Tinctures Are OP On the Warden | PoE 3.25

Did this blow your mind too? Are you considering swapping to Tinctures after this video?

The appeal of tinctures for me was that they were a completely automated alternative to a flask without requiring mageblood or conditionals on the flasks. This just looks like tedium and mana cost for offensive scaling instead of defensive scaling on a patch where defensive scaling is more necessary. I hope you guys have fun with it.

They brought flask piano back and it requires a build around.

My major problem with Warden is the fact that I cant take all the acendency nodes. Bro this acendency is the new inquisitor for me, I want every singel node.

They can definitely be powerful, but the opportunity cost of 4 ascendency points, however many passive points (8+ it seems), 2 flasks, and having to actively press those 2 buttons on cooldown or all the above is just wasted... still not sold that it’s all worth it

New unique coming soon: Replica Mageblood, you are unaffected by mana burn

Always nice to have a new lolcohol video served right before bedtime. I'm watching it in bed

Thank you so much for the explanation. I have a strong aversion to constant pressing of flasks but I am going to try and keep an open mind when I start comparing different builds. But to be fair, that is a TON of investment, there had better be a HUGE upside. That many skill points and ascendancy points and 2 flask slots is a really really large investment.

Was a really fun experience to have the author in your chat and get some explanation for it all. I noticed that the latest PoB that was pushed out today (v.2.43.0) DOES have tinktures in it, so its time to play around with this.

It's kinda ironic how with tinctures with the increased effect+"downside" affix is actually a double upside specced like this. Appreciate the detailed explanation and rundown of that huge reddit post!

6% mana burn is a lot, if you really think about it. You need a lot of unreserved mana in order to sustain that.

Its not difficult: it doesnt matter how slow or fast you get the mana burn stacks or how much it degens. getting 12 mana burn stacks is ALWAYS a flat 6 seconds free up time.

Tinctures enchant on benchcrafting just like flasks! It has to be

Really curious to see some of the potential unique tinctures.

What happend if you just do bloodmagic

I mean i didnt even know you could speed up mana burn on tinctures...but now that i know it makes sense

Minus the doubling the mana burn I had kinda already figured all this out from looking at the pob

I want to point out, if you take 2 pots, you get either the armor OR an element buff but you do not get that furthest node in the ascendacy. (unless you want to put it on ranged as well*)

I think there's an uncertain assumption being made here. If I'm reading it correctly, the mana math assumes that stack 7 starts at 1% mana loss/s. But it's not clear that "The first 6 Mana Burn applied to you have no effect" should be read that way. It could simply be that stacks 1-6 do not cause mana loss, and then stack 7 starts at 7% mana loss/s (per the description of Mana Burn, which is that it causes 1% mana loss per stack per second). This would still mean that you want to stack mana burn as fast as possible, but the mana loss during stacks 7-11 would be higher than 3.8% (~10-11% instead) in the example given.

If I can't automate it with an enchant, there is no way I'm going back to a piano build