I forgot to emphasize this; Prioritize Putting quality on Energy blade whenever you can during the "setting up for sanctum swap" phase of the build. If you get a high roll quality in lab use it on energy blade. EDIT: you may also notice I have an entire body armour without sockets, using galvanic field of intensity in a 4L here is quite good if you want to push single target but not necessary Great for clearing bosses a bit faster but not mandatory. EDIT: updated PoB for a bit more efficient pathing(check to make sure pob hasn't been bricked, throughout theupdate process I bricked gear set/skill sets a couple times, current pob should be fixed)
@@CaptainLance9 I would like to push Penance Brand to do Sanctums 83 and then get gear for swap. What mandatory upgrades I should get to push Penance Brand further? Some kind of Void Batter power charge stacking with Malachai Loop etc?
would really like 1 interim step like wolfy asked for the penance brand gear. i've been trying to use different combinations of gear and not sure how to scale the damage without swapping to hexblast setup
@@CaptainLance9 Would love to see an extra intermediary gear/gems setup that shows you what gear you can buy and use for PBoD while gearing towards the hexblast swap. It feels like you just gloss over how to do that when the transition is the most important part of the build!
Loved this build last league but what happened to slams and Chieftain? Was so excited to see what he comes up with and he just updates the same build again.
@@donnkoz I am going to be leaguestarting zerker slams, stuff takes time and I had planned to update this first for those who wanted it updated based on current league. Tomorrow ill make vid on my plan for leaguestart
Quick tip for heist: If you're scared that you won't be able to complete heist (if you die on going out on alarm you lose all contraband items) you can go back from heist area and all items become clear. Then you can go again and complete it.
Going to play your build this league after being a TS/LA bowcuck since 2017. Looking forward to changing it up and farming some Sanctum, Uber bosses, and T17s all while being able to invest and scale the character (my favorite part). Thanks for taking the time to update this build for all of us looking for our league starters. See you on the beach for 3.25, exiles!
Hey bro, just wanted to say this build is awesome. I had a few hiccups during leveling, but since I had a lucky drop with my gladiator that was my league starter, I had 15 divs to play with and was able to gear up pretty much the whole build when I got to lvl 85 or so. Tried a few Sanctums, but it didn't click with me at first, I sucked, failed a few and decided to leave Sanctum alone for a bit. Just mapping with this build is pretty satisfying though, throwing mines and deleting packs of mobs, and the damage on single target is nice. A few days ago I decided to try Sanctum again, I watched a few guides this time to make sure I wouldn't fuck up. I started to consistently finish Sanctums, and just by farming I am making about 25-30 divs a day, which is pretty nice, and I'm not even fast or efficient at it. But today, I hit the jackpot. After my 60th Sanctum or so, I dropped THE ORIGINAL SCRIPTURE. I was in absolute disbelief when I picked that thing off the ground. I think that's the single most valuable item I dropped in all of my thousands of PoE hours. This may be the first time I get my hands on a Mirror of Kalandra in PoE, if I manage to sell this thing (0 chance I'm going to try to run it myself, lol).
@@hapakaja I would bro, but it gets deleted if I post any links. Just check out my profile and import it to PoB, its not private. My PoE profile is Viniciuss_137, my character is Gerard_HB. If you're having any problems or struggling with anything specifically, let me know, I'll try to help you.
with 20c budget on league start you can be crit cap by lvl 73. Maw of Conquest helmet + Light of Lunaris shield. boots+belt+amulet+rings to fix resistances without killing kitava of cause. regular penance brand with crit mastery +150crit on enemies with full life and lightning wheel by eldritch battery +100 crit chance if you have skitterbots to pre shock enemies. everything adds up to 99+- crit chance and 506 multi without assasin mark. planning to go with two Call of the Brotherhood if price isn't too crazy for juicy freezes on guards
YAY!!! I started this last league and had my most successful league by far - even though i completely botched the sanctum start at first and really only got into doing sanctums like a week and a half in. still managed to afford my first mageblood and hit a total net worth of probably ~400div before i stopped playing last league. cant wait to not botch the start this time (since i now have actual sanctum experience) and see how much more i can do!
I played this last league and despite normally doing a lot of sanctums each league (like 1 week of farming them straight each league since tomes got introduced), I failed my first two sanctums (one quest book and I spent rest of my currency on a second one) and had to do some very uncomfortable rerolling. Maybe it's a skill issue, but I would say going shockwave totem on hiero or any hexblast shadow is a much better way to go about starting sanctum early. If you mess this up like I have, you can't really do maps easily, so please make sure to take this into account. This is nothing against this build guide or Lance - he makes some really great stuff.
i just want to caution everyone. at 68 assuming you leveled with firestorm, there is 0% chance you have ur penance brand at a decent level, and u wont have ur other gems properly leveled, he is also using quality on eblade which is a massive buff. You might be able to do the quest tier 68sanctum they give you, but even like 75-76 will be tough runs. If you can level stuff in weapon swap, and run more of the heists(atleast check the market every level). Also theres a massive difference between regular penance brand and the alt qual one. Video isin't bait the builds awesome! 68 tho might be... honestly luck based, if you get a tough affliction run you might brick it . Temper expectations for sure, The start is gonna be very bumpy. also crown of the inward eye is better if ur not planning to play hexblast
old comment, but gem levels don't matter as much in this build since you already geta ton of flat from energy blade/spell blade combo so the flat you get from levels is less noticable. This is why he has a lower level hexblast in his final pob too cause it relaly doesn't matter that much and costs less mana res. Similarly you will get qual from lab for energy blade while farming for the alt quality penance brand.
@@xyzqsrbo "old comment, but gem levels don't matter as much in this build since you already geta ton of flat from energy blade/spell blade combo " They absolutely do 100% just any spell based build, the damage is night an day between low level and 15-17's, same goes for quality on Ebalde and PB of dissipation. The difference is more then 10%.(quality alone) "This is why he has a lower level hexblast in his final pob too cause it relaly doesn't matter that much" No? He has a lower hexblast level because of life reservation and management issues, that's why its lower? what? why would you intentionally have it lower otherwise?????? "Similarly you will get qual from lab for energy blade while farming for the alt quality penance brand." You don't famr for pb, you run heist for chaos and buy pb. did you watch the video? the claim is this is a sanctum rush pb strat that u can do at lvl 68 and start farming sanctum. A lot of people who arent proficient at sanctum have already failed and wrote in comments that they failed this strat.I dont want to go back and fourth but you... i dont know why would you say any of this.
@@SadSinStory "No? He has a lower hexblast level because of life reservation and management issues, that's why its lower? what? why would you intentionally have it lower otherwise??????" Not sure why you are saying this when I said literally what you just said directly after? The dps difference isn't massive so it's worth getting better reservation. This isn't my conjecture btw, this is just how he explained it in his video about this build last league. I never advocated to run with no quality, you definitely need quality. I was strictly talking about gem levels. "You don't famr for pb, you run heist for chaos and buy pb. did you watch the video? the claim is this is a sanctum rush pb strat that u can do at lvl 68 and start farming sanctum." Not sure why he would recommend heist, that's just dumb, you can easily get the gem before 68 from lab lol. Honestly unsure why you were so rude with this response.
@@xyzqsrbo i dont want to make this a back and forth. I have issues even with ur response. Agree to disagree. And sorry for being hostile and rude to you.
I leaguestarted this and have been enjoying it so much! Thanks for the guide. The thing I am stuck on now is trying to get the gear upgrades. I feel like I do not understand how to optimize damage just yet
Im probably going to do this start once again while people figure out more or less whats good for melee, looking either at a berserker or warden, the currency you get from sanctum just feels so good early
One thing that I find works super good with the weighted sums stuff you setup for people is to instead of sort by cheapest, put in how much currency you want to spend in the 'buyout price max' field (for example 5c), then do the search and sort by weighted sum.
I never knew the better trading extension existed and i have 1700 hrs in the game. Thank you so much. Subscribed. Also i love energy blade. Every league, i don't care, i just love it.
This is the build that broke my RF standard for league start. It was wonderful. Once I saw the Capt do the keystone bosses with shit gear I was sold and it’s been amazing every time I have built it. I hope it’s as good or better come 3.25 woot! I watching vid now
I played tri stack in the Necropolis League to the extent that I built a tri stack with 1.5 mirrors and earned 3 mirrors . From that experience I understand that adorned and helical ring play a very important role in the tri stack, but they have been nerfed. This nerf is expected to be very hard on this build.
I'm late to the energy blade party as I only found your stuff recently but as a build template it looks fascinating. I'll be doing some dry runs this week of starters and this is definitely in there. Got to say I'm not sold on the aesthetics of the templar in a ghostwrithe - the stuff of nightmares lol.
Unpopular opinion: I don't think it's that bad for mapping. It's certainly not a fast mapper, but it's reliable for killing those overtuned rares (especially hyper juiced Essence mobs). It's also great for Harvest, cause you can pre-fire those mines while you wait for the mobs to spawn, kill the first wave immediately and then keep on spamming, and the range is quite enough for the small area of these plots. And yea, it is a boss killer, which makes progressing the atlas for many beginners so much easier, cause often times they struggle with defeating the Maven, or Elder/Shaper, with theyre squishy mapping builds. And another unpopular opinion, is that as a softcore trade player, I reaaally love the fact it has so many uniques, and barely any rares to craft. It's so much more comfortable to build and straight forward due to that. These are just the things I'm looking for in a build!
yea i absolutely hate sanctum so i went straight to maps, rares elites and bosses are melted by penance brand in seconds, i'm a bit squishy too but i die due to 4g internet 2s ping spikes more than to actual skill issues lol
it's good at mapping it just doesn't have the defenses to be classified as a great mapper imo. You are pretty paper with just 7k ES and a dream holding you up lol.
When I played it last league, it wasn't squishy at all, tho. It's definitely not a glass canon! You get near 100% spell suppression, 30k Evasion rating, a good amount of block and spell block chance, 80% ele res cap (last league i used all 3 purities so i was at 85% / 86%), pretty good recovery, from the energy shield masteries, ghost dance, zealots oath, etc. , using enfeeble + temporal chains (either one of them with blasphemy, the other on gloves as an on hit corrupt), chaos res capped and then 7k es! It felt really good last league. Of course it could be tankier, but that's enough to do all content almost, I'd rather increase my damage at that point, so I could insta phase those ubers, or one shot sanctum Guardians :D
I asked about it the other day, but I do wanna know a bit more about ROTP. What does a normal ROTP build look like? Until now I have only been using gimmicks to hit the appropriate reservation efficiency, like the Kalandra flipped ring and blood nodes from the warlock in affliction.
I did some test run, and i think at least for me fastest/easiest way to level will be just ascend to Guardian, let the OP summon carry me to maps, and then swap to Inquisitor. Should be able to respec back with just gold this league, and even if not, there is enought regret points for this (getting just normal+cruel nodes).
Hey Lance! Loving the build like always, but I wanted to ask if there's more of a "endgame" pob that you have for tristack that is more in detail? 9m dps is pog, but I wanna do 99 instead :))
Oh Im intrigued now, I was planning to do a Sanctum rush, but as an Occ Hexblast I dont know if the PoB I have is enough damage, so I might do the same as you, I will definetly try a couple runs
can you please make a sanctum guide as well? for the past two leagues ive been checking on you but this time it really picked my interest. but the thing is, i hate sanctum, the reward pool is very shallow but if i can see the early sanctum, i may change my mind about it. probably there are some people like me.
i failed my first two sanctum runs with this build by getting 1-shotted from off screen by a sniper who had followed me whom i didnt know was there, same thing both times. Sucks.
hey! I played this last league and it was really good. The only issue I had was with uber lab, I had to deactivate energy blade and change to life gear before the boss or make 0 mistakes with the traps. Do you have any recommendations about this?
hey im just playing the tristack mines as my second character and its really great so far! there is just one thing when it comes to mapping: at times i think the recovery is lacking ,i took the 5% es over 1 sec when phys hit and have vitality but still i feel like sometimes that isnt enough... to be fair my es pool is just over 4k so i guess my question is: is it worth putting more effort in regen or should i just increase the es pool to make my percentage regen i allready have more effective? and by the way im really enjoying the content thanks alot for your work!
Is this a build that can function decently off of a sub-10 divine budget? I like to try to find builds that have a playstyle that feel good without having to invest too much into them. I'm definitely wanting to run Sanctum, but I just find that Hexblast Mines isn't really my cup of tea and I'm not sure I want to invest more into it. EDIT: Also can this build play Doryani's? lmao I dropped a 6L one and have no idea what to do with it.
Experience, trial and error. Hated it for 2 leagues straight but practiced it this league and it's pretty good now.also just do low life hex occult,1 turns are great
that version is still good but it's just a lot worse for sanctum so lance doesn't make many vids on it. I'm sure there are a few on poe ninja to check out.
Hey lance, great guide. I noticed on some of your older videos that you used "use flask at end of duration" enchantment when going low life traitor, and I would like to suggest you specifically point out and use "use this flask when charges reach full" instead. The downside of this is that if you accidentally piano things you might have a longer some downtime (though either enchant is vulnerable to this problem), but the upside is that after a second or so in the zone, the flask will automatically use itself. I heard you mention in some video 'just remember to hit your flask, eventually it will be habit'...sanctum is a pretty rough place to try to learn this habit. As someone who is very noob at sanctum, I was forgetting often - way too often for low life to be league start viable - and was frustrated to the point of looking for other builds until I realized this option. Both situations can result in death from user error (especially the boss in t2 if he blasts you in the face with chaos damage), but I think it's much more comfy and reliable to just have it remember to use it for me. I think only the chaos damage from that boss is the only real danger from not pressing flask manually.
Yo Lance! Any reason why Penance Brand isn't a go-to end game? Why Hexblast over Penance? Was the nerf too hard last patch and killed it for end game content? I was hoping to replay the build you've put out on Affliction since that was the best char I've ever played, but if it's dead I'll probably change my plan. thanks for the builds as always
Hexblast is omega brain off energy and has no ramp. It auto aims at everthing around you while with penance you have to click on top of the enemies. The ramp is also pretty annoying at least until GG gear.
Since I can't really do sanctum on a budget (don't have the skill, don't really care too much tbh), is there a way to start this build heist -> maps just as an hexblast build? and then shift into tristack to farm t17?
It is possible. I did an SSF run where I used hexblast of contradiction mines without the tristack setup. However the great thing about the tristack is that you get a lot of additional mine throws without using minefield, which would siginificantly reduce your mine throwing speed. So it's going to feel quite a bit worse without it. However for heist you don't really need damage you just need to run fast, killing mobs in heist is not really worth it so it's not really relevant what skill you use to do damage. Most heist farmers don't do damage at all actually.
One of the main reasons to tristack is to get additional mine throws through curtain call. So I would go a different route if you just want to play penance brand.
@CaptainLance9 Can you please make a build that continues the penance build? I don't really want to go hexblast but i don't have the required skill to make a build of my own 😔
honestly don't think you need to change much, most of the damage you get is generic stuff for most spells. Just change the helmet for something like crown of inward eyes and cruise with penance brand.
Hi Captain lance am looking for this build to my second character to play if I can't mange to get the curtain call with skill gem mana cost and reservation (cheapone is cost 10 dv) what helmet i can use while am farming for divine orb to buy it?(Rn i have around 6 dv) thankyou for make a good video!
How do you sustain Sanctum tomes? I only get a couple a league. I suppose I could buy them but I've never done sanctum very well so worried about losing currency buying them?
I forgot to emphasize this; Prioritize Putting quality on Energy blade whenever you can during the "setting up for sanctum swap" phase of the build. If you get a high roll quality in lab use it on energy blade.
EDIT: you may also notice I have an entire body armour without sockets, using galvanic field of intensity in a 4L here is quite good if you want to push single target but not necessary Great for clearing bosses a bit faster but not mandatory.
EDIT: updated PoB for a bit more efficient pathing(check to make sure pob hasn't been bricked, throughout theupdate process I bricked gear set/skill sets a couple times, current pob should be fixed)
fyi the frost walker node you talked about being to compensate for alira is ticked in the POB you linked.
@@TheBobersnip fixed thank you!
@@CaptainLance9 I would like to push Penance Brand to do Sanctums 83 and then get gear for swap. What mandatory upgrades I should get to push Penance Brand further? Some kind of Void Batter power charge stacking with Malachai Loop etc?
would really like 1 interim step like wolfy asked for the penance brand gear. i've been trying to use different combinations of gear and not sure how to scale the damage without swapping to hexblast setup
@@CaptainLance9 Would love to see an extra intermediary gear/gems setup that shows you what gear you can buy and use for PBoD while gearing towards the hexblast swap. It feels like you just gloss over how to do that when the transition is the most important part of the build!
Can you believe how this guy makes the same build every league? What a legend.
Loved this build last league but what happened to slams and Chieftain? Was so excited to see what he comes up with and he just updates the same build again.
Seemed more like he was just updating last leagues build
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@@donnkoz is this a really dry joke or did you miss the meme
@@donnkoz I am going to be leaguestarting zerker slams, stuff takes time and I had planned to update this first for those who wanted it updated based on current league. Tomorrow ill make vid on my plan for leaguestart
Quick tip for heist: If you're scared that you won't be able to complete heist (if you die on going out on alarm you lose all contraband items) you can go back from heist area and all items become clear. Then you can go again and complete it.
As a returning player who has never done sanctum I would really value a guide
@@Jarrito27 PhazePlays put one out recently it seemed pretty thought out
Steelmage has one on his CZcams channel from 3.23
@@danielzmatthewsful the guide is amazing. Definitely a go to for any player
Lance also has one from 11 months ago (Sanctum 2.0 Walkthrough), nothing huge has changed about it since then
Going to play your build this league after being a TS/LA bowcuck since 2017. Looking forward to changing it up and farming some Sanctum, Uber bosses, and T17s all while being able to invest and scale the character (my favorite part). Thanks for taking the time to update this build for all of us looking for our league starters. See you on the beach for 3.25, exiles!
Im so glad captain lance invented energy blade
Heard he invited templar as well! What guy 😊
CaptainLance this is the 8th day you've brought Energy Blade Inquisitor 3 flask Balbala Ivory Tower to show and tell
Do you know Phox and his RF academy?
@@Azarath26 and Ghazzy with his minions
@@raffiqzin people are awesome, right?
Magefist and flickerstrike
OH CAPTAIN. MY CAPTAIN
Captain lance was right.
Mate thank you so much, was hoping for this update so bad!! Much love!!
Hey bro, just wanted to say this build is awesome. I had a few hiccups during leveling, but since I had a lucky drop with my gladiator that was my league starter, I had 15 divs to play with and was able to gear up pretty much the whole build when I got to lvl 85 or so. Tried a few Sanctums, but it didn't click with me at first, I sucked, failed a few and decided to leave Sanctum alone for a bit. Just mapping with this build is pretty satisfying though, throwing mines and deleting packs of mobs, and the damage on single target is nice. A few days ago I decided to try Sanctum again, I watched a few guides this time to make sure I wouldn't fuck up. I started to consistently finish Sanctums, and just by farming I am making about 25-30 divs a day, which is pretty nice, and I'm not even fast or efficient at it. But today, I hit the jackpot. After my 60th Sanctum or so, I dropped THE ORIGINAL SCRIPTURE. I was in absolute disbelief when I picked that thing off the ground. I think that's the single most valuable item I dropped in all of my thousands of PoE hours. This may be the first time I get my hands on a Mirror of Kalandra in PoE, if I manage to sell this thing (0 chance I'm going to try to run it myself, lol).
bro, could you share your POB? I'm trying to map with this build as well and am having difficulty with passives/gems etc.
@@hapakaja I would bro, but it gets deleted if I post any links. Just check out my profile and import it to PoB, its not private. My PoE profile is Viniciuss_137, my character is Gerard_HB. If you're having any problems or struggling with anything specifically, let me know, I'll try to help you.
Great vid! Through and a great way to league start!. Also didn’t know about better trade extension will be adding it :)
with 20c budget on league start you can be crit cap by lvl 73. Maw of Conquest helmet + Light of Lunaris shield. boots+belt+amulet+rings to fix resistances without killing kitava of cause. regular penance brand with crit mastery +150crit on enemies with full life and lightning wheel by eldritch battery +100 crit chance if you have skitterbots to pre shock enemies. everything adds up to 99+- crit chance and 506 multi without assasin mark. planning to go with two Call of the Brotherhood if price isn't too crazy for juicy freezes on guards
Niiiice!
god i love league start , binging league starter videos is so damn awesome .
YAY!!! I started this last league and had my most successful league by far - even though i completely botched the sanctum start at first and really only got into doing sanctums like a week and a half in. still managed to afford my first mageblood and hit a total net worth of probably ~400div before i stopped playing last league.
cant wait to not botch the start this time (since i now have actual sanctum experience) and see how much more i can do!
This build BLASTS! I had best start with it last league, made so much money to make cool builds! Thanks cap! Best starter strategy ever!
Nice to hear, can you put a POB here?
I played this a couple seasons ago and it was glorious! Captain lance was right.
I played this last league and despite normally doing a lot of sanctums each league (like 1 week of farming them straight each league since tomes got introduced), I failed my first two sanctums (one quest book and I spent rest of my currency on a second one) and had to do some very uncomfortable rerolling. Maybe it's a skill issue, but I would say going shockwave totem on hiero or any hexblast shadow is a much better way to go about starting sanctum early.
If you mess this up like I have, you can't really do maps easily, so please make sure to take this into account. This is nothing against this build guide or Lance - he makes some really great stuff.
The upside this league though is with gold based respeccing now it should actually be a lot easier to pivot early on a bricked build.
i just want to caution everyone. at 68 assuming you leveled with firestorm, there is 0% chance you have ur penance brand at a decent level, and u wont have ur other gems properly leveled, he is also using quality on eblade which is a massive buff. You might be able to do the quest tier 68sanctum they give you, but even like 75-76 will be tough runs. If you can level stuff in weapon swap, and run more of the heists(atleast check the market every level). Also theres a massive difference between regular penance brand and the alt qual one.
Video isin't bait the builds awesome! 68 tho might be... honestly luck based, if you get a tough affliction run you might brick it . Temper expectations for sure, The start is gonna be very bumpy.
also crown of the inward eye is better if ur not planning to play hexblast
Quick tip, instead of leveling in act ten or whatever, try to level in lab and get the quality and experience on your penance brand
old comment, but gem levels don't matter as much in this build since you already geta ton of flat from energy blade/spell blade combo so the flat you get from levels is less noticable. This is why he has a lower level hexblast in his final pob too cause it relaly doesn't matter that much and costs less mana res.
Similarly you will get qual from lab for energy blade while farming for the alt quality penance brand.
@@xyzqsrbo "old comment, but gem levels don't matter as much in this build since you already geta ton of flat from energy blade/spell blade combo " They absolutely do 100% just any spell based build, the damage is night an day between low level and 15-17's, same goes for quality on Ebalde and PB of dissipation. The difference is more then 10%.(quality alone)
"This is why he has a lower level hexblast in his final pob too cause it relaly doesn't matter that much"
No? He has a lower hexblast level because of life reservation and management issues, that's why its lower? what? why would you intentionally have it lower otherwise??????
"Similarly you will get qual from lab for energy blade while farming for the alt quality penance brand." You don't famr for pb, you run heist for chaos and buy pb. did you watch the video? the claim is this is a sanctum rush pb strat that u can do at lvl 68 and start farming sanctum. A lot of people who arent proficient at sanctum have already failed and wrote in comments that they failed this strat.I dont want to go back and fourth but you... i dont know why would you say any of this.
@@SadSinStory "No? He has a lower hexblast level because of life reservation and management issues, that's why its lower? what? why would you intentionally have it lower otherwise??????"
Not sure why you are saying this when I said literally what you just said directly after? The dps difference isn't massive so it's worth getting better reservation. This isn't my conjecture btw, this is just how he explained it in his video about this build last league. I never advocated to run with no quality, you definitely need quality. I was strictly talking about gem levels.
"You don't famr for pb, you run heist for chaos and buy pb. did you watch the video? the claim is this is a sanctum rush pb strat that u can do at lvl 68 and start farming sanctum."
Not sure why he would recommend heist, that's just dumb, you can easily get the gem before 68 from lab lol.
Honestly unsure why you were so rude with this response.
@@xyzqsrbo i dont want to make this a back and forth. I have issues even with ur response. Agree to disagree. And sorry for being hostile and rude to you.
I leaguestarted this and have been enjoying it so much! Thanks for the guide. The thing I am stuck on now is trying to get the gear upgrades. I feel like I do not understand how to optimize damage just yet
Im probably going to do this start once again while people figure out more or less whats good for melee, looking either at a berserker or warden, the currency you get from sanctum just feels so good early
Great! That's what I was looking for. Ty dude.
One thing that I find works super good with the weighted sums stuff you setup for people is to instead of sort by cheapest, put in how much currency you want to spend in the 'buyout price max' field (for example 5c), then do the search and sort by weighted sum.
I never knew the better trading extension existed and i have 1700 hrs in the game. Thank you so much. Subscribed. Also i love energy blade. Every league, i don't care, i just love it.
This is the build that broke my RF standard for league start. It was wonderful. Once I saw the Capt do the keystone bosses with shit gear I was sold and it’s been amazing every time I have built it. I hope it’s as good or better come 3.25 woot! I watching vid now
I played tri stack in the Necropolis League to the extent that I built a tri stack with 1.5 mirrors and earned 3 mirrors .
From that experience I understand that adorned and helical ring play a very important role in the tri stack, but they have been nerfed.
This nerf is expected to be very hard on this build.
Snack tier list was just a cherry on top
I'm late to the energy blade party as I only found your stuff recently but as a build template it looks fascinating. I'll be doing some dry runs this week of starters and this is definitely in there. Got to say I'm not sold on the aesthetics of the templar in a ghostwrithe - the stuff of nightmares lol.
can't wait to play this build this league
CaptainLance truly invented energy blade inquisitor
damn thats a high effort guide, thanks
Lance: This build is for sanctum, not mapping
Someone on reddit: This build is bad, I can't map!!
I don't think I've ever seen this build shit on on reddit ever
Nice build ! SUBSCRIBED !
lol careful lance you might get accused of playing the same build again, keep up the awesome content coming!
Unpopular opinion: I don't think it's that bad for mapping.
It's certainly not a fast mapper, but it's reliable for killing those overtuned rares (especially hyper juiced Essence mobs).
It's also great for Harvest, cause you can pre-fire those mines while you wait for the mobs to spawn, kill the first wave immediately and then keep on spamming, and the range is quite enough for the small area of these plots.
And yea, it is a boss killer, which makes progressing the atlas for many beginners so much easier, cause often times they struggle with defeating the Maven, or Elder/Shaper, with theyre squishy mapping builds.
And another unpopular opinion, is that as a softcore trade player, I reaaally love the fact it has so many uniques, and barely any rares to craft. It's so much more comfortable to build and straight forward due to that. These are just the things I'm looking for in a build!
yea i absolutely hate sanctum so i went straight to maps, rares elites and bosses are melted by penance brand in seconds, i'm a bit squishy too but i die due to 4g internet 2s ping spikes more than to actual skill issues lol
Once you switch into mines you can do whatever, i think he means at first before you have currency to switch to tri stack it isnt good for mapping
it's good at mapping it just doesn't have the defenses to be classified as a great mapper imo. You are pretty paper with just 7k ES and a dream holding you up lol.
@@xyzqsrbo Yeahh the damage and 6 portals is alot of the defense in this build. If it can farm t17s well then idm being glass cannon
When I played it last league, it wasn't squishy at all, tho. It's definitely not a glass canon!
You get near 100% spell suppression, 30k Evasion rating, a good amount of block and spell block chance, 80% ele res cap (last league i used all 3 purities so i was at 85% / 86%), pretty good recovery, from the energy shield masteries, ghost dance, zealots oath, etc. , using enfeeble + temporal chains (either one of them with blasphemy, the other on gloves as an on hit corrupt), chaos res capped and then 7k es! It felt really good last league. Of course it could be tankier, but that's enough to do all content almost, I'd rather increase my damage at that point, so I could insta phase those ubers, or one shot sanctum Guardians :D
amazing guide as always
2 more leagues of updating energy blade builds and he gets to rank up to Admiral Lance.
I for one... salute your efforts, sir.
The man is back at it!
This looks awesome, but if you did a Berserker slam POB before leaguestart, you da man! I wanna start that so bad :D
I asked about it the other day, but I do wanna know a bit more about ROTP.
What does a normal ROTP build look like? Until now I have only been using gimmicks to hit the appropriate reservation efficiency, like the Kalandra flipped ring and blood nodes from the warlock in affliction.
nice build ecpecially the food tier list
I did some test run, and i think at least for me fastest/easiest way to level will be just ascend to Guardian, let the OP summon carry me to maps, and then swap to Inquisitor. Should be able to respec back with just gold this league, and even if not, there is enought regret points for this (getting just normal+cruel nodes).
Ran this last 2 leagues builds a monster. Get a hh and it gets crazy fast
Capitanus Lancelus! Awe! True to the Roman Emperor of The Basement!
lance, did you have a filterblade for the leveling of the EB LS inquisitor? have you done for the start and can set free for us?
Here before the DRAMA
Hai Antoaneta made a PoB for maps with the exchanges ?
Pros and cons on this build versus hex blast trickster?
this one is higher damage than trickster but a lot less tanky
Hey Lance! Loving the build like always, but I wanted to ask if there's more of a "endgame" pob that you have for tristack that is more in detail? 9m dps is pog, but I wanna do 99 instead :))
Hello and welcome exiles to my league start guide for energy blade inquisitor 😃
doing a sanctum rush😫
do you have any guides on how to progress your PB version past level 70?
Oh Im intrigued now, I was planning to do a Sanctum rush, but as an Occ Hexblast
I dont know if the PoB I have is enough damage, so I might do the same as you, I will definetly try a couple runs
can you please make a sanctum guide as well? for the past two leagues ive been checking on you but this time it really picked my interest. but the thing is, i hate sanctum, the reward pool is very shallow but if i can see the early sanctum, i may change my mind about it. probably there are some people like me.
Bro....where the "copy this here" for the better trading import???!?
what's the best way against the stun problem if i went the cyclone route?
i failed my first two sanctum runs with this build by getting 1-shotted from off screen by a sniper who had followed me whom i didnt know was there, same thing both times. Sucks.
Definitely starting this, wanted to try this the last league but it ran dry so fast.
hey! I played this last league and it was really good.
The only issue I had was with uber lab, I had to deactivate energy blade and change to life gear before the boss or make 0 mistakes with the traps.
Do you have any recommendations about this?
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hey im just playing the tristack mines as my second character and its really great so far!
there is just one thing when it comes to mapping: at times i think the recovery is lacking ,i took the 5% es over 1 sec when phys hit and have vitality but still i feel like sometimes that isnt enough... to be fair my es pool is just over 4k so i guess my question is: is it worth putting more effort in regen or should i just increase the es pool to make my percentage regen i allready have more effective?
and by the way im really enjoying the content thanks alot for your work!
Again? you always to that!!! ( ;) )
Is this a build that can function decently off of a sub-10 divine budget? I like to try to find builds that have a playstyle that feel good without having to invest too much into them. I'm definitely wanting to run Sanctum, but I just find that Hexblast Mines isn't really my cup of tea and I'm not sure I want to invest more into it.
EDIT: Also can this build play Doryani's? lmao I dropped a 6L one and have no idea what to do with it.
Never done sanctum, so how do you keep the tomes generation going if you never get to maps?
You buy them from other players with the currency you get in sanctums.
Even melee buffs, he is still unshakeable
More melee pob please Mr.GoodBuild
How do I get over my deep hatred of Sanctum, and its mechanics though?
One shot everything, know layouts, smooth sailing. Then enjoy big divine tinks every 30 minutes
Experience, trial and error.
Hated it for 2 leagues straight but practiced it this league and it's pretty good now.also just do low life hex occult,1 turns are great
Is the CoC version not recommended anymore? I had a blast shattering everything with Ice Spear of Splitting a couple leagues ago.
that version is still good but it's just a lot worse for sanctum so lance doesn't make many vids on it. I'm sure there are a few on poe ninja to check out.
Hey lance, great guide. I noticed on some of your older videos that you used "use flask at end of duration" enchantment when going low life traitor, and I would like to suggest you specifically point out and use "use this flask when charges reach full" instead. The downside of this is that if you accidentally piano things you might have a longer some downtime (though either enchant is vulnerable to this problem), but the upside is that after a second or so in the zone, the flask will automatically use itself. I heard you mention in some video 'just remember to hit your flask, eventually it will be habit'...sanctum is a pretty rough place to try to learn this habit. As someone who is very noob at sanctum, I was forgetting often - way too often for low life to be league start viable - and was frustrated to the point of looking for other builds until I realized this option.
Both situations can result in death from user error (especially the boss in t2 if he blasts you in the face with chaos damage), but I think it's much more comfy and reliable to just have it remember to use it for me. I think only the chaos damage from that boss is the only real danger from not pressing flask manually.
completely disagree with this, not to mention a lot of rooms you start with not full charges because it doesn't refil on room transition.
Energy Blade Inquisitor
Me, you and 15k other viewers running sanctum
Yo Lance! Any reason why Penance Brand isn't a go-to end game? Why Hexblast over Penance? Was the nerf too hard last patch and killed it for end game content? I was hoping to replay the build you've put out on Affliction since that was the best char I've ever played, but if it's dead I'll probably change my plan.
thanks for the builds as always
Hexblast is omega brain off energy and has no ramp. It auto aims at everthing around you while with penance you have to click on top of the enemies. The ramp is also pretty annoying at least until GG gear.
Since I can't really do sanctum on a budget (don't have the skill, don't really care too much tbh), is there a way to start this build heist -> maps just as an hexblast build? and then shift into tristack to farm t17?
It is possible. I did an SSF run where I used hexblast of contradiction mines without the tristack setup. However the great thing about the tristack is that you get a lot of additional mine throws without using minefield, which would siginificantly reduce your mine throwing speed. So it's going to feel quite a bit worse without it.
However for heist you don't really need damage you just need to run fast, killing mobs in heist is not really worth it so it's not really relevant what skill you use to do damage. Most heist farmers don't do damage at all actually.
Hi Lance, thanks for the build. How do I calculate POB damage for this build?
Love you captain, feels like the same shit tho
Hi Captain, a weird question, what spectres could increase the damage of the tristack hexblast further in sanctum?
I can't wait to do a ssf voidstone run with this build to see how it compares to other builds
Great guide thanks. Out of idle curiosity who won the bet?
They agreed to a tie. Lance was winning but Fub's plan got wrecked by the mf/scarab changes, so he didnt want to press it.
Best league starter hands down. In Necropolis I killed Kitava at lvl 97 lmao
Should have gone to ful 100 to get the most life xdd
I'm noob but is it possible to still play penance brand with the tri stack gear?
One of the main reasons to tristack is to get additional mine throws through curtain call. So I would go a different route if you just want to play penance brand.
@@liangdar9675 thanks
how do you regenerate health under the Zealot's Oath? don't work life regen
@CaptainLance9 Can you please make a build that continues the penance build? I don't really want to go hexblast but i don't have the required skill to make a build of my own 😔
honestly don't think you need to change much, most of the damage you get is generic stuff for most spells. Just change the helmet for something like crown of inward eyes and cruise with penance brand.
How is Arctic Armor used in this build? I see it in the pob but cant see it being used it the gameplay
Hi Captain lance am looking for this build to my second character to play if I can't mange to get the curtain call with skill gem mana cost and reservation (cheapone is cost 10 dv) what helmet i can use while am farming for divine orb to buy it?(Rn i have around 6 dv) thankyou for make a good video!
Can someone please explain how he's throwing multiple mines at once without minefield support?
curtain call
Do i need both the helmet with 90% reserv cost and enlighten support or just one of those?
one of the key changes is the jewellery , what should replace for the change of Adorned?
Lance, do you think its no point leveling as RF inquisitor and the swap to tri stack hexblast?
should i play this if im slow at leveling? i always try to go fast but end up with a 8 hour clear at minimum
Waaaiiiit. What am I going to use to block fireballs now that totems are dead?
They only killed melee totems the normal totems are still there.
What does he use instead of perandus this league/
Phazeplays just did a video for sanctums runs if you want to give credits and not waist time to do a video
for someone who hates doing sanctum, would this be viable for mapping, i am really noobish at it
bah why does sanctum league mechanic have to suck so much but be so good for loot >
i die to grasping vines do u kno how to stop this
Dam tried to be first! but i enjoy this guys pobs!
is there a replacement jewel for the lpact prismatic jewel?
nvm i found it
How do you sustain Sanctum tomes? I only get a couple a league. I suppose I could buy them but I've never done sanctum very well so worried about losing currency buying them?
Buy em mostly
they're removing the eternal blessing support gem in 3.25. anything else worth using at lvl 68 since we can't run haste anymore?
they aren't, they're removing divine blessing
Hi! I'm already on tri-stack, and sometimes I just get oneshoted on random floors, i'm not using Elixi every time, could it be because of this?
probably chaos damage, it goes through energy shield unless you have the coruscating elixir up
Noob Here. How this build deals with chaos damage?