If GGG is looking for minor QOL changes next patch/hotfix, can controller player toggle the UI that M&K players get?
I’ve just always enjoyed that layout more than the controller UI and I’ve never understood why controller players need a separate UI. In POE2 it’s very similar setups on both and it looks way more thematic.
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I’ve just always enjoyed that layout more than the controller UI and I’ve never understood why controller players need a separate UI. In POE2 it’s very similar setups on both and it looks way more thematic.
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Mind Stinger - The Best BAMA Quiver*
In Merc league, I became fixated on this special modifier: "Your Blink and Mirror Arrow Clones use your Gloves"
Because lightning BAMA is the best build in the game and I always push it in novel ways, I figured that surely there had to be some great uses for it. We'll be returning to some uses in the end. Here's the finished quiver:
https://preview.redd.it/9qrngsrku20h1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=c3f2e3b7456e02db8dd223dfb90d6c87d369bb30
Crafting a quiver with that mod would've been relatively easy, since you could just fracture it. That's actually what I did in the league. The problem then was that I could only have one implicit mod - Crit chance, crit multi, attack speed or projectile speed, which is a somewhat underappreciated modifier but alas. I wanted triple synth.
Here's what you need to do to retrace my steps:
1) Buy a triple synth bow base that already had 5% increased attack speed (which is maximum for synth quivers) and a high crit chance ("t2" in this case, with the maximum being 40%) or crit multi (maximum is 30%).
2) Add a Gilded Fossil for style.
3) Scour it.
4) Use Orbs of Remembrance until you get 90+ strands.
5) Get a quiver that has the merc mod as the only prefix and slam an influenced prefix for it, using a Shaper's Exalted Orb, or Elder's, depending on which one is cheaper.
6) Recombinate the two quivers. 50/50 chance to get a triple synth base with your desired mod. This is much, much, much cheaper than making your own triple synth base from scratch and also you'll get memory strands.
7) Imprint for safety.
8) Use a Craicic Chimeral and a Black Morrigan to put a Hinekora's Lock on the item, hovering both Regal and Foulborn Regal orbs.
9A) If you got any resistance mod, use the Harvest bench to turn that resistance into lightning resistance, craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and do a Harvest add-remove for lightning. It can only add lightning damage. If this is high enough tier, craft "Can have three crafted mods" and "Cannot roll attack mods" and slam a Foulborn Exalted Orb. It can then only add a prefix and the prefix can only be bow damage or life, with a roughly 25% chance to get t1 or t2 bow damage.
9B) If you got a high enough tier of Damage With Bows, craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and do a Harvest add-remove for lightning.
10 - optional) Realize only now that your item's level is 85 which means it can't roll t1 bow damage and cry.
11) If you get high enough tiers of both bow damage and lightning damage, use an Orb of Unravelling that can massively bump up the mod tiers. In my case, t3 bow damage and t5 lightning damage both went up to t2.
12) Craft prefixes cannot be changed and do a Harvest add/remove for crit.
13A) If you got t1 crit multi, craft "Prefixes cannot be changed" again and do a second Harvest add/remove for crit OR craft "can have three crafted mods" and "prefixes cannot be changed" and hit a Veiled Exalted orb.
13B) If you got t1 crit chance, craft "Prefixes cannot be changed" again and do a second Harvest add/remove for crit.
14A) If you got two t1 crit mods: Craft attack speed, which was too expensive to get with Harvest because it costs lots of yellow juice and competes with projectile speed, which is nice but not worth a whole suffix spot.
14B) If you got t1 crit multi and a veiled mod: **If you unveiled attack and cast speed**, you can then craft 27% crit chance or 14% crit chance and a chance to gain frenzy charges or 16% crit chance and elemental damage if you've crit recently. Whatever you most like, essentially. I went with the frenzy chance myself, because I love charges. **If you unveiled a hybrid crit mod,** craft 12% increased attack speed.
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Now that the craft is done, what kinds of gloves could you use with the quiver for maximum benefit?
IDEA 1: Abhorrent Interrogation
https://preview.redd.it/hunccdos130h1.png?width=1264&format=png&auto=webp&s=9572a24fb4bebfa09798875f2bb79ac335b379ac
Especially the 5% variant you can get with a Volatile Vaal Orb. It makes it so each hit from your
In Merc league, I became fixated on this special modifier: "Your Blink and Mirror Arrow Clones use your Gloves"
Because lightning BAMA is the best build in the game and I always push it in novel ways, I figured that surely there had to be some great uses for it. We'll be returning to some uses in the end. Here's the finished quiver:
https://preview.redd.it/9qrngsrku20h1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=c3f2e3b7456e02db8dd223dfb90d6c87d369bb30
Crafting a quiver with that mod would've been relatively easy, since you could just fracture it. That's actually what I did in the league. The problem then was that I could only have one implicit mod - Crit chance, crit multi, attack speed or projectile speed, which is a somewhat underappreciated modifier but alas. I wanted triple synth.
Here's what you need to do to retrace my steps:
1) Buy a triple synth bow base that already had 5% increased attack speed (which is maximum for synth quivers) and a high crit chance ("t2" in this case, with the maximum being 40%) or crit multi (maximum is 30%).
2) Add a Gilded Fossil for style.
3) Scour it.
4) Use Orbs of Remembrance until you get 90+ strands.
5) Get a quiver that has the merc mod as the only prefix and slam an influenced prefix for it, using a Shaper's Exalted Orb, or Elder's, depending on which one is cheaper.
6) Recombinate the two quivers. 50/50 chance to get a triple synth base with your desired mod. This is much, much, much cheaper than making your own triple synth base from scratch and also you'll get memory strands.
7) Imprint for safety.
8) Use a Craicic Chimeral and a Black Morrigan to put a Hinekora's Lock on the item, hovering both Regal and Foulborn Regal orbs.
9A) If you got any resistance mod, use the Harvest bench to turn that resistance into lightning resistance, craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and do a Harvest add-remove for lightning. It can only add lightning damage. If this is high enough tier, craft "Can have three crafted mods" and "Cannot roll attack mods" and slam a Foulborn Exalted Orb. It can then only add a prefix and the prefix can only be bow damage or life, with a roughly 25% chance to get t1 or t2 bow damage.
9B) If you got a high enough tier of Damage With Bows, craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and do a Harvest add-remove for lightning.
10 - optional) Realize only now that your item's level is 85 which means it can't roll t1 bow damage and cry.
11) If you get high enough tiers of both bow damage and lightning damage, use an Orb of Unravelling that can massively bump up the mod tiers. In my case, t3 bow damage and t5 lightning damage both went up to t2.
12) Craft prefixes cannot be changed and do a Harvest add/remove for crit.
13A) If you got t1 crit multi, craft "Prefixes cannot be changed" again and do a second Harvest add/remove for crit OR craft "can have three crafted mods" and "prefixes cannot be changed" and hit a Veiled Exalted orb.
13B) If you got t1 crit chance, craft "Prefixes cannot be changed" again and do a second Harvest add/remove for crit.
14A) If you got two t1 crit mods: Craft attack speed, which was too expensive to get with Harvest because it costs lots of yellow juice and competes with projectile speed, which is nice but not worth a whole suffix spot.
14B) If you got t1 crit multi and a veiled mod: **If you unveiled attack and cast speed**, you can then craft 27% crit chance or 14% crit chance and a chance to gain frenzy charges or 16% crit chance and elemental damage if you've crit recently. Whatever you most like, essentially. I went with the frenzy chance myself, because I love charges. **If you unveiled a hybrid crit mod,** craft 12% increased attack speed.
\---
Now that the craft is done, what kinds of gloves could you use with the quiver for maximum benefit?
IDEA 1: Abhorrent Interrogation
https://preview.redd.it/hunccdos130h1.png?width=1264&format=png&auto=webp&s=9572a24fb4bebfa09798875f2bb79ac335b379ac
Especially the 5% variant you can get with a Volatile Vaal Orb. It makes it so each hit from your
minions has a chance to apply up to 15 stacks of Wither and therefore ramps up to make the enemies take up to 75% increased elemental damage. With enough attack speed, it ramps up fast - faster if your minions have Unholy Might. You might want to craft a different BAMA bow for this though, one with +1 socketed gem levels instead of elemental penetration.
Alternatively you can use the 4% variant with a +0.8% to attack crits corrupt, which is spicy.
IDEA 2: Tombfist
https://preview.redd.it/5qgyh3um230h1.png?width=1594&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8252e4414176ee754860da7117e8d56f0a9f0c9
These gloves give 10% increased attack speed, guaranteed Intimidate (which is tough to get as BAMA) and two abyssal sockets. The two abyssal sockets can be used for a funny interaction, where if you put in two Tecrod's Gazes, the bow clones get 160% increased crit chance, because both jewels give 40% per Murderous jewel affecting you, counting themselves.
IDEA 3: Custom Rares
https://preview.redd.it/0jyshbs5330h1.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=34c996548383800bb072596a4009948947eb0b02
This one is a bit harder, but you can use rare gloves too. Here, the Projectile Speed affects how fast you blink and also now with how fast the clones' arrows reach my enemies.Attack speed is always generic, you can put anything cool in the abyssal socket including stuff like 8% attack speed if you've crit recently, a bit of crit multi, flat damages, all sorts of nice stuff.
Secondly, this character has a bow from Settlers League with the enchant "Increases and Reductions to Minion Damage also affect you at 150% of their value". Since my gloves have 59% increased minion damage, wielding the bow makes the minions double tap by gaining an additional 88% increased damage.
There are all sorts of other cool ways to use Eldritch implicits for the clones too, just a pity they can't gain Rage.
\---
In any case, this has been a fun craft and maybe in the future if a league goes particularly well, I might craft a superior all t1 version of this quiver and according to PoB gain... 6.9% more DPS. That would be nice.
\*RE: "Best BAMA Quiver\*": This is the best **unless** you desperately need the unveiled evasion and energy shield mod, or you are doing the poison variant or if you can't afford to sacrifice any glove mods. Price could also be a prohibiting factor, especially with this higher investment variant.
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Alternatively you can use the 4% variant with a +0.8% to attack crits corrupt, which is spicy.
IDEA 2: Tombfist
https://preview.redd.it/5qgyh3um230h1.png?width=1594&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8252e4414176ee754860da7117e8d56f0a9f0c9
These gloves give 10% increased attack speed, guaranteed Intimidate (which is tough to get as BAMA) and two abyssal sockets. The two abyssal sockets can be used for a funny interaction, where if you put in two Tecrod's Gazes, the bow clones get 160% increased crit chance, because both jewels give 40% per Murderous jewel affecting you, counting themselves.
IDEA 3: Custom Rares
https://preview.redd.it/0jyshbs5330h1.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=34c996548383800bb072596a4009948947eb0b02
This one is a bit harder, but you can use rare gloves too. Here, the Projectile Speed affects how fast you blink and also now with how fast the clones' arrows reach my enemies.Attack speed is always generic, you can put anything cool in the abyssal socket including stuff like 8% attack speed if you've crit recently, a bit of crit multi, flat damages, all sorts of nice stuff.
Secondly, this character has a bow from Settlers League with the enchant "Increases and Reductions to Minion Damage also affect you at 150% of their value". Since my gloves have 59% increased minion damage, wielding the bow makes the minions double tap by gaining an additional 88% increased damage.
There are all sorts of other cool ways to use Eldritch implicits for the clones too, just a pity they can't gain Rage.
\---
In any case, this has been a fun craft and maybe in the future if a league goes particularly well, I might craft a superior all t1 version of this quiver and according to PoB gain... 6.9% more DPS. That would be nice.
\*RE: "Best BAMA Quiver\*": This is the best **unless** you desperately need the unveiled evasion and energy shield mod, or you are doing the poison variant or if you can't afford to sacrifice any glove mods. Price could also be a prohibiting factor, especially with this higher investment variant.
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Both a Lucky Showcase and a question. What skills would be good with this?
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Me running through maps at 100mph trying to avoid HH teleporting on breaches before I get my altars
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Trying ambush farm
Hi guys!! I'm trying the ambush farm and I having a bit trouble trying to filter good scarabs, does anyone have an specific filter for this farm with the current meta. I been trying to customize on filterblade but I'm struggling a lot trying to get a good filter (I'm quite noob).
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Hi guys!! I'm trying the ambush farm and I having a bit trouble trying to filter good scarabs, does anyone have an specific filter for this farm with the current meta. I been trying to customize on filterblade but I'm struggling a lot trying to get a good filter (I'm quite noob).
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Questions Thread - May 10, 2026
This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.
Remember to check the community wiki first.
You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.
For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.
The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:
New player questions
Mechanics
Build Advice - please include a link to your [Path of Building](https://pathofbuilding.community/)
League related questions
Trading
Endgame
Price checks
Etc.
For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2
No question is too big or too small!
We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.
We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.
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This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.
Remember to check the community wiki first.
You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.
For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.
The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE 1:
New player questions
Mechanics
Build Advice - please include a link to your [Path of Building](https://pathofbuilding.community/)
League related questions
Trading
Endgame
Price checks
Etc.
For questions related to PoE 2, please go to r/PathOfExile2
No question is too big or too small!
We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.
We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.
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How can I romance with Hillock in Act 1? I tried selecting everything but he always ends up attacking me!
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My Dumb Build of 3.28: Using Pacifism Support to Enable Null’s Inclination
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Enabling Null's Inclination with Pacifism Support: A Dumb Build for PoE 3.28
Null's Inclination isn't good, but I tried to jump through the necessary hoops to make it work anyways.
Absolution of Inspiring is triggered via both a Cast on Crit setup, and Null's. Both are linked to Pacifism, so that they deal damage, but can't finish…
Absolution of Inspiring is triggered via both a Cast on Crit setup, and Null's. Both are linked to Pacifism, so that they deal damage, but can't finish…
I ran 100 The King in the Mists so you don't have to
**TL;DR**
* Best way to run this solo is to suicide in the maze
* Roughly 20% drop rate for The Light of the Meaning (same as wiki)
* 55% drop rate for any corpse and only 10% drop rate for perfect corpse
**Total time**: 115min (could be much shorter if you skip picking up bad corpse and body armour)
**Total cost**: 40c per An Audience With The King x 100 = 4000c
**Total from Unid The Light of the Meaning**: 650c x 21 = 13650c
**Total Profit**: 9650c
**Total Profit per hour**: 5035c per house (12D per hour)
|Drops|**Count**|
|:-|:-|
|Pragmatism|42|
|The Untouched Soul|36|
|The Light of Meaning|21|
|The Burden of Shadows|1|
|**Exceptional Skill Gem**||
|Hextoad support|6|
|Hexpass support|10|
|Corpse|**Count**|
|:-|:-|
|Imperfect Forest Tiger|1|
|Imperfect Guardian Turtle|2|
|Imperfect Primal Thunderbird|1|
|Imperfect Dancing Sword|7|
|Imperfect Shadow Construct|1|
|Imperfect Spirit of Fortune|1|
|Imperfect Needle Horror|1|
|Imperfect Sanguimancer Demon|1|
|Imperfect Sawblade Horror|3|
|Imperfect Eldritch Eye|2|
|Imperfect Hydra|1|
|Imperfect Primal Demiurge|2|
|Imperfect Warlord|1|
|Imperfect Dark Reaper|1|
|Imperfect Runic Skeleton|2|
|Guardian Turtle|1|
|Primal Thunderbird|1|
|Dancing Sword|2|
|Hulking Miscreation|3|
|Shadow Construct|1|
|Sanguimancer Demon|1|
|Eldritch Eye|4|
|Hydra|1|
|Primal Demiurge|1|
|Serpent Warrior|1|
|Judgmental Spirit|1|
|Runic Skeleton|1|
|Perfect Primal Thunderbird|1|
|Perfect Dancing Sword|2|
|Perfect Sanguimancer Demon|3|
|Perfect Eldritch Eye|2|
|Perfect Hydra|1|
|Perfect Primal Demiurge|1|
A friend was telling me he can kill The King in the Mists in 45sec and I call BS, so I tried. At the beginning, I was trying to solve the maze, which make the run stressful and I cannot watch video on the side. I switched to suicide in the maze phase and it become consistently 50-55 seconds per run. To be fair, my best time was 35sec, which I exited the maze in just 2 turns. However, there are also many times where it took me 20+sec to find the exit or even died.
Picking up items is very time consuming. If you skip picking up body armour and bad corpse, you don't have to go back to organize inventory as often and this will save a lot of time.
To help suicide faster, make sure you walk towards the pole to start receiving Branching Affliction stack right away. You may also use Doedra's Elixir (only 1 Endurance Charge), Coruscating Elixir, Vessel of Vinktar, turn on Righteous Fire and Frost Shield to drain your HP/ES faster
Only 2 perfect corpse worth money and total was only 200c. I did not bother considering this as profit.
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**TL;DR**
* Best way to run this solo is to suicide in the maze
* Roughly 20% drop rate for The Light of the Meaning (same as wiki)
* 55% drop rate for any corpse and only 10% drop rate for perfect corpse
**Total time**: 115min (could be much shorter if you skip picking up bad corpse and body armour)
**Total cost**: 40c per An Audience With The King x 100 = 4000c
**Total from Unid The Light of the Meaning**: 650c x 21 = 13650c
**Total Profit**: 9650c
**Total Profit per hour**: 5035c per house (12D per hour)
|Drops|**Count**|
|:-|:-|
|Pragmatism|42|
|The Untouched Soul|36|
|The Light of Meaning|21|
|The Burden of Shadows|1|
|**Exceptional Skill Gem**||
|Hextoad support|6|
|Hexpass support|10|
|Corpse|**Count**|
|:-|:-|
|Imperfect Forest Tiger|1|
|Imperfect Guardian Turtle|2|
|Imperfect Primal Thunderbird|1|
|Imperfect Dancing Sword|7|
|Imperfect Shadow Construct|1|
|Imperfect Spirit of Fortune|1|
|Imperfect Needle Horror|1|
|Imperfect Sanguimancer Demon|1|
|Imperfect Sawblade Horror|3|
|Imperfect Eldritch Eye|2|
|Imperfect Hydra|1|
|Imperfect Primal Demiurge|2|
|Imperfect Warlord|1|
|Imperfect Dark Reaper|1|
|Imperfect Runic Skeleton|2|
|Guardian Turtle|1|
|Primal Thunderbird|1|
|Dancing Sword|2|
|Hulking Miscreation|3|
|Shadow Construct|1|
|Sanguimancer Demon|1|
|Eldritch Eye|4|
|Hydra|1|
|Primal Demiurge|1|
|Serpent Warrior|1|
|Judgmental Spirit|1|
|Runic Skeleton|1|
|Perfect Primal Thunderbird|1|
|Perfect Dancing Sword|2|
|Perfect Sanguimancer Demon|3|
|Perfect Eldritch Eye|2|
|Perfect Hydra|1|
|Perfect Primal Demiurge|1|
A friend was telling me he can kill The King in the Mists in 45sec and I call BS, so I tried. At the beginning, I was trying to solve the maze, which make the run stressful and I cannot watch video on the side. I switched to suicide in the maze phase and it become consistently 50-55 seconds per run. To be fair, my best time was 35sec, which I exited the maze in just 2 turns. However, there are also many times where it took me 20+sec to find the exit or even died.
Picking up items is very time consuming. If you skip picking up body armour and bad corpse, you don't have to go back to organize inventory as often and this will save a lot of time.
To help suicide faster, make sure you walk towards the pole to start receiving Branching Affliction stack right away. You may also use Doedra's Elixir (only 1 Endurance Charge), Coruscating Elixir, Vessel of Vinktar, turn on Righteous Fire and Frost Shield to drain your HP/ES faster
Only 2 perfect corpse worth money and total was only 200c. I did not bother considering this as profit.
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Build Showcase: Permanent Vaal Molten Strike (with a bit of Mana Stacking)
Hello folks,
I'm a rather new player when it comes to making my own builds, and tonight I'd like to present my first self-made build: Permanent Vaal Molten Strike Mana Stacking (PoB: https://pobb.in/w7RqLxF1RulW).
In 3.28, a new support gem was introduced called Vaal Temptation. The gem removes Soul Gain Prevention from the Vaal Skill in exchange for a Physical Damage over Time debuff that stacks every time you use the Vaal Skill.
To offset this, we use Runegraft of Quaffing (Mana Recovery from Flasks is also Applied to Life) and stack as much Mana Recovery from Flasks as possible (praise big Eternal Mana Flask).
To sustain the souls needed to cast the Vaal Skill, we use the combo of Hateforge (skills cost Rage instead of souls) and the Keystone Chainbreaker (from Akoya Lethal Pride: 1 Rage regenerated per 25 Mana Regeneration per second).
For the Vaal Skill itself, the lower the Soul Gain Prevention, the better, because the duration of the debuff from Vaal Temptation is equal to the Soul Gain Prevention duration of the Vaal Skill we use.
For damage, we use a combination of mana-stacking items:
Manastorm gives a buff that adds Lightning Damage equal to a percentage of sacrificed mana (up to 61% if we use a Volatile Orb on the shield);
Cloak of Defiance with high flat mana and insane double-corruption [we can insted use Doppelgänger Guise if we want to have high physical damage mitigation (increase chance to not die from Vaal Temptation dot)\];
Khatal's Geyser is used to free up the prefix on the Mana Flasks, so we don't have to worry about our Flask to stop when we reach full mana
Arcane Cloak works similarly to Manastorm, but with a lower percentage (14% added Lightning Damage per mana spent);
For extra damage and safety against rares and uniques, we use Sigil of Power to trigger both Manastorm and mana-spent effects.
In the showcase video I made (https://youtu.be/2WogVS2jksk) — it's in my native language, sorry 😥 — I run some Delve nodes (1k depth) and maps, with two different setups:
For Delve and bosses, we use Increased Critical Strikes and Slower Projectiles for extra damage consistency;
For mapping, we swap in Greater Volley and Greater Multiple Projectiles for Headhunter Soul Gain and extra clear speed.
Sadly, the budget for the build is in "YES" territory — it's pretty expensive, didn't keep tab on all the investment, pecially on Volatile Orb uniques (the belt took like 50 tries).
I hope you find this build enjoyable, any tips to improve the build are apprecieated.
Have a great league, guys!
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Hello folks,
I'm a rather new player when it comes to making my own builds, and tonight I'd like to present my first self-made build: Permanent Vaal Molten Strike Mana Stacking (PoB: https://pobb.in/w7RqLxF1RulW).
In 3.28, a new support gem was introduced called Vaal Temptation. The gem removes Soul Gain Prevention from the Vaal Skill in exchange for a Physical Damage over Time debuff that stacks every time you use the Vaal Skill.
To offset this, we use Runegraft of Quaffing (Mana Recovery from Flasks is also Applied to Life) and stack as much Mana Recovery from Flasks as possible (praise big Eternal Mana Flask).
To sustain the souls needed to cast the Vaal Skill, we use the combo of Hateforge (skills cost Rage instead of souls) and the Keystone Chainbreaker (from Akoya Lethal Pride: 1 Rage regenerated per 25 Mana Regeneration per second).
For the Vaal Skill itself, the lower the Soul Gain Prevention, the better, because the duration of the debuff from Vaal Temptation is equal to the Soul Gain Prevention duration of the Vaal Skill we use.
For damage, we use a combination of mana-stacking items:
Manastorm gives a buff that adds Lightning Damage equal to a percentage of sacrificed mana (up to 61% if we use a Volatile Orb on the shield);
Cloak of Defiance with high flat mana and insane double-corruption [we can insted use Doppelgänger Guise if we want to have high physical damage mitigation (increase chance to not die from Vaal Temptation dot)\];
Khatal's Geyser is used to free up the prefix on the Mana Flasks, so we don't have to worry about our Flask to stop when we reach full mana
Arcane Cloak works similarly to Manastorm, but with a lower percentage (14% added Lightning Damage per mana spent);
For extra damage and safety against rares and uniques, we use Sigil of Power to trigger both Manastorm and mana-spent effects.
In the showcase video I made (https://youtu.be/2WogVS2jksk) — it's in my native language, sorry 😥 — I run some Delve nodes (1k depth) and maps, with two different setups:
For Delve and bosses, we use Increased Critical Strikes and Slower Projectiles for extra damage consistency;
For mapping, we swap in Greater Volley and Greater Multiple Projectiles for Headhunter Soul Gain and extra clear speed.
Sadly, the budget for the build is in "YES" territory — it's pretty expensive, didn't keep tab on all the investment, pecially on Volatile Orb uniques (the belt took like 50 tries).
I hope you find this build enjoyable, any tips to improve the build are apprecieated.
Have a great league, guys!
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