[PoE 3.27] SSF Molten Strike Ward Stack Pathfinder Bosser 75m DPS

ITEM ACQUISITION AND CRAFTING GUIDE RING 1 1. Kill Uber Eater to get Nimis. It's not recommended to play this build unless you have nimis, or some other way to get projectiles to return that is NOT returning projectiles support. 2. 20 Res catalyst BELT 1. Do shipment quotas to white ports until you get Ynda's Stand. Every time you complete all quotas of a white port, you will get a random unique. 2. 20 defence catalyst AMULET 1. Kill Black Star to get The Eternal Struggle (exarch dominant). - Ideally, you have two of these, one anointed with Infused Flesh (recoup) or Sione's Ambition (strike range) for mapping, and one with Whispers of Doom (+1 curse) for bossing. 2. Astramentis is also OK, and then you can drop Supreme Ostentiation 3. A well rolled rare with life, lots of str/int, and crit multi is also fine 4. 20 defence catalyst if eternal struggle, otherwise 20 attribute catalyst WEAPON The optimal weapon will have: Prefixes: flat chaos damage, hits cant be evaded, chaos pen, attack speed, crit chance, crit multi. Use Imperial Claw base for best attack speed, good crit, and life gain on hit implicit. 1. Finish suffixes by recombinating t1 crit chance, t1 crit multi, t1 attack speed - Deafening Zeal, Deafening Loathing, and harvest reforge crit are best ways to get recombination bases 2. Lock suffix reforge chaos to guarantee flat chaos damage - You must have one prefix open after this to continue. If you don't, then yolo annul. - It's better to have only chaos damage as prefix, than chaos damage + 1 unwanted prefix mod. The former will give your veiled exalted orb in next step a 1 in 2 chance of success, while the latter will be a 1 in 3 chance of success. 3. Lock suffix veiled exalted orb - You are hoping for veiled exalted orb to hit the other prefix mod that is not flat chaos damage. If there is no other prefix mod, you are hoping for veiled exalted orb to remove "lock suffix" mod. - Then, bench craft % physical damage to block, and unveil chaos pen. - Finally, bench craft hits cant be evaded. If you don't have a veiled exalted orb, you will have to either give up chaos pen or flat chaos damage. The more ward you have, the worse flat chaos damage will be, and the better chaos pen will be. If giving up flat chaos damage: 1. Finish suffixes as per step 1 above 2. Lock suffix veiled chaos orb, block % phys damage, unveil chaos pen, bench craft hits cant be evaded If giving up chaos pen: 1. Finish suffixes as per step 1 above 2. Lock suffix reforge chaos, annul till 1 open prefix, bench craft hits cant be evaded SHIELD Get highest armor/evasion shield (cardinal round shield), get high suppress, and high life. Attack speed, avoid elemental ailments, and block are nice to have as well. BODY 1. Get highest armor/evasion base (conquest lamellar), get triple def prefixes, aim for 3k+ armour/evasion. 2. After finishing prefixes, lock prefix reforge phys to get PDR. If you are very lucky, you also get high suppress here. Res is OK as well. 3. Bench craft suppress if not already have 4. Eldritch implicits: phys taken as ele, flasks gain 1 charge every 3s (flasks gain 2 charges every 3s is EXTREMELY good, but requires level 5 exarch influence, which is hard to get) HELMET Method 1: Offensive influenced helmet (requires awakeners orb) 1. Get Runic Crown base (easiest way is to ship bismuth to a white port.) Make sure it is ilvl85+, then give it hunter influence, and reforge chaos until "nearby enemies have -9 chaos res". maven orb optional for -12 2. Get ilvl 75+ warlord helmet, then harvest reforge crit until T1 crit multi 3. Awaken orb onto Runic Crown base 4. Ideally, you get open prefix, and/or resistance suffix. Then, lock suffix reforge life until high life, and pray that you get a lot of ward as well (you can also skip the awakeners orb and just go for the hunter helmet with -9; the crit multi is not that important) Method 2: Defensive rare helmet 1. Get Runic Crown base 2. Use any crafting method to get high life, two ward prefixes, and two/three resistance suffixes 3. Eldritch implicits: phys taken as ele, and despair curse effect or reduced mana cost of skills BOOTS 1. Get Runic Sabatons (easiest way is to ship bismuth to a white port.) 2. Spam Essence of Loathing until 23+% ailment avoid (you can try to get more if giga-optimizing, otherwise 23% is fine) 3. Lock suffix veiled orb and unveil onslaught/ms 4. Eldritch implicits: action speed, 17% ailment avoid (this is tier 1 so it is very easy to get) RING 2 - Use amethyst ring with high life, chaos res, resistance, etc. Can also use Essence of Envy and/or iolite ring if you dont need chaos res - 20 res catalyst if amethest ring, 20 chaos damage catalyst if iolite ring LARGE CLUSTERS 1. Obtain 8 passive ilvl75-83 claw large cluster 2. Harvest reforge attack (or chaos spam) until 3 notable jewel with Fan of Blades (this may take a long time and a lot of resources; Fan of Blades is rare) - Ideally, between the two clusters in this build, you also get 1x Feed the Fury (life leech) and 1x Fuel the Fight (mana leech) - 2 notable Fan of Blades jewel is also usable on a budget MEDIUM CLUSTERS 1. Obtain 4-5 passive ilvl 50+ projectile damage medium cluster (ilvl 84 is probably ideal to get better non-notable mods; this jewel is very easy to craft) 2. Harvest reforge attack/caster to guarantee Repeater, and then keep going until hit Eye to Eye FLASKS 1. Progenesis (can replace with granite flask on a budget) 2. Ruby 3. Sapphire 4. Topaz 5. Iron Flask - Optimally, you tattoo a lot of flask duration (green tattoo), so that you can get 100% uptime on triple ele flasks with "25% increased flask effect" prefixes on each one. That will give you +1 maxres and other bonuses too. - Without these tattoos, don't go for inc effect prefix. You should not need charge generation prefixes, because ideally you build around 100% uptime on progenesis, which will also result in 100% uptime on ele flasks. DON'T take flask charge on crit prefix on ele flasks; save that for iron flask - Good suffixes for ele flasks are: stun avoidance (mandatory), armour, crit chance, ele res, attack damage leeched as life (if didn't get on cluster), move speed - If you have 54-55 stun avoid (T1), then with 60% increased magic flask effect of this build, you have 85%. The other 15% can be obtained by taking 1 point in "perfectionist" wheel, or using 2x stun avoid tattoos (green tattoos). Note that stun avoid can be crafted on crafting bench. - Iron Flask should have flask charge on crit, and %inc ward. With high # of hits in this build, this flask is perma uptime when attacking. - Progenesis and Ele flasks should have enchant "use on full"; iron flask should have enchant "use when hit rare/unique enemy" - You can replace Iron Flask with some other flask for mapping, such as Quicksilver Flask or Granite Flask GRAFTS 1x Hardening Uulgraft (Tender Embrace; gives 3x endurance charges on low life) - p1: life - p2: graftblood gained - s1: cdr - s2: anything, but ideally not skill effect duration 1x Aegis Tulgraft (Preserving Stillness; gives you 2k shield against ele damage from hits, enabled with CWDT frost bomb) - p1: +1 strike or global crit chance (note that +1 strike is insanely rare) - p2: graftblood gained - s1: cdr - s2: +4 skill level (this gives the shield extra 500hp), or shield inc damage taken MAPPING VS BOSSING - This POB is the bossing setup with max single target DPS. - For mapping, you might swap conc effect for inc AOE, and change reduced proj speed nodes on tree for increased proj speed. - Some people in my chat also suggested swapping to lightning strike for mapping. ASPIRATIONAL UPGRADES/SIDEGRADES 1. Mageblood 2. Sublime Vision Purity of Fire + Tempered by War + Dawnbreaker, then drop cold/lightning flasks for other ones 3. Massive Thread of Hope @ shadow is insane if you have +1 strike somewhere, then you can take Multishot for +1proj, and other good stuff as well (including Timeless Jewel notables if they are good) 4. Faithguard helmet + Light of Meaning Energy Shield + Energy Shield tattoos (not sure if this is better than just using a rare helmet, though) 5. Suppress tattoos, Flask Duration tattoos 6. Corrupted uniques 7. Eyes of the Greatwolf with inc global defenses (not sure if significantly better than eternal struggle)