Explosive Trap Raider - A Well Rounded Trapper | PoE 3.22 Build Guide

vid: https://youtu.be/fizZh0dpmRQ The gear was either bought as is or crafted with essence or alt>aug>regal>meta craft BTW I'm omega overcapped for res with the flask suffix. If I could cap without it, I'd replace it with like cast speed, movement speed, crit, or evasion. These methods are just how I crafted my items, feel free to let me know if there are better ways. Shield craft if you hate your currency (what I did): 1. Delete like 6 div worth of essences/fossils trying to get life/spell damage and open prefix. 2. Resort or alt spam for good spell damage. 3. Aug, regal for suffix, if prefix then beast craft prefix to suffix, start over if bricked. 4. Prefixes can't be changed, Harvest Aug Fire for guaranteed +1 Fire since spell damage and fire damage are from the same pool (need suffixes filled including the craft or else you get fire res) 5. If Prefixes can't be changed is removed, recraft it. Otherwise, Reforge Life and hope for good life prefix This part is actually kinda scuffed. If you get a non-life prefix, then you can craft Cannot Roll Caster > Annul 6 mod + unlucky annul can brick the item at this point 6. After finishing prefixes, just the usual Prefixes can't be changed/reforge caster/aisling/bench craft. I skipped the Aisling, cuz I was running our of currency, but double damage is ideal. I alt spammed T1 Spell damage, so I felt compelled to do that shit up there^ But the better crafting method is probably using Greed Essences until you get a decent spell damage roll or Pristine / Aetheric Fossil until decent life / spell damage. With an open prefix and an open suffix. Then you can just prefixes cannot be changed aug fire for the +1 and then do suffixes. For an easier / cheaper shield, just get a fractured spell damage pure int shield, life essence, then harvest on the +1, Play with vitality levels / add enlighten to help with reservation. Belt (res catalysted before hand): 1. Get lucky Alt Spamming T1 Life + Perfect Reduced Flask Charges Used. 2. Regal T1 Res (Unneeded) 3. Craft Chaos Res 4. Redeemer Slam + Exalt for some Garbage. If you're lucky you can get increased damage vs chilled. Boots: 1. I just bought the Suffixes, but you can just get fractured chaos res and loathing essence until suppress 2. Suffixes can't be changed and veiled chaos. Block mana, and unveil movespeed. 3. Get lucky with the veiled chaos and get good life, otherwise just bench craft it after. Pen enchant is ideal, crit is not bad, allows you to crit cap without capped brittle. The regen enchant I have is just from my uber lab. Rings: 1. Buy them. The suffixes are the important part I was specifically looking for cast speed, and ele weak on one of them 2. You can suffixes can't be changed veiled chaos block mana unveil life with pretty high chance (I think you need to get omega unlucky to not get life) then bench craft increased damage The rings are caster catalysted for attack speed. Helmet: 1. Buy enchant 2. Envy Essence until good life and open prefix. 3. Craft phys taken as fire 4. Eldritch implicits The suppress isn't necessary, I just slammed it on by chance. I have 99% suppress without it, this is fixed with a single suppression tattoo. If you don't have the bench craft yet, you can buy korell's veiled helmets to try to get it. (took me like 3, I think that's unlucky?) Alternating Sceptre: I just threw some shrieking woe essences on it, ended getting +1 phys so I called it a day. The original plan was to use woes until I got 2 good suffixes and an open prefix/suffix, then harvest force on +1 phys with cannot roll attack. You can make a +2 with either fossils or alt spam. Jewels: These are bought, shouldn't be too expensive since fire crit multi isn't too popular. Just look for crit multi (fire, elemental, spell, global), life, and cast speed. "Attack and cast speed" and "cast speed while holding a shield" works, but "cast speed with fire skills" doesn't Lightning Coil: To colour it, either tainted chromes or bench (probably 1 or 2 blue). If you can find one fore sale with the colours already, that saves a lot of hassle. Leveling Tips You can technically start using explosive trap at level one, but the ranger doesn't have that much early access to damage increases. So it's probably easier to level as something else, but if you have access to leveling items, explosive trap feels really strong throughout the entire leveling process. Along with the usual seven league steps, le heup of all, praxis, replica karui ward, I used a +2 honourhome, with a plus 1 fire wand and shield (just alt spam ilvl 2 wand / int shield, i go with a shield for shield charge). Doedre's tenure gives 100% spell damage without any downside, and a replica dragonfang's flight at level 56 is pretty nutty. Some improvements that come to mind dog ass weapon a good +2 alternating sceptre better rares jewelry prefixes double damage aisling on shield crit multi ib rubgs pen enchant on boots extra aura (zealotry) with mana cost tech (flask mana cost reduction + divergent inspiration/divine blessing + anomalous inc duration) need to free up some sockets somehow though watcher's eye hatred crit? precision multi viltality regen grace? purity shifting? melding with impossible escape/tattoo tech probably need to fit in a purity instead of skitter, and some max res on shield some levels for another medium cluster maybe megalomaniac corrupted implicits +4 body ( trap + aoe) (all gems if using empower) +curse/max res amulet glove (cast speed, ele weak, crit) empower 4 (10 explosion breakpoint) not actually too sure if this is actually damage boost rational doctrine