POE2 endgame builds are all about HOWA and stat stacking ?

Is this how the game should be? everyone end up stat stacking for end game content. Any build out there solo pinnacle boss easily without stat stacking?

poe2 "end game" builds are all about trading

every single "build" you see posted online would not be possible without trading and saving massive amounts of currency

no normal player or ssf play is ever going to see builds like those.

I play a spark mage using Ghostwrithe Tattered Robe and Kitoko's Current
Jewelled Gloves. I can pretty decently clear Ritual, Expedition and Breach pinnacle bosses on max tier. Arbiter of Ash is one tier from max tier away.
I can't clear the Delirium encounter even on tier 0 lol.

So yeah, it's possible without stacking stats and howa. Pretty easily actually. My total build is probably worth idk 70-80 divines, a good quarter of that is my ingenuity utility belt which I got from King of the Mist, another quarter probably my staff which I bought from trade with my saved up divines, and the rest the other items, mostly the two rings I would say (which I "farmed" by sinking probably upwards of 30 million into buying rings at the vendor lol).

If I could luck out and find a Dream Fragments Sapphire Ring i'd consider my build perfect.

Stop being a metacuck. There is endless options to try and make your own build - a viable build - with what you find.

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Slart1bartfast#0332 schrieb:

I play a spark mage using Ghostwrithe Tattered Robe and Kitoko's Current
Jewelled Gloves. I can pretty decently clear Ritual, Expedition and Breach pinnacle bosses on max tier. Arbiter of Ash is one tier from max tier away.
I can't clear the Delirium encounter even on tier 0 lol.

So yeah, it's possible without stacking stats and howa. Pretty easily actually. My total build is probably worth idk 70-80 divines, a good quarter of that is my ingenuity utility belt which I got from King of the Mist, another quarter probably my staff which I bought from trade with my saved up divines, and the rest the other items, mostly the two rings I would say (which I "farmed" by sinking probably upwards of 30 million into buying rings at the vendor lol).

If I could luck out and find a Dream Fragments Sapphire Ring i'd consider my build perfect.

Stop being a metacuck. There is endless options to try and make your own build - a viable build - with what you find.

Nah lol telling someone about build variety while you can't clear sim on a meta class.

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Slart1bartfast#0332 schrieb:

I play a spark mage using Ghostwrithe Tattered Robe and Kitoko's Current
Jewelled Gloves. I can pretty decently clear Ritual, Expedition and Breach pinnacle bosses on max tier. Arbiter of Ash is one tier from max tier away.
I can't clear the Delirium encounter even on tier 0 lol.

So yeah, it's possible without stacking stats and howa. Pretty easily actually. My total build is probably worth idk 70-80 divines, a good quarter of that is my ingenuity utility belt which I got from King of the Mist, another quarter probably my staff which I bought from trade with my saved up divines, and the rest the other items, mostly the two rings I would say (which I "farmed" by sinking probably upwards of 30 million into buying rings at the vendor lol).

If I could luck out and find a Dream Fragments Sapphire Ring i'd consider my build perfect.

Stop being a metacuck. There is endless options to try and make your own build - a viable build - with what you find.

i dont think you understand what viable means if you cant clear simulacrum on 0 difficulty.

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Kegler#4069 schrieb:

Any build out there solo pinnacle boss easily without stat stacking?

We have to set two things straight:

1) You understand pinnacle bosses are supposed to be the hardest content in the game?
2) What do you mean by "easily"?

Bosses in PoE aren't really that hard. The hardest part is having to learn the fight from 3rd parties prior to fighting them, so your first kills are going to be kind of "harder" because you'll be actually facing their attacks yourself the first time, so there's some adjusting to timings compared to what you saw on online guides.

Any build with a couple hundred thousand DPS can do it easily (in my definition of easily).
For the hardest versions, since they have some 30M HP, the fight will just take longer...

If your definition of easily is "mash attack button without a care", then yes, probably only the very expensive meta builds surpassing a million DPS can do it.

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Slart1bartfast#0332 schrieb:

I play a spark mage using Ghostwrithe Tattered Robe and Kitoko's Current
Jewelled Gloves. I can pretty decently clear Ritual, Expedition and Breach pinnacle bosses on max tier. Arbiter of Ash is one tier from max tier away.
I can't clear the Delirium encounter even on tier 0 lol.

So yeah, it's possible without stacking stats and howa. Pretty easily actually. My total build is probably worth idk 70-80 divines, a good quarter of that is my ingenuity utility belt which I got from King of the Mist, another quarter probably my staff which I bought from trade with my saved up divines, and the rest the other items, mostly the two rings I would say (which I "farmed" by sinking probably upwards of 30 million into buying rings at the vendor lol).

If I could luck out and find a Dream Fragments Sapphire Ring i'd consider my build perfect.

Stop being a metacuck. There is endless options to try and make your own build - a viable build - with what you find.

Sparkmage telling other to stop being a metacuck, LOL

And you're using ingenuity. Let me guess, Archmage too? Pure power passive and Arcane intensity too? With the same Ascendency choice as everyone else (double shock, arcane surge and the +20 exploit)? Yea you're using Ghostwrithe and Kitoro current's. But that's because it's the budget version of the same meta build everyone use.

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Slart1bartfast#0332 schrieb:

I play a spark mage using Ghostwrithe Tattered Robe and Kitoko's Current
Jewelled Gloves. I can pretty decently clear Ritual, Expedition and Breach pinnacle bosses on max tier. Arbiter of Ash is one tier from max tier away.
I can't clear the Delirium encounter even on tier 0 lol.

So yeah, it's possible without stacking stats and howa. Pretty easily actually. My total build is probably worth idk 70-80 divines, a good quarter of that is my ingenuity utility belt which I got from King of the Mist, another quarter probably my staff which I bought from trade with my saved up divines, and the rest the other items, mostly the two rings I would say (which I "farmed" by sinking probably upwards of 30 million into buying rings at the vendor lol).

If I could luck out and find a Dream Fragments Sapphire Ring i'd consider my build perfect.

Stop being a metacuck. There is endless options to try and make your own build - a viable build - with what you find.

Hilarious post. Spark not meta?

I'm nearly afk running in a circle in T4 simulacrum on my shockwave totem build maybe 50 div investment. though to your point im stat stacking strength to beable to dual wield two handed maces so would you put my shockwave totem build into the stat stacker catagory? just have to follow one of the guides in the forums like i did was super fun leveling and endgame has been solid so far.

edit: lvl 93 warbringer(warrior) with 550 strength no use for a HOWA cause im doing phys dmg not lightning and only 150 dex so not sure howa is even better than +2 melee skills

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greyson194#6402 schrieb:

I'm nearly afk running in a circle in T4 simulacrum on my shockwave totem build maybe 50 div investment. though to your point im stat stacking strength to beable to dual wield two handed maces so would you put my shockwave totem build into the stat stacker catagory? just have to follow one of the guides in the forums like i did was super fun leveling and endgame has been solid so far

Yep because if you're building like the HUGE majority of totems you're using a gemling for that stacking of strength, gemling merc is literally the definition of stat stacking.

OP is right - a massive percentage of builds in this EA are stat stacking with HoWa it's a bit sad really but it's EA and one can only hope it'll be balanced and more builds will come with more content and more passive tree options.

Poe1 - the last I dunno how many leagues were strength stack + boots that convert damage to chaos it was the best way to get warriors etc to do ultra damage. There were also armor stackers too using overcapped fire resistance to armour with 1.4 million armor (still dying cos armor has never been looked at for more than 3 seconds by GGG)

It's lazy developement really. Look at the content - you get a campaign with fun cute story and interactions early like jabbing a tree with runes and by the end of the game its just alva giving you a ride on an elevator then right into 0 thought about maps and bosses who kill you off screenbiter.