Ward is Amazing

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PyleWarlord wrote:

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bfalkner wrote:

I can link my crafted items but how do I do that? I'm a bit new to the forum :)

shift click your item here on the forum while writing a post

You don't need to hold shift. Simply start a new post, click the character icon in the upper left corner of the website, and click an item. It should pop up an item reference like this:


Once you hit Submit on your post, it will show as the item:

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adghar wrote:

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Once you hit Submit on your post, it will show as the item:

Same when you hit 'Preview' except your post is yet not submitted.

it's really good for poison pathfinder, i league started with scourge arrow and quickly the build creator release a version with nightgrips with skin of loyal/chayula's 100% def mod, i have 3k ward and 25% of that is added as flat chaos damage, the build is tanky with very good damage

I was trying for onslaught and culling strike, but they still came out pretty nice.

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Leanerth wrote:

it's really good for poison pathfinder, i league started with scourge arrow and quickly the build creator release a version with nightgrips with skin of loyal/chayula's 100% def mod, i have 3k ward and 25% of that is added as flat chaos damage, the build is tanky with very good damage

How did you get it to 3k? I slapped on a high ward helm and boots with skin of the lords and it's at 1,430 right now. Wanting to push more towards that 3k number. I know about the global defenses amulet but that's still 25% max, which would be 1,608 on my character. Got a link to the build guide or even better your own PoB?

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bfalkner wrote:

I've noticed that the community consensus is that ward sounds awful so why even bother trying it. And I just hope GGG keeps it around because it's wonderful and I think if they keep it then people will eventually try it out and realize how good it is. Pleeeaaassseee keep ward around. Thanks :)

Yeah you can add this to the long list of things the community wrote off as terrible but is probably between somewhere between niche useful and good. I noticed every boss kill vid I wateched during the Ziz gauntlet the players had some Ward.

i'm using this guide:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2551841

i get 3k ward using a iron flask of runeflaring, but since i'm a pathfinder i have almost 100% uptime, i could have even higher ward if i had a aul's uprising which adds 24% increase global defenses, i don't know if i can get 4k ward but 3500 should not be too hard

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yamface wrote:

ward is pretty bad without that one flask that makes your ward never drop

I was gonna post and mention this. I don't see what's special about Ward that ES doesn't do. The only good thing it brings to the table is the straight up damage mitigation if you've got the unique flask.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

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yamface wrote:

ward is pretty bad without that one flask that makes your ward never drop

I was gonna post and mention this. I don't see what's special about Ward that ES doesn't do. The only good thing it brings to the table is the straight up damage mitigation if you've got the unique flask.

The difference specifically is that you don't get a "Less Ward" mod from Acrobatics. Ward is a really good additional layer for evasion-dodge setups, but it's basically useless for armor/block/ES centric builds.

And I'm not saying that's a bad thing! Within its intended design space, Ward is an excellent defensive layer for builds which have traditionally struggled with damage mitigation. But how good you ultimately find Ward to be is going to depend a LOT on what other kinds of defense you're using.

i believe ward also is not affected by agnostic which could work since those builds are in int area of skill tree, maybe. Might look a little more into it later.

I think elemental aegis also "protects" ward as es protects life. Thou i havent checked neither of those scenarios, just heared stuff.