Yo, are there any new builds worth trying, or is it still the same meta as the last couple of cycles?
As far as new, they drastically changed Fire Aura allowing you to get way more stacks through various effects. Since now weapon damage is also spell damage and the change to the passive node “Incinerating Aura” the threshold now gives 1% MORE damage per uncapped fire resist. (Which is massive damage)
You can convert the Aura to Cold which I think makes the most sense then stacking cold resist will be the more multiplier. Also can use Frostbite shackles and get ward retention per cold resist. Think some more synergies there.
So each Fire, Cold or Lightning Aura will do significant damage and likely now could possible get 40-50 stacks or more. So a RF builds now. I definitely will try to make one using spell blade at some point and also add in the new volcanic orb tech. Go frostbite with Frozen Ire wand.
If using the Frozen Ire wand and you are cold aura you also stacking freeze rate/cold resist affix great synergy. Then snowdrift boots… The new set that lets volcanic orb circle you too and now can convert all sources of ignite to frostbite means many sources for the ailment and cold aura should be chonky.
This build should be extremely fun and likely have a lot of cool synergies.
My season starter is my Auradin though (old build planner in the Sentinel forums still relevant just sub in new gear) with the crazy buffs to Spirit of Xylem staff and corruption enhancing it. Also corruption increasing AOE. This build is going to be monstrous this season since Mana stackers are eating good. Will be possible to get 3-4k mana without much effort and you do MORE damage based on mana.
Also with the new Omen idols and depending on layout you could wear 4-5 of them with Healing effectiveness and fire damage over time with the new corrupted mod 1% mana regen per 100 max mana. Or converting Attunement to Apathy you now have ways to get into the 1,000’s of Mana regen.
Cool builds also gonna be some MoM (Mind over Matter) builds made popular in PoE. The Seed helm has a base of 28% damage to mana and the new corruption is 20% so just the helm slot has 48% of damage goes to mana. This likely will be extremely strong if you add in more items as damage goes to mana is more effective way to mitigate damage.
Just some ideas to kick around. There gonna be both good new and old AOE builds eating very well with the addition of many mana stacker builds and ways to support them.
After I farm with my Auradin likely do new Necro since I can finally do pure cold minions then Spellblade Cold Aura. Obviously something with Bees too.
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Is that in the patch notes (I’ve not read them)?
Yeah.
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