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Left4DeadTank

Played a Templar and had the most fun in a game I've had in a while

Idk if this is the kind of stuff you guys like here but...

I'm new to the game and I already love it because of shit like this. I rolled a Templar and decided I was spec into fire damage because of the Avatar of Fire ability on the tree.

When playing, I got the "Infernal Blow" gem and attached a Splash Damage Gem to it. Now, I one shot everything in a huge radius around me. I've even one shot one of those randomly spawning bosses by hitting him with the explosions of a bunch of mobs. (also specced into radius)

Now, if that wasn't enough, I got the Herald of Ash gem and now mobs explode from the Infernal Blow and then explode again from overkill damage, which I'm doing a lot of.

I fucking love this kind of shit. I'd also like to hear your stories about gimmicks that ended up working if you have em.

Posted Oct 3, 2016, 9:01 PM UTC

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Eth_PoERippy McRipface•

Occultist Profane Bloom = cursed enemies you kill have a 20% chance to explode, dealing 25% of their life as chaos damage.

Plus [[obliteration]] = enemies you kill have a 20% chance to explode, dealing 25% of their life as chaos damage.

Plus essence of delirium on a second weapon = your hits inflict decay, dealing 1000 chaos damage per second for 10 seconds.

Plus [[asenath's gentle touch]] = your hits curse enemies with temporal chains (a curse).

All hits curse, even the explosions, so as long as you make one mob in a pack explode, the rest get their decay and curse re-applied, causing massive chain reactions.

Personally, I preferred swapping the dual wands into a bow with essence of delirium, along with barrage and several [[volley fire]] jewels. Add poison and pierce, and essentially the only mobs that weren't dead before I saw them were bosses.

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Unaufhaltbarrtwitch.tv/telkandore•

Recent thread for this

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Eth_PoERippy McRipface•

Yes, thank you! Ghudda made a nice video showcasing this.

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Left4DeadTankOP•

That sounds like a good build for another character. Might have to try that.

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PoEWikiBot•

Obliteration

######ObliterationDemon's Horn

####Wands ####Physical Damage: (50 to 56)–(128 to 140) ####Critical Strike Chance: (10.08% to 10.56%) ####Attacks per Second: 1.20 ####Requires Level 56, 179 Int #####(31-35)% increased Spell Damage #####Adds (24-30) to (80-92) Physical Damage #####(26-32)% increased Critical Strike Chance #####Gain (13-15)% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage #####Enemies you Kill have a 20% chance to Explode, dealing a quarter of their maximum Life as Chaos Damage We forge order from the world around us

Wielding anarchy and destruction as our tools of genesis.

Asenath's Gentle Touch

######Asenath's Gentle TouchSilk Gloves

####Energy Shield: 22 ####Requires Level 25, 39 Int #####+(20-30) to Intelligence #####+(20-30) to maximum Life #####+(20-30) to maximum Mana #####Curse Enemies with Temporal Chains on Hit Cool the head and cool the blade.

Volley Fire

######Volley FireViridian Jewel

####Radius: Medium #####(6 to 10)% increased Projectile Damage #####With at least 50 Dexterity Allocated in radius, #####Barrage fires an additional 2 projectiles #####simultaneously on the first and final attacks Lioneye's men stood at the walls,

eyeing the savages that walked the beach below.

With a single word,

a thousand bodies, and ten thousand arrows,

would litter the sands.

####Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.

^^Questions? ^^Message ^^/u/ha107642 ^^— ^^Call ^^wiki ^^pages ^^(e.g. ^^items ^^or ^^gems)) ^^with ^^[[NAME]] ^^— ^^I ^^will ^^only ^^post ^^panels ^^for ^^unique ^^items ^^— ^^Github

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ALifeInSymmetry•

I have to remember this, this sounds like SO much fun!

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dracopr•

I wanted to ask, I'm using ED on the bow for bosses and moved TC to a blasphemy setup, is the glove better than blasphemy and how is barrage working up to the bv and would you compare it to ED.

thanks.

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Dreken_Guard•

blasphemy requires you to be near the mobs for it to have any effect, which won't be happening too often. Whereas the gloves are a curse on hit effect and don't care about distance.

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dracopr•

With ghudda's BV setup you're running thru the middle of everything.

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Dreken_Guard•

True, but the keyword there is "through". Once you pass those mobs and move onto the next pack the previous pack will lose the curse effect and will no longer explode.

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tuptainPyrotechnic_Mortician•

I'm a sucker for good synergy. This is a really simple one but I fell in love with it for leveling new chars: Sunder with Herald of Ash. It's similar to yours as it's about stacking AOE explosions.

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rowanbladex•

Ahhh, the adventures of a new player. Love it. I miss those days when there was so much wonder in this game.

PS: You can do the same thing with other classes, perhaps even better. Certain skills/combinations aren't tied to specific classes, except for ascendancies.

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Seeders•

I took a couple leagues off, and I came back to what feels like a completely new game.

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Neraph•

Now go buy yourself a cheap Dreadarc and it'll be more fun.

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Madkittenz•

Hey, I did that but as a marauder some time ago. Besides herald of ash I also used the anger aura, had flammability on a cwdt setup together with dual wielding doriyani's catalyst, the whole screen explodes! Didn't get enough defenses and went with berserker for the ascendancy, ended up as a glass cannon melee build. I revisit that character from time to time in standard, super fun but kinda hard to level and progress on it at this point.

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CommonNick•

Slayer with a strong slow two hander slayer full aoe (dont link to multistrike). Kaom's heart and as much increased dmg as possible to scale all your dmg from jewels.

15% (tree aoe) + 30% (asc) +11% (aoe 2h maul+mace node) + 39% (gem, optional)= 56/95% aoe explosions.

Works like magic.

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All_Work_All_Play•

I too like playing without pants. Really livens up my day.

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Tadg-the-Second•

Ha epic :) That reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/RFaj13aNM4g Played something similar for a bit and its great fun.

You should also check out Dominating Blow...

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kumgongkia•

you can get enough AOE to do that to the whole screen

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frostbirdRaider•

That's currently my build as well! I love IB.

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PM_ME_CUTICLES•

I figure this is a good place to ask this because my question in the daily thread is yet unanswered...

How do I level a Templar?

I'm going Vaal Spark specifically, but for now just rocking the pizza stick (fire totem?) and fire rain skills. I purchased these two unique silver/blue maces that seem to be good for leveling. By the end of Normal I felt so demoralizingly squishy. I've skipped ES nodes from the CI Vaal Spark builds and picked up nearby life nodes instead (until I can purchase ES gear with currency acquired on my Dreamfeather character). Finished normal with about 800 life.

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ErroneousLogik•

how to level any character these days, get a tabula, meginords, facebreakers, skirmish quiver and just dual warchief totems from 28. until then infernal blow works just as well or you could try protector totems with melee splash. Being on the right side of the tree you can take ancestral bond and run triple totems or ditch the quiver and run deep one's hide/great ones old ward(this is a bit expensive) then swap to abyssus/bringer of rain as you see fit until you convert to your final build

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PM_ME_CUTICLES•

Okay thanks, I'll give that a try tonight.

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Nepila•

Or just take all the spell+ele dmg and the aoe nodes from templar start and level with any good aoe spell, such as firestorm or vortex. Then you won't need to reset points, unlike with facebreakers.

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Kyoj1n•

Here's a question I've been struggling with the past few days. What do you recommend to do for your first character (specifically HC)? Before you have the currency to buy anything.

Also when you run a leveling build do you just buy a ton of regrets to respect?

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ErroneousLogik•

I'm generally a sc player but i would look to probably do what u/FeedMeYourTearsExile mentioned above running Firestorm, its best to start the league especially when they first come out. With levelling uniques this late into the league, other builds may be faster but firestorm is definitely still a solid build.

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FeedMeYourTearsExile•

Firestorm is my personal favorite for Templar especially if you don't want to invest too much in leveling gear.

Just taking the basic spell damage and elemental damage nodes in Templar is more than enough damage to let you path out and fill / prepare your tree to switch to crit, melee, bows etc. Usually the damage falls off around 50 without a 5L, better gear, or more spell damage in the tree. Spend 4-8 respec points and you're good to go.

Edit: link

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brycekk•

Dualwield mace templar using glacial hammer is a blast once you get multistrike and you one shot packs with herald of ice.

you make your own fun here :)

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Braireos•

I have a marauder with Infernal blow build and earthquake. I have the same experiences like you, it is great fun.

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ArtGamerStandard•

yeah, infernal blow + splash is one of my little pleasures in PoE, watching everything explode is just satisfying and a way to stop the fucking necromancers of resurrecting the corpses i left behind >->

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Kelvenlolhttps://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/molis•

This looks like some copy pasta from twitch chat.

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TerrornoidThe Shatter Chuck Lite Gu- wait lol not any more•

You poor, poor child. Such beautiful innocence.

You seem to grasp build creation well, which is great. Hold onto the moments you enjoy. The more you learn about the game, the more you'll find the game to be "solved" and the more you'll realize a lot of the choices you've been making all along were actually decisions parading around in disguise. There are a lot of options presenting as having multiple choices when the reality is there is actually a correct answer. The game is more forgiving before endgame; for the highest tiers of content, expect to have your creativity stifled.

The game has a ton of moments to cherish before your brain starts solving everything. Enjoy that stuff.

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CommonNick•

Elitism at its finest.

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TerrornoidThe Shatter Chuck Lite Gu- wait lol not any more•

Howso? Am I wrong? Prolif countered. Life regen countered. Mana regen countered. Curses countered. Ele damage often countered. There's so much you can't do unless you want to pay out of your butt for rerolls

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CommonNick•

It's too much of a hassle arguing about right or wrong (I do agree partly anyway), I'm talking about your first and last paragraph.

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TerrornoidThe Shatter Chuck Lite Gu- wait lol not any more•

Meh, call it what you want. I'm telling the dude to enjoy the game before it ruins itself. Wish someone would've told me "Hey, most of the cool shit you can do here is crappy or pointlessly expensive endgame."

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