3.8| Stress Free PoE - TRIGGER HAPPY |Clear the Atlas with YOUR Items at YOUR Pace (SSF & Co-op)

Hi, Im following your guide but cant find anything about where to start with the ascendancy points.
Should I go for Painforged or Arena Challenger first?.

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Wrecker_of_Days escribió:

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mitbanomen escribió:

Hey,

Just did Mastermind on level 82 in WIP gear. First ever try, didn't know the mechanics just stood there, and facetanked all. I run the Bladestorm variant.

So yeah, this build is viable indeed.

Ha ha! Awesome mitbanomen! Isn't blocking sweet! That's actually a really hard battle if you don't know the process of it. So good for you doing it your first try!

Thanks for the post! I like hearing how people fare. Good job.

My progress is so far: I reached lvl 86 with this build, and I think this is your best creation that I tried so far. Fast, deadly, tanky af.

Holy RF is on lvl 86 too. Just started to collect the life wheel, so he has started to roll. The real trick was to add two Kaom's Way for 9 endurance charges.

Slomo is slomo. Damage and clearspeed is best of all, but she is squishy a bit, so carefull play needed. On lvl 91 I'm well over 6K effective life, so it's not that bad.

I really wanted to like your curser, but I didn't get succeeded. Vortex is not my style of play, so she is waiting for respec to something else.

So its 3/4 for me so far. Thank you for your effort!

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Chili escribió:

Hi, Im following your guide but cant find anything about where to start with the ascendancy points.
Should I go for Painforged or Arena Challenger first?.

Hey Chili,

It's a busy guide, no problem at all. If you go to "The Guts", then "Passive Tree", then "Ascendancy". It's tucked away pretty good. I'll paste it for you though so you don't have to go clicking around.

"You can spend your points in any order you like. My preference is as follows (defence first):
- 1st Two Points - Painforged. Busy little guy. You get block chance if you didn't block a hit, extra damage if did block, you can't be stunned if you blocked a hit (that's a biggie), but sexiest of all...your counter-attacks (Riposte, Reckoning, and Vengeance) deal double damage :).
- 2nd Two Points - Versatile Combatant. This node fixes our spell block chance. With this node, our block chance for spells always equals our attack block chance. Our max spell block chance also increases with the max attack block chance.
- 3rd Two Points - Violent Retaliation. Lots of goodies here. This increases our maximum chance to block from the normal 75% cap to 79%, we get increased Physical Damage for each block in the last 10 seconds (bonus damage while clearing), lots of damage if we've blocked damage from a Rare or Unique enemy in the past 10 seconds (good for boss battles), and additional block chances for each block we've done in the last 10 seconds.
- 4th Two Points - Arena Challenger. This skill revolves around Challenger Charges which can only be earned with this node. Challenger Charges improve your attack and movement speed by 2% per node, capping at 10 nodes (20%). This is the skill that simplifies the Blood and Sand aura set. IF you care to switch between those auras and guarantee your 10 Challenger Charges, use Sand Stance to kill in maps, and Blood Stance to kill bosses."

Let me know if there's anything else. I'm happy to help.

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mitbanomen escribió:

My progress is so far: I reached lvl 86 with this build, and I think this is your best creation that I tried so far. Fast, deadly, tanky af.

Holy RF is on lvl 86 too. Just started to collect the life wheel, so he has started to roll. The real trick was to add two Kaom's Way for 9 endurance charges.

Slomo is slomo. Damage and clearspeed is best of all, but she is squishy a bit, so carefull play needed. On lvl 91 I'm well over 6K effective life, so it's not that bad.

I really wanted to like your curser, but I didn't get succeeded. Vortex is not my style of play, so she is waiting for respec to something else.

So its 3/4 for me so far. Thank you for your effort!

Hey mitbanomen! Always a pleasure :).

I love the feedback thank you! Ya, not every skill/build is for everyone and I appreciate your honesty. I appreciate your compliments on this build. It'll be just as defensive for 3.9 and deal a lot more damage...if the tree doesn't change too much next league.

Thank you again for such kind words, encouragement and feedback. If you're up for it, keep the feedback for any guide, coming.

At lvl 60 this build feels legit ... enjoying it. Kudos to the author :) Of course I'm overpowered as I already had access to good gear and currency.

Bloody good build. After getting "The Surrender" playing is a pure bliss.
One of the best builds since i started playing PoE.

Second forumpost since 2012, just to show my gratitude. :-)

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martyl48 escribió:

At lvl 60 this build feels legit ... enjoying it. Kudos to the author :) Of course I'm overpowered as I already had access to good gear and currency.

Thanks martyl48,

You're very kind. I'll just pretend you're not using overpowered gear to be overpowered and take all the credit ;).

I'm glad you're liking the build though and if you have any feedback for the build or the guide, I'm all ears.

The blocking is so great though, isn't it? I'm surprised so few people play it.

Thanks for taking the time to be encouraging.

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Eodman escribió:

Bloody good build. After getting "The Surrender" playing is a pure bliss.
One of the best builds since i started playing PoE.

Second forumpost since 2012, just to show my gratitude. :-)

Thanks Eodman,

That's a very kind message. Thanks for taking the time to be thoughtful! I'm honoured to have your second post since 2012 ;).

Not to ruin your streak of rarely posting, but if you have any suggestions feedback for the guide or build, I'm always willing to see how things can be improved.

Thanks again for your kindness. :)

Hey! I am looking to try this build for my next play through with a friend.

The guide looks really good and I really like simple gameplay it provides. I am really new to the game tho and most build I follow have a leveling guide where it shows the gem progressions, for example I am not too sure what gem to focus on first/use whilst I don't have bladestorm and things like that. Similarly, a leveling skill tree would be nice, even tho any direction is fine I am sure certain things are more important early game than others!

Any chance to add something like that? not necessary a walkthrough but a progression guide and kind of gear/links/pasives checks per act?

Thanks and keep up the nice guides and creative builds!