Frost Blades Warden - Path of Exile 3.25 Guide

Undoable map mods: Chance to avoid elemental ailments Elemental Reflect Weaknesses: - Xandro Bloodrinker (rogue exile) - RT, ignores evasion - Ground Degens (Sirus, Exarch, some T17s monsters and mods) - Phys Hits (Beyond) - explained in video, switch to Aspect of the Crab if you want to be on positive XP - Crits - change mark mastery to "Marked enemies cannot deal critical strikes" it overrides everything, map mods, monster mods even expedition mods, won't help with huge packs but will help on bosses and rares Strengths: + Damage + Speed + Low Cost of Entry While Levelling: Help Alira Use mana flask untill about act 5, leech should start picking up at that point with Multistrike covering the rest Do not use Hatred or Herald of Ice, damage will be fine Use Aspect of the Crab and Flesh and Stone (in sand stance) instead Use eldritch crafted chest with %phys taken as ele (fire if you don't have ele avoidance yet) Ascendancy nodes in order: 1. Oath of Winter (freeze) 2. Enduring Suffusion (tincture linger) 3. Experienced Herbalist (second tincture) - Can Start going crit with crit tincture now 4. Oath of Summer (scorch) Upgrades in order I recommend: 1. White Wind 2. Heatshiver 3. Mark of the Elder + random Shaper Ring 4. Opal Shaper Ring 5. Awakened Added Cold Support 6. 21/20 Frost Blades Gem 7. Lethal Pride with %chance to deal double damage at least 2x 8. The Light of Meaning (cold version) 9. Ancestral Vision 10. Yoke of Suffering 11. Corrupted heatshiver (or Enlighten) + Hatred Watcher's Eye 12. Double Corrupted Chest (looking for as many +level to frost blades as possible) 13. Double Corrupted White Wind Things to remember: Need some source of +strikes and pierce - pick it up on the tree before you get gloves like in the PoB Crit is going to come online towards the end of the campagin with 2nd tincture, untill then use Ice Bite and the Primeval Force wheel for good % chance to freeze (can also add in a flask with the same)