The Fastest League Start Build in Allflame League! - PoE 3.29 — Transcript

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1. 0:00What up? This is our Toxic Rain
2. 0:02Pathfinder guide for patch 3.29.
3. 0:05Toxic Rain Pathfinder is an amazing
4. 0:07league starter. It's our favorite league
5. 0:09starter and it's one of the best
6. 0:10all-around budget builds in Path of
7. 0:12Exile 1. So, here's the sales pitch.
8. 0:15This build works extremely well on a low
9. 0:17budget. It has really smooth gear
10. 0:19progression from League start through to
11. 0:21end game. It can clear all content in
12. 0:23the game. It's super smooth in maps and
13. 0:25it's very easy to level. And when I say
14. 0:27easy to level, I mean I've killed Act 10
15. 0:29Kit Tava while wearing a bow I found in
16. 0:31act one multiple times and I really
17. 0:33couldn't tell the difference. This build
18. 0:35is our bread and butter. We've cleared
19. 0:37all the content in the game with it for
20. 0:38many, many leagues. Every league really.
21. 0:40I realize that there's a spellcaster
22. 0:42buff going on and we're excited about
23. 0:44that and the new Scion Ascendy, but
24. 0:46people will yell at us if we don't start
25. 0:47Toxic Rain Pathfinder and I would be
26. 0:49unhappy too. I'd be pointing at myself
27. 0:50in the mirror like, "Hey, what's wrong
28. 0:52with you?" So this is all reliable for a
29. 0:55reason. It's killed every pinnacle boss,
30. 0:57every uber boss, done tons of 100%
31. 0:59delirious farming, every highle content
32. 1:01farm in the game. Really, the new league
33. 1:03mechanic seems like it's going to be
34. 1:04very focused on speed, basically wet
35. 1:06delve. And that is toxic rain
36. 1:08pathfinder's biggest strength. It's
37. 1:09very, very, very fast. Okay, so in terms
38. 1:12of written guides, we have a pod for the
39. 1:14build on mobile and a written guide on
40. 1:16POE Vault. They are linked in the video
41. 1:18description. One quick note about Path
42. 1:20of Building, the current version of Path
43. 1:22of Building has not been updated. This
44. 1:23isn't on local identity. GG hasn't given
45. 1:25out the JSON required yet to update the
46. 1:27build. They're still working on it. We
47. 1:28will update both guide pages as soon as
48. 1:30the POB update happens. We can't do it
49. 1:32before then, but there isn't really
50. 1:33anything that's like super important
51. 1:35that's changed. So, this will affect
52. 1:38just a couple of things that I'll
53. 1:39mention later. All right, before we get
54. 1:41into the changes and everything about
55. 1:43the build, let's start with what content
56. 1:45that this build actually does. An
57. 1:47important thing to think about with any
58. 1:48sort of league start build is the
59. 1:50content that you're going to run. What
60. 1:51are you going to do with it? Toxic Rain
61. 1:53Pathfinder does everything, but in terms
62. 1:55of what it does the best, it moves fast
63. 1:57and clears smoothly. So, the mapping is
64. 1:59going to be fast and smooth. So, you
65. 2:01really want to do mechanics that kind of
66. 2:03have enemies clumped together in circles
67. 2:04or like frozen in place. So, that means
68. 2:08the new abyss seems perfectly suited for
69. 2:10toxic rain. Calgary and or deposits are
70. 2:12perfectly suited for toxic rain. Harvest
71. 2:14is good. Strong boxes are great.
72. 2:17Essences are pretty good. Low-level
73. 2:18beasts can be okay. RIP Harbingers. And
74. 2:22the new Legion seems like it's going to
75. 2:23be quite a lot better for Toxic Rain
76. 2:25because you don't have to kill every
77. 2:26single little white monster in the new
78. 2:29Legion. You just have to kill the big
79. 2:30named like the the rares and the strong
80. 2:33boxes or the the big reward chests. So,
81. 2:36that seems like it's going to be pretty
82. 2:37good for Toxic Rain as well. Shallow
83. 2:39delving is also a really awesome
84. 2:41mechanic for Toxic Rain Pathfinder. It's
85. 2:43it's probably the best build in the game
86. 2:45for shallow delving. the new league
87. 2:47mechanic since it is basically just wet
88. 2:49delve seems like it's going to be very
89. 2:50good for this build as well. It's also
90. 2:52good for boss rushing and obviously
91. 2:54heist. That's the one thing that
92. 2:55everybody kind of points to. It's great
93. 2:57for lab running as well. So that's it
94. 2:59right. You've got a wide range of
95. 3:01options available to you. So in terms of
96. 3:03changes that have actually been made by
97. 3:05GG in this patch for this build, there's
98. 3:08really just the gym socket change which
99. 3:10is great for the campaign and honestly a
100. 3:12power creep buff for the end game as
101. 3:14well. And that's about it. There's
102. 3:16nothing really all that major. Now,
103. 3:18there may be a damage buff this week
104. 3:19since Andrew said in the Q&A with Ziggy
105. 3:21D after the initial reveal that he
106. 3:23hadn't finished buffing DOT skills, but
107. 3:26there also may be nothing. If it's
108. 3:28buffed, that's great. We'll take any
109. 3:30damage that comes our way. And if it's
110. 3:31absolutely nothing, that's still fine
111. 3:33cuz this build has still done everything
112. 3:35in the game before the socket change.
113. 3:37And that's already a buff. So, no
114. 3:39complaints either way.
115. 3:41the Legion unique change that we'll talk
116. 3:43about in the gear section. Um, that is a
117. 3:46pretty significant defensive buff and
118. 3:48potentially like some utility buff uh
119. 3:50stuff happening there as well. Again,
120. 3:52we'll talk about that later. All right,
121. 3:54so let's talk about how the build
122. 3:55actually works, right? Toxic Rain is
123. 3:57your main skill. It is a chaos damage
124. 3:59over time bow skill. You shoot some
125. 4:02arrows up into the air or one arrow up
126. 4:03into the air. It lands as five pods.
127. 4:05They attach vines to enemies and deal
128. 4:07damage over time to them. It scales much
129. 4:09more like a caster build than an attack
130. 4:11build. Kind of a hybrid of the two. You
131. 4:13scale off of gem levels as your primary
132. 4:15source of increased damage, but you also
133. 4:17like value attack speeds cuz that means
134. 4:19you can get more uh pods out at a time.
135. 4:22You also value skill effect duration,
136. 4:24which is great for quality of life. It
137. 4:26allows to have more of these pods out
138. 4:28underneath an enemy all at the same
139. 4:30time. And then damage overtime multi.
140. 4:32damage over time is kind of a generic uh
141. 4:34valuable stat as well for just getting a
142. 4:36bunch more damage over time. In terms of
143. 4:39the ascendancy, you're playing
144. 4:40Pathfinder, so you have basically
145. 4:42permanent flask up time on all of your
146. 4:44flasks and you can completely automate
147. 4:46them just by using when charges [music]
148. 4:48reach full bench crafts on them, you
149. 4:50know, at your crafting bench. That makes
150. 4:52that trivially easy to maintain all of
151. 4:54your utility flasks. And you can use
152. 4:55some really strong ones like progenesis
153. 4:57and like you know you can fix
154. 4:59resistances with flask be curse immune
155. 5:01stun immune very very very strong stuff
156. 5:03from that you're also able to maintain
157. 5:05very high up time or over 100% uptime on
158. 5:08a life flask as well and that gives you
159. 5:11upwards of 3,000 life per second which
160. 5:13is a completely insane amount of sustain
161. 5:15for any build but certainly for a build
162. 5:17that doesn't have to like leech in order
163. 5:19to maintain that kind of sustain. The
164. 5:21one thing you do have to do is you do
165. 5:22have to actually manually hit that. That
166. 5:24is part of the Pathfinder kit. You do
167. 5:25have to manually hit the lifelask.
168. 5:27People have been begging, begging,
169. 5:28bargaining, and dealing for a long time
170. 5:30trying to get that to be automated and
171. 5:32it hasn't happened yet. And the
172. 5:34workaround for it is just get a strong
173. 5:36thumb and put the the keybind for your
174. 5:39life on your mouse. If you have a mouse
175. 5:41that allows you to like rebind stuff,
176. 5:42you can rebind one of your mouse keys to
177. 5:44one. Highly recommend it. So, all of
178. 5:46this combines to give you an extremely
179. 5:48fast, extremely smooth play style that's
180. 5:50really tanky for a fast mapper. Usually,
181. 5:52it's all glass cannon, and that's not
182. 5:54the case here. You are also able to
183. 5:56automate some other sources of damage.
184. 5:57As you can see, I'm not just shooting
185. 5:59out toxic rain pods when I shoot toxic
186. 6:01rain up in the air. I'm also shooting
187. 6:02out costic arrow. And in the current
188. 6:05Mirage League, we're able to get these
189. 6:06like extra little level one supports,
190. 6:08but that won't be part of the build in
191. 6:10329. And that's totally fine. But, as
192. 6:13you can see, we're hooking up mana
193. 6:14forged arrows and costic arrow together.
194. 6:16And we're using Life Tap support to set
195. 6:17the cost on that down to zero. This is
196. 6:20important. Later on, we'll talk about
197. 6:21this a little bit in in like more
198. 6:23detail, but basically you want to have a
199. 6:24mana cost on your main toxic rain, and
200. 6:26that'll allow you to automate casting
201. 6:28costic arrow, which will then give you a
202. 6:30bunch of clear. As you can see, it's
203. 6:31shooting out all these costic arrows.
204. 6:33Uh, normally these would target onto
205. 6:35enemies. And this helps immensely with
206. 6:37like clear in situations like doing
207. 6:39abyss or doing legion. And you can just
208. 6:41see it's it's piling up tons of death
209. 6:44all around, which helps immensely for
210. 6:46clear when you're moving through zones.
211. 6:48We're able to set up yet another mana
212. 6:49forged arrow support as well though by
213. 6:51using like toxic rain of withering just
214. 6:53to help get withering onto enemies a
215. 6:54little faster and frenzy to give
216. 6:56ourselves [music] uh frenzy charges and
217. 6:59give ourselves like more damage and more
218. 7:00attack speed out of that. And then you
219. 7:02can also use culling strike in that
220. 7:03setup as well with another mana forged
221. 7:05arrow support. And then there you go.
222. 7:06You have like tons and tons and tons of
223. 7:09utility and damage coming out of all of
224. 7:11those mana forged arrow support setups.
225. 7:12And all you're having to do is a one
226. 7:14button play style where you just zoom
227. 7:15around, right click down toxic rain pods
228. 7:17onto main enemies, and then everything
229. 7:19else is pretty much automated. All
230. 7:20right, before we jump into the passive
231. 7:21tree and the changes, I'll just go ahead
232. 7:23and say be sure to like and subscribe if
233. 7:24you're finding this video helpful or
234. 7:26interesting or you like the build or
235. 7:28whatever. Uh that really does help us
236. 7:30out. Hyping if you're on mobile also
237. 7:31helps us out as well. Okay, so there was
238. 7:34one change that was made and we did talk
239. 7:36about this a little bit in the like the
240. 7:38live stream and the video after the live
241. 7:40stream and that was this addition of a
242. 7:41bow passive mastery that gives you 20%
243. 7:43increased bonuses gained from your
244. 7:44equipped quiver. So the final goal in
245. 7:47this build, the like long-term goal is
246. 7:48to get a really insanely powerful double
247. 7:51dot multi-quiver and then use a 250%
248. 7:54widow hail or if you want to corrupt it
249. 7:57up to even more with a volatile V orb,
250. 7:58that's an option, too. but just a very
251. 8:00high quality quiver and you know get all
252. 8:04of your damage out of that quiver
253. 8:05basically. So getting an extra 20%
254. 8:08seemed really good. The issue is that
255. 8:10this is basically what our in-game tree
256. 8:12looks like. We're coming all the way up
257. 8:14top. We're taking some of these great
258. 8:15nodes up here like atrophy and all these
259. 8:17dot multi bonuses along the way. Uh,
260. 8:19we're getting some life out of written
261. 8:21in blood, some like aura effect out of
262. 8:23influence, and a lot of in nodes that we
263. 8:25can tattoo into giving ourselves reduced
264. 8:27extra damage taken from crits, which is
265. 8:29pretty nice. So, in order to be able to
266. 8:32hit that quiver node, we don't really
267. 8:34want to give up the area of effect from
268. 8:36this bow mastery. Theoretically, you
269. 8:38could try to gear around it, but that's
270. 8:39going to be quite a pain. So, if you
271. 8:42wanted to take that quiver mastery, you
272. 8:45basically have to drop all of this stuff
273. 8:46in stuff in the upper half of the tree
274. 8:48and come down and take this wheel, this
275. 8:50avatar of the hunt wheel, which seems
276. 8:52good. Uh, it does give you a bit of move
277. 8:54speed. However, in doing it and in like
278. 8:57testing out basically what you would
279. 8:58need to do to make that work, cuz you'd
280. 9:00also have to come take like this leader
281. 9:01of the pack wheel, which gives you a
282. 9:02bunch of area of effect on your horror
283. 9:04skills, which is basically useless, but
284. 9:05doesn't give you any increased or of
285. 9:08effect. You lose a little bit of damage.
286. 9:09You lose a little bit of tankiness in
287. 9:11doing this. And you just don't really
288. 9:12get any sort of value out of it. Like
289. 9:14coming down here, it wounds up being
290. 9:15basically the same number of points to
291. 9:17come down here and take the like this
292. 9:18cluster and this cluster and this small
293. 9:21passive jewel and it just wasn't a DPS
294. 9:24increase in testing that unfortunately.
295. 9:26So yeah, ultimately there just wound up
296. 9:28being kind of no changes at least as of
297. 9:30this time. Uh you know, we could hit
298. 9:32refresh on the So if nothing changes,
299. 9:34nothing changes. That's fine. But that's
300. 9:36basically where we're at. So, let's go
301. 9:38ahead and jump into the passive tree.
302. 9:39And we have broken this all down into
303. 9:41like granular steps for like act one,
304. 9:43act three, and so on. And coming out and
305. 9:46getting your first kind of major notable
306. 9:48uh point into primal spirit really helps
307. 9:50a lot with mana in the early acts of the
308. 9:52of the game of the campaign before
309. 9:54you're able to get clarity especially.
310. 9:56That's really helpful. And then we
311. 9:57basically just progress uh from that
312. 9:59point on. One other thing that they have
313. 10:01changed in this patch is they've changed
314. 10:03a lot of these reduced mana cost of
315. 10:04attacks bonuses to be um like increased
316. 10:07efficiency with with attacks. So
317. 10:11increased efficiency has like some
318. 10:13strange or not strange really just
319. 10:15diminishing returns in terms of scaling.
320. 10:17Uh like if you have a 100% reduced mana
321. 10:19cost of attacks they cost zero. If you
322. 10:21have 100% increased efficiency then they
323. 10:23cost half. If you have 200% increased
324. 10:25efficiency they cost 1/3. And it kind of
325. 10:28diminishes from there. Our expectation
326. 10:30at this point is that Manacos will
327. 10:32probably still be very easy to solve.
328. 10:35And that's because initially there was
329. 10:37like a bit of a concern that maybe this
330. 10:40this particular set of changes uh for
331. 10:42mana and reduce mana cost can no longer
332. 10:44be unveiled or crafted on rings.
333. 10:45Instead, you can unveil and craft mana
334. 10:47and mana cost efficiency on rings.
335. 10:49Initially, people were thinking that
336. 10:50might be this prefix. The non-challing
337. 10:53skills have minus mana cost. Having
338. 10:55spent some more time looking at it,
339. 10:56doesn't seem like it. So, we're still
340. 10:58able to get presumably uh minus 21 to
341. 11:01our total mana cost. You know, if that's
342. 11:03changed, then we'll have to invest more
343. 11:05into mana cost reduction, but it doesn't
344. 11:07seem like it is. That is entirely a uh
345. 11:11different modifier. It is uh this
346. 11:13modifier right here, max mana and reduce
347. 11:15mana cost of skills. [music] So, seems
348. 11:18like everything's fine on that front.
349. 11:19And then the other change which is that
350. 11:21this reduced mana cost of attacks uh
351. 11:23modifier that you can get on helms that
352. 11:25has been changed to mana cost efficiency
353. 11:27at the expected scaling that might
354. 11:29actually be a buff cuz it'll reduce the
355. 11:31cost of like some of your spells that
356. 11:33you kind of automate like immortal call
357. 11:35and uh withering step which actually do
358. 11:37have mana costs. Those mana costs would
359. 11:39actually go down. So this might actually
360. 11:41wind up being a bit of a mana buff on
361. 11:42that front. All right, so with that
362. 11:43aside on mana being covered, let's go
363. 11:45ahead and talk a bit more about the
364. 11:47passive tree. So, there's just a lot of
365. 11:49really good bonuses in the passive tree.
366. 11:51Uh, getting this this bow mastery and
367. 11:53especially the area of effect helps a
368. 11:55bit in the in the campaign. Getting the
369. 11:56mana cost stuff really helps just like
370. 11:58remove some of the annoying stuff in the
371. 12:00campaign. You never really want to have
372. 12:01to think about mana, especially playing
373. 12:03on this build that deals all damage over
374. 12:04time and so it can't really leech. One
375. 12:06extra little thing you can take is this
376. 12:08small passive here can help you uh with
377. 12:10like solving mana for a really, really,
378. 12:12really long time. Just getting a couple
379. 12:14of mana per enemy hit. You do hit quite
380. 12:17a lot with this skill. Even though it
381. 12:19doesn't do any damage to like leech, it
382. 12:21does actually still hit the initial
383. 12:22landing of the pods on the ground and
384. 12:24that translates into just a lot of mana.
385. 12:27So even going into maps and being able
386. 12:29to do like no regen maps, this is
387. 12:30actually very helpful for quite a while.
388. 12:32Again, if you are having any mana
389. 12:34problems, you can take an extra point
390. 12:35into this wheel down here. And that's
391. 12:37pretty helpful. Uh, also the skills cost
392. 12:40life instead of mana cost can be
393. 12:41helpful, but that's a bit more of an
394. 12:42in-game thing cuz in the campaign you
395. 12:44don't really have the sustain to make
396. 12:45that work so well. As you progress on,
397. 12:47you're going to take some, you know,
398. 12:48just like some more move speed bonuses.
399. 12:50You can take quick step and intuition uh
400. 12:52to get a bit more move speed earlier on.
401. 12:54If you're feeling uh tanky enough, your
402. 12:57goal will be to come over here and take
403. 12:58exceptional performance and get like
404. 13:00more skill effect duration. You can get
405. 13:01some free all res rather as well over
406. 13:03here. Yeah. Then you just continue to
407. 13:05progress through the tree until you are
408. 13:07able to get kind of your big main like
409. 13:09early spike of power in the form of
410. 13:12cluster jewels where you're going to
411. 13:13want to go for a three notable chaos
412. 13:16cluster. You're looking for unwaveringly
413. 13:18evil, wicked Paul, and unholy grace.
414. 13:21That's kind of the classic trio. You can
415. 13:23get unspeakable gifts in there instead.
416. 13:25That'll give you explosions on death. I
417. 13:27think I have one of those on this
418. 13:29character. And that comes in. It's
419. 13:31unspeakable gifts, unwaveringly evil in
420. 13:33Wicked Paul. And 10% chance when you
421. 13:35kill an enemy, they'll explode and do a
422. 13:37quarter of their max life as cast
423. 13:39damage. This is very good for clear, but
424. 13:40unspeakable gifts is much less common,
425. 13:43so it is more of an expensive [music] uh
426. 13:45kind of endgame type of thing. Then you
427. 13:48want to look for two uh medium cluster
428. 13:50jewels as well. A chaos dot cluster with
429. 13:52like Student of Decay and Wicked Paul
430. 13:54gives you like a bunch of damage and
431. 13:55helps with capping chaos res. And then
432. 13:57the other one, and this is really
433. 13:58important, is getting a brood for
434. 14:00potency and especially spiked concoction
435. 14:04medium cluster jewel. This would be a uh
436. 14:066% increased flask effect duration
437. 14:09medium cluster jewel. So that alchemist
438. 14:11genius whenever you use a flask is
439. 14:13massive for maintaining uptime on
440. 14:15flasks. It helps you generate more
441. 14:16charges. It increases the effect of your
442. 14:18flasks. It lasts for 4 seconds whenever
443. 14:20you use a flask. And it's this modifier.
444. 14:22And you can just see it. It's just going
445. 14:24to stay up permanently. So, it's just a
446. 14:25massive increase to the effect and
447. 14:27duration and or whatever charge
448. 14:29generation and effect of all of your
449. 14:31flasks. And anytime you're zipping
450. 14:33through maps or just like maintaining
451. 14:35your life flask uh during a boss fight,
452. 14:37it's going to be up. So, that's pretty
453. 14:39much that for the whole passive tree.
454. 14:42Like, this is the eventual endgame goal
455. 14:45of having like unnatural instinct and
456. 14:47light of meaning overlapping in this
457. 14:49central area and giving you a bunch of
458. 14:51uh damage out of that. You do also want
459. 14:54to hit somewhere in the range of 37 to
460. 14:5643% increased area of effect for Toxic
461. 14:58Rain to have all five of its pods
462. 15:01overlap on enemies. This is also the
463. 15:03reason you don't want any extra
464. 15:04projectiles. You want 37 to 43% while
465. 15:07only shooting out five pods per shot for
466. 15:10maximum overlap. So, there are a lot of
467. 15:12ways to get that area of effect. You can
468. 15:14get it as a gloves prefix craft. You can
469. 15:16get it as a helm prefix craft. You get
470. 15:1820% uh from the passive tree. And then
471. 15:21you can also get some from uh jewels.
472. 15:24And that's that's what we have in this
473. 15:25setup. I think we have uh some from this
474. 15:27jewel and some from uh one of these
475. 15:29other jewels over here as well. This
476. 15:31one. There we go. Finally, you are able
477. 15:34to use rune graft of the warp. That is
478. 15:36something you can fit in. Not mandatory.
479. 15:38It just makes it so the buffs last
480. 15:39longer on you and debuffs expire faster.
481. 15:41It's nice quality of life. Not anything
482. 15:44absolutely mandatory, but cool to get if
483. 15:46you can if you can swing it. All right.
484. 15:47So now let's talk about the ascendancy
485. 15:49notables. And so the order that we take
486. 15:51these and we do show thus off in the
487. 15:52progression through the tree is you want
488. 15:54your first two points to go into
489. 15:55nature's reprisal. This gives you chance
490. 15:56to inflict withered on hit. Like I said
491. 15:58before, you are hitting a lot. You're
492. 16:00just not hitting for like any real
493. 16:02amount of damage. But that doesn't
494. 16:03matter. You're able to inflict withered
495. 16:04and then making it be much stronger.
496. 16:06Instead of it being, you know, 15 stacks
497. 16:08that increase damage taken by 6% per
498. 16:11stack, now it's 9%. So you go from uh
499. 16:1390% increased damage to 135. So pretty
500. 16:17huge damage increase. And you want that
501. 16:19as soon as you can get it. Your next
502. 16:22ascendancy, you're going to go into
503. 16:23Nature's Adrenaline. This is flask
504. 16:25charge up time. Huge for like, you know,
505. 16:28utility for the rest of the campaign,
506. 16:29move speed, all of that. And then you'll
507. 16:31take Master Surgeon with your third
508. 16:32ascendy. This will let you have life
509. 16:33flask up time be pretty high. It won't
510. 16:36be 100%. Uh right at that point, you'll
511. 16:38have to pick up some more nodes and and
512. 16:39get some more like, you know, flask
513. 16:41generation elsewhere, but it'll get you
514. 16:43uh maintaining pretty high up time on
515. 16:45your life flask. And all of this also
516. 16:48you're going to use just like bismouth
517. 16:49flask or or jade flask or whatever to
518. 16:51give yourself like a bunch of defensive
519. 16:52value during the end of the campaign.
520. 16:54And then you'll take nature's spoon as
521. 16:55your final ascendancy point option for
522. 16:57just a bunch of magic utility flask
523. 16:59effect cuz you are going to be using a
524. 17:01bunch of magic utility flasks. So in
525. 17:03terms of skills, we've kind of already
526. 17:04talked about these a bunch. You know,
527. 17:05you do have like costic arrow as your
528. 17:07kind of level two to forever skill. Uh
529. 17:11you'll use this for clearing out most of
530. 17:13act one. And you can actually keep it
531. 17:14and continue to use it uh once you've
532. 17:16picked up toxic rain at level 12. You
533. 17:18can just continue to use it for like
534. 17:20clearing basically as you're running
535. 17:22through areas. You can kind of have a
536. 17:24two button play style. Use costic arrow
537. 17:26to clear packs while you're running
538. 17:27through zones and then use toxic rain to
539. 17:29kill bosses and single target enemies.
540. 17:31Puncture is only useful for killing
541. 17:32Brutus, but it's very useful for killing
542. 17:34Brutus. So you do want that. The rest of
543. 17:35this is just like movement stuff and
544. 17:37mana regen. Again, once you get toxic
545. 17:39rain, you want to hook that up with as
546. 17:40many of these supports as you can, as
547. 17:42quickly as you can. And you don't need a
548. 17:43triple green or a quadruple green
549. 17:45anymore. Now, you just get a bit of
550. 17:46extra juice if you do have any green uh
551. 17:49gems socketed into green sockets. So,
552. 17:52that's going to be great. Costic arrow,
553. 17:54you're going to want to hook up to an
554. 17:55aeron noa support, and that'll give you
555. 17:56that, you know, the way that it's
556. 17:57spreading out all around. That's where
557. 18:00that comes from. The arrow nova pierce
558. 18:02is also super important for costic
559. 18:04arrow. Eventually, you'll be able to get
560. 18:06this on your gloves. Projectiles pierce
561. 18:08an additional target. That's why we're
562. 18:09using that. Uh when a costic arrow hits
563. 18:11an enemy, it'll just hit them and then
564. 18:13drop a pool on the ground, you know,
565. 18:15like like so. Uh but if it hits them and
566. 18:17it pierces through them, it'll drop it
567. 18:19where where it pierced them and then
568. 18:20continue on and hit something else and
569. 18:21drop it there. So, you get more
570. 18:23coverage. The reason we're not using
571. 18:24costic arrow as our primary skill is
572. 18:26enemies can only take damage from one
573. 18:28costic arrow pool at a time. So, while
574. 18:29one costic arrow pool does more than one
575. 18:31toxic rain pod, you're able to have like
576. 18:3350 toxic rain pods under an enemy. And
577. 18:3650 is more than one. Then you're just
578. 18:37kind of able to add in just some more
579. 18:39extra like mobility and support stuff as
580. 18:42you continue on. I believe you have to
581. 18:44do the library to get flame dash, so
582. 18:46that's worth doing. Yeah. Then you can
583. 18:48kind of hook up like withering step and
584. 18:49automation together. This is something
585. 18:50you can turn off for bossing if you if
586. 18:52you're worried about it. But uh honestly
587. 18:55just kind of get used to like moving
588. 18:56with your left mouse button and like if
589. 18:58you really have stuff that you get need
590. 18:59to get over and you don't have any flame
591. 19:00dash charges available, you can use
592. 19:02blink arrow. That is what it's for. Then
593. 19:04as you push into the end game like
594. 19:06you'll use like haste and malevolence
595. 19:07and clarity that can work pretty well,
596. 19:09but eventually your goal in the end game
597. 19:12especially as you get like 100% uptime
598. 19:14on your life flask is to use petrified
599. 19:16blood. This is why we have a bit of a
600. 19:17life cost on some of our skills and why
601. 19:19we have a strength requirement. You
602. 19:21don't have to take it to max level, but
603. 19:22it is worth it. But you can see like
604. 19:23it's it's shooting all the life away.
605. 19:25Some of that's coming from life tap uh
606. 19:26hooked up to costic arrow which is
607. 19:29critical and also gives you a bunch more
608. 19:31life regen out of your life flask. But
609. 19:33as you can see, we have very little life
610. 19:34regen, but we have some. But any of the
611. 19:36damage that we take when we're below
612. 19:38half health gets like turned into a
613. 19:40stagger debuff basically. And that's
614. 19:42really really good for making us super
615. 19:43tanky. and then we're able to heal back
616. 19:46up to full anyway. The the only way that
617. 19:48you're able to do that is through uh a
618. 19:50lifelask. Petrified blood and Pathfinder
619. 19:52are kind of perfectly made to work
620. 19:54together to just be incredibly tanky.
621. 19:56Then other than that, we're using haste
622. 19:57and malevolence. That's why we're so
623. 19:58fast. That's why we do so much damage
624. 20:00for, you know, for our relative budget.
625. 20:02Then we like to hook up automation,
626. 20:04withering step, and immortal call just
627. 20:05to kind of give us like pretty good
628. 20:07uptime on like a mobility skill that
629. 20:09also gives us like a bunch of wither
630. 20:10stacks. And then immortal call is just
631. 20:11like a good damage reduction uh buff for
632. 20:14us as well. Also, this whole setup makes
633. 20:15it so that we can run all uh player
634. 20:17modifiers on blue Eldrich alters without
635. 20:19ever thinking about them. That is why we
636. 20:21over cap lightning and cold resist by
637. 20:23quite a bit. You know, as you can see,
638. 20:26we're like more than 60 over on those,
639. 20:28and that's intentional. So, we can never
640. 20:29think about player uh modifiers on blue
641. 20:32Eldrich altars. Just always run those.
642. 20:33Fish for divine altars if you can get
643. 20:35lucky on them. But otherwise, all the
644. 20:37quantity and duplication and all of that
645. 20:38out of blue alters is super awesome. And
646. 20:40so, your eventual goal, since awakened
647. 20:42gems don't exist anymore, is just to
648. 20:44kind of get like 21s in pretty much
649. 20:46every type of gem spot. Uh there are a
650. 20:49couple that won't matter, like the
651. 20:51quality for vicious is basically
652. 20:53worthless, and the quality for empower
653. 20:54is worthless once you've leveled it up.
654. 20:56So, you won't need to match those up.
655. 20:58Sync those colors up. You know, that's
656. 20:59about it. Like, you don't really need to
657. 21:01sync up the color of life tap either.
658. 21:02But, like, a lot of these color
659. 21:04qualities are actually really good.
660. 21:05Volcostic arrow or regular costic arrow.
661. 21:07Getting more radius out of that's pretty
662. 21:09cool. Cool down recovery rate out of
663. 21:10mana forged arrows is not bad. Getting
664. 21:12more duration out of toxic rain is
665. 21:15awesome for single target damage. So
666. 21:17it's going to be a lot of good stuff
667. 21:18there. I think you get an extra wither
668. 21:20stack out of withering step. You get
669. 21:22some cooldown reduction out of
670. 21:23automation. Like there's some good stuff
671. 21:25here. So in terms of the gear, the goal
672. 21:27initially is just to get like a weapon
673. 21:29that has attack speed on a bow of course
674. 21:31that has attack speed, but that's really
675. 21:33it. you're just trying to scale your gem
676. 21:34levels and attack as fast as possible
677. 21:36during the campaign. Quill rain is your
678. 21:37best in slot for the campaign. You don't
679. 21:39need it at all. If you I mean any bow
680. 21:41that has a decent amount of attack speed
681. 21:42is fine. The damage on the bow doesn't
682. 21:44matter. All the damage is coming from
683. 21:45damage over time and damage on the bow
684. 21:47will not translate into damage over time
685. 21:49at all. So, as you can see, the gear for
686. 21:51the example leveling setup is just
687. 21:53literally like, can you get life on it?
688. 21:54That's cool. If you get move speed on
689. 21:56the boots, that's ideal. any resistances
690. 21:58or anything like that's fine too, but
691. 21:59like you need very very very little gear
692. 22:01to actually level up. Once you get into
693. 22:03the end game, you're going to try to
694. 22:04farm up a bunch of uh porcupine cards.
695. 22:06You can buy them or farm them directly.
696. 22:08You can far farm them in like the high
697. 22:09garden. You can then uh use these and
698. 22:11then essence of dread um to to put plus
699. 22:15two level of socket of bow gems on this.
700. 22:17You probably want to try and roll this
701. 22:18until you either get like dot multi or
702. 22:20attack speed on there as well as the
703. 22:21plus two and then try to craft either
704. 22:23attack speed or dot chaos multi onto
705. 22:26that. And that that'll that'll do you
706. 22:28for like getting through the vast
707. 22:29majority of the like day one, maybe even
708. 22:32day two content, at which point you'll
709. 22:34want to try to craft a thicket bow. This
710. 22:37is going to be an easier craft than it
711. 22:38has been in the past because of the
712. 22:40current league mechanic, but basically,
713. 22:41yeah, you'll craft up a big thicket bow
714. 22:44and uh multi mod it and uh give yourself
715. 22:47a really really like powerful bow that
716. 22:49you take on all the in-game content in
717. 22:50the entire game. Try and give yourself
718. 22:52like a dot multi-quiver as well. So,
719. 22:54lightning coil is going to be your ideal
720. 22:56body armor. Uh, that 50% of fizz taken
721. 22:59as lightning damage is just huge. Now,
722. 23:01in terms of using like the new legion
723. 23:03mechanic of being able to like roll a
724. 23:06different body armor into being a
725. 23:07lightning coil and kind of carry over
726. 23:09one of the buffs, the thing that stood
727. 23:10out to us as being just clearly the best
728. 23:12is cloak of flame being able to roll
729. 23:14over. Even though in their example it
730. 23:15was 20% of fizz taken as fire, that's
731. 23:17still insane, right? 20% of fizz as
732. 23:19fire, 50% as lightning. And then you get
733. 23:22uh what is it? another 7% as lightning
734. 23:25out of a helmet. So, we're looking at
735. 23:27like I guess 77% of fizz taken as not
736. 23:30Fizz. That's pretty pretty humongous.
737. 23:33So, that would be the goal. There are a
738. 23:34lot of other possible options as well,
739. 23:36though. We spent a bunch of time looking
740. 23:37at unique body armors and just some
741. 23:40things that stood out. Uh like
742. 23:42doppelganger guys seems like one that
743. 23:44could be a very expensive uh one to try
744. 23:46and do and it may not work, but it's
745. 23:48possible. Doppelganger guys being the
746. 23:50the body armor that gives you like less
747. 23:52physical and chaos damage taken while
748. 23:54sane. You are sane by default. So if
749. 23:57that works that would be great. If it
750. 23:58doesn't it's fine. A bunch of other
751. 24:00things in here. Belly of the beast gives
752. 24:01you percent increased life. So that
753. 24:02could be useful. Death's oath could
754. 24:04maybe be funny. There's a lot of other
755. 24:06stuff in here that could be good. Even
756. 24:07just like calm's heart getting like a
757. 24:08bunch of life from Kum's heart carried
758. 24:10over or like no extra damage taken from
759. 24:13crits from brass dome. you know, that
760. 24:15could maybe be something just to like
761. 24:16bundle into a lightning coil. Uh, that
762. 24:19could be useful as well. But the main
763. 24:20one that really stood out is, of course,
764. 24:22cloak of flame. Getting fizz taken uh as
765. 24:26fire on top of the fist taken as
766. 24:27lightning is just super awesome. And
767. 24:29going the other direction, like losing a
768. 24:30bunch of fizz taken as lightning uh to
769. 24:32get fizz taken as fire out of cloak of
770. 24:34flame. Not as good. So yeah, pretty much
771. 24:36a one-way street there. All right. And
772. 24:38finally, just to touch on the other
773. 24:39unique that you're using, the tides of
774. 24:41time. This is pretty non-negotiable.
775. 24:42This is just the best in slot belt for a
776. 24:44Pathfinder. Uh you really do want it to
777. 24:47have three charges every 3 seconds for
778. 24:49the utility flasks. And it's better if
779. 24:51it's three every three for the life
780. 24:53flask. You kind of get away with one or
781. 24:54two. You might have some uptime issues.
782. 24:57You may not, but it makes it a lot
783. 24:58easier to be like bad at hitting your
784. 25:00flask if you have three of three.
785. 25:02Additionally, you can use catalysts on
786. 25:03this, the the life and mana ones, and it
787. 25:05will actually increase that baseline
788. 25:07like 100% increased life recovery up to
789. 25:09120. That's more life per second. a lot
790. 25:11more. So, pretty awesome. It's also a
791. 25:14good double corrupt target because the
792. 25:16armor and evasion rating from the
793. 25:17implicit is not that great, but you
794. 25:19know, bit of an expensive gamble, but
795. 25:20nothing like mage bloods or or head
796. 25:22hunters. And it also is exclusive with
797. 25:25mage bloods and head hunters, right? You
798. 25:27don't want to run a mage blood or head
799. 25:28hunter on this build. Mage Blood
800. 25:29basically just is Pathfinder the item or
801. 25:32Pathfinder is mage blood the ascendy. So
802. 25:34either way, Tides of Time is really what
803. 25:35you want and it costs a fraction of
804. 25:38either of those two. So there you go.
805. 25:40All right, so now let's talk about how
806. 25:41to craft a thicket bow. So the way that
807. 25:44you start is you start with a thicket
808. 25:46bow. It can be a grove bow as well.
809. 25:48That's fine, too. Uh or a short bow. It
810. 25:50just needs to be fast, but like thicket
811. 25:52bow is what you're looking for. Uh item
812. 25:54level 78 is what you need. And then
813. 25:58don't worry about it being 30% quality.
814. 25:59That's not a big deal anymore. And what
815. 26:01you're going to do is you're basically
816. 26:02just going to alt spam it,
817. 26:03unfortunately, until you get T1 attack
818. 26:05speed. So you just alt spam until you
819. 26:08get T1 attack speed on it. And then this
820. 26:11is where the new league mechanic
821. 26:12crafting can actually come into play in
822. 26:13a huge way because what you need to do
823. 26:15here um you can use a beast to create an
824. 26:18imprint. Uh and then you'll you'll want
825. 26:20to basically enol it down to just be
826. 26:21that one T1 attack speed. And if you get
827. 26:23unlucky then you'll use the imprint and
828. 26:25you just basically repeat that process
829. 26:27so you don't have to spam roll until you
830. 26:29get T1 attack speed again. Then what
831. 26:30you're going to want to do though is
832. 26:31ultimately just unull yourself down to
833. 26:33just just the attack speed which is
834. 26:35proving very difficult here. Sometimes
835. 26:37it could be like that. make a new
836. 26:38imprint and uh then you're going to
837. 26:41regal it and do the same thing basically
838. 26:44um enole down to just the T1 attack
839. 26:48speed mod. And this is again where that
840. 26:50new league mechanic is going to come
841. 26:52into play and be really helpful and
842. 26:54you're going to have better luck than I
843. 26:55am right now. All right, once you're at
844. 26:57this point where you just have a rare
845. 26:58thicket bow with increased attack speed,
846. 27:00you're in great shape. Now, what you can
847. 27:02do is you can craft can have up to three
848. 27:04crafted modifiers and cannot roll attack
849. 27:06modifiers. And that will make it so that
850. 27:08you have all of your suffixes filled up.
851. 27:10And now you're able to use uh a regular
852. 27:12exalted orb. And what that will do is
853. 27:14that will add in this mod right here
854. 27:16plus level of socketed gems. It's the
855. 27:18only modifier that can be added in. If
856. 27:19you try to use another exalt, it won't
857. 27:21even it won't [music] even work. Then
858. 27:23you can use a hunter's exalted orb. And
859. 27:25this is where you're going to want to
860. 27:25use a new league mechanic once again
861. 27:27because you actually have a bunch of
862. 27:29different uh levels of the same
863. 27:30modifier. This increased chaos damage
864. 27:32over time modifier which ranges anywhere
865. 27:34from 60 to 94. And you want to get a
866. 27:36higher number, right? This is a big
867. 27:37damage modifier for you. So if you can
868. 27:39get a higher roll on this, that would be
869. 27:40good. I would certainly take a tier two.
870. 27:42At this point, what you want to do is
871. 27:43take it back to the crafting bench,
872. 27:44remove all the crafted modifiers, and
873. 27:46then read plus three crafted modifiers.
874. 27:50So you would have to craft that a second
875. 27:52time. So those three crafted modifiers
876. 27:54is two divs and cannot roll attack mods
877. 27:56is one. So that takes a mandatory five
878. 27:58divs on top of the base and any beasts
879. 28:00and stuff that you would use as well. So
880. 28:02you'll multiod and then you will craft
881. 28:04chaos damage over time multiplier. And
882. 28:07on the prefix side of things, you will
883. 28:09craft plus two level of socketed support
884. 28:11gems. And then there you go. That's your
885. 28:13bow. You want to start with it six
886. 28:15length. Of course, can't split it
887. 28:16anymore, so don't even worry about that.
888. 28:18There you go. This bow will take you
889. 28:19through everything. I guess you take it
890. 28:21over to harvest craft and you craft um
891. 28:23attack speed per quality and then you'll
892. 28:25get 2% increased attack speed on it as
893. 28:27well. Tada. In-game bow costs you five
894. 28:29divines mandatory plus you know whatever
895. 28:31the base costs and then all the other
896. 28:33crafting materials. So we're looking at
897. 28:35like seven to 10 divines kind of on day
898. 28:37one or day two for your best in slot
899. 28:40in-game bow. Pretty awesome. And then of
900. 28:42course with the new league mechanic
901. 28:43making it a lot easier to hit on some of
902. 28:44these modifiers, it's going to be a lot
903. 28:46less painful than it has been in the
904. 28:47past. All right, so that's pretty much
905. 28:49the bulk of the build. Now, we'll just
906. 28:50hit on the last couple little bits of
907. 28:51information here. In terms of Pantheon,
908. 28:53you'll run Brine King for basically all
909. 28:56the way up until you are ailment immune.
910. 28:57Then you can switch over to Soul of
911. 28:59Lunaris. Soul of Versatha, you're going
912. 29:01to run this from the moment that you
913. 29:03unlock it and keep it forever. Uh, as
914. 29:05soon as you can capture tunnel trap,
915. 29:07giving 50% reduced life regen rate to
916. 29:09enemies that you hit is super awesome.
917. 29:11It really helps with doing Maven stuff
918. 29:13early especially, but it's just like
919. 29:14that's such an annoying thing to have to
920. 29:16deal with. So, that's pretty great to
921. 29:17have that online ASAP. In terms of your
922. 29:20bandits, you can kill them all. You can
923. 29:22keep a alive if you want a little bit of
924. 29:24res during the campaign, but you don't
925. 29:25need it. Just kill them all. That's
926. 29:26really the best approach cuz that's
927. 29:28going to be your long-term goal anyway.
928. 29:30All right, that is it. That's Toxic Rain
929. 29:31Pathfinder. We're super excited to play
930. 29:33it in the coming league. Let us know
931. 29:35what you're planning to do in the coming
932. 29:36league with Toxic Rain Pathfinder.
933. 29:38Obviously, you know, what mechanics are
934. 29:40you looking forward to farming? That's
935. 29:41basically what the rest of our content
936. 29:42is going to be about for this week in
937. 29:44the run-up to the big league dropping on
938. 29:48Friday afternoon.
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