PATH of EXILE: Passive Skills & Masteries to Make Your Build Better

[@ZiggyDGaming]

I don't know why youtube's compression seems to scuff the look of the passive tree so much, it's all blue and grainy, sorry about that. :S

[@blazesmasherz]

let the world know that I, Kia, was first

[@blazesmasherz]

also np mate. youtube krangling

[@grzegorzniedzielski6885]

The compression algorithm might not like this kind of scattered pattern. If anybody is interested here is Tom Scot's video about the topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGe1oWCrpJt7o6s

[@tabs1913]

If you can upload at 1440p the compression is so much better for this sort of thing, even if viewed at 1080p. 1080p is pretty awful on YT. You can even record at 1080p, upscale it, then upload and it will look significantly better.

[@ZiggyDGaming]

@@tabs1913 Thanks for the suggestion!

[@kelpsie]

A small thing that's nice for Occultists: If you're taking the Chaos Mastery that gives chaos dot multi per 4% chaos res, the one extra max res from One with Evil gives you just enough max res to eek out another 1% chaos dot multi.

[@inperangua]

Between witch and shadow, there is very potent stun avoid cluster, with mastery it grants 80% stun avoid. Very good on hybrid and CI builds imo. Edit: There was a bug with mastery itself, but it was fixed today

[@daddydeadbones]

Apparently its bugged and not allocating correctly

[@inperangua]

@@daddydeadbones Today's patch fixed it.

[@chicomanara]

Cool tô know they fixed it

[@Fredongo_]

Very nice video, however I can't help but notice that you got defeated by the reading boss in 8:15. This node grants life flask charges when you hit things, not when you yourself are hit. This makes it not only much more desirable and powerful than you already claimed it to be, but also very interesting for builds that use the Writhing Jar or hybrid flasks.

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Whoops! Yeah way better!

[@taintedstrike7513]

Oi Ziggy. Why is nobody talking about that not only are there no new Masteries for Channeling skills; but GGG also removed every single node which concerned channeling from the tree. Great video as always.

[@TheRalouch]

praying for channeling rework

[@Infernosaint]

And yet we still have channeling cluster, so it's obviously important enough to keep those :(

[@poside]

Another thing to note on sword mastery is that the frenzy on hit is global. 4 points gets you the sword cluster + mastery below call to arms. Great for anyone who doesn't want to fork out the money for a frenzy on hit chest. You "waste" 3 points travelling but the mastery itself is well worth the point investment imo.

[@DiZzYDeNnis2k9]

One thing I stumbled upon was the Staff mastery. As I switched from Wand+Shield to Cane of unravelling with my ED/Contagion Trickster I was able to easily get Maxblock for spells and attacks and the mastery gives you 2%ES recovery when you block spells and 2% Life revovery when you block. Thats basically two mods you want to roll for on your Shaper Shield otherwise. I think that is absolutely busted.

[@frequentsee3815]

This was a really good idea for a video and very well done. Thanks

[@WindHaze10]

Don't forget block mastery has 20 life and 20 mana gained on block, very good for mana sustain.

[@kentpachi143]

for staff only which is sucks

[@golfie3309]

it doesnt cost a skillpoint

[@wolvie90]

I've been using the non-damaging ailment masteries quite a lot. My starter, storm brand inquisitor has pretty horrible single target dps still but I manage to reach 15-20% shock on A8 Sirus. My second character is an EoW miner inspired by Octavians ice trapper, using Secrets of Suffering and I'm easily maxing out Brittle and Scorch.

[@PrismaSigma]

I was waiting for you to mention the frenzy charges from Sword mastery at the end, but something else to add to that is there's a sword wheel in the bottom-right of the tree which gives a significant amount of block and is decent for any block build, and you can get the frenzy charge mastery while you're at it.

[@nlb137]

Revenge of the Hunted, similar to Juggernaut, lets you get an evasion mastery while taking a life wheel. 10% increased movement speed if you haven't been hit recently provides some zoom-zoom help.

[@Gidon147]

Hey there Ziggy, been starting PoE with your "Ultimate beginner's walkthrough SURVIVAL GUIDE 2.0", which it tells me now is a whopping 6 years ago! Man it has been a while, thank you still for your content! I would like to get back into PoE in hardcore mode, so when is that 6y/o guide gonna be renamed "Penultimate Beginner's Walkthrough"? I would absolutely dig a current-year PoE survival walkthrough, seeing how much has changed over all this time.

[@TheGielnik]

You should've pointed out the recoup wheel at the top of the tree, it's the first time we've had access to recoup outside unique items as far as I know.

[@DaronMGL]

There's 2 wheels, the one below the lightning nodes has 30% and there's smaller one on the right side of the witch area for another 20%. 50% damage taken recouped as life from hits could be very significant defensive boost for life builds for the 6 points.

[@Nimroc]

Those two clusters are probably my favourite ones on the new tree, as they essentially allowed me to league start with self-cast Forbidden Rite without going CI.

[@Omega-616]

@@DaronMGL Trying to fit them in with all the other good stuff is hard though.

[@Omega-616]

The rage on hit from axe mastery is just awesome, cheap damage for my Ngamahu’s Flame Chieftain. I think the mace hits always chill mastery is really neat too.

[@kvahlman]

I was looking forward to getting a good staff for my storm brand crit inquisitor and make use of the two staff masteries for 30% increase defenses and 2% life/es recovery on block, alas playing HC I died before getting there with the build. Will make another attempt or just try them out on standard later in the league.

[@L2newbie]

In regards to the sword mastery and frenzy charge on hit, it's a global effect. I saw a poisonous concoction build take the block nodes and Brutal Blade (which affect dual welding or shield builds and not exclusively sword nodes) as well as the frenzy sword mastery

[@MaxMustermann-si4kj]

When using Lioneyes Fall Jewel in the Shadow area you can take the dagger and claw mastery points, dagger offers cull on crits and you already mentioned the strong claw masteries

[@tenero_2183]

ikr, i'm building a TS rn and those are so insane

[@caucheka]

The axe node that gives rage on hit with an axe or sword will work with spectral throw/spectral helix, since it doesn't specify melee. though most of the other rage mechanics require melee. I tested this out myself can confirm.

[@chicomanara]

The recoup clusters between shadow and witch give a lot of life recovery on kill, and the passive gives 3% life recovery on kill, wich is generically good survivability during mapping.

[@JGomesinfo]

There's one mechanic with the elemental mastery that people might be sleeping on, I know that the increase to -18% from the -15% of wave of conviction does not seem like much but this effect is really powerful with other types of exposure like master of fire and my favorite one which is the exposure on hit from the Ultimatum helmet basis, this mastery will allow you to have a more powerful exposure (the one from the helmet is -10% so you get an extra -8% there) and have a better uptime than with wave of conviction while saving one socket. :)

[@mromg8282]

I was blown away when I discovered the new max res nodes.

[@ZwrP]

you missed out on repleneshing remedies, near the charisma node, that + the flask mastery which gives u 1 life/mana charge every 3 sec will allow u to almost perma sustain mana flasks, which will remove mana problems for basically any build and you can chuck on a suffix to get immunity to a mechanic.

[@nlb137]

The minimum power on warcry mod was never removed entirely, as it was still available on alt-quality Urgent Orders.

[@kailanirhys6107]

It was also on a cluster jewel

[@tidings8073]

I'm glad Ziggy didn't see any good nodes for self cast channeling either. My Divine Ire is really struggling without cast speed or defensive options. I guess no one thought people would be silly enough to cast their own spells.

[@fakeplaystore7991]

"Determination has 25% mana reservation efficiency" is also pretty good, since Determination is being used A LOT in this patch to provide reliable physical mitigation. For builds that struggle on mana, "Clarity has a 100% mana reservation efficiency" is also pretty good - it may turn a mid-leveled Clarity into a reliable source of mana regen for little mana reservation investment. It does NOT work if you're linking it to Arrogance to reserve life, however.

[@kenrq63]

Thank you ZiggyD - as you said, lots to think about here.

[@Mordethphoenix]

convocation cool down recovery! super nice

[@Hogia94]

Actually what you see here is Atziri's Steps with minimum roll, with maximum roll it goes up to 849 evasion at 20% quality.

[@muenzis]

That was super helpfull!!! Thanks !!!!

[@monkeydrufi27]

Thanks zingy for this very useful piece of info, a godsend in this rip fest of a league.

[@wygiwyg]

great content!

[@joshuahensley9395]

I don't think I've heard anyone else talking about the crit on spell suppression, would this make leveling a CRIT build more viable?

[@Coogi999]

Thanks so much for this

[@ullukas1408]

If you are using Divine Flesh, you can use the Armour/ES mastery to get "Defend with 120% Armour while not on low ES" for 20% more Armour

[@rusduderus]

how does mana/life flask masteries apply to hybrid flasks? do they all work for them too?

[@benkester1518]

The "recover 30 life when your trap is triggered" mastery makes you almost immortal during leveling to anything not a one-shot. It's still decent sustain late game.

[@Zylosio]

As a saboteur sustain is really no problem, tinkerskin and the ascendancy do enough of that, the problem is getting absolutely oneshot

[@benkester1518]

@@Zylosio You don't have tinkerskin while leveling.

[@Nicolas-tq8yz]

you did not consider the intimidate on ruthless hit of the attack mastery?

[@zekonja90]

What is a passive cluster? all passive around bigger circle passive?

[@bahamut458]

Has anyone found a good source for what the "prevented damage" refers to with Divine Shield? Amour mitigation, block, spell suppression?

[@steezy3294]

All of these. It's not new, Jugg has been having the mechanic for years.

[@rafakal9823]

Wonder if i can play again my flameslinger again with all these changes

[@b152349]

Tried the claw mastery with TR. Did not feel the mana on hit at all

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Most of the time you shoot the ground with TR and it generally attacks very fast. Both problematic for mana

[@DerTannenSchredder]

I thought the +3 to level of all critical support gems won't work on Cast On Crit because it does not have the Crit tag itself am I wrong here? Ís there even a crit tag now that I think about it

[@lavq7000]

The crit tag was added in this patch. CoC has it

[@Aziraphale686]

This mastery system seems like such a no-brainer in hindsight, I wonder how GGG managed to avoid it for so long.

[@Krytos13]

does anointing a notable unlock the mastery wheel?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Nah, you have to path there too.

[@emptyfish8992]

You should do this once a year. Maybe point out build stuff.

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

is the 3% es node basically a 6% dmg reduction? prevent 3% and get that much in es which also tanks some damage?

[@sjlawton]

No, it means that if your armor prevents 1000 damage you get 30 es. The keystone doesnt give you extra prevention

[@lolleonlolable]

hey the 1%ele damage leeched as es dosnt work with totems right ?

[@Layahn]

If you're running discipline you could give the totems some ES to leech to.

[@Mecheka]

Ziggy, Which build are you playing?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Armageddon brand ignite with my partner righteous fire inquisitor with flame link.

[@jurom6765]

Masteries are much more enjoyable to use than clusters.

[@WalterBlight]

How can i get more points in an mastery

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Each time you allocate a notable in a mastery cluster you can then spend another point in that mastery, so go grab another cluster.

[@akaxjenkins]

not a single block mastery worth noting? i don't blame you, SST took the whole block archetype with it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Shanjaq]

just broke my build to try that Divine Shield node, instantly died to the first mob in Ossuary, didn't see *any* regen (I had ~1700 ES and ~2400 Armor at 35% damage reduction). hardly anything hits with just physical in late campaign, especially the projectiles! refunded...

[@SirRabbit]

How can the node break your build?seems like pure up side to me. I can't imagine ever having less armour than ES for that first line to ever matter. But, personally, I've taken the node with 60% phys reduction and I can tank most mobs without losing ES

[@Shanjaq]

there must be something I'm not getting, by "broke" I mean, refunded a bunch of points for things I needed so I could reach across the tree to Divine Shield, but being level 79 I noticed every time I level up the damage reduction decreases when I haven't changed my gear between levels? why does ~2400 Armor provide 35% damage reduction at level 79, but 37% at level 78?

[@wolvie90]

@@Shanjaq The estimated damage reduction is not to be trusted since armour works strangely in PoE. Armour is good at mitigating small hits since a given armour rating has a maximum reduction value for a given hit (don't remember the specific numbers) but it's pretty bad at protecting against larger hits. 2.4k armour is pretty low in general so any type of slam attack will deal mostly full damage.

[@SirRabbit]

@@Shanjaq it takes the average damage a mob at your level would deal to you you and bases it on that, so your armour hasn't changed, but the damage used to calculate it has gone up.

[@xdhold6295]

i found your old albion online video at alpha version go play albion again pls its now AMAZING!

[@alottayuotube5]

are masteries actually working properly now?

[@satanicrazgo616]

i found out some masteries dont work :D

[@TimmpahS]

Alternative title: Passives and masteries to be nerfed in 3.17

[@dsilverleaf4668]

😕😑 Where the fuck did the life wheel go!

[@pansernes]

Someone call the mace & staff masteries, they're crying :'(

[@rogueyoshi]

please add chapters to this vid

[@mariuszel759]

Are they even working?

[@emptinessence]

ameownt

[@11Anti11]

ziggy, i love your content man, but this game is trash. Can you recommend a game for someone with low IQ that isn;t last epoch or D3?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Melvor Idle, it's skill grinding and numbers go up and you don't really have to do anything

[@anathema1828]

OOOO