Perma Soul Eater FRoSS, T17 help with lvl95+
I'm playing my first league in PoE1 and following 1:1 Jungroan's permanent Soul Eater Forbidden Rite Occultist build (https://pobb.in/CtHUDBiOuryP).
It isn't performing at all with T17 maps bosses and regular mobs hit hard too. What can I do to increase damage and add more defense? Or is it max this build can do? T16 map + alch + vaal with shrines/beyond/40% more magic packs is great, i die maybe once every 15-20 maps to a oneshot. but t17 is a no go to farm, only did just one for extra slot. Also, if I continue with the grind, where should i put remaining passive points? I have about 20 to 25 divines to spend. Last bumped on Aug 20, 2025, 1:12:40 PM
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Not familiar with build so don't take my advice as very informed. Looks like you've done well keeping to a budget, but starts to get expensive to improve further. Probably a bunch of small increases.
Chest armour looks not that good to me. I might be wrong about that, maybe the recharge makes it good, but there might also be room for improvement. Still it is probably fine within a budget, just more for trying to find things that can be improved. (Edit: I looked on trade and maybe I'm expecting a bit much, maybe is better than I thought and would be expensive for you to upgrade. I think it just mainly wants some implicit.) Belt might be able to be improved for fairly cheap, still it might be fine. Doesn't look like you have eldritch implicit's on your rare gear? Or corrupted implicit's on most your unique gear. That might be a bit harder to get. Probably want to be getting lvl21 gems, at least on your main skill. Looking at POB, I would think those stats should be good enough to handle t17s. What is the main things that are getting you? How well do you know the fights. Are you being selective with the map mods? What is your full flask set up like? If there is room for improvement, that might be something that helps with the mapping. I think you use more than one flask? Tree looks alright. T17 bosses are pretty tough. Might be sometimes that you need to tweek a few things for each fight depending on what is giving you trouble on your build. I don't know the build is good for bossing or not, probably check build guide for any information or see if there is gameplay footage. It is a popular build at the moment, so I assume it can do most things. Last edited by Belegur85#5784 on Aug 20, 2025, 7:10:32 AM
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What belt do you have in mind and what body armor?
Yes, i bricked FRoSS gem and will try again soon to get lvl 21. As for flask i have: armor, evasion, fire res, cold res, lightning res, all with charges on hit and use when full. As for Eldritch, body: phys dmg taken as chaos and increased chaos dmg. Gloves: chance to poison and chaos dot multi. Would you change any of it? What map mods are to avoid with this build? And does mercenary Grace aura mess with mercenary Trarthan Agility? because i'm not sure i'm getting action speed from it. Last edited by hagane#8554 on Aug 20, 2025, 9:26:35 AM
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Well with mageblood out of budget it may be that you already have the next best thing. Possible that a good crystal belt might be better, but I don't know. If not you might be able to find something with a useful second corrupt or defense quality. Whether that sort of thing across all your gear is going to make a substantial difference with your t17 bossing i'm not sure, but it gets harder to make substantial increase at the point your at. The chest amour is fine. You can get the ES a lot higher, but realistically there is nothing wrong with what you have got.
Cool, if you have eldritch implicit sorted that's good, I just can't see them on the POB. That sounds like the right ones. You might want to look at awakened gems as well. Probably pretty expensive at this point of the league, but that's the sort of thing that would make the build stronger. That flask setup sounds fine to me. Perhaps on some of the bosses where there is not as much, or specific types of ele damage, there may be better options to swap in. The map mods on t17 are a big thing. I don't know how much t17's you've done or what the best mods are for you build, but the mods on them range from making them fairly trivial to almost impossible. So if you are struggling with them, pay a lot of attention to the mods, and which ones are causing you problems, so you can avoid them. It shouldn't interact negatively that I can see from the description, you can have multiple auras applying to you from them at once, unless there is something funny happening with the supports. I'm reading a post saying it might not have much AOE radius on it. Do you get an icon for it on your buffs bar? How kitted out is Merc? They are pretty powerful but also the gear can be fairly expensive. That might be something to look at as well if you are taking it to this content. Hopefully someone who is playing the build can give a bit more advice. It could be that you just need a bit more knowledge of t17 mods or that the build is pushing it doing this content. The build I made this league did all t17 and ubers, but I would not say it can farm any of them comfortably. It is pretty difficult content without very strong and optimized build. Even for some meta builds, I think they will be tested by certain aspects of these endgame mechanics. Last edited by Belegur85#5784 on Aug 20, 2025, 11:38:31 AM
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Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it.
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Maybe path to Ghost Reaver? I dont play FROSS, but I think that is a popular node for it with CI
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