Goddess Scorned Crit Ele Cleave with HoA prolif (1.3)

Aura only


With 3 power charges


3 charges and atziri's promise

Our main attack is Cleave

my 6 links are
Cleave-Wed-Conc effect-increased Critical damage-Life Leech and added cold.

We need to scale our main damage to as high as possible, so I've gone for gems that have multiplicative scaling. Life Leech is important because it is very hard to get elemental leech. I have gone for the flat added elemental gems as the 6th link to give a bit more damage, which will get scaled by the gear and tree a lot. If you only have a 5L this is the gem I'd drop.

Don't level cleave because level increases phys damage and given that the phys converted to fire isn't a significant portion of our damage, its probably not worth the mana cost.

Quality on conc effect is important because of the reduced mana.

Aura setup
Reduced mana-Wrath-Anger
Hatred doesnt give us that much when compared with the 2 flat elemental auras, and is where the bulk of our damage is coming from (rather than the weapon herself).

Herald of Ash setup
Reduced mana-HoA-Ele prolif-increased AOE
This is the core of the build and the burn synergises with the unique property of Scorned very well. It is how one swing of the sword and half of the screen dies is achieved. With quality on AoE you can just about off screen melt mobs

Avoiding to bursts of phys damage
Cwdt-EC-IC-increased duration.
Pretty self explanatory here. Don't level up CwDT too much. Get a balance of how often you want this to proc, compared with the damage needed to proc it vs your current life pool.

Utility
On the sword herself, I ran whirling blade-flicker strike and PCoC. On the 4th socket in the aura setup, I ran Assasin's mark.

We don't need Pcoc on our main attack because assasin's mark generates power charges and I was able to maintain power charges going from pack to pack, and since its mana cost is quite high, linking it with reduced mana helps.

Whirling blade is used mainly as a movement skill and can be substituted with leap slam if one feels is better.

Flicker strike is awesome, it allows us to chase the mobs which are running away as they are burning (unlikely, because they will all died to burn pretty much straight away). It also serves the purpose of engaging a pack of mobs. Ideally, you would curse then flicker into the center of a pack of mobs, and ideally, you would shock him (from wrath) making it take 50% increased damage and reduces it's life, making the cleave overkill much more efficient and deadly.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYABLMFtQx9DXwOPA-rEH8UTRRxFr8XLxmKGjgajx2qJOEmlScLJ-0o-ioLMFQwcTKJNj026TwtPT4_m0GHQqNFfEZxS3hTNVVLVdZXyVfiWfNh4mKsZOdmnmwWbIxtbG-ecFJyqXcHd-V-vYCkgseDCYO2hxOHGYwLjDaQVZJ9l5eX_phvm7WcpJ2qn8uiAKeErKq0DLQ4tMW1SLc-uXzAGsLswzrE9saexq7KStQj2L3cI92o4YjjauUZ5c_qGOq67DjssPPq9tr3Mvjr-ej60vsJ-0X79fxL_go6Qg==

Shadow is best suited for this build, because the starting elemental damage and the nice crit nodes. Templar is also viable.

There are 4 goals which I was aiming for when coming up with the tree, which are:
- High crit
- High elemental/WeD
- Able to run the auras.
- Unweavering because this is a melee character and getting stunned is a bad idea.

Grabbing acro and phase acro is nice, since we have little armour and es, unweavering means we can't evade. Scorned is 2 handed so no block, this pretty much leaves dodge as the only mechanism left to mitigate damage. This is not required tho, you can put the points into more life/damage if the particular play style suits you.

Bandits points, I went for 3 skill points, but you can mix it with +40 hp and +1 to powercharge if you like.

However if you don't have acuity, you might want to make a slight detour (4 pts) and grab vaal pact instead to help deal with reflects, which I will come onto later.

For leveling, please head to http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1041914 where I have my tree at end of each act.

Weapon - Goddess scorned, there is no substitute here. The very high crit makes crit scaling possible. and the faster burn is the icing on cake.

Chest - I went for Belly because the % of life from the forsaken master change. But one can go for Carcass, or lightning coil (best paired with abyssus for crazy amount of dps boost)

Boots - Look for life, resists, movement speed and bench craft WeD for a little damage boost. Alternatively, use windscream and go dual curse (ele weakness) for silly amount of ele damage boost.

Belt - WeD, Life, Resists. Doriani's is decent, but doesn't beat a decent rare belt.

Glove - Acuity if you can afford it, also helps to give us int which we don't get enough on the tree. Maligaro's is a good DPS substitute so is Shadow and dust in Rampage. Alternatively rare with life, resist, flat ele and accuracy.

Amulet - go for DPS here, so WED, crit multi, crit chance, flat ele, accuracy, life.

Rings - look for WED, life, resists, accuracy, flat ele. Also bench crafting crit should you wish

Helm - life, resists, accuracy and look to craft WeD.
Alternative 1: Abyssus if lightning coil and you can cap your resists
Alternative 2: Rime Gaze and put your HoA set up there. The conc effect makes the burn just insane in exchange of lose area coverage and other stats possible on helm. Would possibly swap out the flat elemental gem for BM if you feel mana is to low.

Pots- I run 2 seething life pots and 1 panicked. Atziri's promise and quick silver. quick silver can be substituted to whatever you fancy, eg diamond, mana, ruby.

Also look to have some max mana and mana regen on jewleries, as this can be a problem with the build since no mana leech. Or go BM and drop flat ele dmg gem on 6L. Attack speed isnt important at all, we just look to do one deadly swing which kills everything, not mulitple swings.

Ideally, curse-flicker-swing and watch everything dies. Sometimes couple of cleave is needed.

Against bosses, ideally you'd use the burn from mobs to take a significant amount of health of the boss. Then employs a hit and run style, where you flicker in, cleave couple times, and get out, as mana is somewhat of the problem and you cannot sustain cleaving indefinitely (unless you are bm) check out boss fight in my Crematorium video.

More recently, I've taken out added cold and put in mana leech when doing bosses. This allows me to face tank and survive through crit leech.


For ele reflect mobs, play a bit smart if you dont have acuity/ vaal pact. whirling blade and flicker strike to pick off the rare and with good usage of flasks.

This build dont do regen and bm.

Personally I avoid ele weakness, min max res, half regen and ele reflect maps. you can do them but you need to concentrate alot and slows down clear speed. I pretty much just alt my maps for pack size/magic and rare anyways and is enough to sustain up to 75/76

Boxes are much safer if you do them correctly, ie lure mobs next to box, kill them and open the box and watch everything burns to death. Similarly fracture is a joke too. Either try it out yourself or watch the video for giggles.

Apex of Sacrifice
http://youtu.be/bNTWAYJhtY0

Precinct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0-KsTjEZAc

Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufjuVoOA6I

Crema with Zana nerco (sea witches and fracture yay!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5O-dEUJeJU

Dark forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPPxwNiL4c

gorge speed run
http://youtu.be/Hd9AaTLABhM