Best DUELIST LEVELLING & First Ascendancy | PoE 3.22

ACT 1 Twighlight Strand - Double Strike - Chance to Bleed After killing Hillock get Splitting steel as the quest reward Buy a 2-handed axe fromTarkleigh and look for runners boots. Get a 2-handed sword if no axe. Spitting Steel - Chance to Bleed (Bonus Skill from Splitting Steel is Call of Steel. Once you have some shards in enemies Call of Steel will make them explode. Run left to right through The Coast killing nothing and enter the Mud Flats. Loot the 3 Roah nests. Be careful Roahs are evil and will happily stun you to death. As you run through Act 1 pick up the magic and rare items and sell a mix of identified and un-identified items to the vendor to get currentcy shards that we are going to need as we level. Avoid using a Body Armour for now unless you get a R-G-G. Enter the Submerged Passage and take the waypoint back to The Coast. Enter the Tidal Islands and destroy Hailrake. He has some AI motion prediction so we need to move around erratically to avoid him killing us. Grab the Medicine Chest and the Portal Scroll. Logout back to town and get Ancestral Protector and Dash from Tarkleigh for the quest reward and buy any r-g-g items. Head over to Nessa and get the Quicksliver Flask and Volley. Buy SteelSkin and War Banner, put Steelskin on your left mouse button if on pc so it activates as we run. We can do this because the Guard Skills are all instant cast. First 3 Link Splitting Steel - Chance to Bleed - Volley Waypoint back to the Submerged Passage. Distract enemies with your totem as you use splitting and call of steel on them. Leave War Banner active on your back until you get to bosses and place it to get a big burst of power. Stay close to your totem to get the attack speed bonus. When you get to the bridge/stairs thing drop your portal and push onwards. Head out to the Ledge and pass through it to The Climb. Head right and grab the waypoint - if there is a big open space below the waypoint then go down, else up. Locate the the green Skeleton on a cliff and head past him up to the Lower Prison. Do not kill the boss that drops from the sky. Take the waypoint back to town, go through your portal into the Submerged Passage and head downwords to the Flooded Depths. In the unlikely event you don't find it down head up. Kill the Dweller of The Deep- once he's down log back to town. Get the skill point from Tarkleigh. Buy r-r-r or r-g-g items and head to Nessa to get Maim which we link to Ancestral Protector. Your totem will now maim enemies causing them to take more damage from your attacks. Now that we have Art of the Gladiator we no longer have a movement penalty from Body Armour and so feel free to buy a set. If you don't have at least a Large Mana Flask buy one from Nessa. Take the waypoint back to the Lower Prison and path to the Upper Prison and finally to the Warden's Chamber. Follow the blood trails on the floor until you come face to face with Brutus, use your totem to help distract him as you lay as much damage as possible, while avoiding his slams. Try and stand behind him throughout the fight if you can. Dash will help you do this. Once he's down, log. Buy Leap Slam from Tarkleigh and take Lifetap from Nessa. If you have the opportunity buy a Jade Chopper. Visit Nessa and buy Faster Attacks, Vitality and Precision. Movement Skill Links : Leap Slam - Lifetap - Faster Attacks Drop Dash Take the waypoint to Prisoner's Gate run down the side with the cliffs and take the offshoot. Find the next offshoot and head out to the Ship Graveyard, grab the waypoint (this is normally near the entrance) then find the overturned boat and enter the area benath it. Find the quest marker and touch it to release the All Flame. Head out of the exit at the back. Run away from the entrance towards the shore. Find and enter the Cavern of Wrath, grab the waypoint and take it back to the Ship Graveyard. Find and destroy Fairgraves. Log out Buy Spectral Helix, Chance to Poison and Enduring Cry from Nessa. Drop Splitting Steel and Volley. New 3 link, Spectral Helix - Chance to Poison - Chance to Bleed. Take the waypoint back to the Cavern of Wrath and work your way to Merveil. It is good to have some Cold Resistence here. You can craft cold rings using the Vendor Recipe. Kill both of her phases with the new skill and exit to the Southern Forest. Run up the wall on the right and exit to the Act 2 Town. ACT 2 Exit town to the right into the Old Fields, follow the road into The Crossroads then follow the path to the waypoint. Head upwards and enter the Chamber of Sin. Get to the centre and the waypoint will point the way to the stairs to Level 2. Once in Level 2 look for a thin corridor and follow it to Fidelitas. Dispatch him, get the Baleful Gem and log. Take Corrupting Fevour as the quest reward from Gruest. Then buy Blood Rage from Yeena. Exit town left to The Riverways, following the path and using Leap Slam to jump over the broken bridges. This area is dangerous because of the little tree monster things. For this reason I suggest not stopping to kill anything. Grab the waypoint as you pass it and eventually enter the Western Forest. Corrupting fevour takes a chunk of your life when you cast it to grant a buff that causes up to 10 Corrupting Blood stacks on enemies as you hit them, Blood Rage applies a Physical DOT on you in exchange for an attack speed and life leech boost, so be careful with these. Enter the Western Forest and follow the path downwards, grabbing the waypoint, and noting the side of the road it's on. Cut down Captain Arteri and pick up the emblem he drops. Place this in the Thaumetic Seal. Now head back up on the opposite side of the road to the waypoint until you find the Weaver's Chamber. Enter and search for her nest. Enter and phase her and kill the adds until she comes back. Note that this boss poisons enemies in front of her so try and avoid the fangs. Then continue the Spectal Helix onslaught utill she falls. Grab Maligaro's Spike then log back to town. Take the waypoint to The Crossroads and follow the path right to the Broken Bridge. At the end of the path you will find Kraityn, end him and take his amulet. Logout and when back in town take the waypoint to The Riverways. Follow the path at the break in the side of the waypoint to the exit to the Wetland. Find Oak's camp in the centre of the area and finish him! Take his amulet then run to the top left opf the arena and grab the waypoint and touch the door covered in vines to open it. Take the waypoint the the Western Forest and head to the wall on the side of the arena that the waypoint is on. When you find Alira help her for the all res, mana regen annd crit multi. Then log. Head back to Act 1 to grab the skill book from Bestel and then take the waypoint back to Act 2 and talk to Silk to get the Viscious Projectiles support gem. Replace Chance to Poison with this. Our new main 3 link is : Spectral Helix, Chance to Bleed and Viscious Projectiles. Take the waypoint back to the Vaal Ruins and run all the way to the boss at the end. He takes an age to come out of the ground but when he does: dodge his slams, lasers and falling rocks until your spinning axes terminate him. Log out and then take the waypoint to Act 3. Act 3 In Act 3 run left and kill the Guard Captain, wait for Clarissa to stand up and make sure you talk to her. Run down and left to the entrance to the Act 3 town. Once in town run up the stairs and exit to the right into The Slums. In here we are looking for The Crematorium. Once in The Crematorium find the quest marker, banish Piety and get Tolman's Bracelet. Logout. Talk to Maramoa and pick up a skill gem- it doesn't matter which as we won't be using any of them immediately. Over to Clarissa to buy Determnination and get the sewer key. Drop Vitality and equip Determination in its place. Go back to The Slums and use the sewer key to open the grate and down we go. In here get the first bust before the waypoint. As you run past the waypoint grab it as we do need to come back here later. In the room after the waypoint you should find the second bust. If this room is not huge search for the final bust then right else find it just beneath the exit to the left. Hand these busts to Hargen when you next go to town for a skill point. Into the Market Place now and run around the outskirts looking for an offshoot through some arches. Grab the waypoint. If you don't have the trial it is in The Catacombs. Run past The Catacombs to the far wall and walk around the outskirts until you find the door to The Battlefront. Run left and slightly down to find the waypoint. Below this open the chest with the quest marker and pick up the Ribbon Spool. If you are level 25 or above go left to The Docks otherwise go up to the Solaris Temple. You will run the other area straight after. In The Docks explore the area and kill as much as you like because this area is really good for xp. Once you find the quest marker and pick up the Thaumetic Sulphite you can log and take the waypoint back to The Battlefront. Now run the area you didn't run last time- for me this is the Solaris Temple. In here follow the carpet until you find the stairs down to the next level. In level 2 follow the carpet until you find a branch with lights down the edge of the carpet. Follow this branch, grab the waypoint and talk to Lady Dialla. Grab the intelligence amulet as this is likely the biggest hole in your attributes. After this get the Infernal Talc and take the wayoint back to The Sewers. Below the waypoint is a fatberg, use the Infernal Talc on it to open the area. Exit now into the Ebony Barracks. In here grab the waypoint and head in the direction of the waypoint until you find Gravicius. This is a really hard fight with a lot of incoming damage so you might have to kite him. Once he is down run past his tent up to the Lunaris Temple. Down the stairs and there will be a long path ending in a seating area. Whichever direction the carpet branches in go in that direction into another area. Run past the mini-boss with the chain pull and find the stairs. Down we go. In here find the upwards staircases and follow them untll you find an open platform with karts. Go in the direction with only one kart and find the big gates. Once through these, search for the second set. Through here and to the portal at the end of the room. Portal into the arena where we need to vanquish Piety, You may need to hide behind the obstacles in the room when she changes to her ice form if your resists are low. Logout and get the skill book from Grigor. Once you get Call to Arms on the skill tree move Enduring Cry to your left mouse button. You should now be Level 28 and can switch to your skill of choice. If your skill of choice isn't ready yet then you can continue to use this skill until it is. You will need to keep your weapon upgraded as you level to keep it strong. Our 4 link for this will be Spectral Helix, Chance to Bleed, Vicious Projectiles and one of the added elemental damage gems, such as Added Cold Dmage. My preference is cold for the chill and freeze chance against trash, but the decision may be dependant on the 4 link you drop. Now all that left is to kill Dominus (you can get to him by heading through the Imperial Gardens and then through the Sceptre of God to the roof.) ACT 4 Once in Act 4, run down The Aqueduct, ignoring the falling bird boss until you get to the town of Highgate. Then head into the Dried Lake and kill Voll so you can take Deshret's Banner to open The Mines level 1. Head through The Mines level 2 freeing Deshret as you go, get a skill book from Tasuni for doing this. Once you get to the Crystal Veins find the waypoint. Collect any Trials you may be missing and then we run the lab. Now for your first ascendancy. Check out the video for suggestions on what to go with first.