Level 98 LL Crit Lightning Trap Trickster^3.22

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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.