Tell us how we did! Fill in this form for feedback forms.gle/iKPLDBnQZ3MbxekQA Big, BIG thank you to Subtractem for joining us! You can find his links in the description, please drop him a follow.

Thank you Zizaran and everyone involved for giving me a wonderful venue to share my passion for one of my favorite parts about path of exile. Cheers everyone!

You can believe that he’s from the tech sector by the fact he spent the first 5 minutes outlining his resume

Subtractem's slowlty become one of my favorite PoE content creator's over the last couple leagues. Just great energy and an approach to the game that I appreciate.

So honestly subtractem literally strikes me as the type to be legit teaching advanced gaming techniques in a college type scenario. His whole aura is that of a professional.

“The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.” - Fred Rogers Bless you neighbors.

Pog Subtractem Pog this dude rocks

I can't believe i just attended a seminar on building a character in a video game. Wish my profs in college were this good haha

Dude I love your voice and how clean you explain things. For all you dont know. Subtractem has the best crafting guide I had ever seen for poe. Check it out.

@subtractem is a super awesome dude. Been watching him for a couple months. Awesome Master Class

Subractem is great and I feel he's on the path to becoming one of the biggest and most popular PoE content creators! I missed this live but have been waiting for this upload :) Can't wait to watch!

"It's really dry in here" - takes gulp of moonshine

Watched the vod on twitch yesterday, fantastic presentation! Really hope people get inspired to push their own builds further than they have in the past.

Best newcomer to our community's list of creators, imo! Love this guys positive vibes. The guy seems genuinely happy to answer questions, help explain things, or dig in to others people's builds and try and help them fix what they aren't happy with. Also seen him help people craft tricky items. Wish we had more creators like him!

Great video. If there's one thing I took away from this it's that I should walk down the street at midnight talking to myself.

subtractem is a breath of fresh air in the content creator community, thanks for bringing him on to PoE Uni Ziz, awesome work!

Love the video ! I'm watching right now and its really interesting to see a different point of view on how to actually make a build from ground

@subtractem is by far my favorite content creator for PoE. Even showing up in a suit and tie for this presentation, he's the man

Thanks subtractem and Ziz for this video! This has been super helpful to see extra perspective while I'm working on some game design content. I always return to PoE because it's so engaging for players despite the complexity, and this reminds me why I love it so much. Great job!

Subtractem is really good at presenting. Very fluid, good body language. It helps a ton to stand while presenting. I don’t think I would be able to do builds and I play for 5 years. I still figure out a lot when trying new builds. Cheers

Key takeaway: creating your own build is like playing *_Don't Starve_* : fraught with impending perils and frequent death.

We are very appreciative of all the work put into this. Thank you so much :)

love subtractem glad to see he's on poe uni finally :) he knows his stuff

Big thank to Subtractem for taking the time to prepare this video, from the start it is pretty clear he took that seriously. To each their own of course and I don't mean to criticize other people who talk on PoE Uni but for me that's what I would expect from a PoE University, really well prepared and organized knwoledge sharing like this. I'll definitely check Substractem's content in the future.

This was an amazing video and very thoroughly explained, but it's a big "to each their own" moment for me. I don't have the time let alone the desire or patience to figure this out. I am eternally grateful for the guide makers that slog through this and allow me to just follow a template and play the game :D

Subtractem is love! Very good talk man, as always thoroughly enjoy listening to you!

Wow this guide was intense. Never seen someone so passionate about making builds. Thank you ziz and subtractem. Really enjoyed this ep.

I'm a new POE player, and videos from these two guys have helped a lot in my journey to learn more about the game. Thanks all!

I'm in a weird spot where I don't have any shame with following a build, and I certainly don't fault those who do, but I haven't allowed myself to "follow" one so to speak. The furthest I've gone is looking up archetypes and seeing the fundamentals of how they're doing what they're doing. Which I think is crucial to understanding how to even get a custom build off the ground, even if it's bad. I've rolled a witch like 4 times now this league. I didn't get the first two out of campaign because I was running into a couple of issues that, while I could have spent points and chaos orbs to fix, I couldn't escape the feeling that I could have done significantly better. Plus, without even being to maps, it was simple enough for me to just re-roll. Every time I did, my build's performance shot up at least 100%. I went from taking some damage but not dying at Dominus to face-tanking him and burning him down in a blink of an eye with no threat to my life. And between the third and fourth iteration, I had the same feeling with act 9/10 and Kitava. I could handle tier 5 maps before it started feeling a bit rough. While that felt like a great improvement from where I started, glancing over at what other people are capable of, I wasn't even close. So I'm starting again and trying something radically different but building around the same skills. I'll be satisfied with 100% dps increase, and 500% effective hp when I get to maps. That might sound like a lot, but my last character's effective hp tapped out at 5k and my dps 350k. It shouldn't be hard to push those numbers way up if I make the proper considerations. Anyway, the reason I'm posting this is because I can't help but feel like this is just a miniature version of what the entirety of PoE's community has done over the years. Of course the newest builds are min-maxed to hell, because they're working off of thousands of iterations of troubleshooting and experimentation. And at least for now, experiencing this process on a personal level has felt super rewarding. Seeing the difference in performance between attempts is like a visual indicator of my growth as a player, and I love it.

Defeated Shaper with Searing Bond. Super fun, but I'm never doing that again...

This was hands down the best poe uni I've ever attended. Bravo 👏

wait, i watch subtractem but didn't know about his background his background is HUGE, oh my

This is great, that you invited guy with so different approach than usual, nice presentation, great :)

This is one I've wanted for a while

Great to see you on subtractem!

hahaha the Queen of England part was awsome xD i played almost 3000 hours and even learned. Thanks for this video!

I already sub to @subtractem for POE videos but double thumbs up for the Brandon Sanderson quote! Love his books!

Excellent overview of building. Dad POE ftw!

Absolutely fantastic insight!

We neeeeeeed vids like this. Thank you thank you thank you

I just love the game because you are constantly learning even if you arent going to school anymore. No matter what you are putting your brain into work every league from the changes

"Journey before destination" Subtractem is a Brandon Sanderson fan? :D

My reason to make a build is looking at a skillpoint or ascendancy point or even a tag in a gem and thinking would be cool if

thanks ziz!

Dude knows his shit, love it.

I started checking this guys content out in ultimatum. I did try one of his builds. A super tanky herald of purity guardian. The guide was easy to follow and the gear was very reachable. It was the first time I was able to acquire better gear than the person that made the guide I was following. Shame the build still kind of sucked haha. But he for sure had the best and honest information out there when it came to the valdo harby farm in ultimatum. I am still recovering from the hard work that farm took and as long as I did it.

The MTX thing is funny but real. I spent hours figuring out how to build around sharknado mtx for gauntlet. XD

Good timing for this to pop up again. I'm trying to put together a necromancer melee bleed build to recreate a favorite D&D character. Oddly enough, that one doesn't seem to be very meta. 😅

We love Subtractem.

Such an amazing energy🙂

Skip to about 7 minutes for the slow lead in to the topic

Nice!! Missed the twitch, glad you made this into a KZfaq vid

This is the single best video in this series.

An important consideration when making a build is your hardware. I made an over the top frostbolt totem build with black hole mtx. On a wide open map, that build brings my gtx 3070 to its knees. Fps in the 20s 😅

II know I am watching this almost a year later. I was playing PoE during closed Beta. Then took a break after ascendancy became a thing. Then came back in 2014 after the military and have been playing ever since. I am constantly learning new things.

He's advocating for secret knowledge keepers that guide large herds. And he's absolutely right

Oh man seeing Day9's name again after all these years. I understand why he left Starcraft casting but a large part of my love for that game left with him. Dude is a legend and it's nice to see him get a shoutout!

This will be super helpful to review for year 3.19 cause old semester work helps so much. ESPECIALY when my baby trickster is so new again and I'm worried hah

Great video! I love it.

Good speaker, loved the talk.

Just casually hustling Out a 1.5 hours Presentation... Impressive man, would have hyperventilated after 20 min or so haha

Only seven minutes in I knew this was exactly the video I've been looking for since I started playing.

All ive done sinc e i started playing poe. Gave up on defense. Right now. Lightning fast berserker bows, slowing the enemies. Wish they made a guided arrow. always loved that skill. But with maximum 1 pierce on a single enemy but leaing enemy open to further attacks (unsafe/trickery) either take more damage or critted more often or something. props for wc3 player. I got an idea for micro in a wc4, heal up to 3 units out of ombat gaining 100% heal but in attaking only 5% (yes my media omp keyboard is broken) always loved the micro that my friend described

Around 34:50 he is talking about watching a video and pausing and wondering what the other person might be thinking reminds me of this chess channel (agadmator) where he says for us to do this exact thing while reviewing a match

I genuinaly thought subtractem was like 20+

3:01 Chris wilson: YOU WHAT !!!?

This guy teaching me life and something about a game.

To add. Really good film you two!

Listening to this more, you can hear the developer in him toward the end when he starts talking about testing assumptions lol.

Keep making these University videos. i do not care how long they are. It is time well spent. BRAVO!!!!!

Yay my 2 favorite PoE streamers!

no chapters? / timestamps?

Honestly I think I enjoy futzing around in path of building more than actually playing the game. I'm still fairly new so they're not usually very good, on paper my Frostblink build is the best I've made from scratch...

Was that an altered mxc reference?

Stormlight Archives Reference nice.

So if Subtractem's talk was all about "journey before destination," and Steelmage followed up with a talk all about "life before death," are we getting "strength before weakness" next?

Online tuition has seen a lot of improvement since the pandemic. This is it's climax ladies & gentlemen : PoE University !

I think we all would like to be a little bit more fast, and a little bit more hipster. -Socratese

I appreciate the effort here, and I'm sure subtractem is a great teacher, but 55 minutes into the video and he's literally said nothing at this point. Like the other PoE university videos it's mostly a lot of editorializing and generalization without any specific details about anything, especially the process. A new player watching this will be just as informed about the process as before he/she watched the video. This isn't a "slight" on Ziz or any of the people involved here, you guys are all entertaining to watch, just some honest constructive criticism. Most videos from many of the biggest content creators who are trying to explain things about PoE end up doing this same thing. You are basically telling people who don't know anything that they need to find out the things they don't know. But that's why they watch these videos that end up not telling them anything, which is just a waste of time.

I want to make earthshatter build with screenwide aoe and automatic spike explosions triggering.

very nice video on tought process, but if you have to open 5 other s builds on poe ninja, then make your own, hmm idk man, seems like remaking a build then right?

I love his laugh. It’s so adorable

Good comments on "feel". I PoBed Maw of Mischief ignite, came up with a version that was absolutely awesome on paper, i couldn't stand the build

My reason for wanting to make builds is so I can get my friends to play with me without having to look up build guides.😅

Nice talk, but I feel you could talk more about the components you'd want to use to solve the problem, not just how to go about solving the problem. Now I want to try charged dash CWC arc so I can ride the lightning

Subtractem is awesome.

That one guy understand that i have mtx and i MUST use it

farmville was the shit!

Attend a lecture with a powerpoint presentation to learn to play a video game. Only POE.

chose a skill, pick every damage note in pathofbuilding that increases ur damage over ~10%, chose assendancy depending on utility or damage, unpick every damage note too far away from ur starting point, wiki every tag of ur skillgem, decide on converting the damage or adding chance to poison... so that more damage notes are possible to pick, are u hitting a lot? then added damage is better than increased damage, generaly: more damage>penetration>as extra damage>attack/cast speed>increased damage, depending of type of damage chose buffs and debuffs gems, now defence top side skill tree: energy schield, left, rigt hybrid is possible not recommended though, bot side life, ~6k life/energyshield recommended. soft mitigation: left side armor, right side evasion. hard mitigation: dodge, suppres, block depending on accesability take as much as u can, next immunities: avoid elemental ailments if possible 100%, avoid stun, poison, bleeding, corrupted blood, if not with skill tree supplement with flasks, next problem wold be sustain: leech, life on hit, rocovery, regeneration for life, shield and mana. cap ur resistances, convert the dame ur getting to one type as much as possible and increase the cap, still dying? there are a lot of defensive skills/auras , like enduring cry, immortal cal, flesh and stone, fortify, steelskin, guard skills, molten shield, auras..., flasks. dont forget one or two movement skills, there is more but thats enough to buid a decent champ he was talking too much around the bush

LOve this guy

Le toucan has arrived

Cats are good for softening self-promotion.

im planning on making my own afk auto attacking build that can work ssf or low low budget : ) thats my goal oh yeah im doing it blind.. no poe planner.. just as i go on the fly.. so i can learn the game this league : ) thanks for this nice chill video to give me inspiriation

Life before death radiant!

Take a breath, Subtractem! Relax. Otherwise, good stuff!

Cheeeeeers!!!! LETS GO PEO UNI SEASONNNNNNNN

Subtractem pog

Dang only difference between a real uni and this is the audience sitting in front of the lector 😂

This guy is in the industry for over 20 years and still looks younger than me. Fuck genes 🤣