My Build for Path of Exile: Affliction league

ROUGH!!! Levelling Guide To start with I make a Witch to obtain the skill gem 'Summon Raging Spirit' and the support gem 'Arcane Surge'. Arcane Surge is available immediately on the beach... but you will have to complete the Act 1 quest 'Breaking Some Eggs' to obtain Summon Raging Spirit - this is an early quest so wont take too long... 5 minutes max. Do this then put these gems into your stash. Make your Marauder now and you have access to these Witch gems from your stash. Level 17 - End of Act 1 My view on levelling in general is it's easy mode with Summon Ragin Spirits. Just overlevel areas a little and SRS will destroy everything comfortably with minimal skill / input required. Focus on getting the items/tree points in this guide first so you have enough attributes (STRENGTH, DEX, INT) to wear items and use skill gems, but otherwise prioritze resistances, move speed, life, then armor in that order. Level 34 - Herald of Agony Time Completing the act 3 quest called 'Fixture of Fate' in the Library unlocks a huge amount of gems. We take advantage of this by buying a bunch of gems to use Herald of Agony minion instead of SRS now. So don't spend your currency too early as you'll need 4 alteration orbs, 2 transmutation orbs, and 3 wisdom scrolls to buy required gems for switch. These gems will be level 1 so will feel weak until you get them to levels in Skills section. You can continue the campaign... just try and clear areas thoroughly to 'catch up' these underleveled gems experience. Level 62 - We HUGE Time This is a big power spike for our build. It's the level we can buy from trade / equip 2x Cold Iron Point Daggers. These should only cost about 3-4 chaos each. This and we buy a 5-link body armor which should only cost 5 chaos or so (dont spend too much looking for great stats... we'll buy 6-link later). Replacing 'Storm Brand gem' with 'Ball lightning of static Gem' is big damage boost for us and makes hitting and maintaining higher virulence stacks possible. With this boosted damage and capped resistances, 30k armor or so, 1000 life regen you'll be able to cruise through white and yellow maps with ease. BONUS - If you can fix your attributes (DEX/INT) you can swap out Astramentis for Replica Dragonfang's Flight for another +3 huge DPS boost. Level 94 - about to swap to Spooders OR continue as Herald of Agony T16 Map God (but low Pinnacle Boss damage output potential) You'll probably get the gear for this section at level 80-85. When you have this gear you'll be ready to farm red maps and other end game content and earn currency to start buying Arakali's Fang Build gear. If you don't wanna go Arakali's Fang for Bossing then keep reading. If you want to fit the auras on you'll need the 2 Circle of Nostalgia rings with Herald of Agony mana reservation reduction (preferably 39 or 40%). Try and get Agony damage as the 2nd stat but not as important as mana reservation roll for now. They weren't super expensive for me... maybe 40 chaos each. You'll also need the enlighten lvl 3 at least. This is expensive. Maybe 2-4 Divine is fair. You'll also need the cluster jewels with Determination/Grace/Mana reservation efficiency so pay attention to those on the lvl 94 tree. With flasks I tend to hit 1,2 and 3 myself then I craft flasks 4 and 5 with 'use when you use a Guard Skill' and because my Guard skill (Molten Shell) is on my left click they're basically automated and in sync with molten shell. Don't worry too much about the Glove implicit 20% chance to poison too early. This will be fairly expensive to roll as you need to buy a bunch of Exceptional Eldritch Ichor (4th tier of the Eldritch Ichor) to roll 20% value. Might end up costing 1 Divine or so. Buy Awakened Minion Damage and Awakened Vicious Projectiles as an upgrade from their normal counterparts in Herald of Agony 6-link. You can buy Catalysts for your belt, rings and amulet. This is a luxury sort of do it last thing though. I'd recommend Fertile Catalysts on the belt to get higher life + life regen values. And I'd recommend prismatic catalysts on the rings to get more Chaos resistance. Amulet is not really worth. BONUS- Icing on the cake. If you can buy 3x charms with 15% chance for cursed enemies to explode your mapping will feel fantastic (they'll cost you 2-4 Divine each though). If you do this then you'll use an Impressence amulet with vulnerability aura is free instead of Atramentis/Dragonfang's Flight. You also wouldn't be able to used Sniper's Mark as you'd used Vulnerability + Blasphemy instead. Good Luck -Ricksticks Gaming https://www.youtube.com/@ricksticksgaming