Vaal Lightning Strike Pathfinder Build Guide ~ Ultimatum PoE 3.14
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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















Skills
Passive Tree


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%