Easiest lvl 100 - Trickster Ephemereal Edge

Hi guys!

I discovered this insane build 1y year ago thanks to u/Dreadmaker (link) and still looks criminally underused with only ~100 characters on PoE ninja. I figured I could share my Lighning Strike of Arcing version which carried me to 100 while farming T16 8000wisps maps this league.

POB for 100-150div budget : https://pobb.in/7m13-cxHeHES. Not a leaguestarter, requires ~20d and level 92-95 to come online. My current character : https://poe.ninja/builds/affliction/character/Heinarc/EHPSizeMatters

Gameplay - Clearspeed

Blast through maps with Shield Charge/Frostblink, jump the tankiest rare around and obliterate it in melee while your multi-million DPS arcing projectiles offscreen everything around. Overall as fast and more satisfying to me than the flicker strike version of the build. Can do (and facetank) pretty much any content.

Offense mechanics

DPS : 15-20M single target

Ephemereal Edge convert your Energy Shield to max lightning damage, so core of the build is stacking as much ES as you can.

Resolute Technique corruption and Precise Technique to save up points and stack even more ES with cluster jewels. Volatility support + Voice of the Storm unique amulet to maximize our non-crit damage.

On top of that, Lightning Strike with a source of +1 strike allows you to find a "sweet spot" a few feet away from an enemy which allows you to hit it both with the projectiles and the melee strike for doubling your damage.

NB : the non-transfigured Lightning Strike is +9% DPS but IMO the arcing version clears much better and is well worth the trade off as long you have at least+1 proj (specced on the tree).

Defense mechanics

10000+ ES, 50% block and spell block (Versatile Combatant), a lot of evasion converted to 100k+ armor with Iron Reflexes, chaos immune

On top of that, you have an insane 3000+ ES/second recovery rate (Overleech, Ghost Reaver and Instant leech) AND 2000+ES recovered on block (Aegis Aurora) AND 1000+ ES recovered on kill (Polymath). You can facetank twinned 6essence mobs in juiced T16 no problem.

POB compute our EHP as "infinite". Meaning you won't die unless severely stacking odds against you with map mods/altars gimping your defense layers.

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I spent quite a few hours POB-warrioring this build, so I'd be super happy if people come up with ways to make it even better !

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