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The damage number isn't the whole build
When you're deciding where to spend your POE currency, a showcase can tell you what a build looks like without telling you what it'll cost to reproduce. That's the gap between these POE 3.29 examples. The Strength Stacker using Ghostly Artillery in Curse of the Allflame is presented as a strong choice for deep Delve and bossing, but there's no damage total, budget, or defensive breakdown attached. The Cold Damage over Time entry names Luminary and Vaal Cold Snap, then offers little else to work with. Neither gives enough detail for a fair numerical comparison. The Gladiator account is more useful for planning, though its biggest number needs context before you start shopping.
A 20-Divine example isn't a 200-Divine shopping list
The Gladiator's starting reference was a 20-Divine setup showing roughly 187M DPS. The player then committed around 200 Divines to their own character, with a conditional 200M DPS figure attached. Keep those budgets separate. Spending ten times as much doesn't make the two examples interchangeable, and the account doesn't give a tidy explanation for every difference. What it does explain is the appeal. Previous bleed characters had reportedly managed around 40-50M DPS despite mirror-tier axes. This retaliation setup persuaded the player to shelve plans for Righteous Fire and Death's Oath builds. They wanted wide clearing, little manual input while mapping, and enough damage for Ubers. That's a practical wishlist, not just an attempt to make the damage readout bigger.
Divine Retribution has to be ready when you need it
Divine Retribution does the heavy lifting, with Doryani's Prototype and Replica of Nebulis supporting its damage scaling. Pact of Beidat reportedly brings boss encounters to between 23 and 30 hits per cast. Greater Spell Cascade is less settled; the player hadn't tested the interaction enough to establish extra stacking. The bigger catch is availability. Gladiator, No Forgiveness, and Runegraph of Time provide a reported 90% chance not to consume the retaliation cooldown, but the damage claim still needs a block and the right cooldown outcome. Actual uptime was estimated at roughly half, represented through a custom cooldown recovery adjustment in Path of Building. A cast time below 0.29 seconds leaves room for three or more casts per second when available. It doesn't promise that pace throughout a fight.
Mapping comfort comes from the triggered spells
For maps, Cast When Stunned is linked to Penance Brand of Conduction and Shock Nova. Incoming hits reportedly set off enough damage to clear packs across the screen, so the player rarely needs to press Divine Retribution during ordinary clearing. That's the low-input part of the build. The defenses take more work to assemble. Doryani's Prototype makes the negative lightning resistance problem something you can't leave partly solved. The described setup shifts all incoming elemental damage to Fire and Chaos. Dawnbreaker, Watcher's Eye, and Divine Flesh handle most of that conversion, while Bound by Destiny and four Hunter-influenced items cover the remaining 10%. Mageblood supplies movement speed, convenience, and the high maximum Fire Resistance needed for the converted damage. Those pieces aren't merely optional comforts in the claimed setup.
The floor can still hurt more than the boss
The reported effective health exceeds 1M against hits. Against hits is the part worth remembering. Righteous Fire adds spell damage, but the player describes ground degeneration as lethal while it's active. Switching it off reportedly makes T17 Abomination, Uber Sirus, and Uber Exarch much more comfortable. There's still no finished answer for the damage-over-time weakness, and a proposed life-stacking version remains an idea rather than a measured improvement. Removing Lifetap is another unresolved problem. If you're considering Path of exile currency for sale while planning a similar character, separate the demonstrated setup from the proposed changes before choosing your purchases. The account offers a promising combination of relaxed mapping and conditional boss damage, but it also gives you clear reasons to look beyond the headline DPS. |
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