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A Guide For Building Strong Tanky Defences In Path Of Exile The Forbideen Sanctum

Jan 11, 2023

Path of Exile is one of the most complex games that require a significant knowledge about various aspects of the game. And its core mechanics the beauty of this game is building your own character with a skill that is not popularly used by other players and taking advantage of certain features that breaks the barriers of the end game. Most players skip build guide explanations failing to understand why each aspect of the build is used. Hence, going directly into the path of building link without understanding the build functionality can often end up in a disappointment in the end.

There are two questions you need to ask when you are building a character in Path of Exile:

  • What are the most important sources of Damage?

  • What are the Defenses?

Damage numbers for a hip based character in trade. League should have at least one million to complete the end game, excluding the Uber Pinnacle bosses, which are made for extreme high-end builds.

Defences for your build should include:

  1. Damage Reduction sources

  2. Damage Avoidance sources

  3. Recovery sources

Damage Reduction sources include:

  1. Spell suppression

  2. Maximum Rresistance and Armour stacking

  3. Keystones such as Lethe Shade, Glancing Blows, Mind Over Matter, and Wind Dancer

  4. Timeless Jewels such as Glorious Vanity, which grants Corrupted Soul or Divine Flesh

  5. Auras, such as Determination, Arctic Armour, Defiance Banner, Flesh and Stone and purity skills

    POE Arctic Armour

  6. Guard skills

  7. Endurance charge stacking

  8. Crit damage reduction

  9. Applying Curses, such as Enfeeble

  10. Chaos Golem effect stacking

  11. Damage taken as another damage or Damage Conversion

  12. Elemental Ailment Mitagation and Curse effect reduction

  13. Other less damage taken sources such as Fortify, Flask Effects and other buffs

Damage Avoidance sources include:

  1. Evasion Stacking

  2. Attack and Spell Block Capping

  3. Auras, such as Grace and Tempest Shield

  4. Blind and Elusive effect buffs

  5. Direct sources of Damage Avoidance

  6. Using Minions or Totems to body block damage

    POE Corrupted Blood

  7. Immunity to Corrupted Blood and other debuffs

  8. Stun Avoidance or Immunity

  9. Applying non-damaging Ailments, such as Freeze and Chill

  10. Applying Curses, such as Temporal Chains

  11. Faster Movement Speed, Action Speed and Mobility Skills to Manually Dodge Hits

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Recovery sources include:

  1. Life Flask's fast or instant Recovery Mods

  2. Consecrated Ground

  3. Life or Energy Shield flat regeneration

  4. Regeneration rate and Recovery rate stacking from Passive Tree and gear

  5. Damage recoup

    POE Summon Holy Relic

  6. Keystones, such as Ghost Dance

  7. Life or Energy Shield Leech

  8. Life or Energy Shield gain on hit

  9. Auras, such as Vitality and Discipline

  10. Stone Golem effect stacking and Summon Holy Relic

  11. Skills, like Siphoning Trap

When you build your character you should ask yourself, which of these defenses are you going to stack based on your pathing and item progression? Because the more often you die in a map, the more likely you are going to quit the league and be disappointed. So, choose wisely and beware of the upcoming bait builds out there that will hook a lot of players into high expectations.

Of course, whether you need to make excellent builds or improve your equipment or characters, you need to prepare sufficient POE Currency. If you happen to have such needs, you might as well come to this website to have a look.

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