Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist in POE

The highly anticipated Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur has been released! In this patch, the developers have added a lot of new content. Black Knight is an exclusive boss added this time, and it brings new boss mechanics and new loot rewards. Because of these new things, every player should try it. However, because of the mechanics of the game, you rarely have the opportunity to fight Black Knight directly, so you can wait until one day when you have a lot of time, and then slowly explore according to the location and fighting method of Black Knight introduced in this guide! Location Of Black Knight Black Knight can be found in Starfall Crater. If you run the map frequently, you may see a new area open at a random location. Its entrance looks very much like a Twisted Burrows, which is also in Settlers of Kalguur. This boss is level 83, so you can safely assume that Starfall Crater appears on level 16 maps. It should be explained that in Settlers of Kalguur league, many new mechanics have been added to encourage players to explore the map more, and Nameless Seer has been added to players. So you can get some random unique items and map divination abilities, so you can predict where Starfall Crater will appear on the map. The best way to find Black Knight is to explore easy-to-run T16 maps, which will also increase your chances of finding Starfall Crater. Here you should be careful to avoid exploring difficult maps such as Maze, Dungeon, Cage, and other non-linear maps. Black Knight’s Mechanics Black Knight possesses a variety of abilities that are tied to undead mana and dark magic. Understanding these mechanics is essential to developing an effective strategy to defeat him. Undead Minions Black Knight constantly summons waves of undead minions to overwhelm the player and their defenses. These minions include skeletons, zombies, and ghost warriors, each with their own unique abilities. Curses And Debuffs Black Knight casts a variety of curses and debuffs that weaken the player’s combat effectiveness. These curses reduce resistance, drain health, and hinder movement. Spectral Attacks Black Knight uses dark magic and spectral weapons to launch devastating attacks. These attacks include powerful melee attacks, ranged dark magic projectiles, and area denial abilities. How To Fight Black Knight? After you find Black Knight, there is only one point to note: you must fight him head-on. When you alternate between performing two or three actions on him, he will also perform a Whirling Blade’s attack and then dash in a linear direction. When you get close to Black Knight, he will punch you. At this time, you need to pay special attention to his 180-degree piercing projectile attack. If your max health is over 3,500 and your suppress and resist are both very high, you will most likely survive. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to defeat him. When Black Knight’s health drops to 80% or 40% of its original health, it will enter a second phase and become invincible. In addition, it will summon some Verisium Pillars to attack you and shrink the size of the arena, making it impossible for you to hide. At this time, if you hide behind a pillar to avoid his beams, his lasers will penetrate the pillars you used to defend yourself after a few seconds. Don’t stand still. Hurry to the next pillar. You may need to move three times in the complete process. When the boss’s health drops to 60% or 20%, it will become more invincible and summon rock storms. At this time, Verisium Meteors will fall from above you and attack you. During this period, you need to dodge these flying objects constantly, so make sure you are very mobile before fighting. After its last invincibility phase, you will fight it again. The rock storm will continue to fall, and once it hits you, you will take more damage. However, if you have any culling mechanics in your build, this stage will be very easy for you, as the boss is now very close to elimination range. If you die in any of the stages, you will respawn at the entrance of Starfall Crater instead of your hideout. You can reenter and continue fighting Black Knight. However, in the feedback we have received so far, many players have reported that they cannot enter Starfall Crater after respawning. This may be random, or each stage may give you another chance to retry. Loot After Defeating Black Knight After you defeat Black Knight, you will receive a unique item, Svalinn Girded Tower Shield, and it will also drop some runes that can be used for forging. If you don’t need these runes, you can exchange them for POE Currency in the new market. The best rewards for this boss encounter are Verisium deposits scattered around the arena or crater. You will find five Verisium deposits, including one extra large deposit. Mark or mine all Verisium Ores and leave the rest to your workers. These Verisium Ores are very valuable in Kingsmarch, so you should try to fight Black Knight every time you see a Starfall Crater. If you encounter any problems in Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur or have the experience to share with other players, you are welcome to come to iGMeet Discord to communicate. In addition, you have the opportunity to get POE Currency in it. Come and participate! After reading this guide, are you more confident in your battle with Black Knight? I hope this guide can help you in your battle!

Greeting Exiles! This guide will show you a low investment beast farming strategy on the White Maps in the Path of Exile 3.24 Necropolis League. Our focus will be on farming a specific beast known as Craicic Chimeral, valued at approximately 1.5 divines currently. After completing 10 or 25 maps, we can gather up the Craicic Chimerals and sell them off. Pros & Cons Beast farming is a strategy I have adopted recently, and it has been working to the advantage. The introduction of new Scarabs, such as the Bestiary Scarab of the Herd, marks a significant change. This scarab offers 5 additional beasts, effectively doubling the amount of Red Beasts encountered per map compared to the previous Gilded Scarab. Moreover, there's a new scarab called the Bestiary Scarab of the Shadowed Crow, which guarantees a beast spawn in every map. Although slightly more expensive, it provides double the currency every time it sells, ensuring stable profitability per map. These changes have not only made beast farming more accessible, but also increased its profitability and efficiency. The first notable drawback of this farming strategy is its heavy reliance on the Craicic Chimeral for significant profits. These valuable drops occur randomly, often from 1 in 10 maps, or even 1 in 20 maps. While each Craicic Chimeral sells for 1.5 Divines, it can be frustrating if you go a long time without encountering one. Additionally, sticking to Tier 1 through Tier 4 maps limits our flexibility by limiting our ability to take advantage of certain features such as Atlas bonuses, influence, boss drops, essences, or higher level maps. To maximize beast encounters and income, it's crucial to run maps efficiently. Therefore, focusing on maps like Strand and Fields, which offer quick clear times, is recommended for this strategy. Bestiary Scarabs Next, I will explain what Scarabs to get with low budget. In each map, we’re going to use 2 Bestiary Scarab of the Herd to add 10 more Red Beasts in our maps and 1 Bestiary Scarab of Duplicating to make an additional copy of the beast that we are capturing. If you have the fifth slot, you can buy the Bestiary Scarab of the Shadowed Crow as well, which we can use it for crafts or making 6-links items to sell for POE Currency. The Craicic Chimeral beasts are small frogs, which you will encounter like every 7 to 10 maps. Just search for them and capture those and go out of the map. If you find one, you can also invite other people to come and join your party so that they can get 3 divines for free. Just need the Tier 3 maps and the Cobalt Jewel to collect and sell them in bulk. Altas Tree Setup Let's take a look at the Atlas tree with 86 passive nodes. Pairing this with 1 Shaping the Mountains and 1 Shaping the World is effective. We avoid excessive Shaping nodes on higher maps to prevent an imbalance of Tier 4 over Tier 3. While Strand is superior to Fields, Fields being the second best map and Adjacent allows us to alternate between them, utilizing Singular Focus to potentially obtain Chaos Orbs intermittently. We exclusively opt for the Hunt for Craiceann, which increases the chance for the Craicic Chimeral, resulting in more Craicic Chimerals overall. This choice is based on how the game determines which beast to spawn. We then pick the Two-Hearted Hunt, as it provides a 10 to 40% chance to avoid consumption, which is a valuable addition to our strategy. Then, pick up the Shrines. They serve 2 purposes. Firstly, they can spawn enemies, which can drop maps. Secondly, they can grant us an Echoing Shrine, a movement speed Shrine, or a Covetous Shrine. A Covetous Shrine means potentially more maps, while movement speed and Echoing Shrine lead to faster clears and mapping times. Overall, Shrines are the most helpful among all the league mechanics without consuming extra time. Farming Tips Let me give you some more tips. The Craicic Chimeral is the only beast, and it's from The Deep family. About what map to run, but choose it from Tier 3 to Tier 1 maps. The Dunes is a Tier 2 map but has a much better layout and also has the Fortunate card in the end. But I recommend Tier 3 maps the most as Craicic Chimeral spawn more frequently.

As Path of Exile enthusiasts gear up for the anticipated Blast From The Past event in the 3.22 league, a strategic understanding of the Sentinel mechanics becomes paramount. In this comprehensive guide, we unravel the intricacies of Sentinels, delve into the Sentinel Passive Tree, dissect the Power Core mechanics, and unlock the potential of Recombinators for crafting mastery. 1. Decoding Sentinel Mechanics The Sentinel league in 3.22 can be likened to torment on steroids. Sentinels, the ethereal entities, transcend the limitations of destructibility, trailing players through maps. While they bring an enhanced loot system, their mechanics differ significantly from Tormented Spirits, eliminating the potential chaos of corpse explosions. Sentinels elevate monster stats, providing a new layer of challenge. 1.1 Types and Rarities of Sentinels Understanding the nuances of Sentinels is pivotal. There are three types: Red (Stalker), Blue (Pandemonium), and Yellow (Apex). Each Sentinel comes in four rarities: normal, magic, rare, and unique. Unique Sentinels, while intriguing, often fall short of expectations. Focus on maximizing the potential of magic and rare Sentinels for a more rewarding experience. 1.2 Optimizing Sentinel Types - Red (Stalker) Sentinels: Ideal for early-game progression and everyday mapping. They follow you, charging up a spell when near enemies, empowering them and providing a chance for Legion-style rewards. - Yellow (Apex) Sentinels: Disappointing in comparison to the others. Use them strategically on rare and unique monsters or in scenarios where their high empowerment number is beneficial. - Blue (Pandemonium) Sentinels: The standout, unleashing Pandemonium when activated. An empowerment beam is released, chaining to monsters within range. Optimal use involves rounding up a large pack in maps like Glacier or Beach for maximum impact. 1.3 Limited Charges and Optimizing Power Cores Sentinels possess limited charges, requiring thoughtful management. Power Cores come into play here, allowing the merging of Sentinels and providing a chance for additional modifiers. Amplifying, transforming, and generic power cores each have distinct use cases. Use amplifying cores on your best Sentinels strategically, save transforming cores for Sentinels with good mods, and utilize generic cores on Sentinels that empower many monsters but lack strong mods. 2. Sentinel Passive Tree - The Key to Empowerment The Sentinel Passive Tree offers a unique skill progression system. Sentinels level up as you engage and defeat enhanced monsters, providing a tree that unlocks progressively. While limited in scope, it grants significant power boosts. Spec into the tree wisely, considering increased chances for Sentinel rewards, crucial for acquiring valuable Recombinators. 3. Sentinel Power Core Mechanics - Fueling Potential Power Cores are essential crafting tools for Sentinels. Merging two Sentinels, regardless of their charge status, creates a powerful merged Sentinel. This merged entity inherits a 50/50 chance of the base types used in the combination. Additionally, it retains around 60% of the mods from the input Sentinels, enhancing its capabilities. Amplifying, transforming, and generic power cores offer distinct strategic advantages. 4. Sentinel Recombinators - Crafting Mastery Unleashed Recombinators emerge as the crown jewel of Sentinel loot. These powerful crafting tools can transform items with surgical precision. There are separate recombinators for armor, weapons, and jewelry. The process involves combining two items of the same class, retaining select mods from each, and introducing a chance for additional modifiers or upgrades. 4.1 Best Beginner Recombinator Strategy For +2 Amulets A beginner-friendly strategy involves sourcing two amulets, each with a desirable mod, and using a jewelry recombinator. The chance of success is one in three, and even failures grant one of the inputs back. The strategy is especially potent when neither amulet has additional prefixes, making it optimal for crafting desired combinations. 4.2 Trade League Dominance of Recombinators It's crucial to note that Recombinators thrive in trade leagues. While they can be utilized in Solo Self Found (SSF), the results are often less impressive, demanding greater effort. The trade-oriented nature of Recombinators makes them a powerful asset in the expansive Path of Exile economy. In conclusion, mastering Sentinels, understanding the passive tree, navigating power core mechanics, and harnessing the potential of Recombinators are pivotal elements for success in the Blast From The Past event. As the PoE community prepares for this unique journey, strategic insights into Sentinels unlock a world of possibilities for crafting and empowerment.

Path of Exile is a highly popular action role-playing game that has been around for quite some time. For those who enjoy playing an Elementalist, there is a build that is worth considering. The Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is a powerful build that can deal massive damage to enemies. This blog post will discuss this build in detail. 1. Overview:   - The Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is a powerful build that combines the Explosive Arrow skill with Ballista to deal massive area damage.   - This build focuses on stacking explosive arrows on enemies and utilizing ballistas to amplify the damage.   - The Elementalist ascendancy class provides additional elemental damage and utility, making it an excellent choice for this build. 2. Skill Gems:   - Explosive Arrow: This is your primary skill. It fires an arrow that embeds itself in enemies and creates a fuse. After a short delay, the fuse ignites and explodes, dealing massive area damage. Link it with support gems like Greater Multiple Projectiles, Elemental Damage with Attacks, and Ignite Proliferation for enhanced damage and AoE coverage.   - Ballista Totem: Summon Ballista Totems to support your Explosive Arrow. They provide additional damage, attack speed, and can be linked with support gems like Multiple Totems, Elemental Focus, and Added Lightning Damage for increased effectiveness.   - Herald of Ash: Activate this aura skill to boost your fire damage and ignite chance. It also grants additional burning damage to enemies killed by your skills.   - Cast When Damage Taken (CWDT) setup: Use CWDT linked with Immortal Call, Increased Duration, and Molten Shell for defense. It triggers automatically when you take a certain amount of damage, providing temporary invulnerability and extra armor. 3. Passive Skill Tree:   - Prioritize passive nodes that increase bow damage, elemental damage, projectile damage, and area damage.   - Allocate life and energy shield nodes to enhance survivability.   - Take advantage of the Elementalist ascendancy class's notable passive skills, such as Mastermind of Discord, Beacon of Ruin, and Paragon of Calamity, which provide elemental damage boosts, ignite proliferation, and elemental ailment immunity. 4. Gear:   - Weapon: Look for a high DPS bow with increased elemental damage and added fire damage modifiers.   - Quiver: Choose a quiver that provides increased elemental damage, increased attack speed, and additional arrow modifiers.   - Armor: Aim for a combination of life and energy shield on your body armor, and prioritize resistances and elemental damage modifiers.   - Accessories: Focus on rings and amulets that grant increased elemental damage, life, resistances, and critical strike chance/multiplier.   - Jewels: Use jewels with increased damage, attack speed, life, and resistances to further enhance your build. 5. Playstyle Tips:   - Start by summoning Ballista Totems to provide additional damage and support your Explosive Arrow.   - Fire Explosive Arrows at groups of enemies, aiming to stack multiple arrows on each target.   - Once arrows are stacked, detonate them by hitting the same target repeatedly or using a single-target skill like Scourge Arrow.   - Move strategically to avoid enemy attacks while maintaining a safe distance to deal damage effectively.   - Utilize defensive flasks, such as Quicksilver Flasks and Basalt Flasks, to improve mobility and mitigate incoming damage.   - Keep an eye on your mana pool and utilize skills like Herald of Ash and Anger for extra damage, while ensuring you have enough mana to cast your skills. You can customize the build according to your playstyle and available resources. Experiment with different gems, gear, and passive tree choices to optimize your Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist in Path of Exile. Good luck and have fun!