PoE Resolute Technique — Path of Exile

Resolute Technique (commonly referred to as RT) is a keystone passive skill in Path of Exile that guarantees your attacks will always hit but prevents you from ever dealing critical strikes. This keystone is a popular choice for builds that prioritize consistent damage output over the potential for high critical hits.

PoE Resolute Technique

Mechanics

• Guaranteed Hits: When you have Resolute Technique, your attacks cannot be evaded, meaning that every attack you make will land regardless of your accuracy rating or the enemy’s evasion. This is particularly beneficial for characters who do not want to invest in accuracy or who face enemies with high evasion.
• No Critical Strikes: The downside of Resolute Technique is that you lose the ability to deal critical strikes. This means your damage output will be consistent, but you will miss out on the burst damage potential that critical strikes offer. Additionally, this affects elemental damage-based builds as well since critical strikes are often necessary for triggering elemental status ailments like Shock, Ignite, and Freeze.
• Elemental Status Ailments: Because you can’t critically strike with Resolute Technique, the application of elemental ailments is limited. However, skills and effects that apply ailments independently of critical strikes (such as Glacial Hammer or Burning Arrow) can still apply their respective ailments. Similarly, curses like Conductivity can still trigger Shock on lightning damage hits.
• Interaction with Guaranteed Critical Strikes: Items or effects that guarantee critical strikes, such as the weapon Trypanon or the Diamond Shrine in maps, have no effect if Resolute Technique is active. The keystone overrides these effects, ensuring that no critical strikes can occur.
• Spell Interaction: Spells inherently cannot be evaded in Path of Exile, so they do not benefit from the “cannot be evaded” aspect of Resolute Technique. However, the keystone still disables their ability to critically strike, which can affect spellcasters who rely on crit-based mechanics.
• Blocking: While Resolute Technique ensures your attacks hit, it does not prevent them from being blocked. Enemies with block chance can still block your attacks, which reduces or negates the damage dealt.

PoE Resolute Technique Build

Classes:

• Gladiator: 41%
• Trickster: 29%
• Berserker: 9%
• Juggernaut: 6%
• Necromancer: 5%
• Chieftain: 5%
• Slayer: 3%
• Ascendant: 2%
• Elementalist: 0.6%
• Guardian: 0.5%
• Champion: 0.3%
• Pathfinder: 0.1%
• Occultist: 0.0%
• Inquisitor: 0.0%
• Warden: 0.0%
• Saboteur: 0.0%
• Deadeye: 0%
• Hierophant: 0%
• Assassin: 0%
• Shadow: 0%

Main Skills:

• Lacerate of Haemorrhage: 29%
• Lightning Strike: 10%
• Vaal Lightning Strike: 9%
• Flicker Strike: 9%
• Splitting Steel: 8%
• Earthshatter: 7%
• Ground Slam of Earthshaking: 6%
• Spectral Shield Throw: 6%
• Summon Holy Relic of Conviction: 5%
• Dual Strike of Ambidexterity: 2%
• Volcanic Fissure of Snaking: 2%
• Molten Strike: 2%
• Earthquake: 2%

Masteries:

• 12% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills: 55%
• +3% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Bleeding per Endurance Charge: 38%
• +1% Chance to Block Spell Damage per 5% Chance to Block Attack Damage: 34%
• +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per 5% Chance to Block on Equipped Shield: 34%
• Bleeding you inflict deals Damage 15% faster: 33%
• +1% to all maximum Elemental Resistances if Equipped Helmet, Body Armour, Gloves, and Boots all have Armour: 32%
• 100% increased Energy Shield from Equipped Helmet: 29%
• 1% increased Evasion Rating per 5 Intelligence, Dexterity provides no inherent bonus to Evasion Rating: 27%
• 10% more Maximum Physical Attack Damage: 26%
• Auras from your Skills have 10% increased Effect on you: 25%
• 10% of Leech is Instant: 23%
• 10% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge when you Hit your Marked Enemy: 23%
• 8% increased Evasion Rating per Frenzy Charge, 8% increased Armour per Endurance Charge: 23%

Strategic Use

Resolute Technique is particularly useful for attack-based characters who want to ensure consistent hits without investing in accuracy. It is commonly chosen in builds where consistent, reliable damage is more important than the chance for occasional high critical hits. For example, it is often used in tanky melee builds, where critical strikes are less of a focus and reliability in landing hits is key.

Summary

• Guaranteed Hits: Your attacks will always hit and cannot be evaded.
• No Critical Strikes: You lose the ability to deal critical strikes, impacting both damage output and elemental ailment application.
• Best for: Attack-based builds that prioritize consistency over critical strike chance.

Resolute Technique is a cornerstone keystone for many builds that value reliability and consistent damage over the variability of critical hits. It’s a strong choice for players looking to simplify their attack mechanics and focus on other aspects of their character’s development.

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