first season, 3.23, made 3 characters with my own builds. the first one bricked and the 2nd and 3rd made it to clearing red maps :D

Thanks for your Videos.

You earned a sub. You deserve more views keep it up ! :)

Awesome video.

Anyone else confused on where the follow up videos are

great content, subbed :)

Dude!!! you have a new follower from Batumi! awesome video, i love the approach.

I just go with simple mindset, like I want to freeze enemies and set them on fire (Hot Ice) Or with bleed to make blood Popsicles. Only issue is scaling it up and finding the right gear for me.

i love this.

This could be a pretty interesting video series, going over each build aspect in depth. The the defenses guide, physical dot guide, stat stacking guide ect. Just covering general build focuses but with lots of tips and tricks that us 1000's of hour casuals still don't know

Your description of coming up with builds is honestly more work/more complicated that some college degrees. This game is fucking crazy. Idk how anyone finds the will/drive to do this. Lol.

Well done. PLEASE continue the guides

I been playing incinerate since it was a projectile, shotgunning, everyone used vaal pact, mages all ran voltaxic rift(btw its 100% again), and warlords mark allowed spell steal.

my only real gripe with making builds, is the time investment needed to even start trying it. a lot of the builds i'm interested in use level 60-80 gear, meaning before i can even start trying it out, i need to spend hours leveling up the character. which just means i'm not able to really experiment with a lot of options.

I may be shit at making builds but i enjoy it either way. I feel that this is the main fun for me of this game. I hardly play other people's build. The closest I got to playing other people build is playing it through story then changing it up abit in maps.

I bassicly play liek you from times of only act 2 tho i always alck in end game , never enough dmg resist and surv even with mirror items and good notes and max potions

I have never made a build from zero. A combination of PoB/Excel feeling too similar (broadly speeking) to my daily job and my hasty personality makes me not want to bother. I kinda get over that for a brief period when I am actually playing a build, I enjoy it quite a lot and want to min-max it or troubleshoot it to fit my playstyle better. For the builds that I really really enjoyed and have been pasionate about, my changes and tweaks were enough to make the original version and mine vastly vastly different. That being said, even though I think I have a good understanding of mechanics and a lot of experience from breaking down builds over the years, I would be very skeptical to make a build from scratch because of 2 factors: 1) I was never interested in PoB dmg numbers... i use that program for other stuff... I evaluate damage by feel in game so I am quite sure I would fuck up the config 2) way too many interactions are not accounted for by pob. These 2 things make it so that I don't have a reference point wheter the build would actually be good or not without testing in-game and that is a bit of a too high opportunity cost for me right now. Things might change in the future, as I am really interested in a CoC KB build (the one that zig-zags) and I can't convince smarter people to make it. So I might try my hand at it.

i often look up build guides, but it's mostly for references, i almost never follow a build, currently, 3.20 im doing a split arrow/shrapnel ballista build and currently at lvl 54 im doing good

I made a Bladeflurry char once for Hc ssf and it went really well untill it instantly fell over in its first t1 map.

8:30 problem of peo i saw when i play last epoch is you dont know what killed you easily.

my first ever playthrough was in delve. i played 100% blind, did my own build (some kind of lightning melee heavy templar) and managed to get to tier 2 maps in ssf sc. ...in 80 hours xD i had a long hiatus after that and came back with scourge ssf. this time i followed pohx' rf guide and made it to the maven, but couldn't beat her. archnemesis ssf i once again based my build on pohx' rf, but put my own decisions to the fine tuning. i finished every non uber boss including the feared. next season, i MAY try my own build. i do not expect to get as far though ;)

Waiting for your series!

Have tried making my own builds many times but didnt finish any of them. Usually I see too low dps numbers in PoB and quit making the build xD I know that I should just put more time in it but the main problem for me is to understand how to scale damage. Like for now I think that a build that just uses x skill and supports it with just a tree without any significant keystones can't exist in PoE. What I mean is that for damage you NEED to double/triple dip it. Find some mechanic that the build can abuse so to say and thats what is hard for me - to find how to make skill x do more damage.

Amazing video.

Currently I’m playing a witch with blazing salvo and zombies. It’s going ok so far. Lvl 65 .

Great video, ive started to learn similar lessons in finally getting into crafting.

My personal check list for damage scaling: Base, Increase, speed, and more. The four fundamental of damage scaling. I consider penetrations and crit in 'more' category and gem level in 'base' category( although you can view it as more when linked to empower). Here is a example of my Brutus lead Sprinkler build. Brutus lead scales str. Now if I play crit, I easily fill up 'Base', 'Increase', and 'more' from crit. Here comes the problem. Where do I scale attack speed? This is why I go zerker because zerker can scale rage and fill up the 'speed' category. Defensive layer can be a nightmare, but I feel good with some armour and extra resistance. I found all good build come to fill up the four categories. Although there are builds like RF that cannot scale from cast speed, but I consider them a constant speed. Since you can't scale it whatsoever, it's already checked and you don't have to be bothered by it. ( Ignite would be quite different. Since it can benefit from 'ignite deal damage faster'. I consider it a speed modifier. Poison, on the other hand only scale by attack speed. 'Poison deal damage faster' only gives quality of life. It doesn't increase your dps at all.)

Rage Vortex Berserker was nice

i made a purifying flame Inquisitor build and it barely was able to do red maps. the white mobs die normally but some blue and yellow feel some tanky. and bosses take more than 2 mins to kill

Bro this is exactly what the hell I was talking about. Great fucking video. Keep that coming dude cause thats the ticket. I know there's a lot to do because there's sooooo much to go over but people will appreciate this. Trust me. Btw looking at a rend/chaos skele next league😋 Maybe looks spicy

Very helpful video, i am a player who has only played 3 or 4 seasons seriously, always wondering if im doing the right thing. I have spent two of those seasons following build guides and don't enjoy having somebody else tell me exactly what to do. I have the urge to try and figure it out myself even if it means a less successful build. Your explanation of the correct mindset for approaching a build helps me have a framework for approaching things, tyvm.

I would appreciate GGG adding in the feature to allow us to pre-plan our trees - even if it is only 10 or 20 points ahead. I often want that next node's power, but I don't want to keep toggling back and forth to my skill tree and then over to my POB I made to make sure I'm following my plan. It would streamline the gameplay. They already have something kinda like this with the Sentinel Controller.

the real way: load up pob and start cooking ... eventually you're gonna have something

As a new player, I appreciate your videos which are helping us understand the game mechanics rather that just this is my pob pls follow it.

What is your class and build for this build used in the video? Looks fun.

I've always tried to make my own builds, generally melee builds. Most have failed, but I finally managed to put together a build in 3.18 using viper strike that I was comfortably able to level with and take through basically all non-uber content. The build felt reasonably tanky, damage felt solid, and it played almost exactly how I wanted it to. Ultimately, that viper strike champion is one of my proudest accomplishments in the game thus far, especially since I made/found the vast bulk of his gear, and it is a build that could very easily be done in an SSF manner. I've done a couple of build guides, but I tend to avoid many because they have a tendency to be either very reliant on trading to get the gear you need (I'm not strictly against trading, but I far prefer getting all the stuff myself), or they have a tendency to be big dps and little survivability, or, worse yet, they have survivability that is highly contingent on somehow always having molten shell + every flask active for every time they take damage, which is unfeasible, especially if you have a five-mod drought bringer in your harvest. That's why the first thing I do whenever I look at a PoB is uncheck molten shell and every flask, so I can get an idea of their actual tankiness in a worst-case scenario. Tankiness for 95% of the time means you die 5%, which happens more than often enough to be a problem. Especially when you're as bad as I am.

about 95% fail builds, but some made it to juiced t16/bossing(but not uber) my best win was Chieftain Crimson dance EQ bleed, i tried some weird mechanics and defenses like a Jugg with 250% life Dark Pact self cast Blood Magic Low life Pain Attunment with Eternal Youth + Wicked Ward + Zealoth oath, 10k max life (5k unreserved) + 2k5 (pre-gravicious nerf), 1s delay 2k5 life recharge + 800 ES regen (+ Divine Shield + Unbreackable to ES regen) Dark pact is a 10%life sacrifice so didn't stop life recharge, mobs hardly get over the ES and even after there is still 5k HP with 50phys dr 20k armor 80%max ele res, fun but too clunky and slow, at least i've seen the hidden potential of Eternal Youth and i'll keep it for futur variation

Tenkei, here is a thought and experience, just for info. I am playing this game from around 5 or 6 years, most of my builds were unsuccessful, like 80% of them, but from time to time, a build went good, good as hell from dmg and survival standpoint. So, for me personally, this is the true beauty in this game. To make your own, not-copied build, and to make it work and clear all content easy. That is when you feel really good, in general. And unlike other games, where you "need" to have exact same build for your class and your role, in order to work, be efficient and taken in parties, Path of Exile offers that individuality: to be the one amongst all who plays the game! No one to play the build like you invented it, not to be copied and slightly modified, and to pass the final check - to deal with ease all content in the game ;) Nice video tho !!!

How to make a good build in PoE? Powerful bases for maximum scaling and synergy of skills. And read everything carefully. In the end knowledge is power in PoE. Understanding the behaviors of skills is key and how to manipulate them to your benefit. 2 people can play the same skills but one knows about shotgunning where a skills damaging effect overlaps and can damage the enemy multiple times in one attack while the other uses the same skill but the strikes or projectiles dont overlap causing the enemy to be hit less times in a single strike/moment.

Late to the party, but you did ask... My first build and my thoughts on the experience? Well, it sounds a lot like how this video started. I was originally playing back when acts 3 & 4 were the end game and player hideouts were first introduced. Back then you could run just about anything and make it work with whatever you found along the way or had stashed from a previous run... and then I put the game down for several years. Coming back near the end of Crucible League? Hoo boy. Totally different ball game. Exponentially more mechanics and content, emphasis on build guides, people talking like the campaign is just something you have to knock out fast because endgame is the whole game now, and the importance of engaging with the trade economy... well, it all feel a little... grumble grumble. When it comes to secondary content, I'm mostly reading/watching SSF friendly stuff, because to me, well, if you *have to* follow a strict build guide, then the game might as well not even have all the complexity and I might as well go play something with a set number of fixed classes and a by the numbers walkthrough on the best towns to buy the best gear at. Don't get me wrong, I like the growth in content and complexity.... I'm just not so fond of how optimization seems to have become a requirement rather than a personal challenge or how so many of the community metrics revolve around grinding currency and gaming the trade market.

I started playing 2 weeks ago and stumbled on your channel recently. I am looking forward to a series like this. You have my sub and bell ringing sir.

I have done both ends of the spectrum. Following a build and trying to create. Honestly, I have more fun creating. Don't waste respec currency. You can always reroll.

Thanks for the input my good sir! Been watching a bunch of your videos and Ive learned a lot. This is my first league and I able to bet some uber elders. Im just curious, what is your item filter setting? can you share it with us?

Looking forward to this series😀

Ultimatum league, I made a assassin BV Pure Physical with explosion cheast with two void batteries. Everyone told me the build wouldn't work, even some streamers. But For Ultimatum league it was the best build, made lots of currency. I think that time BV was nerfed. My first time with BV, on Bosses i die to often. And in 1month i have the currency for my second build...

I made a chaos slinger in Scourge (?) and failed miserably xD It went from slinging to selfcast bane + soulrend and I ended up fighting sirus with 150k dot dps. Then I decided to give up, switch to grimros CF Glad and just went blasting, with the build being better even in white maps xD (to be fair, at that time I wasn't that great at getting currency fast, so I wasn't able to try different gear making me lose motivation to continue playing my build)

Great vid! I agree that building around QoL is probably the number one thing, especially for someone like me who plays on console. For this reason i am running Deaths Oath

I'm relatively new to POE, and I've never read in depth build guides. I always try to come up with my own builds, and theory craft what I think looks fun. Thats what I think POE is about, exploring the unknown! That's why I love your show cases too. My builds may always be scuffed, but that's besides the point 😅 I'll never follow a build guide otherwise I will just be pressing buttons while knowing the end outcome which is.....boring.

I have been trying to make my own builds with what I like for quite a while now, none have been great successes though. Mainly I see that I try to shove in too many concepts into the same build and therefore things don't end up clicking together. Sometimes a bit less is more. Not knowing how to scale damage properly I try shoving in more concepts together. Dieing too much I shove in more defensive things, but probably not enough of each thing to make a difference. As things don't go great, I don't stick enough with the character and do probably the worst thing: reroll. But then I have enough fun with it all and still play POE with firends and girlfriend so I should be doing something right...

Great video! Also doing own build's since Ultimatum and after some practice i really got the hang of it. I feel like i first really started to understand this game since i am not copying others builds anymore and just go for personal preference. Also totally agree in your "DPS is not everything" point! Rather have good QOL and being flexible, than being hypersquishy as a trade-off.

I tried a Galvanized arrow mf build. With time I cut the mf gear. With what I know today I would put more thought in the auras and the mana manegement. It was okay but a bit disappointing. Couldn't do last maven and I couldn't figure out why. Lacked boss damage

im trying, i feel like going ssf with a build guide helps you initially. SSF will always give you challenges but with a build guide you at least have an outlier of what to do and the rest you figure out yourself. Have gotten way more knowledge because of that, but quite comfortable enough to make a build

If we could Alt click on the passive skill tree to toggle planned nodes, or even import a PoB, that would go a long ways to making it easier to make/plan builds in-game.

Pity there wasn't a mod that could create a build out of items I already own in my stash lol. Especially on standard.

Glad to see you're still playing PoE. See you in game during next league.

Nice vid! Made my own legacy build, wel 2 actually. One build that has 50.000 energy shield and one that can afk wave 30 simulacrum.

1. Learn how to calculate the dps of your skill in POB so you have a rough idea. This can be complicated, but some creator somewhere has done it, even for minion instability. 2. Look at builds from people you trust and try to balance between defensive, offensive, utility, and life nodes the way they did. 3. Don't waste currency on small upgrades or leveling gear on your first character. 4. Don't give up period. I did srs minion instability in 3.17 up to boss rush red map end game making 2 ex an hour without sweating my lax pacing. Look for ways to push your build further. You may find a real limit, but honestly everything is "viable" with 50 ex put into it. It won't be a top tier build the first 3 times you do this, might not ever be, but you can make 50 ex with a full time job, a kid, and 8 hours of sleep. It may be slower than other people, but every time you learn more about crafting and farming you will get better and better.

you f'ckin watch me make that horse drink. it just needs enough investment.

I did a TS miner sabo with Doomfletch 3.15 and a hybrid fire trap elementalist in 3.16. Both very good builds

I tried to make my own builds in past, mostly awful, but at some point I made nice ed and later vortex. It was kinda inspiring, but after that I left PoE for some time, and now it completely different game. Feel newbie again >_

im not seeing some of those skills in standard league

absolutely love it and looking forward to watching! So many people can benefit from this and many more i am positive will start to enjoy POE more than streamer says build "Y" and farm "Z" to make "X"

Restarted the game. Had some success with someone's build. Now wanna use my own. Thank you for the tips. I disliked how nearly every thing I saw was 'Max your DPS, I can't stress this enough' I like balanced builds, or fun builds. After all, I'm playing a game, I should have fun. If that means I'm jumping across the screen and just knocking down enemies and not killing them, but just getting a laugh at knocking them down. I'll do it. So far POE community seems pretty nice. Could just be the new guy sent tho.

What cyclone build is the one you are doing when talking about mechanic?

nice video as always, Tenkiei! One of the most fun builds I've ever made was a life stacking chieftain, I played in duo party with an ignite WoC elementalist. I designed the chieftain build to play the endless heist and it was amazing

Once i a while i try to make up builds, but they end up squishy or ineffective. I once made an inquisitor with a whispering ice. The concept was to cast while channeling Stormbind ! I even added knockback to use icestorm as a way to pushback ennemies while channeling the runes. Didn't scale the damage enough, took too much time to deal damage, and too static. Worked to an extent in party play with a friend, but not in solo... Still wondering if there's a way to use cast on melee kill on any build... I guess the big problem with PoE is that the knowledge data base is too big, always inflating, with skills and item border useless. And since GGG's balance revolves more around nerfing the meta to increase difficulty for the pro/streaming players, and not about allowing more leniency for the sake of creativity, it will remain very hard to build something from scratch.

I tried it when I first started and it went awfull, I tried to make a giga tank reap build during my first full league, the same league that introduced reap, I couldn't do shit, dps sucked and I wasn't tanky at all, seeing the build I wanted now on youtube by the british exile (don't know if he made it or not) made me super happy. Now i just play build guides.

Hello Ten, I'm really excited to learn more about creating our own build.... I've +10y of POE and never tried my own, my first concern, and maybe this is my first error as well, is about time! I don't have many hours to play daily usually 1 or 2 max... so I'm always afraid of starting something and realize that I made wrong decisions on the way of that specific build and there's no turning back... or the time spent to fix is higher than creating a new char... both ways will consume a lot of time. Also, in the middle of this whole thing we could be on the start of a new league and when your build is not performing you're not experiencing new mechanics etc... I definitely can see that planning, testing and creating your own could be really fun... it's like playing a different POE... anyways... learning about defenses and how to scaling damage (idk, maybe a diagram on those topics) could be really helpful to people, even when following builds... sorry about the long comment! 😄

Thanks to Ziz, Subtractem, you and others i finally make builds that get to red maps. I love these

Failed loads of builds, specifically I've been working on a cobra lash build for the last 3 leagues that just seems to hit a ceiling. It's a work in progress and I'll keep at it until it works as well as it needs to, then polish it some more. 3.18 was a success for me, I got a decent run with an SRS Instability build which after the manifesto I've decided will be my league starter. More builds fail than work but once you have a working build that you like and understand, you have a great template until it's nerfed and does to the point it truly can't be fixed. I could follow a guide but that takes away the fun. I read/watch them to learn, not to use as a cookie cutter and I feel like the game is richer for it. In fact, /raisehand I'm a PoE addict.

I want to know how much constant dps we need to complete uber content these day. Minimum dps on my builds is around 1m but I don't feel it enough anymore.

Every time I play this game I'm either starting a new build or continuing one I was previously building. I fail quite often in making a build that survives into endgame, however, I always learn from those failures. Currently I'm doing a Shadow Mines build focusing on Pyroclast Mine, I have yet to equip a single aura(excluding Skitterbots) and am finding different auras to be a compelling addition for different encounters. I'm still not in maps so I feel little reason to commit to an aura just yet... But I'm definitely swaying towards one of the Purity auras. I think it's super fun to just create a new character and see how I can shape them into an interesting or wacky build.

Im just starting the game, farmed an oni-goroshi and got so bummed out when i found out that there were no oni-goroshi builds around... what do i do?

Yeeeessss, this is exactly what I need right now. I am trying to absorb as much knowledge as I can. Sentinel was my first league and I already learned a lot. For Lake of Kalandra I made the goal of creating my own build. Perfect Timing, so please dont abandon this series

You are producing great content. I hope it will help a lot of players.

How I learned was in my first league I just tried to play as many builds as I could following guides kind of like Mathil get to red maps and high 80s to low 90s quit and start over. Which gave me a good baseline understanding of a lot of different fundamentals which mainly helped with knowing what rares had some value. The next few leagues I'd start with a guide for a league start but try and alter it to fit me in smallish ways. With my last build of the league I'd try and go completely on my own doing something non meta. After a few leagues I don't even look at guides outside of the entertainment value. You will fail but that is also how you learn. My biggest failure was trying to do a CI Gloomfang build and I didn't know that it completely by passes energy shield spent 3 weeks and 100+ ex crafting this build and went into my first map and died from my first attack spent the next 5 portals trying to figure out if the map had reflect or something like wtf. Took off the amulet and stop getting one shot but my build was completely designed around chaining so without it I could barely clear a t12 map. Much sad but also funny story did cause me to throw up my hands and quit for the rest of that league tho lol

You mentioned comapring builds like your fr coc and subtracrums, poe ninjas heat map is a very nice tool to use while comparing similar builds also.

Hi Tenkiei! I found you channel not long ago and I have to say that all of chars that I have (1 per league since Blight) are my builds that are influenced by some skill gems, some other builds that I saw but not carbon copy of that build or the are thematic builds like Cold dmg, dot build, chaos dmg, fire dmg, channeling skill. My 2 Failures: My 1st build was Cobra Lash Assassin in blight (Daggering Lv79 barely able to kill Kitava in Act 10 and do some t1 maps) - first failure. My latest failure was in Archnemesis league where I tried to make Galvanic Arrow Trinity Raider (GalvanRaiRaider Lv84 just not enough dps to go through Rare enemies, and now is completely bricked) You could say My Wins: SkeleMages Necromancer in Ritual (Skellchy Lv87 Good Clear speed and boss speed, never done any pinacle stuff). Caustic Arrow Trickster in Ultimatum (Venomin Lv87 Standard CA build and pre-jet-again-nerf to Trickster) and Bane Ocultist in Scourge (DaWithc Lv87 Just-Bane-things and Hex(es)) And my latest Absolution+HoP Guardian (Sentilneliomon LV90 YAY I can touch and kill some pinacle bosses). Just Search HawkBlade94 in PoB>Import/Export Builds and you'll find all of my builds there

I think that the most useful tip on this video is the "experiment yourself on others builds". I'm very poor when comes to knowing the game mechanics. Even after 2.000 hours of playtime I still do not understand crafting for ex, imagine trying a build from scrach. BUT One thing that i always try to do is "personalize" others builds from things that i understand and can control. This is a slow but smooth way of learning. Very exited to see this series!

I made my own builds when I started playing back in war for the atlas (but I played on standard lol) it was a mess and three leagues after, I started watching Ziz's stream and copying builds from content creators. Now I copy the PoB from a content creator and start making adjustments or variations to it mid league... maybe it's time to revisit the expirience of making my own build now that I have a better understanding of the game

Diablo 4 is out… and it looks like fun, but I’m not touching another Blizzard product. I’ve played Poe like once… and I think making my own custom build is where I am finding my enjoyment. I will look up your series, once poe2 is getting closer.

Hi, this is pretty late, but I'll comment anyway. In general I try to make my own builds, but I started playing in Delirium league. I consider most of them successes, simply because each of them have been trying to get further than the last. I have gotten to the point of being able to make builds that can do t14-16 maps + bosses comfortably and I like delving and heist, but lately that's where I've stalled. PoE's midgame seems pretty horrific. You really need to have a strategy for farming when you get there and then have some understanding of how to transition to endgame builds or scaling your current build up further. So far I've either a) don't really know how to farm or what TO farm or b) anything I can think of to get more out of my build is a price hike from 20chaos to 5 div or more. All the changing league mechanics and other mechanics don't help either. The atlas change really took a while to get used to and I'm still not comfortable with the new passive tree. Hopefully you did start that series so I can go check it out. Good luck on the new league!

I've never made my own build, unless you count my very first character that got to level 8 or something. I don't. I have recently gotten a bit more flexible, though - swapping things around on the tree as I feel makes sense. For making my own build entirely... I'm not sure I want to - mostly because of defences. Something kills you, maybe it was a 1hit, or maybe it just did a huge amount of damage. But why? Was it a crit? Is your phys mitigation not enough? Who knows. And this guesswork is what I don't want to deal with. If I knew what kind of damage was done to my character in the 10 seconds before its death, I think I'd be a lot more open to it.

This video series is great. This is how I've always felt abt POE: I only started last year sometime, but the entire appeal of the game to me was the giant tree and customization of playstyle. Using someone else's build just takes away all the fun and accomplishment. I've played one build per league, skipping leagues here and there, and the highest I ever made it was t10 maps. I'm cool with that. I learn a bit each time and I always play skills I like, with weapons I like, on characters I like. It's such a different experience than most have with poe, but it's satisfying to me.

I have tried like 3-4 builds every season and not a single one succeds with how enemy scaling just jumps to the roof from campain to Maps either i have not enough damage or i spend less than 90% of my build on defense and therefore gets 2 shot by blue mobs :/

this is well and good, but because you can brick a character in poe, experimentation is more punishing then trusting a blizzard game.

I'll always remember my 1st successfull build, it was a reave shadow using CI and vaal pact (it had a 380 dps claw !!! ), i had hours and hours of messaging with someone else doing a similar build on the forum. PoB was not a thing, and dominus were just added to the game good ol' times.

I have a question: Like, if you're using trinity support, does the ele pen from trinity stack with elemental pen support? I know elemental pen support is more pen, but is the extra amount more than trinity (if they don't stack) worth it over another support gem?

Your POE videos are the best. Watching your videos have taught me so much about the game. Please keep doing your videos. Us POE nubes appreciate you!!!!

I think that understanding defence scaling and understanding dps scaling is the basis for creating your own build. Fr.ex I still have problems scaling ES. Example: Most Big D ES items grant % of life as max ES, but does this work with CI? How to scale ES without going int stacker? What does it take to push armor past 50k? is another question. I'm really comfortable pushing for a T16 map farmer, and know how to get there, but pushing to Uber content is a wall. :D

What are the playlists called as i cannot find them on your channel?

I’m kinda new since 3.15 and still don’t understand damage scaling as well as I would like. I understand the difference between “more” and “increased” modifiers, and it seems the goal is to get the highest possible base damage with as many more multipliers as possible. But even when I do that, it seems like I can’t get my damage to scale to the level pro build creators can. I would love to see a video on this topic, all the ways of scaling damage - “more”, “increased”, “added” damage, “effectiveness of added damage” on gems, damage conversion, flask effect buffs, etc.

I once did a full fire conversion chains of command + ranged animate weapon build. Managed to kill some elder guardians but no more. still proud of it.

First of all I want to say that I love your POE videos! Ok, now answering your question about making builds I can say that making my own builds in POE is a thing that making me play this game for over 8k hours now. On beggining of my jurney with POE I`ve tried to do some build from KZfaq and when I did that, it was maybe 30 mins until Ive delete whole character from game, because I can`t play it, I`ve had that unconfortable feeling like playing GTA Vice City on downloaded 100% game save. Since than all characters Im playing are my own builds, 75% of them can`t do even T6 maps, but its fine, I can learn from my own mistakes and use my small succeses on new build. Now after 3 years of making builds I can do build what can clear T16 easy and do some bosses in less than hour and share them with my few close friends, who are happy to try make them in game, even they know it might don`t work at all. And thats the think what I`m enjoying the most in game. I hope this answer make some sense and sorry for my bad english. Greetings from Poland and thank you once again for making so enjoyable content about POE. Stay sane exile. Peace

I used to build all kinds of stuff to try it out and some worked OK, some less so. What I have started to do instead is pick one kind of build that has interesting synergies and see how effective I can make it. Right now that is a Corpse Walker/General's Cry build. I built it last 3 seasons ago and this season I think I know enough to make it actually kill bosses without too much trouble instead of just being a clear build. I guess we will find out. =)

I did fireball ignite elementalist, and it was terrible, due to me not knowing anything about itemization. Then I found that magefist made a fireball elementalist, but it was too squishy for my liking, so i swapped a damage aura for determination, added molten shell, and used gear that had armor, and using his inspiration and ideas I was able to fix my build while still having a level of tankiness that I felt comfortable with

My experience with making my own builds has been core to me having fun in path of exile. I started in delirium and by heist, I decided to make an earthquake bleed champ. It started by me wanting to play a tank build, that didn't need to hit fast or go fast, not using crimson dance and going lacerate like the rest, it would simply be an immovable juggernaut for content and I succeeded. It was cheap, it did 2m DPS and I could easily have pushed more and it was unkillable. Enduring cry, life leech, life Regen, recovery on block, block cap, 10k molten shell, flesh and stone. From the end of heist where I knew I could league start it to the end of ritual in which I had my most fun ever, it was the build I loved and still yearn for. And it was apparently a meta build, but I didn't know, not after the fact of me having fun fighting kosis on 100% deli for 25 minutes. I farmed a HH with it and then found one more on Cadibro(RIP). Since then, I was never able to make my own build. I can't find anything interesting to even try and make it work, it feels I always need to dump 40 exalts to make even somewhat reasonably ideas work.

I guess I'm a very obnoxious player with my pure damage builds ❤️ Edit: I expect a HH while leveling now

I got questions, how do I scale damage without offensive aura like hatred ? Because coming patch it's a huge nerf on aura and that's a problem, if go full defense how can we get more damage?

During Delve league, I created my own Molten Strike Jugg that was entirely based around attack speed, life leech, and life on hit. I had garbage defenses, because with totems, I was somewhere around 8 attacks per second. Plenty of life leech and life on hit to keep me alive, right? Greatest failure - earliest I've ever quit a league. Got stonewalled in the early 70s. It was a fun experience for sure!