The Best Crafty Guides by Odealo
Estimated budget: low (5 Exalted Orbs)
Guide notes |
March 17, 2018 -Updated Skill Trees to Patch 3.2 -Adjusted Ascendancy passives to utilize the reworked Trickster's potential |
Elemental Hit is a very niche skill. The main reason for that is the fact that it does not scale with weapon damage, and is in general weaker than other attack skills. This clear disadvantage, however, allows alternative and, at the same time, powerful item choices. This build relies on high Energy Shield and its' insane regeneration through recharge passive nodes and Leeching. Also, it utilizes Doedre's unique armour and helmet, which allow you to use six curses at a time, and each of them will increase damage enemies take by additional 20%. It is also extremely budget-friendly, as it does not require more than 4 links, and the most expensive item (The Taming unique ring) is luxury and can be replaced with cheap alternatives.
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Elemental Hit Trickster is a melee build, which is based on very high attack speed, high elemental damage, which is further amplified by Doedre's unique items - Doedre's Scorn that increases damage enemies take per curse, and Doedre's Skin which allows 6 curses to be used at the same time. On top of that thanks to Trickster Ascendancy, this build has insane Energy Shield regeneration rate, which allows to facetank most of the mid/high tier content.
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Leveling with Elemental Hit is rather easy. You can use two cheap unique items early on, which will provide amazing damage, nearly all the way up to end-game when you replace your gear. Elemental Hit does not scale with weapon damage either, so you do not need to alter the gear much, except for the survivability part.
Suggested leveling Gem setups:
Elemental Hit setup | |
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Elemental Hit - your main DPS skill. It deals a fixed amount of Elemental Damage of a random element |
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Added Lightning Damage Support - adds flat Lightning Damage to your attacks. It's one of the first Support Gems available for this character class |
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Elemental Damage with Attack Skills Support - greatly boosts your Elemental Damage |
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Faster Attack Support - greatly increases your Attack Speed |
Blink Arrow setup | |
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Blink Arrow - your main mobility skill during the leveling phase |
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Faster Attack Support - increases your Attack Speed, which means faster mobility with BA skill |
Utility Gems | |
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Herald of Ice - adds flat cold damage to your attacks and a moderate area damage effect which increases your clear speed |
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Lightning Golem - this golem increases your Attack Speed |
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Elemental Weakness - recommended curse for the leveling phase |
Bandits:
We recommend killing all bandits for the additional 2 passive points
Leveling skill trees:
30 Points Skill Tree
Priorities: 1) Trickery 2) Coordination 3) Coldhearted Calculation 4) Heart and Soul
60 Points Skill Tree
Priorities: 1) Retribution 2) Discipline 3) Elementalist 4) Catalyse 5) Elemental Overload
Note: Taking this route will require about 15 points to be refunded when you switch to Energy Shield gear, but will make your leveling much smoother
Recommended leveling items:
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No Physical Damage Adds 1 to 85 Lightning Damage (36-50)% increased Attack Speed |
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No Physical Damage 100% increased Lightning Damage Adds 1 to 85 Lightning Damage (36-50)% increased Attack Speed |
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+(30-50) to Evasion Rating 10% increased Rarity of Items found +(30-40)% to all Elemental Resistances Reflects 4 Physical Damage to Melee Attackers Level Requirement reduced by 100 (Hidden) |
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+(20-30) to Dexterity +(20-30) to Strength +100 to Accuracy Rating 30% increased Projectile Speed 10% increased Movement Speed 30% increased Projectile Damage |
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+(3-4) Life gained for each Enemy hit by your Attacks +(15-25) to Strength +(35-45) to Dexterity +(15-25) to Intelligence Adds 10 to 20 Cold Damage to Attacks (7-10)% increased Attack Speed +(2-3) Life gained for each Enemy hit by your Attacks 10% increased Area of Effect |
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(12-24)% increased Physical Damage 10% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills Adds (7-8) to (15-16) Fire Damage to Attacks Adds (5-6) to (12-14) Cold Damage to Attacks Adds 1 to (30-34) Lightning Damage to Attacks +(6-8)% to all Elemental Resistances 30% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills during any Flask Effect |
Final Skill Tree:
117 Points Final Skill Tree
117 Points Path of Building link
Ascendancy points:
Preferably in that order:
Pantheon:
Major God: Soul of the Brine King - You cannot be Stunned if you've been Stunned or Blocked a Stunning Hit in the past 2 seconds
Minor God: Soul of Gruthkul - 1% additional Physical Damage Reduction for each Hit you've taken Recently up to a maximum of 5%
[DPS] Elemental Hit 4L setup (in Thunderfist) | |
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Elemental Hit - your main DPS skill. It deals a fixed amount of elemental damage of a random type |
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Added Lightning Damage Support - adds flat Lighting Damage to your attacks. This Support Gem is provided by the Thunderfist unique gloves - do not socket it on top of that |
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Elemental Damage with Attack Skills Support - increases all Elemental Damage dealt with supported skills |
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Damage on Full Life Support - greatly increases your damage while on full Life, which is always active in CI builds |
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Multistrike Support - makes your attack skills (Elemental Hit) repeat additional time with greatly increases speed. This is good for applying different status ailments since each hit grants a chance to do that |
[CURSE] Doedre's Effigy 6 socket setup | |
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Doedre's Effigy - unique skill provided by the Doedre's Skin body armour. It summons a stone (similar to Totem) that casts all socketed curses as auras around it. The curses cast this way ignore the curse limit and have reduced effectiveness |
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Elemental Weakness - will reduce cursed enemies' elemental resistances |
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Conductivity - reduces lightning resistance, which is your highest damage type |
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Enfeeble - the best defensive curse in Path of Exile. Reduces the chance of enemies hitting you |
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Warlord's Mark - this curse will grant Life and Mana leech |
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Frostbite - reduces enemy cold resistance, and grants a chance to freeze them. This procs the Frenzy Charge generation from Herald of Ice, as well as increases your damage if you are using The Taming Ring |
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Temporal Chains - slows movement and attack speed of cursed enemies |
[MOBILITY] Whirling Blades setup | |
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Whirling Blades - your main mobility skill |
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Faster Attacks Support - link it to your Leap Slam for faster movement |
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Fortify Support - grants damage reduction buff |
[AURAS] Discipline and Herald of Ice | |
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[1L]Discipline - will increase your maximum Energy Shield |
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[3L]Herald of Ice - grants moderate DPS buff, AoE explosions, and Frenzy Charge generation mechanics |
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[3L]Ice Bite Support - will allow Herald of Ice's explosions to generate Frenzy Charges |
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[3L]Culling Strike - this Gem will increase the effectiveness of this Frenzy Charge generation mechanics |
[UTILITY] Vaal Gems | |
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Vaal Haste - increases your movement and attack speed |
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Vaal Discipline - provides insane ES Regeneration rate, as it is not affected by damage taken |
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Increased Duration Support - will increase the duration of both supported buffs |
[OTHER] Golem and Immortal Call setup | |
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[1L]Stone Golem - Stone Golem will provide additional ES regen. through Zealot's Oath passive |
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[3L]Immortal Call - grants brief immortality. Match this Gem's level with CwDT Setup Gem |
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[3L]Cast when Damage Taken Support - this Gem will auto-cast your Immortal Call after a certain amount of damage is taken. Keep this Gem at level 1 |
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[3L]Increased Duration Support - will increase the duration of Immortal Call buff |
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Our Elemental Hit CI Trickster is a budget friendly build. It requires a number of specific uniques, however, they are all very inexpensive, and will not require anything above 4 links. The most expensive part of this gear is the Taming Ring, which is an optional luxury, and may as well be replaced with a rare ring alternative, while you build up your wealth.
If you would like to try out this build and skip the laborious currency farming process, you may as well visit our PoE Currency market. On Odealo you can buy Orbs and Unique items from regular players for real cash.
Our recommended items will:
Stat priorities on items:
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+2 to Level of Socketed Curse Gems +(20-30) to Intelligence +(100-120) to maximum Energy Shield (30-50)% increased Curse Duration 20% increased Elemental Damage (10-20)% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments per Curse on Enemy |
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2% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life 8% additional Block Chance while Dual Wielding Claws (140-180)% increased Physical Damage Adds 1 to 200 Lightning Damage (20-30)% increased Attack Speed +(30-40) to maximum Energy Shield Life Leech is applied to Energy Shield instead |
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+46 Life gained for each Enemy hit by Attacks (25-30)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills (8-12)% increased Dexterity (8-12)% increased Intelligence Adds 1 to 10 Lightning Damage to Attacks with this Weapon per 10 Intelligence 1% increased Attack Speed per 25 Dexterity |
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3% reduced Movement Speed (Hidden) Socketed Curse Gems are Supported by Level 20 Blasphemy Grants Level 20 Summon Doedre's Effigy Skill Socketed Curse Skills are Triggered by Doedre's Effigy when Summoned Socketed Curse Skills ignore Curse Limit +(30-40) to Intelligence (130-150)% increased Energy Shield (33-25)% reduced Effect of your Curses |
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(20-25)% of Block Chance applied to Spells +(40-60) to maximum Mana (140-180)% increased Energy Shield +20% to all Elemental Resistances 25% increased Movement Speed |
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Min. requirements: 100 maximum Energy Shield 28% Fire Resistance 28% Cold Resistance 28% Lightning Resistance Optional affixes: increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills |
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Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 18 Added Lightning Damage Adds 1 to 100 Lightning Damage to Attacks 10% increased Attack Speed +(25-30) to maximum Energy Shield 100% increased Shock Duration on Enemies 10% increased Stun Duration on Enemies |
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+(8-10)% to all Elemental Resistances 20% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments per Freeze, Shock and Ignite on Enemy 30% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills +(20-30)% to all Elemental Resistances 30% increased Elemental Damage 10% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite |
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Min. requirements: 60 maximum Energy Shield 26% Fire Resistance 26% Cold Resistance 26% Lightning Resistance Optional affixes: Mana Attack Speed added flat Elemental Damage to Attacks |
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+(10-16) to all Attributes +(80-100) to all Attributes -4 Physical Damage taken from Attacks |
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(3-6)% increased maximum Energy Shield Increases and Reductions to Life in Radius are Transformed to apply to Energy Shield |
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Recommended affixes: % increased maximum Energy Shield % increased Generic/Melee/Lightning damage Optional affixes: % increased Attack Speed % increased Attack Speed while dual wielding |
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+35% to Chaos Resistance 2% of Chaos Damage Leeched as Life during Flask effect Gain (15-20)% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage during effect Gain (10-15)% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage during effect |
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+50% to Lightning Resistance +6% to maximum Lightning Resistance (80-100)% increased Charges used Shocks nearby Enemies during Flask effect, causing 10% increased Damage taken You are Shocked during Flask effect, causing 50% increased Damage taken Adds (25-35) to (110-130) Lightning Damage to Attacks during Flask effect 20% of Lightning Damage Leeched as Life during Flask effect |
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Other suggested Flasks:
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