Penetration

[Casul Gamer]

Is it good? IF so, does it help early game or do I wait until later when (I assume) enemies have higher resistances?

[Vaal]

Origineel geplaatst door DontEatSmurfs:

Origineel geplaatst door Casul Gamer:

Is it good? IF so, does it help early game or do I wait until later when (I assume) enemies have higher resistances?

penetration is ALWAYS good, having element, phys, ailment types of penetration means more dmg overall, each boss has their own resistances and you are literally doing more dmg

Did the bosses consent on you penetrating their resistances? This is important.

[DontEatSmurfs]

Origineel geplaatst door Fat Elvis:

Origineel geplaatst door DontEatSmurfs:

penetration is ALWAYS good, having element, phys, ailment types of penetration means more dmg overall, each boss has their own resistances and you are literally doing more dmg

Did the bosses consent on you penetrating their resistances? This is important.

absolutely not...im penetrating anyway

[Vaal]

Origineel geplaatst door DontEatSmurfs:

Origineel geplaatst door Fat Elvis:

Did the bosses consent on you penetrating their resistances? This is important.

absolutely not...im penetrating anyway

Hot ngl.

[Cynry]

Origineel geplaatst door 5ean5ean:

Origineel geplaatst door Casul Gamer:

Is it good? IF so, does it help early game or do I wait until later when (I assume) enemies have higher resistances?

Penetration is only good if you don't have sources of exposure or lowering elemental resistances like curses.

Unfortunately in this game you cannot penetrate into negative resistences. So if you already can get enemies below 0 penetration is worthless.

Where did you get that info? The invoker's node that bypass resists says it won't bypass negative resistances, implying they exist... And it's also how it worked in poe1, so I'm curious :)

[SK]

Pen is nerfed from PoE1.

In PoE1 you can penetrate enemy resistances below 0%.
In PoE2, you can only go to 0%, so a little pen is good, but you don't want to much. Don't stack it like in PoE1.

[Razerarc]

Origineel geplaatst door Necko:

Try penetrating your friends if your enemies are playing hard to get.

But always get consent first. Otherwise your friends will turn into enemies. And then you can't penetrate them anymore.

[Pink]

DO NOT penetrate early game!
I recommend igniting them first, then prime them for penetration by building-up stun so they can't move.

If it's your first time running this build, then use a protection spell.
Better safe than sorry.

[Razerarc]

Origineel geplaatst door Pink:

DO NOT penetrate early game!
I recommend igniting them first, then prime them for penetration by building-up stun so they can't move.

Ah yes. Never forget proper foreplay prior to applying penetration.

[5ean5ean]

Origineel geplaatst door Cynry:

Origineel geplaatst door 5ean5ean:

Penetration is only good if you don't have sources of exposure or lowering elemental resistances like curses.

Unfortunately in this game you cannot penetrate into negative resistences. So if you already can get enemies below 0 penetration is worthless.

Where did you get that info? The invoker's node that bypass resists says it won't bypass negative resistances, implying they exist... And it's also how it worked in poe1, so I'm curious :)

Resistances can go into the negative....exposure, curses.

You can't penetrate below 0 anymore. If you have 80 ele pen, and the monster is at +5...you're only doing 5 pen.

[Casul Gamer]

Origineel geplaatst door Fat Elvis:

Yeah, just use a Lube Support gem with it. OP build rn

I use unleash support gem. The longer I hold it in, the more that comes out when I break the seal. Seriously though, I do love that support gem. really suits my playstyle in many builds.

[Vaal]

Origineel geplaatst door Casul Gamer:

Origineel geplaatst door Fat Elvis:

Yeah, just use a Lube Support gem with it. OP build rn

I use unleash support gem. The longer I hold it in, the more that comes out when I break the seal. Seriously though, I do love that support gem. really suits my playstyle in many builds.

Ye, im using it in my fireball (pun intended, wink). Maybe we should hang out and unleash seals some day.