League Start Guide Rain of Arrows Champion Path of Exile 3.22

Amendments: 1.1 17/08/2023 - Changed End Game Gear Set to fit spell suppression in and work physical damage taken as elemental as this allows our armour to be much more effective. Changed implicit on helmet to mana reservation to be able to push precision up to 20 comfortably Changed impllicit on gloves to spell suppression to cap Auras are set to Grace + Determination, but in softcore if you find this overkill drop Grace for Anger/Wrath/Haste. Remember though you do get a damage boost from the belt from Grace it is just nowhere near as much as a 50% damage aura unless you can get around 100k armour and evasion in the build This is deliberately set with mostly rare items for you to use as a template. If you can fit uniques in the following add a lot of damage: - Yoke of Suffering - Taming Rings ****** Extra TIPS for Act 1 & 2******* The first few acts I have now broken up the tree to make it easier to know where you are going. When you get precise technique go and buy precision from Act 1 Vendor and activate. This should put your accuracy above your life and start boosting your damage Ensure when you take on Brutus in Act 1 that you have Shrapnel ballista & you use snipers mark. I recommend trying to get a bow that is not the starter bow or this fight can be rough. If you absolutely hate galvanic arrow you can use caustic arrow If you have bad gear when approaching Oak in act 2 get precise technique and precision before killing him After this point it should be smooth sailing Notes for DPS for Bows: White Maps End of campaign you want to aim to have a bow with 250 - 350 Ele DPS and will be fine for T1-T5 maps and if you get a 5 link this bow should be good for early to mid yellow maps Yellow Maps At this stage you should be upgrading your bow. Even just a screaming essence and crafted prefix for damage will give you better DPS than this. Ideally you want a bow with 500 ele DPS & 1.4+ attacks per second Red Maps 550+ Ele DPS as minimum. If transitioning to crit you also want the bow to have 7.5%+ crit chance minimum, which will mean using either as Spine Bow or Ivory Bow since these bases have the best crit chance/attack speed combo Final Set up Add Medium Clusters in as you gain levels. These will be the additions you make to the tree as you level past 87. However until you can slot at least 1 medium cluster you may as well put these points elsewhere such as bow damage and accuracy as needed and respec when you have the points to put in 1 cluster jewel and then do the same when you build up to your second cluster jewel Levelling: Act 1: Links before level 12 are: Galvanic Arrow - Faster Attacks - Mirage Archer Shrapnel Ballista - Pierce - Faster Attacks Dash/Blink Arrow Precision (If you need accuracy) Snipers Mark At level 12 you can swap galvanic arrow for rain of arrows, however feel free to stick with Galvanic as the single target DPS is marginally better Act 2: Rain of Arrows - Ele Damage with Attacks - Mirage Archer (If you do not have elemental damage on your bow DO NOT use ele damage with attacks. Use Added Fire or Faster Attacks/vicious proj) Add in Herald of Ice as a reward from chamber of sins or herald of Ash/Thunder. Whatever sockets you have spare If you want add blood rage in too but I do not think it is up long enough and it annoys me having to constantly use my life flask Take Ele Damage with Attacks after killing Weaver and swap with pierce in your ballista setup (We are preparing for artillery Ballista in Act 3). Again if you have no elemental damage do not use ele damage with attacks Act 3: Add Anger in for Herald of Ice Kill Gravicious and then buy artillerty ballista and replace shrapnel ballista Start looking for 4 links Rain of arrows - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Trinity - Mirage Archer Artillery Ballista - Faster Attacks - Ele Damage with Attacks - Inspiration (Library or Act 6) It is fine to wait as you do not need a 4 link ballista When you complete 1st Lab and get access to adrenaline run a 2 link of: Corrupting Fever + lifetap In act 6 add second wind to these links. At this point you may need to buy a level 1 gem from act 6 as this may put your life cost way too high When you get to act 6 and can access all your gems you eventually want your link to be: Vaal Rain of Arrows - Elemental Damage with Attacks/Inspiration - Mirage Archer - Trinity Artillery Ballista - Inspiration - Ele dmg with Attacks - Added Cold (Buy in Act 6 and start levelling straight away) Snipers Mark - Mark on Hit - Lifetap Flame Dash Blood Rage (Start using) Anger - Determination - Precision (Add Determination/Grace in once you pick up the mana reservation nodes) Corrupting Fever - Lifetap - Second Wind These are your links pretty much through to your crit swap at level 85