CA TR Pathfinder^3.25

Notes

Crafting upgrades in order of importance:

Life + resists
 - Early on just get your resists capped and enough life to survive

+3 Bow (Before Empower)
 - "The Porcupine" is a divination card that grants a 6 link short bow which is perfect for our crafting purposes (it's also easier to off colour due to its low attribute requirements)
	- This card can be self farmed in Orchard and Terrace maps as of 3.25
 - Essence of Dread (Minumum tier of Shrieking to get +2) until you have an open prefix and open suffix then benchcraft "Cannot roll attack modifiers" and Exalted Orb slam for "+1 to level of socketed gems"
 - In trade leagues a Quill Rain is incredibly good for very cheap

Spell suppression
 - This build excels at expedition so Rog crafting is a fantastic way to get early suppression gear
 - Can take the "Chance to suppress spell damage is lucky" mastery until you are fully suppress capped

Physical mitigation
 - Due to our weak physical max hit early on getting physical damage taken as is huge for our defenses
 - Lightning coil is BiS chest for this and can be self farmed via "The Coming Storm" divination card (also a fantastic target for double corrupting)
	- This card can be found in Colonnade and Graveyard maps as of 3.25
 - The eldritch implicit on helmets grants "6% of physical damage taken as X" at its lowest tier and goes up to 8% at the higher tiers
 - The eldritch implicit on body armour grants "10% of physical damage taken as X" at its lowest tier and goes up to 12% at the higher tiers

+1 Amulet
 - Reforge chaos in harvest takes on average 1 in 9 tries to hit "+1 to level of all chaos skill gems"

Despair on hit
 - Reforge Caster on a Hunter influenced ring takes on average 1 in 14 tries to hit Despair on hit

Hunter quiver:
 - Start with an uninfluenced broadhead arrow quiver with atleast item level 86
 - Alteration Orb spam for "Damage over time multiplier with attack skills" (250 on average for T1)
 - Regal Orb
	- If you hit a suffix benchcraft "Cannot roll attack modifiers" to fill suffixes and double Exalted Orb for guaranteed "+ to maximum life" and "Increased damage with bow skills"
	- Hunter Exalted Orb for 66% chance of "Increased movement speed" 
	- (OPTIONAL) Benchcraft "Prefixes cannot be changed" for 33% chance veiled orb slam hoping to remove earlier regalled suffix (good suffix unveils are "+ to strength and intelligence" "+ to X and chaos resistances" and 
"Increased attack and cast speed" is acceptable but gives less than benchcrafted "Increased attack speed")
	- Finish with benchcrafted "Increased attack speed"

	- If you hit prefix you have 2 options
		- Yolo Veiled Exalted Orb slam for the 50/50 to remove the trash prefix (good prefix unveils are "+ to armour and evasion rating", "+ to maximum life and mana regen", "+ to evasion rating and maximum energy shield") for suffix unveils see above
		- Yolo Orb of Annulment and proceed as above (need an additional Exalted Orb to fill suffixes)

+2 Amulet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnC7JnGe898

+3 Empower bow
 - Start with a 6 link short bow with atleast item level 78 (thicket and grove bows are fine too but are harder to colour)
 - Alteration Orb spam for T1 attack speed
 - Regal a suffix (if missed, Orb of Annulment or go again)
 - Fill suffixes with "Cannot roll Attack modifiers" (and if needed "Can have up to 3 crafted modifiers")
 - Exalted Orb for guaranteed "+1 To Level of Socketed Gems"
 - Hunter Exalted Orb for "Increased Chaos Damage Over Time"
 - Bench Craft "+2 To Level of Socketed Support Gems"



FAQ:

Toxic Rain AoE sweetspot:
 - The best breakpoint for single-target damage is 37-43% increased AoE (ideally 39% exactly)
 - You can easily get this via the 20% bow mastery, the 12% passive node before Heavy Draw, and a betrayal benchcraft / eldritch implicit on helmet

What order for my ascendancy?
 - Rushing to Master Alchemist is the easiest way to deal with ailments and from there if you need more damage Nature's Reprisal is the easy choice

How can I get tankier?
 - Taking Master Surgeon instead of Nature's Reprisal, annointing Hardened Scars and using a big life flask is an option to get huge recovery at the cost of needing to press a life flask every few seconds and finding Wither elsewhere
 - With the large amount of physical damage taken as we get its worth considering getting maximum resists from eldritch implicits and the elemental flasks (Ruby, Sapphire, and Topaz)

How do I self farm Empower?
 - There is a lab enchant to create an exceptional gem
 - Divination cards can be a decent option ("The Dragon's Heart", "Gemcutter's Mercy", and "Home")
 - Tujen can occasionally offer Empower



Bases worth crafting on:

Helmet:
 - Haunted Bascinet
 - Conquest Helmet
 - Knight Helm

Body Armour:
 - Conqeust Lamellar
 - Marshall's Brigandine
 - Full Wyvernscale

Gloves:
 - Wyvernscale Gauntlets
 - Chimerascale Gauntlets
 - Dragonscale Gauntlets

Boots:
 - Wyvernscale Boots
 - Chimerascale Boots
 - Two-Toned Boots



Spell suppression item level breakpoints:

Helmets, Gloves, and Boots
 - 68 76 85

Body armours, and Shields
 - 67 77 86

Current league video guide: https://youtu.be/uxhACKKbWCM

You can @tfwStarving in-game for any questions or if im live twitch.tv/tfwStarving


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