Looking For Improvement Suggestions On Impending Doom Build

https://poe.ninja/builds/necropolis/character/Zandafolf/NotACurseBuildThisTime?i=0&search=name%3DNotacurse

Looking for advice on how to make this build stronger. The headhunter is for meme so please don't mind that. There's obviously better options out there.

The build clears maps really well but the boss damage doesn't feel very good and I want to become a lot more durable.

I hear they changed how the interaction with vixens entrapment works but I don't know what it was and how the breakpoints work between cooldown recovery versus cast speed. And just obvious stuff like chasing awakened gems would give me more damage etc.

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Zandafolf wrote:

The build clears maps really well but the boss damage doesn't feel very good

Im not an expert on impending doom but according to the patchnotes back in 3.23 the interaction of (awakened) spell cascade has been changed and this affected impending doom quite significantly.


What this means is that awakened cascade would cast 5 curse aoes and all of those overlapped in the very center, allowing to apply 5 poison stacks with each cast. They dont overlap anymore, which means the rate at which you apply poison has been reduced by 80% and thus this builds boss damage has been reduced by 80% as well.

I havent tested this and cannot confirm whether this is true or not but thats what the patchnotes says.
Regardless, if this is correct then impending doom is not viable for bossing anymore unless ofc the playerbase did come up with another way to apply poison stacks fast enough to compensate and Im simply not aware of this new method.


For generic mapping this build will always be great, because Profane Bloom will carry it and simply explode the screen for you.
As far as bossing is concerened, Id suggest to look elsewhere and create a dedicated bossing build. This isnt it and I doubt a lot of players would be willing to put in the time/effort/currency needed to overcome a boss dmg reduction of 80%.

Whenever something like this happened in the past, players simply moved on to the next best thing and called it a day, so I wouldnt expect any help here as far as bossing is concerned.

Well I'm glad you told me that before I shelled out the divine for something that wouldn't increase my damage anyway.

That really sucks. Not sure why GGG hates this playstyle so much.