How is it going Excel? So today I'm

showing you my new cast on crit combat

build on a Pathfinder. But before we go

into the build, let's look at the

showcase here. So first of all, right

now we're looking at Uber Arbiter. So as

you can see, that guy absolutely melts

even with me not using Rakiata's flow

because I feel like it's way too

expensive right now. Next thing here,

we're looking at max difficulty zest. So

that guy also doesn't live for more than

a couple of seconds. And here's one of

your casual citadel boss. The other

citadel bosses also work just fine. And

some of this footage even was recorded a

few days ago where I didn't even fully

optimize the build yet. So by now I

almost got double the damage on the

bosses. And here's just some random map

bosses. Some are with digital of power,

some are without. This is also not at

the perfectly optimized state. So by now

they would also go down much quicker.

And now, last but not least, while we

look why we're looking at the last wave

of max difficulty similacrim, I just

want to talk a little bit about the

build, about the budget you need, what

the challenges are with this build, why

it's so relatively simple to set up, and

why it's so satisfying to play. So,

first of all, the problem you have with

all cast on critical builds, which are

not blood mage builds, is that the cast

on critical, as soon as you reach like

towards 100% crit chance, it just drains

all of your mana on bosses pretty much

instantly because you're just going to

trigger so many cast on crits that you

just cannot pay for it. Well, with the

new Pathfinder ascendancy, now we have a

way of actually changing our in nodes to

something which is called cost

efficiency. So cost efficiency stat is

very difficult to pick up actually just

in very few positions on the tree and

usually very expensive to get. But now

we can get 5% cost efficiency for

basically every passing node which

allows her to get like 200 to 300% cost

efficiency which brings our combat cost

down to roughly 100 mana which feels

really really awesome. And also with the

current patch they pretty much remove

the movement speed penalty reduction.

Well, great thing that the Pathfinder

comes with an inherent 50% movement

speed penalty reduction, which just

feels so great when zooming through

maps. And on top of that, the build is

very versatile because the Pathfinder

Ascendency just allows you to put

damage, defenses, or cost efficiency

whenever you want. And the build also

being relatively budget friendly, you

don't need any crazy stuff like

temporales, vertex helmets, or whatever.

You can pretty much just go with rare

items as you go and keep advancing the

build from there. In this build guide,

we talk about the skill gems, the items,

the passive tree, and the jewel choices.

And also, I have footage for the full

arbiter fight, the full max difficulty,

the zash, the last two waves of similar,

and an overrun abyss map for you. So,

make sure to check the description down

below. You find the link with the

planner and the pass off building. You

will also find the link to all the

sections of this guide. And as always,

also the list with all the trade links

you need. And this guide also has a

section where I explain how to use the

weighted sums for trading so you don't

have to overpay for the gear. And I

would also highly encourage you to leave

a comment if you have questions. I

usually answer all the comments. Also,

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really helps me bringing you more

content. But now without further ado,

let's go into the actual guide and start

with the skill gems.

All right, let's take a look at the

skill gems. So, first of all, we run

sigil of power on our weapon swap with

prolonged duration 2 and magnified area

2. We're going to talk a little bit

later about this because this has some

conditional usage, especially on very

rough maps. You might want to switch

this for something else, but we're going

to talk about this a little bit later.

Then we have spark, which is our main

enabling skill here. So, we are playing

a cast on crit setup with combat on cast

on crit. So, our main damage comes from

combat. That's why you don't see very

high DPS on the spark tool tip here. So,

we're running it with pinpoint critical.

This just really gives you like a huge

amount of crit chance and, you know, we

lose a little bit of damage, which is

not a big deal because we don't really

need the spark damage anyway. So, my

spark is at 82%. Um, there's some more

conditional crit coming um on the map.

So, you will be probably roughly at 90%,

you know, if you aim for like something

like 60 to 70%, you will be completely

fine. You don't need every spark to

crit. There's way more than enough

sparks and we have a high attack speed,

high cast speed. So everything above 60%

will be completely fine for your build.

Then we have projectile acceleration

three here. So mainly the projectiles

just travel faster and do a little bit

more damage. We have blind two which

basically blinds enemies and we're going

to use this with the blind side support

on our cast on critical. So this is

again we're not focusing on the damage

on spark. We're really just using it to

enable our comet to do more damage. And

on a regular map we'll have way more

than enough damage uh anyway. So we

don't really need very high DPS on

spark. Then we have mobility here. um is

really just the best thing you can do on

maps. Um in a boss fight, you can swap

this out for efficiency. Um it really

helps in the mana sustain with the boss

fight to just have the spark cost a

little bit more mana. But on a regular

map, I would just run mobility. And then

last but not least, we have rapid

casting. So I'm not running like any

considered casting or whatever because

again, I don't care so much about the

spark damage. I more care about casting

as many sparks as possible. And rapid

casting too with mobility um really just

gives you a very smooth gameplay on the

map.

Let's go on with our cast on critical.

So this is the bread and butter of this

build. So we run cast on critical with

comet here. And um so couple of

important things to note here. First of

all, as you can see, we don't run like

the boundless energy because yes, you

can make it gain 45% more energy, which

will technically give you more DPS. The

problem is though, in boss fights,

you're not going to sustain the mana

anyway. So you kind of have to find a

little bit of a balance how many comets

you want to cast and how much damage

they do. because if you technically try

to get as many comets as possible out,

you're just going to run out of mana.

It's not going to work. So, if you look

at our comet tool tip a little bit, we

have like roughly, you know, 200k hit

damage on a regular comet. We have um

you know uh 74% crit chance and 4 480%

crit damage. This again on the map goes

up. So, it goes up to like roughly 80%

with the conditional modifiers we have

on the tree. And then we have the blind

side which gives another 15% more. So,

we're going to end up somewhere between

like 90 and 100% crit depending on the

current setup. So, this is not

calculated in the DPS. So, the real DPS

would be much higher. But, this comet

really hits very very hard. And I

recommend to get like a level 21 comet.

They are not very expensive because they

don't need to be five linked. You just

need like two sockets or whatever

because it's just in the cast on crit

setup anyway. Um, then we use the blind

side and as we talked about it, the

spark is going to blind everything. So

we can use blind side which gives 15%

more crit bonus and crit chance. So this

is a very very strong multiplier here.

Then we use concentrated area. This is

the strongest damage multiplier you can

pretty much get on the comet and it also

doesn't increase the cost which is

actually pretty expensive. Um our main

enemy in this build is mana sustain. So

the more support gems we can use to

reduce the cost the better. Then that

being said we run efficiency 2 also on

the comet. Again, if you can work this

without can make this work without, you

know, be my guest. But I can't get it to

work at all. I need to reduce the mana

cost on this comet as much as possible.

And that's why we're running our only

lineage gem here, which is, you know,

has a little bit of a cost. I think

they're like 25 divines right now. Um,

it gives plus one level, which is

basically just raw damage. It gives plus

10 quality, which basically makes the

caston crit cheaper on the spirit end,

and it gives a cost multiplier of 90%,

which is very, very important. So

basically what it does is the caston

critical gets relatively cheap. As you

can see I have 149 spirit. If you put it

off I still have like 79. So this costs

like whatever like you know 60 70 spirit

because this really has a cost and

reservation multiplier. So the

reservation gets decreased by 10% here.

And then we also have plus 10 quality of

supported skills which on cast on

critical again gives reservation

efficiency. So, we can run this cast on

critically here for relatively cheap.

All right, with that out of the way,

let's talk about the um supplementing

skills here. So, I have mana remnants

and siphon elements here. This is an

additional setup. You don't need to run

any of these. These are just going to

give you a little bit of quality of

life, but if you don't have the spirit,

it's totally fine to not run them. Also,

if you don't like to run convolescence,

you can obviously also not run

convolescence if you don't want to. But

I'm like running either mana remnants or

siphon elements. And mana remnants are

really just run for bosses because this

build is crazy mana hungry and this at

least generates one remnant every 2

seconds on a boss. So it, you know,

quite of helps a little bit with mana

sustain here. Um, siphon elements is

basically just on your map setup. It

really helps you to, you know, get your

um, frozen sparks out and it also gives

you like the the comets which are fire

infused because fire infused comets

actually do like three times the damage

than a regular one. So if we look at the

comet here, the regular one does 200k,

right? And the fire infused does like

almost 500k. So the fire infused comets

do significantly more damage. Also have

more AoE and stuff like that. So siphon

elements really help if you have the

spirit. If you don't have the spirit,

you know, if you really don't have the

budget to pick like up some extra spirit

on your gear, don't sweat it. You don't

need manor remnants. You don't need

siphon elements. Um I would recommend to

run convolescence. If you don't even

want convolescence, you could also run

like one of these. So you kind of have

to try it out. The best is if you can

actually have two of these, but if you

only have one, it's not such a huge

deal. As for mana remnants, we run

harmonic remnants and remnant potency

here because we're solely doing this for

regenerating mana. For siphon elements,

we run harmonic remnants and fire

mastery here. So, it just gets one extra

level. Then again, as speaking of

conallescence, it's just really really

strong defensively. We have like 10.6k

energy shield and it really really helps

me. I know a lot of people don't run it

anymore. Um for me it really really

helps me um with survivability. If I

again get into dicey situations I just

run comlescence and I really really like

to play it. Um we play it with prolonged

duration too cooldown recovery too rapid

casting two and I have my clarity one in

here because I still have enough spirit

to run this. This is obviously

completely optional. If you don't have

the spirit to run the clarity just skip

it. The next thing very important in

this build is mana tempest. So mana

tempest is actually crazy strong. So, it

gives you like 100% extra damage as

lightning. And it also makes your spell

split. So, split is basically something

like fork. I don't even know what it

does, but it's basically fork. And um so

in this build, we're not running any

chain or any fork or any pier. So, if

you don't run anything like that, your

sparks are going to be pretty weak if

you are, you know, um fighting larger

groups of mobs. So, you always want to

make sure to have mana tempest echo. Um

the mana cost of this is actually not

dramatic. It doesn't really add so much

mana cost that you can run it. Um, it is

really convenient and it gives you a

huge damage buff for like a very little

investment. We run it with efficiency

too. We run it with cooldown recovery

too. We run it with lightning mastery

here. And we run it with rapid casting

too. So the way that it works basically

you always want to have a mana tempest

active. But you don't want to stand in

it for too long. So if you drop it on

the ground, right, and you stay in the

mana tempest and you just keep casting,

as you can see, it it slowly drains you.

It's not a huge deal, but now it starts

like kind of draining you. And the

problem is now if you leave the mana

tempest, the effect doesn't end for like

another 4 seconds. So, you kind of want

to um you know, not overstay in a mana

tempest. You want to leave your mana

tempest, then cast, and then wait until

it's over and then you want to basically

cast your next mana tempest, right? And

then you're going to go on. Uh and if

you're running in a map, it's basically

the same thing. You're just basically

running and you know while you're

running you just drop your mana tempest

and you just keep running, right? And

now you can see the buff lasts for

another 4 seconds and as soon as it's

over, you're just going to drop the next

mana tempest and just keep casting. So

this way you're just going to do like an

absurd amount of extra damage for like

basically no investment whatsoever. So I

really really like mana tempest. Um it's

it's a great ability here for almost no

cost. You get like such a huge damage

boost. So the next stuff is also like

damage supplemention really. Um, frost

bomb we use here. We use this rapid

casting, magnified area, potent

exposure, spell echo, and overabundance.

Um, I know like people are running um

the shorter duration, like reduce

duration, whatever it's called,

compressed duration. I think uh it

doesn't really do anything. I know

there's like a video from [ __ ] I mean,

maybe I'm wrong there, but I tried it.

So, either if I do compressed duration

or not, the only thing it does, it

changes the duration of the exposure,

but it doesn't change the detonation

time or anything. So, I I don't see it.

Maybe like I'm confused there. Maybe

somebody let me know in the comment down

below if I'm correct or you can test it

yourself. But I was like testing this on

compressed duration. Literally just

change the exposure duration and nothing

else. Um but yeah, this is really just

for boss fights, but it also generates

um fire infusions. So you can use this

to pre-buff for a boss fight or pre-buff

like for a big ebis pit. Um because

together with our um whatever this thing

is called here, the um elemental

equilibrium we are picking up. Um, it's

basically going to create fire remnants

and the fire remnants give you like like

those juicy uh fire meteors. Um, so

that's basically why you can use it to

buff yourself, but I usually don't do

it. And then we are running elemental

weakness. You can run rakiata's flow,

but it's crazy expensive. And I feel

like elemental weakness in most cases is

just far superior above um Rakiata's

flow. We run it with heightened curse.

We run it with curse ground. We run it

with expand. I like this more than um

the magnified area because it makes it a

little larger and you're just going to

have those seals anyway. We run it with

prolonged duration and fire mastery. So

if you look at the size of these like

this is this is actually huge and then

you can just you know drop a second one

and this will pretty much cover the

entire boss area anyway. So I feel like

this is maybe it's not stronger than

rakiata's flow but it's certainly like a

lot less expensive. So that's why I

prefer to run elemental weakness. And

last but not least we have or of storms.

You can use this if you want. you don't

have to at all. It adds like a tiny bit

of extra DPS. Um, you know, it it crits

very good. It does decent damage, but

you don't have to do this. Um, it's just

really if you want to do it, it also

creates like the the frost infusions,

right? So, it gives you like a little

bit more more juice, a little bit more

damage, but it's it's definitely

optional. You don't have to drop it, but

if you want to use it, I also use it

with rapid casting, overabundance 2,

lightning mastery, unleash, and pinpoint

critical here.

So, one more thing I want to talk about

is sigil of power. So, what you're doing

is basically if you want to use sigil of

power while you're in a map, as you can

see, we have 10.6k energy shield right

now. But a lot of energy shield comes

from our focus because we use jewels

which buff focus energy shield because

they are relatively easy to get and they

really give you like a huge amount of

extra energy shield. And the problem is

now if you want to run sigil of power or

also like just want to run elemental

weakness mid map because for example if

you're playing like abyss pits and you

want to you know drop your elemental

weakness on an abyss pit um your problem

is it's going to switch to the weapon

set and you're going to lose half of

your energy shield. So I'm now at 5.8k

and even if I switch back as you can see

it needs to regenerate. So I do not

recommend running the sigil of power

stuff while you're like mapping. You

don't need it for map boss. Sigil of

power. you really don't need it for map

bosses. Um, it's really just good for

like very strong pinnacle bosses or

maybe citadel bosses if you like to, but

I would not recommend using this on a

regular map. So, what I do basically if

I'm just mapping, I just don't use this

stuff. And then you want to lock your

weapon set. So, by lock your weapon set,

you just basically right click on this

one here and now it's locked. You can

see it also in this little window. And

you have to make sure it's by default

not going to lock your focus. So, if you

just do this and you would imagine this

locks both weapon sets, no, it doesn't.

So, um, it's not going to lock your

focus. So, you want to make sure to also

lock your focus. So, you can see the

focus locked here. And now, as you can

see, I have 6 point uh 10.6k. Yes. If I

now drop my um curse mid like uh you

know, mid map, I'm not dropping in

energy shield. So, that's a very very

important thing. So, if you really want

to like do this in mapping, I highly

recommend not use the chiming stuff in a

mapping setup.

All

right, let's talk about our items. So,

first of all, you want to have a wand

which just has spell and elemental

damage. You don't want to have lightning

damage or any kind of specific damage

because um we do comet. So, worst case

um you would get one with cold damage

because comet is going to do most of the

damage, but also the fire infused comet

will do fire damage. So, I highly

recommend trying to get a wand with

spell damage and elemental damage. The

gain as extra is nice. It doesn't really

matter which one you get. just gain as

extra is just nice in general. Um, crit

chance is very nice and car speed is

very nice. And you know, you want to

have plus one skill socketed. That is

pretty cheap right now. And if you have

a two socket one, you want to socket

critical hit chance for spellouts. Then

as for focus, you want to have a plus

two focus with car speed and as much

energy shield as possible. If you cannot

get like a very good one with car speed

and resistance and stuff like that, just

focus on plus two and as much energy

shield as possible. This is really

important for our jewel choices in this

build. You don't have to do this, but I

highly recommend trying to get a very

high energy shield focus here. Then for

our helmet, again, I'm trying to just

get a high energy shield helmet with,

you know, intelligence and resistances.

You want to pick up a good amount of

intelligence from your gear because

that's later going to help us with um

sustaining our um which just equipping

our skills because we want to basically

in our skill tree, we don't want to get

any intelligence since we're Pathfinder.

we can get much more stuff like we can

get you know defenses or damage or cost

reduction which is very important. So

try to pick up energy shield. Uh try to

pick up intelligence only helmet. Um

rarity is nice, but again focus on high

energy shield here. And we're using the

increased cost efficiency rune here, the

idol of um that is also very important

for chest piece. Get as much energy

shield as possible. Um and try to get

intelligence double rests. Um you don't

need the spirit if you don't want it. So

in an ideal setup, you will get like a

49 or something like that. Uh maybe 48

is enough, but probably you need 49 um

to run all your spells. If you can't get

this or just get like a, you know, 31.

So you basically, you know, just cannot

run like the extra siphon elements or

mana remnants. It's not a big deal. You

can also pick up spirit as a corrupted

enchant on your helmet or on your

amulet. Um but I would highly focus on

just try to get like a very high energy

shield chest piece here. Then for

amulet, um you want to get one with, you

know, rarity is nice obviously, but you

want to get a lot of energy shield and

global defenses, cast speed, and level

of all spell skills and maybe, you know,

rarity is nice. I bought this one

sanctified. It has cooked on it. It's

not optimal, but I can still use it.

We're going to talk about this a little

bit later in the passive tree. For your

rings, you want to strictly get mana,

care speed, resistance, and mana

regeneration, and rarity if you can get

it. Um, these rings are pretty good

actually, but um, so you don't have to

get these if you buy these. Um, you can

buy these for much cheaper. Maybe just

skipping the rarity or something like

that. Uh, you can buy like rings like

this for like a couple of diffs and then

just, you know, slam the increased

maximum mana in the prefix. You most of

the time, you know, the prefix, you

know, if you just have a good maximum

mana roll in the prefix, you have a 66%

chance of, you know, not deleting your

mana roll. So, it's usually pretty easy

to make these yourself. If you're trying

really to get these with the mana roll

already on them, they will get quite

expensive, but it's actually much easier

to just make these with, you know, buy

these without the increased maximum mana

roll in the prefix and then just slam it

on there. Um, this ring is pretty much

exactly the same. Like, it's it's it's

like interesting how identic these rings

are. Like, they're pretty much a little

bit different in the cast that, but

they're almost the same. Um, so yeah,

try to get rings like that. So, for the

gloves, you can get um gloves like

these, but they are crazy expensive

right now. You don't need the rarity,

but even without the rarity, just trying

to get the AAN search on crit and 60%

increased effect of socketed items is

crazy expensive. So, I would you can

either just buy regular gloves and

desecrate the 13% chance to gain a

search on it yourself, or you can just

go for regular gloves. Also, if you're

like on a budget, um you can also go for

night scale, which are pretty good. Um

the increased mana regeneration helps a

lot and they also have like critical hit

chance and you can get these like three

socketed for example to just fix you

know a good amount of resistances. So if

you're like on a little bit of a budget,

you can also absolutely run these. Um if

you want to run these um you know you

want to have the um corgal's gaze one

here um for the you know increased

effect of I can't search and um maximum

mana is very nice. don't care too much

about the energy shield role honestly

like if you have one with 50 which is

far cheaper doesn't matter at all. Um so

really maximum mana increase of effect

of socketed items and the aan search

would be you know mandatory here but uh

again you can also use this to fix the

the resistance is like a little bit of

an optional slot right as for the boots

um I use two socketed boots with um

movement speed and just fix another

resistance here. Um I just get like one

cold resistance and again an

intelligence role. As we talked about

intelligence roles are pretty um

important in this build. Um, last but

not least, head hunter. I guess at this

stage in the game, you want to have a

head hunter. Um, I always get like a

head hunter with a corrupted resistance

because it's really hard to fix

resistances if you're like that uh, you

know, deep in the game where you like

using rings which like have a lot of

stats and you cannot really pick up

resistances everywhere. So, for me, it

really helps to pick up a head hunter

with um, resistance. If you don't have a

head hunter yet, you can obviously use

an ingenuity or like a resistance fixing

belt, but I really recommend to run a

head hunter with pretty much every

single build right now. Um, as for the

flask, um, the life flask doesn't

matter. I don't even know why I have on

it is like completely irrelevant. And as

for the mana flask, you want to have a

high amount of instant recovery with

increased charges because this is your

mana fix on the bosses. If you're

fighting hard bosses, you run out of

mana. you will have to spam your instant

flask to get back up to mana. Otherwise,

you will just run around with zero mana,

which is not going to be very pleasant

to do. So, really recommend to get a

recovery applied instantly with

increased charges. As for the charms, I

don't run anything special. I just run

the nask and hope uh you know, for

freeze here. Um I just run a random

dowsing charm here because ignite is

crazy right now. And I just run a random

gold charm. So, I don't even have like a

right of passage or anything. So, this

is a pretty basic setup. Then, as for

the weapon swap, we already talked about

it. I just have a chiming stuff. Really,

the sets on that do not matter at all.

Uh you just really want to have plus

five level of all spell skills or you

can also get like one with lightning

skills. Um totally fine. Just get

basically any with high skills and cast

speed is nice, but it's also not really

needed since you're just using this to

pre-buff anyway. Um you could probably

just put some curse effect stuff like

that on it, but it really doesn't matter

in the end. As we already talked about

it in a mapping setup, I would recommend

to not run this. I would just run the

chiming stuff while fighting bosses.

Taking a look at the passive tree, we

basically take full advantage of what

the pathfinder is offering us. So, if

you look at this tree right now, we

basically just, you know, rushing to

like this outer loop and then we just go

outer loop and jewel slots. So, we

really just skip one in the very middle

because the very last one is going to be

fairly unefficient to get uh because we

don't really need a full circle

obviously, but then we really just loop

the entire tree and just get the good

stuff at the tree. So, this is like our

main thing. Why we do this? Well,

because the small nodes on the um

Pathfinder allow us to get coast

efficiency and damage. So, as I already

said, mana cost is your biggest problem

in this build because the way it works,

your cast on critical, if you, you know,

select your cast on critical comet here,

you can see this just cost 119 mana now.

So, if you, if you look at the original

cost of this, uh, comet, uh, how much

mana it cost, if I can find it, uh, blah

blah blah, where is it? Um,

okay, I'm not very smart. So, if you

look at the original cost of this comet,

um, this has a mana cost of 528.

So, if you would be at like a high mana

cost, like let's even make it 200 mana,

this is going to instantly drain you out

of mana. It's going to drain you to

zero. You're going to drop so many

meteors on the bosses, it's just really

going to eat up all your mana. So,

that's why we're basically abusing the

Pathfinder to get as much mana cost

efficiency as possible. I mean, you have

to kind of balance it out um how many

mana cost and how many damage nodes you

get. I I I have like roughly 50/50 cost

efficiency node, I would say. Okay. And

at some point, you know, I will have

damage node, but I have a lot of cost

efficiency nodes, right? And here I have

like some damage node, so I don't know

the exact ratio. You have to figure this

out on your own, but I think I'm running

roughly 50/50 damages and cost

efficiency here. So, you really have to

get a feeling for this, how to balance

it. Also, if you're like still in the

early game and you're struggling with

defenses, you can still, you know, swap

some for defenses. So, it's a very very

versatile class here um with the

Pathfinder. So, let's actually look at

it. So what is why pass miner? What

makes it so awesome? So first of all,

you're unaffected by slows. This is

really really nice, right? Um these

notes give skill speed, which is also

pretty nice. And this one here is you

cannot be heavy stunned by sprinting,

which is awesome if you're sprinting. Um

you cannot just accidentally um you

know, get stunned, for example, if

you're like, you know, getting chased by

the crazy bird in the um ultimatum. And

um this gives you 50% less movement

speed penalty by using skills. So this

feels really really good because this

stat has basically removed from the game

and you still get 50% which is just such

an awesome bonus. So I really love the

class for this. And then on the other

end you obviously get like the six extra

passive skill points you can allocate

from the sorceress which I don't really

you know doesn't really matter all that

much to be honest. Um and this is like

the most important here the traveler's

vision so you can get the the extra

note. So if you're like not having your

force uh your eights like your force

ascendancy eight points whatever yet um

I would recommend not use this one here.

So I would go for these two and then

this or for um because this really just

feels so good on mapping right and um

then yeah so you can if you want to have

like a little bit more movement speed.

So this build is very versatile right.

So you can swap it out like the way you

want. Yeah. You can, for example, you

know, remove a little bit of damage here

and then, you know, get your 8% movement

speed in this cluster if you want. Um,

you can, you know, these two movement

speed points are like completely

interchangeable with other stuff. So,

it's a really really changing like if

you want to go into more movement speed,

it's really easy to do with this build.

If you want to go into more energy

shield, you can always spec into this

uh, you know, patient barrier or you or

you can swap these to um the defense

ones. So, you really really um can do a

lot of stuff, but let's just talk about

what we're doing. So, um some things to

note. Obviously, we're running CI here,

so we are immune to chaos. Um you want

to get this Eldrich will for the um

ailment threshold and stun threshold.

Playing with old ailment uh and stun

threshold. You're not going to have a

very good time. Um if you're running a

pinnacle boss, you can remove these and,

you know, spec into some extra damage.

But as soon as you're like running any

maps, you want to have this three points

and you want to have elemental

equilibrium. Um it's really nice on the

high end. You know, if you feel you

don't need it, you can spec out of it.

But I really like having this. And um

besides that, you know, I'm pretty much

just getting um these ones here, which

are pretty nice for triggered spells.

Again, our most [snorts] important stat

here is our meteor damage, and this just

gives like a good amount of extra damage

to a meteor and also some mana cost

efficiency. Besides that, I'm really

just running crit. like I'm getting all

the good crit nodes. I'm getting this um

triggered crit node here which does not

get displayed in the tool tip. So that's

like another 25% and also energy gain.

So it's very nice. But then yeah, I'm

just getting all the crit nodes which

are here around the tree. And um uh this

uh movement speed and skill speed here

is just too good to like not use. Um but

that's pretty much all we're getting

here in our um weapon set. In our weapon

set too, I'm really just picking up some

duration here. Um some area of effect

and some curse effect. Um, you can get a

little bit more curse effect here if you

want to ditch the area of effect for

maybe like minmaxing against bosses or

stuff like that. But that's pretty much

how we run it. And then these nodes are

just very valuable. This is like 40%

damage and 15% crit chance. It's a very

very valuable node. Then this one just

gives elemental rest, which is very hard

to fix in this build. [snorts] Um, this

one here, you can also go like through

here to get like a little bit more

damage, but I felt like I don't need it.

This is like the little bit I can still

optimize. If I can pick up 20 more int,

I can get a little bit more stats, but

this is right now pretty much as minmax

as it gets. And um so one more thing I

want to talk about is the cooked

annoyance. So I have this cooked annoyed

on my amulet. I don't think this is

ideal. I I guess in an ideal setup, it

would be better to just pick this up

manually. Um the cooked because it's

it's really really strong. But um

um so yeah, I I I think it would be

better to pick up something like you

know, for example, like barbaric

strengths on your amulet and then um you

know, pass to the cook manually. Um

there's other stuff you can get as an

annoy. So I think this is not the

perfect anoint, but I just happen to

have this amulet and um yeah,

so let's look at our jewels. So I try to

get as many double crit jewels as

possible. I still can optimize a lot,

but this is, for example, a very good

one. These are very hard to get, but

mainly I'm trying to get maximum energy

shield, maximum energy shield from

focus, and double crit. This doesn't

have to be double chance. It can also be

crit and bonus. And since I'm running in

a dawn here, which I'm going to also

talk about it a little bit later. Um, I

have all my jewels corrupted, but this

is like kind of the jewels I'm going

for. Um other good stats are again this

is again another one which has you know

double crit spell damage and uh focus is

also pretty nice. Then we here have one

this is um also double crit with energy

shield and focus. And uh here's another

one with has also double crit and just

energy shield. So mine are not perfect.

Right? This is missing focus here. And

um we have some few more like this one

here. Um again this has just one crit.

So you don't have to get double crit

right? These are the availability on

those is pretty low. Um also a nice stat

is skill effect duration you can get on

here. Um but I would really try to focus

on maximum energy. Energy hit from equip

focus ones. Um that is really the

strongest stats you can get. You know as

if you ask me. Um and again this has

also crit chance and skill effect

duration stuff like that. This also has

crit chance and skill effect duration.

So I would have to um optimize these

because these have been from like an

earlier setup. So, I guess ideally you

want to get crit chance and crit damage

instead of the skill effect duration.

So, I will make another pass on the

jewels to squeeze out some more DPS, but

that's kind of what you're looking for.

So, you're looking for crit stats,

energy shield, and energy shield from

equip focus. And a good secondary stat

is really just skill effect duration.

Um, spell damage you cannot really get

because it's also in the prefix. Um, but

this is kind of what I'm looking for.

And I would absolutely try to focus on

maximum energy shield, um, energy shield

from focus and one crit stat. You can

even get zero crit stats. Um, but I

would highly recommend focusing those

defensive layers. So then as for the

unique jewel, I just have one unique

jewel which is um going to be the heart

of the well. So I'm picking up a heart

of the well. Basically, you just want to

have any gain damage. It doesn't really

matter which one. Fire, cold, lightning,

completely irrelevant. Um, it has some

crit bonus. Um, the important line would

be the recover 2% mana on kill. I'm

getting it on this jewel. So I highly

recommend getting 2% mana on kill and

15% cost efficiency and any gain damage.

The force line is not really important.

Um, these should be fairly cheap to be

honest. Um, if you don't want to get

them that like very good, just one gain,

2% mana on kill and cost efficiency. So

that's what I'm recommending. Then I'm

running an adorned. Um, so I happened to

pick this up before they got crazy

expensive. So this is a 38% increase.

You don't have to run this. So it's

really not required. If you switch this

out by another rare jewel, um, you would

be surprised how little you actually

lose. So, as you can see, if I if I um

take out this, I have a 10.6k. Yes.

Right. So, this just drops me like by

roughly 2,000 energy shield. But if I

would put in another jewel in this slot,

I would go to like 9.5. So, this maybe

is like 10% on the top end. Maybe it's

like 15%. So, it's really not important

to get this. If you can't get this,

don't sweat it. Just use another rare

jewel. Um, it's also um a little bit of

um a relief if you don't have to get

corrupted jewels because you know I paid

a I bought a lot of expensive jewels and

I bricked them when corrupting. So if

you just use regular rare jewels which

do not have to be corrupted um you know

it's also like a little bit of adv an

advantage over the adorn. So really

highly recommend not get this unless you

can afford it. It's absolutely not

required. Don't tell me after this.

Yeah, this build is only going to work

with the daunt. It really doesn't. So,

even, you know, even if I take this out,

right, and I go to the 8.7 or even by

not picking taking in another one, you

can see um my it's still like 66% crit

and 178 damage. And if I put this back

in um we're going to be at, you know,

74% crit and 196. So, it's really not

such a huge scala um to your damage. Um,

it it does a good job, but it's it's

definitely not worth mirrors at this

point, right? This is like one of the

most expensive items you can get, and

it's definitely not worth the price for

it. If you have a mirror, you can get so

much better stuff. Uh, you can get like

the plus4 helmet and stuff like that.

You can get like a really sick plus five

wand or whatever. So, really, you can

get like a megaloman, not megalomania,

you can get prison of belief with comet,

stuff like that. So really, I highly

recommend not go for the adorned unless

you picked it up cheap earlier in the

league.

All right, how do you use my trade

links? For all my build guides, I post

trade links so you can pretty much

exactly buy the gear I have, but you can

adjust it to your budget. And I have

pretty easy methods to do this. So,

first of all, if you are on the mobile

litics guide, always just click on the

how it works section. In the how it

works section, it actually will show you

trade links. This is not complete yet,

but it's going to be complete once the

video is uploaded. But let's take this

example. There is going to be a wand. So

you click on the wand and now you get

the trade link. And um if you have the

trade link now, basically you're just

going to see [ __ ] in the beginning. So

how it works is I always use weighted

sums. So this one for example has a

weighted sum which has all the stats

which are good for us inside and it's

basically automatically handing the

work. However, there's a couple of

things you need to adjust accordingly.

First of all, if you have a maximum

level, put your maximum level in. Second

of all, put your budget. So, if your

budget is not 400 exalted orb

equivalent, which is like four divines

right now for a wand. So, let's say

yours is just 100, right? So, you just

adjust it accordingly. And then you

order by the weighted sum. So, you click

on this sum here. And now you will see

the best one for your build at the very

top. So this has the highest sum of

everything for you. So you can see for

just 50 exalts you get this wand with

plus five physical with cast speed with

spell damage with extra cold damage with

maximum mana and with mana per enemy

killed. And you know you can just scroll

down and you know find whatever fits

best your build. But usually you can

blindly trust these weighted sums unless

you're like looking for something

specific. Maybe you want to fix your

mana region. So you always might want

to, you know, for example, if you really

are low on mana regeneration, you might,

you know, add an extra stat to your sum

that it has to have mana regeneration.

So you will now only find the one which

fits your budget best, but has mana

regeneration in this case instead of

cast speed. This is basically how I use

my trade links. So first step, always

make sure to fill in the budget you want

to pay for this item. Then order by the

weighted sum and potentially put in your

level. This is for um uh weapons and you

know, jewelry. And then sometimes if you

want to um buy um armor pieces, there's

always going to be one more condition

which is going to be energy shield. So

this for example is a focus, right? If

you don't have a budget of 200 or

whatever, let's say you have a budget

of, you know, 100 for the focus. Again,

here you can see, you know, focus

matching the query. Um and you know, if

these are too expensive, let's say

you're like on a budget, right? You only

want to spend like 10x. You can even

find one here. So this might be good for

you. Um but let's say this doesn't fit

you. Um, for armor pieces, you might

want to reduce the energy shield, which

I always include here. So, you might go

down to like 250 now. And now you will

find like a lot of folky which basically

fit your budget. So, this build is

really pretty budget friendly. So, you

can just buy like these for like 10

exalts each if you just, you know, go

down on the energy side a little bit.

But this is how you use my trade links.

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upon her.

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up.

need.

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Exile.

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you there. Locals come.

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with the old way.

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from every angle.

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