt, but _at best_ you're looking at a 2-3 second cooldown on damage with a default duration of 2 seconds.

Also, the damage numbers are _just worse_ than if you took those two sockets and all of the warcry investment out and _just played exsanguinate_.

I hope this skill sees a return to form soon, it's unfortunate to see such an interesting archetype seemingly left by the wayside.

well.. GGG have done a lot to make sure automating Corrupting Cry is inefficient or borderline unplayable. all they did with this skill hints at their intent of making it self-cast skill

and if you do it this way - i think it kinda works

i refuse to use Shako setup, lvl 31+ are crazy expensive, so my take on CorrCry is this:



two self-cast warcries with sub 3s cooldowns. for regular mobs one 'hit' (5 stacks) is enough, if you need more power, just warcry twice

this is 3.24 (or 3.23?) character so i dont even use tattoos - but 8% CDR per tattoo reduces the cooldown SIGNIFICANTLY

and you can even make a General's Cry setup with ~1s cooldown for trash clear

(vaal)Reap for single target and you are set. I havent played it recently but with warcry changes i think this setup only got buffed and by a lot (Kaom's Command if you want explodes) - yeah, it is 'self-cast' and you need to press buttons but on the other hand - you get buffs in return, so I consider it a viable tradeoff

GGG wont ever let this skill to be runner simulator again, they once did and killed it instantly. imo it was a good move

Oh thanks! I actually think some of that might be the last bits of tech I need to make the selfcast version feel smooth (particularly, CDR tats).

I def think it's in line with their vision to have corrupting cry not be automatable, but it's unfortunate that howlcrack seems to have been designed at least in part not to work with it...


In any case, I guess we'll see what the future holds!

I am using howlcrack with Corrupting cry, but the costs of running it, in my opinion, outweighs the gain.

The only way I have found for this to work is using the new unique: Whispers of infinity with Chaos innoculation skilled.

As I am not home I cant send my PoB but I have a poe ninja link: https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenaries/character/Toster283-6659/Cries_of_Corruption?i=2&search=name%3Dcrie

You will notice the dps on Ninja preview is only 50k, ( my items are in no way optimized) but with my config in mind from PoB I am hitting 1 million dps.

I am switching to Shako though, as the costs of pathing to CI and the missing amulet slot hinder me too much.

Hope this helped, maybe you can find a way to make this build work better! :)