PoE 3.27 | Exsanguinate Reap Miner League Start Build Guide

Pros --------------------------------------------- S-tier mapping, exceptional clear Scales well as a Physical Skill Freeze is insanely good for safety Fast Reap has higher damage upside if you are willing to boss swap gems and push an extra button Very high damage ceiling, 100-400m dps with investment If you DONT want to use Reap, you can skip it entirely and still boss after a certain investment level Cons --------------------------------------------- Gem swapping for bossing (if you don't care about bossing, ignore this) Reap requires additional sockets to acquire Blood charges with a second copy of Reap Reap requires an extra button Reap has a large life cost Vendor Regex --------------------------------------------- "b-b-b|g-g-r|g-[gr]-g|r-g-g|Runn|rint|me Sh" Leveling --------------------------------------------- Level off the beach with Cobra Lash until Level 4 / Hillock New stuff highlighted in Yellow. TO SIMULATE THE NEW GEM PRE-3.27 LAUNCH - Use Wave of Conviction for Fire Exposure Level 4: Rolling Magma + Elemental Proliferation Flame Wall Frostblink + Arcane Surge (DON'T LEVEL ARCANE SURGE PAST 1) NOTE: Arcane Surge was buffed in 3.26 to provide a flat 20% cast speed and 30% mana regen at all levels, and when linked with Frostblink (or any skill) will proc constantly. Cast Speed is a multiplier for your damage but more importantly, makes Rolling Magma feel less bad on a non-caster. This will dramatically improve your quality of life. If you have the socket just keep it linked with Frostblink as it will reduce your mana costs as you campaign by boosting the effectiveness of Clarity. Level 8: Rolling Magma + Elemental Proliferation + Combustion Flame Wall Bear Trap Frostblink + Arcane Surge (Still level 1 Arcane Surge) Shield Charge + Momentum + Faster Attacks Clarity Level 16: Rolling Magma + Elemental Proliferation + Combustion Flame Wall Summon Skitterbots Frostblink + Arcane Surge (Still level 1 Arcane Surge) Shield Charge + Momentum + Faster Attacks Clarity IMPORTANT: Go buy Exsanguinate + Reap gems to level in your offhand Bandits: Take Alira, it's so much more comfortable in campaign than the other two. Level 31: Run Library for Charged Mines, gamble for a 4L Pyroclast Mines + Swift Assembly + Added Cold Damage + Charged Mines Automation + Detonate Mines Bear Trap Summon Skitterbots Frostblink + Arcane Surge (Still level 1 Arcane Surge) Shield Charge + Momentum + Faster Attacks Clarity Flammability Grace 1st Ascendency: Swift Killer Bench flat fire damage to spells on a weapon Level 38: Pyroclast Mines + Minefield + Added Cold Damage + Charged Mines Automation + Detonate Mines Bear Trap Summon Skitterbots Frostblink + Arcane Surge (Still level 1 Arcane Surge) Shield Charge + Momentum + Faster Attacks Clarity Flammability Grace Level 55: Pyroclast Mines + Minefield + Elemental Focus + Charged Mines Automation + Detonate Mines Flame Wall Bear Trap Summon Skitterbots Frostblink + Arcane Surge (Still level 1 Arcane Surge) Shield Charge + Momentum + Faster Attacks Clarity Flammability Grace Guard Skill, probably Automation + Steelskin 2nd Ascendency: Polymath - respec starter nodes to acquire Masteries to make it worth Add Enduring Cry in early maps while waiting to source another Endurance Charge generator (Enduring Composure cluster -OR- Eldritch implicit) Entering Maps: -Gamble for 4L bases with Life/Res. In particular, find a good Eva/ES chest to boost defenses. -Consider buying March of the Legion (35-50% more damage for your 4L). This is a very common T5 unique and is not terribly expensive. -Vendor recipe a White wand (good base like Demon Horn or Imbued) with 40% quality combined gems tagged Fire for a free +1 gems wand. Augment. Regal. Bench %Increased Mine Throwing Speed. -Use an Essence of Zeal on a good belt base which gives a considerable amount of Mine Throwing Speed for cheap damage -Bench Mine Throwing Speed on your weapons / amulet ASAP -Fix your flasks, they are probably terrible. You probably want Ignite immunity from a flask as I find this the most annoying damaging ailment. Get a Jade flask and ideally a flask with %inc evasion suffix. Off-hand gems --------------------------------------------- Level Exsanguinate in every offhand socket you have. You will want to corrupt them for a level 21 the moment you can, as every gem level is an important power jump. If you remember to do this early you won't have to wait as long later. Quality on the gem doesn't matter as we are scaling the hit and not the DoT, don't feel obligated to quality them before corrupting for 21. Reap, however, we DO want quality for as the additional damage per blood charge is substantial. Endurance Charges ------------------------------------------- These are a really excellent defensive layer and will be important. Get them from either an Enduring Composure small cluster (probably what I will do) or from the Endurance Charge implicit on chests. Enduring Cry is also an option but I personally hate additional buttons. Swift Killer will ensure that Enduring Composure keeps your charges up all the time, even on an evasion base. ASCENDENCY ORDER ------------------------------------------- 1. Swift Killer 2. Polymath (respec your tree so you have enough masteries for it to be worth) 3. Escape Artist 4. Spellbreaker Cheap / Abundant Uniques ------------------------------------------- March of the Legion is a massive damage buff to Pyroclast Mines and is a T5 unique that effectively gives a psuedo 5L Wyrmsign is another very common 5L item, though it will reduce your clear some with Pyroclast Mines Nycta's Lantern is another strong cheap unique which gives Battlemage and a substantial chunk of flat phys and fire Kintsugi is amazing defensively and one of my favorite items, especially early Restless Ward is common and can be found with good corruptions for reasonably cheap. It provides substantial regen once you've sourced Endu charges and more movement speed Critical Strike Chance ------------------------------------------- Crit will be crucially important as it will gate your ability to Freeze and deal damage. I wouldn't transition over to Exsanguinate unless you have Pob'd that you will be getting at least 70% crit chance or you just won't be freezing enough. Early on take Winter's Embrace to make this more comfy. There are excellent Critical Strike medium clusters available for cheap to help, and you can take or annoint really strong Crit nodes like High Voltage, bench or get gear with Increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells (shield / caster weapons), Diamond flasks for conditional crit chance, Hatred Watcher's eye mods with base critical strike chance, Assassin's Mark, and so on. If you are having a hard time crit capping, use Hrimsorrow gloves and Increased Critical Strikes support to ease the transition. Support Gem Choices ---------------------------------------------------------- -Cold Penetration is an excellent option and doesn't have the throw delay that Trap and Mine imposes -Chain/Awakened Chain are great for clear. You might want the Chaining Range wheel (Trick Shot), but I don't personally find it necessary -Prioritize Crit Capping over more Crit Multi-- if you are low on crit chance you'll get more reliable freeze with Increased Critical Strikes Ways to get 2% CDR for the 0.198s mine detonation breakpoint ---------------------------------------------------------- -2% CDR on Abyss Jewel -CDR on boot implicit -Generic Gem Levels will boost the CDR enough that you won't need it elsewhere (higher budget) -Enhance is great as it also gives Mine Detonation Speed IMPORTANT Transitioning from Pyroclast Mines to Exsanguinate ---------------------------------------------------------- Before transitioning you want to have acquired: - a 5-Link minimum - a level 18 Exsanguinate, ideally 20 or 21. gem levels are a massive amount of damage for spells. Quality doesnt matter. - Ideally the correct spell modifiers on gear (+1 gem on weapon, +1 gem or high spell dmg on shield, spell crit chance) - Kikazaru -OR- enough life regen that you don't kill yourself (250-300+) - 100% Physical Conversion to Cold. Hrimsorrow is great for this. Other options (more expensive) are Watcher's Eye, Betrayal gloves, glove implicit, and 40% from the Cold mastery. If you don't convert your damage to elemental Exsanguinate will do very little damage. Heatshiver is nice but might be expensive, not required. IMPORTANT Skill Tree Transition to Exsanguinate ---------------------------------------------------------- You need Freeze Duration in order for Freeze to be an effective damage mitigation layer, particularly when you get to late maps. I've allocated Winter's Embrace and Physical Conversion as part of the transition to Exsanguinate becuase YOU WANT 100% conversion to Cold for Cold damage to be effective. At lower damage levels, particularly right when you transition, you will want Freeze Duration. FREEZE - IMPORTANT ------------------------------------------- Freeze is a critical thing to get right here or it will feel like dogshit to play. Freeze duration is calculated based on the size of the hit relative to the target's ailment threshhold, and as long as you are critting you will get Freezes guaranteed. You need a 0.3s Freeze for it not to be discarded, however you can get Freeze Duration from the tree (Winter's Embrace and Elemental Focus) or from cluster jewels. If you aren't reliably freezing mobs path up to Winter's Embrace and take the whole wheel. For example, to get the minimum 0.3s freeze on a mob you have to deal 5% of its health pool in a single hit. With 100% increased freeze duration (or ailment duration), you only have to deal 2.5% of its health pool to get the 0.3s freeze which is enough to proc Heatshiver for the next hit, Crafting Basic Endgame Gear ------------------------------------------- Necrotic Armours - Source bases from your maps and Alt spam for T1 %inc Eva/ES+Stun and T1 flat Eva/ES. Recombinate those two mods only together, then bench 74% Increased Eva/ES and exalt suffixes to get the Chest in the PoB Weapons - The easiest way to get good updates / low cost are to vendor recipe a combined 40% quality of skill gems with a Physical tag with a scoured weapon base (wand, rune dagger, etc). Then recombinate it with a T1 Essence of Woe -OR- Essence of Scorn depending on what your build needs. Then either multimod or just bench Mine Throwing Speed.