[3.10] From League Starter to Shaper – Cheap, Tanky, Fast and Fun Physical ST – Very Detailed Guide

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Now as for HoP vs Flesh and Stone. If you use HoP you also use Maim in your ST. If you use Flesh and Stone you link Maim to that and use Impale in your ST. Both options give more or less the same damage but with FaS you also get the impale mechanism. While this isn't yet supported by PoB it does add significant damage so I'd recommend it. You should also combine it with Dread Banner but that will leave you with 12% unreserved mana so you should only do this when you have Enlighten.

Sorry for my ignorance but when you say you should combine it with dread Banner, what is it that you combine with dread banner? Because you already have the 4 links full with Pride + FaS + Maim + enlighten don't you?

You use them together. No need for enlighten on a 10% aura.

Hey Aias would it be worth it to drop the Blind gem from one of the claws and instead drop in a +Minion Damage gem to maximise DPS? I am assuming that would boost half the wolves but would also add to our damage.

Also, your POB has a few points left when one hits level 100, where would you put them? I was considering Phase Acro for the extra dmg mitigation.

Thanks for your time.

Sure you could do that but the wolves would still do very minimal damage.

I have a lvl 100 tree right next to the pob link.

My bad I didn't see the Level 100 link, thanks again!

To clarify though about the minion damage gem it was not meant to boost the wolves but rather to take advantage of the Scourge Claw's modifier whereby increases to minion damage also apply to our character.

I am unsure how this is calculated, however I am assuming the reason you suggested the Bone Helmet as a viable helmet alternative was due to the +minion damage on the helmet, not so much for the minions but for the boost it would give to our character's DPS due to the Scourge Claw modifier. Therefore if that was the case it got me thinking a +minion damage in one claw could potentially help out as well.

The big thing though is that the helmet modifier applies to all the wolves versus the minion damage would only apply to the ones spawned off one claw's hits...

So maybe it would be 1/2 as effective as the helmet modifier?


If that is what you meant when you said that it would be a minimal increase in DPS then my bad. I just thought you may have been only thinking about the wolves DPS increase only.

It doesn't work like that. Check the FAQ.

Even if it did work like that, how can you expect an unlinked gem to help another skill ? If that worked we'd all be putting random support gems on our gear and creating 12-link skills !

My bad yeah the answer was in the FAQ, you must get tired of telling people to check the FAQ, lol.

The key words I missed were the Scourge claws boost character DPS for "Increased Minion Damage" and the gem gives "More Minion Damage"

On a deeper note I wasn't even thinking in terms of an unlinked gem affecting other skills.

Well first of all if Minion damage could work in any way I would have included it in the build. I've spent many hours min-maxing it and I wouldn't have missed such an obvious thing.

Second, support gems only support the active gem they are link to. Nothing else. The scourge mod is about increases to the player. If you get some minion damage from the tree it will help because that applies to the player. Unfortunately it's too far away since noone would ever make a duelist summoner.

Hello

I have no questions, I just wanted to thank you for sharing this build and for all the work done.

I'm having a good time using it :)

It's official. Everyone and their dog is a Slayer this league. The only question is will they just nerf Cyclone or will we all suffer?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2622437