Trickster Explosive Trap

DPS: 558.97K
Effective HP: 46.95K
Life: 3.38K
Level: 100
Min budget

Overview

Trickster Explosive Trap is a Path of Exile Trickster build by CookiesHuzzah, made for the Sentinel league (3.18). It is centered on Explosive Trap and plays as a trap, dexterity, spell, area archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 558.97K DPS with 46.95K effective HP, 3.38K life, 1.61K energy shield. Key uniques include Slavedriver's Hand, Replica Soul Tether, Bottled Faith, Circle of Anguish, Queen of the Forest.

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average hit x (3.2 (cluster) or 1.8 (swift assembly)) x (1/trap throw rate) x # of explosions I believe this is how to calculate explosive trap damage. I might be underestimating or overestimating the dps here. 149657 * 1.8 * (1/0.27) * 11 = 10,974,846 million dps. Bottled faith puts dps to about 18 million. Ignore other flasks, they're for if you have a mageblood. Polymath applied in config, 9 * 3 for 27% more damage. Polymath gets most value from going hybrid, to double up on recovery. Can you squeeze in a Glorious Vanity on Doryani for the huge ES pool addition? Replica Soul Tether placeholder? Take Polymath for sustain when mapping & for damage. 18% recovery on kill is stupid (life + es). Take Swift Killer for +2 frenzy charges. The duration actually has synergy with Slavedriver's Hand, should give 100% uptime on all charges. Escape Artist and Spellbreaker. With passive tree changes you hit 100% spell suppression, not sure if you need 15% on a Watcher's eye when affected by Grace. -100% spell suppression and Spellbreaker gives a pseudo Aegis Aurora effect, seems good. Especially since stacking evasion instead of armour lets you double dip energy shield with Ghost Dance. -Not needing to use Aegis Aurora allows you to dual wield or even use a staff. Annihilating Light seems really good for stacking damage up to stupid levels. You'd need to find gem levels for explosive trap elsewhere in that situation, though. Wind Dancer, Wicked Ward and Ghost Dance. -Wind Dancer for both evasion and lowering damage taken. Should definitely have enough evasion for it to be worth it. -Wicked Ward for consistency in energy shield regeneration. -24000 evasion and Ghost Dance gives 700 energy shield back on being hit. Respectable recovery, especially combined with Spellbreaker. Upgrades -Corrupted Circle of Anguish for double stats. -Mageblood. -Annihilating Light. -Awakened Empower. -Rare chest? Or an evasion based unique which is double corrupted for +3 gems for explosive trap. -Better omni rares for helmet and boot slot. -Try to fit in Glorious Vanity for Corrupted Soul somewhere. -Corrupted slave drivers? You can probably double corrupt, get a curse and double curse by pathing to Whispers of Doom. I think the weakest point really is the lack of Life recovery. The trap mastery helps, vitality helps. Biggest help is a mageblood with 3% life regen. Corrupted soul splitting the damage really helps survivability with the ES recovery being so good.

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Preface: This is an omni build, it's not a league starter. Just play seismic trap as a trickster instead and respec if you want to play explosive trap. This was more an experiment on seeing if it would perform better than a saboteur, which I think it does.

With the reveal of the rework of trickster and seeing some of the discussion for the other ascendancy nodes, Swift Killer stood out as kind of bad compared to the others.

But Charged Traps and Slavedriver's Hand can take advantage of that pretty well. This lets you use the 200% increased charge duration on all 3 charges for likely permanent uptime. It also increases the impact those 2 extra frenzy charges have on your dps.

Build has 9 different mastery types taken so gets 27% more damage from Polymath. The build is also a hybrid life/es build so it doubles up on the polymath recovery. Build has a queen of the forest equipped, but any evasion heavy chest probably works with the Escape Artist synergy. A Replica Soul Tether is equipped for Corrupted Soul both to split the damage and to increase the es pool.

Wicked Ward and Spellbreaker have some nice synergy, build should hit 100% spell suppression even if you have to get 15% from a watcher's eye. Combined with Ghost Dance gives a pseudo Aegis Aurora effect without having to have a shield equipped. You could also take the ES mastery for "Cannot be Frozen if ES recharge has started Recently".

Taking the build to further investment would probably involve getting an Annihilating Light, fixing resists with better omni stats on the helmet/boots, finding another way to get level 26/27 on Explosive trap. Finding a way to get a Glorious Vanity to get Corrupted soul that way lets you use a mageblood, forbidden flame/flesh could be used either for Born in the Shadows for more tankiness, Explosives Expert for damage or Pyromaniac for ignite/shock immunity and regen.

I don't know how the mana reservation mastery change will affect the current reserved mana, but the enlightens in the build are only level 3, so maybe one has to get bumped to a level 4.