Did a little trap/mine reading and briefly entertained the idea (before I did the reading) of a ballista tossing mines... But of course it doesn't work that way - one mine spawns a trap that spawns a ballista. Then I was looking at the list of traps and noticed fire trap of blasting, and remembered the joke about Pohx's RF build really being a Fire Trap build in disguise, looked at his build and noticed that he's back to 6 linking RF instead of the advanced build being 6 link fire trap + 4 link RF. Looked into FToB, and it scales based on the target's current burning damage, which is inflicted by RF... Welp, looks like I am going to sit down with Path of Building and see what I can come up with when I get home. Maybe mines, maybe RF, maybe three FToB in a trenchcoat pretending to be a RF build.
Path of Exile 3.28 - Mirage
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(And having played a minion build I shudder at the idea of trying to farm up all the needed corpses for spectres)
Turns out Pohx has commented on it - looks like it’s the burning fire from FT that scales with dot damage; since FToB doesn’t have that you end up losing damage. Might still look into a 6l FToB/4l RF build, or possibly a staff build for dual 6l…
I’m at 36/40. 37 is GGG - and it will be easy, as I only have one lab run left to get it. I do have a problem though…
I’m addicted to necro poison animate ranged weapons.
Seriously, it’s really easy to gear, the spectres aren’t horribly expensive, and it scales really freaking well. I don’t know if it’s this spec specifically, or if there’s some magic necro spectre sauce, or if I’m just giving up in frustration about the time people start fire sales on their mid level equipment.
I did give shield crush another shot and realized it gets a lot better once you get ~40-50% increased AoE. Might try it next season.
I’m addicted to necro poison animate ranged weapons.
Seriously, it’s really easy to gear, the spectres aren’t horribly expensive, and it scales really freaking well. I don’t know if it’s this spec specifically, or if there’s some magic necro spectre sauce, or if I’m just giving up in frustration about the time people start fire sales on their mid level equipment.
I did give shield crush another shot and realized it gets a lot better once you get ~40-50% increased AoE. Might try it next season.
I like a good minion build and haven't play any form of animate ranged weapons so this seems like something I should try. Is there any particular guide you would recommend or is it something that can be worked by looking at builds on poe.ninja?
This is the one I've been using: https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/poison-ranged-animate-weapons-league-starter
It really deep-dives into what to get, including tattoos.
Thank you, should be very helpful. I was just hoping for some suggestions for specters and animate guardian gear. Got that a whole lot more. My favorite thing in the guide is listing "Visual Clarity" under the weakness of the build. I am trying to think of the last build I played that had good visual clairty and nothing is coming to mind.
Honestly compared to a lot of other builds it’s not that bad - the monstrosity takes up a lot of room, but the ranged weapons just draw thin lines where they are shooting and it’s easy to see around it. Nothing like my old volcanic fissure of snaking zerker…Thank you, should be very helpful. I was just hoping for some suggestions for specters and animate guardian gear. Got that a whole lot more. My favorite thing in the guide is listing "Visual Clarity" under the weakness of the build. I am trying to think of the last build I played that had good visual clairty and nothing is coming to mind.
A few things I found recently:
https://www.poestash.com/ - Inventory checker, flipping tool, and a crafting engine, along with a few other things.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1qmy78b/quick_guide_to_fixing_defences_in_early_maps/
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1tdrftj/guide_to_defences_part_2_juiced_maps/
Found those an interesting read about defenses.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/uzchwe/guide_comprehensive_guide_to_defense_in_poe_asmos/
An older post about defenses that still has some good thoughts.
https://www.poestash.com/ - Inventory checker, flipping tool, and a crafting engine, along with a few other things.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1qmy78b/quick_guide_to_fixing_defences_in_early_maps/
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1tdrftj/guide_to_defences_part_2_juiced_maps/
Found those an interesting read about defenses.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/uzchwe/guide_comprehensive_guide_to_defense_in_poe_asmos/
An older post about defenses that still has some good thoughts.