POE 3.25 Spoilers: New 20/20 Gem Stats. These are GOOD. Settlers of Kalguur Path Of Exile

[@imadetheuniverse4fun]

"there is power, but, there is also pain." - sirgog

[@Csaksanyi22]

Good morning, Sirgog. To be honest, there are many Path of Exile streamers with better backgrounds, makeup, and painted nails, lol, others who talk like PoE is a movie Tri. But forget all that. I always come to watch your new videos because you don't BS-you give raw, proper information and help, which is more useful than the other videos from other PoE players. Keep it up, Sirgog. Good job! I wish you a rich league start and all the best in real life. Thank you

[@grimkiller696]

its what youtube is supposed to be dont bullshit me lore me with your great kNowledge :)

[@jeffypwnzu]

are you talking about balor with the nails lol

[@NKB_POE]

Yes,ain't got time to catch up with every updated GGG thrown,watching Sir G content it's always been the solution for that,I've been gogified.

[@Kyriac]

What is with the obsession with making every skill ignite

[@ZephyrorOG]

Finally someone said it, this man deserves way more subscribers. You're the best sirgog

[@chriscastle1629]

sirgog zontent lowkey kinda goated fr im fully gogpilled at this point

[@matthewcopeland4511]

Bro took the yellow pill (rip old gog cam)

[@YuketsuGaming]

That comment gave me chestpain, but i agree with the sentiment

[@jtheist32]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - sirgog has, hands down, the best PoE content on the planet. Concise. Informative. Insightful. Helpful. Criminally under-subscribed.

[@Jauntie_J]

15:55 Alas, Eviscerate is sword or axe only, and Puncture of Shanking is Sword, Dagger, or Claw only. So basically just a sword combo.

[@NemisCassander]

Still, though, not only does it scream 'Perfect Agony', as sirgog says, it also screams 'rapier'. At least late game. You could run Daggers early to get to 100% Crit earlier, and transition to Rapiers with their Crit (i.e., DoT) Multi implicit once you cap crit chance in other ways. You can't use Eviscerate while doing the Dagger thing, but it's not like there aren't other options. GSS, e.g., sounds really nutty to freeze everything so that you can bleed them at your leisure.

[@garhong9125]

@@NemisCassander The problem with Perfect Agony though is you need a crit to bleed. That renders the crit chance vs. bleeding enemies mod worthless because if you got the crit off already, you don't need this mod and if you need this mod, you aren't getting the crit off. I wish they would've done crit multi vs. such enemies instead.

[@OvermasterP]

I've been gogpilled and gogmaxed for literal years

[@hamburgerfatso]

OOOOHHH IM GOGMAXXINGGGG

[@daedalus6433]

@@hamburgerfatsoYo bro stop spilling your mirrors all over the floor

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz__]

Same bro frfr

[@axphykz]

based and gogpilled

[@manowartank8784]

Eviscerate with Rebuke of the Vaal + Avatar of Fire and phys to fire conversion deal some 5000 - 7400 base fire hit for ignite. On Elementalist with Shaper of Flames it is up to 12 000 base hit for ignite. 50% more damage than Earthquake aftershock with Marohi Erqi.

[@bknight3391]

I really think there's a big, big, big build somewhere out there for a dual ailment Perfect Agony builds. Since Perfect Agony doesn't require you to scale ANY DoT multiplier, only critical hit multiplier, you simply have to gain chance to inflict the ailment. I've got to shout out @Basedard, cause he's who I originally saw this from, but Mark of the Doubting Knight gives you 50% chance to bleed and 50% chance to poison on critical hit. Dual Wielding these lets you bleed and poison with ANY dagger capable physical skill on crit. There is the new Anoint (Vinespike Cordial?) only passive that inflicts Grasping Vines, and paired with Inextricable Fate you can get "all damage inflicts poison," which would open up pure fire damage skills to applying poison. It may be better to go a two button playstyle, one for each ailment. There's also the bit about Bleed and Ignite being focused on one big hit, where poison is generally focused on many moderate hits. Maybe Viper Strike of the Mamba would be the play? It also may be a bit awkward if your crit multiplier is different for the different skills, so focusing on two skills that benefit from the same generic sources would be better for passive point management. EDIT: Also, scaling ailment duration or "deals damage faster" might be a bit weird too... you could have a very unorthodox passive tree. Of course, stuff like Vulconus exists as well, so an Ignite/Bleed build might not be so hard to achieve, since they're both focused on the biggest possible base hit. Just food for thought.

[@alexsterling5788]

I think there is definitely some merit here and it's something I've wanted to do for a while. I'm imagining Mamba with low tolerance mastery and prolif for clear on say a 4 link but then a big bleed/normal poison Mamba on 6 link. Food for thought for sure.

[@bknight3391]

@@alexsterling5788 if you want to see what Basedard is trying out, he posted a 30 min video going over his bleed/poison plan. He's going gladiator with double Mark of the Doubting Knight. It doesn't look like he's gonna have a huge amount of damage, but I'm sure he's giving up a lot of easily accessible crit by going Gladiator.

[@dawidszczechla8341]

@@bknight3391 there is passive for daggers that makes crits always apple poison, and puncture of shanking would give 100% chance to bleed as well. I think I'll start this build with dual strike and then change to puncture, and also add bino kitchen knife for poison prolif for clearing :)

[@bknight3391]

@@dawidszczechla8341 It's all coming together!

[@thomasgrimm1664]

The next book will be out any day now. The author really cares!

[@sirgog]

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[@kbar4462]

Thank you sirgog, your videos, discussions, and explanations legitimately make me a better PoE player. I'm finally developing the confidence to create my own build lol

[@chidori0117]

Divine Retribution is the cross shaped skill so it wont hit enemies 4 times since the 4 waves refers to the 4 direction it goes in. It does 6 Bursts along each direction. Depending on how it works with overlapp you might be able to get 2-3 bursts to overlap, maybe more if the mob stands on a diagonal. Maybe if you are directly on top of the mob you get 4 hits but geometry tells me getting more hits along the diagonal is probably easier if at all possible.

[@undocc]

Thanks you sirgog for this series of update videos leading up to the launch. Full of on point discussion supported with checked calculations with a fair bit of spice with speculation on possibilities. Already waiting for the next video! :)

[@666tReaper]

I'm pumped. I loved playing max block retaliation skill builds with Gladiator way back in the day, I called it the "STOP HITTTING YOURSELF" build, lol. Can't wait to relive those days!

[@justshane2805]

Facebreakers+The Surrender combo is insanely based, might try that one this league

[@ruibarian5187]

Time to grab a drink y'all

[@foxxyfoxtastic]

Waiting room Crew checking in

[@NemisCassander]

Mocking this up really quickly: If you go for as much Bleed duration as possible with Puncture of Shaking, you can get: 5s base duration of bleed 70% increased Bleeding Duration (tree) 45% increased Skill Effect Duration (tree) 10% more skill effect duration (tree) 49% more skill effect duration (More Duration Support Gem) This isn't counting anything from gear. So that's: 5s * (2.15) * 1.1 * 1.49 = 17.62s Bleeds, at 70% damage per second. Another possibility now is using Eviscerate to make enemies bleed on a build that otherwise doesn't care, and running Bloodlust in your main links to capitalize on the fact that your enemy is bleeding.

[@ikashibimauler]

Ah the time honored tradition of vaal orbing the leaguestart... HAHAHA! I felt that one.

[@Jernsaxe]

An interesting use of Autoexertion is with General's Cry, with 20/20 Autoexertion it have a 2.3 second cooldown, if you combine this with "Veterans Wrath" noteable to extend rage drop off to 3 seconds and the Rage mastery "Warcries grant 1 Rage per 5 Enemy Power, up to 5" you can sustain rage (although with a slightly slow ramp) on a non-melee Attack build since as Spectral Shield Throw or Ranged attacks.

[@OtterSeaborne8901]

Or you can play an actual General's Cry build and pick up some extra CDR to get below 2 seconds. Tectonic Slam of Cataclysm got exactly enough buff to offset the loss of War Bringer and the nerf to General's Cry, and has very good mechanical synergies when used through proxies. Plus, now infinite power isn't just tied to the shield slot you can go for an Eventuality Rod and still benefit from quality.

[@brandenpedersen5127]

​@OtterSeaborne8901 not sure how this contributes to infinite rage uptime on something like sst during a boss intermission

[@Jernsaxe]

@@brandenpedersen5127 If you have "Veterans Wrath" your rage fall off doesn't start unless you take no damage / gain no rage for 3 seconds (2 base + 1 passive). General cry being autocast every 2.3 seconds giving 1 rage means you have a slow steady rage gain that never starts dropping, if there is nothing around you can use the warcry mastery to give warcries minimum 10 power. If you want that rage gain to ramp faster there are several ways to do that while still being a ranged build, but it does increased the investment.

[@urghertable]

Long time watcher, just had a question that I was wondering about, if I were to ever not grab a drink before this Path of Exile discussion what repercussions would I face

[@_LeakSoup_]

Let's just say that I wouldn't vaal or anything... 😉

[@JabbyAoe]

I binge watched sirgogs videos, now drunk af from all the drinks I've grabbed

[@darrellsongy309]

This league has all of us swapping between starters. What great excitement and hype for the next league.

[@tamirlankri7532]

vengeful cry with forbidden rite would be a huge buff for rage builds if youre willing to stay below the ~60% chaos res or so

[@eliassantistevan7001]

Exciting times to be a PoE fan!

[@zefie6040]

I'm considering using Vengeful Cry purely through the 35% chance for a Different Retaliation Skill to become Usable, though the chance seems a bit low unless you have other investments in how often you can use the triggering skill.

[@jimmygabriel1471]

Can you clarify one thing. Can puncture of shaking work with varunastra? That is yes for sure. But will it work with weapons master with the axe bonus if you have varunastra?

[@NemisCassander]

Yes. Puncture of Shanking will do a binary check: "Is this weapon a claw, dagger, or sword?" To which Varunastra will answer, "Yes." So it will work. Weapon Master will also do a (series of) binary checks, the Axe one being, "Is this weapon an Axe?" To which Varunastra will also answer, "Yes." So it will work.

[@Mooo105]

The two eviscerate hits also help with ryslatha/volatility, to give a better chance at your long cooldown bleed actually being a good one… I feel better about gladiator’s aggravate node now, since having the rng layer of volatility compete with the rng layer of proccing aggravate is probably too much for eviscerate’s cooldown.

[@anathema1828]

Thanks for posting sirgog!

[@RichHeart89]

If you want to use both the new puncture and Eviscerate you need to use a sword. Axe can’t the new puncture and claw can’t eviscerate

[@carlosm.6333]

Vengeful cry is made for the Berserker node that inflicts self damage on taking 10 hits from enemies

[@JoeNoMercy]

If crushing fist can be exerted it probably just outright fixes the single target issues I always had with tectonic slam. Just throw both gems in the chest slot for a dual 6 link on chieftain

[@steelenova6172]

Maybe this is copium, but I honestly think that Eviscerate is so good that you don't even need to get the Retaliation Notable on Glad (If it's not your main skill). Just get the lucky block and Jagged Technique, with maybe a four link of Eviscerate - Expert Retaliation - Brutality - Volatility, and this will be a good setup for some extra damage. We'll have to see how the cooldown recovery rate on Expert actually works in practice, but I think it might be worth it.

[@shayaharonson9634]

Never played bleed before, could you clarify the eviscerate + rebuke potential? The tooltip just says “causes bleeding” Wouldn’t just the physical damage from the hit be used to scale the bleed? Wouldn’t you need an equivalent to “all damage can poison/shock/freeze..” for it to be more busted than using a dedicated phys weapon?

[@lunasllenas1997]

Eviscerate has such a big area of effect just on its own that I'm thinking it could be great as a bleed ploriferation tool for glad. Plop some inc AOE in there and your bleed explosions will be tripled.

[@WindHaze10]

Having high hopes for dual wielding Gladiator Puncture of Shanking + rupture support + Perfect Agony. Very short bleeds but excessively strong DoT. But depending on attack speed, sadism could work (will try out in one of the builds this league)

[@MrShagification]

It seems to be that If you want to use Puncture of Shanking AND Eviscerate, you must be using a one-hand sword because that is the only weapon type that applies to both gems and Eviscerate requires a shield (no two-hand weapons).

[@sirgog]

yeah good point, forgot how weapon restrictive Eviscerate was

[@danielhovan6607]

Stupid question, divine retribution with doryani's prototype? maybe add mjolnir. Also do retributions skills proc cast on crit?

[@Melancraze]

After these, I am sold on Glad. My biggest worry was damage and these give tools to work with it. Playstyle might be a little clunky and definately not a zoomer, but safe and fun

[@Patraquashe]

The Surrender will have a lvl30 Crushing Fist tacked onto it as well. If Crushing Fist scales from somewhere around 800-1000% at lvl1 to 2200% on lvl20, I fully expect a lvl30 gem to go over 3000% which could be very interesting to play around with. Evicerate looks crazy good though! Swordstorm hitting 8 times might be a nod to use it with Crimson Dance as well. 🙂

[@MrRinani]

Sadly looking at the wording, only existing versions will have Crushing Fist, looks like the new doesn't have any: The Surrender Unique Shield no longer Grants Level 30 Reckoning Skill. Existing versions of this unique will now grant Crushing Fist.

[@Patraquashe]

@@MrRinani What is your point? The Surrender will get a lvl30 Crushing Fist in 3.25 instead of a lvl30 Reckoning. That's it. Never said it would grant both.

[@MrRinani]

@@Patraquashe Because it specifically mentions existing versions, nothing about the Surrender now having Crushing Fist by default

[@Patraquashe]

@@MrRinani so you think that if you find it in 3.25, it wont have lvl30 Crushing Fist?

[@MrRinani]

I do hope it is just an error or phraising and that it will indeed have Crushing Fist because I do intend on using the shield and it could be a nice way to have several high link retaliation skills

[@AShortBusVet]

Between the new bleed & rage options, rupture support, etc., I'm really wondering if crit bleed & rage cyclone glad/slayer might be a thing this patch. Yes, I'm one of *those* people that actually like the cyclone playstyle. Thoughts, anyone?

[@xXVintersorgXx]

Autoexert is gonna be melee spellslinger. Also remember the lighting retaliation skill is a spell

[@slaytallicadeththrax4547]

Wonder if The Surrender will have a lvl 30 version of Crushing Fist, could be nutty

[@alucard92717]

It doesn't grant anything anymore.

[@nuke1nekro]

only legacy versions do, the new one instead grants a big fat nothing

[@jogadorjnc]

The change from increased duration to more duration also ruined a Saqawal's flock build I was cooking It went all the way down to 85% reduced duration to trigger as many twisters as possible, and used increased duration support so that the twisters didn't instantly disappear Now that's completely thrown out the window (the 74% increased duration on the support gem was equivalent to 493% more duration)

[@aberwood]

That's what you get for playing old memes. Adopt, adapt and improvise.

[@RichHeart89]

The Penance Mark tech gonna be so good. Permanent lucky block and reliable retaliations

[@Erdbeerenserver]

Doryanis Fist ignite was the first build I beat Sirus with (hardest boss that time) Would be fun to bring it back /edit: Thinking HARD about Puncture of Shanking now. With Glad explosions it should be easy to one tab the whole screen once the build is up and running

[@thornburg9170]

Pretty sure Eviscerate waves are more like Lacerate or Shield Crush, which also have overlapping in the center.

[@smarmypapsmears634]

The numbers on these retaliation skills are so damn high

[@viljakainu1548]

I won't be playing melee, it's been years since I did. But the way instant skills and skill buttons have gone, I wouldn't blame anyone for using AHK to send command to move and to use an instant warcry bound to the same button.

[@maggotthemadman8142]

Eviscerate Gladiator is going to be really fun I think. Wonder if going the CDR route with Torrent/Crusader boots, or just using the new anoint will be better.

[@ab8109]

what is your opinion on a Gladiator with Shield Crush / Glacial Shield Strike. Varunastra in Main Hand + Weapon Master going full Crit with Emperor's Vigilance

[@sebastiangrebe8276]

Kind of torn between going full sword + shield bleed gladiator and Shockwave Chieftain with Static strike as delivery method

[@HenriHakl]

@sirgog I don't think this has been addressed yet: there are ways to increase the duration of the Retaliation window: if your window is 5 seconds, and the skill cooldown is reduced to 2 seconds - does that mean you can use it 3 times in succession during one Retaliation window?

[@0725038]

Maybe, but you will need to block each time unless you take the glad node that give you 50% chance to use it again.

[@HenriHakl]

@@0725038 Curses (by which I mean, dangit)

[@Baba_Lemonade]

Given that there are Nodes which give you a chance to use the same Retaliation skill more than once, it's fairly safe to assume that you cannot use it more than once in a single window without that chance proccing (there's also cooldown recovery specifically for Retaliation skills, which further implies this).

[@buffalobaron]

I suppoosssseee you could make something work with voltaxic rift or even volkuur’s guidance for poison divine retribution (instead of original sin) but until we see the skill in action that feels like 100% meme. I’m inclined to agree with you that the hoops you have to jump through with blocking would mean the damage would have to be HILARIOUSLY large to be worth it. But I just enjoy theorycrafting that kind of thing out even if it would never be playable.

[@sirgog]

Didn't think of Voltaxic but yeah it really does sound like a meme.

[@TheEluminator]

I like how retaliation skills benefit slower builds more than fast builds.

[@leonelidas89]

I'm considering new puncture + rupture, but for map clearing this is so bad it hurts. But bossing can be stupid damage and QOL.

[@Azmodaii]

Thank you as always Australian rich evans

[@gaborfabian3967]

Swordstorm hits with both weapons, like viper strike, so that damage effectiveness applies twice. With 8 hits that's close to 4I effectiveness. Kinda silly tbh.

[@MrJaldal]

All i actually wanna know is: cant you trigger those with cws for example...i have some ideas with that!

[@MikeSakaru]

Just droppin' a comment for the algy because I have nothing interesting to say, but I'm early enough that it matters :^)

[@raikaria3090]

Those numbers are high enough my Tempest Shield Deivine Retribution build is probobly a go.

[@frenchferretsp1p335]

Do Rupture works with minions ? Is vengenful cry a way to rage your minions ?

[@nermu]

Soooo, here is my crazy build idea, i have to check: Gladiator max block cyclone wearing Hiltless for self inflincting hits (since its reflected damage, can be blocked) to proc activation for retaliation skills (pref eviscerate, since is sword only)+ expert retaliation support. What i know: Blocking self inflicting hits doesnt work, except for reflected damage. Blocking reflected damage works, but does not proc "on block" effects But hear me out: Retaliation skills are not considdered "on block" effects, but "when block" effect. SO TECHNICALLY should work. How this would work? Practically, spinning for win = hits on enemy = 100 phys reflected damage on self [blocked by high chance of block] = retalation skill activated = retaliation skill cast. What do you guys think, worth a shot ? :D

[@nermu]

Nevermind, its never going to make it with high block chance without a shield, and hiltless its a 2handedsword.

[@TheQoogle]

i was on the evicerate bleed train after the level 1 gem already , now it just looks ridiculous, it even lost its 30% less dmg with ailments

[@alexknight1361]

why not pick a skill that uses the same supports as the retaliation skill you want to use, then put them both in a 6l with 4 supports? seems more efficient overall

[@sirgog]

Yeah that could work well too.

[@McGullip]

Couldnt be glad also be a meme poison ascendancy as the bleed pops proliferate poison? And when swordstorm turns out to be good we actually have ST?

[@ariantes221]

Sirgog has many speed buffs to taking off and putting on a shirt.

[@r3aper427]

More Duration is better for duration based vaal skills as it wont increase the soul gain prevention period

[@yoshiitsune]

Wondering about using those retaliation as supplementary CoC delivery devices.

[@overshare7]

Good to know that mana reservation does work on autoexertion, when I read further modified I thought it was a lock on 15%. So this means also we can use 4 warcries and 1 enlightened for example?

[@sirgog]

Yeah it will apply once and once only. 4 warcries is 60% baseline, Enlighten 4 brings that to 52.8%, then that's modified once by your MRE.

[@Noobificado]

Something interesting: Crushing fist has 2193% of base damage, and effectiveness of added to it. If we multiply it by 0.6 we get 1315% So basically, the same multiplier as Eviscerate. Eviscerate has 3 seconds cooldown, while Crushing Fist has 4 seconds. It means that in theory, on ideal conditions, deals 1754% of base damage in 4 seconds. (2193/1754)*100 = Crushing fist has 1.25 times higher dps for hits compared to Eviscerate, but the thing is, somehow was forgotten that eviscerate hits twice. Base hit: 2193% of base damage Bleeding dot: 2193 * 0.7 * 0.6 = 921% of base damage * second (4-5 seconds) Total: 5877% of base damage on 4 seconds Lets not forget the opportunity cost of already investing into bleed chance. So lets see why eviscerate is better, and how Crushing Fist has absolute no reason to exist (well, unless you use anything besides a sword, or axe + shield) If you dont have any investment in chance to bleed, eviscerate looks better. Base hit x2: 1345% x2 = 2690% of base damage Bleeding Dot: 941% of base damage * second (3-5 seconds) Total: 6454% of base damage on the same 4 second window Crushing fist, it became aviable 1 whole second earlier, whithout even needing to invest on bleeding at all. (6454/5877)*100 = 109.8 Eviscerate deals 10% more damage compared to crushing fist, having better uptime. And no need to invest on bleeding at all. Probably at some point the idea was to give Eviscerate a 70% chance to inflict bleed. Which would make with the 2 hits, about 91% chance to inflict bleeding, balancing out the numbers. But it would feel really shit to 1/10 of the time to have no damage, like a russian roulette of pain. And in the process, they forgot that for crushing fist to even be able to inflict bleed, you need to invest in the ability to be able to inflict bleed.

[@ncuriousmediator9434]

Does this account for the fact that Crushing Fist can be used with 2H weapons but Eviscerate needs a shield?

[@Noobificado]

@@ncuriousmediator9434 Eviscerate can be used with swords, no mention about one or two handed, so that is the place where it probably shines

[@ncuriousmediator9434]

@@Noobificado It says on the gem "Requires a Sword or Axe and a Shield". Can't 2-hand with a shield.

[@Noobificado]

@@ncuriousmediator9434 Oh, tought it was able to use a 2 handed sword

[@AlucardNoir]

That G.R.R. reference hurt.

[@sirgog]

I know I'm going to hell for it, but at least I had fun with it

[@Nicolas-tq8yz]

glacial shield can be used on spellcaster too just for the freeze if anything

[@sirgog]

Yeah it might hit quite hard.

[@NemisCassander]

Guardian will love both GSS and Divine Retribution. I could easily see Smite/Divine Retribution being 'ez cruise' mode for Guardian with this.

[@Kher4m]

Crushing fist should not work with unarmed, it says in description WEAPON damage and none of unarmed skills mention weapon damage in the description.

[@yeahright420]

When it comes to the unarmed or armed i feel like they wouldnt specify weapon if they didnt mean weapon.

[@dogebestest7187]

Shield charge ignie chieftain with the glacial swipe for single target tho, zooming around corridor maps blowing things up.... hmmm

[@n8doggy733]

Evicaerate ignite using Rebuke of the Vaal, is this only for an Elementalist or is there a other way to make all damage ignite??

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

There's 2 other ways, but they're both bad. The first is the Beacon of Madness boots, which comes with huge downsides. The other is a Hunter influenced helm mod for igniting conflux, but that is only up for 3 out of every 8 seconds. I'd recommend the boots if you're determined to do it, as they're consistent and come with other benefits too, but you'll have to figure out how to deal with the debuffs the madness status builds up on you. There's probably some guides out there on how to handle it.

[@n8doggy733]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn thanks for the info, I think I ak going to go Evicerate bleed

[@NilsAubroeck]

Divine Rettibution can be use with archmage. Just thought that was intresting.

[@Lostnote98]

would you still be able to use Doedre's Elixir while being spect into blood magic keystone?

[@zekimurad7990]

Grace has been nerfed (40% - no mention of vaal grace though and there is a specific vaal list..... ancestral warchief, ancestral protector and vaal ancestral warchief removed!

[@philly4yaa]

hey sirgog, what motivates and keeps you passionate about POE? I can barely play a single build in a league!

[@lagarttemido]

Play SSF

[@philly4yaa]

for me, thats like asking a fish to run. brother i can barely swim.

[@_LeakSoup_]

For me, I give myself clear objectives. IE clear the atlas, kill Sirius, or Maven etc... If you like your league start, stick with it. Every build falls off (without investment) so it is worth getting some currency and building up defences and damage. Having fun with a build is paramount tho😊

[@JackulaHD]

What melee skills will you guys recommend out of strikes and slams where myain focus beyond just damage/survivability is damage projection. I want to avoid cheese melee where its projectile or basically just a spell. Wpuld like the actual melee feeling but to cover enough of the screen in damage to compete with projectiles and large AoEs for projection. The ideal would be similar clverage to frostbilt ice nova but i know thats probably far too unrealistic

[@Prophocy408]

Even if u don't go vaal ground slam chief think you could toss out a pob for one?

[@dshearwf]

Crushing Fist seems insane, as it is the only retaliation skill for now that doesn't require a shield and is thus usable by 2h staff slam builds and is exertable because of the slam tag. Glacial Shield Swipe on a plain 1link just to make use of the 2 sec guaranteed freeze with the cold mastery increasing damage taken also seems pretty potent. With Dawnbreaker on my LS starter Warden it deals 1.2m damage per hit in a 8m area and each use with 2s freeze thanks to the Warden ascendancy makes the target take 10% more damage for the rest of the fight. Granted, this hinges on the fact, if the Warden ascendancy truly causes a 2sec freeze even on pinnacle targets (I kinda doubt it, but mechanically this is exactly what should happen? Glacial Shield Swipe ALWAYS freezes, which is a very minimal duration due to thresholds on pinnacle targets, but the ascendancy extends ANY freeze duration to 2seconds.)

[@sirgog]

Retaliation skills can't be exerted, part of the (new) text of exert. The Crushing Fist gem has potential, it just didn't leap out to me as much as the others.

[@dshearwf]

@@sirgog Ah, well, I missed that, makes sense!

[@loreneea4989]

man I wish it was exertable, tragic

[@esvban]

Always freezes probably just means 100% chance to freeze. I think you will need to meet the 0.3 second minimum freeze to not get a hoarfrost

[@helix2203]

I’m kind of confused with all those ‘inc crit chance against bleeding enemies’. If I use puncture of shanking alongside PA, shouldn’t I have 100% crit chance before inflicting bleed anyway? The new PA says non crit hits cannot inflict ailments, which overrides ‘inflicts bleed’ on puncture and eviscerate, if I’m understanding the whole thing correctly. Am I missing something?

[@sirgog]

It means you can get by with say 80% overall crit if this pushes you to 100% - think of it as 80% to start a bleed and 100% to refresh one.

[@helix2203]

@@sirgogThen it will make crit dot starters work when it lacks a bit of crit chance. It might be cool afterall, then. Thanks!

[@sxqpower8160]

Wouldn't swordstorm's damage actually be double the listed amount since it calls out that it hits with both weapons each hit? Aka this thing is doing 3952% weapon damage if all 8 hits land?

[@NemisCassander]

Good point. I know in the preview for it Swordstorm seemed to hit like an absolute truck.

[@arthurrosa9403]

Actually puncture of shanking deals less damage than lacerate of haemorrage. There is no reason to use it.

[@seo1995]

I LOVE poe, this patch is one of the best ive seen in years, but i kinda feel that we are entering in d3 scaling with those kind of scaling. Like 2000% thats something like d3 tier of scaling o.O

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Don’t worry GGG will nerf it next league. /s

[@mercerwing1458]

Why was the physical tag removed from melee gems?

[@sirgog]

if they lost flat phys damage, they lost the tag

[@filipepinheiro4440]

Eviscerate seems very powerful but those 3sec cooldowns will annoy so much that you will takes ages to finish a map being that your main skill

[@Melancraze]

Then reduce cooldown 😁

[@MikotoJinba]

What if: fist of war on crushing fist scales with retaliation cooldown

[@violentnewt]

puncture of shanking + eviscerate only works with sword+shield

[@eyeofthevoid693]

Could divine retribution be used as clear masive groups enemies skill with addition of divine ire of disintegration for single target? They scale very similarly both of them have physical flat base and 50% lightning damage convertion.

[@sirgog]

Yeah, I could see that.

[@redbulldog135]

6:08-6:09 really threw me off with the costume change

[@springmorning7177]

we have entered a new era, not trippla A games, not quadrupple A games but AAAAA games level and GGG is first to achieve it

[@FilipĆućun]

Puncture and eviscerate need sword to function together, just in case someone is crazy enough to use that combo

[@AntoineSerena]

Imagine being an aSoIaF fan that loves your content and getting reminded about reality...

[@sirgog]

F

[@meshri7]

So i have to use the skill after i block it seems anoying to play , any way ican automate it ?

[@TheMrBernardi3]

Crit bleed retaliation glad sword theory craft next stream?

[@sirgog]

Non-crit is on my radar.

[@bunp26]

grrm catching strays

[@Dandudanable]

I really wanna go glad bc of block OP nodes and retaliation seems really really cool...but league starting with new gems and questionable ascendancy...as someone that hates doing the campaign more than once per league...quite the conniptions...

[@MilleniumFDH]

What do you guys think? 4L Lacerate (carried further by bleed explosions) for mapping so that you get to use 6l Eviscerate on bosses? The numbers on that thing is insane, so why not make the most use of it?

[@aberwood]

No trash

[@NemisCassander]

My concern with this setup is that it required you to be attacked by the boss. If you're confident in your Damage Mitigation, I guess it could work. I'm much more likely to go 4L Lacerate (for clear), 6L Puncture of Shanking (for bosses), and 4L Eviscerate (for additional damage).