Everything you need to know to make YOUR OWN Builds! - [PoE Uni] w/ @subtractem

Defeated Shaper with Searing Bond. Super fun, but I'm never doing that again...

very nice video on tought process, but if you have to open 5 other s builds on poe ninja, then make your own, hmm idk man, seems like remaking a build then right?

I want to make earthshatter build with screenwide aoe and automatic spike explosions triggering.

farmville was the shit!

I'm in a weird spot where I don't have any shame with following a build, and I certainly don't fault those who do, but I haven't allowed myself to "follow" one so to speak. The furthest I've gone is looking up archetypes and seeing the fundamentals of how they're doing what they're doing. Which I think is crucial to understanding how to even get a custom build off the ground, even if it's bad.

I've rolled a witch like 4 times now this league. I didn't get the first two out of campaign because I was running into a couple of issues that, while I could have spent points and chaos orbs to fix, I couldn't escape the feeling that I could have done significantly better. Plus, without even being to maps, it was simple enough for me to just re-roll. Every time I did, my build's performance shot up at least 100%. I went from taking some damage but not dying at Dominus to face-tanking him and burning him down in a blink of an eye with no threat to my life. And between the third and fourth iteration, I had the same feeling with act 9/10 and Kitava. I could handle tier 5 maps before it started feeling a bit rough. While that felt like a great improvement from where I started, glancing over at what other people are capable of, I wasn't even close. So I'm starting again and trying something radically different but building around the same skills.

I'll be satisfied with 100% dps increase, and 500% effective hp when I get to maps. That might sound like a lot, but my last character's effective hp tapped out at 5k and my dps 350k. It shouldn't be hard to push those numbers way up if I make the proper considerations.

Anyway, the reason I'm posting this is because I can't help but feel like this is just a miniature version of what the entirety of PoE's community has done over the years. Of course the newest builds are min-maxed to hell, because they're working off of thousands of iterations of troubleshooting and experimentation. And at least for now, experiencing this process on a personal level has felt super rewarding. Seeing the difference in performance between attempts is like a visual indicator of my growth as a player, and I love it.

I dont have a high IQ so I rather just copy a build. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel

You had my attention at nut and balls

No offense, I appreciate the effort put into this presentation, but I'll just be blunt here and say... this is as useful as showing people a picture of a sunset with an inspirational message like "shoot for the moon" written on it with some sprinkles of actual useful information here and there like external resources that can be used.

I'm not trying to bash on this but unfortunately I am, you could literally shrink down this 1h30m video to 10 minutes using only the actual useful information.
Gotta get to the point and stop going on so many tangeants about how difficult it is to make a build.

He's advocating for secret knowledge keepers that guide large herds. And he's absolutely right

Oh man seeing Day9's name again after all these years. I understand why he left Starcraft casting but a large part of my love for that game left with him. Dude is a legend and it's nice to see him get a shoutout!

Jesus 30 minutes and I'm tapping out.

this is so inspiring wtf

The wiki needs a lot of work.

II know I am watching this almost a year later. I was playing PoE during closed Beta. Then took a break after ascendancy became a thing. Then came back in 2014 after the military and have been playing ever since. I am constantly learning new things.

Hate to be negative but this guy really knows how to talk for a long time without actually giving any information, he just gave the "why" and a bunch of abstract reasoning about things like "what even is a build" "why do we want to make a build" this is kind of a terrible approach to making a guide, you are spouting opinions which the individual already understands for themselve.....
This isn't "how to make a build" its why would you want to make one....it actually doesn't tell you shit beside go do some research.... like holy fuck. I could give a seminar about how to graduate college and just be like "what is graduation, why is it? Well if you research alot you can do it and find out"
.... ridiculous

Honestly I think I enjoy futzing around in path of building more than actually playing the game. I'm still fairly new so they're not usually very good, on paper my Frostblink build is the best I've made from scratch...

This will be super helpful to review for year 3.19 cause old semester work helps so much. ESPECIALY when my baby trickster is so new again and I'm worried hah

Cheeeeeers!!!! LETS GO PEO UNI SEASONNNNNNNN

I have never heard somebody talk so much and say so little.

Does anyone actually find this shit useful? It's just an 1hr 30 nothing burger of a video.

Great video. If there's one thing I took away from this it's that I should walk down the street at midnight talking to myself.

Imagine be excited until you understand we are not talking about league of legends build... I m so dumb X)

Listening to this more, you can hear the developer in him toward the end when he starts talking about testing assumptions lol.

Absolutely fantastic insight!

Such an amazing energy🙂

I think we all would like to be a little bit more fast, and a little bit more hipster.
-Socratese

Very professionàle

Only seven minutes in I knew this was exactly the video I've been looking for since I started playing.

chose a skill, pick every damage note in pathofbuilding that increases ur damage over ~10%, chose assendancy depending on utility or damage, unpick every damage note too far away from ur starting point, wiki every tag of ur skillgem, decide on converting the damage or adding chance to poison... so that more damage notes are possible to pick, are u hitting a lot? then added damage is better than increased damage, generaly: more damage>penetration>as extra damage>attack/cast speed>increased damage, depending of type of damage chose buffs and debuffs gems, now defence top side skill tree: energy schield, left, rigt hybrid is possible not recommended though, bot side life, ~6k life/energyshield recommended. soft mitigation: left side armor, right side evasion. hard mitigation: dodge, suppres, block depending on accesability take as much as u can, next immunities: avoid elemental ailments if possible 100%, avoid stun, poison, bleeding, corrupted blood, if not with skill tree supplement with flasks, next problem wold be sustain: leech, life on hit, rocovery, regeneration for life, shield and mana. cap ur resistances, convert the dame ur getting to one type as much as possible and increase the cap, still dying? there are a lot of defensive skills/auras , like enduring cry, immortal cal, flesh and stone, fortify, steelskin, guard skills, molten shield, auras..., flasks. dont forget one or two movement skills, there is more but thats enough to buid a decent champ he was talking too much around the bush

I just love the game because you are constantly learning even if you arent going to school anymore. No matter what you are putting your brain into work every league from the changes

I'm a new POE player, and videos from these two guys have helped a lot in my journey to learn more about the game. Thanks all!

I've been trying to make my own build with stormblast mines and i swear it is just another job just to make it work.
I'm not looking up what other people do, since i want to do my own thing. But i think it's too much.
The wiki's are missing items and some other things.
But seriously, making a build in this game is the black desert online of this game, another job.

Good comments on "feel". I PoBed Maw of Mischief ignite, came up with a version that was absolutely awesome on paper, i couldn't stand the build

Stormlight Archives Reference nice.

before it was just A jump pick up coins now this 😂

I dont get much the piint of the video, i was hoping to learn actual build knowledge, like hiw does sole calculation works like flat then increase then more and how all od this actualy calvnculate and so, but ni its a 1h30 long video just to say "you wanna maje build, then pick a skill and search on internet how it works" ... realy helpfull...

Charlie Puth’s older brother?

This guy is in the industry for over 20 years and still looks younger than me. Fuck genes 🤣

That five minute intro was enough to bore me to the point where I straight up left. Get to the point.

"It's really dry in here" - takes gulp of moonshine

I genuinaly thought subtractem was like 20+

Great creatir but skip first 30 half hour

I love his laugh. It’s so adorable

Attend a lecture with a powerpoint presentation to learn to play a video game. Only POE.

Subtractem pog

You can believe that he’s from the tech sector by the fact he spent the first 5 minutes outlining his resume

sub is cool