THE FOURTH VOW vs INCANDESCENT HEART vs TRANSCENDENCE - Which is THE BEST?? | Path of Exile 

Here's the followup to this video, with these setups against Uber Boss abilities: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ReDprhPOuc4.html

For someone who played casually and now want to deep dive into this mechanics, this channel is golden! Keep it up my guy. PoE needs contents and explanations like you do! Applaudded!

I am having great success with this Pathfinder defensive setup: - Getting 100% phys damage taken as elemental through Lightning Coil + Taste of Hate + 1 Watchers eye + helmet nodes - Using Topaz, Ruby and Sapphire Flask (Taste of Hate) with 100% uptime, giving 31% less elemental damage taken because of PF flask effectiveness. - Having "Gain 3 charges when hit" on every magic flask + "Use flask when chargesreaches full" enchant + the new Flask mastery "recover 4% of life when using a flask" - Since this setup wants neither armor (no benefit) nor evasion (little benefit because auto flask tech takes care of numerous small hits and chance based defensive layers are lame) we free up a lot of opportunity cost in the passive tree, auras (Grace + Determination) and flask slots. - We can therefore afford to run petrified blood giving us 40% mitigation at less than 50% life. - The last puzzle piece is the new PF life flask ascendancy. With little investment in the passive tree we easily reach 3.6k+ permanent life flask recovery. This GIGA recovery takes care of all forms of DOT damage and completely nullifies the downside of petrified blood. It is also the most reliable form of recovery as it works always regardless if you are hitting anything or just running/standing around and it can not be turned off by map mods like leech or regen. Even with just 76% elemental resistances and 4.7k life right now i am at ~55k max hit taken for physical and elemental damage and recovering 85% of my life per second. This lets me tank shaper slams while simultaneously standing in the shaper beam for it's full duration and the whole thing is not chance based.

Thank you very much. More videos like this please. It is a big help especially to a filthy casual POE scrub like me. I can never wrap my head around all these setups, synergies and interactions, multi defensive layers in POE and I look up to these videos for an ELI5 explanation. Again thank you Dreamcore.

What a great video, super informative! Please more of this format. Subscribed😻

Amazing video that explained pretty much everything!

Amazing video definitely need more of those! Subscribed

Good comparison, Keep going video like this

I’ve learned alot, thanks!

thanks for this, very informative and interesting

Your videos are great. PoE has needed someone to provide this information for a long time. Most times when you look up online you find posts that are 4-10 years old on how things work, and reading the PoE wiki can feel like reading a textbook.

Hello there ! Very interesting video, I love watching these advanced / endgame defensive comparisons, and would love to see similar content ! If you ever do another one, can you add the following that I tested recently : Mahuxotl's Machination shield and the Tempered by War keystone lets you only care about fire and chaos res ; I ran Cloak of Flames + another 33% on other gear such as watcher's eye etc. Thanks for this type of content, stay safe !

this is so good thank you so much!

Extraordinary work!!! Wonder what is the easiest attainable and most tanky setup in ssf 😍

Like how informative this was. I usually dont do much with numbers, more of a synergistic mechanics builder, but this video made me reconsider a few ideas ive had. The heart is really competitive for how uncommon it is.

Love the vid, thanks

Thank you so much for making this video. It helped me a lot.

Great video.

you should included tempered of war, they are really good too combine with exarch sheid etc

Amazing video, but in these types of damage received comparison, it would be awesome to see the insane contrast between - just res, res+spell supp and these setups... I can calculate it myself, but it might be great for newbies.

While watching for a moment I thought to myself how intimidating poe for new player lmao,thanks for the detailed explanation

really good content

perfect , thanks so much

great job btw

thx for the info

You can't pair Strength of Blood with other Timeless Jewel keystones cos you can only have one of them at a time (Limited to 1). Also you missed another very similar defensive setup - Mahuxotl's Machination shield + Tempered By War keystone makes all your elemental damage (including DoT) be taken as half fire and half chaos damage, and gives you an extra 5 maximum resistances from its Everlasting Sacrifice effect. You can use Cloak of Flame body armor (which also applies to DoTs) and other sources to make a lot of your physical damage also be taken as fire damage. You then only need to get your max fire and chaos resistance to the hardcap of 90. Your chaos max res will already be at 85, so that's just another 5% needed (Born of Chaos cluster jewel node will give another 3). Purity of Fire and aura effect can take care of fire. This works against damage with penetration as well, such as Shaper balls. And you don't need any cold or lightning resistance at all anymore. If you have any armor, it'll also still work against whatever physical hit damage is left that you haven't converted to fire (unlike in the Transcedance setup).

Have to click the subscribe button because of this video u made

How would a melding of the flesh setup compare with the above setups?

Very nice video, for sure ill try to use this knowledge. I wonder if you can perhaps make a video on how to fully utilize "defy pain" from berserker ascendancy. Tried it and almost died all the time when it reached 10 stacks. Perhaps there is a way to abuse it?

Lets not forget simple but effective elemental and physical taken as chaos damage conversions through uniques (incandescent heart), delve mods as well as influence and vaal implicits. The total % amount of conversion ends up being lower, but as a CI character you dont just take less damage from the damage converted to chaos, you take none.

Thoughts on using Incadescent Heart with CI instead of divine flesh? Im doing this currently and feels amazing

There is one more that no one thought of, It’s insane

Thank a lot for this very informative video! Do you think that the fourth vow setup is viable for builds with less armor, like around 25-30k armor?

I`ts good to know that 3 options. THANKS

For the incandescent heart setup, you don't account for the fact that they usually go CI. All the damage they convert to chaos damage gets mitigated by CI. The major downside is that you become very weak to DoTs due to the nature of ES.

I was thinking even building back in the day with incenescent heart and CI. because 100% chaos mitigation is more than 90. with some heavy investing, I think CI could be superior to divine flesh. that means being ES build. thoughts?

Is Strength of blood + Leech craft on Flasks combo like 7.5% less dmg any good?

do you think fourth vow survives another league ? im doing a boneshatter build right now with it, its pretty cheap and setup doesnt use too much skill points and easy to get go, im stil leveling (88) i wonder how strong that setup when its completed. i still think its not worth for trade league to make too much defensive layers but i dont wanna die, life quality drops when you try to survive with just ele res cap

Wouldn't lightning coil be really great and easy with transcendence if you manage to get some +max resses from other places? Or am I missing something here?

I'd be interested to compare survivability with dodge kintsugi, block aegis Aurora, leech and that one keystone and the new stun keystone. Also with mom and the alva unique boots maybe? What else is a good defensive setup thats not "capped resistances and 100% suppress"?

@Dreamcore I recently came across some new defensive tech that i haven't seen anyone using. Would you like to get in contact and discuss about the tech and potentially make a build around it?

good stuff, but kinda weird not to talk about one of the most popular defense which is incandescent hear + low life

So what Sir did you recommend for the jugg build like Juggernaut Molten Strike build ty I hope you reply on it

i imagine the mod phys damage reduction doesnt apply to chaos hit when using Fourth Vow ?

And, tempered by war, purity of fire sublime, and dawnbreaker ci cheiftin with uber forbiden jeweles, and get 100 % phys as fire or chaos

how can be strength of blood be used in COMBINATION with the other setups? its a timeless notable, just like transcendence and divine flesh

currently using the fourth vox + divine flesh and I can tank Uber shaper slam.

which of these would you say are the most "budget" in terms of build investment (not currency)

Could someone go into a bit more detail about how flat phys reduction interacts with phys taken as an element and less physical damage. Is there an order of operations there?

What about full fire conversion with Rakiata keystone 🤔

is this still relevant? please make a new version! love it

please, make an update to this video with all the new available options

Thx for this overview. I was wodering what defensives the top delver guys are using and this sums it up perfectly. Would be nice if you (since I dont have the knowledge..) or somebody else could create a google doc or smth summarizing all the mentioned and all the here mentioned defensive options. Understanding defensive layers and how to obtain them reduces PoEs complexity quite a lot since certain point/gear slots must be spend before trying to push for dmg.

Surprised you didn't add 90% all resist aegis+melding combo

Wouldnt the forth vow setup with divine flesh synergise well with dawnbreaker as a good bit of lightning and cold gets converted to fire so you basically only need chaos and fire res. Or am i wrong

I really miss Eternal Damnation. Hope it'll return soon to the core game

Yes but vest way to play Incandescent Heart is take CI keystone it's strait 25% taken less ele dmg, you can also play max ele res and phys as ele dmg, from helmet you can take around 20%, purity of fire cold lightning give max ele res and you can take phys to fire etc. From watchers eye. You can play dps aura on blessing (it's op in my opinion, for map clear you don't need more dps but for boss yes, so tap button on bosses ;p) and squize purity to that element you need 😉 I think about my next build, mabe armour stack scion? Aegis aurora is op as fuck, or mabe transcendence CI with aegis aurora full conversion phys to ele? I'm love immortal build 😛

15:04 - PoB doing this calculations wrong, because Loreweave sais - "Your maximum resistances IS 78%" - Which directly means that penetration does not work on you , your max el res CANNOT be lowered by any ways. It will always stays 78%

I dont know about best, but I feel like almost every one has a downside. Im currently using Ivory Tower with Prism Guardian as a Guardian (using Coruscating elixier with the Lehion Jewel to keep chaos damage from bypassing ES, this gives 100% automated uptime). This leaves me with high block/spell block (guardian, block nodes, Tempest shield, Watchers Eye) while also having high armour (Guardian reserved life) elemental ailment immunity ( Purity of Elements), Bleed immunity (Steelskin), 84% curse reduction (jewels + Pantheon), at least 28% physical damage conversion to chaos/elemental (gear, watchers eye, passive), about 1000 flat ES regen and 78 max resist. I was actually considering getting Spell suppress aswell and im still thinking about it, because it could get about 30% on gear and 22% on the tree + the lucky node with basically makes it so i have about 65% with kinda low investment (could also use the flask). The downside of this is that there are some things that remove flask effects like Thiefs Grip and a rare nemesis? mod. Thou this is rare and any boss encounter you are safe aswell. I also cannot run ele reflect without respecing 4 points or No regen. And it obviously is very expensive to gear. The first setup u showed here is nice but also very weak to poison and wither (unless you get immunity to poison at least).

what about the bloodnotch stun combo?

What is the difference between Elemental resistances and "From Hits".

i wish u used real damage numbers of for example maven memory game in ur vid

Fourth vows downside is that its a pretty dogshit body armour statwise, im currently levelling a jugg to test my pob has 350k ehp 10m dmg, and its relatively wasy to achieve. Super intrigued. I think it would be best in delve and such

I believe that Armour applies before resistance

mi duck hole is so messed up these days

you didn't explain how fourth vow got 78 ele resist ?

Fourth vow and mahuxotl's machination is prolly as tanks as it gets

isnt the most disgusting damage chaos dot? that wouldnt apply to fourth vow right?

Did i understand that correctly? Lets say the enemy uses an attack that deals 10.000 cold damage damage: You got 65% phys reduction You got 90% ele res You got 80% chaos res The calculation would be: 10k -> split into 5000 cold damage -> 500 using the 90% ele res and the other 5000 -> 1000 using 80% chaos res, and then 350 using the armour? so all in all it would become 850 damage? considering the normal damage taken would be 1000 that doesnt really seem like its worth it no?

100% phys to ele taken imo

You forgot the most godly defensive setup: being a jugg