Low Life Steel Champion - 3.17 League Start Abridged Guide | Path of Exile: Siege of the Atlas

---------- NOTES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - BANDITS: Kill All - PANTHEON: Brine King + Shakari - Rare Gear is a guideline, not a rule. It shows the minimum recommended affixes at average rolls but feel free to mix and match the resists - Getting Chaos Resistance is a good idea but can dramatically increase the cost of the item - Quality is only on gems that need it - Gem level is important; some gems do not require leveling - Try and replace any supports with Awakened variants when you can - While leveling, feel free to take points in Spirit Void for mana sustain until you can get the ring crafts. ---------- LOW LIFE NOTES --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reason this build goes low life at all is to fully capitalize on both the Adrenaline buff and the Bloodthirst support gem which gives a large chunk of Added Physical Damage while on lowlife. Together these make up roughly half of our overall DPS. The main downsides to this is your effective health WILL be lower when using Petrified Blood, especially against damage over time skills. The other downside is that the whole thing isn't particularly new player friendly and requires understanding how aura reservation works and the monitoring of your life values. The key takeaway for this build is that you MUST have at least 51% of your life UNRESERVED. This is to reliably keep the Adrenaline buff up all the time, which is a significant boost to our overall DPS. Even with Petrified Blood we can still heal above low life using a Life Flask. Meaning as long as we never reserve more than 49% of our life, we can heal with a flask, take a hit down to 50% life, which then procs Adrenaline and all our other low life damage boosts and such. So long as you're a few points of health above 50% you'll be fine - just keep an eye on your health levels whenever you level up Arrogance or any other aura gem. ---------- LEVELING NOTES --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Level up using Shattering Steel once you get it as it will feel much smoother until you get your second Ascendancy perk. Terminus Est is a good go-to weapon until you get Ichimonji and Dreadbeak. In general, just level as a generic 2H build until that point. Thief's Torment is an incredibly useful item while leveling until you get the leech nodes on the tree. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're stuck don't be afraid to pop into one of my streams; I'm always willing to lend a hand. Have fun! ~ Mr. Tastix https://twitch.tv/rtastix