Kinetic Bolt Elementalist + lvling guide for 3.25b.

When crafting a wand you're looking for attack speed, crit and flat dmg ( dmg added to attacks). Avoid tanky rares or beasts while lvling , the exp is negligible, just run past them if you can. Easy mode chea lvling uniques: Ondar's clasp [lvl5] , Karui ward [lvl 5], Sidhebreath [lvl 1], The Ignomon [lvl 8], Berek rings (grip, respite, pass) [lvl 20], Blackheart [lvl 1], Tasalio's sign [lvl 20], Wake of destruction [lvl 28], Foxshade [lvl 25], Thrillsteel [lvl 18], Fairgraves Tricorne [lvl 12], Stormprison [lvl 24] Act 1 Make sure to kill hailrake for the flask + summon phantasm and volley support. You will neeed some dex for the volley , either get it on an amulet or on the tree. Also get clarity from killing hillock as a reward. Take off all support gems for hillock if you dont have good uniques with flat dmg and carry few portal scrolls , just in case. Delay dweller till u get some gear from act 2. Act 2 Buy 2x carved wands from Yeena. Make them rare or magic if you can. Do the chambers of sin quest and get herald of thunder from greust if you lack dmg (ssf) Oak can be a pain if you lack dps , so make sure u get some gear and if need be go buy a frost bomb to reduce his healing. Help alira if in ssf, otherwise kill all. Dont forget the golden hand quest gives a skill point now. Act 3 Swap Herald of thunder for wrath aura, whenever you can and pick up a topaz ring, before u go for tolmans bracelet . Do the library , to unlock siosa, Choose meat shield support from the quest reward and buy shield charge, faster attacks, ballista totem, precision aura, the 2 crit support gems and elemental dmg with attacks support gem. You will not need them straight away,but its good to pre-level them if you have free sockets. Adjust your main link based on what sockets you have. Act 4 Look to buy a new wand as soon as u enter highgate. If no good bases are offered, go clear the dried lake and try again when the shop resets / a good wand drops. Look for a B-B-B-R gear, once you have it allocate ancestral bond (it will make you do no damage without ballistas) and swap ur main link. After you clear kaom and daresso , check your gear once again, craft life / res / flat dmg or w/e else you can and go do lab. At this point if you have an alch , buy yourself a golem gem (ice / lightning), if not - kill malachai and get one from oyun as a quest reward. Support your golems with the meatshield from act 3 and / or with minion life support if you have the sockets. Act 5 Nothing notable here. Replaced some gear with new stuff I had from act 4 (but couldnt equip due to lvl restrictions). Start checking all rares you find for good life / res / flat dmg rolls from now on. Its ok to not have the right sockets for all skills atm, feel free to drop power siphon / snipers mark / faster attacks (from shield charge). We use power siphon to generate power charges and its build-in culling strike ( insta kill anything below 10% hp). Act 6 Small re-spec. Dont forget to summon an extra golem (even if its same) once u get golem commander. Get the life mastery only if you have no life on your body armor. If you do , just skip it. Act 7 Got new dex based body so I can socket snipers mark, ice golem and precision. Benched dex on few pieces to afford it and removed the life mastery. Act 8 Be careful with the toxic conduits zone if you have no chaos res it can be super rippy. Upgrade your life flasks if you're not lazy before you head there. Cruel lab time. Try to buy stone golem before, it really helps. The 4th golem is chaos golem, but its not very important. If you want you can replace it with flame golem till mid-late maps (t11+) Lunaris temple can be a pain, so make sure you cap cold res and play a bit safer (dont shield charge into packs) or mobs will freeze / stun lock you. If you really struggle with it , you can drop precision and get a lower lvl clarity to fit in purity of elements for extra res + chill / freeze immunity. Act 9 Swap your high lvl precision with t a lvl 1 (and dont lvl it) and add grace aura. Act 10 Can lvl up precision a bit after you get the influence wheel.