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I dont know if there's a POE channel not that's even equal in terms of quality to this one, or one that comes even remotely close. Your videos are informative, backed by a lot of research, cool mechanics, cool interactions, items... All just raw useful information for players and analysis of the greatest and coolest things out there.

for every immortal build, there is 1 mechanic that shreads it: this build has overwhelm, pathfinder has siphoning flask charges

Don't forget that you can use a chaos golem for another 5% PDR.

Endurance charges will never fall off if you take the warcry mastery that gives a minimum power of 10. You have to watch out for charge stealers still though.

Such in-depth work, my God it's impressive. Always a pleasure to see a willingly hard-working person. Hope you get all the success.

I love your content on defensive setups in this game - I always find it hard to figure out which defensive shell to use for certain builds so I appreciate these videos especially!

I’ve been making a pdr stacker build every league for the last 3 years. They keep getting easier every league and I love it. I prefer a 5%pdr helmet fracture. Overwhelm always ruins the build though. And it’s becoming a more common occurrence each league.

Man, i love this channel. Exactly my kind of content. Explaining mechanics, items and interactions, instead of handholding. The teach a man how to fish kinda approach. Keep up the good work!

Thank you sir. I like how you explained all.these combinations and how it works, I am playing PF with Divine fresh and it is pretty tanky

I love that TJ calculator site. Its leagues better than PoB's, and its nice seeing it get some love and recognition!

Interesting that you posted this. I've started theorycrafting a similar build that stacks pdr, but in the way of frenzy charge stacking as a trickster and using replica badge of the brotherhood which gives max fortification charges for each endurance charge, meaning you can hit 40 to 45 fortify stacks with the new gloves. I was pondering using that shield as well.

Thank you for this video. This shield was actually the last piece i needed to be tanky enough for ubers. just tried uber maven and i cleared it in one portal for the first time. I was already using fourth vow and divine flesh so it fit right in.

dopplegangers guise is def one of my favorite uniques

I love this type of videos. Glorious content. Talented. Relatively novel. Good stuff. This is why we are here.

I just dropped that chest in SSF. Might look into incorporating it.

Great video mate, been wondering how to deal with ele pen.

I come to learn from my POE sensei. I leave this lesson feeling optimistic about reducing my death count in the future :p

Have you considered Arctic Armour for additional less physical damage taken?

Though blocking makes the elemental conversion partially working if I understand it correctly. If we can find a way to make sure the character can never block an attack hit, this would be even more powerful I think

I'm planning on making a final build this league and pretty much thought of a similar set up as yours. I already made a uber ultra tanky build, that could walk me through basically any T17 mod so I can then swap to my actual mapper / Bosser to get into the map, spawn in the boss room and oneshot them. Now I wanna, to close out this league, try to combine both, going a very similar route of damage mitigation to yours and then trying to stack rage mechanics with flesh and flame jewels for the berserker note, while utilizing a one handed heist axe to then dish out alot of physical damage (not sure on the skill yet.)

Guise has been 2/3 of my normal maven drops this SSF league, kinda crazy that it’s a rare drop. One of them is a couple %off perfect, I’m probably gonna use it.

Thank you for the idea. There is so much negativity on the comments so I wanted to thank you. Even though there are other conversions like sublime vision+dawnbreaker+timeless jewels, this one is different, people didn't understand this I think.

First 1/3 of the content is very similar to Quinn's build which you featured previously. Just thought I mentioned that for credits to Quinn and you. Ichimonji has 10% generic buff effect so that should bring enduring cry to 51% if you can make use of this weapon in your build. Issue is with so much investment in defense, what's left for offense as someone already pointed out.

I love this content!

Great content as always. Quick question, you mentioned it's now trivial to reach 100% buff uptime on enduring cry but how do you do it?

Man you have no idea, I just watched your old videos about divine flash, fourth vow, mahuxtols and I was trying to figure out a way to combine it all and make an "immortal" build. This is such a good answer, ill def gonna give it a try!! Btw have any idea of skill that could scale damage even with this much tank itens?

Interesting idea actually? Got any PoBs? I don't think people covered it yet. Would love to see it in action.

12:37 Why energy shield mastery does not work alongside Eldritch Battery? In case if all my skills cost zero. I don't get it

There is a new armour stacking build in armour stacker compendium, maded by Bigdaddy. It uses pretty much the same items.

general question about defensive layers. would the fourth vow + divine flesh + eternal damnation work? wouldnt be too demanding of a setup and make it so that the half that wasnt transfered into a different element still doesnt deal full damage.

good explain, the reason of this pure physical reduction is not good is because it affect by tons of map modifier, if player use your mechanic, they can't farm those following modifier physical overwhelm cool down recovery rate buff effect from player monster steal charge on hit if you use damage transform, than you shouldn't need to deal with those map modfiier problem

You can get a synth unique ring with +1 max charge implicit and +4% add phys reduction while affected by herald of purity, for an additional 8% reduction... tho your life would be really low

We need an other video with this shield

That's interesting. Usually the strategy is to shift *away* from physical damage, but this turns that on its head. The only concern I'd have is that elemental damage has generally way higher numbers than physical, given that the game is balanced around physical being harder to mitigate. That said getting an effective 91% (capped pdr + the ES mastery) flat pdr is very impressive and I don't see how it wouldn't be enough to tank anything in the game besides DD.

Another benefit for this build is - you kinda can dip ele resistances, lol

You can get 8% warcry buff effect on lethal prides.

Это все очень интересно, не понятно только откуда в таких билдах DPS брать.

FYI you can get 8% warcry effect nodes on lethal prides. just can't use it with divine flesh like in this build tho.

I'll give you better one: Replica Badge if the Brotherhood on Shadow. I went into Assassin's route and am getting +2 Frenzy Charges from Trickster. I have 2 Circle of Guilt rings with 4% additional Physical damage reduction while affected by herald, and ofc +1 max frenzy charges. And am using Olesya's belt, and Celestial Braces. Also 5% physical damage reduction while stationary on Doppleganger. With +1 frenzy charge on Celestial Braces(70 divs) I would have this: 12 frenzy and endurance charges, 12 affliction charges, and 5 power charges. This gives me in total: 96% more DOT for damaging overtime ailments and ailment effect. I think the only right answer is to go poison 36% more damage and 36% faster attacks 250% increased critical strike chance 48% pdr(72% with Enduring cry) 48% Fortify(10 from Celestial Bracers, 12 from amulet, 6 from tree), but kinda difficult to maintain in 1vs1 In total, with rings, I have 80% pdr, 85% pdr while standing, 88% after 1 second stationary. Buuuuut, overwhelming monsters are disastrous for this build. It just doesn't have any answer to it. And also, I couldn't stack high life, only 3.4k and virtually no regeneration. Pretty good life gain on hit from Watcher's eye vitality mod, but build is bad against DOT, even though Doppelganger also works on DOT. Damagewise, I did Trauna-stacking with Double Dtrike of Momentum. Even with Multistrike, I could ramp up up to 23 mil on UBER. But, it does need 16 seconds, so it's good in POB, but not so good in reality. Maybe the better way is to go Transcendence route on different build? Even 70% pdr is decent

I get defensive layers, and how to make tanky character, but whenever I PoB some tanky build its never more than 2M dps. How do you fix damage on these builds?

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I'm pretty sure that "additional p.dmg reduction" will be exactly an Additional p.dmg reduction while you count this as a global phys resist.

Thats cool, but how would you make a build like this offensively viable?

Armor stackers are practically immortal. Haven't seen much they can't tank if built right.

Very interesting!! Abit sad that 40% from shield is for hits only :(

soo what will be the dps skill gem of choice?!

I'm trying this in standard, the pob seems very solid, i need to test against some serious content because tier 16 maps are a joke

I tried to get phys reduction 90% with trancendence setup without buff effect from items, would have to use greatwolf

I have been using the doppleganger guise on my afk pathfinder build, and it's absolutely amazing, so good against lots of damage over time too

Can be use with chaos inoculation?

i tried a frenzy stacker slayer with flawed refuge and doppelganger last league, i was scaling damage with frenzy/trauma support and while all the numbers looked good, phys overwhelm is very common and melee frenzy doesnt feel that good to play

sounds decent for a flicker build maybe?

Can add Arctic Armour for 20%+ more pdr while stationary

Time to do my CoC FR Sabotuer again I guess, this time with the new CoC DD trigger skill instead. Most of this build your showcasing is what I was already doing a couple leagues back, so now I can just make an even stronger version of it probably.

I mean.. you can make tanky jugg immune to death pretty easily.. watching this I have only 1 question ... how will you do damage.. and why not just use Vow or simple ED and have much more room to well do damage while still being immune to death.

Love your work!

I saw a mod on a grasping mail I didn't even know existed. The dude has pushed an Arcane RF build to over 50k ES, 40k Mana, and all damage taken as fire, with the grasping mail having the mod "Fire resistance cannot be penetrated". How have I never heard of that mod before? Is it graveyard exclusive? His build literally couldn't die even afking in t17s

Interesting idea. I think you can do some neat stuff if you were to add one of the unique amulets to the setup. With The Eternal Struggle you'd get easy +1% max res from eldritch implicit and you could choose between 15% cull or 10% less damage on monsters. I could see trying Crystallised Omniscience because you'd easily cap resistances with Endurance charges but idk if you'd be able to reach decent damage levels. And for rich boys Eternal Damnation would kinda make your eHP skyrocket I think, but I'd have to play with pob to see if it really works or i'm just stupid.

so did you try it ?

gg

I like the defense, but unless they add a new skill or unique weapon endurance stacking with a single one hander is going to be a walking potato.

Okay its great, do I still alive from random mob Detonate Dead? 😂

so many interactions combined & yet random one shots are still gonna happen from an obscure combo outhere haha... what about other classes?

This was my league starter traumatic_timmy. Level 98 now. Trauma stacking to ignore all degens (230+ stacks). Can afk wave 10 ultimatums. 700 depth delve atm. 35 fortify stacks, 11 end charges. BUT, it has a few weaknesses. Requires giga investment - 10+ end charges + ralakesh boots. Otherwise any monster that steals charges will just kill you. Especially when trauma stacking like Im doing. Blocking damage with mods phys as extra elemental somehow just kills me. So any map mods with: Less recovery Phys as extra Less buff duration Phys reflect Are currently a no go for me. Phys as extra works with caution. Forced to take ruby/sapph/topaz flasks just to mitigate some of that blocked elemental damage. Cant do t17 bosses, they are seriously giga overtuned. Can face tank 700+ vaal city boss, but not a t17. Had fun making it.

Arakallis fang jugg anyone?

question is how are you gonna do damage? guess only option is some sort of 1h melee with trauma

First!

The Flawed+Flesh baseline is a strong defensive layer to build off of, but is there a particular reason you are ignoring armour? If we just talk phys DoT then in my experience a Cloak of Flame w/ 90% fire res is enough to be VERY tanky to phys DoT when paired with a good recovery layer (I don't even notice 10 CB stacks). Anything above 70% pdr seems like overkill in terms of surviving DoTs and not pursuing 90% (non-armour) pdr opens up a lot of gear pressure. Doppleganger Guise also becomes further overkill for defending against DoTs. If you pivot the chest slot to defense against hits a rare body armour with phys taken as mods or even Lightning Coil serves that purpose and helps greatly against overwhelm. Higher armour also synergizes with the mastery to greatly negate chaos hits. With a 70% full uptime baseline pdr even 20k armour would nearly guarantee 90% pdr against phys hits.

sounds like very solid defensive idea, but zdps in way worse sense than PFs... what are you going to run realistically, some molten strike with 5mil dps?.

If you still going to max elemental resistance then what is the point of the setup, so many slot are limited. Just make use of the elemental cannot be penetrated haunted mod and convert all damage to fire damage taken.

Lots of yapping with no PoB😂

ok

This basically is a poor people's version of mahuxotl+tempered or divine+sublime+dawnbreaker.

this is bait