Too hard even for veterans (or why I quit after making Black Cane build)

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Johny_Snow wrote:

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For currency drops its better to run more maps than it is to run higher maps. End game drops nothing you can't easily buy (and in most cases nothing of value for your build anyway).

I disagree with this. Lower tier maps don't give you shaper/elder fragments. Low tier maps don't give you better metamorph rewards. Low tier maps don't give you good loot from conquerors. If you can clear high tier red maps comfortably there is no reason to run low tiers for maybe a couple of chaos orbs return per map.

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Dr1MaR wrote:

The game is a much better place than before. The difficulty was increased. Before there was no difficulty. Too hard for you, as a veteran. Don't speak for others. Aside from some overtuned metamorphs I have no complains

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Hmmm I didn't think it was possible to get elder maps on lower tiers from Zana looking at the fragment prices.

Either way it is less reliable because of the awakened bonus.

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Leninisalive wrote:

Thanks for the positive reply. Good luck on that last challenge. Could you by any chance take a look at my characters and pick out some mistakes? I know the biggest mistake was not copying OP meta. But I tried to utilize two NEW uniques as much as my knowledge if the game allows me and I still can not believe how terrible it turned out. Is it me, or these items (frome new end game boss, none the less) are so useless when built with the direct approach? I suppose it's possible to find some hidden interaction with some legacy unique but this build is the limit for me. And it was really discouraging to waste my time on it.

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Leninisalive wrote:

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I am at work right now, for the next hours and cannot load your character into POB. I don't want to tell you some trivil nonsense, with which you cannot do anything.

But some thoughts:You character is very unique. You mix a lot of stuff. Maybe this is the problem. With Es as your choise, you can build a good defence, with a high pool. At this time in the league, basic items are much cheaper, because they are found and identified more.
I think, that damage is a big problem. The symbiosis between you two damage types don't work very well. For bladefall, you have to scale spelldmg and physical damage -for Phantasm it is minion damage. Spiritual Aid in the tree is almost necessary (unfortunately I cannot see it with my mobile completely). But for minion damage, there are better ascendencies. You have two skills with two types of damage you have to scale separately. I would recommend to focus one damage Typ, or choose two skills, which interact better together (like for example WinterOrb CwC Ice spear - which are both Cold and spell damage).

You could play a pure minion build (that the phantasm would scale with them) with f.e. Herald of argony, or pure spell build (with an other class). For a guardian the combination with Herald of argony and phantasm works very well.
If you want to go on with bladefall, and want to implement an other skill, than maybe a combination between bladefall Coc Ethereal Knives would work damage wise (both spell and physical damage)

Im also phoneposting at work so I cant doublecheck the build, going from the memery. The idea was to make Black Cane work. I have spiritual aid just so I utilize minion damage on Black Cane since my build is based on that unique. And minor passives on quardian give minion damage as well so I dont miss those too. The minions are pretty much secondary, most of the damage I do myself. The minions soak up some projectiles, give me damage boost and onslaught through guardian passives. Thats why I didnt pick any minion nodes apart from SA. But that said, all the supports I used for bladefall work on phantasms too (their attack is also a phys spell) Hybrid points in life/es and life/mana I also use as damage via Inward Eye and all of them are very useful for survivability, the life is fully reserved so it turns into armor, the mana is fully reserved so it turns ito ES. Bladefall is good because it hits many times per cast so phantasms stay active in boss fights and I have full black cane buffs for added flat phys to spells. Non-coc etheril knives felt too "melee" if you know what Im saying. With bladefall I can atleast offscreen.

At some point I even fully rebuilt it to Firestorm with the jewel "adds flat fire for each buff" since every phantasm gives separate black cane buff ( total of 10) and I have a whole bunch of other buffs too. But it was a bit weaker then what I have now.

And by the way the current build feels nice on yellow maps, tooltip dps is 250k on bladefall. PoB doesnt account for Black Cane buffs so idk what real dps is. It's on reds I hit the wall since the monster buffs are the biggest there. I've put alot of testing and thought into it and to the last moment I thought I might make it work.