Did they buff essence drain? I tried it in the campaign, and while on occasion it felt nice, it was so reliably bad (especially on that ritual map) that I immediately quit and move on to ranger.
It was buffed by around 33% more damage last patch a week ago. I've been playing it with Chronomancer for a more defensive version but this Infernalist version is quite nice to scale damage much further.
You can run mask of the stitched demon to get an insane amount of life regen, I am able to sustain up to around 500-600 stacks of demonform with the helmet, run with mom to sustain without es and you can take off mings for even more life regen and use slots to fix res
@@tanis016 poison ignores ES, but cannot be inflicted on you unless you get direct damage to your life, which means your ES is completely drained and you're dead anyway. So poison is not a problem usually.
@@Warchoon Although this is true, there are a couple of interactions in this game that can poison as though hitting you without hitting you, like with gas cloud. But so far I haven't really noticed that so much on enemy's doing that to you, so maybe an afterthought for when they release new monsters.
The way your ascendancy is just shows how cooked witch ascendencies are. In bloodmage you have 4 required points and then ur going crit, in infernalist you have nothing to go except minion nodes or reserving health that you can't afford
That essence drain chain map clear looks so amazing. Its possible you could slot another skill and do some minor tree changes to have a bosskiller skill. Spark DF and some versions of Hexblast DF have the ability to get to "no mechanics" DPS.
The person at ggg who came up with the 24 spec points per weapon set feature may be sad watching this video 😥The demon form dash animation looks super cool though
@@GE_Photon_Lord you can allocate 24 points that will swap automatically when you weapon swap. It was probably designed to let you do cool stuff like a fire staff and an ice staff or a melee weapon and a bow, but most people are just putting a bunch of curse effect on their weapon swap. Get 24 points of curse boosting on set 2 and 24 points of your main damage nodes on set 1, set curse to use weapon swap 2 and every other skill to use weapon slot 1. Massively boost your curse for free.
@@JordanIdk Damn, only 24 feels so wrong, I thought we can use a separate tree. I don't think you can properly swap cold to fire. Curse nodes are the only good ones rn indeed.
@@GE_Photon_Lordpeople are using the swap to use totems on corrupting cry setups. It’s enough points to maximize the totems nodes and significantly improved the builds QOL and single target
Getting this number of demon stacks legit, without snapshot is extremely expensive though, youll need pretty much the best rolls on every items, im pretty confident most players will reach 100/120 stacks with their gear. And yea ed/contagion spread is still not as good as it used to be, it sometime look like it, but its actually very hard to get a good spread and basically happen only in breach/talisman, most of the timeits super clunky where your aoe is basically on part with the worst skills/builds and drain constantly your mana because it just don't spread. And the crazy part here is when you realize you need thousand of spell damage to make ed comfortable to use. The deamon is very fun to play though i hope they add a lot more of this concept, would love to play doriani with his jetpack in a future version for example.
Oh, please. All you need is high life regen and some es rolls. We can literally see him clear everything with 30-40 res and he can comfortably map with -20%. This is not a hard build to make.
2 things: bleed bypasses ES, so how do we deal with that? Personally I swap freeze charm for bleed, cause it saves me more. I believe Jonathan mentioned a way to choose whether to enable or disable the buffs we get from campaign bosses. I used the 8% max life one from Candlemass (fml) so I hope there's a way to turn that off
Sigh, how many more times do we need to go over this : Bleed does not bypass ES, bleed can ONLY be applied to health, considering for DF you might aswell be a CI build, you're going to die long before bleed kicks in.
@@AceReformedsimple google search says bleed and other chaos magic like poison ignore es. Plus you can literally just try it. If anything the node that makes you immune to chaos dmg should work against bleed and poison right?
@@Auramus That just means if you start bleeding without ES and then regain ES, you will still bleed from your life. Also, there are items with "% damage taken bypasses energy shield" like Atziri's Disdain which would allow bleeding to be applied while having ES
@@stanislavmilchev3054 but.. its a degen that ramps over time? Why would it matter to have the hp bar in the middle of the screen? Not like you can do anything about it anyway. It will run out no matter what.
Only thing appealing to me is that damn movement /dash fuck its so good. Also name 1 build where mana isn't a problem... they need to nerf all mana costs
I got stuck at lvl 40 with it, feels like I have zdps. Also I think contagion is bugged,for some reason it spreads essence drain AND despair curse at the same time. Feels like it has hex bloom attached to it from poe1.
If you socket the support gem which lets curses do chaos damage based on % of your int, then your despair would be a chaos DoT and contagion states it spreads all chaos dot effects. In other words, worked as intended.
I saw that contagion thing earlier in the league when I was trying out chaos. It's probably spreading the degen support that is tied to the curse. It just happens that the degen is a modification to the curse, not a degen that is applied at the same time as the chain. The curse is being pulled along as a side effect. When I was leveling, I had the degen on my enfeeble.
@@ItsTheBibby I don't have any links on contagion lol. Actually I do, the more duration one but it's irrelevant. On despair I have more curse effect and thats it, 1 link.
feast is in a bad place but ES feels exactly where it needs to be ... EV is also pretty good ... its just armour and life that are taking the L for some reason
I definitely see that ES is a bit too catered too in this game however I really do hope that they do something to fix the issues with the other defensive options before nerfing it so that they dont just leave us with NOTHING for fuck knows how long, I love this game but its kind of embarrassing that Armor is so bad and poorly calculated and just all around a tremendous fuck up Vs how armor worked in POE 1. I am however holding out hope that it was just an oversight and they didnt ACTUALLY intend for armor to be so useless in the game, like I thought they were trying to make melee better? LMAO. I do love the game tho, im just frustrated by the sheer state of defenses and Magic find rn.
There's no way Altered Flesh isn't at least worth considering, even if it requires some effort to fix the resistances. Huge phys resistance from converting to chaos just seems really great once you can get there, and theoretically it lets you skimp a little on cold and lightning res as long as you can cap your fire res. I think once Grim Feast is nerfed and the build has to care a little bit about defenses, that's probably the best place to go.
Well chaos dmg is really not great to take on an ES build, it deals double dmg to ES. So all that remains would be fire dps and since the build is hard pressed to cap any res, thats just... not better.
@@tannermattingly4462 That node is very lame, you either go CI or not CI. If you go CI you get full benefits, but then the other nodes after it become uselles. If you don't go CI you take double dmg to ES for no reason.
Shameful using genai, it steals from so many artists, those same artists that put heart and soul into the game you make your content and money from. Also not disclosing its use in thumbnail is against yt tos.
This mapping gameplay look way more ''diablo-like' than ''souls-like''. do you think we'll get the real poe 2 end-game before launch in a year? or they are going to take the Blizzard approach and turn the game into POE classic?
Anyone else having extreme performance issues? 3060 and a am5 5500 barely getting 40 fps no matter what settings or renderer I use.. EDIT: Found the solution! Make sure your graphics card is in the PCIE_E1 lane! Mine was not so I was unable to get dx12 to work whatsoever. Game is smooth as butter now.
I have a budget laptop with i5 and GTX 1650, I sometimes lag but might be due to Frankfurt servers. I have everything on high minus textures I think, 1 of the settings is locked on medium for me.
This is a perfect test to see how the future of patches will go in this game....if GGG get back and the ONLY thing they do is nerf grim feast without buffing any other defence layer or giving viable alternatives, then that will just underline which direction the game is heading.
They need to fix MF. Making (literally) 1000ex per map just doesn't compare to 3-5ex per map. I feel like I can't make actual builds right now, am just forced to playing coop MF in order to keep up with the broken economy.
Nobody is forcing you to play in a way that isn't fun to keep up with the economy, having fun is the point not printing infinite currency. If you enjoy the MF style more power to ya but otherwise just stop. Experiment with real builds and have fun if it makes 1% of the currency and you can't keep gearing up way past the point where it has actual impact that really isn't so bad. Yeah GGG could do a lot better design wise but you don't need to engage with the worst aspects like MF rat race economy and keep up if that isn't actually fun for you.
Funny thing is that you don't even have to engage with the economy, a lot of things are cheap and you don't need much anyway. SSF is working very well rn.
@@saberaxe It's easy to say that and have that perspective but when you can't gear up enough to beat pinnacle bosses without using one of 3 meta builds and utilizing MF setups then there's really not much else do with the game than put it down and wait for those systems to be improved.
@@deano4138 To be fair, poe2 trade site is kinda broken. You can't even search by highest rolls on items if you click on the line of text. Or it shows offline people when you check online. Just odd.
I swear I get a D4 ad on every Poe2 cideo now... never got them before lol
Same
Demon mathil ai can't hurt you he's not real, demon mathil ai:
hope he hurts me
AI? you mean cosplay?
i stand up for mathil
Did they buff essence drain? I tried it in the campaign, and while on occasion it felt nice, it was so reliably bad (especially on that ritual map) that I immediately quit and move on to ranger.
It was buffed by around 33% more damage last patch a week ago. I've been playing it with Chronomancer for a more defensive version but this Infernalist version is quite nice to scale damage much further.
You can run mask of the stitched demon to get an insane amount of life regen, I am able to sustain up to around 500-600 stacks of demonform with the helmet, run with mom to sustain without es and you can take off mings for even more life regen and use slots to fix res
Are u have problems with stuns with low life and no ES?
Lol so you run around with 200 hp and no es...
@@whydidyoutubeaddthis Hes using a bug to snapshot it. So you get the regen without wearing the helmet.
@@exareo8293 How do you know that
sure, and same applies to CI, but you know its a bug and it will be fixed for sure
How do you handle the chaos damage penetrating ES ?
Or is it different for POE2?
It is. It does double damage to es instead
Poison does go through though, usually you stack so much hp regen you can regen through it.
@@tanis016 poison ignores ES, but cannot be inflicted on you unless you get direct damage to your life, which means your ES is completely drained and you're dead anyway. So poison is not a problem usually.
@@Warchoon Although this is true, there are a couple of interactions in this game that can poison as though hitting you without hitting you, like with gas cloud. But so far I haven't really noticed that so much on enemy's doing that to you, so maybe an afterthought for when they release new monsters.
this is 100% gonna get dunked by a nerf when devs are back but it's a cool build
the stichted demon mask snaptshotting yes. demon form in general? i don't think so.
@@mareda528 Nah it's gonna be collateral damage on the energy shield nerfs that are almost surely coming.
@@Ludlethh you can run demon with EB+MoM version or Stitched+MoM version anyway.
It's either play ES or just die, those are the 2 options
The way your ascendancy is just shows how cooked witch ascendencies are. In bloodmage you have 4 required points and then ur going crit, in infernalist you have nothing to go except minion nodes or reserving health that you can't afford
That thumbnail is cute af!
That essence drain chain map clear looks so amazing. Its possible you could slot another skill and do some minor tree changes to have a bosskiller skill. Spark DF and some versions of Hexblast DF have the ability to get to "no mechanics" DPS.
The person at ggg who came up with the 24 spec points per weapon set feature may be sad watching this video 😥The demon form dash animation looks super cool though
@@Raynhardx What's the catch with that? What does it do I still haven't figure it out.
@@GE_Photon_Lord you can allocate 24 points that will swap automatically when you weapon swap. It was probably designed to let you do cool stuff like a fire staff and an ice staff or a melee weapon and a bow, but most people are just putting a bunch of curse effect on their weapon swap. Get 24 points of curse boosting on set 2 and 24 points of your main damage nodes on set 1, set curse to use weapon swap 2 and every other skill to use weapon slot 1. Massively boost your curse for free.
@@JordanIdk Damn, only 24 feels so wrong, I thought we can use a separate tree. I don't think you can properly swap cold to fire. Curse nodes are the only good ones rn indeed.
@@GE_Photon_Lordpeople are using the swap to use totems on corrupting cry setups. It’s enough points to maximize the totems nodes and significantly improved the builds QOL and single target
@@GE_Photon_Lord nah, there's a bunch of ways to do it. Ranger with AOE for mapping swap to penetration for single target. Give people time to cook.
Getting this number of demon stacks legit, without snapshot is extremely expensive though, youll need pretty much the best rolls on every items, im pretty confident most players will reach 100/120 stacks with their gear. And yea ed/contagion spread is still not as good as it used to be, it sometime look like it, but its actually very hard to get a good spread and basically happen only in breach/talisman, most of the timeits super clunky where your aoe is basically on part with the worst skills/builds and drain constantly your mana because it just don't spread. And the crazy part here is when you realize you need thousand of spell damage to make ed comfortable to use.
The deamon is very fun to play though i hope they add a lot more of this concept, would love to play doriani with his jetpack in a future version for example.
Oh, please. All you need is high life regen and some es rolls. We can literally see him clear everything with 30-40 res and he can comfortably map with -20%. This is not a hard build to make.
I agree with Mathil
I kinda like evade damage from all hits node once you get it to 75% which is quite easy
So versus elemental dmg he actually have like 4k ES
@@GrimChu69 Wdym
ED was the build took me to Sirius in POE 1. Classic
Me as a warrior looking at that 10k es and that long range unlimited dash 😦
2 things: bleed bypasses ES, so how do we deal with that? Personally I swap freeze charm for bleed, cause it saves me more.
I believe Jonathan mentioned a way to choose whether to enable or disable the buffs we get from campaign bosses. I used the 8% max life one from Candlemass (fml) so I hope there's a way to turn that off
Sigh, how many more times do we need to go over this : Bleed does not bypass ES, bleed can ONLY be applied to health, considering for DF you might aswell be a CI build, you're going to die long before bleed kicks in.
@@AceReformedsimple google search says bleed and other chaos magic like poison ignore es. Plus you can literally just try it. If anything the node that makes you immune to chaos dmg should work against bleed and poison right?
@@AceReformed it literally says in-game if you hover over bleed "bypasses Energy Shield"
@@Auramus it also literally says in-game if you hover over bleed "Only damage dealt to Life will Contribute to Bleeding." :)
@@Auramus That just means if you start bleeding without ES and then regain ES, you will still bleed from your life. Also, there are items with "% damage taken bypasses energy shield" like Atziri's Disdain which would allow bleeding to be applied while having ES
First time I booted up PoE2 I picked contagion and wished poe1 contagion worked like this.
Time to play somezhing else. Cant afford this build anymore sadge
If you want to solve DF problem, get as many jewel slots as u can and socket rubies with 2% max fire res, about 5-7 is enough
the fact you play this life draining character without a health bar in the middle of your screen is crazy to me.
He got 10k es sometimes 20k no need 🤣
@@dappledane7975 the degen from the demon form doesnt care for the ES xD
@paulbairstow4433 doesn't matter, the degen doesn't kill you, it just takes you to 1 and takes you out of demon form.
@@dappledane7975 well you dont want to lose the demon form in a bad time
@@stanislavmilchev3054 but.. its a degen that ramps over time? Why would it matter to have the hp bar in the middle of the screen? Not like you can do anything about it anyway. It will run out no matter what.
The balance between life and es is absurb, how did they f that up so much. Give Overflow gem or nuke Grim Feast.
CAUGHT 🖐️😳🤚
hot thumbnail
Only thing appealing to me is that damn movement /dash fuck its so good.
Also name 1 build where mana isn't a problem... they need to nerf all mana costs
How do you have hellhound out in demon form? Mine dissappears
6:05 important information visual effects hide behind big HP bar up on a very top outside screen display. hahaha...wtf? GGG
tried out essence drain too , very ethical dmg lol
I got stuck at lvl 40 with it, feels like I have zdps.
Also I think contagion is bugged,for some reason it spreads essence drain AND despair curse at the same time. Feels like it has hex bloom attached to it from poe1.
If you socket the support gem which lets curses do chaos damage based on % of your int, then your despair would be a chaos DoT and contagion states it spreads all chaos dot effects. In other words, worked as intended.
I saw that contagion thing earlier in the league when I was trying out chaos. It's probably spreading the degen support that is tied to the curse. It just happens that the degen is a modification to the curse, not a degen that is applied at the same time as the chain. The curse is being pulled along as a side effect. When I was leveling, I had the degen on my enfeeble.
@@ItsTheBibby I don't have any links on contagion lol. Actually I do, the more duration one but it's irrelevant. On despair I have more curse effect and thats it, 1 link.
@@Sindraelyn I'm not using that support with chaos per int.
Pretty sure contagion states it spreads all debuffs. Which is both DoTs and also Despair in this case.
feast is in a bad place but ES feels exactly where it needs to be ... EV is also pretty good ... its just armour and life that are taking the L for some reason
I definitely see that ES is a bit too catered too in this game however I really do hope that they do something to fix the issues with the other defensive options before nerfing it so that they dont just leave us with NOTHING for fuck knows how long, I love this game but its kind of embarrassing that Armor is so bad and poorly calculated and just all around a tremendous fuck up Vs how armor worked in POE 1. I am however holding out hope that it was just an oversight and they didnt ACTUALLY intend for armor to be so useless in the game, like I thought they were trying to make melee better? LMAO. I do love the game tho, im just frustrated by the sheer state of defenses and Magic find rn.
First build ever to only get 4 ascendancy points kekw
There's no way Altered Flesh isn't at least worth considering, even if it requires some effort to fix the resistances. Huge phys resistance from converting to chaos just seems really great once you can get there, and theoretically it lets you skimp a little on cold and lightning res as long as you can cap your fire res. I think once Grim Feast is nerfed and the build has to care a little bit about defenses, that's probably the best place to go.
Well chaos dmg is really not great to take on an ES build, it deals double dmg to ES. So all that remains would be fire dps and since the build is hard pressed to cap any res, thats just... not better.
@@tannermattingly4462 That node is very lame, you either go CI or not CI. If you go CI you get full benefits, but then the other nodes after it become uselles. If you don't go CI you take double dmg to ES for no reason.
With uniques you are running chaos is the only resist easy to cap
the only shocking thing about this video is the fact, that ED came out 8 years ago 😢
Shameful using genai, it steals from so many artists, those same artists that put heart and soul into the game you make your content and money from. Also not disclosing its use in thumbnail is against yt tos.
I'd put money that they make it so everyone has to do boss mechanics going forward, its absurd the hardest part of the game is act I normal.
This mapping gameplay look way more ''diablo-like' than ''souls-like''. do you think we'll get the real poe 2 end-game before launch in a year? or they are going to take the Blizzard approach and turn the game into POE classic?
Anyone else having extreme performance issues? 3060 and a am5 5500 barely getting 40 fps no matter what settings or renderer I use..
EDIT: Found the solution! Make sure your graphics card is in the PCIE_E1 lane! Mine was not so I was unable to get dx12 to work whatsoever. Game is smooth as butter now.
rx 7900 xt , which is around 4070 TI Super , 70fps max without frame generation, mid settings, in maps drops to 50. Its ridiculous how low it is
i5 12400f with rtx 4060 and it drops to 50 and im not in maps yet, just playing around with srs
I have a budget laptop with i5 and GTX 1650, I sometimes lag but might be due to Frankfurt servers. I have everything on high minus textures I think, 1 of the settings is locked on medium for me.
check to make sure ur cpu isnt under max load.
Yep, ryzen 5 5600x 6700xt. 32gb 3600mhz ram. Can play modded skyrim lorerim pack at 60fps, but can't run this at a stable fps. Poor optimization.
:O
This is a perfect test to see how the future of patches will go in this game....if GGG get back and the ONLY thing they do is nerf grim feast without buffing any other defence layer or giving viable alternatives, then that will just underline which direction the game is heading.
Oh i don't think they'll stop at nerfing Grim Feast, the whole ES layer is gonna be seriously looked at IMO
please do a build without es
Builds without ES are pretty unviable RN.
Why lol.
His last character was life based, now that one is ES based. 50/50 split and dude is complaining already
They need to fix MF. Making (literally) 1000ex per map just doesn't compare to 3-5ex per map. I feel like I can't make actual builds right now, am just forced to playing coop MF in order to keep up with the broken economy.
Nobody is forcing you to play in a way that isn't fun to keep up with the economy, having fun is the point not printing infinite currency. If you enjoy the MF style more power to ya but otherwise just stop. Experiment with real builds and have fun if it makes 1% of the currency and you can't keep gearing up way past the point where it has actual impact that really isn't so bad.
Yeah GGG could do a lot better design wise but you don't need to engage with the worst aspects like MF rat race economy and keep up if that isn't actually fun for you.
This game is somehow clown Fiesta right now.
I'm having a blast playing ssf and ROFLing at you economy doomers
Funny thing is that you don't even have to engage with the economy, a lot of things are cheap and you don't need much anyway. SSF is working very well rn.
@@saberaxe It's easy to say that and have that perspective but when you can't gear up enough to beat pinnacle bosses without using one of 3 meta builds and utilizing MF setups then there's really not much else do with the game than put it down and wait for those systems to be improved.
A build that doesn’t incorporate minimum of 300 rarity isn’t a build at this point
POE2 TRASH
just an overpowered PoE 1 build in PoE 2 nothing new
@@cptlonesong3211 You mean once played and long forgotten, yes.
Poe 2 is really PoE 0.4, the game is so similar to PoE 1 they might as well retire that game.
Just put in graphic engine into poe1 and #vinderi yep,we good.
Ming's Heart just went from 1 Exalt to 1 Divine after this video. It's hilarious.
it didn't. sort by exalts only and you see its 10ex
It's hilarious you don't know how to search on trade website and still making comments like this.
🤡 I'm going to run my mouth when I have no idea how the trade site works
@@deano4138 To be fair, poe2 trade site is kinda broken. You can't even search by highest rolls on items if you click on the line of text. Or it shows offline people when you check online. Just odd.
I agree with Mathil