Level 91 Explosive Arrow Totem Elementalist^3.23

Notes

******** LEVEL 38 TRANSITION POINT **********

Buy a Storm Cloud and a Skirmish

Level 38
1) Explosive Arrow - library
   +Ballista Support - library
   +Faster Attacks - library
   +Ignite Proliferation  - act 4

2) Frenzy - library
   +Faster Attacks
   +Hextouch Support - act 4
   +Flammability

3) Lightning Spire Trap
   +Combustion

4) Purity of Elements, Precision

5) Lightning Golem + swap to Ice Golem later level in offhand
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Culling strike setup (throw on bosses to cull them):
Arcanist Brand act 4, Flame Surge, Lifetap, Culling Strike.

Later
Determination + Grace + Defiance Banner when you need it. 


******** OTHER **********

Ascendancy Order:

1) Shaper of Flames
2) Mastermind of Discord
3) Heart of Destruction
4) Bastion of Elements (can swap to Shaper of Storms in late game when Atlas is complete and you feel tanky enough)


Good Leveling Uniques (3.20 prices): 

- Storm Cloud - 3c
- Skirmish - 1c
- Ondar's Clasp - 1c
- Tabula Rasa - 10c
- Goldrim - 2c
- Quill Rain - 7c
- Carnage Heart - 2c
- Le Heup of All - 3c
atziri steps
devotos devotion

Explosive Arrow, Ballista Totem, Awakened Burning Damage, Awakened Elemental Damage With Attacks, Lifetap support, Ignite Proliferation. Swap in Awakened Deadly Ailments for Pinnacle Bosses.

Chest:
Determination, Grace, Purity of Elements, Defiance Banner, Precision, Enlighten (4)

Culling strike setup (throw on bosses to cull them):
Arcanist Brand, Flame Surge, Lifetap, Culling Strike.

Frenzy and Combustion setup (fire frenzy for charges, and throw trap on bosses for combustion):
Frenzy, Lifetap, Lightning Spire Trap, Combustion.

Other:
Molten Shell, Flame Dash, Ice Golem, Lifetap

charms :
-14-20% to accuracy rating if you have crit in the last 8sec
-8-12% increased Attack Speed for 20 seconds when you Kill a Rare or Unique Enemy


2) totems die too fast and your dps becomes trash - got the 2 nodes next to Ironwood for +30% totem life and +30% phys reduction

3) Projectile speed from Quill Rain and Quiver can be transformed to ignite dps by taking the 1 node that gives "increases and reduction to projectile speed also applies to damage with bows", this offsets the dps reduction of quill rain and is absolutely crazy

crafting bow https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3229979/page/290

Quiver : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MoV4v8y58

helm https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3229979/page/317

For a basic bow : make it rare, throw some shrieking essences of dread at it (guaranteeing +2 to level of socketed bow gems).
Modifiers you could be looking for :
- +1 to level of socketed gems
- increased attack speed
- damage over time multiplier
- increased elemental damage with attack speed

Modifiers you DONT want at all :
- adds fire damage
- bow attacks fire an additional arrow

And if you have an open prefix or suffix, something within this list :
- increased damage over time
- fire damage as extra chaos damage
- increased attack speed
- increased fire damage over time multiplier


use exarch currency on gloves to get ignite prolif

- Get ignite proliferation implicit on your gloves so you can swap your gem for elemental damage with attacks (requires red socket instead of blue though)
- Get awakened burning damage instead of regular one. Cost seems to be 80c for a level 5 gem. Same with Deadly Ailments ! (Awakened ele damage may cost too much for now, you'll get it later)
- Anoint watchtowers on your amulet, even if you keep herbalism for the moment, that's 5 points you can use to allocate more damage, maybe Dirty Techniques on the bottom side of the tree.
- Don't use rain of splinters for now, it reduces your damage and you already have ignite proliferation for clearing. Replace it with a more useful jewel but don't buy an expensive one.
- Keep levelling your bow gems ((ballista totem...) and add quality where needed
- Get a devoto's devotion helmet with +15% explosive arrow enchant (i still use mine for mapping even though i have an expensive double elevated blizzard crown, so I can promise it will be useful in the long run. Prices vary, sometimes 50c, sometimes 100c... Cheap investment, more dps, more speed, more chaos res.

Mid term :
- Buy unnatural instinct, you'll need it later anyway (2-2.5d) Will grant you all the small avatar of the hunt + gladiator's perseverance nodes AND points to reallocate somewhere else.*

Take a look at this build in PoB : https://pobb.in/XpeTFzzBkSvG it's a 3.22 league char, someone else on this thread. It should give you directions for tree (remove that right side of the tree, for starters), items, skills. It is dot capped against pinnacle bosses, and deals something like 10-12M on uber pinnacle.


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