![]() ![]() It has one of the highest and at the same time "easy to get" accuracy ceilings of all class combos which is important for the bow (it relies on crits) and it does great single tarter as well as AoE damage (from the bow's AoE itself as well as the imbue shots of the Arcane Archer) and has very good focus generation so you can ascend all the time. Some prefer Ghost Heart, I would prefer Arcane Archer. On top of that you can of course prolong all other sorts of buffs (accuracy, defenses, inspirations - you name it) and healing over time (Minor Lay on Hands from gloves and/or Blightheart's healing pulse for example).Īnother very strong combo with Ascendant is Ranger/Ascendant with the Frostseeker warbow. That's endless casting of Cipher spells for free, including Ancestor's Memory for your whole party (think of your party's Priest who can then use Salvation of Time to keep the whole party brilliant for the entire fight). The main reason is that the Bloodmage can have unlimited casts of Wall of Draining which can be used to prolong the ascended state endlessly. A good charm spell or debuff can sometimes be more effective than spamming SA, so don't totally neglect your powers.įor the late game a Bloodmage/Ascendant is one of the most "straightforward" powerful Cipher combinations you can have (without exploiting unintended behavior of certain items and other very cheesy apporaches). You can use powers as well when you want to. With this character I would usually throw on a buff or two (Borrowed Instinct and/or Psychovampiric Shield) and then go to town spamming SA. In essence that means you can spam Soul Annihilation all day. Sun & Moon strikes twice (once with Soul Annihilation, and then once by itself) so the way that works is you dump your focus with the first attack and then instantly regenerate focus with the second attack from Sun & Moon. The way the Soul Annihilation ability works is it does a primary attack, so the off hand is ignored. I recently played a Stalker/Soulblade using Sun & Moon + Tuotilo's palm (and then later Seeker's Fang + Grave Calling). You said you're not totally opposed to melee builds. ![]() So that one goes well with Ascendants.Įssence Interrupter is a good ranged weapon as well. That is a 1/encounter ability which will do a ton of damage and get you to max focus (or very close) quite quickly. If you don't want to deal much with a pet you could do Ghost Heart/Ascendant which would also be quite good.Īnother weapon which pairs well with ranged Ciphers of any variety is Kitchen Stove with the Thunderous Report upgrade. With the high Ranger accuracy you'll crit often and your spells will land well and spells like Borrowed Instinct will make you even more accurate. From there you can spam powers or continue to ranged dps as desired. Use the Frostseeker bow and you'll generate enough focus to get ascended very quickly. Is a jack of all trades/master of none cipher just a basic one without a subclass?Please let me know.Īrcane Archer/Ascendant is very powerful. Soul Blade seems intersting as a melee option,though i would prefer to keep my cipher ranged,but i'm not totally oposed to a melee build(in WM1 i took that 2 handed sword where you couldn't swap to other weapons until you solved the 3 riddles so i played like 15 hours with it). Now,from what i've seen from POE2,there's a lot of options with playing singleclass/multiclass,but i'm not sure how to build him again in the sense of being pretty good at both DPS/CC.I feel like Ascendant would be a bit annoying with having to aim to get to max focus,i've seen a Beguiler/Trickster build that seems interesting,but to me it kinda goes way too much into specialisation as CC. ![]() In POE1,i mostly used Mental Binding,Puppet Master(def my favourite),Silent Scream,Body Attunement, Amplified Wave and Disentigration.I also used him alongside Greaving Mother in a dual cipher line up to basically get most enemies on our side and it was a lot of fun,but my favourite thing was that he was a jack of all trades,he could do great damage as well.I mostly used blunderbuss and stormcaller bow. Hello,so i just finished POE1 and i'll be starting POE2 in the near future,but i'm really not sure how i want to build my Cipher MC. ![]()
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