*Two technical inaccuracies I've noticed since uploading this video:* 3:55 - "... or you take damage over time, which does interrupt the life recharge." This isn't correct. Damage over time only interrupts life recharge if it causes you to lose life. Reserving life does not cause this character to lose life unless at least 50% of life is reserved. 6:34 - "... which I'm able to do even while blinded myself." I forgot that I can't be blinded, thanks to Born in the Shadows. I may be a bit too overcapped on evasion, given that fact. Maybe the Grace effect implicit on my chest could be swapped out for something else.
Very comprehensive, indepth build and extremly nice guide to evasion and mecahnics around it! I hope you will keep doing such videos once in a while, i really enjoyed watching it!
The gameplay loop for me in PoE is play enough to make enough currency to roll another build. Rarely will you find a build guide that shines such a light on the teasing apart of a puzzle that making an effective build can be. You should submit this to build of the week.
I'm just blown away. Loved every second of this. The indepth analysis of WHY is truly what sets this apart from other channels. There are so many synergistic layers working together here to create one of the most tanky characters going round. 5mins in i was subscribed and now im going to do a deep dive on your channel to learn some other not so well known defensive layers.
Honestly Spellblade skill gems made alot of unseen uniques finally got their own purpose to make a totally new build, I've made a build inspired by other youtubers that uses underrated uniques with a Spellblade and totally different playstyle and viable to red maps, which is something very new and fun for me and the budget is covered since the stuff isn't part of the meta build out there. This type of build could be a new alternative for newer players or someone who is struggling on a budget but wanted to have fun.
This is why i love PoE, seriously well done on thinking outside the many many boxes you had to circumvent. I find it really crazy that Lethe Shade is strickly just to tank the first second of a Soulrend/Ed hit, the level of knives edge is real.
I think Lethe Shade is more useful here for tanking ground degens than stuff like ED, but yes, it was quite the ordeal addressing all the weaknesses of this build!
"I updated the spreadsheet to prove a point." Yeah that sound about right lmao. Great vid. I like your dedication to exploring a mechanic even if it might be suboptimal. Really cool dagger and a great build leveraging it
Have you looked into the life reservation tech with arrogance support and dissolution? Essentially, if you reserve auras with your life on a dissolution setup, you don't die when your HP hits 0. The game first unreserves your auras on life, this takes priority over actually killing you. Basically lets you run "free" auras on life reservation though you'll have to reapply them if they get removed.
I am glad someone else understands evasion as well as accuracy reduction values. I am curious how does xandro feel when he bonks you? He's RT and I could see this build early on without all the gear struggling.
This looks amazing for ToTA. Insane defense with cc. I'll probably re roll to this just to see if its worth it. And focus even less on dps since that just makes tota worse.
@@charlespanache7047 blind + evasion + dodge + cap attack/spell block would make tota quite easier defensively. in the end it's either you dodge/block or you die. they 1shot you mostly anyway
@@charlespanache7047 There's a really well optimized 1-life CI build that's going around for TotA. It uses all the evasion tech this uses but is also immune to chaos damage and has capped block and spell block. Pretty sure it also uses the Void Sphere cheese. I'd recommend that over this if you're looking to make a dedicated TotA build.
I spend way too long trying to fit some of this into Hexblast mines cuz it sounds cool as hell, only to realize that I would have to solve my mana cost/reservation somehow
I love the content and the explaining of mechanicsm and really wanted to make a build with petrified blood but my smooth brain couldent make it work (not enough game knowledge) /instant sub
as far as i'm aware all elemental ground effects are negated if you're ailment immune so the pantheon for burning ground might be moot. i'm 100% sure the avoidance applies to chilled and shocked ground, only 95% (capped) sure for burning ground
Chilled ground and shocked ground apply their respective ailments, so 100% ailment avoidance makes you immune to them. Burning ground and desecrated ground, on the other hand, don't apply ailments but instead just deal burning damage (not ignite) and chaos damage over time (not poison). Ailment avoidance won't help against these, so the pantheon is necessary for burning ground immunity.
I've seen a lot of comments in Reddit posts that Acrobatics and Wind Dancer weren't worth the investment and that Spell Suppression was a better option than both. Clearly you have evidence to the contrary.
Both Acrobatics and Wind Dancer only get good when you have other defensive layers supporting them. Wind Dancer needs a ton of evasion investment, Acrobatics needs a ton of spell suppression, and both need solid mitigation layers behind all the avoidance. The overwhelming majority of builds, especially on the right side of the tree, don't invest enough in survivability to make these Keystones worth it, so the Reddit posts aren't necessarily wrong.
It seems like it would be worth it to use the keystone tattoo to get eternal youth in a more convenient part of the tree, drop iron will, drop the bleed and poison immunity tattoos and gain both immunities with a darkness enthroned and then use the 20-30 points you gain back for more efficient tank and damage.
I was planning on starting something similar to this, maybe trying blade blast of dagger detonation + trap support instead of ice trap + spellblade. Which content did you farm on this build? I want to farm ultimatum but Harvest/Essence/Expedition with traps seems pretty good
Don't like traps but love evasion builds, they oddly feel more consistent for me when engaging with harder content. Flat Grace +evade Watchers Eye mod is of note here, as is Raiders second onslaught noteable but that's beyond the scope. There is a wealth of ideas to pull from here defensively even if someone doesn't love the application of damage. Honestly, I feel a lot of left side of tree diehards discount complete avoidance + recovery and % mitigation vs other mechanics which really don't scale as well super endgame if you want to continue to project incredible damage. Also yes, blinds are ridiculously overlooked as is mark effect.
I personally don't trust the Lunaris Pantheon. I'd rather not risk the first crit being the one that kills me. It might be an irrational fear, objectively speaking. Not sure! In any case, this build doesn't need the extra intelligence, and I really wanted the Arakaali pantheon for DoT protection, so tattoos made a lot of sense.
I have a icicle mines character using returning proj to help charge a tornado up with reflect hits efficiently (plus it just improves indoor use of the skill dramatically). I am wondering now if White Wind + Spellblade would be an upgrade or not, since I don't have many sources of flat damage other than gem levels.
Additional gem levels make Spellblade significantly less efficient. The flat damage from Spellblade becomes less powerful with higher base damage on the gem.
To be honest, I don't know, but I do know that Wicked Ward is unnecessary with the combo. Recharge is already not being interrupted unless unreserved life drops below 50%.
I haven't actually tried Sunblast. On paper it's an enormous DPS boost, but how inconvenient is the downside? I know Skitterbots can trigger traps, but mapping probably feels weird, no?
@@sergeantminor256 I've played sunblast on explosive trap on league start, to me it felt pretty bad for mapping generally. If I was trying to be efficient I would still run it again, but probably not on a character like this.
I played Ice Trap the whole way through as soon as I got it. I wouldn't recommend switching to PB/Dissolution until you can get ailment immunity and Lethe Shade, but the gem setup is fine early. I used Swift Assembly until I got Cluster Traps, but in hindsight it's better to just keep using Swift Assembly forever.
Hey, is there any in depth information on the Acrobatics keystone, I haven't been able to find numbers on this kind of interactions. Is 75% enough for evasion based setups, and what if you have a regular build with a decent amount of regen, would you still opt for acrobatics? I'm guessing if you opt for things like Ghost Reaver, that you're probably forced to take acrobatics?
Acrobatics is good if you can get enough spell suppression (150%) to cap out spell dodge (75%) and you have enough HP/mitigation not to be one-shot by spells. The reason I wanted it specifically for this build is because I benefit a lot from being hit less frequently (Dissolution, Ward, etc.). I don't think the amount of regen/leech you have is very relevant for making a decision between spell suppression and spell dodge.
I don't think this build is well suited for ubers. There are a few dominant ways to approach ubers: 1. Go glass cannon and do enough DPS that you can either instantly kill them or at least kill them before all your portals run out. 2. Get enough defense to tank the non-telegraphed moves while dodging the telegraphed stuff. You then want some good DPS so that the fight doesn't take too long. 3. Get so unbelievably tanky that you can just face tank everything. This build doesn't really fit any of these categories. That's because (a) it doesn't have anywhere near the DPS to finish the fights in a reasonable amount of time, (b) it's way overkill on defense for the non-telegraphed attacks, and (c) it's still not tanky enough to tank the huge telegraphed hits. Could I do ubers on this build? Probably. If you know the fights' mechanics well enough you can do them with any build. However, if I wanted to make this build more uber-ready I'd probably tone down the defenses slightly and try to double or triple my DPS first.
How plug-and-play is the Dissolution + PB combo for an evasion attack build? Seems like it works well for casters since they can get Pain Attunement to get both damage and the defenses of the combo, but would it still be doable for right side attack builds?
I wouldn't say it's very plug-and-play at all. The Dissolution playstyle feels pretty bad if you're not addressing its issues. You take some damage, then you have to basically not play the game for two seconds to make sure you don't die. As for spells vs. attacks, I don't think the Dissolution/PB combo is tightly aligned with either one. Low life has playstyles for both spells (Pain Attunement) and attacks (Bloodthirst, Replica Last Resort). Attacks also have stuff like Kaom's Spirit, which combos well with Eternal Youth.
Don't even think about playing a Dissolution build until you have immunity to ignite, poison, bleed and corrupted blood. Even then there'll be other DoTs that'll mess you up, so consider those a baseline. At least for burning ground there's a Pantheon available. You also really want to play an avoid-based build rather than a mitigation-based build for Dissolution. You don't need to go as far as he's gone here, but every bit of damage avoidance you can fit in helps a ton.
I have been thinking about ice trap trickster for a while I think it has more to offer than sabo. sabo is trash for almost all trap builds and is usually bait as well as being slow as fuck compared to trickster and spellbreaker is sick
That is wrong. I have no idea how people continue perpetuating this. The shadow literally says the word when you enter Lunaris Temple level 2. It's pronounced "leeth"
I'm still taking damage. It's only the resulting life loss that's being modified. Example: 1. I take 100 damage. All of that counts as damage taken, immediately. 2. Normally, I would lose 100 life, but because of Petrified Blood, 40 life loss is prevented, and instead I lose 30 life over 4 seconds. 3. The remaining 60 life loss is prevented by Dissolution of the Flesh, and I instead reserve 60 life. 4. Since I took 100 damage, my 26% recoup causes me to recover 26 life over 4 seconds.
@@NickHansen1990 Yes, this is one of the many confusing things about PoE: the fact that "taking damage" and "losing life" are separate things. You take a certain amount of damage, but what happens to your resources as a result can get changed in all sorts of ways.
i use acrobatics, max evade chance and high blind effect on my champion for ToTa. i have tried lethe shade, but didnt felt any difference. I only die to Death's Aura, RF Item dudes and mostly Creeping Frost from the Ice Chieftain. Any ideas how deal with that, i am Dessolution with 6k hp and still it does not help.
No good reason, I guess. I probably should be using Swift Assembly instead, after looking more closely at the gem. Thanks for pointing that out! I guess my inexperience with trap builds is showing.
@@sergeantminor256 Just looks like a boost in dmg with minimal change to the build, that's why i asked, could very well not be the case do to some mech i don't see/understand. Just a small word of caution to the blind node: I tried to make a meme build not long ago around the Blind effect from "Born in the shadows" but any effect increase did not work, just applied the base. Does it work for you?
@@vansitcodarring8855 How did you know that blind effect wasn't working? The only way to test that would probably be PvP, right? I haven't tested it myself.
@@sergeantminor256 Yes, PvP(no keystones) and some maps, based on the values i had ~240 increased effect blind melee hits were counted as if i had only 20% blind effect. Maybe math was bad, maybe i made some other errors, maybe was fixed already, don't know. I am not asking you to go out of your way to test this, ty for your time already!
@@sergeantminor256 Like you said, on top of 95% evade chance, you have 75% to dodge spell chance through Acrobatics Keystone. But the Keystone told us, your chance to dodge spell should be 50% of your chance to suppress spell damage. Maximum is 75% and you can never suppress spell damage anymore.
@@qxPOLABEARxp Sorry, maybe I worded that confusingly. I have 95% chance to evade _attacks_ and 75% chance to dodge _spells_ . They're separate things that don't interact with one another. It's true that I don't suppress spell damage anymore. The 75% spell dodge replaces spell suppression.
That's a lot of tattoos you're using to get immunity to just poison and bleed (plus a unique jewel for ignite). Would you consider using Kahuturoa's Certainty boots to take care of all three instead, or is that not worth it in your opinion? In which case, on what kind of builds are those boots good if not this archetype i.e. Dissolution builds?
Personally, I wouldn't use those boots unless I were playing a build that didn't need movement speed at all. I'm thinking builds that use Leap Slam or zero-duration Lightning Warp to get around. They're especially good for self-poison/ignite/bleed builds. For this build I don't think it's worth it. It's not like I was going to use all those extra attributes anyway, so I don't mind investing a bunch of tattoos.
*Two technical inaccuracies I've noticed since uploading this video:*
3:55 - "... or you take damage over time, which does interrupt the life recharge." This isn't correct. Damage over time only interrupts life recharge if it causes you to lose life. Reserving life does not cause this character to lose life unless at least 50% of life is reserved.
6:34 - "... which I'm able to do even while blinded myself." I forgot that I can't be blinded, thanks to Born in the Shadows. I may be a bit too overcapped on evasion, given that fact. Maybe the Grace effect implicit on my chest could be swapped out for something else.
This is why i love PoE
Very comprehensive, indepth build and extremly nice guide to evasion and mecahnics around it!
I hope you will keep doing such videos once in a while, i really enjoyed watching it!
Really cool build, I love the use of interesting, often overlooked defensive mechanics.
The gameplay loop for me in PoE is play enough to make enough currency to roll another build. Rarely will you find a build guide that shines such a light on the teasing apart of a puzzle that making an effective build can be. You should submit this to build of the week.
I'm just blown away. Loved every second of this. The indepth analysis of WHY is truly what sets this apart from other channels. There are so many synergistic layers working together here to create one of the most tanky characters going round. 5mins in i was subscribed and now im going to do a deep dive on your channel to learn some other not so well known defensive layers.
Honestly Spellblade skill gems made alot of unseen uniques finally got their own purpose to make a totally new build, I've made a build inspired by other youtubers that uses underrated uniques with a Spellblade and totally different playstyle and viable to red maps, which is something very new and fun for me and the budget is covered since the stuff isn't part of the meta build out there. This type of build could be a new alternative for newer players or someone who is struggling on a budget but wanted to have fun.
This is why i love PoE, seriously well done on thinking outside the many many boxes you had to circumvent. I find it really crazy that Lethe Shade is strickly just to tank the first second of a Soulrend/Ed hit, the level of knives edge is real.
I think Lethe Shade is more useful here for tanking ground degens than stuff like ED, but yes, it was quite the ordeal addressing all the weaknesses of this build!
I love immortal builds, and also gimmick interactions, nice build. hoping to see more from you in the near future
"I updated the spreadsheet to prove a point."
Yeah that sound about right lmao. Great vid. I like your dedication to exploring a mechanic even if it might be suboptimal. Really cool dagger and a great build leveraging it
Have you looked into the life reservation tech with arrogance support and dissolution? Essentially, if you reserve auras with your life on a dissolution setup, you don't die when your HP hits 0. The game first unreserves your auras on life, this takes priority over actually killing you. Basically lets you run "free" auras on life reservation though you'll have to reapply them if they get removed.
Thank you for the excellent comprehensive explanation of your defense layers.
....Holy crap man.... your one hell of a good talker. I love how smooth your videos are...😁👍
I very much enjoyed leveling a character and just listening to you talk about your build
Still criminally underrated channel. Always really stoked to see one of your videos in my sub box :D
I am glad someone else understands evasion as well as accuracy reduction values. I am curious how does xandro feel when he bonks you? He's RT and I could see this build early on without all the gear struggling.
Dude, fuck Xandro. I've played so many evasion builds over the years and that guy gives me nightmares.
The blood drinker cares naught for your evasion.
@@sergeantminor256 he's terrifying with wind dancer cause that's just 20% more damage taken against xandro keystone
love the defensive layers on this setup. will try to utilize it on my 2nd build with zdps.
This looks amazing for ToTA. Insane defense with cc. I'll probably re roll to this just to see if its worth it. And focus even less on dps since that just makes tota worse.
@@charlespanache7047 blind + evasion + dodge + cap attack/spell block would make tota quite easier defensively. in the end it's either you dodge/block or you die. they 1shot you mostly anyway
@@charlespanache7047 There's a really well optimized 1-life CI build that's going around for TotA. It uses all the evasion tech this uses but is also immune to chaos damage and has capped block and spell block. Pretty sure it also uses the Void Sphere cheese. I'd recommend that over this if you're looking to make a dedicated TotA build.
Really cool technical and straight to the point video
Great video brother. Learnt a lot about defenses that I plan to use on my next char.
fantastic video as always!
this is so incredibly cool, great job
Love this video and build, awesome job
Awesome interactions and explanations
interesting video, i like how you explain everything!
Lol you reminded me of this anime "i don't want to get hurt so i'll max out my defense"
I’m using similar layers along with Replica Mistwall and Aspect of the Cat for big uptime on spell block and some additional avoidance.
That sounds really cool! I've wanted to make a build with Mistwall or Replica Mistwall for many leagues now. How's it working for you?
as always quality content ! Thanks for sharing
oo dope , always thought that dagger would be a nice budget spellblade wep, that watchers eye mod for flat evade chance is a giga slept on mod
I love your eloquence 🤩
So cool! Nice build man!
I spend way too long trying to fit some of this into Hexblast mines cuz it sounds cool as hell, only to realize that I would have to solve my mana cost/reservation somehow
very good explaining and visuals
I love the content and the explaining of mechanicsm and really wanted to make a build with petrified blood but my smooth brain couldent make it work (not enough game knowledge) /instant sub
White Wind + Spellblade alone sounds amazing for league start.
Unless I'm making a mistake, you can drop the entire blind wheel since you're quite a bit over evade cap, which just gains you 6 points.
We found him. The one guy who uses ward!
as far as i'm aware all elemental ground effects are negated if you're ailment immune so the pantheon for burning ground might be moot. i'm 100% sure the avoidance applies to chilled and shocked ground, only 95% (capped) sure for burning ground
Chilled ground and shocked ground apply their respective ailments, so 100% ailment avoidance makes you immune to them. Burning ground and desecrated ground, on the other hand, don't apply ailments but instead just deal burning damage (not ignite) and chaos damage over time (not poison). Ailment avoidance won't help against these, so the pantheon is necessary for burning ground immunity.
Good stuff!
I've seen a lot of comments in Reddit posts that Acrobatics and Wind Dancer weren't worth the investment and that Spell Suppression was a better option than both. Clearly you have evidence to the contrary.
Both Acrobatics and Wind Dancer only get good when you have other defensive layers supporting them. Wind Dancer needs a ton of evasion investment, Acrobatics needs a ton of spell suppression, and both need solid mitigation layers behind all the avoidance.
The overwhelming majority of builds, especially on the right side of the tree, don't invest enough in survivability to make these Keystones worth it, so the Reddit posts aren't necessarily wrong.
we need you to come back more than ever to make interesting poe builds..
I use anomalous read banner on my PF for a similar purpose, but with generosity instead. Generosity is very good with it
I'm using Generosity here. I agree it's very good.
It seems like it would be worth it to use the keystone tattoo to get eternal youth in a more convenient part of the tree, drop iron will, drop the bleed and poison immunity tattoos and gain both immunities with a darkness enthroned and then use the 20-30 points you gain back for more efficient tank and damage.
No disagreements here! That sounds expensive though.
I was planning on starting something similar to this, maybe trying blade blast of dagger detonation + trap support instead of ice trap + spellblade.
Which content did you farm on this build? I want to farm ultimatum but Harvest/Essence/Expedition with traps seems pretty good
Sick
Don't like traps but love evasion builds, they oddly feel more consistent for me when engaging with harder content. Flat Grace +evade Watchers Eye mod is of note here, as is Raiders second onslaught noteable but that's beyond the scope. There is a wealth of ideas to pull from here defensively even if someone doesn't love the application of damage. Honestly, I feel a lot of left side of tree diehards discount complete avoidance + recovery and % mitigation vs other mechanics which really don't scale as well super endgame if you want to continue to project incredible damage. Also yes, blinds are ridiculously overlooked as is mark effect.
Ohmaygot
flashbang!
damn, dont sleep on evasion
9 tattoos for crit reduction seems inefficient considering how powerful lunaris pantheon is. Makes you basically crit immune.
I personally don't trust the Lunaris Pantheon. I'd rather not risk the first crit being the one that kills me. It might be an irrational fear, objectively speaking. Not sure!
In any case, this build doesn't need the extra intelligence, and I really wanted the Arakaali pantheon for DoT protection, so tattoos made a lot of sense.
can you pls make guide or give some advice for new players and lvling this build ?
I have a icicle mines character using returning proj to help charge a tornado up with reflect hits efficiently (plus it just improves indoor use of the skill dramatically). I am wondering now if White Wind + Spellblade would be an upgrade or not, since I don't have many sources of flat damage other than gem levels.
Additional gem levels make Spellblade significantly less efficient. The flat damage from Spellblade becomes less powerful with higher base damage on the gem.
How would Wicked Ward act with Dissolution of Flesh+Petrified Blood+Eternal Youth?
To be honest, I don't know, but I do know that Wicked Ward is unnecessary with the combo. Recharge is already not being interrupted unless unreserved life drops below 50%.
tried this one tbh, expeidition monsters obliterated these defensive layers.
Were you taking "hits can't be evaded"? That's the only one that was problematic for me.
Thoughts about using sun blast and changing out cluster traps?
I haven't actually tried Sunblast. On paper it's an enormous DPS boost, but how inconvenient is the downside? I know Skitterbots can trigger traps, but mapping probably feels weird, no?
@@sergeantminor256 I've played sunblast on explosive trap on league start, to me it felt pretty bad for mapping generally. If I was trying to be efficient I would still run it again, but probably not on a character like this.
How is it for leveling? Did you have the same setup as 15:00 for the campaign or did you level with something else and switch to Ice Trap later?
I played Ice Trap the whole way through as soon as I got it. I wouldn't recommend switching to PB/Dissolution until you can get ailment immunity and Lethe Shade, but the gem setup is fine early. I used Swift Assembly until I got Cluster Traps, but in hindsight it's better to just keep using Swift Assembly forever.
Hey, is there any in depth information on the Acrobatics keystone, I haven't been able to find numbers on this kind of interactions. Is 75% enough for evasion based setups, and what if you have a regular build with a decent amount of regen, would you still opt for acrobatics? I'm guessing if you opt for things like Ghost Reaver, that you're probably forced to take acrobatics?
Acrobatics is good if you can get enough spell suppression (150%) to cap out spell dodge (75%) and you have enough HP/mitigation not to be one-shot by spells. The reason I wanted it specifically for this build is because I benefit a lot from being hit less frequently (Dissolution, Ward, etc.). I don't think the amount of regen/leech you have is very relevant for making a decision between spell suppression and spell dodge.
Interesting, It would be a thing to see just how effective such a defensive minded build would be against uber's.
I don't think this build is well suited for ubers. There are a few dominant ways to approach ubers:
1. Go glass cannon and do enough DPS that you can either instantly kill them or at least kill them before all your portals run out.
2. Get enough defense to tank the non-telegraphed moves while dodging the telegraphed stuff. You then want some good DPS so that the fight doesn't take too long.
3. Get so unbelievably tanky that you can just face tank everything.
This build doesn't really fit any of these categories. That's because (a) it doesn't have anywhere near the DPS to finish the fights in a reasonable amount of time, (b) it's way overkill on defense for the non-telegraphed attacks, and (c) it's still not tanky enough to tank the huge telegraphed hits.
Could I do ubers on this build? Probably. If you know the fights' mechanics well enough you can do them with any build. However, if I wanted to make this build more uber-ready I'd probably tone down the defenses slightly and try to double or triple my DPS first.
How plug-and-play is the Dissolution + PB combo for an evasion attack build? Seems like it works well for casters since they can get Pain Attunement to get both damage and the defenses of the combo, but would it still be doable for right side attack builds?
Why would you want pain attunement for attack build?
I wouldn't say it's very plug-and-play at all. The Dissolution playstyle feels pretty bad if you're not addressing its issues. You take some damage, then you have to basically not play the game for two seconds to make sure you don't die.
As for spells vs. attacks, I don't think the Dissolution/PB combo is tightly aligned with either one. Low life has playstyles for both spells (Pain Attunement) and attacks (Bloodthirst, Replica Last Resort). Attacks also have stuff like Kaom's Spirit, which combos well with Eternal Youth.
Don't even think about playing a Dissolution build until you have immunity to ignite, poison, bleed and corrupted blood. Even then there'll be other DoTs that'll mess you up, so consider those a baseline. At least for burning ground there's a Pantheon available. You also really want to play an avoid-based build rather than a mitigation-based build for Dissolution. You don't need to go as far as he's gone here, but every bit of damage avoidance you can fit in helps a ton.
I have been thinking about ice trap trickster for a while I think it has more to offer than sabo. sabo is trash for almost all trap builds and is usually bait as well as being slow as fuck compared to trickster and spellbreaker is sick
It's pronounced lie-th shade. Great explanation of the second strongest defensive ascendancy point in the game 😊
What's the strongest one? And why is it Unbreakable?
@@whitedemon4915 oh you are right, they misspelled it
That is wrong. I have no idea how people continue perpetuating this. The shadow literally says the word when you enter Lunaris Temple level 2. It's pronounced "leeth"
@@seifeir6951 which still makes no sense. Look up the definition for Lethe and Lithe and what the skill actually does
@@bard634 I do
Have you considered Kintsugi for the build?
Nevermind I just got to the end!
Isnt recop on the rings useless because ure never taken damage just reserving it and the degen from pertrified blood isnt applied
I'm still taking damage. It's only the resulting life loss that's being modified. Example:
1. I take 100 damage. All of that counts as damage taken, immediately.
2. Normally, I would lose 100 life, but because of Petrified Blood, 40 life loss is prevented, and instead I lose 30 life over 4 seconds.
3. The remaining 60 life loss is prevented by Dissolution of the Flesh, and I instead reserve 60 life.
4. Since I took 100 damage, my 26% recoup causes me to recover 26 life over 4 seconds.
It unreserves 26%?
@@sergeantminor256 wierd. Didn't think that would work like that since u dont actually "take" damage, just reserving ur life 🤔
@@NickHansen1990 Yes, this is one of the many confusing things about PoE: the fact that "taking damage" and "losing life" are separate things. You take a certain amount of damage, but what happens to your resources as a result can get changed in all sorts of ways.
Is ward mandatory on this build? It will be way easier to swap from white wind to rares and equip kintsugi without it.
Nope! Not mandatory at all. Definitely the easiest thing to drop to make those upgrades.
@@sergeantminor256Thanks, will make this build for sure at some point with some investment.
i use acrobatics, max evade chance and high blind effect on my champion for ToTa. i have tried lethe shade, but didnt felt any difference. I only die to Death's Aura, RF Item dudes and mostly Creeping Frost from the Ice Chieftain. Any ideas how deal with that, i am Dessolution with 6k hp and still it does not help.
Is your build a dedicated TotA build? Or do you also do other endgame stuff with it?
Why use at 15:01 cluster traps and not swift assembly?
No good reason, I guess. I probably should be using Swift Assembly instead, after looking more closely at the gem. Thanks for pointing that out! I guess my inexperience with trap builds is showing.
@@sergeantminor256 Just looks like a boost in dmg with minimal change to the build, that's why i asked, could very well not be the case do to some mech i don't see/understand.
Just a small word of caution to the blind node:
I tried to make a meme build not long ago around the Blind effect from "Born in the shadows" but any effect increase did not work, just applied the base. Does it work for you?
@@vansitcodarring8855 How did you know that blind effect wasn't working? The only way to test that would probably be PvP, right? I haven't tested it myself.
@@sergeantminor256 Yes, PvP(no keystones) and some maps, based on the values i had ~240 increased effect blind melee hits were counted as if i had only 20% blind effect. Maybe math was bad, maybe i made some other errors, maybe was fixed already, don't know. I am not asking you to go out of your way to test this, ty for your time already!
06:56 Is Acrobatics works like that?
Like what?
@@sergeantminor256 Like you said, on top of 95% evade chance, you have 75% to dodge spell chance through Acrobatics Keystone. But the Keystone told us, your chance to dodge spell should be 50% of your chance to suppress spell damage. Maximum is 75% and you can never suppress spell damage anymore.
@@qxPOLABEARxp Sorry, maybe I worded that confusingly. I have 95% chance to evade _attacks_ and 75% chance to dodge _spells_ . They're separate things that don't interact with one another. It's true that I don't suppress spell damage anymore. The 75% spell dodge replaces spell suppression.
That's a lot of tattoos you're using to get immunity to just poison and bleed (plus a unique jewel for ignite). Would you consider using Kahuturoa's Certainty boots to take care of all three instead, or is that not worth it in your opinion? In which case, on what kind of builds are those boots good if not this archetype i.e. Dissolution builds?
Personally, I wouldn't use those boots unless I were playing a build that didn't need movement speed at all. I'm thinking builds that use Leap Slam or zero-duration Lightning Warp to get around. They're especially good for self-poison/ignite/bleed builds. For this build I don't think it's worth it. It's not like I was going to use all those extra attributes anyway, so I don't mind investing a bunch of tattoos.
Nice build but it has too high budget in order to work....
how did ur brain get so big
calgae
Focusing on defense before optimizing for damage? Only 2 mil ice trap dps? Sounds like someone is enjoying the game wrong.
too much defense for temporary soft league, you don't know how to properly play that league, go in ssf hardcore