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nice video, but i was expecting more things like diminishing returns on increased damage, crit multi, enemies take increased damage... how to balance those things, how to get best out of your gear for example: which pieces of gear is best for getting damage/defences... in short more generalized stuff and less spesific. Of course it is hard to make these videos without giving examples from existing builds but more theoretical things would be better to make it more relevant for a wider audiance imho.
if your going into min maxing, i think it should be wise to explain the middle game. that big black whole that exist between the guy who just started and the 10 mirrors build guides. most of people are stuck in the transition to the middle-maxing of a build because of currency/crafting/experinece/ of something
I'm one of them ig.. like i follow a build guide and then get to a point where I can do t15 maps while struggle with t16 bosses a little bit and idk what I am missing or how to proceed further
@@mauricioviggianoneto6308 that really depends on a player, many people don't ever get to t16 or get there near the end of their playtime in a league. Explaining how to get there would be beneficial to many players without a lot of experience.
I have a recommendation for this kind of lessons, instead of making one single general min-maxing video we could look at specific ways to min-max certain kinds of builds. ie: How to min-max ignite builds, How to min-max minion builds, How to min-max meele builds etc.. Maybe an even more advanced topic would be to explain the mechanics of at least the most popular skills and how to exploit them. I think that the biggest gap between an experienced player and a new player is knowledge, because new players might be able to understand how scaling works but maybe they don't know all the tools available to them, specially endgame stuff like very rare affixes.
The problem with Min/Maxing as a newer Player is mostly knowlege of Mods, or how to get things. I usually play a random Char, then i look what Skill is fun, and try to get in some extras like crit or bleed or whatever fits. It is more like evolving while playing and now u see... ohh there are suddenly oils in this game... what can i do with that... or where do all this Implicts come from, and what can i get. Playing --> Failing --> Looking things up like on craftofexile --> Yay i get to Yellow Maps --> Failing again cause dieing... and so on. Edit: My point is - Other ARPGs are more straight forward, and do not have so much "hidden" mechaniks like PoE. That is making it hard sometimes. (Gems, Gemlevels, then you can get some awakened Gems... :D)
I think a good way of doing this lecture for the poe university would be to take a random build from poeninja (week 1 or week 2 snapshot), and then show how you'd min-max it step by step.
My biggest lesson from this is "what stats I can get to get rid of other things". Keywords like this definitely makes me realize what I was missing/ doing wrong in endgame. Would love to hear more stuff like this!
that was huge: finding where you can get gear mods to free up passive points or gem links, etc. I would like to see you take a build from a starting point of "wow, I want to play this skill!" and your decision making process around what ascendancy to play, what defensive layers you would get, and how you would scale the damage of that skill.
"It's not really a well thought out class; I'm just going to start a rant, and hopefully and even if you just learn one or two things, it'll be good." *flashbacks to college*
A point I've personally struggled with myself as a returning player recently is just not knowing where to find all these hidden multipliers scattered around to help minmax a skill that isnt nessecarily toptier and help progress from like yellow tier maps to red+. For example apperantly you can just farm out veiled mods through some painful methods in foothills that allows avoiding a portion of mana cost entirely or getting free onslaught on boots or adding %chaos ontop of your elemental damage or permanent frenzy charges. A lot of that kind of stuff adds up quickly on your league starting character and that's something I think more new players regularly struggle with when they reach the mapping stage. This video showcases the power of empowered gems and swapping out passives/gems for others but I'd like to know more on how to reach the stage where I comfortably can reach the bosses/uniques that allow for acquiring wealth or making these swaps in the first place without having to follow a meta build guide necessarily.
You can farm content that doesn't care at all about your progression: delve, bestiary, heist, lab, alva, syndicate and so on whie you learn, on a different scale stuff like expedition and blight and others I don't remember right now. Unless you're aiming for the absolute top, tricks don't matter, you can easily be in the top 1% by playing like 4h a day whatever build you like, for real. It's a journey, upgrades come one by one, not all at once and not necessarily the one you want or think is the best. It depends on the league, patch buff/nerfs/changes, meta, build, budget, player and so on. It's unexplainable as it changes constantly, the best you can do is take 10s of different builds like yours (possibly at different stages and different variations) and try to learn from them. Maybe you'll get a tech or 2. Study the skill, study the school of damage and seach for keywords the entire wiki and craft of exile. Watch videos from a couple leagues ago, see if they still apply and what has changed. Different stages will require different approaches and grinding, we all copy as the first step to create, there's no shame in it. Understand the logic behind certain things and never trust pob warriors on poe ninja
Finding ways to un-allocate nodes in your passive tree feels very obvious now when you said it straight out, but i dont think i have ever thought about it like that before. Thanks for great videos as always!
I liked this, felt like you were over my shoulder and really made POB click that much more. Please keep doing more, I need to get a char to 100! I have too many hours and it's getting embarrassing.
pretty solid safe way to hit 100 without paying for 5 ways is take abyss nodes on atlas tree (tons of extra monsters in maps and double xp in abyss holes) and run polished abyss scarabs every map. took me about 80 t14-16’s to go from 99-100
..ive played for 4 years if not more and ive not even gotten close to lvl 100. If i really enjoy a build i might push it to 96, after that i just want to play a new build. :D
@ Yeah I get distracted by other builds all the time and it doesn't help when you're 50% in to lvl 90 something and die to some BS a couple of times and you're back to square one.
Great video Ziz! I have been playing for quite a few years already so this feels like refreshing knowledge. In my case, something interesting might be the use of some specific jewels (like Unnatural Instict) that impact builds for min maxing that with the amount of items sometimes you might not be aware of.
Very nice seeing some content for a, let's call it, aspirational player. Not beginner and can get to a point of clearing high tier maps but may struggle pushing further. Would personally prefer a bit more structure and while you provide some nice exampels of differences it would be nice seeing more focus on e.g. prioritizing/finding upgrades and ways of achieving that. You mention in the video getting stats to free up other things, but is it worth getting accuracy on gloves for another mod on a quiver etc. How do you go from having 3-4 mod items to to 5+ mods that you want. One idea could be going through the process of minmaxing a build (showing it in pob) to show what makes the difference and how small upgrades accumulate with suggestions for getting some those items. Thanks for the content, keep it up!
A neat idea might be to start a poll to pick a skill people would like to see/use and make a build around it. With so many skills it could be a good few episodes of content.
At 4:25 i think the 1.4 mil damage difference can by explained by "Do you have lifetap?" not being ticked in PoB's configuration tab, given that a 6.5 mil to ~7.98 mil jump is roughly 22.7% more damage, more or less in line with inspiration's 25% more damage while at max charges. Damage with lifetap should be around ~7.55 mil with the correct config (~16.5% more damage compared to 6.5 mil, which is a guess on my part; i'm not entirely sure why you don't get a straight up 25% more or 19% more damage for using inspiration or lifetap, respectively)
Thanks for showing me a way to pick up some nodes on the other side of the passive skill tree. My biggest pitfall when making a build is that I know what I want my character to do, but don't know how/where to find the mechanics and stats. (gear, passives, gems, jewels, etc.)
I think taking a build that is like stuck in yellow maps offensively as well as defensively could help. And go over the gear, gems and passives and show what causes the problems. The biggest help for me was the incremental improvements matter, I always think like what does it matter if my item has 82 or 99 life.
Ziz, I'd love to see you do a series "How to survive as a ". For example ive been playing a staff weilding elementalist and i have a lot of gear slots to play with as well as passives but still cant figure out how to survive. As a hardcore player you seem well suited to such a series.
@@skryah yeaaa my strat so far is using mistress of sacrifice forbidden jewels to cap block at least. Not exactly leaguestart friendly. And it is martyr of innocence so block as good as a shield. Main issue is lack of recovery on block and no tempest shield. Besides EA ele was a thing so theres gotta be some way to live lol
Im sure one of these comments has said this, but the problem i have with getting my build to the next level is just how to get the items. Oh to progress my build i need a 15 divine orb helmet? Well how do i go about getting that currency, or how do i craft it myself? Oh i need a unique drop that costs 5 divines? Where can i farm this? Alongside these, things like "What scales this skill?" "Why am i switching from Life to CI for my Medium Budget form?"
nice video! i'd really enjoy a class/ascendancy comparison around a strong skill gem, like Seismic Trap, Explosive Arrow or any further ones (ED :^) that may come up next league, too. This could also be interesting for the next Class Gauntlet.
The point about exponential damage is fine and all, but I mean when you have 378m deeps, what difference does 7 million really do? At that point I would prefer survivability, QoL or speed.
help me please I die too much! last league playing skeles i couldn't stop rip'ing and i couldn't figure out why. ended with 3k life, 400 regen, 600k eff life pool, 46k max phys hit, ~23k max ele hit including chaos, 40k armour, ~10mil dps with 12 skeles. rezs were 76/81/76/75, i had bleed and freeze immunity from flasks up 100% with instilling enchant, and shock immune from tempest shield. Still couldnt make it past lv94 running low to medium juice t16 maps. I know its probably impossible to tell exactly what my problem was. but any advice would be greatly appreciated
It only just dawned to me that yeah, I don't HAVE to be able to fit a new aura for enlighten to be useful, it could be used to free up passive points! And a passive tree that has taken that into account can increase dps by a LOT from freeing up those points
How do we gauge what items are "good enough", what we're supposed to be looking for while min-maxing, and the like? I think a guide on how we generally stack things with many case studies would be awesome Poison really wants duration, wither, hitting multiple times, overlap etc for example Ball lightning cares a lot about projectile speed, and shock effect does wonders for damage What item mods should I be looking for? Is x% as extra chaos more important than some influence mod or essence mod? What passive skill tree mods are worth it and what are some traps one could fall into? How do we minmax with defensives in mind? Defensive aura or damage aura? There's just so so much to this and PoB can only help so much when the calcs for many skills and mods are unclear or even straight up wrong
How do we find your builds that have good build guide walkthroughs in the notes? When I search you I see waaaay too many characters to choose from and get lost and do not know which are valid or anything anymore.
I feel like I didn't understand much as I could have because I didn't really know where the damage was coming from. By that I mean that you tell us about PoF but never explained what the skill does and why it gives you that damage. For the poeninja build you pulled up, you showed the differences between the multistrike and what not having it does to your damage, but you never explained what multistrike does or why it ramps your damage so much. It's good for someone who maybe knows what every gem in the game does or really understands the game mechanics, but for new people or those who are still learning (me), I feel like the only take away from those parts is 'PoF/multistrike good' without really understanding what made them good for those particular skills. I did understand the Seismic trap bit though, that was well explained I felt, and it's nice to know how you got your skills to basically cost no mana because I always wondered about that, so thanks for those at least. Keep up the great guides! They help a lot, and I'll try harder to ask questions because sometimes things feel a little under-explained (or I'm just stupid).
I don't know if anyone is going to see this, but does Ziz have any videos about general scaling? Right now, I'm kind of lost in the mire of PoB shoving cast speed and crit at every spell skill I try to make a build for, but I have a feeling it's lying lol. Especially since it keeps recommending Arcane Surge for skills that don't use mana.
loved the lesson, thanks. Please, make different tiers of weapons for like a melee/bow bleed/ignite or melee poison builds. Like what would a starter weapon, a midgame and endgame weapon look like for different types of builds. I feel like its kinda easy to figure out if you are going elemental damage or spell caster but for dot based builds with weapons(bow or melee) its kinda hard to figure out what you actually want/need. I dont mean for builds like explosive arrow that just scale the gem but builds that are based on the damage of the weapon. appreciate your work regardless, thank you.
My problem with minmaxing is that I get to a point that anything I want to upgrade requires a cascade of upgrades and I just can't be bothered to get a new ring, and that means I need more resistance somewhere else, but the resistance is on something with dex and then....And eventually I just give up o the build as too much crafting/shopping to upgrade
@@josiahvv problem is, you'll never get around the upgrade part... trading or crafting (at higher levels) is a required part to min-max.. the same as your previously said issue that - You cant be bothered to get a new ring etc.. thats unfortunately what min-maxing is in poe! dropping res on 1 item to gain life then making up the res on another item etc.. its a game where - you dont get to end game in your first league, hell.. even your second, you steadily improve each league and learn more each time you play + tend to get further
Is there a source, website, repository of your builds that your fan base can access? I have been following another users builds but they ALWAYS fall off by red maps.
Tytytytyty!!!! Loving the poenuni this league ziz thanks! Alsooooo I might league start ea HIT Raider like a noob cause I want to push so mapping and finish progression early so I can start a new character by week 2 after the meats and prices settle and everyone tells me something spicy, hopefully trickster hahahaha hceeeeers
I have started to playing this game two months ago.There is so many things to learn and most of the times i am missing little things.I didn't realise there is a fuse count for EA balista builds in pob.I was wondering why my damage is 900k.But now i know my damage is around 38million.Thanks for the videos
1m+ damage for swapping Lifetap with Inspiration is obscene (and then you don't have to deal with losing life). Will definitely keep this in mind in the future. Wouldn't that mean an enduring mana flask is better than Lifetap though?
Could you just create simple melee build from 0 like reave and then slowly show all possible ways to spike the damage up? I know all the basics with "more" and flat damage abuse but im still stuck on 1mil damage on flicker strike with very meh defenses on SSF. Overall would be great to know how to spike damage hard without unique items
Hey Ziz, I'm a long time self-build maker and I think I can help. One of the things a lot of people don't seem to get is how many separate sources of power there are on items. For example lets say you want to cast faster. Well, Cast Speed isn't the only thing you can get on items. You can get Action Speed (Tailwind) and Onslaught as well, and you shouldn't assume people will read the small text on Onslaught and realize how important it is. You should also consider a video on additional non-obvious sources of damage and how they work, such as "enemies take increased damage", exposure and reduced resistances, and overwhelm (you did somewhat cover Faster/Slower ailments in this one). There are A LOT of impactful sources of damage that aren't just spell damage and attack damage and I think that gets missed by most people.
does ziz know damage over time can only have 35.8mill dps? this is poison+ignite+bleed combined. the monster can only take 35.8mill dps. localidentity mentioned it on redit and lots of streamer dont know or never mention it. ends up so many EA or other dot skill player min maxxing and wasting money and time. when your damage more than the 35.8 it will even make you lose damage
Freaking loved mixmaxing EA ignite last league but I went so far and still stopped too early that I just don't know if I can ever go back to it and have the same level of luck hahaha but gooooooooo worklkkkk love the examples thankssssss
Feedback wise I think its important to always hone in on the act of adding something so you can take something else away. Enlighten is a great example. I think a lot of newer players look at enlighten and they see okay now I have more mana available but I don't have a socket to add an additional aura so what does that matter? But in reality you can gain upwards of 5 skill points to throw into damage. It's the same concept of why coated shrapnel is so good for Sabo, you can take less %chance to poison and instead go into dot multi or defenses
I remember when PoE was this awesome, pseudo-MMO ARPG, genuinely free, with a very novel currency system and filling the gritty isometric void that so many felt from Diablo III's release. Now, coming back to it after almost ten years it feels like walking into an economics and physics class way above my grade. Holy shit. The learning curve here seems insane and utterly off putting. Is there even a remotely casual way to play this game (like, without going into the videogame equivalent of calculus or putting 200+ hours in)? I remember enjoying this game but now I literally get anxious at the thought of installing it after trying to "catch up" on UA-cam... maybe I should just go play Torchlight. Or set aside some $ for the Diablo 2 remake. I feel like a burger cook in an aerospace R&D floor over here.
Am I just on the wrong channel? Even the getting started videos make my head swell. I just want to hack, and slash, preferable in sequence, while getting dopamine spikes from leveling up and improving gear. I'm a very simple gamer when it comes to this genre.
Going through campaign and some maps can be done on virtually anything. Watch poe videos from Josh Strife Hayes. Dude did what he wanted and had a blast. Don’t worry about anything just don’t expect to do Uber endgame content. Have a blast killing shit and don’t overthink it.
Make any build broken, throw currency at it, end of video. Like good information as usual but it boils down to one thing, sink currency into your build and it will scale, some better than others.
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nice video, but i was expecting more things like diminishing returns on increased damage, crit multi, enemies take increased damage... how to balance those things, how to get best out of your gear for example: which pieces of gear is best for getting damage/defences... in short more generalized stuff and less spesific. Of course it is hard to make these videos without giving examples from existing builds but more theoretical things would be better to make it more relevant for a wider audiance imho.
if your going into min maxing, i think it should be wise to explain the middle game. that big black whole that exist between the guy who just started and the 10 mirrors build guides. most of people are stuck in the transition to the middle-maxing of a build because of currency/crafting/experinece/ of something
Middle game is grinding for currency? Not?
I'm one of them ig.. like i follow a build guide and then get to a point where I can do t15 maps while struggle with t16 bosses a little bit and idk what I am missing or how to proceed further
@@Wraith0100 mid game is not t16, t16 is early lol, t16+ would be farming / bosses / the feared / before getting into 5-10M dps
@@mauricioviggianoneto6308 that really depends on a player, many people don't ever get to t16 or get there near the end of their playtime in a league. Explaining how to get there would be beneficial to many players without a lot of experience.
@@mauricioviggianoneto6308 that hurts me even more now lmao
But sentinel was the first time I got into mapping... Hoping to learn more this league 🥲
I have a recommendation for this kind of lessons, instead of making one single general min-maxing video we could look at specific ways to min-max certain kinds of builds. ie: How to min-max ignite builds, How to min-max minion builds, How to min-max meele builds etc..
Maybe an even more advanced topic would be to explain the mechanics of at least the most popular skills and how to exploit them. I think that the biggest gap between an experienced player and a new player is knowledge, because new players might be able to understand how scaling works but maybe they don't know all the tools available to them, specially endgame stuff like very rare affixes.
The problem with Min/Maxing as a newer Player is mostly knowlege of Mods, or how to get things. I usually play a random Char, then i look what Skill is fun, and try to get in some extras like crit or bleed or whatever fits.
It is more like evolving while playing and now u see... ohh there are suddenly oils in this game... what can i do with that... or where do all this Implicts come from, and what can i get.
Playing --> Failing --> Looking things up like on craftofexile --> Yay i get to Yellow Maps --> Failing again cause dieing... and so on.
Edit: My point is - Other ARPGs are more straight forward, and do not have so much "hidden" mechaniks like PoE. That is making it hard sometimes. (Gems, Gemlevels, then you can get some awakened Gems... :D)
I think a good way of doing this lecture for the poe university would be to take a random build from poeninja (week 1 or week 2 snapshot), and then show how you'd min-max it step by step.
doesn’t poe ninja only have builds 99 or 100? i don’t use that site much but i thought all builds there are endgame already??
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My biggest lesson from this is "what stats I can get to get rid of other things". Keywords like this definitely makes me realize what I was missing/ doing wrong in endgame. Would love to hear more stuff like this!
that was huge: finding where you can get gear mods to free up passive points or gem links, etc.
I would like to see you take a build from a starting point of "wow, I want to play this skill!" and your decision making process around what ascendancy to play, what defensive layers you would get, and how you would scale the damage of that skill.
"It's not really a well thought out class; I'm just going to start a rant, and hopefully and even if you just learn one or two things, it'll be good." *flashbacks to college*
A point I've personally struggled with myself as a returning player recently is just not knowing where to find all these hidden multipliers scattered around to help minmax a skill that isnt nessecarily toptier and help progress from like yellow tier maps to red+. For example apperantly you can just farm out veiled mods through some painful methods in foothills that allows avoiding a portion of mana cost entirely or getting free onslaught on boots or adding %chaos ontop of your elemental damage or permanent frenzy charges. A lot of that kind of stuff adds up quickly on your league starting character and that's something I think more new players regularly struggle with when they reach the mapping stage. This video showcases the power of empowered gems and swapping out passives/gems for others but I'd like to know more on how to reach the stage where I comfortably can reach the bosses/uniques that allow for acquiring wealth or making these swaps in the first place without having to follow a meta build guide necessarily.
You can farm content that doesn't care at all about your progression: delve, bestiary, heist, lab, alva, syndicate and so on whie you learn, on a different scale stuff like expedition and blight and others I don't remember right now. Unless you're aiming for the absolute top, tricks don't matter, you can easily be in the top 1% by playing like 4h a day whatever build you like, for real. It's a journey, upgrades come one by one, not all at once and not necessarily the one you want or think is the best. It depends on the league, patch buff/nerfs/changes, meta, build, budget, player and so on. It's unexplainable as it changes constantly, the best you can do is take 10s of different builds like yours (possibly at different stages and different variations) and try to learn from them. Maybe you'll get a tech or 2. Study the skill, study the school of damage and seach for keywords the entire wiki and craft of exile. Watch videos from a couple leagues ago, see if they still apply and what has changed. Different stages will require different approaches and grinding, we all copy as the first step to create, there's no shame in it. Understand the logic behind certain things and never trust pob warriors on poe ninja
Finding ways to un-allocate nodes in your passive tree feels very obvious now when you said it straight out, but i dont think i have ever thought about it like that before. Thanks for great videos as always!
I liked this, felt like you were over my shoulder and really made POB click that much more. Please keep doing more, I need to get a char to 100! I have too many hours and it's getting embarrassing.
pretty solid safe way to hit 100 without paying for 5 ways is take abyss nodes on atlas tree (tons of extra monsters in maps and double xp in abyss holes) and run polished abyss scarabs every map. took me about 80 t14-16’s to go from 99-100
Yeah. same.
You and me both, HC is hard tho
..ive played for 4 years if not more and ive not even gotten close to lvl 100. If i really enjoy a build i might push it to 96, after that i just want to play a new build. :D
@ Yeah I get distracted by other builds all the time and it doesn't help when you're 50% in to lvl 90 something and die to some BS a couple of times and you're back to square one.
Great video Ziz! I have been playing for quite a few years already so this feels like refreshing knowledge. In my case, something interesting might be the use of some specific jewels (like Unnatural Instict) that impact builds for min maxing that with the amount of items sometimes you might not be aware of.
Very nice seeing some content for a, let's call it, aspirational player. Not beginner and can get to a point of clearing high tier maps but may struggle pushing further.
Would personally prefer a bit more structure and while you provide some nice exampels of differences it would be nice seeing more focus on e.g. prioritizing/finding upgrades and ways of achieving that. You mention in the video getting stats to free up other things, but is it worth getting accuracy on gloves for another mod on a quiver etc. How do you go from having 3-4 mod items to to 5+ mods that you want.
One idea could be going through the process of minmaxing a build (showing it in pob) to show what makes the difference and how small upgrades accumulate with suggestions for getting some those items.
Thanks for the content, keep it up!
A neat idea might be to start a poll to pick a skill people would like to see/use and make a build around it. With so many skills it could be a good few episodes of content.
At 4:25 i think the 1.4 mil damage difference can by explained by "Do you have lifetap?" not being ticked in PoB's configuration tab, given that a 6.5 mil to ~7.98 mil jump is roughly 22.7% more damage, more or less in line with inspiration's 25% more damage while at max charges. Damage with lifetap should be around ~7.55 mil with the correct config (~16.5% more damage compared to 6.5 mil, which is a guess on my part; i'm not entirely sure why you don't get a straight up 25% more or 19% more damage for using inspiration or lifetap, respectively)
Thanks for showing me a way to pick up some nodes on the other side of the passive skill tree. My biggest pitfall when making a build is that I know what I want my character to do, but don't know how/where to find the mechanics and stats. (gear, passives, gems, jewels, etc.)
I think taking a build that is like stuck in yellow maps offensively as well as defensively could help. And go over the gear, gems and passives and show what causes the problems.
The biggest help for me was the incremental improvements matter, I always think like what does it matter if my item has 82 or 99 life.
You guys think there will ever be a min/maxing service where you make a pob and you pay someone to optimize your build based on early/mid/endgame?
Ziz, I'd love to see you do a series "How to survive as a ". For example ive been playing a staff weilding elementalist and i have a lot of gear slots to play with as well as passives but still cant figure out how to survive. As a hardcore player you seem well suited to such a series.
Staff wielding elementalist will die no matter what. Zero defense ascendancy without a shield is just not a good combo to keep the XP in your bar.
@@skryah yeaaa my strat so far is using mistress of sacrifice forbidden jewels to cap block at least. Not exactly leaguestart friendly. And it is martyr of innocence so block as good as a shield. Main issue is lack of recovery on block and no tempest shield. Besides EA ele was a thing so theres gotta be some way to live lol
Im sure one of these comments has said this, but the problem i have with getting my build to the next level is just how to get the items. Oh to progress my build i need a 15 divine orb helmet? Well how do i go about getting that currency, or how do i craft it myself? Oh i need a unique drop that costs 5 divines? Where can i farm this? Alongside these, things like "What scales this skill?" "Why am i switching from Life to CI for my Medium Budget form?"
Great video Ziz thank you! I would like to know more about Effective Hit Pool and Maximum Hit Taken.
"not that big just 1 million" 1 million was the total dps of my first build entirely :P
nice video! i'd really enjoy a class/ascendancy comparison around a strong skill gem, like Seismic Trap, Explosive Arrow or any further ones (ED :^) that may come up next league, too. This could also be interesting for the next Class Gauntlet.
The point about exponential damage is fine and all, but I mean when you have 378m deeps, what difference does 7 million really do?
At that point I would prefer survivability, QoL or speed.
Dude, where is the video on the new teaser gear?
i guess the two things i'm looking for are: how to snowball damage on crit builds through crit multi, and how to juice defenses / build in layers.
It would be great if you taught us some recurring themes when you’re trying to do min-maxing.
help me please I die too much!
last league playing skeles i couldn't stop rip'ing and i couldn't figure out why. ended with 3k life, 400 regen, 600k eff life pool, 46k max phys hit, ~23k max ele hit including chaos, 40k armour, ~10mil dps with 12 skeles. rezs were 76/81/76/75, i had bleed and freeze immunity from flasks up 100% with instilling enchant, and shock immune from tempest shield. Still couldnt make it past lv94 running low to medium juice t16 maps. I know its probably impossible to tell exactly what my problem was. but any advice would be greatly appreciated
It only just dawned to me that yeah, I don't HAVE to be able to fit a new aura for enlighten to be useful, it could be used to free up passive points!
And a passive tree that has taken that into account can increase dps by a LOT from freeing up those points
i plan to start out with the explosive arrow build ... can you provide the pob used in this video ?
How do we gauge what items are "good enough", what we're supposed to be looking for while min-maxing, and the like? I think a guide on how we generally stack things with many case studies would be awesome
Poison really wants duration, wither, hitting multiple times, overlap etc for example
Ball lightning cares a lot about projectile speed, and shock effect does wonders for damage
What item mods should I be looking for? Is x% as extra chaos more important than some influence mod or essence mod?
What passive skill tree mods are worth it and what are some traps one could fall into? How do we minmax with defensives in mind?
Defensive aura or damage aura?
There's just so so much to this and PoB can only help so much when the calcs for many skills and mods are unclear or even straight up wrong
with some mirrors and 12 hours a day farming
Thank you for your video, will look forward for more!
How do we find your builds that have good build guide walkthroughs in the notes? When I search you I see waaaay too many characters to choose from and get lost and do not know which are valid or anything anymore.
I feel like I didn't understand much as I could have because I didn't really know where the damage was coming from. By that I mean that you tell us about PoF but never explained what the skill does and why it gives you that damage. For the poeninja build you pulled up, you showed the differences between the multistrike and what not having it does to your damage, but you never explained what multistrike does or why it ramps your damage so much. It's good for someone who maybe knows what every gem in the game does or really understands the game mechanics, but for new people or those who are still learning (me), I feel like the only take away from those parts is 'PoF/multistrike good' without really understanding what made them good for those particular skills. I did understand the Seismic trap bit though, that was well explained I felt, and it's nice to know how you got your skills to basically cost no mana because I always wondered about that, so thanks for those at least.
Keep up the great guides! They help a lot, and I'll try harder to ask questions because sometimes things feel a little under-explained (or I'm just stupid).
I'm relatively new to REALLY playing POE, what is that program/site you are using to plan the build?
Path of building
I don't know if anyone is going to see this, but does Ziz have any videos about general scaling? Right now, I'm kind of lost in the mire of PoB shoving cast speed and crit at every spell skill I try to make a build for, but I have a feeling it's lying lol. Especially since it keeps recommending Arcane Surge for skills that don't use mana.
This is great! Could you please do a chaos dot/Bane/Soulrend for the next one? It's basically everyones favorite archetype becoming viable again lol
loved the lesson, thanks.
Please, make different tiers of weapons for like a melee/bow bleed/ignite or melee poison builds. Like what would a starter weapon, a midgame and endgame weapon look like for different types of builds.
I feel like its kinda easy to figure out if you are going elemental damage or spell caster but for dot based builds with weapons(bow or melee) its kinda hard to figure out what you actually want/need. I dont mean for builds like explosive arrow that just scale the gem but builds that are based on the damage of the weapon.
appreciate your work regardless, thank you.
My problem with minmaxing is that I get to a point that anything I want to upgrade requires a cascade of upgrades and I just can't be bothered to get a new ring, and that means I need more resistance somewhere else, but the resistance is on something with dex and then....And eventually I just give up o the build as too much crafting/shopping to upgrade
Min-Maxing is completely end game, if it was easy as 'just replace this item' then it wouldnt really be min-maxing, it would just be upgrading?
@@kgold01 Just trying to give ziz feedback about what kind of help i need.
@@josiahvv problem is, you'll never get around the upgrade part... trading or crafting (at higher levels) is a required part to min-max.. the same as your previously said issue that - You cant be bothered to get a new ring etc.. thats unfortunately what min-maxing is in poe! dropping res on 1 item to gain life then making up the res on another item etc.. its a game where - you dont get to end game in your first league, hell.. even your second, you steadily improve each league and learn more each time you play + tend to get further
Is there a source, website, repository of your builds that your fan base can access? I have been following another users builds but they ALWAYS fall off by red maps.
how do i min max my rejuvinating totem cleave build to fight the elder?
Love you Ziz! Hope you have a great league!
Tytytytyty!!!! Loving the poenuni this league ziz thanks! Alsooooo I might league start ea HIT Raider like a noob cause I want to push so mapping and finish progression early so I can start a new character by week 2 after the meats and prices settle and everyone tells me something spicy, hopefully trickster hahahaha hceeeeers
I have started to playing this game two months ago.There is so many things to learn and most of the times i am missing little things.I didn't realise there is a fuse count for EA balista builds in pob.I was wondering why my damage is 900k.But now i know my damage is around 38million.Thanks for the videos
Nice vid ziz, but Can I get some main menu/hideout music in the background next time 🙏
1m+ damage for swapping Lifetap with Inspiration is obscene (and then you don't have to deal with losing life). Will definitely keep this in mind in the future.
Wouldn't that mean an enduring mana flask is better than Lifetap though?
Thank you ziz for the high quality content.
Could you just create simple melee build from 0 like reave and then slowly show all possible ways to spike the damage up? I know all the basics with "more" and flat damage abuse but im still stuck on 1mil damage on flicker strike with very meh defenses on SSF.
Overall would be great to know how to spike damage hard without unique items
Hey Ziz, I'm a long time self-build maker and I think I can help. One of the things a lot of people don't seem to get is how many separate sources of power there are on items. For example lets say you want to cast faster. Well, Cast Speed isn't the only thing you can get on items. You can get Action Speed (Tailwind) and Onslaught as well, and you shouldn't assume people will read the small text on Onslaught and realize how important it is. You should also consider a video on additional non-obvious sources of damage and how they work, such as "enemies take increased damage", exposure and reduced resistances, and overwhelm (you did somewhat cover Faster/Slower ailments in this one). There are A LOT of impactful sources of damage that aren't just spell damage and attack damage and I think that gets missed by most people.
really nice, ty!
He needs a Divine Orb tee-shirt now.
I would like to do my own builds but it takes way to much time to create a good one
On my current run, its like every enemy is buffed, this game is insane!! unique buffed enemys everywhere like first zone...hahaha
and the pob?
every? show me the brokken tanky arc ignite or fire burst buid plx - love
I didnt understand a single thing but I think its a nice guide anyway keep up the good content blue masked boi.
does ziz know damage over time can only have 35.8mill dps? this is poison+ignite+bleed combined. the monster can only take 35.8mill dps. localidentity mentioned it on redit and lots of streamer dont know or never mention it. ends up so many EA or other dot skill player min maxxing and wasting money and time. when your damage more than the 35.8 it will even make you lose damage
Used to be that the damage would "roll over" into lower numbers but now I believe it actually stays at the cap instead.
Played EA with 100+mil ignite dps. Monsters die a lot faster, soooo
@@QuelDelar nah it stays at 35mill
Freaking loved mixmaxing EA ignite last league but I went so far and still stopped too early that I just don't know if I can ever go back to it and have the same level of luck hahaha but gooooooooo worklkkkk love the examples thankssssss
how to make every build broken... just buy very expensive amulets or rings
Ziz need pob bro🙂
Why would you release this before patch notes lol.
Friendshipe with lifetap is done ? Vaal Clarity is my new friend !! :>
Feedback wise I think its important to always hone in on the act of adding something so you can take something else away.
Enlighten is a great example. I think a lot of newer players look at enlighten and they see okay now I have more mana available but I don't have a socket to add an additional aura so what does that matter? But in reality you can gain upwards of 5 skill points to throw into damage. It's the same concept of why coated shrapnel is so good for Sabo, you can take less %chance to poison and instead go into dot multi or defenses
"How to make every build BROKEN" :
add mageblood.
I remember when PoE was this awesome, pseudo-MMO ARPG, genuinely free, with a very novel currency system and filling the gritty isometric void that so many felt from Diablo III's release. Now, coming back to it after almost ten years it feels like walking into an economics and physics class way above my grade. Holy shit. The learning curve here seems insane and utterly off putting. Is there even a remotely casual way to play this game (like, without going into the videogame equivalent of calculus or putting 200+ hours in)? I remember enjoying this game but now I literally get anxious at the thought of installing it after trying to "catch up" on UA-cam... maybe I should just go play Torchlight. Or set aside some $ for the Diablo 2 remake. I feel like a burger cook in an aerospace R&D floor over here.
Am I just on the wrong channel? Even the getting started videos make my head swell. I just want to hack, and slash, preferable in sequence, while getting dopamine spikes from leveling up and improving gear. I'm a very simple gamer when it comes to this genre.
Going through campaign and some maps can be done on virtually anything. Watch poe videos from Josh Strife Hayes. Dude did what he wanted and had a blast. Don’t worry about anything just don’t expect to do Uber endgame content. Have a blast killing shit and don’t overthink it.
TLDR: have no life and just play PoE 40hs per day
GGG if you see this, please release POE mobile. A lot of us have grown up and have children now so we have very little (if any) time to play on pc
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Make any build broken, throw currency at it, end of video. Like good information as usual but it boils down to one thing, sink currency into your build and it will scale, some better than others.
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like ur content but your voice is something else
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