Forgotten Uniques: The Iron Mass | Path of Exile 

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You forgot the most important feature of the Iron mass. Any weapon MTX skins or effect on your main hand iron mass will also apply to your skeletons wielding it.

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Shoutout to Tuzder, this weapon is an interesting one. Thanks for the video Dreamcore, the addiction to this series is strong with this one

You can't forget the use of Perquil's toe Amulet with the lightning version to even further increase overall Skelly dps

fun fact about the march of the legion tech: the +5 to aura gem does no specify active gem and indeed works on awakened generosity and therfore getting it up to level 10 wich provides +2 to supported aura levels bc that bonus is provided every 5 levels of those awakened gems. normally just very hard to reach. common start used to get the mana cost under control is the, used a lot more in hc in general, timeless keystone "Power of Purpose" wich reduces your maximum mana and therfore drastically reduces the cost of the blessing

worth noting for those that haven't played around with it already, awakened generosity in the march of the legion boots grants additional gem levels at higher levels. With +2 to aura gems, a dark seer and ashes or +1 all in the amulet slot you can get Awakened gen to at least level 10 which grants +2 levels to the aura it supports. This setup lands you a total of 10-12 levels depending on whether or not the boots are appropriately double corrupted for an absolutely massive level 30+ aura!

Guess i need to shout at you for weeks to come about a video on my favorite unique, Atziri's Rule

Shoutout to Phaze for the great guide!

Great breakdown, nice vid!

Well done! Happy to see fan suggestions - Kitava's Thirst next? :D

I like your videos. Even if i'm not playing path of exile anymore, i greatly enjoy this serie, and each episode is a delight.

Iron mass? nice~

for people who are interested on how min maxed you could get with the support auras setup, iron marches + smite + wrath. Iron Marches (+5 Aura roll) Double Corrupted with +2 Socketed Aura gems and +1 Socketed Gems Wrath 21 Vaal Smite 21 Awakened Generosity 6/23 Awakened Empower 5 equates to: Wrath 36/23 Vaal Smite 36/23 A. Generosity 14/23 A. Empower 6 for a grand total of, if I can trust PoB: 137 to 2,426 added lightning damage. You can get it to be lucky, get an Ashes and additional +Lightning gem on different gear pieces, but this is the max i could get with what jumped into my mind. The highest weapon i could find, 2 handed and all, was 47 to 884 lightning damage on Standard. It has a crucible tree, synth implicit, 15% increased explicit elemental damage modifier, additional lightning damage on the tree. thats a LOT of damage. but the price would be astronomical. Prices in Standard: March +5 with the corrupts would be 1.2 mirrors A. Generosity 6/23 is 35/150 div, depending if the people would sell it or not. A. Empower is 1.3 mirrors Vaal Smite 21 is 40 div Wrath 21 is nothing, a div maybe of you dont want to do it yourself. Thats 2.5, lets be generous and say 2.6 mirrors for a SINGLE slot for the most damage setup just for the auras. Pretty expensive if you ask me. Is it worth it? Probably.

This is cool! I shall be tinkering with this

Another suggestion for items: t0 uniques that arent used, drops from older bosses such as the Elder(his bow,wand etc), weapons from the other (non chayla) breach bosses(the ul-netol Scythe or axe whatever it was, the bow from Xoph, the shield from Esh etc) and the green boss from delve(i think he is only farmed because of the ring)

Great video and love the series. Recently, I have been considering how Iron Mass can be used without Summon Skeletons, mainly as a lower budget item to do a chaos-hit-based build with a physical spell like Reap, EK, or BV. Some of the tentative ideas I have put together have looked really promising at a low budget.

This is by far my fave PoE series from any creator ever. Love it bro keep em coming

good one, this is a cool weapon

By using the Doryani's Prototype unique body armor along with the Abhorrent Interrogation unique gloves, this combination utilizes the unholy might provided by The Iron Mass unique sword achieving the maximum effect of reducing enemies' lightning resistance to -200% and 60% increase elemental damage taken.

Since the changes to Unholy Might it seems possible to play with this as a Skeleton poison build. Maybe this is the usurper for the throne after Poison SRS?

Love the idea of this build! The fantasy of being a warrior leading skeletons into battle with thunderous fury! Though like you said the playstyle with how the skeletons behave might be a big no no. Hmmmm it’s on the maybe list for sure

And then there's The Covenant for more flat chaos dmg.

With it being the Fourth of July, I can safely watch fire works without fearing one will misfire and be lodged into my eye socket. Crisis averted, Ty Dreamcore ❤! Also Ty for the always banger videos!

I think a good deep dive would be Nebuloch and its synergy with the reworked endurance charges. A DW jugg can get 7% reduced elemental hit dmg per endurance charge and you should comfortably get 10 charges on charge stacker. Outside of the insane amount of armour, chaos res and phys as extra fire

Whenever I see someone build aroung Iron Mass, the experience is always "it's better than I thought".

Nicely done. One day someone will build around Wreath of Phrecia, I have tried a few attempts but man it's weird.

Doesn't Alberon's Warpath make skeleton Warriors permanent and follow you? Wouldn't it pair well with the Iron Mass.

Idk if anyone ever used it but I would love to see The Goddess Scorned in a video

You've got me inspired. I'm cooking a build with Scolds Bridle 😊 Only problem im probably starting SSF so the build might never happen 😂

there is also a tri ele version that goes for guardian for the free triple aura then runs fleshcrafter to ignore ele res.

I'm not playing POE any longer but i'm still interested in your content at all :D. My idols and Captain 9 :D

Now im thinking if there was anyone who gave this weapon a skill tree for the flat phys

I played an iron mass skeleton build this league, was crazy at points, but had issues. Also do the Sire of Shards next! I have always wanted that item to be good!

I built around Iron Mass two leagues ago. I truly enjoyed how active the gameplay is, however, it felt very expensive to bring that build to ubers.

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Any chance you'd ever cover legacy unique items like atziri gloves with instant leech?

This is one of those niche cases in which this item is actually very good but falls into a strange niche build like a melee skeleton build. I’m thinking of thinking of like some sort of aurabot skeleton summoner might be pretty good

could Sign of the Sin Eater scale the lightening damage any more efficiently? I guess it being Lv30 but unsupported probably a net loss?

Wouldn't Wilma's Requital be a good option for a build like this? Probably a bit stretched, but something along Wilma's + conduit and a bit of frenzy + eldritch battery should give tons of AS to minions, obviously on a necro. Considering the high DPS values of lightning attacks on a build with tons of mobs, gaining high attack speed should increase significantly the damage.

Been thinking about trying skeles this league since it's been several years. I was considering either Iron Mass or trying to see how bad skele archers feel since all sources seem to claim they blow chunks.

Actually, Awakened Generosity gives +2 or even +3 (with perfect double corrupt) to gem levels when socketed in March of the Legion.

u can use the smite with generals cry linked

Would Perquil's Toe synergize well with the lightning version ? Rolling twice should work really well with Volatility and Lightning imo

So does unholy might + withering touch support give 50% chance to inflict withered? do they stack?

does it work with savior

This is an extreme glass cannon build. I played it last league. You have zero defense really and hope the skeletons 1 shot everything.

My enthousiast item is Incandescent heart. In a elementalist ignite setup it's so good and I don't really understand why not more people use it. Tho it's not rare, just not as common.

Iron mass' built in converting phys to chaos and applying wither on hit weirdly makes it worth using for early map coc reap / exsanguinate builds that go on to use unholy might in other ways, completely ignoring the minion mods.

How viable is it to use Automation to handle the resummuning of skeletons?

I had an idea to make a Saboteur build with this sword, skelies and pyroclast mine of sabotage but I`m too lazy to try. This mine has huge added flat damage aura to enemies and it will be trippled with this sword. Smite will provite up to 470, and pyroclast mine up to 3k on lvl 25.

this definite lack of mention of rallying cry =( . Not only for the dps boost but also the taunt that would make use of the taunt ascendancy on the champion that you mentionned

Ooo, if we're doing requests, can we get Cane of Unraveling?

there are no shield that combines with this sword for your skeletons???

love your voice very much

Forgotten by everyone but me, I still have a skellie build dealing max DoT DPS before it was cool

The Scourge claw?

iirc you can use hidden blade to proc the triple dmg

And the covenant for the unhole might setup? A lvl 25 added chaos dmg would be nice, but dual wielding and having no defenses on the chest would make the build super squishy 😂

Isnt there a unique that makes skeleton permanent?

I've never even seen this weapon. I have over 5k hours.

What about fenumus toxins

where tuzder at?

You look like Cypher from Matrix

Abhorrent Interrogation could help the lightning version making wither work for elemental dmg

Add in a covenant to the chaos version

I made some stupid videos doing Iron Mass with Added Chaos XD cleared Ubers, Affliction league

Now hold up, is it actually good? I've been tempted to play it as it does seem very cool mechanically.

iron mass = 55.845 u

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Lul 😂❤ awesome

i honestly hope they give a decent nerf to adorned, this game has literally become Path of Adorned, literally 90% of the builds in the game lead to a adorned build, otherwise they are just inferior in every way to a adorned setup of that build.

Just use the hidden blade ;) The only problem is that you must play skeleton....which currently suck. They die all the time and barely do any dps. Sure adorned can be interesting here but the life is horrid of skeletons and they will live for max 2 sec. The best weapon for this is the hidden blade, since you will constantly attack automating the weapon. But all together is....poo

listen man, we don't need your face in the intro

Maybe in PoE 2 when Shellie’s auto spawn something like this will be more widely used