I have been using Wind Dancer/Ghost Dance combo on my current character after experimenting with a ton of combinations. These supports feel great: Wind Dancer: Blind, Maim, Cannibalism (life gain on kill). Ghost Dance: Clarity (mana regen), Vitality (life regen), Fast Forward (gain shrouds faster).
this build is exactly what i was looking for. My 1st char was a gemling because i love the archetype, but being a noob, i went with xbow, like its the only option. now i'm set
I’m still leveling but I got gemling yesterday and those first two points feel really good. Loving the build so far, my first character is a monk invoker and it’s crazy how much better gemling feels with a quarterstaff
Chaos damage was never toooo relevant in poe 1 and its kinda the same in poe2 now esp post chaos damage nerf. Its very difficult to get any in this build pre CI and your best bet is to try and get a roll on your belt and possibly on boots too. It will be a bit difficult to do so without morior but, due to how chaos damage is scaled (or how it shoudve been pre nerf), even 30-40% is more than enough to make all chaos damage feel pretty much irrelevant. Its pretty uncommon in maps and the only time it feels bad is if you have a phys as extra chaos mod which isint too common.
Great build and guide! Thanks! Looking forward to the HOWA switch over info. I was able to pick up the gloves and it works pretty well with your previous setup, but i'm sure once you optimize it'll be even better.
This build feels a little slower than myvariant that simply uses the herald+polcirkel for more than screenwide clear and the charged staff+flicker as power charge exhausts. Until nerfed I feel the herald of ice + polcirkeln is absolutely crazy.
I just swapped my ice shot deadeye from pure evasion to ES helmet with subterfuge mask + ghost dance (still keeping high evasion, acrobatics, wind dancer) and it feels so nice
Ive heard a lot of people are swapping over to this on deadeye now for all different kinds of builds and it seems like its going well. Its sad to see life is in such a sorry state that basically everyone is forced to go es/evaison though
Id recommend Conservative Casting as everyhting else is too expensive to bother with before HoWA sadly. Once we go HoWA, we would want to use Mental Perserverance which I plan to cover in the HoWA video tomorrow
I've been following your guide the day you started this stat stacking build, it's the best experience I've had with POE2 so far! What would you suggest doing to help generate currency? At the moment I'm just getting atlas points and clearing maps, currently on T12 - I've found a few Div from lucky drops, but haven't been able to get consistent profit. (I've also got rarity on my gear, a total of 82%)
Sadly... outside of rarity thats it. I am currently doing a boss farming strat which I hope to get a video out on soon. It makes about 1-1.2 div/hr and its honestly the best we got given all farming strats suck outside of breach. You could try your hand at breach but, outside of t15 maps you wount get many splinters. The best way to make money right now is to magic find and kill a smany rares per hour as you can which is what makes breach so good due to its rare density.
I mentioned it only briefly but, the cost of chaos res is extremely high sadly. If you get morior then you could reasonably get some chaos res on your belt for example and that would greatly help. It might be a bit rough to get it in other places as each slot alreayd has a lot of stats we are looking for as it is. On a low budget, anything more than 20-30% is too expensive to go for vs just saving for HoWA. We will eventually go CI in the endgame of this build and chaos res will be taken care of them but until then, a few % should be enough to make chaos damage feel just fine as the nerfs to it were pretty major.
Hey Allie. First of all thank you for such a wonderful guide series. I have started to follow with Act 1-6 Leveling Guide. I wanted to ask a question. For a while I was struggling with damage. Then I realized I do not have any added lightning damage on any of my equipment. I just added 2-39 to my gloves and 2-40 to the staff. with only such small number my damage boosted more than 3x. How is this working what am I not understanding with game mechanics can you ELI5 plss 😅
Many skills need flat damage to scale off of. When you are early in a character, you have very little flat damage, so any new flat damage that you add can have a massive effect. Just for a rough example, lets pretend you had 25 flat damage in your build and you found a way to add 25 more. You effectively will have doubled your flat damage which will then scale your damage. However, if you are later in the game, lets say you have 100 flat damage and then you add the same 25 flat damage to that, it will have a much smaller effect since the addition won't be as big as doubling it as in the previous example. When you are using a skill, take a moment to read through the text, it will help you understand what damage is being used to generate the DPS.
To add onto what BGE said, in our build, Pillar is giving us hundrets of % inc damage but we have almost no added damage for that % to multiply. Adding in a bit of added damage through ring/gloves or wepaon runes suddenly multiplies that little bit by the 200-400%+ that pillar is giving you through str stacking.
I was actually planning to do a video/rant about this topic yeah. I was trying to get it out for today but its a bit hard for me to talk thus its most likely going to be delayed until tomorrow or the next day
Hey so i have a question the eye of winter, tempest bell interaction is not working correctly on console did not know if you know if the eye of winter could sometimes not hit the bell right?
Uhm, thats strange. Im not sure why it wouldnt work correctly. It might be an aiming thing as you need to now aim the eye of winter as ele invo auto aimed for you. As long as you have chain and unleash on it, the interaction should work as intented though
@@uhskippy23 there’s a stat that can roll on most gear items called “rarity”. It increases the rarity of the drops you get. For example a would have been orb of augmentation may drop as a regal orb with increased rarity. A blue item may drop as a yellow item. It also affects the quantity of drops. A map that would regularly reward on average 2-3 divs is now dropping some players 10-12 with 400-500% increased rarity.
Hmm just get to maps but i feel im lacking damage.and tempest flurry dont do much to the bosses.what can i do to upgrade my dmg? atm i have 400str 125dex 111int.im just 68,iknow i must save up for the gloves. any tips
You need more added light damage as that seems to usually be the issue. Make sure you have storm runes on your pillar along with a high added light roll on your rings and gloves. Ideally, you should try to find a corrupted added light roll on a pillar which will be a massive dps increase along with it having 2 storm runes in it. Id recommend maybe sticking with Wake of Destruction for a bit until you get yourself better added light rolls everywhere else.
Im not exactly sure why we would as cont damage is very low esp given we have no scaling for it. It would also make us lose out on defensive spirit gems which make mapping a lot comfier.
Would you recommend morior Invictus on your deadeye gas arrow? That's the build I'm playing a loving, wondering what I should be upgrading, final goal is queen of the forest and olroth health pot, but wondering how to up my defense's before moving that direction
Most likely not honestly. Its not very good in most builds and im not sold on it giving more evasion than a 1.8k evasion chest even if you were to get a 50% global defence roll on it. Id probably recommend going es/evasion as that seems to be the meta trand all deadeyes are going towards. Im not sure exactly what that would look like in terms of tree and gear given we only have 3 slots to work with but it would be the best option for more defences if you want to wait until the flask to swap to qotf.
Can you run this this as a witchhunter or will it be SUBSTANTIALLY worse? I'm playing shockburster but I'm tired of dying in juiced 15 maps. Literally only relying on evasion feels so bad. Yeah sorcery ward is okey but it's so much it doesn't cover. I'm lvl 90 and cba fully rerolling right now.
As Gamma said, you could and it would be kinda fun as WH but... the endgame scaling wount be as extreme esp without double mana from int given we are going to go MoM. Its fine otherwise, you will get as many attributes as Gemling gets and it will do more dps, it will just have a smaller health pool which is fine.
This build is weaker than the poison ranger you had. I used your poison ranger build and got to lvl 80 in 2 days. This gemling is still at 78 after 3 days. He is just killing a bit slower and I have trouble hitting the bell on the bosses and they would kill me after coming out of freeze.
As I mentioned in the first video, this build isint anything special before HoWA. Its a budget version that is playable and works well enough to get you to HoWA where the build really starts. There are plenty of builds much stronger than this pre-HoWA and its difficult to compare it to something like gas arrow. This point of this build is that post HoWA, it becomes a monster very quickly.
@Alliee Sorry, didn't mean it is not special. He is a beast, but your poison arrow ranger is very strong. She only had issues where mobs can't ignite, but pretty much just 1 shot everything with my bow/support gems that shoots out 5 arrows. Both are now level 80 and got there with ease. You produced 2/2 hits and I will follow you to your next build. Gonna copy you :)
Hey Allie, thanks for your great video, I'playing gambling and follow all your step, but the problem is my Storm Wave skill does not deal alot damage it's around 3k dps, how to increase it, thank you.
~3-4k sounds correct, maybe a bit low for pre HoWA. Make sure you are heavily prioritizing added lightning damage on your rings and gloves along with making sure you are at ~300-400 str. Those are the only real ways to scale it outside of getting to ~200-300 dex before you get HoWA. Storm wave is meant to be used for clearing only while flurry + bell are for bosses and some rares early on while you get more added light.
I have been thinking about including energy barrier in a tempest flurry link lategame due to how high our damage will scale but I dont feel like its worth including it earlygame. One thing that I am curious about is if it works on Wind Dancer as I do know Wind Wave works with it. Ill do some testing today but, this is a combo I didnt think about until writing this comment and ill see if its worth including.
Wind Dancer loses all charges when you get hit and it has to build up again, if you natrually have a higher evade chance it will mean you get hit less often meaning its up with higher consistancy.
I have the ranger explosion build, should I just make my way up to t15 maps and make money with that character until I can afford HoWA ? I’ve been spamming maps but have been unlucky with maps
Yeah, I would recommend so especially if you have a build put together already. Luckily HoWA is dropping in value and its worth ~6 Div so it is a bit easier to afford now. Id recommend tot ry and get a smuch rarity as you can on your gear and to use a gold charm as that is sadly the best way to make money right now...
@@Alliee yeah the prices are dropping rapidly. There are now a bunch for only 5 div. I think the prices are dropping due to the fear the build will be getting nerfed (most likely the staff) in the new year.
It might be a case of one of your plugins not allowing mobalytics to load. I know it has some issues with chrome and I might recommend trying it on a different browser or seeing if you have a script blocker enabled
It is a Unique pair of gloves called Hand of Wisdom and Action. The glove scales attack speed based on Dexterity and scales flat lighting damage based on Intelligence.
Sadly... yep. Either full MoM or block or es/evasion are the only good ways to live right now. Even just adding in a bit of es + ghost dance feels reaaaaly good on a life build which... is cute but lame that life is that bad. Im hoping for a big buff when they get back from the holidays to life and armour.
This is the current filter im using, keep in mind its super strict as I dont really want to see many items or non high tier waystones - pastebin.com/AHfNDacE If you want the base filter to go and modify yourself, you can grab a copy here - github.com/NeverSinkDev/NeverSink-PoE2litefilter
There are unfort no good anoint options for us that arent super expensive which is why I havent really mentioned it yet. Conservative casting is probably the best option pre-HoWa and once we do swap, we are using Mnetal Perseverance until we can fully swap over to MoM
![[PoE2] The Most Consistent Way to Farm Currency on Empty Maps](/img/1.gif)
I have been using Wind Dancer/Ghost Dance combo on my current character after experimenting with a ton of combinations. These supports feel great: Wind Dancer: Blind, Maim, Cannibalism (life gain on kill). Ghost Dance: Clarity (mana regen), Vitality (life regen), Fast Forward (gain shrouds faster).
this build is exactly what i was looking for. My 1st char was a gemling because i love the archetype, but being a noob, i went with xbow, like its the only option. now i'm set
I’m still leveling but I got gemling yesterday and those first two points feel really good. Loving the build so far, my first character is a monk invoker and it’s crazy how much better gemling feels with a quarterstaff
Hey! Im having a blast following your guides. Question, what happen with chaos resistance? I dont see you ever talk about that. Thanks!
Chaos damage was never toooo relevant in poe 1 and its kinda the same in poe2 now esp post chaos damage nerf. Its very difficult to get any in this build pre CI and your best bet is to try and get a roll on your belt and possibly on boots too. It will be a bit difficult to do so without morior but, due to how chaos damage is scaled (or how it shoudve been pre nerf), even 30-40% is more than enough to make all chaos damage feel pretty much irrelevant. Its pretty uncommon in maps and the only time it feels bad is if you have a phys as extra chaos mod which isint too common.
Great build and guide! Thanks! Looking forward to the HOWA switch over info. I was able to pick up the gloves and it works pretty well with your previous setup, but i'm sure once you optimize it'll be even better.
Well, luckily, the video just came out on it! It took a while to get there but... its done.
This build feels a little slower than myvariant that simply uses the herald+polcirkel for more than screenwide clear and the charged staff+flicker as power charge exhausts. Until nerfed I feel the herald of ice + polcirkeln is absolutely crazy.
I just swapped my ice shot deadeye from pure evasion to ES helmet with subterfuge mask + ghost dance (still keeping high evasion, acrobatics, wind dancer) and it feels so nice
Ive heard a lot of people are swapping over to this on deadeye now for all different kinds of builds and it seems like its going well. Its sad to see life is in such a sorry state that basically everyone is forced to go es/evaison though
hi - very fun build - did you say at some point what do you recommend anointing on amulet?
Hey Allie, what do you Instill on amulet? I seem to be missing that info. Thanks for the awesome build :)
Id recommend Conservative Casting as everyhting else is too expensive to bother with before HoWA sadly. Once we go HoWA, we would want to use Mental Perserverance which I plan to cover in the HoWA video tomorrow
I've been following your guide the day you started this stat stacking build, it's the best experience I've had with POE2 so far! What would you suggest doing to help generate currency? At the moment I'm just getting atlas points and clearing maps, currently on T12 - I've found a few Div from lucky drops, but haven't been able to get consistent profit. (I've also got rarity on my gear, a total of 82%)
Sadly... outside of rarity thats it. I am currently doing a boss farming strat which I hope to get a video out on soon. It makes about 1-1.2 div/hr and its honestly the best we got given all farming strats suck outside of breach. You could try your hand at breach but, outside of t15 maps you wount get many splinters. The best way to make money right now is to magic find and kill a smany rares per hour as you can which is what makes breach so good due to its rare density.
What about our chaos res? Sorry if you have mentioned it already I must have missed that info if already mentioned
I mentioned it only briefly but, the cost of chaos res is extremely high sadly. If you get morior then you could reasonably get some chaos res on your belt for example and that would greatly help. It might be a bit rough to get it in other places as each slot alreayd has a lot of stats we are looking for as it is. On a low budget, anything more than 20-30% is too expensive to go for vs just saving for HoWA. We will eventually go CI in the endgame of this build and chaos res will be taken care of them but until then, a few % should be enough to make chaos damage feel just fine as the nerfs to it were pretty major.
@@Alliee thank you for the detailed response!
Hey Allie. First of all thank you for such a wonderful guide series. I have started to follow with Act 1-6 Leveling Guide. I wanted to ask a question. For a while I was struggling with damage. Then I realized I do not have any added lightning damage on any of my equipment. I just added 2-39 to my gloves and 2-40 to the staff. with only such small number my damage boosted more than 3x. How is this working what am I not understanding with game mechanics can you ELI5 plss 😅
I had the same issue too!
Many skills need flat damage to scale off of. When you are early in a character, you have very little flat damage, so any new flat damage that you add can have a massive effect. Just for a rough example, lets pretend you had 25 flat damage in your build and you found a way to add 25 more. You effectively will have doubled your flat damage which will then scale your damage. However, if you are later in the game, lets say you have 100 flat damage and then you add the same 25 flat damage to that, it will have a much smaller effect since the addition won't be as big as doubling it as in the previous example. When you are using a skill, take a moment to read through the text, it will help you understand what damage is being used to generate the DPS.
@@ILoveMyBGE That makes thing more clear now. Thank you.
To add onto what BGE said, in our build, Pillar is giving us hundrets of % inc damage but we have almost no added damage for that % to multiply. Adding in a bit of added damage through ring/gloves or wepaon runes suddenly multiplies that little bit by the 200-400%+ that pillar is giving you through str stacking.
Whats the blue guy shouting buff that lasts like 3 seconds?
That is ice bite if you mean the really light blue one
can we have a defences video?like how mom,ci, armorbad, eva , acro, hybrid es and cof work?
I was actually planning to do a video/rant about this topic yeah. I was trying to get it out for today but its a bit hard for me to talk thus its most likely going to be delayed until tomorrow or the next day
@@Alliee ye people running around with 1hp zero es it looks like rocket science to me lmao
Hey so i have a question the eye of winter, tempest bell interaction is not working correctly on console did not know if you know if the eye of winter could sometimes not hit the bell right?
Uhm, thats strange. Im not sure why it wouldnt work correctly. It might be an aiming thing as you need to now aim the eye of winter as ele invo auto aimed for you. As long as you have chain and unleash on it, the interaction should work as intented though
I wish the rarity bs hadn’t completely ruined the economy…
Yeah.. me too
The what
@@uhskippy23the stat increased item rarity has completely fucked the economy.
@InkDevil999 like something with str or agi on it?
@@uhskippy23 there’s a stat that can roll on most gear items called “rarity”. It increases the rarity of the drops you get. For example a would have been orb of augmentation may drop as a regal orb with increased rarity. A blue item may drop as a yellow item. It also affects the quantity of drops. A map that would regularly reward on average 2-3 divs is now dropping some players 10-12 with 400-500% increased rarity.
Hmm just get to maps but i feel im lacking damage.and tempest flurry dont do much to the bosses.what can i do to upgrade my dmg? atm i have 400str 125dex 111int.im just 68,iknow i must save up for the gloves. any tips
You need more added light damage as that seems to usually be the issue. Make sure you have storm runes on your pillar along with a high added light roll on your rings and gloves. Ideally, you should try to find a corrupted added light roll on a pillar which will be a massive dps increase along with it having 2 storm runes in it. Id recommend maybe sticking with Wake of Destruction for a bit until you get yourself better added light rolls everywhere else.
how do you have 4 charges of wind dancer?
The quality on it gives 1 extra charge
Is there a reason why we dont use cast on freeze link with contagion?
Im not exactly sure why we would as cont damage is very low esp given we have no scaling for it. It would also make us lose out on defensive spirit gems which make mapping a lot comfier.
Would you recommend morior Invictus on your deadeye gas arrow? That's the build I'm playing a loving, wondering what I should be upgrading, final goal is queen of the forest and olroth health pot, but wondering how to up my defense's before moving that direction
Most likely not honestly. Its not very good in most builds and im not sold on it giving more evasion than a 1.8k evasion chest even if you were to get a 50% global defence roll on it. Id probably recommend going es/evasion as that seems to be the meta trand all deadeyes are going towards. Im not sure exactly what that would look like in terms of tree and gear given we only have 3 slots to work with but it would be the best option for more defences if you want to wait until the flask to swap to qotf.
Can you run this this as a witchhunter or will it be SUBSTANTIALLY worse? I'm playing shockburster but I'm tired of dying in juiced 15 maps. Literally only relying on evasion feels so bad. Yeah sorcery ward is okey but it's so much it doesn't cover. I'm lvl 90 and cba fully rerolling right now.
you definitely can. It will scale a bit less but you can easy make it work
As Gamma said, you could and it would be kinda fun as WH but... the endgame scaling wount be as extreme esp without double mana from int given we are going to go MoM. Its fine otherwise, you will get as many attributes as Gemling gets and it will do more dps, it will just have a smaller health pool which is fine.
This build is weaker than the poison ranger you had. I used your poison ranger build and got to lvl 80 in 2 days. This gemling is still at 78 after 3 days. He is just killing a bit slower and I have trouble hitting the bell on the bosses and they would kill me after coming out of freeze.
As I mentioned in the first video, this build isint anything special before HoWA. Its a budget version that is playable and works well enough to get you to HoWA where the build really starts. There are plenty of builds much stronger than this pre-HoWA and its difficult to compare it to something like gas arrow. This point of this build is that post HoWA, it becomes a monster very quickly.
@Alliee Sorry, didn't mean it is not special. He is a beast, but your poison arrow ranger is very strong. She only had issues where mobs can't ignite, but pretty much just 1 shot everything with my bow/support gems that shoots out 5 arrows. Both are now level 80 and got there with ease. You produced 2/2 hits and I will follow you to your next build. Gonna copy you :)
what does quality on ghost dance do?
Sadly.. nothing. It is one of the few gems that don't have a quality implimented yet
Hey Allie, thanks for your great video, I'playing gambling and follow all your step, but the problem is my Storm Wave skill does not deal alot damage it's around 3k dps, how to increase it, thank you.
~3-4k sounds correct, maybe a bit low for pre HoWA. Make sure you are heavily prioritizing added lightning damage on your rings and gloves along with making sure you are at ~300-400 str. Those are the only real ways to scale it outside of getting to ~200-300 dex before you get HoWA. Storm wave is meant to be used for clearing only while flurry + bell are for bosses and some rares early on while you get more added light.
im wondering if energy barrier works here
I have been thinking about including energy barrier in a tempest flurry link lategame due to how high our damage will scale but I dont feel like its worth including it earlygame. One thing that I am curious about is if it works on Wind Dancer as I do know Wind Wave works with it. Ill do some testing today but, this is a combo I didnt think about until writing this comment and ill see if its worth including.
would wind dancer work with maim,blind and canabal or ?
It would work yeah, all of them can support wind dancer
Where do you find Ghost Dance? Level 75 and never seen it.
Ghost Dance is a spirit skill. It wount show it to you by default and will have to swap tabs to the other classes to find it.
I have herald of ice and thunder and frenzy but I cant activate winde dancer. I have 146 spirit
Check your dexterity retirement for Wind Dancer.
Get a new wind dancer jewel or remvoe it and resocket it, unfort some spirit gems are a big buggy right now.
You should upgrade the quality of your storm wave for more range
Increases the width not the range
5:20 she literally says it upgrades the width
Why does wind dancer pulse on some ppl and constant on others? Just wondering if its a certain support or the quality, anyone know? Genuinely curious.
Wind Dancer loses all charges when you get hit and it has to build up again, if you natrually have a higher evade chance it will mean you get hit less often meaning its up with higher consistancy.
I have the ranger explosion build, should I just make my way up to t15 maps and make money with that character until I can afford HoWA ? I’ve been spamming maps but have been unlucky with maps
Yeah, I would recommend so especially if you have a build put together already. Luckily HoWA is dropping in value and its worth ~6 Div so it is a bit easier to afford now. Id recommend tot ry and get a smuch rarity as you can on your gear and to use a gold charm as that is sadly the best way to make money right now...
@@Alliee yeah the prices are dropping rapidly. There are now a bunch for only 5 div. I think the prices are dropping due to the fear the build will be getting nerfed (most likely the staff) in the new year.
Which rewards do we take in acts 3 and 3 cruel? (Venom Crypts)
I took stun and +5 attributes
it dosn't give energy shield it recovers it so not ideal
links is not working
It might be a case of one of your plugins not allowing mobalytics to load. I know it has some issues with chrome and I might recommend trying it on a different browser or seeing if you have a script blocker enabled
I’m new to the game what is Howa?
It is a Unique pair of gloves called Hand of Wisdom and Action. The glove scales attack speed based on Dexterity and scales flat lighting damage based on Intelligence.
@@ILoveMyBGE ty
EV ES hybrid still king of defenses i see.
Sadly... yep. Either full MoM or block or es/evasion are the only good ways to live right now. Even just adding in a bit of es + ghost dance feels reaaaaly good on a life build which... is cute but lame that life is that bad. Im hoping for a big buff when they get back from the holidays to life and armour.
lootfiltr plz
This is the current filter im using, keep in mind its super strict as I dont really want to see many items or non high tier waystones - pastebin.com/AHfNDacE
If you want the base filter to go and modify yourself, you can grab a copy here - github.com/NeverSinkDev/NeverSink-PoE2litefilter
Peannut crunch be the first =D
You think energy shield hybrid and ghost dance is good on ranger? I'm building my ranger now, not sure what to go for so I have some survivability.
It is as a lategame setup yeah, I dont think you can really make it work on a low budget though but I havent really tried it myself.
Anny annoint suggestion Allie ;-;
There are unfort no good anoint options for us that arent super expensive which is why I havent really mentioned it yet. Conservative casting is probably the best option pre-HoWa and once we do swap, we are using Mnetal Perseverance until we can fully swap over to MoM
@@Alliee Thank you Alliee, the E-Girl. Will be patient and wait for everyone to get their HoWa
Step like the wind is nice, it's not expensive iirc. Some stats and move speed.