A different take on splitting steel deadeye that I played to 40/40 challenges. Recorded some ubers which were my last challenge. No Maven cause I'm too lazy to learn the fight. Last clip is testing nimis returning projectiles overlap with self poison. 19 splitting projectiles and proper positioning = 19 poison stacks consistently.

Tanky (for a deadeye) due to mahuxotl's + tempered by war + 85% phys taken as fire. I recommend grabbing the crit dmg reduction mastery and chest corruption for this league especially due to blue whisped rares. Mark mastery for crit immunity for single target situations. Can be optimized even more with gear like a +4 chest, corrupted mahuxotl's, and better eldritch implicits. Biggest issue for the build is everlasting sacrifice/leech uptime during boss phases with nothing attackable (lose 5% all max res and overleech).

Clear speed was good (30% explode from 2x devastator clusters), but not bow build level. Gem swap for pierce and flask swap for oriath's end to boost clear speed more.

Do I recommend this setup? Not at current prices + it's a mageblood build. Splitting steel is too meta and also uses some popular uniques. If you want to play splitting steel on deadeye without a mageblood I'd recommend the tincture version which you can get started for much less. Check poe ninja for builds.

poeninja: https://poe.ninja/builds/affliction?name=%E8%A7%A6%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%82%89%E9%80%AE%E6%8D%95

pobbin: https://pobb.in/mXRyj5qBC6go