Shield Throw (yeah this again)

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Hey so I uh, love shield throw. It’s tanky and fun and you can run decent corruption with it. However due to some particulars with the style it is you require a couple of things.

1: You can use ring of shields (frog in a blender)
2: You can use manifest armor (clunky weak minion)
3: You can use neither and map good but single target goes to poop

I was wondering if you might consider a couple of things…

1: Allow the shield when piercing a single target to bounce off terrain like in POE1
2: Have a carry over shield throw specific node in the skill tree that stops manifest armor being insta-killed so easily
3: Looping back in number 1 because I hate minions and would love a dmg buff + rebound

Reason being is even with great top tier gear you can really only kill normal Abby. I did see a shield throw using timerot as the main dmg source kill uber abberoth but its a specific build where this guy basically uses any skill currently + time rot along with any weapon to kill uber, it’s kinda whack.
A normal fire build of shield throw ie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_j2OgTnbts
or a phys version which does less dmg just really isn’t uber viable because he insta kills manifest and you summon, he dies etc nekkkk minit no armor dead all while doing no dmg because you’re spamming summon. You can try with ring of shields but then you die because you literally need to be standing on top of him, lol.

I just think it could use a nice little play style tweak - terrain bouncing would be insanely helpful you could then play smart and position bosses near the edges - or add something to enhance single target a lot because without the ricochets it really does nothing even when your tool tip says 3 million + just fleas bouncing against a rock lol

If you love this class and play it every season multiple times trying to make it better raise your hand and +1 this thread because I do. If you don’t then please just leave a hug comment and move on OR if you have a cool idea on the mechanic or play style please chime in! My PoE1 legacy char, my fav of all time in POE1/2 so good, maybe I could just import it :smiley:

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Not according to Kartal. According to him, every single build can kill Uby easily. :laughing:

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Legend has it if you look in the mirror and say his name 3 times he’ll appear and kill uber for you anytime, anywhere lol

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Time rot shield throw sounds like a good option to me. There are so many void DoTs and you can add void smite to it. Single target was always the issue I had with shield throw but I wanted to make it work, haven’t tried again in a long while.

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I had this captain america shield throw Forge Guard build but it lacked some gear so I switched over to Void Knight Erasing Strike and that was just easier imo.

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Yeah the timerot build used the bottom of the shield throw tree for 100% dmg but had the very long cool down so basically he was throwing one shield every 6 seconds, his main attack was actually vengeance melee spam and then repeat so it wasn’t really the kind of shield throw most people would want to build it, was more melee with a buff. lots of builds use the bottom of the tree for buffing builds so I’m not counting it hahah :smiley:

But yeah it’s def the single target that’s lacking and having to use manifest or ring of shields to boost single is lame cos manifest sucks and dies too quick even buffed up that it’s pointless vs uber and high corr and ring of shields meaning you need to be on top of a target, closer than melee means deadski too specially with -20 to resistances while shields pinging around lol

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Have you tried reflect stacking with shield throw
Here’s my last fg void shield throw from last season. Of which I never bothered to put reflect armour in this season I just logged it in to steal the relic for another build. It was able to do 1.000c bosses.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Legionone/character/legionten

Also if u don’t want to use reflect chest u cans also pick idol relic for more flat.