[PoE 3.21] Endgame Guide for the Self-Chill Explosive Trap Trickster

Act 1: -------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT - BEFORE BRUTUS - Since they removed the vendor wands and Arcane Surge has lost 10% more spell damage, you need to make sure you grab a GGG or GGB link BEFORE you fight Brutus. You'll get Swift Assembly from completing the Tidal Island quest, and you can buy either Added Cold Damage or Added Lightning Damage from Nessa after entering the Prison. ALSO IMPORTANT - Because the vendor wand craft is gone, it's now 100% worthwhile to pick up and ID all caster base weapons. Rune Daggers, Wands, Sceptres, etc. can all roll flat added spell damage. At ilvl 20, it's roughly 22% of the mod pool to hit some tier of added flat damage to spells, and in A1 the level 8 vendor wand recipe provided a fat 40% dps boost and made leveling easy. Do yourself a favor and ID caster weapons all through out the Acts and pickup flat added spell damage weapons, each one is a huge dps upgrade. THIRDLY IMPORTANT - As soon as you can, purchase a three green socket weapon swap for both slots. You'll want to buy 6x Explosive Traps and level them as you progress through acts. Once they all hit 20 around when you hit level 90, Vaal them. A level 21 Explosive Trap is a significant damage boost and will likely be expensive early on. I'd also recommend grabbing the Early Map gems as soon as you can and level them in sockets on your equipment. Vendor Search Strings: --------------------------------------------- Only Weapon: g-g-b|g-[gb]-g|b-g-g|Flam|itho Only Movespeed Boots: nne|rint Weapon + Movespeed Boots: g-g-b|g-[gb]-g|b-g-g|nne|rint|Flam|itho Sunblast: --------------------------------------------- Sunblast is a huge dps boost, it pretty squarely triples our damage. When you'll be able to acquire it is a question mark. In 3.20, I stopped in Act 8 and heisted for about 20 minutes to get the 5c needed to purchase it. Buy it whenever you can, it's worth it. It becomes equipable at level 37. This PoB is intended to get you safely through maps. Look for the endgame transition PoB to self-chill for upgrading your tankiness and damage further.