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[3.16 - RETIRING BUILD] VD Brands: S-Tier Bosser, A-Tier Map! -- MURDERED BY GGG_INTERN SOMEWHERE--

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Crusnik02 escribió:
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Asterism escribió:
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primaeva escribió:

Mother of god! Your gear is absolutely up there and you should be crushing content with impunity and no fear of death. All right, I need to thoroughly investigate what's going on with so many people reporting sudden deaths - in this build I almost relish getting hit because it lets me see some juicy ES overleech. If we pool enough videos maybe I can help solve a pain point that I'm missing.


In my experience, it's very easy to make a small mistake at any time while playing this build while mapping and immediately get exploded. When you have momentum on your side, you feel unstoppable. You've got tons of overleech/discipline-ES-on-hit, you've got big corpse removing explosions, you've got the max block/life on block stuff from Bone Offering, and you're packing a very respectable 7k+ combined ES and life.

But if you ever let the momentum drop--if you forget to channel incinerate once in a while, or if you double-cast one kind of brand, or drop a cast because the game went down to single digit FPS, or you move towards a pack and press Brand Recall while it's still on cooldown, it all goes to hell.

It's especially spooky if you're engaging your first pack unbuffed, either because you just entered the map or because you spent some time looting, because then your raw HP drops down to a kind of pathetic 5K and you don't have Bone Offering up.

My honest guess is that you've been playing this build since Harvest, you likely just aren't making a lot of these mistakes anymore, but they will absolutely get you killed with very little warning in high red maps.


I think that's right on point. After OP confirmed that there's not much wrong with my setup, I analysed my playstyle and pretty much came to the same conclusion. The build's defences heavily rely on being in the "momentum", when I am leeching and have all the buffs up. However, at the start of the map and if I stop for whatever reason and lose the momentum, I feel like glass and it's at those points I get the one-shots.

I changed my playstyle a bit and was much more careful in my lack of momentum state. It's a bit frustrating at that point because unlike other builds where you immediately leech by attacking, with this one it takes a while and there's not much you can do other than get out of the harm's way and build the momentum. Bosses with invulnerability phases are particularly annoying in this respect, especially Kitava who has a lot of on ground degens and Chimera in its smoke-phase.

All in all, I think the build becomes the more enjoyable the more you progress in the initial learning curve. I think I have yet to surpass it though, been playing for just a day or so. I will make sure to record some videos if I encounter problems other than those described above. And I also agree that it would be very useful for OP to make a video guide explaining the mechanics in detail, as they are not very intuitive from the start.



All right, thanks you three, that's solid feedback. Working on a technical video that showcases some tips and tricks to work around these. It's become a fairly common thread that there's a learning curve (as listed in the Cons) - but it does seem some people get hooked on it. The objective now will be to fast-track newcomers to the build with a properly explained video, and I will put that high up in the initial post. Stay tuned!


For example: did you know you can drop your Desecrate Brand and Recall, and it summons corpses? (Recall basically activates your Brands once instantaneously)

Or if you drop your Desecrate Brand and VD Brand, you can actually start ramping up stacks while waiting for bosses to finish whatever dialogue they're spewing, and in so doing get your Bone Offering + Infused Channeling prepped.

Finally, I guess I have to release tankier versions of the build as baseline - it got quite tunnelled on meme-level boss damage in Harvest because I was obsessed with the Corpse Pact loop - but a simple tweak like picking up more life nodes and a shield could send it to 6.5k base HP / 5k ES territory for only 40% of its DPS, and then the thrill-seekers who've ramped up some playtime can go full ham on DPS.

ALSO! If you guys haven't seen - I equipped a Replica Soul Tether and have close to 10k combined HP/ES now. This used to be IMPOSSIBLE in Heist because we would lose all leech stacks after getting hit with Corrupted Soul - GGG appears to have reversed that bug.

Thank you for your valuable feedback!
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you wanted the Immortal Ambition + Corrupted Soul combo, couldn't you just switch the Timeless jewel from Ahuana to Doryani and wear a (3c) regular Soul Tether instead of a (1 ex) replica?
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Asterism escribió:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you wanted the Immortal Ambition + Corrupted Soul combo, couldn't you just switch the Timeless jewel from Ahuana to Doryani and wear a (3c) regular Soul Tether instead of a (1 ex) replica?


You're absolutely right. I haven't gotten around to testing in reverse (it was the Corr Soul Keystone and Belt I tested in Harvest, because we didn't have Replicas back then) so was afraid to sign off on it. I'm rarely home on the weekends until past midnight (actually right now I'm still out and it's 1.50). very keen to get home to do the tutorial vid, but i'll test Doryani + regular tether by tomorrow

If it works in reverse it's huge - because Soul Tethers are dirt cheap and you can Vaal a bunch - and get something like Discipline Aura effect, Max Life, Crit mult during flask effect, and a few more good ones iirc. Totally worth since the default mod is trash unless find yourself getting stunned THAT often
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Editado por útlima vez por primaeva#0673 en 6 feb. 2021 12:54:58
In any case, rapidly getting to the point where all my upgrades are multiple ex for pretty marginal gains. A9 sirus down deathless, A9 conqs don't even get a chance to finish their first attack animation, but bosses that (MAVEN) go invincible (MAVEN) and (MAVEN) disengage from brands a lot (MAVEN) are a good deal more annoying.

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The big sin here is that I'm using an 6W Astral Plate instead of a Vaal Regalia, because I could steal my Chieftain's for free instead of spending 10 ex crafting another one. Losing out on a couple hundred ES and having to hit 180 strength is awful though, so don't do that unless you just have the plate sitting around like I did.

If you can bear to lose the six slots for leveling gems to sell, I recommend a Shimmeron + Light of Lunaris weapon swap. It cuts your Shimmeron degen in half, which is nice for A9 -max resist or -recovery speed maps that dramatically increase the damage you take.
Editado por útlima vez por Asterism#4287 en 7 feb. 2021 6:12:27
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Asterism escribió:

or drop a cast because the game went down to single digit FPS


This happens to me a lot also, I often find myself with an uneven number of brands out wondering what the missing one is. Then it's a 50/50 shot on whether everything keeps going on smoothly or not.

Unfortunately afaik there is no way to distinguish which of the two brands is currently out.
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Asterism escribió:
In any case, rapidly getting to the point where all my upgrades are multiple ex for pretty marginal gains. A9 sirus down deathless, A9 conqs don't even get a chance to finish their first attack animation, but bosses that (MAVEN) go invincible (MAVEN) and (MAVEN) disengage from brands a lot (MAVEN) are a good deal more annoying.

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The big sin here is that I'm using an 6W Astral Plate instead of a Vaal Regalia, because I could steal my Chieftain's for free instead of spending 10 ex crafting another one. Losing out on a couple hundred ES and having to hit 180 strength is awful though, so don't do that unless you just have the plate sitting around like I did.

If you can bear to lose the six slots for leveling gems to sell, I recommend a Shimmeron + Light of Lunaris weapon swap. It cuts your Shimmeron degen in half, which is nice for A9 -max resist or -recovery speed maps that dramatically increase the damage you take.


Man, I really need to look into Vermillion Rings, they look absolutely delicious. How did those cost you?

Ah yes, swapping is one of the things I really should have mentioned. By right I should not be putting auras on my wands so I can swap to things like Sinvicta's Mettle or an alt setup as you suggested - it also cuts degen on stupid things like Shaper's bullet hell phases - you continue to crit him, but no leech is actually being done at all, so you degen.

As for FPS issues - to be honest, I have no solution for this one. I had to bend my computer backward to get it to map smoothly - and I disclaimer bad performance where I can. We can only pray the PoE 2 keeps this mechanic alive but the graphics end of things much tighter.
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Editado por útlima vez por primaeva#0673 en 7 feb. 2021 10:44:55
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IGN: Crusnik_
Anarchy: Ele-Wander 81
Standard: LA-Frenzy Ranger 86
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primaeva escribió:

All right, thanks you three, that's solid feedback. Working on a technical video that showcases some tips and tricks to work around these. It's become a fairly common thread that there's a learning curve (as listed in the Cons) - but it does seem some people get hooked on it. The objective now will be to fast-track newcomers to the build with a properly explained video, and I will put that high up in the initial post. Stay tuned!


For example: did you know you can drop your Desecrate Brand and Recall, and it summons corpses? (Recall basically activates your Brands once instantaneously)

Or if you drop your Desecrate Brand and VD Brand, you can actually start ramping up stacks while waiting for bosses to finish whatever dialogue they're spewing, and in so doing get your Bone Offering + Infused Channeling prepped.

Finally, I guess I have to release tankier versions of the build as baseline - it got quite tunnelled on meme-level boss damage in Harvest because I was obsessed with the Corpse Pact loop - but a simple tweak like picking up more life nodes and a shield could send it to 6.5k base HP / 5k ES territory for only 40% of its DPS, and then the thrill-seekers who've ramped up some playtime can go full ham on DPS.

ALSO! If you guys haven't seen - I equipped a Replica Soul Tether and have close to 10k combined HP/ES now. This used to be IMPOSSIBLE in Heist because we would lose all leech stacks after getting hit with Corrupted Soul - GGG appears to have reversed that bug.

Thank you for your valuable feedback!


Wow those tips are really useful thx!

I think you're right with the shield variant also. I tried the Replica Soul Tether and while it have me a bunch of ES, the loss of 300+ life from the stygian seemed to exacerbate the squishy-ness of the build pre-momentum. And since I can only benefit from the extra ES once I start overleaching, I didn't find the trade-off worth it.

However, instead of going back to the stygian, I doubled down on defences and got a shield to boost the life pool and build up more tankiness. I grabbed this one for 10c just to experiment:

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I am now at over 5.1k HP + 4.9k ES, max attack block and close to max spell block, plus 77 max res and it feels so much better. And damage-wise I don't feel any difference for general clear, while guardians take like 6 sec to go down instead of 3. Any suggestions on a better shield? I guess a +1 to all fire spell gems would be most desirable, but couldn't find one with also +2 max res.

Looking forward to your video!
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Can you tell me what the ideal helm enchant is for the build? Is it arcanist cast speed or vd consumes an extra corpse? or something else altogether? ty.
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primaeva escribió:

Man, I really need to look into Vermillion Rings, they look absolutely delicious. How did those cost you?


Honestly, "vermillion ring with a buttload of life and not much else" isn't terribly expensive. Those ran me, what, 20c each?

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