POE SSF League starter Chaos BAMA Day 3-4 highlights white maps gearing

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=Leveling until Normal LAB=- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A1: - On the passive TREE section, make sure to select the 1-34 tree for leveling, same goes for Item set and Skill set. ITEMS: DAMAGE: use either daggers or claws for leveling, make sure to essence craft them or alch the items as you lvl, aim to replace the items as soon as you get better bases. BOOTS: look for MS boots (check vendors), don't shy away on using transmute & aug on white boots and also you can identify a couple of magic boots as well RINGS: you want to use 2 Iron Rings, use currency to craft these as you please (don't overinvest tho) AMULET: any amulet that fixes your attribute requirements, start with azure amulet for better mana sustain early BELT: Rustic belt for the %phys damage OTHERS: generally look for balanced gear pieces that have correct color for your gems and 2l and 3l as you need ; look to upgrade your flasks as you go, aim for 2 life flasks, 2 quicksilvers, 1 mana flask GEMS: Viper Strike + Void Manipulation & Efficacy for single target Cobra lash or Venom Gyre + Chance to Poison & lesser multiple proj for clear Whirling Blades + Faster Attacks for movement skill & slap in Flame Dash (feel free to use Frostblink until you get these two main movement skills Withering Step for some extra chaos damage Some people suggest using Poisonous Concoction as soon as you get it from end of A1 but I don't like that ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A2: - blast through this act with the same gem setup, minor changes needed on the way ITEMS: Look for upgrades at vendors or natural drops, especially for weapons NEW GEMS: Herald of Agony + Minion Damage after chamber of sins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A3: - go back and do all the trials of ascendancy in case you avoided them during a1 and a2, do all trials of ascendancy, get waypoints in The imperial garden and Library and head into the normal Lab to start the farm for BAMA While doing the LAB, make sure you pick and identify bows and quivers, especially GROVE BOW as you will need these items to switch to BAMA ITEMS: Look for upgrades at vendors or natural drops, especially for weapons and maybe boots use 4l if you find any NEW GEMS: Melee phys on Viper Strike and on Cobra Lash you can use Vicious Proj as 4l on top of the others Despair & Malevolence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=Getting the gem for SSF leagues=- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure you have a glance at poelab.com on the normal labyrinth layout and hope there are 3+ darkshrines on the main path, regardless, you want to go ahead and pickup all darkshrines in the hopes you'll get double fountain usage. For SSF getting the transifgured gem from the lab, you need to get either of the two gems as they can be turned into one another by vendoring the gem and an Alteration orb to flip the version Make sure you have some green skill gems in your stash tab or inventory so you can transfigure at the end of the lab (NOTE that you can use quality gems as the quality will get carried over to the transfigured version) You should keep the following transfigured gems but you only need to farm Normal LAB for the main skill (Mirror Arrow of Bombarding Clones) 1. Mirror Arrow of Bombarding Clones 2. Blink Arrow of Prismatic Clones 3. Toxic Rain of Withering -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=SWITCH TO BAMA end of A3=- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS PART IS WIP AND WILL BE UPDATED AS WE PLAY DURING THE EVENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=How to play the BAMA build=- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rain of arrows is the skill BAMA uses, you basically will use the same good ol inc aoe gem for clear and conc effect for bosses, you just walk around the map and summon the clones -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -= Cheap Animate Guardian Gear =- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will use this only when i get proper items and enough defences for our minions (basically when we can also implement the guardian blessing prismatic clones) Helm: Leer Cast Weapon: Dying Breath Chest piece: Belly of the beast Gloves: Southbound Boots: Any yellow boots with a lot of chaos res -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -= SPECTRES AND LOCATIONS =- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MIGHT NOT NEED SPECTRES UNTIL LATER INTO MAPS Some spectre examples and locations: Host chieftains - A6 Southern forest -these are good when we have Neurotoxin ascendancy points in to generate Power charges Perfect Serpent Warrior from Ritual reward - could help with Inflicts Withered for 2 seconds on Hit Wild Bristle Matron From Tier 3 Harvest. 40% reduced action speed slow. - good for certain bosses Spectral Leader can only be obtained from t17 maps OR if you allocate Invasive Adversaries on the atlas tree. He casts SRS and runs around but his buff is 20% increased action speed for allies inside the aura he provides. Arena Master from Drox maps the buff is 20% increased Damage, Attack, Cast and Movement Speed. BUT the uptime is only 4 seconds on a 8 second cd still worth running though for the damage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=DISCLAIMER =- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the notes were borrowed and slightly adapted from an elemental based BAMA POB build, I honestly don't remember who made it and cannot credit him :D