Level 68 Vortex Occultist^3.21

Notes

Act 1:

Goals for this act:
- Get Movement speed boots
- Get B-B link for Frost Bomb, B-B for Frost Blink, and B-G for Creeping Frost. Keep B-B-B and B-B-G linked items if you get any. 
- Do the lab trial and two passive quests: The Dweller of the Deep, The Marooned Mariner

Use this to highlight vendor items: nn|b-b|b-g

Gems:
- After Hillock go to town to pick up Freezing Pulse from quest, link to Arcane Surge(don't level up Arcane Surge) 
- Go to Mud Flats and tp to Tidal Island to do the quest
- After Hailrake go to town to pick up Elemental Proliferation Support, Frost Bomb and Frost Blink from quests.  Link Frost Blink to Arcane Surge. If you have extra blue links fit in Ele prolif with Freezing Pulse.
- Go to Prison, get waypoint and tp to town to pick up Added Lightning, link to Frost Bomb
- After Brutus pick up Clarity from quest
- After you pick up The Cavern of Wrath waypoint go to town and pick up Creeping Frost from quest. Link it to Volley Support and Efficacy (you buy these from Nessa)

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Act 2:

Goals for this act:
- Craft a Spellpower increase weapon. You can do this if you vendor a rare Chain belt, a Wand and a Blacksmith's Whetstone.
  If you don't have an Essence or Alchemy orb to craft this Chain Belt you can do The Den quest from The Old Fields. This quest can also award a Quick Silver flask if you consider you need one. 
- Kill all Bandits for the two passive points, also get the extra point from The way forward quest.
- Do the two lab trials, from The Chamber of Sins Level 2 and The Crypt
- Make sure you do the extra passive quest The way forward
- To prepare for your next gem link start looking for two B-B-B items or a B-B-B-B four-link.

Gems:
- After killing Fidelitas pick up Cold Snap, Add it to your gear to start leveling it. You can buy a Summon Skitterbots gem if you have gem slots in your gear. 
- After killing the Weaver pick up Controlled Destruction from quest reward. Also, buy a Elemental Focus Support from Yenna.
  Your new links will be: Cold Snap + Controlled Destruction + Efficacy 
									 Creeping Frost + Volley Support + Elemental Focus
									 You keep the Frost Bomb and Frost blink setups from Act 1 together with your Clarity and Summon Skitterbots auras.

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Act 3:

Goals for this act:
- Do the 2 lab trials, from The Crematorium and Imperial Gardens
- Make sure you do the extra passive quests: Vistario's Secrets, Piety's Pets
- Keep looking for 4 links B-B-B-B and B-B-B-G
- Try to get Vaal Cold Snap by vaaling Cold Snap gems, buying from trade or doing Vaal SIde Areas

Gems:
- After Crematorium pick up the Frostbite curse gem, Also buy Malevolence 
- After killing General Gravicius and turning in the quest(no usefull gem rewards) you can buy your Vortex gem from Clarissa
- At this point, or whenever you have the sockets for it your new links will be: 
									 Creeping Frost + Controlled Destruction + Elemental Focus + Volley Support 
									 Vaal Cold Snap + Vortex + Efficacy + Controlled Destruction
									 Frost Blink + Arcane Surge
									 Frost Bomb, Frostbite, Clarity and Malevolence. If you do Library you can pick up Determination and use it instead of Malevolence(you will be a bit tankier, we have plenty of Damage)

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Act 4:

Goals for this act:
- Do the first Labirint to pick up your first Ascendy points: Void Beacon
- Make sure you do the extra passive quest: An Indomitable Spirit
- Try to cap your elemental resistances on gear and get all the sockets and links you need(Don't forget you can craft resistances and life, if you have empty prefix or suffix, in your hideout)

Gems:
- After completing the Breaking the Seal quest pick up Summon Stone Golem gem
- After you killed Kaom and Daresso you can get Increase Area of Efffect support as a reward gem. You can start leveling this in your offhand.

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Act 5:

Goals for this act:
- Make sure you do the extra passive quests: In Service to Science, Kitava's Torments
- After finishing The Key to Freedom quest pick up the Granite Flask

Gems:
- No updates here just complete your link setups if you have not managed to do so yet. 

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Act 6:

Goals for this act:
- We need to start leveling up our gems for the Death Aura / Caustic Arrow swap. After clearing the Twilight Strand go to Lilly and buy the following gems:
								Caustic Arrow, Withering Step, Swift Afflictionx2, Void Manipulationx2 (buy daggers or swords from vendors to get these colours)
								If you have empty sockets in your gear you can buy to level Despair,  Increase Area of Effect Support

- Make sure you do the extra passive quests: Fallen from Garce, The Father of War and The Puppet Mistress
- Do the lab trial from the Lower Prison 

Gems:
- If you have not picked up Determination yet do it. Replace Malevolence. 

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Act 7:

Goals for this act:
- Do the lab trials from The Crypt, The Chamber of Sins Level 2
- Make sure you do the extra passive quests The Masterr of a Million Faces, Queen of Despair, Kishara's Star. At this point you should be able to do Cruel Lab and also have all the respec points(10) needed to respec to Poison Concusion. 
  Because you do Kishara's Star at the end of Act 7 I usually just finish the act and do Cruel lab and respec at the beginning of Act 8.  
- As the reward for The Silver Locket quest pick up Quartz Flask

The Pantheons after Act 7 are Soul of the Brine King and Soul of Ralakesh

After you add the Mana Mastery with 12% Mana reservation efficiency you can swap out Skitterbots for Malevolence. 

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Act 8:

Goals for this act: 
- Do Cruel lab and pick up Profane Bloom. Link Blasphemy to Frostbite to have infinite explosions. If you followed my suggested tree you should be able to run this together with Determination and Clarity.
- Do the lab trial from The Bath House
- Make sure you do the extra passive quests Love is Dead, Reflection of Terror, The Gemling Legion

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Act 9:

Goals for this act:
- Do the lab trial from The Tunnel
- Make sure you do the extra passive quests Queen of the Sands, The Ruler of Highgate
- Try to get gear with more Resistances and Life to be ready for the Act 10 Kitava resistance penalty and early maps. 

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Act 10:

Goals for this act:
- Do the lab trial from The Ossuary. We do Merc Lab just before going into The Canal to kill Kitava. We pick up Profane Bloom as the 3rd Ascendancy
- Make sure you do the extra passive quest Vilenta's Vengeance. Also after you kill Kitava talk to Lani to get the 2 passives for An End to Hunger. Write /passives in your chat and check if you have all 24 extra passive points. 
- Going into maps, gear wise, we just want to cap our Resistances, get more life on our gear, have 25-30 movement speed boots

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