How to do BIG DAMAGE - Path of Exile 3.14 Ultimatum

Path of Exile requires a degree in theoretical physics and mathematics to fully understand. But just a little bit of knowledge is enough to do BIG DMG.
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Big Damage
01:12 Spells vs Attacks
03:55 How Links Increase Damage
05:00 Added vs Increased
06:40 Gearing For Damage
07:04 Flasks
08:16 Jewels
09:38 Weapons
10:52 Local vs Global Modifiers
12:31 Rings and Amulet
13:33 Other Armor
14:16 Critical Strikes
17:57 Damage Over Time
19:40 Other Smaller Tips
21:52 Further Questions
22:18 Outro Don't Skip :)
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[@BigDucks]

When did you get your degree in Theoretical Path of Exile Mechanics?

[@sebastjankosec]

Still working on getting it

[@greggoriii5729]

about 4 days before i realized i was tired of Path. no amount of new build ideas nor skill gems have made me not realize they just really add random repetitive things (and anything Ziz mentions) to keep u busy until endgame if you get there, then the grind is just rinse and repeat until private leagues (pay2play mini versions of same mess). days off didn't aide. but boy did uninstalling feel great! free at last! permanent mental ban on returning to Wraeclast

[@TakTakNaark]

For this league, I actually charted up a build concept that got to 10 mill DPS, which is the highest I'd gotten without using a build guide. I then changed builds to something tankier with more damage :P

[@ichsagnix4127]

I'll have my 9th try on July 16th, really hope I don't get exmatriculated.

[@g.waits4gainz205]

got my undergraduate last league id say adn was finaly hoping to start doing real builds and work on that juicey master degree but yeah NOPE. turns out i musta failed a class last year and gotta try again. some day phd someday haha

[@RavenGhostwisperer]

This type of content is exactly why I like Big Ducks

[@joefrancis759]

This was super helpful, a lot of info all in one place. I've had all of this stuff explained to me separately but having it presented this way was nice.

[@EmoEmu]

Just add flasks that you play like a piano till your hands are little arthritic lumps that can't straighten.

[@armandomendez8836]

Great video for helping me finally understand all the different ways to scale damage

[@gogoloish]

Really well thought out and presented, learnt a bunch. Thanks!

[@Rangotz]

thank you man, i am back to the beijing grind after a 7 year long break, playing your blade blast indquisitor build in ultimate. finally understood some of the mechanics behind it.

[@HaunterA7X]

Very good video in general, the explanation and the exemples are very good also! Have been playing since Bestiary and still have so much to learn. Keep up the good work!

[@anthonyg6083]

Thank you very much. Going to have to review this video again because I learned too much all at once. Definitely needed this.

[@NotionYHW]

BIG D for BIG DUCKS. Thank you for your help my dude.

[@OneOfDisease]

Been using POB for ages and never knew you could drag a unique up to the slot. Learned something new.

[@richardroyster405]

Super informative and extremely well done.

[@akeemrollins2327]

Thank you. I didn't know a few of these things and I am running the blade fall/blast inquisitor this league.

[@some_other_guy]

What a fantastic video, thanks for this. Will certainly help a lot of people understand this clusterfuck of a game.

[@jford962]

Good work I have thousands and thousands of hours in Poe made tons of working builds and I still learn new stuff every league and this video truly is a gem. Nice work 🦆

[@Risvargen]

GREAT video! Im a returning player, and alot here is things i knew, but put into better words. Helps alot! Liked and subbed

[@jhuggz193]

Awesome video. Ty so much

[@handsomejohnjohn]

Excellent! Thank you

[@PeterPan-fk5nq]

Nice video! Thx!

[@Alloran]

Needing big DEEPS, thanks man. I have a Raider that wants to feed on maps.

[@Klasus357]

Nice basic guide about the game, seems useful!

[@Deatherall]

amazing video dude

[@No_OneV]

Thank you !

[@Arakash]

I'd love a series which shows how to scale different types of damage. Like elemental attacks/spells, ailments, crit, phys,

[@bloodavionext5605]

Amazing, a lot of info. But im still confused about %chaos damage vs %chaos damage over time multiplier vs %damage over time multiplier, i dont know which of those is better for my toxic rain build

[@sefii05]

Now that we've seen Ball Lightning during the intro, any chance to get your Archmage Ball Lightning build updated(if needed at all)

[@dr.frankn.furter6390]

Hey, can you pls tell me if ball lightning or spells in general can procc blind on hit from jewels? Tried to find out, but don't understand.

[@barendscholtus1786]

The presenter is Mr Turbo Speak ;) Lots of things to think about and experiment with on pob though, thanks ;)

[@d.z.6669]

All my Hardcore characters died but today i learned why. Ultimatum: enemies enrage after a while. This killed me on lvl 70+ onwards :(

[@dannyducellar6342]

OMG THANK YOU

[@ehamel2001]

Eventually you'll understand all the little nuances like that.. 6+years still learning.

[@lordofchaosinc.261]

Imagine finding out after several years that most of the affixes you had on your gear were actually useless.

[@Ultracric]

what exactly does the radius with jewels do? I hear you say don't skip on jewels.

[@rexblaze4]

This is the best PoE video I've seen including the PoE2 trailer. Though _looks at my 2k dps frost blades slayer_ I might have some work ahead of me. How does one actually use Path of Building?

[@redache467]

You can import your character and see what potential items or passives would do

[@JetcannonM]

very nice, gj

[@amzarnacht6710]

Might want to put in some instruction on stacking DOTs - They nerfed the hell out of stacking some time ago but I never understood how it worked in the first place, and haven't a clue how it works now.... So, let's say you're an elementalist using a physical attack skill such as toxic rain to proc burn and chill through the various ascendency nodes. Do all three of them tick individually, or will only one of them be ticking (and which one - the highest, or the 'first' which would be the poison from rain). The whole 'converting' the physical from the toxic rain to fire and chill would be a whole video unto itself...

[@lucasmercier5813]

Thanks for the vid mate, however at 11:54 , "X% Increased physical damages" also applies to spell that relies on physical (like blade vortex etc.) not only on attacks right?

[@wettymeister]

exactly. if it says x% increased physical damage to attacks, then it wouldnt apply

[@lucasmercier5813]

@@wettymeister ok make sense ty

[@DavidStebbins]

No. On a weapon, as Big Ducks says, increased physical applies only to attack damage with the weapon or with skills that are based off weapon attack damage. The affix (on a weapon) would have to increase 'global' physical or add physical to spells to affect Blade Vortex.

[@lucasmercier5813]

@@DavidStebbins ok, i dont get why they don't specify "to attack" then

[@DavidStebbins]

@@lucasmercier5813 I don't know. They may want to minimize word count. It's probably the same reason that they don't specify that bonuses to armor/evasion/energy shield on armor pieces are local and not global.

[@TakTakNaark]

When you're watching a video that you don't think you'll learn anything from, and then find out *you can drag items from the search bar to their respective slots in PoB.* Mind blown.

[@g.waits4gainz205]

ty and CHEERS! sadly biger dps comes with bigger budget, and if your not survivng long enough to get the money to get the gear to do more damage to do the harder stuff that gives more money then all you need is time. and boy ohh boi do i waste time :P

[@outlawz38]

For new players.... minions only get a damage increase if it specifically says increase minion damage

[@ichsagnix4127]

you really could have written "How to do BIG DUCKS"... ...just for the memes of course.

[@andreidei]

the main thing to take from all of this is that unless you are easily doing red maps you are a beginner ...

[@WesternHypernormalization]

Ever since Delrium hasn't this basically just become stack cluster jewels lol

[@Glomly]

Damn it. Even going full potato with no defenses and 30% dot multiplier + 50% increased damage per each gear piece i cant go over 200k dps in pob.

[@derpataur1162]

I really wish youtubers would stop with the "70% of you aren't subscribed" spiel. I've started setting youtube to not recommend channels to me because of it. If I wanna subscribe, I will... but it will never be because someone tried to guilt me with statistics.

[@juannito6318]

With no numbers how do you know your doing good damage

[@supremecommander2398]

hmm, ok... good news, not much learned. bad news, im still bad at scaling MY damage output, because i kinda lack those "easy" things you mentioned (like having frenzy and power charges up).

[@SeanForeman]

Lucky is dnd advantage

[@krasimirdimitrov4955]

IF you are a casual player you can forget about big damage :D

[@vioectrolysis]

Ok... *sweats* ... when's the test?

[@Dimens1oner]

Let's be honest... being a class cannon dealing unethical damage but dying every other map couple times... its a pain. 1st priority is not to die easily. 2nd to deal unethical dps.

[@hiroakihanyu]

tbh i still didn't understand the difference between "more" and "increased" damage - an example could have helped, e.g. 1000 base damage: how does it scale if you have 50% increased or if you have 50% more damage?

[@nassimhaiouani3772]

the increase dmg will apply first so you will have 1500 dmg and then come the "more" dmg multiplying your 1500 dmg by 50% making it 2250 in this example it doesnt seems insane but in an actual build where you have a lot of dmg increase's this 50% more dmg will have insant value

[@nimnogaparus]

I agree, this vid wasn't very helpful. I'll try to answer your question. We begin the game with 100% damage. Something gives you 10% increased, so 100% + 10% is 110%. If your base damage is 100, you will now do 110 (100*1.1). Now you find another piece of gear with 10% increased damage, this gets added to the other increase, so 100% + 10% + 10% = 120%. So now you will do 120 damage (100*1.2)= 120. Starting over, again with 100 base damage, let's say instead of 10% increased, you found something that gives you 10% more damage. Again that would bring you to 110 damage. (100 base damage * 1.1). Here's where it becomes different. Let's say again you find another thing to give you another 10% more damage. Unlike with "increase" earlier, we don't add the two percentages together. It's more simple in that you just take whatever amount of damage you are doing currently, and again multiply it by 1.1 . So we take our 110 damage, and multiply by 1.1 and get 121. In other words 100*1.1*1.1 You can see were doing a higher amount of damage in the second example than in the first. Try replacing the "10” with bigger numbers and you will see it's a significant difference. Tldr: more is better than increase. Side notes: two instances of "25% more" is better than one instance of "50% more". 100*1.25*1.25= 156.25 vs 100*1.5 = 150. In other words, get as many "more" multipliers as you can, because every one that you get, makes the others more valuable. Which is the opposite of "increase", which becomes less valuable the more you have of it. The higher the amount of ”increase" you have, the less valuable it becomes. If you have no increase, then gain 100 percent increased, you double your damage (100% + 100% = 200%). So using 100 base damage as an example, you see we went from 100 damage to 200 damage, doubling our damage. If you have 300 increased, and find something that gives you 100 increase, you are only raising your damage by a quarter. Example using 100 base damage: 300 increased would mean 400 % damage (remember we start with 100 percent). So 400 damage (100*4). We add another 100 increase. So 500 %, so 100*5= 500. Going from 400 damage to 500 damage is only raising your damage by a quarter, not nearly as significant as doubling it. If you have 300% increased damage, and want to double your damage, you'd have to find another 400% increase, to go from 400 damage (400% damage) to 800 damage (800% damage). Hope that helps. I realize I got kinda haphazard with my writing, I'm rushing to work.

[@GE_Photon_Lord]

@@nimnogaparus The part when you said that more more multipliers are good, is wrong in this case->If you get 10%more spell damage and then 10%more spell damage,it's the same as 20%more spell damage (more modifiers are additive with themselves). If you get 10%more spell damage and then 10%more projectile damage, then that's not 20%more damage,it's more than 20, the game calculates 10%more spell damage +the other more spell damage mods and then the 10%more projectile dmg, which is applied after spell damage (it's an example, the idea is that you only multiply your more damage ONLY when the sources of more dmg are different, not the same aka spell damage with spell damage vs spell damage with projectile damage) - >you can check this when you equip elemental focus on an ele build instead of a controlled destruction or something. The more elemental is basically different then your other dmg types, so it multiplies your more dmg.

[@nimnogaparus]

@@GE_Photon_Lord If I am wrong, I hope you can show that to me - I certainly don't claim to know everything. I can tell you the reasoning behind what I said though - if you go into path of building, and hover over your "more", it will show the sources of that "more", and if you add them up, they will *not* add up to the total you see. For instance, if you have 44% more physical, and hover over that, you might see 2 sources, each one giving 20 % more physical, which turns out to be 44% more. (20%+ 20% + .2(20%)) = 44%. You will *not* see 20% more physical, 20% more physical, 4% more physical, for example. Which would turn out to be 49.76% more. Check for yourself and let me know if you get a different result. ✌️

[@GE_Photon_Lord]

@@nimnogaparus What has this to do with what I said??? One thing is certain, stacking more modifiers with different damage types gives u more damage than stacking let's say only more spell damage. Maybe I was not clear with this.

[@magicalesquilax7232]

I can't push further than 2.5 million dps unflasked no matter what I do.

[@diegosinner4347]

Just say it doesnt matter what you do to your class..in the end you will still get one shotted randomly

[@MsBombtrap]

your bg sound is too loud :'(

[@Frank_Art]

me happy with my 300k dps and this guy with 100M

[@DannyOE4]

Ya, breaking 1M dps isn't something most PoE players ever achieve. It's these 1%'ers that just have a better understanding of the game that can get to that point either with smarter crafting or better currency farming to buy insane gear.

[@Frank_Art]

@@DannyOE4 agree

[@brinks7801]

Large damage

[@anythinggoes1127]

I gotta say, you mention cyclone, and off the rip I’m thinking to my self, who the f would choose cyclone for big damage, 😂 I think of cyclone as a bitch skill or a noob skill. Tho I’m a noob, so someone tell me, am I wrong to think in k this. 😂

[@perky7957]

You got it wrong, increased/decreased is multiplicative, while more/less are additive

[@pestecalifornia7599]

How do you even know what is your damage since this game has no damage numbers and no dummies to check damage? XD

[@TY-wb3fw]

sorry but i dont need damage to do all content

[@ILikeGuns1992]

Video misses so much things. :/ Just some of them: In general to deal BIG DAMAGE you need BIG INVESTMENT, unless build is broken, like Blade Blast, Warcry juggling builds, etc. etc. Different skills have different damage ceiling. Dot in general has lower ceiling than hit builds. But dot builds are often easier to get into comfortable damage range. Crit builds have higher ceiling than Elemental Overload builds. After bases covered you should prioritise adding meaningful damage scaling methods such as - resistance penetration/reduction, more multiplier, incr. damage taken mods, etc. etc. Crit multiplier is not always better than incr. damage. Make sure accuracy is sufficient if running attack build that hits. Sometimes build is lacking accuracy so badly actual Accuracy Support gem is better than more damage supports lol. What's the point of mentioning 10 Ex Quad multy jewels? All these videos miss some important points. I feel like these video would be so much better if content creators just hired me to help with content. xD

[@Invizable99]

Way to many complicated mechanics, sometimes less is more kiss, keep it simple stupid. Not everyone is a mathematics teacher or wants to be bothered with wording and GGG only loses customers doing this.

[@masudalimran92]

how are u still 75% unsubscribed. I literally made 20+ of my friends sub to ur channel in front of me. also encouraged many in my university. and u are saying 75% for 2 months. I dont believe u . there is no freaking way u are still at only 25% sub. atleast its 30% now. I just dont believe u.

[@prebenfrederiksen5876]

Just a hiccup... Slow down your speaking.. It is very hard to keep up when not native to english..

[@onomastikon7975]

Hi, could you please stop calling us "boys"? Thanks!

[@diegosinner4347]

Can ppl not get to the damn point...stoptalking and get to the damn point