mathiaseriksen6600: As a melee enjoyer, i'm very interested in heavy strike and sunder, and also weirdly VERY intrigued about what chain hook could work like

abysmalblade: Another thing to note staffs can get both a flat fire per 10 str mod and a flat lightning per int mod so that is another possible option

okedim2432: I think the new heavy strike will be good on inquisutor, with 500 int and str, you can get 100% double dmg while also getting 500% increased crit chance from righteous providence and scaling iron will with 100% increased spell dmg turning into 150% for the gem.

chocolatinerevolutionnaire: For the shield throw of trathus, one important details is that the 20/20 gem has nearly half the damage of the original skill at base -> the phys scaling per armour and evasion is 3 to 5 at level 20, while SST is 5 to 9

for what compensate the damage loss, it's simply the shards

it's behaviour, base SST fire shard when hitting ennemies

the shard don't and can't hit the original target that created them, so you only get the shield part

for trathus SST, you get the shield part, which can hit and always pierce

the the shield will stop in place, and fire shard multiple times until all it's projs are depleted -> 23 proj at base, fired 6 by 6

this means that the skill can hit at base with the shield, then 3 times with the shards, and a 4th time if you get exactly 1 additional projectiles

due to the star patern of the skill throwing shards, the last firing will be a 5 point start and not a 6 point one without 1 additional proj, so you way not get a 4 hit, depending how the skill works exactly

i hadn't seen the footage in the video before, but if you slow it, i thinks it's possible that the skill auto target and that would be huge for solo target damage as it would guarantee 4 shards hit and maybe a fifth one with 2 projs

knowing that the gem phys scaling is a bit higher that half normal SST and shards being half a shield hit, doing conservative estimation, you get 1 shield hit and 4 shard hit equaling to 3 shield hit total, multiplied by 0.5 for conservative scaling you end up with 1.5 times the base gem damage

obviously, all of that is still an educated guess, but for SST characted, this may have a way better single target with similar or better clear ( projs go farther, so using a source of explode herald should do all the heavy lifting )

fujugiki: Chain Hook is totally useless as is, I’m VERY interested to see if this new version does something cool. I really hope so!

dunedadude: the wave of con would make for a ritual farmers dream. circle for a circle lol

flippicat: I did a rage stacking chain hook build at the beginning of settlers, and it was thoroughly decent. Probably would have been better with a different skill but it was playable

InnerExile_92: Dammit the wave of conviction might have changed my overall plans, looks cool

mic-drop-74: Imagine a Trarthus Reaper gem

spyanide: I'm very excited for Trarthan Heavy Strike. Using a lot of self damage through Trauma support, you can sustain the mana requirements of Indigon through mana recoup (clarity watchers eye, battle rouse, mana mastery, veiled ring/amulet crafts). My plan is to play a Jugg, utilizing the self hurt recovery from Untiring and the Divine Shield keystone to sustain large amounts of damage so the recoup actually happens. There's definitely a lot of kinks to work out, and you're absolutely right, it's a reroll not a starter. I've tested out the shell in standard with regular Heavy Strike though, and it's promising! Prayge

CrytYT: For Wave of Conviction, the Trarthus version has the AoE tag, and the regular version only has the AoE tag as far as modifiers on it as well. Of course I cant say for sure until the league drops, but I'm guessing it probably has the same mechanics.

luc_xott: storm call woc, less duration stacking, slinger maybe?

TheCosmicAstro-: Im hoping Chain Hook of Trarthus is GOATED because finally having a viable chain hook build would be both hilarious and potentially extremely fun at the same time.

richbushell205: I could try Wave of Conviction on a CWDT trigger or more likely paired with a Cast on Critical Strike supporting Leap Slam for clear.

JKutaragi: Zombies of GIGANTIFICATON (i seen it on merc). Sounds fun imo

GoatKnife: As a new player I wish you'd have shown the current skills that the ones we dont have footage for are based on like bladefall and helix because I've got no idea what those look like

mazgill8780: Wave of conviction with less duration gem and duration on passive tree can be brought up to 0.33s duration, which synchronises ideally with cast while channeling. It might be interesting pick for mjolnier (can you have two different kinds of wave of conviction at the same time?), fun spin to win with cyclone, or maybe something new with incinerate (wave of conviction helps with dmg while incinerate stacks up, for example).

WindHaze10: Thanks to new heavy strike gem, otherwise bad staves with mixed stats are finally useful and can potentially offer never before seen dps for heavy strike.

guillaume6459: I'm a wave of conviction fan boy and I think AoE work. AoE stats are not shown on the regular version, I think they just forgot. Here what poewiki has to say:

Effective range: The travel distance after which the Wave terminates is dictated by two factors: area of effect modifiers, and duration modifiers. Mathematically, the result is multiplicative between the two stats; when applied independently of each other, area of effect will appear to increase the Wave's travel speed while duration directly affects range while not changing Wave speed.

My thinking is, scaling down duration, down to 0.2525 duration multiplier for a 0.12625 duration wave making you able to cast up to 7.92 wave of conviction.

Tibasu: Damn, the physical Storm Call is an example of one of the things that annoy me with skill gems which is when two gems are similar enough that it creates a "why not" moment, where you would just choose the one with better damage, because why not do that?

Looking forward to Blast Rain of Trarthus. I love blast rain, but it's pretty mediocre for SSF because it's scales heavily with extra projectiles, which is harder to obtain in SSF. Hopefully the Trarthus version is more viable so I can make use of the ebony MTX I bought. Will definitely hunt down all the gems to play around with

SangoProductions213: Hmm. I played shield throw once, and immediately hated how absolutely tiny the hit box was, and never touched it again. This... looks like it's got a lot of single target damage, while still having AoE.

evilfiendish9787: Please GGG let Chain Hook or Trarthus be good

SimonMester: Fine, here is your engagement bait answer:

I am looking for bladefall, it has a special place in my heart since it was released. Shame we don't know what it does yet.

SangoProductions213: If this were PoE2, I would probably be pretty hyped for the WoC... but it's not so I'm not. If it didn't override your first cast when you cast again, it could definitely be fun. But way I see it, it's just going to be a totem skill, if anything at all, given that there are better totem skills out there.

byakuyazero1: what about SSToT with fury valve?

Jun 13 2025

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