XP Games: POE Affliction Builds – Storm Brand of Indecision

Learn about XP Games' powerful Storm Brand of Indecision build in Path of Exile, featuring high damage, tankiness, and easy gameplay.

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XP Games presents their latest video on the Storm Brand of Indecision build in Path of Exile. This build is powerful, with high damage, tankiness, and an easy playstyle. The video showcases the gear, skills, and passive tree used to create this build, along with gameplay footage to demonstrate its effectiveness.

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Key Takeaways:

  • The Storm Brand of Indecision build is a strong and tanky build that excels in high-tier maps and boss fights.
  • The build focuses on stacking intelligence and strength to boost damage and energy shield.
  • Key items and gems used in the build include the Ivory Tower, energy blade, Spell blade, and Cyclopian Coil.
  • The build utilizes various auras, flasks, and ascendency choices to maximize damage and survivability.

Build Overview:

The Storm Brand of Indecision build is a powerful build that combines high damage, tankiness, and an easy playstyle. The build focuses on stacking intelligence and strength to boost damage and energy shield. Key items used in the build include the Ivory Tower, energy blade, Spell blade, and Cyclopian Coil. The build utilizes various auras, flasks, and ascendency choices to maximize damage and survivability.

Gear and Gems:

The build utilizes specific items and gems to maximize damage and survivability. The Ivory Tower provides a significant boost to energy shield and allows life to be reserved as energy shield. The energy blade and Spell blade gems provide additional damage, while the Cyclopian Coil offers increased attributes and damage. Other key items include Shaper’s Touch gloves and various rings with energy shield, strength, and intelligence. Gems used in the build include Storm Brand, Indecision, Faster Casting, Swift Brand, Concentrated Effect, and Increased Critical Damage Support.

Passive Tree and Ascendancy Choices:

The passive tree focuses on intelligence, strength, energy shield, and life. Key nodes include Runebinder, which allows the casting of two additional brands, and Pain Attunement, which provides a significant boost to spell damage. Ascendancy choices include Instruments of Virtue, which grants added spell damage based on the damage of the main hand weapon, and Augury of Penitence, which reduces enemy monster elemental resistances. The build also utilizes the Primordial ascendancy for increased storage space and additional bonuses.