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This guide is for concoction lovers. Overall Performance (1 to 10): Spoiler Endurance: 9 (very high) Ascendancy: Trickster Spoiler 1. Polymath. Pantheon: Spoiler Major: Arakaali Minor: Ryslatha Both of them fully upgraded. Bandits: Spoiler Kill them all. Gear and Sockets: Spoiler Jewels: Spoiler Unique Jewels: Spoiler Watcher's Eye - Best ones would be Faster damage with ailments, Damage over time, additional Evade, etc.. Forbidden pair - Noxious Strike. The poison duration stacks perfectly with faster damaging ailments. Brutal Restraint - 4858 of any conqueror is the best choice. Cluster Jewels: Spoiler No cluster jewels required. Other Jewels: Spoiler There's only one Abyss jewel for the belt which has generic mods. Flasks: Spoiler Note that the skill will drain your Life flask charges and also benefits from the total flask recovery. Make sure you choose useful mods for anti- bleed/poison/ignite. Detailed build description: Spoiler We scale up poison damage and a variety of defenses to build up a pleasant playstyle. Damage scaling: Spoiler The damage is mostly built up by Frenzy charges, efficient poison stacking and number of masteries. Defenses: Spoiler There are numerous defense layers that will ensure a chill gameplay: 70%+ chance to block attacks; Uniques: Spoiler We're using 5 unique gear pieces: -Atziri's Reflection: Provides various bonuses which greatly add up to the total performance of the build; Rares: Spoiler As usual, rare pieces are only to add up generic mods. With the exclusion of the armour piece this time, which should be our Frenzy Charge generator. Best enchants for the helmet are: -Ancestral Protector grants additional attack speed; The Skill: Spoiler Poisonous concoction is an attack skill that requires the character to use no weapon in the main hand slot. It fires projectiles that hit the ground and can shotgun targets by hitting them with more than 1 projectile per attack. Increasing the AoE will ensure the projectile explosions overlap better. Get a Divergent quality for access to the Withered debuff. Links explanation: Spoiler Helmet, Boots and Gloves: We use one of them for the Despair curse and Precision + Arrogance. The second 4L is for the main auras. The third 4L is for Plaguebearer and Ancestral Protector. Body Armour: We 6L the Concoction here. Vicious Projectiles, Unbound Ailments, Void Manipulation, Greater Multiple Projectiles and Deadly ailments are the best supports we can get. Shield: The movement and guard skills go here. Ring: We put the Temporal Chains curse (Anomalous quality recommended) here. Your choice if you want to keep the Skitterbots' shocking aura or chilling aura. I prefer the shocking aura. Keystones: Spoiler We don't really use any. Masteries: Spoiler There are 13 masteries in total. 12 of which greatly contribute to the Polymath ascendancy: +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per 5% Chance to Block on Equipped Shield +50 to maximum Life 10% of Leech is Instant 15% increased Duration of Ailments on Enemies, 3% increased Damage per Endurance, Frenzy or Power Charge 50% increased Accuracy Rating at Close Range 8% increased Damage for each of your Aura or Herald Skills affecting you Deal 10% more Chaos Damage to enemies which have Energy Shield Enemies Poisoned by you cannot deal Critical Strikes Monsters cannot Block your Attacks 8% increased Evasion Rating per Frenzy Charge Poisons you inflict deal Damage 20% faster 20 Life gained when you block Tattoos: Spoiler There aren't any mandatory tattoos. I use Spell suppression, Freeze/Chill avoidance and All attributes. Spoiler I used 7 spell suppression tattoos for the sake of freeing one passive point from the evasion mastery. Gameplay: Leveling: Spoiler Leveling with the skill itself is very easy. Mapping: Spoiler The whole idea is to be a chill build. You can literally play it with the mouse-only. Just spam the concoction and run around. Budget: Spoiler Shield: Higher rolls go more expensive but it's usually around 3d; Body Armour: Around 5d. Belt: Higher life and resistances are expensive and can be around 10-15d but a 3~4d belt could be enough; Helmet: Around 4-5d; Boots: Around 1d for ones with a useful implicit; Gloves: Less than 1d for ones with +1 Frenzy charge corruption; Amulet: Around 6d + 2d for anointments; Rings: The Profane proxy is around 1d with decent rolls. The rare ring can be around 3~4d. Jewels: -The Brutal Restraint should be around 1d; -Forbidden Jewels: Very cheap. 150c for both; -Watcher's eye can be different based on your choice of mods. I got mine for 7d. Skill and Support Gems: By average all gems should be around 2~3d. Make sure you get Divergent Poisonous concoction because this is how we apply the Withered debuff. OVERALL BUDGET: between 40 and 60 divine orbs. Pros and Cons: Spoiler Good: Bad: Videos, Screenshots and Links: Spoiler Videos: Spoiler Mapping: Eater of Worlds: Screenshots: Links: Spoiler PoB: https://pobb.in/0aVFiXRlRpvP (full tree at lvl 100) Ideas and Alternative options: Spoiler -Most of the Spell suppression tattoos are not mandatory. I recommend finding 1 free passive point to add the Evasion mastery for +15% spell suppress since the requirements are met; -Versatile Combatant and Iron Reflexes Keystones are each literally 1 point away if you want to use either of them; -Trying to get Eldritch battery through a tattoo (and it's going to be very expensive) on one of the easily accessible keystones may help if the energy shield pool would be enough to sustain the cost of attacks since we currently leech mana but not energy shield; -The Devouring diadem is a perfect choice to have access to the Eldritch Battery keystone. It also provides enough energy shield in contribution with the Atziri's Reflection to sustain the skill cost. But we would lose some Life, Evasion and Suppress chance by taking this helmet; -Keep in mind that there's a game limit for Damage Over Time that a target can take which is approximately 36m DPS, and damage scaling above that number is redundant; -Note that Plaguebearer cannot be affected directly by any damage support gem but rather by gems like Empower, Enhance, Increased AoE. P.S. This post will be updated every now and then. Last edited by fostaa on Nov 6, 2023, 9:29:27 AM Last bumped on Nov 30, 2023, 8:27:27 PM |
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| cool, I don't think I've seen a pc trickster before. but honestly all concoction builds work better without their respective flasks after the 3.21 nerf. you lose some peak damage but not having to build around any flasks is a huge quality of life on top of being able to use other flasks |
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| Hello! Thanks for the build. It would be nice to have a step by step tree, like at different level for beginner to understand where to go 1st, with links by acts etc. You can manage this directly in PoB, by creating different trees/links/item by level. Hope you lot of luck with drops! |
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| Looks good I might have to try this out, thanks. |
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