PoE 3.23 Affliction Week 2 Meta Report - What Builds will Break the Meta?

i would dodge any glass canon strats unless you want to stay on low maps mf farming

Cleave of rage is really fun. Strong too. Mathil has a version, I'm running a budget version kind of as a semi league starter. It's a ton of fun. It feels great once it ramps up to full rage. It uses rage vortex of berserking as well. But I haven't gotten enough rage sustain to make that actually worth using besides bursting down bosses. I think I can get another 2 rage on hit that will help.

I would really love an Iceshot build that its better than ts or la. Going bow and not going ts feels dumb atm

I've been blasting with Lightning Strike of Arcing Accuracy Stacker Jugg with the The Untouched Soul Amulet and Magi Ascendency - with 3 flasks slots empty and Tincture with Rage and mini Headhunter thingy, no gems in Helmet and Gloves - it's absolute blast to play, just bought Progenesis and I'm practically immortal with 50+ mil dps

um. I've only ever heard your voice and I totally pictured you as bald and 20yrs older. In the words of Luffy: "I'm Sorry." Awesome videos, thank you!

where the top builds on HC?)

in the woods: its not distance travelled, its darkness revealed

From playing rage vortex of berserking this league I can say that the tincture felt worse than red blade banner to me. To make tincture work you will need to really scale your max rage. It doesn't take long for the vortex to reach 100% rage consumption per second.

Maven belt is there literally just for +1 power charge since it is now usable with the new Ralakesh Impatientce. I don't think anyone cares about absorption charges.

Im doing summon skellies zoomancer necro like I always do and now when the archers and mages have been separated out to be transfigured versions of the gem. the original summon skelletons, which should be called summon skelleton soldiers/warriors have become much better, since you can now focus on only the melle boys you dont need to get the pesky archers and mages from bad RNG that will drag down your damage by several thousands. Now cant do that for the vaal version of the gem which is still an uppgrade but it both feals and plays better now then ever in my opinion, and I belive thay this is going to make it possible for skelletons to be considered for a top tier meta spot again. if and when we figure out how to work out the kinks in the build.

So all of my fellow minion players sing with me "Arise my skelletal legion arise"

- Penance brand of dissipation is the best one. In particular, it crushes sanctum and boss farming. Swift brand actually makes its mapping quite decent.
- BL of static is very mediocre and overhyped. The damage is not high and beside CDR, it's very hard to scale (as cast speed - one of the most effective way to scale totem damage is not a good stat for that build).
- Mana RF is decent. It's similar to old RF in the sense that it's OP for leveling and early mapping but it gets very expensive (and not cost-effective at all) if you want to min-max.

my friend and I use willclash to substitute defenses on a penance brand occ, easy spell block cap with no downside due to gravens/ralakesh

i feel like wearing HH on coc build will only break the build when you get attack speed mod since it need fixed attack speed

That penance brand build is no different from the old discharge boss killer before the change on Rakesh's.

Ashes on static totems is GGG, I felt such a boost once I got mine.

the new ralakesh works with maven belts and allows you to have benefits of both types of charges at the same time, that's why the combination is popular.

i have played gravens belt with occultist. its all upside no downside as long as you are using ralekesh boots.
same with the other belts.

There has been a really fun looking CoC or CwC Frostblink of Wintry Blast that looks like the playstyle mix of flickerstrike and a cyclone build looks like a fun mapper, i see people doing power charge stacking with the maven belt for absorption charges, tl:dr on how it works is that the transfigured frostblink has no cooldown so u just cyclone blink everywhere. theres also a tech where u use frostblink of wintry blast with asenath's helm to make a super teleporty bow character.

why not use arn's anguish if u are going to be a glass cannon anyways.

@Tenkiei, help - Vortex just doesn't work with these mobs!

Energy blade arc of surging with hydrosphere…insta phasing Uber maven and others

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I’m doing srs at the moment, just wondering how this stacks up to some of the other builds? Is it good enough to do everything and or is it good for farming currency?

Graven's Secret works in combination with Ralakesh's Impatience and some reliable way to gain power charges, Power charges on Critial support for example. Since Ralakesh's states that you always count as having maximum power charges and Graven's secret state that all the Power charges you GAIN will be turned into Absorption charges, this means that you will get the full benefits of your Power charges while simultaneously turning every Power charge you gain into Absorption charges, gaining full benefit from them as well.

Im just rolling Wild Strike of Extremes and i expect great thinks from it

I want to see one of the new crackling lances as a cast on crit build. Running through packs with giant lightning laser beams shooting out all of the time sounds cool as shit

The maven belts are just really good now with changed ralakesh boots. Notice that the belt only converts minimum charges to absorb charges and only prevents you from gaining charges. It doesn't stop you from counting at maximum charges. So you double dip on charges AND get an extra charge. My assassin gets the benefits of 11 power charges , 11 frenzies from badge , and 11 absorbsion charges. So the belt gives me 132% ele DMG recouped as es , +1 power Charge which is a lot of DMG , good ress and good ES. The Brutal Charge belt on slayer could also be very insane.

Im rocking storm brand of indecision. Its so fun. Int/str stacking. Im on 2.5 div of gear so far but its already functional

I'm having an amazing time doing the minion autobombing build. There are only like 15 people who are LVL 80+ running it but it's incredibly smooth at mapping. I really feel it's minion RF. This one is also league dependant as if the marionette corpses don't move to next league, it won't be doable next league.

Just discovered your channel, great videos. Keep it up!

There are SO MANY interesting new gems and builds. I love it

For the first setup with the Graven's belt, you actually gain the benefits of both power charges and absorption charges with ralakeshes impatience as it states you count as on maximum POWER charges which goes around the downside the belt brings. Any other charges you produce then get turned into absorption charges. Ive been messing around with this combo on the other alternate charge belts too and it seems very powerful. Im sure the tech will be wide spread soon.

I'm not worried about Ball Lightning of Static totems, because the functionality has always existed: Flame Dash totems. Its just that nobody plays that build outside of meme players, so you're unfamiliar with the interaction. I highly doubt it is on GGGs radar.

Molten Strike of the Zenith is solid. Needs some attack speed but puts out the damage when it procs with Multistrike. Super fun.

i play unearth with kitavas thirst unique helmet ( DD of chain socket in ) and it feels so fricking good

Rage vortex of berserking is so broken that it is not even funny. You can weapon swap into a mjöljner and prog those spells, you can can link your rage vortex to a COC to prog spells, and you can also cyclone while having your rage vortex linked with COC. You could simply stack ES energyblade Battlemage+spellblade, and here you go. Double prog, and if you do everything correctly throw on a kitava's thirst helmet and prog even more. Just abusive how broken it is. And I love it!

I really want to see a cast on crit falling zombie build, just for the lols :D

I've been theory crafting a spellslinger vanilla penance brand crit pathfinder. With the tincture ability that grants 3 charges to adjacent flasks, it's easy to sustain 2 flasks (diamond and amethyst in this case) with master distiller. That's a ton of crit and phys as extra. Add in taste of hate with beefy flask effect for even more phys as extra.

For a cheap wand i'd use the Moonsorrow, which is a very high phys damage wand and adds a ton of phys damage to your penance brand at 570% effectiveness. Silver flask for onslaught is the 4th flask, but you'll need a ton more cast speed to get a brand explosion on every use of frenzy/kb/ps or whatever wand attack you use. I've been trying to solve that need for tons of cast speed before I re-roll my raider into this build.

Doing your atlas strategy. Made some changes. first map drop 2 divines! lol

Reading what the graven's secret does im guessing you "gain" the absorption charges but still "count" as maxed out on power charges due to ralakesh's, making it a cheap source of recoup. Anyone feel free to correct me.

Im playing rage vortex as berserking, but as a coc trigger. Playing it as a "double coc" with cyclone aswell. Feels insanely strong

I tested out arrow nova on my ballista settup and you were 💯 about this.. its just far superior to GMP.. you do trade off a slight bit of damage delay.. but once the hits start dropping the damage just ramps so much faster