Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist in POE
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 article post will discuss this build in detail.
1. Overview:
- The Lightning Strike Champion is a melee build that focuses on dealing lightning damage with the Lightning Strike skill.
- Lightning Strike is a projectile skill that converts part of your physical damage to lightning damage and releases projectiles that strike enemies.
- The Champion ascendancy class provides powerful offensive and defensive capabilities, making it an ideal choice for this build.
2. Skill Gems:
- Lightning Strike: This is your primary skill. It converts part of your physical damage to lightning damage and releases projectiles that deal area damage upon striking enemies. Link it with support gems like Ancestral Call, Elemental Damage with Attacks, Multistrike, and Added Lightning Damage for increased damage and clear speed.
- Herald of Thunder: Activate this aura skill to add flat lightning damage to your attacks and create lightning chains that damage nearby enemies.
- Vaal Ancestral Warchief: Summon the Vaal Ancestral Warchief totem to provide a powerful damage boost during tough encounters. Link it with support gems like Brutality, Melee Physical Damage, and Concentrated Effect.
- Ancestral Protector: Summon the Ancestral Protector totem to enhance your attack speed and damage. It can be linked with support gems like Elemental Damage with Attacks and Faster Attacks.
- Movement skill: Use skills like Leap Slam or Whirling Blades linked with Faster Attacks and Fortify for mobility and defense.
3. Passive Skill Tree:
- Prioritize passive nodes that increase melee physical damage, attack speed, elemental damage, and projectile damage.
- Allocate life and armor/evasion nodes to enhance survivability.
- Focus on the Champion ascendancy class's notable passive skills, such as Inspirational, First to Strike, Last to Fall, Unstoppable Hero, and Fortitude, which provide increased damage, fortify effect, and defensive bonuses.
4. Gear:
- Weapon: Look for a high physical damage weapon, preferably one with increased attack speed and added lightning damage modifiers.
- Armor: Prioritize pieces with high life, resistances, and armor/evasion rating for survivability.
- Helmet: Consider a helmet with increased life, resistances, and potentially a nearby enemies take increased elemental damage enchantment.
- Gloves: Look for gloves with attack speed, life, and resistances. Consider getting ones with added lightning damage to attacks as well.
- Boots: Choose boots with movement speed, life, resistances, and potentially the "Cannot be slowed below base speed" modifier.
- Accessories: Focus on rings and amulets that provide increased physical damage, elemental damage, life, resistances, and critical strike chance/multiplier.
- Jewels: Use jewels with increased damage, life, attack speed, and resistances to further enhance your build.
5. Playstyle Tips:
- Engage enemies at melee range and unleash Lightning Strike to deal both melee and projectile damage.
- Use Ancestral Call support gem to hit multiple enemies at once, improving your clear speed.
- Maintain the Herald of Thunder aura to add extra lightning damage to your attacks and trigger lightning chains.
- Summon totems like Vaal Ancestral Warchief and Ancestral Protector for additional damage and support during boss fights.
- Keep an eye on your life pool and use skills like Enduring Cry to recover life and generate endurance charges for extra survivability.
- Utilize movement skills like Leap Slam or Whirling Blades to quickly navigate through maps and avoid dangerous situations.
- Make use of defensive flasks such as Granite Flasks, Basalt Flasks, and Stibnite Flasks to mitigate incoming damage.
- Prioritize positioning and awareness to avoid enemy attacks while maximizing your damage output.
You can customize the build according to your playstyle and available resources. Experiment with different gems, gear, and passive tree choices to optimize your Lightning Strike Champion in Path of Exile. Good luck and enjoy your adventures!
Jun-20-2023
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Path Of Exile 3.26 Best End ...
Path Of Exile 3.26 adds recruitable mercenaries to the game. They can act as your followers, help you attract monsters’ hatred or act as DPS to clear monsters, provided that you can defeat them. Although there are many mercenaries in the game, some of these mercenaries have auxiliary effect auras, and some have powerful output capabilities, but players can only recruit up to three of them, and can only choose one of them to fight with you, so choose the right mercenary for you. Players can change the equipment of these mercenaries and train them to upgrade them. After you reach the endgame, they can become your powerful helpers. Manyshot Stats: Dexterity Skill Gems: Vaal Ice Shot Vaal Grace Frigid Fork Shot Mirror Arrow Grace Hatred As a shooter, Manyshot mercenaries are not good at large-scale monster clearing, but they have two very useful auras, Grace and Hatred. Hatred can retain 50% of the mana for each spell cast, and allows the player to convert part of the physical attack damage into cold damage. The latter additional effect may not be useful for all classes, and the former effect can allow you to release more skills. Grace can increase the player’s dodge level, and since the monsters in Path of Exile are relatively powerful, this skill can improve the player’s survivability. Bladecaster Stats: Dexterity and Intelligence Skill Gems: Clutches of the Damned Ethereal Knives Bladefall of Trarthus Blade Vortex Grace Aspect of the Spider Bladecaster is a flexible mercenary with certain damage capabilities. He has two skills that can move slightly, and his Grace aura can increase the dodge level, so he can flexibly shuttle in the battlefield, dodge attacks and attack enemies. If you have enough POE currency, you can give him some powerful equipment, and he will become your reliable damage dealer. Cruel Mistress Stats: Intelligence Skill Gems: Despair Void Sphere Dark Pact Soulrend of Reaping Frostblink Zealotry Cruel Mistress is both a powerful caster and a solid DPS buff. If your class is primarily based around Curse and Chaos, this mercenary is perfect for you. Her Voltaxic Burst both deals with Lightning damage and slows enemies, while her Zealotry aura increases your spell power and spell critical chance, and her Despair aura reduces monster resistance to Chaos damage. In this type of game, reducing resistance is actually more effective than increasing your damage. Fallen Reverend Stats: Strength and Intelligence Skill Gems: Absolution Raise Spectre Of Transience Desecrate Reinforce: Fallen Bishop Zealotry Wrath Fallen Reverend has two useful auras, a minion summoning skill, and a taunting Warcry, making him a pretty good taunt tank. This makes many unique items that players don’t want to use useful again. You can give your Fallen Reverend these unique items with certain negative effects. For example, Sign Of The Sin Eater, this unique item can prevent elemental ailments. Or, Brinerot Flag, when the mercenary releases a Warcry, it can increase your mana regeneration. In fact, mercenaries make these unpopular unique items valuable again. Even if you don’t use these unique items, you can trade them for POE Divine Orbs. Eruptor Stats: Strength Skill Gems: Infernal Cry Volcanic Fissure Of Snaking Consecrated Path Molten Shell Determination Flamelink Eruptor is a pure power mercenary, and its violence is beyond words. He can cause flaming mountain damage and stun enemies. His two auras can increase your armor and fire resistance, and he comes with high armor. If you are willing to train him, he can almost clear a map by himself, and you just need to pick up currency and weapons behind him. But if you want him to clear monsters on advanced maps, you’d better equip him with a high-output two-handed weapon. Flaming Charlatan Stats: Strength and Intelligence Skill Gems: Purifying Flame Meteor Scorching Ray Totem Holy Mortar Anger Herald Of Ash Flaming Charlatan is similar to Fallen Reverend, but he is more of a fire caster. His skills can deal fire damage to enemies in a large area, and he also has multiple auras to assist you. Flaming Charlatan can be used as a DPS and clear monsters, but if your build is mainly flame damage, you can cooperate with him better. Kineticist Stats: Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity Skill Gems: Elemental Weakness Flame Wall Kinetic Bolt Kinetic Blast Haste Frostblink Kineticist and Sanguimancer can adapt to three attributes, but Kineticist has more skills and richer elements, and three attributes also mean that Kineticist can choose unique items more freely. Besides dealing elemental damage, Kineticist’s Elemental Weakness skill can reduce the enemy’s elemental resistance. This is a very powerful skill because it is not limited to a single element, which allows any builds that use elemental damage to benefit from it. There are very few builds that do not have any elemental damage. There are many mercenaries, so don’t just recruit them when you see a mercenary with the “Infamous” modifier. Before you choose a mercenary, check in advance whether his skills can support you, and the best mercenaries are those that can cooperate with you.Jun-30-2025
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Path Of Exile 3.24: Is The ...
In this guide for Path of Exile 3.24, the purpose is to clarify the currency farming strategy that I customize for the Essence. This farming is set in the Dunes Map, including the effects of 3 Essence Scarabs, a Scarab of Ascension with the Essence map mod and the Searing Exarch influence. It is advisable to pick the Dunes Map for Essence farming. Compared with other maps, we can avoid the demand for large-scale map rolling and can maximize the number of quantities and rareness. Strategy Overview The strategy is straightforward: Utilize the Cartography Scarab of Ascension along with 3 small Essence Scarabs, the Essence map mod, and Searing Exarch influence. The decision to use the Dunes Map for Essence farming is intentional and the simplicity of its navigation and the potential of Boss Rush. It should be noted that killing the boss isn't necessary, as it garners ample essences from Crystal Resonance. The boss is nowhere near as crazy as it is in the high-end strategy where you use the Essence Scarab of Calcification, but it is still advisable to bring the boss below 50% health to speed up the kill at the end of the map. Farming Build If your build boasts a formidable damage output, let’s say around 20 million DPS or higher, it’s advisable to prioritize eliminating a few essences before engaging the boss. This precautionary measure prevents accidental boss kills, which could diminish your number of Essence each time it occurs. For minion-based builds, strategic allocation of passive points is crucial. Consider investing in skills like Indomitable Army and physical damage reduction to counter the effects of Corrupted Blood. Without these defensive measures, your minions will require substantial damage output and life recovery capabilities to effectively contend with the Essence monsters. Map Rolling Tips The Dunes Map doesn’t have to be rolled much. I recommend to just chisel and alch the Dunes Map to increase loot and get the occasional high-quantity maps for other strategies. Even though this is not a strategy for Essence Scarab of Calcification, it’s still advisable to roll maps with strong defensive mods like more monster life and damage reduction for physical and elemental builds because you want to kill the Essence monsters and the boss as quickly as possible. Farming Investment The investment in the farming required is minimal. It’s around 8 chaos for the map itself, 14 chaos for the Scarabs, and another 3 chaos for the map mod, for 25 chaos per map. In the 20 loot breakdown maps, there are 6 Fortress Maps, which actually constitute most of our total amount of Essence farming. All the Essences that we found still dwarf this, with the Essences of Envy and Loathing being the most valuable ones. So, they make up more of the total than the other essences. The Incandescent Imitation is on 20 maps. So you can probably reduce this by 20% or so, given the total amount of POE Currency. The total map cost, including the 25 chaos, actually translates to profit rather than losses. While there are some additional items, like the Polaric Invitations, chaos orbs, and great jammers, they don't contribute substantially to the total currency gained. Final Thought If there were any exceptionally valuable drops, they would have been highlighted. We did find one fortunate drop, but it was quite average. As for items like coffins and Allflames, they don't significantly contribute to the overall currency. Considering coffins, for instance, they don't add much to your earnings, so skipping them won't cause a substantial loss. Allflames, on the other hand, are a bit more impactful. But overall, the main contributors to currency are the Essences and the Fortress maps we found, with smaller items like Polaric Invitations and bubblegum currency also playing a role. While the sample size isn't huge, the consistency of the earnings is noteworthy. You can expect to earn around 15 divines per hour if you consistently run this strategy and can navigate the maps efficiently. On average, it took me about 2 and a half to 3 minutes per map. Cutting down on this time further could potentially increase your earnings even more.Apr-11-2024
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Path Of Exile 3.24: How To ...
Hi, players! In this guide, I'll demonstrate how to acquire the Mageblood from the Ritual and provide you with the steps to attempt it yourself. The Ritual has become the main source of income for this new Necropolis League in the Path of Exile 3.24, allowing me to get or craft most of the gear I have so far. Without wasting time, let's dive in! Types Of Ritual Scarabs As for the types of Ritual Scarabs, this includes having the Ritual on the Atlas Tree, as well as using the new the Ritual Scarabs introduced in POE 3.24. Typically, I use 2 of the Ritual Scarabs of Abundance. The 2 remaining slots can be used for either the Ritual Scarabs of Selectiveness or the Ritual Scarab of Recognition for more Tribute if your map has unique enemies such as Rogue Exiles, or simply just Blood-filled Vessels for more mobs, a faster spawn rate, and much more Tribute. Also Read: The Tides Of Time Unique Belt Is Ideal For Pathfinders In Path Of Exile 3.24 Necropolis! Atlas Tree Setup On the Atlas Tree, we can now temporarily spec into Immutable Dogma. This no longer lets us roll but grants 100% more Tribute, allowing us to get the expensive Mageblood outright without having to keep deferring over time. It'll need 1 or 2 Divine Orbs to get it to 4 flasks, but other than that, it's great! However, there are a few Atlas Map nodes which are super important for the Ritual: Voll's Devotion: This ensures that you get four the Ritual Altars each map for more Tribute. Ritual Special Reward Chance: These give us a better chance at the Rituals with either Uniques, currency, or divination card rewards. Profitable Prayers: To allow re-rolling 2 additional times. Sacred Lands & Smaller Ritual Special Reward Chance: With these, we can guarantee the Ritual in every map without a vessel or the map device craft. How To Get Ritual Scarabs? There is no guarantee with the Ritual, as typically a lot will revolve around luck, but you can still find a lot of valuable items if you know what you're looking for. In this instance, the Mageblood came from an Apocalyptic Ritual in a map, one of the higher tier types which only offers all Uniques, all currency, or all divination cards. Combined with 2 of the Abundant Scarabs and some luck, we managed to hit it. It's likely you won't be able to get it outright because of the Tribute cost, but as long as you can defer the item, it'll be secured for a future map and we can buy it later. This is now essentially locked in, and we can go and retrieve it on the next map. Ritual Special Rewards So, how do we know when we find one of the rarer the Rituals? They typically have a different POE 3.24 model. All the Altars which are surrounded by a fence like the Sanguin Altar will have the rarer special rewards table. The same again here for the Volatile Altar. They will also have typically more difficult modifiers to justify the increased rewards. The rarer Altar on the left and the more common on the right. Both can provide good loot. Just the special loot tables will always offer Uniques, divination cards, or even currency. Conclusion Ritual is super low investment cost with only vessels or scarabs, otherwise we can now get 100% chance for Ritual Altars on the Atlas Tree. A lot of luck is involved, but you have the chance to get some real valuable items if you know what you're looking for. After you have your Atlas Tree set up, it's just a case of running as many maps as you can, taking the valuable rewards, and hoping you get lucky. Hope you get lucky with the Ritual, and I'll see you in the next one, Exiles!Apr-15-2024
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Path of Exile (PoE) 3.22 De ...
In the ever-evolving world of Path of Exile (PoE), the introduction of new content and updates keeps players engaged and challenged. The recent 3.22 patch has brought forth the intriguing Delve Early Farming Guide, offering players the chance to delve into uncharted territories and unearth valuable rewards. In this guide, we'll delve (pun intended) into seven key tips that can help both new and seasoned players make the most out of the Delve content and enhance their PoE experience. 1. Understanding the Delve Mechanic: The Delve mechanic in PoE takes players on an underground adventure, accessible through Niko, who allows players to delve into mines and encounter diverse biomes and unique challenges. Sulfite, the key resource for delving, is acquired through mapping. Players navigate the volatile mine to collect valuable loot, fossils, and currency items. 2. Delve Changes in the 3.22 Patch: The 3.22 patch has introduced some item balance changes, particularly affecting delve-exclusive shields. The patch primarily addresses certain modifiers related to maximum elemental resistances. 3. Currency Generation in Delve: Delve offers various opportunities for currency generation. Farming fossils is a prime example, with different biomes yielding different types of fossils. Fossils can be traded for currency, making this a lucrative strategy for wealth accumulation. Selling resonators, particularly in bulk, is another profitable venture. Additionally, defeating bosses like Crystal King can yield valuable amulets and rings that can fetch a good price in the market. 4. Sustaining Sulphite for Delving: Sulphite is essential for delving, and its acquisition requires thoughtful strategies. Setting up the Atlas properly can help players earn more sulphite from maps. Utilizing Atlas passives and Ascendancy skills can further enhance sulphite gain. Running Wandering Path in the Atlas passive tree can result in higher sulphite drops during mapping. 5. Biomes and Cities in Delve: Biomes in delve offer specific loot drops and challenges. Players can target particular biomes to farm specific resources and maximize their gains. Cities in delve contain valuable items and loot chests, making them a rewarding destination for adventurers. 6. Special Item Drop Nodes: Restless Rubbles and other special nodes offer unique item drops: lightning items, contains cold items, fire items, Physical, containing Mana or cursed itemssome of which can be highly valuable or even build-enabling. Players can take advantage of these nodes to acquire rare and powerful items that can be used or traded. 7. Voltaxic Generator Setup and Depth Farming: Managing the Voltaxic Generator is crucial for surviving deep delves. Players should focus on maintaining Darkness Resistance, Light Radius, and Flare Capacity. Balancing these attributes is key to exploring deeper mine levels safely. Starting depth farming at around 150-250 is recommended for evasion-based characters, while characters with more survivability can venture deeper to around 300-350. In conclusion, the Delve Early Farming Guide in PoE 3.22 presents players with a plethora of opportunities to explore, conquer challenges, and amass wealth. Whether you're a newcomer seeking to learn the ropes of delving or a seasoned player looking to optimize your currency generation, these seven tips provide valuable insights to make the most of your delve experience. As the world of PoE continues to evolve, embracing new content and mastering its mechanics will undoubtedly lead to a more rewarding and thrilling gaming journey.Aug-17-2023