ED Trickster Leveling Guide - Cold Snap Transition for a Quick League Start | Path of Exile

Act 1 goals: 1. Try to acquire following links and colors: B-B-B: [Arcane Surge + Orb Of Storms + Frostblink/Flame Dash] B-B-G: [Frost Bomb + Onslaught + Added Lightning] B-G-G: [Stormblast Mine + Lesser Poison + Swift Assembly] G: [Smoke Mine] 2. Try to craft a lvl 8 wand: Magic wand (look for the best base you can get, preferably with the colors/link you need. Ignore the implicit roll, it will get re-rolled) + Alteration Orb + Normal (White) Sapphire/Topaz Ring (if you don't have one, you can trade an Iron ring with a Blue or Green gem to a vendor to create a resistance ring) Sapphire ring is slightly better because we care mostly about our Frost Bomb and it applies cold exposure, but you potentially lose a valuable ring that would help you with Merveil, so it's your call which one you wanna make 3. Use spare blue gems and iron rings to get an extra sapphire ring before the Merveil fight (You can sell the Frostblink after getting Flame Dash) 4. Try to get movement speed boots. Regularly check the vendor for boots with the "runners" affix, identify all boots you encounter before identifying other items, use spare essences/alchs on boots with good links/colors 5. Put any spare wands with B-B-B and B-B-G into your off hand slots and level in them your chaos skills. [Essence Drain, Blight, Contagion, Void Manipulation, Controlled Destruction, Malevolence] Only buy them when you have extra currency. ------------------------------------------ Act 2 goals: 1. Make sure to have extra 1x blue 1x green sockets for Herald of Thunder and Herald of Ice 2. Swap Frost Bomb for Cold Snap 3. Craft at least 1 lvl 20 wand Magic wand + Alteration orb + Rare Topaz Ring (you should save your essences for this, so that you don't need to rely on finding alchs or rare Topaz Rings) First craft the wand which you didn't craft yet, or try to get a higher lvl base (Quartz Wand). You should craft at least one lvl 20 wand before Vaal. If you can't get a second one right away, do it in act 3 as soon as you can. 4. Kill all bandits. Resists are nice, but it takes less time to fix them with crafting bench than it takes to get 20 regrets for a respec, especially SSF. 5. If you didn't get MS boots yet, you can benchcraft them just before Vaal pyramid. It requires an open prefix and 3 augmentation orbs (always save your augments for this if you don't have ms boots) 6. If you already have MS boots or more than 3 augmentation orbs, you can augment an extra affix on your Quicksilver flask from The Den quest and pray for Adrenaline ;) ------------------------------------------ Act 3 goals: 1. Benchcraft resistances on your wands 2. Try to get well rolled [15-16] two stone rings and craft them to fix your resistances. Focus on Fire and Lightning first. 3. From lvl 24 check for 4 links at the vendor. You want B-B-B-G You have a couple of options for your damage now. Either add a Pyroclast mine at 28 [linked with Trap and Mine damage, Elemental Focus, Controlled Destruction/Added Lightning/Concentrated Effect], or 4-link your Orb of Storms with Controlled Destruction, Added lightning, Onslaught/Added Cold/Lesser Poison and add a Lightning Spire Trap which you can link to Ele Focus and Added Lightning/Controlled Destruction ------------------------------------------ Act 4 goals: 1. Try to cap your Fire res before the Kaom fight and Cold res before the Daresso fight 2. Get a Sanctified Flask of Staunching (bleed removal) before entering Belly of The Beast zone. You should be around lvl 36. If you get an open Suffix you can beast craft it in the menagerie. ------------------------------------------ Act 5 goals: Blast! ------------------------------------------ Act 6: Do the beach quest for the gem access and switch to your ED setup