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Vaal Lightning Strike Pathfinder Build Guide ~ Ultimatum PoE 3.14

5 years ago1.27K

by CaptainLance9Subscribe

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19.37K

DPS

5.26K

Life

152

Energy Shield

Overview

Vaal Lightning Strike Pathfinder Build Guide ~ Ultimatum PoE 3.14 is a Path of Exile Pathfinder build by CaptainLance9, made for the Ultimatum league (3.14). It is centered on Vaal Lightning Strike and plays as a dexterity, attack, projectile, melee archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 19.37K DPS with 5.26K life, 152 energy shield. Suited for: Mapping, Ultimatum. Key uniques include The Wise Oak, Hateforge, Chains of Emancipation, Cinderswallow Urn, Soul Catcher.

Build Video

CaptainLance9's Notes

This build has truly been a powerhouse and a joy to play. If you are okay with a lot of blue lightning covering your screen and some expensive gloves; then I would highly recommend this build as it had all the things people usually want in a build in tankiness, clear and singletarget. I will try my best to cover everything for the build in this video as well as description below.

MANDATORY for PoB: https://pathofbuilding.community/ PoB: https://pastebin.com/CeF4U8QQ

PoE Profile: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/CaptainLance9/characters

Video that Got me interested in VLS and Claws, check out Givmig Pokemon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQlA-fGPQg&ab_channel=GivmigPokemon

Bandits: Help Alira Pantheon: Solaris + Ralakesh /////// Yugul + Sibyls ring for running atziri/Ele Reflect maps

Flesh In Stone: Forgot to take this aura out of the build and replace it with damage aura like wrath/hatred/anger, it previously was necessary for blinding enemies but with claws we get blind from the passive tree but forgot to switch this out

Watchers Eye Mods: Highly Dependent on Damage aura you use *Flat Ele Damage Hatred *Flat Crit Chance Hatred *Crit multi Precision/Anger *Flask on Crit/attack speed/attack damage Precision *Crit Chance Wrath

Important Tips for Build: *Triple Balance Wise Oak means to get all elemental resistances to the same number *Only use vaal lightning strike if you have Soul Catcher up, otherwise you will get long delay in rage generation *Don't vaal your gloves, I know technically its like only a 25% chance they brick, but every time something could financially go wrong and break you, it will. Source: Experience

Leveling: *I recommend using hollow palm to level as the build requires hateforge a level 72 unique which means you can't really start playing the character till then so leveling as fast as possible is the way to go and hollow palm is a great way to do this just respeccing afterwords.

https://www.twitch.tv/captainlance9 Streaming Sometimes, good place to ask me questions about builds or PoE concepts or leave a comment and I'll try and respond.

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:23 How Ulimited Vaal Attacks Work 6:49 Thoughts on Zerphi's Heart in the Build 8:10 General Rare Item Recommendations 14:35 Flask Recommendations 17:32 Gem Link Setups 21:52 Ascendancy Node Choices 23:30 Passive Tree + Cluster Jewel 25:58 Jewel Recommendations 27:27 Alternative Options to build around with VLS 28:22 Shoutout to Givmig Pokemon 29:27 Alternative Chest options(forgot to cover earlier) 29:49 Conclusions, Thanks for Watching!

Gear

Gloom Slicer
Honour Mark
Brimstone Shelter
Mind Jack
Zerphi's Heart
Miracle Whorl
Rotblood Promise
Hateforge
Chains of Emancipation
Morbid Tread
Conqueror's Potency
Lethal Pride
Behemoth Splinter
Vaal Sentencing
Kraken Gutter
Glyph Shard

Skills

Body Armour

  • Vaal Lightning StrikeVaal Lightning Strike19/20WMain
  • Added Lightning DamageAdded Lightning Damage20W
  • Damage on Full LifeDamage on Full Life20W
  • NightbladeNightblade19/20W
  • TrinityTrinity19/20W
  • Elemental Damage with AttacksElemental Damage with Attacks21W

Weapon 2

  • Whirling BladesWhirling Blades20W
  • FortifyFortify20W

Boots

  • DashDash20W
  • Second WindSecond Wind20W

Gloves

  • Flesh and StoneFlesh and Stone20W

Gloves

  • PortalPortal1/20W

Gloves

  • Herald of IceHerald of Ice21W

Ring 2

  • Temporal ChainsTemporal Chains20W

Helmet

  • PrecisionPrecision1W

Passive Tree

Passive tree 3.18
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Pathfinder
Pathfinder

Character Stats

Defence

Life
5.26K
Energy Shield
152
Mana
253
Armour
622
Evasion
2.62K
Block | Spell Block
15% | 0%

Resistances

Fire Resistance
61%
Cold Resistance
61%
Lightning Resistance
61%
Chaos Resistance
-3%

Offence

Total DPS
19.37K
Crit Chance
35%
Crit Multiplier
305%

Attributes & Utility

Strength
175
Intelligence
179
Dexterity
380
Movement Speed
16%