Maybe I just suck sh*t at making my own builds, but every time I've tried to specialize around a skill that isn't typically used in all the big maxroll meta guides, I start to see WHY it isn't used.
My one example I can think of is Detonating Arrow. I love using lightning arrows in POE, and I saw Detonating Arrow had the lightning tendrils node so I figured I would try building around it. What I found is that detonating arrow has virtually 0 synergy with anything else. I couldn't make it feel good.
I decided to try one of the builds on maxroll to see how it felt, so I went for shadow daggers and holy bananas, this thing has synergy across like all 4 skills you actively use, plus a 5th that you don't even put on your bar.
It's clearly impossible to make everything work from a balance perspective, but it'd be nice if every ability got a bit more support in other trees. Then again maybe I'm just really bad and need to wait for someone else to make a working lightning tendrils build :)
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