[2.4] How to smash Heads. Extremely detailed guide about the Facebreaker gloves and builds!

Well guys ... after reading the messages and posts of so many people i've decided to come back to PoE ... i guess i love the game a bit too much and Prophecy looks fun for sure. Anyway thank you all for the kind words and support i really appreciate it and it is the main reason why i'm coming back (so soon at least). I know i've said it way too often but .. you are awesome!

P.S. And a big thank you to all that offered me free gear and currency, my stance though remains the same and i cannot accept them... i don't feel like it would be fair to take the items.
"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
Glad to hear that.
For me you are a part of the Game.
I also played since 2012 and often take a breake of one League.
And than the first thing i do is open you Guide and read the last Pages i missed xD

Welcome back!!!!!


Edit: To read in this Thread feels like coming home
IGN: Jorgumandr, Ogmios
Last edited by Shmoo37#4939 on May 27, 2016, 2:25:24 PM
Hey man, nice to see that you are still out here making and improving this awesome guide ! Sorry for your item loss... Even if it's virtual we all get attached to the small things we gained through hours of efforts !

This guide is an inspiration for my prefered build after 3 years of playing POE also : the FB max block aka the "cleaner", because you can just clean everything out there.
+1 to Shmoo37 btw, this thread feels like home ;)

Just my two cents to improve your guide :
- Discipline is now 35% mana reserved, not that it really makes it interesting for this build ;)
- Punishment only triggers on melee hit, which makes it even more hard to trigger on you, tried it and vulnerability and vulnerability feels more consistent as an offensive curse with blasphemy

Take care !
IGN : Bludietarah / Neevala / Fornumenor
My shop : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/528118
Thanks for noticing! I've updated the mentioned parts. ( as well as some other aura numbers )
"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
Last edited by KorgothBG#4084 on May 28, 2016, 5:51:45 AM
you have good guides and they are always updated.
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KorgothBG wrote:
Hey guys ... i know that this wouldn't come out as it should .. but i guess i'm kind of emotional at this point.

You see i've started playing PoE in Closed Beta in march 2012 after a friend told me about it. I've played path of exile fanatically ever since ... with more than 10k hours of gameplay. I've tried so many builds, i've reached the maximum capacity of characters so many times ( then deleting some of them ) and i had so much fun doing that. I've made some rather popular guides throughout the years, the flicker striker was even highlighted by GGG ( and a guy reached N1 slayer with it in the Perandus flashback event ) ... i've even took care of the Duelist, Templar and Marauder build lists.

I've played only solo, rarely traded ... never flipped an item, never scammed a player, never took advantage of the lack of knowledge of a newbie ( stupid i know ), for some reason i rarely played FoTM builds too ( at least not when they were popular ) ... because of all that i guess i was never really a "rich" player. I never had a mirror or a mirrored item, but slowly i was able to get good amount of currency ... really slowly ... by farming... by spending time in Wraeclast killing things, again and again. I had the following goal for my currency - making a collection of all existing uniques ( league only included ), that was extremely difficult until Perandus, when i was able to get most of the league-only uniques that i needed ( i still wasn't able to get the expensive stuff like skyforth or even acuity ) . At some point i've sold .. most of the things that i wasn't using ( or that i didn't need for the collection ) and bought a Headhunter .. oh man that was a glorious day! ( a month ago i think )

Anyway today i tried to log into my account just to find out that my password was incorrect... i already knew what happened but i still had some hope. After changing my password i was finally able to log-in just to find out that almost everything valuable was gone ... sure i still have more than many players and some of you would say "first world problems" and i guess they will be right. Some might say "pff Perandus is almost over who cares for STD anyway" ... well i care ... those things represented 10000 hours of my life ... that's more than an year of my life ... stolen. I cannot continue my 3-year old guides any more either... i don't have the needed items anymore .. or even the needed gems. Some might say "It's bad .. but deal with it and just start again with Prophecy" .. but i can't ... not yet anyway.

In any case i'm glad for all those years, it was truly fun, after all the h'n's aRPG genre is my favorite and PoE is definitely my favorite h'n's aRPG . I'm not a rich guy in real life ( more because the country that i'm from is rather poor ) but i've supported GGG as much as i could ... because of my guides some guys donated me some cash ... and it all went to GGG, and i'm happy with that ... and i don't regret it. I hope that i was able to help some of you, at least i've always tried. And in the end .. i can only say .. thank you guys and good luck!


P.S.
Probably i will be lurking the forums from now on.




Really sad to hear that KorgothBG :/

Do you know how this could happen?

Anyway your guides helped me a lot, and i specially love the facebreaker build and hope you stay with us! :)
Yeah i'm back now ( 2 posts after the one you've quoted go in more details )

How it happened? I have 2 hypothesis:

1. My e-mail was breached ( actually my e-mail info got leaked from 4 different places ) thus the guy used the "forgotten pass" option in PoE to get my PoE account pass ( and my e-mail did not have phone verification too )

2. Because from time to time i was accessing the forums from work it is possible that the work PC was not and isn't really malware free ( especially considering the fact that i've "inherit" it ) .. that's something that i never put any though into .. but no one takes care of the workplace PCs where i work.

I've made a new e-mail that will be used exclusively for PoE ( now with a couple of levels of extra defenses ), changed all of my passwords, reinstalled my OS ( even though i've used several programs to check for any malware .. and there wasn't any.. i still run some anti-malware software ... pretty daily now ) and i won't access my PoE e-mail or PoE account from anywhere but my personal PC from now on. Hopefully all that prevents such events from happening in the future.

In any case ... thankfully the guy didn't know that alt art Cloak of Flame and Heatshiver are worth more than what he stole ... so sadly i had to trade them in order to get the items that i've lost.
"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
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KorgothBG wrote:
Well guys ... after reading the messages and posts of so many people i've decided to come back to PoE ... i guess i love the game a bit too much and Prophecy looks fun for sure. Anyway thank you all for the kind words and support i really appreciate it and it is the main reason why i'm coming back (so soon at least). I know i've said it way too often but .. you are awesome!

P.S. And a big thank you to all that offered me free gear and currency, my stance though remains the same and i cannot accept them... i don't feel like it would be fair to take the items.


Man you prob don't remember much but I used to discuss alot with you about FB and stuffs, sad to see you getting bad luck like this. I should roll a FB next league just to give you my spirit then.
AllanPls - A Poe.Trade-inspired style for the official Path of Exile Trade website (v0.1.2)

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2026765
Hey everyone !

First, sorry to hear you got hacked Korgoth :/ Your facebreaker build is the best and most detailed build i've ever read on this forum. It covers both sepcific facebreaker matters and more general advices, which really helped when I was a beginner. Thank you for everything, and especially the huge work you're doing there !


Now, I'd like to ask you a few advices for next league : with the upcoming changes for ascendancy classes, I really want to test the raider, because he can now get two 4-points branches.
I will then pick ranger, facebreakers, and the frenzy skill.
I came up with this tree : http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAIBAABeAO4FLQW1BfkGOQguCTMM8gz3EvEVIBXwFyYZihmOGbQajxuXG60j9ipNLOktgy5TL8wwcTIBMk41kjpCOq08LT0PPeI-zz8nQKBB0EMxR35I7kkPSshLeE1GTZJRYFT-VvpaGl5FYqxi7GVNa5BsjG6qb4RyqXTtd9d4rnqEeu982X1bfXWDX4PMhNmE74azjb-S85XMlwabJpuNnaqjiqXLqZWsR6yvr6exs7IZtMW18rc-vTa95r6nwL_BgsLswzPE9sauz3rQrdE202_TftQj1y3YYNi92sHdqOIs7T_tg-4O73rzBvaj9tr3Mvlj-uv7Cfuq_gr-uv8c

Would you experienced folk mind criticizing it ? Thanks forward !
I pick as much evasion and life as possible, as well as frenzy charges. I would combine evasion with some dodge, block, and the enfeeble curse to lower ennemy accuracy, and maybe the upcoming unique chest (http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Kintsugi) and a good life pool to survive the few hits that would pass through.
I would also use Darkray Vectors (http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Darkray_Vectors) to further benefit from the stacking of frenzy charges.
Bandits would be Oak for life, passive skill point, and the frenzy charge.

(I noticed that all the shield nodes give a total of 470% increased defenses from shield ! it seems pretty high)

Thanks forward,
Valion Al'Tharion
Last edited by ValionAlTharion#1866 on May 30, 2016, 9:02:28 PM
Thanks man! :)

As for your tree, overall it looks ok to me though i have a couple of things to mention:
1. 6 passives spent to get to graceful assault is not exactly efficient if you ask me?
2. Why charisma ? For what do you need the 12% reduced mana reserved?

and some advices:
1. Buy a Taste of Hate at all costs. With the lack of armour the hits that actually get past your other defenses will hurt ... a lot. In such cases a proper flask management and knowledge whn to use Taste of Hate will literally save your life. Combining it with a basalt flask does wonders for a character will low/no armour.
2. I'd still suggest picking up daresso's defiance. On top of the other goodies ( like extra dodge ) you'll have a way to constantly generate endurance charges - a vital part of your defenses especially when you lack armour.
3. Darkray Vectors are pretty awesome, though with them you'll move painfully slow in towns and hideouts ... not a big drawback i know, but an annoying fact because of which i just can't force myself to use the boots at all.
4. Keep in mind that Acrobatics gives you less block chance. Not such a big deal when you stack lots of dodge ( which of course you will and should do ), just a thing to mention.

and a question:
What ascendancy passives are you planning to get? In my opinion the Avatar of the Veil and the Avatar of the Slaughter are definitely the way to go - permanent phasing which means permanent onslaught(20% movement and attack speed) on top of that extra 28% movement speed and 10% spell dodge. Also you get 6% extra dodge chance, evasion, damage and attack speed bonuses, extra frenzy charge and more powerful frenzy charges ( including movement pseed bonus oer charge )
Lets say thay you'll end up with 9 frenzy charges, with raider and a 30% ms boots you'll end up with 96% movement speed ... which is quite a lot.
"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
Last edited by KorgothBG#4084 on May 31, 2016, 1:51:29 AM

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