Dawn of the Hunt league added new tools for Thorns and it now feels pretty good. May even be among the easiest builds to play and farm high tier maps, including Citadel bosses.
This video explains how thorns work, how to scale it, what else is needed, etc.
►Time codes
00:00 About thorns
03:06 New tools for Thorns, uniques, passive nodes
09:50 Skills, supports
11:54 Items
13:24 Ending
►Path of Building 2
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use warbringer block with surrender stone tower shield with abit hp reg u dont even need leech
think Supercharge Slam is a channel skill too
I am a frequent thorns enjoyer in many ARPGs. Unfortunately, just due to the fact that you have to get hit and right now in PoE2 there are very few ways to scale defense, it hasn't really seemed very viable…especially when lightning spear exists. BUT, I had been toying with the idea of trying Spear Field > Caltrops as the thorns delivery method. I have yet to test if it actually works though. I'll be rather sad if someone responds to this, saying that caltrops can't support Spear Field.
Culling strike & Decimating Strike only work for damage YOU deal so thorns damage does not work which limit by a lot this ascendency sadly.
Glad to see you got the build you tried making last patch to finally be viable now. Thorns builds are at least one thing PoE 2 has that 1 still doesn't. Plus you're not the only one to be making them now, I've seen other creators also playing thorns this patch. Hope you have fun in LE. 🙂
you really should be using skysliver, and maybe Chernobog's pillar if it works with thorns