Why I'm Playing Poison Concoction in Zizaran's Merciless Gauntlet (Build Guide)

For Quest Rewards not listed take the Evasion item or make your best Judgement call. If you would like a step by step checklist of how to go through the campaign while avoiding unnecessary quests, check here: https://heartofphos.github.io/exile-leveling/ We are going Servant of Arakaali for our Ascension. First Ascend take Malevolent Strands, Second take Threadspinner. Third is not needed to hit lvl 80 but if you want to take Silk Dancer. Pantheon Nodes: Soul of Arakaali & Soul of Ryslatha Life Flask = PConc Damage --- More Life on Flask = More Damage Dont forget to keep upgrading your Life Flasks as you find better ones! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links needed for build. Look for armour with these Links+Socket Colours. Can use Jeweller's Orbs, Orb of Fusings, or Chromatic Orbs to change Number of Sockets, Socket Links, and Socket Colours, respectively. G-G-G-B = PConc R-R-B = Wither G-G-R = Shield Charge G-G = Sniper's Mark The rest are individual and don't need to be linked. G, G, G, G, B Evasion Gear has high chance for Green Sockets Armour Gear has high chance for Red Sockets Energy Shield Gear has high chance for Blue Sockets Hybrid gear has higher chance for both e.g. Evasion/ES gear is a higher chance of Green and Blue sockets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have NO LIFE on your equipped body armour, you can take "15% Increased Life if Equipped Body Armour has no Life Modifiers" Life Mastery on the Herbalism Notable. This includes both Max Life and Life Regen. Take Beef or Wisdom of the Glade if you need Strength or Intelligence in later acts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Act 1----- - Don't miss the chest on the beach in starting Zone to get Chance to Poison Support - Check Tarkleigh the armour vendor periodically and keep an eye on ground loot for any Shield or Armour(not a dagger as you cannot use a weapon with PConc) that has three Green sockets all linked aka a "three link" G-G-G. - For "Enemy at the Gate" Quest Reward take Cobra Lash as Quest Reward from Tarkleigh. - For "Breaking Some Eggs" Quest Reward take anything for first reward as none of those four gems matter for our build and take Frostblink for second reward. You can now buy Sniper's Mark from Nessa. - For "Mercy Mission" Quest Rewards take Volley and a Quicksilver Flask. - Have two Mana Flasks before fighting Brutus or you could struggle with Mana. - For "Caged Brute" Quest Rewards take Faster Attacks Support from Nessa after Entering the Lower Prison. You can now buy Void Manipulation Support from Nessa. Do so when you can. - For "Sirens Cadence" Quest Reward take anything as we dont need any of these Skill Gems for our build. - You can now buy Poison Concoction from Nessa. Equip it at level 12. Use PConc + Volley Support + Chance to Poison Support until you get Void Manipulation Support. - If you only have a 2-link, use PConc + Volley Support. -----Act 2----- - Free Helena to earn your Hideout, very helpful during the campaign to use the crafting bench in hideout for resists and attributes to patch up your build. - After taking Clever Thief Notable on Passive Tree for Life/Mana Leech you can dropyour Mana Flask for another Life/Utility flask. - For "Great White Beast" Quest Reward take the Greater Life Flask, if you already have 3 of them take the Leather Belt with Life implicit. - For "Intruders in Black" Quest Reward take Herald of Agony. You can now buy Blood Rage from Yeena. - For "Deal with the Bandits" Quest, Help Alira for +15% to All Resistances. This means you must choose Kill option for the other two bandits and Help option when talking to Alira. Go to Alira last to save time. -----Act 3----- - For "Lost in Love" Quest Reward take Plague Bearer. You can now buy Grace from Clarissa. - Plague Bearer stacks charges when you deal poison damage, press active skill to deal AoE Dmg in an area around you until the stacks are depleted. - After "A Fixture of Fate" Quest you can buy Spell Totem Support from Siosa and Wither from Nessa in act 1. -----Act 4----- - Once you get a Four Link G-G-G-B, Add Unbound Ailments Support to Poison Concoction. - For "The Eternal Nightmare" Quest Reward take Greater Volley Support. You can now buy Multiple Totems Support from Petarus and Vanja and add it to Wither, as well as Mark on Hit Support and add it to Sniper's Mark. - The Ascent exit to Act 5 has enemies that shoot a lot of ice projectiles, make sure you have decent Cold Resist or you will get frozen and die lol. -----Act 5----- - For "A Key to Freedom" Quest Reward take the Jade Flask. -----Act 6----- - Talk to Sin to set Pantheon Abilities after Killing Abberath. - Check your resistances as when you finish Act 5 you get a -30% to all resistances penalty. -----Act 7----- - Take what you need for armour rewards. Evasion if possible. -----Act 8----- - Take what you need for armour rewards. Evasion if possible. -----Act 9----- - Can farm Blood Aqueducts if underleveled at this point or if you want to overlevel in an easier zone on way to lvl 80. Farm here until lvl 70. After lvl 70 the XP drops off -----Act 10----- - You made it! Go kill Kitava! - For "Safe Passage" Quest Reward take the Quartz Flask from Lani. - Use /passives in chat to see a list of all the quests that award Passive Tree Points to make sure you have them all. ----- Farming to lvl 80 ----- - Check your resistances again, when you finish the campaign you get another -30% to all resistances penalty. - Talk to Kirac in the area after finishing the campaign and he will give you a map. - Use Tier 1 maps to finish leveling to 80. You should already be around lvl 70-75 as a new player getting through the campaign so not far to go after that. - Congrats on your FREE MTX! Hope this helps! Thanks for watching and good luck in Phrecia exiles! <3