Battle Trapper showcase vs U.Shaper and Mapping (POB with notes in comment)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ULTIMATE QUICKGUIDE IS NOW FOUND HERE: (coming soon) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thatdanishfellow My Youtube: www.youtube.com/@ThatDanishFellow My POE Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPWYjla6VXE&list=PLzMJjal-eB0xJKH-l1tjfInqt1FGiFoB8 3.22 SKILL-TREE: CI is your goto choice if you league start the build, while you save up chaos to get a shavs body armor. MANA: While leveling and early mapping, you will need to use a mana flask. Preferably one with the enduring prefix. Later on as you see on my character, we fix it by having -mana cost on our rings (bench craft, unlocked by unveiling Gravicius rings or amulet) Two big QOL additions to our mana sustain is to use Inspiration Support and Anomalous Trap&Mine Dmg Support. (They are usually cheap) We also have access to some mana sustain nodes to make life easier; (Arcane will is reachable with the thread) Also coldhearted calculation and deep thoughts are mana related nodes. ATTRIBUTES: There are a multitude of ways to fix any attribute requirements, it totally depends on the gear that each individual player ends up with. Usually the easiest place for STR/DEX are belts, boots and rings. Cluster Jewels are also a great place to gain some added stats. Aisling is also good, she can deliver 70 stats in ONE mod. (35/35 str/dex) Temporary sources for stats are the skill-tree +30 nodes and/or bench crafting any open suffixes you have. ES-REGEN: If you want more passive ES regen, e.g. vs bosses where blocking is not always "healthy", there are a few ways: 1) Enchant your belt with +150(180) es regen. 2) Use Rot-Resistant in your megalomaniac. 3) Forbidden jewels, stealing pyromiac from the sabo tree, we have the space for them. 4) Adding a stone golem instead of wave of conviction, since you get exposure from lvl 5 pen (or from glove eldritch implicit) GEMS: In the order you should add them: Lightning Trap, Swift Assembly, Trap & Mine Dmg, Lightning Penetration/Charged Traps/Inspiration Support (these 3, add them as you can/please, if you need more mana free'd up, inspiration, if you want more throw speed charged traps etc) Anomalous Trap & Mine Dmg is cheap and helps with mana costs of traps. I have divergent riposte in my build for onslaught% on block, but it doesn't work unless your main hand is a weapon that can proc riposte, such as a sceptre. However I left it on so you know it's an option when crafting/buying weapons. (onslaught is not enabled in the pob) GEARING: I have tons of videos on my youtube about crafting and gearing and even if they are from previous leagues, 99% of the information remains valid. Self-crafting our gear is EXTREMELY easy because we can use dense fossils for a majority of it and they are cheap (check my craft videos on my YT). (For resonators I suggest delving and using all azurite to buy 1 slot resos from niko) BODY-ARMOR: You do not need a +4 body armor! I'm wearing it because I'm min/max'ing. This build performs great on a regular 6L shavs. Alternatively, you can buy a very cheap +2 traps corrupted shavs and link it with tainted fusings, I would recommend this for a cheap DPS gain. You could also go for a +2 with 50% damage increase, or a +3 (+2 traps +1 all gems), this ALL depends on your budget. (Remember to always bench craft 4link before you try tainted fusing and keep re-4-linking it, until your tainted fuses hits 2 in a row, i.e. to go from 4link to 6link) For coloring, we have 3 green, 1 red, which means 4-off colors so by far the easiest way to color our shavs is with tainted cromatics. If you don't have any or can't buy them, I suggest spamming "at least 1 green socket" via crafting bench. JEWELS: Double multiplier jewels cost typically 1-5c and provide a ton of damage once you start picking up jewel sockets. Remember we can use a ton of different multiplier stats: i.e. spell multiplier, lightning multiplier, elemental multiplier, global multiplier etc. MEGALOMANIAC JEWEL: This is a very cuztomiseable slot. Normally I just use a rare jewel with enduring composure (it's a small +30% armor cluster jewel that can roll enduring compoure) Later on when theres a market for it, I replace it with a megalomaniac that has useful stats. Some of the really good ones are ES regen (Rot-Resistant) and (Enduring Composure) as well as (Storm Drinker) and (Eye for an Eye). MASTERIES: REMEMBER to change masteries later on when you go from life build to full es! e.g. 30 life per trap trigger is useless once you've gone CI or LowLife. ASCENDANCIES: Pick whichever you prefer first. My own favorite first pick is "One Step Ahead" as it provides throw speed, movement speed and makes you freeze/chill immune. My most recent character if you want to look at my setup/links, is found here: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/oestergreen/characters Name of the character is LightningTrapForever Remember!: Cluster setup is your LAST points towards lvl 100 and Jewel sockets are your 2nd to last points, so around lvl 86+. Note: Note: If you lack trap throw-speed, remember it's craftable on multiple different items. (Throw speed exist on jewels, shaper gloves, eldritch gloves, essence of zeal crafted belts and bench craft belts) Note: Many skillpoints are adjustable based on your own currency/budget and what items you happen to drop/obtain. Note: I league-start my build always and I only go for jewel sockets when im in the 86+ and can afford decent jewels. Before that, you're better off investing those points into early trap damage nodes and/or survival. Around lvl 65-68 is usually a good spot for switching to full ES with CI (or low life if you can afford a shavs). Getting CHEAP 1alch/1chaos energy shield pieces is easy as they often are far far cheaper than equivalent life gear.