Lightning Strike Delve SpeedRun Edition 3.19 LoK Path of Exile

General Notes for Delve: You won't have access due to stuck in your personal mine to trade, if you are going to use starter unique items, you can create new characters grab what you want then delete them. Vaal orbs are well spent on the starter gear as you can get + block or Spell block to the shield making it one of the better shields in the game for little investement. I have a delve loot filter which removes tons of items as they aren't useful with the constraints of delve. The Filter can be found at: https://www.filterblade.xyz/?profile=Super_Secret&saveState=15V9NWAMV54Z8H&platform=pc or using the path of exile link to my public filters at : https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Super_Secret/item-filters. Note Filterblade is slightly better as you can download all versions of the filter into a zip file if you perfer or copy it and adjust the strictness. The default which should be fine for most players with so much filtered out is semi-strict. Note about gear from the Video: Everything aside from the claw which I did bench craft cold onto a claw that had lightning and crit. I crafted the chest, gloves, helmet with a 2 socket resonator with Pristine (x10 life) and Prismatic (x10 Elemental). This in turn blocks defenses, phys and chaos ailments. The Boots were made using a 2 socket resonator with Pristine (x10 Life) and Shuddering ( x10 Speed). This in turn blocks defenses and mana rolls. Mistwall is used as a bad replacement for the shield we start with, for these builds Remenant of the Empires is actually better! The belt and rings I kept from a previous character. Fragment of Eternity has decent attack speed, good baseline crit and adds powercharges. This should carry you until you A) drop something better or B) have enough fossils to craft something better. General Notes for SSF: Feel free to craft gear for stats or pick up 30 nodes if you need to, when they are fixed you can always spec out of it you should have plenty of Orbs of Regret. If you aren't familiar with Delve crafting test it out first on www.craftofexile.com. You can easily get delve mod gear, the mods go away if you craft on it unless fractured. Delve mods using my filter will be white border and text with a yellow background for easier sorting. Incursion Modes which can also appear will be Cyan text and Border with a grey background. Influenced Items are very rare, so even if not ideal it might be worth crafting on if you can use one of the stats. Note for Spectral Shield Throw: Emporor's Vigilance is League specific, making it highly unlikely to be found due to rarity, since delve doesn't have Atziri or Trade you will have to craft your own shield. You want High Armour/Evasion with High ES. I would recomend playing poisonious concoction (better Tree for swaping) or frost blades until you have a resonable shield 1500 ar or ev and 250 es. Once you have crafted a suitable shield you can swap over. Note for Poisonious Concoction: Make sure not to have a weapon equiped and have auto equip turned off once going to this skill. A weapon will render the skill useless so, it is a big no no. This can be a scary playstyle as you can dip low on life and some delve monsters are scary, in return it has very good clear speed so deaths won't detract too much, I would not recommend for Hardcore Players unless you are very experienced with Posionious Concoction and Delve together. Note for Frost Blades: This is going to be a mainly shatter skill with high clear speed and mobility, you are going to be limited to not having access to trade so some of the gear which makes this a fast league starter might not be obtainable. Everyone's milage will vary as this is essentially SSF. I will have links for unique items to look out for if you don't get them it's fine. Frost blades can struggle with tanky rares, very good for clear and zooming. Swap Ruthless for Ancestral Call when bossing or doing a tanky delve. Touch of Anguish are very good if you drop them, if not you can craft your own claw. Bloodseeker, The Scourge and The Wasp Nest will also work although not as good. If you craft a claw you want Crit> Crit Multi> Attack Speed> then either double phys (flat and %) or flat phys flat cold. Delve can block all elementals which makes crafting a phys claw easier. Precursor Ring's are Best in Slot, you can use basically any frenzy one however they are hard to obtain (Delve Bosses) and with SSF this is a long term farm. Precursor Rings have multiple reciepes: essentially different combos of Meadow, Mountain and Valley vendored will give you a precursor's Emblem with random stats for more details see under Acquisition 2f are the best for us: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Precursor%27s_Emblem Note for Spectral Helix: To utilize trinity you want to have a tri ele claw, if you don't have all three you don't want to run trinity, instead you can focus on a single element. Spectral Helix is essentially a pure damage scaler, while this is set for elemental you can also do pure phys, pure chaos, pure cold etc. It has an interesting playstyle, the weapon whirls around you in a spiral, you can do positive or negative cast speed to make them zoom or stand still. Note for Lightning Strike: This is going to be more boss damage while having resonable clear. This scales really well with better claws, like all the other "melee" builds. Survivability Cap Elemental Resistance > Life > Chaos Resistance > Defenses > Spell Supression for Armour. If you are struggling to stay alive, you can pick up Iron Reflexes, and run Determination and Grace (with the reduced mana Efficiency of Grace Evasion Mastery) as your only aura's. Damage Scaling SST: Defenses on shield armour/Evasion and Energy Shield are you biggest damage multipliers. Attack Speed, Crit mutli are also good rolls for weapons. you most likely won't have access to Seething Fury as it's a legion drop. If you get it, significant dps increase. PC: Getting a hunter chest and crafting crit with attacks is a significant DPS increase (Influence Nodes). FB/LS/SH: Increased Crit on claw or dagger is very important, so is crit multi. The more flat elemental damage you have the better. Attack speed will feel the best. So Crit>Ele>Attack> any other rolls. Delve Bosses: City Name Boss Earliest Depth Encountered Vaal The Grand Architect's Ahuatotli, the Blind 35 Abyssal The Lich's Tomb Kurgal, the Blackblooded 110 Primeval The Crystal King's Throne Aul, the Crystal King 145 Frequently Asked Questions: Q: Why is the damage low? A: Because of the variables in the build guide, configuration and calc's are impossible to set most creators give you a very specific set of gear and damage calculated for that specific gear set. As this has options you need to manually adjusted the Configuration and Calcs sections to what you are applying to get accurate dps numbers. This will be lower in PoB than what you are doing in game as both sections make a large difference. Q: I am struggling with Attributes? A: Feel free to take 30 nodes you can spec out once you have better gear or look for gear with the stat you are missing likely it will be INT Early/STR late. Q: I feel squishy what can I do? A: Make sure your Resistances are capped, you should have elemental immunities and corrupted blood immunity by level 56. Check you Armour if Iron Reflexes or Evasion values while leveling try to be over 50%, consider using a shield (less dps, more tank) and adding nodes for max block. You can also run grace (with Reservation reduction Evasion mastery) with Determination and get Iron Reflexes if you still feel squishy. Q: I am having a hard time killing bosses or clearing? A: Try getting appropriate gear for a different skill and try it. None of these will be great bossers however should work if geared appropriately for the content to get you to depth 83 and you can just go sideways to level if you aren't going for ladder. Q: When should I continue going to the same node if I die? A: If you get 1 shot on a node, it could be a mod or an exile that is hard for your build/gearing. Just path around it for the time being. Q: How can I fix my mana issues? A: you can use lifetap or take off an aura so you can easily cast. Clever Theif should really help, if struggling early you can get Essence Sap to get more mana recovery, or mana flasks, - mana cost rings.