Description

Relies heavily on elemental damage for offence, via Lightning Arrow/Ice Shot or Split Arrow. Defence is via Iron Reflexes (which converts Evasion into Armour), Blood Magic/Life Leech and Unwavering Stance (cannot be stunned).

Suggested Leagues: Default, Hardcore, Solo Race, Party Race

Passive Skills

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• Level 80

Gems

Lightning Arrow (optionally swap out Lightning Arrow with Ice Shot, and LGoH with Life Leech)

Lightning Arrow
Weapon Elemental Damage
Faster Attacks
Lesser Multiple Projectiles
Life Gain on Hit

Split Arrow (optionally swap out LGoH with Life Leech)

Split Arrow
Faster Attacks
Weapon Elemental Damage
Chain
Life Gain on Hit

Elemental Hit (For Bosses)

Elemental Hit
Faster Attacks
Weapon Elemental Damage
Culling Strike

Auras

Grace
Wrath
Anger

Utility

Projectile Weakness
Bear Trap
Decoy Totem

Bandits

Help Oak in Normal Difficulty - Rewards +40 to Maximum Life
Help Kraityn in Cruel Difficulty - Rewards +6% to Attack Speed
Kill all the bandits in Merciless Difficulty - Rewards 1 Passive Skill Point

Gear

For gear, I suggest you focus on:
- Flat elemental damage modifiers
- + life modifiers
- elemental and chaos resistance modifiers
- attack speed modifiers

Guide

This guide, build, etc. were all written by MrPetrov from the official Path of Exile forums.

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I believe this build mixes offence and defence effectively and is a fundamentally an attacking build, but without being a glass cannon. This is not a quirky build. It's basically a cookie cutter build - albeit with a Blood Magic lemon twist. It is not geared around any single unique (I'm looking at you Moosi) but can survive on most semi-decent rare gear.

The basic premise is that it relies heavily on elemental damage for offence, via Lightning Arrow/Ice Shot or Split Arrow. Defence is via Iron Reflexes (which converts Evasion into Armour), Blood Magic/Life Leech and Unwavering Stance (cannot be stunned). I've shown a few different options below to allow people to suit a build to meet their own style. There is untold - major and minor - variation possible, so feel free to adapt as you see fit of course, there is no "one size fits all".

I believe Unwavering Stance is important for the new maps system, where you may have to be less choosy about which environments you want to farm. For example, with mazes and underground maps, it can be relatively easy to get swarmed. This build relies on dishing out damage to stay alive (life leech) when you get swarmed. You can't dish out damage/leech life if you're stun locked!

This is not really a kiting build - you can still kite if you want to...you just don't have to. You can get up close and personal with big groups without worrying too much about dying.

The monsters I get most concerned with are ranged chaos dealers (eg vipers) and sometimes skeleton archers, or suped-up shield charging mobs (eg rare rhoas).

In terms of where you go to first - make a beeline for Blood Magic while you grab any life nodes along the way. After that it's up to you depending on how much life you feel you need versus your dps. You will need to farm for gear or beg your mates for their hand-me-downs.

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