Eye of Winter CoC Brand Recall Assassin | My final and most powerful character in POE 3.22

______________________ Foreword ______________________ Howdy, and welcome to my build guide for Eye of Winter (EoW) Arcanist Brand Assassin. This build would not be possible without the work of three people: 1) Jungroan was the first place I'd seen someone's guide for EoW Arcanist Brand -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ6Am95Cr8E&t=277s 2) Surgeon General helped me obtain a deeper understanding of the build mechanics & other hurdles for Assassin EoW -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKA7fhjDnI 3) Bozy the Duckman was where I learned I can gain some powerful defenses for cheap -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFF2klPmyo Those links above are videos that I watched and decided to extrapolate upon for my own version of the build. I'm sure you could experiment and fine tune the build in your own way. _______________________ Pros _______________________ Absurdly tanky for an Assassin Smooth leveling as a saboteur You can swap as soon as you have the uniques Spell Suppression Cap with some options to choose from 75 / 75 Block Permanent Elusive that negates extra crit damage taken Built-In Culling Strike Amazing damage & map clear _______________________ Cons _______________________ So tanky that you will probably feel tempted to test how tanky you actually are, constantly. Sends my computer to the Shadow Realm when Brand Recall is triggered It's expensive & some items have limited availability, this could wildly affect price. We are THIRSTY, we need copious amounts of Energy Shield to satisfy the unholy amount of spells being triggered _______________________ Leveling Tips _______________________ I chose to level as Saboteur until I was able to afford Nimis + Widowhail + A well rolled Rearguard ____________________________ Projectile Speed ____________________________ You need a lot of projectile speed after obtaining the building-block unique items Use Faster Projectiles Support instead of Increased Critical Damage Support until you anoint your necklace with Longshot & grab a helmet with 30% increased EoW proj speed _______________________ Bandits _______________________ Kill all bandits _______________________ Ascendancy _______________________ Assassin: Mistwalker -> Unstable Infusion -> Deadly Infusion -> Ambush and Assassinate ________________________ Pantheon Gods ________________________ Major = Brine king } Before Stormshroud Minor = Ralakesh / Abberath Major = Lunaris } After Stormshroud Minor = Ralakesh / Abberath ________________________ Anoints ________________________ Late game = Longshot This anoint + 30% EoW proj speed helmet enchant lets us drop Faster Projectiles Support ________________________ Cluster Jewels ________________________ 1 x Large Cluster Jewel You need these modifiers on them: 1) Prismatic Heart 2) Doryani's Lesson 3) Inspired Opression _ 2x Medium Cluster Jewel You need these modifiers on them: 1) Streamlined 2) Aerodynamic ________________________ Timeless Jewel ________________________ You will use a Militant Faith Look for one that is denoted under "High Templar Avarius" We use this Timeless Jewel for Power of Purpose Use this website to help search for your Timeless Jewel: https://vilsol.github.io/timeless-jewels/tree ________________________ Power of Purpose ________________________ This Keystone allows us to gain a significant amount of armour & helps compensate for our lack of physical mitigation. ________________________ Alt Quality Gems ________________________ 1) Divergent Arcanist Brand 2) Anomalous Eye of Winter 3) Awakened Elemental Focus 4) Awakened Cold Penetration 5) Awakened Added Cold Damage 6) Vaal haste ________________________ Lab Enchant ________________________ Helmet: 30% increased Eye of Winter Projectile Speed Gloves: Trigger Commandment of Light when you take a Critical Strike Boots: Damage Penetrates 10% of Enemy Elemental Resistances if you haven't Killed Recently or Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you were Hit Recently or Adds 1 to 160 Lightning Damage if you haven't Killed Recently ________________________ Main Skill Interactions ________________________ 1) Nimis forces projectiles to return to the player 2) Arcanist Brand limits the range those projectiles can travel 3) High Projectile Speed makes it so Eye of Winter returns fast enough to go through the intended target 4) Sniper's Mark is our "curse" skill. It causes the target to split projectiles toward additional targets and take additional damage from projectiles 5) Vortex + Bonechill Support is an easy and reliable source of increased damage for us. Vortex will explode into a chilling area, increasing monster's damage taken by how large the chill effect on them is. _________________________ Triggerbots _________________________ Triggerbots are usually only available as a Sabotuer We obtain them from our Forbidden Flame & Flesh jewel combo These little guys completely change our build by: 1) Your Triggered Spells Trigger twice, once from each Triggerbot's location 2) The additional Trigger ignores Cooldowns This will require us to boost our Eldritch Battery with Discipline. Discpline as an Aura will allow us to sustain the new, titanic mana costs ___________________________ Triggerbot skill interactions ___________________________ 1) Arcanist Brand -Every EoW our brands cast will also cast once from each Triggerbot's location 2) Brand Recall -All Brands return to your location activating once from each Triggerbot's location, which causes all brands to return and activate once from each Triggerbot's location. 3) Cast on Critical Strike Support -Frenzy Triggers COC once from each Triggerbot's location, which triggers Brand Recall once from each Triggerbot's location, which triggers all brands to return and activate once from each Triggerbot's location. _________________________ Defensive layers _________________________ 1) 75 / 75 block 2) 100% suppression 3) 150% guaranteed elusive 4) 70% or higher physical mitigation 5) CWDT Molten Shell + Determination 6) MoM + Eldritch Battery 7) 10% avoid projectiles (Lunaris Major God Only) 8) 10% evade chance or higher 9) 20% physical taken as elemental 10) Max Chaos resistance 11) Overcapped resistances 12) 0.2% elemental damage life leech 13) Gain a flask charge when you deal a critical strike 14) 5% chance to hinder on hit with spells 15) Stormshroud elemental ailment immunity 16) 1-2% max all resistances 17) Effects of consecrated ground linger (Watcher's Eye) 18) ~40% chance to avoid poison and bleeding _________________________ Deaths _________________________ As of writing this guide, I have died_______150________times _________________________