[2.6] The Curse Whisperer - Tri-Curse CI Whispering Ice EleRaider - Viable for Everything

These were recorded in different leagues with different class versions of the build but it works the
same for all versions.
Endgame Bosses with Nasty Mods (2.5 Witch)
Hall of Grandmasters (2.5 Marauder)
Tier 16 Guardians (2.5 Marauder)
The Shaper (2.5 Marauder)
Uber Lab (2.5 Marauder)
Xoph's Domain (2.5 Marauder)
Esh's Domain (2.5 Marauder)
Tul's Domain (2.5 Marauder)
Uul-Netols's Domain (2.5 Marauder)
Chayula's Domain (2.5 Marauder)
Uber Atziri (2.3 Witch)
Regular Atziri (2.1 Scion)
The Pale Council (2.3 Witch)
Leveling as CI (2.4 Templar)

Older videos from the pre-Atlas maps:

Twinned Bosses (2.2 Scion)
Mapping with Reflect + No Regen (2.2 Scion)

After 1 month in a temp league:

Standard league:

This build is based on Intelligence which provides both offense (Icestorm damage) and defense (ES, leech amount). Converting cold damage to fire maximizes the offensive and defensive power.

Offense


Defense


Utility

Important: Always 20q your staff and chest armor before attempting to 6S them (and linking the armor). Quality improves your roll by a lot. You can do it a lot cheaper than Vorici with average luck, as long as it's 20q.

Mandatory uniques


Recommended uniques


Rare armor/gloves/boots


Belt


Jewels


Enchantment


My gear

Arctic Armour lv 20, ideally 21
Ball Lightning lv 4
Blasphemy 20/20, ideally 20/23
Cast while Channelling 20/20, ideally 21/20
Cold To Fire 20/20, ideally 21/20
Concentrated Effect 20/20, ideally 21/20
Curse on Hit 20/20, ideally 20/23
CWDT lv 1
CWDT lv 20
Discipline lv 20, ideally 21
Enfeeble 20/20, ideally 21/20
Faster Attacks 20/20
Fire Penetration 20/20, ideally 21/20
Fortify any level, ideally 20q
Immortal Call lv 20
Leap Slam any level
Life Leech any level
Minion Life 20/20
Orb of Storms lv 17 or better
Scorching Ray 20/20, ideally 21/20
Summon Flame Golem 20/20
Temporal Chains 20/20, ideally 20/23
Warlord's Mark any level, ideally 21/20

Optional:
Elemental Focus 20/20, ideally 21/20
Item Rarity 20/20, ideally 20/23
Culling Strike 20/20

Recommended priority of adding quality:
- Faster Attacks
- Blasphemy
- Curse on Hit
- DPS gems: CtF, CwC, Fire Penetration, Concentrated Effect
- Golem
- Fortify
- Temporal Chains
- Enfeeble
- Scorching Ray
- Warlord's Mark

Uber Lab farming is the best way to add quality to your gems. You can often find treasure chests filled with random quality gems to vendor for the GCP recipe.

If you are not into Uber Lab farming, then:
- for all gems except the DPS ones, level the gem to 20 or buy an uncorrupted 20/0 gem, vendor the gem + Gemcutter Prism to get a 1/20 gem, and then level that one. You can get them to lv 17-18 in no time, and that is enough for them to be efficient;
- for the DPS gems, level 2 copies at the same time (or buy 20/0) and then vendor one copy with GCP and re-level it in the swap weapons.

Weapon RRRBBB: Life Leech, Cold To Fire, Fire Penetration, Scorching Ray - Cast While Channelling, Concentrated Effect (or Elemental Focus).

Scorching Ray must be linked to CwC. No other links are required, Icestorm automatically uses all support gems in the staff.

The 6th socket:
- Concentrated Effect for max DPS against bosses
- Elemental Focus for slightly lower DPS but larger AoE for map clearing
- Item Rarity for better loot, if the map is easy enough

In the Standard league, you can also swap Fire Penetration for Item Quantity.

For the top bosses, a swap staff for MF culling can be quite useful. RRRBBG: LL, CtF, FP/IQ, SR - CwC, IR, Culling Strike. Swap to it when the boss is at 10% life or less.

Chest 5L: CWDT (lv 1) - Ball Lightning (lv 4) - Curse of Hit - Enfeeble - Temporal Chains.
Important: CWDT needs to be lv 1 and BL must be lv 4 or lower, do not level these gems! CoH can be any level, 20/20 is highly recommended. Enfeeble and TC must be lv 6 or higher, do level them. This setup will not work with low level curse gems or high level CWDT/BL.

4L: CWDT - Immortal Call - Summon Flame Golem - Minion Life.

3L: Leap Slam - Faster Attacks - Fortify.

2L: Blasphemy - Warlord's Mark.

Remaining sockets: Discipline, Arctic Armor, Orb of Storms, and a gem of your choice (e.g. Enlighten for more free mana, Enhance for stronger curses (6L chest), Vaal Discipline, Vaal Lightning Trap, Lightning Warp, Portal, etc).

Other than having to put the 5L into the body armor, the rest can be placed depending on the sockets you have. You will have to off-color 3 sockets in at least one item, so be prepared to spend 200-300 chromatic orbs.

The final curse comes in at lv 80. Until then you can put Enfeeble into 3L with CWDT-IC, summon the golem manually, and the body armor links are not even needed. You can use the body armor to get around the coloring issues until you are higher level and doing high tier maps.

You can also place the Leap Slam link into the Black Sun Crest wasting its +1 gem level bonus, until you get enough chroms to color everything for the optimal setup.

Lv 91 tree

This build is fully functional as early as lv 65, and fully safe at lv 80 (see the Leveling section). After that you just add Int/damage/ES upgrades every 2-4 levels and go as high as you want.

Kill - Kill - Kill

Skill points are far too valuable to spend on anything the bandits have to offer. If you are really struggling with resists, you can help Kraityn in Normal (and achieve the major goals 1 level behind the schedule).

Ascendant Elementalist + Raider

Elementalist is the elemental DPS class: +5% resist penetration and 30% increased damage from the matching golem, 4% reduced incoming elemental damage.

Raider is fantastic for mapping and leveling. You constantly have 3 frenzy charges and Onslaught as long as you keep killing mobs, amounting to 12% MORE damage, 32% increased cast and attack speed, and 20% increased movement speed - all of which in turn makes killing mobs faster.

And you also get 2 skill points and 80 Int from the Ascendancy nodes.

- Run around, see a pack of mobs, hit them with Scorching Ray + Icestorm.
- If they are not dead yet, pop Orb of Storms and keep channelling Scorching Ray.
- Don't be afraid to tank. This build is VERY tanky. Moreover, you want everything you hit to be close enough to leech from.
- You never run out of mana and can pre-cast Icestorm on triggered bosses.
- Warlord's Mark aura covers most of the screen and provides ES and mana leech and endurance charges, plus it makes Icestorm stun lock almost everything.
- Anything that manages to hit you gets chilled, Enfeebled and Temp Chained and can't really hurt you anymore.
- Whenever you take enough damage to notice it, Immortal Call triggers and makes you immune to physical hits for a short time.
- Your golem pops automatically when you take damage and distracts the enemy.
- Leap Slam to obtain Fortify, hop across the terrain and over Labyrinth traps.
- Be careful, of course. While you can faceroll almost everything, this build still cannot survive the attacks that are meant to 1-shot, such as Atziri's Gigantic Flameblast, Malachai's Teleport Slam, etc. Facetanking high DPS bosses should be done with caution. Use Leap Slam often to get Fortify when it expires. Depending on the map mods, you should be wary of elemental or physical damage that is not a problem without those mods.

Important: This is NOT a ranged attack build. You want to keep everything within your WM aura. If you are not leeching from the mobs you are killing, you are more vulnerable. The only times you should be attacking from range is when fighting high level bosses that can 1-shot you.

This build doesn't depend on flasks to function, so the choice is entirely up to you. All flasks have to be utility ones, because life flasks don't work with CI and mana flasks won't work because you leech mana faster than you spend it and you are almost always at full mana.

I currently use these flasks for most of my mapping in high tiers:

Ruby flask of Staunching protects against bleeding and reflect. Anti-freeze and anti-shock flasks are always a good idea. Quicksilver flasks with extra movement speed make things go really fast.

This build can do any map mods and almost any combinations of them.

Mods that grant monsters extra damage, speed, projectiles, AoE: this build is very tanky and can take a lot of punishment. Just be more careful. The same goes for the curses on you and lowered max resists.

Mods that grant monsters more life or resistances: they die a little slower, makes no difference otherwise. You have huge DPS and resist penetration.

Elemental reflect: this build easily outleeches even the top reflect mod, as long as you stay near the mobs you are hitting (i.e. they are covered by the WM aura; avoid range-killing in reflect maps). Because all our damage is fire, we enjoy the 13% LESS incoming fire damage benefit of Arctic Armor, and that works with reflect. However, map bosses have 60% less effect of curses, and that greatly diminishes the amount of ES leeched by Warlord's Mark. Bring a Ruby flask. Do not combine ele reflect with leech immunity. Pay attention to the modifiers on the mobs: some may be Curse Immune and must be mixed with other mobs to leech from while killing. Lowered max resists and Elemental Weakness also spell trouble: better leave the boss alone if you really have to run a map with such a combo. Beware of Necromancers: they can cast Flammability and Elemental Weakness. Have an anti-curse flask with you and don't combine ele reflect with 'inhabited by undead'. Take out Doedre's Damning and put Sibyl's Lament in the left ring slot:


Leech immunity: without the ability to leech you cannot tank well and have to range kill everything; be very careful and avoid reflective rares like plague. Do not combine this with ele reflect.

Hexproof: without the curses you are much more vulnerable to attacks and lose a big source of ES/mana leech. Swap Blasphemy and Warlord's Mark for Clarity and Rallying Cry. Do not combine this with ele reflect and be careful around reflective rares (mix them with other mobs to leech from).

The % reduced regen mods are not a problem at all, you will not even notice them. No Regen is fine as long as there is no leech immunity. Pop Orb of Storms before Scorching Ray, and stop casting just before the last enemy dies. Or click off Arctic Armour to have more room for error.

See the Boss Guide (moved to a separate post instead of posting a copy for each version of the build; it works the same for all versions)

Problem: It's hard to stay alive after switching to CI.
Cause: You are either not using WM+Blasphemy aura or trying to range kill everything instead of face tanking, or you are not using Int+ES items.
Solution: Use WM+Blasphemy and keep everything within your aura. Use the recommended items (see Leveling).

Problem: Not enough mana for WM+Blasphemy aura while leveling.
Cause: You are using Clarity.
Solution: Stop using Clarity. Your two auras should be Discipline and WM+Blasphemy.

Problem: Not leeching enough to stay alive while leveling, even with all mobs in the Blasphemy+WM aura.
Cause: Your DPS is too low, because your Int is too low and/or you are using wrong gems in the staff.
Solution: Use the recommended gear and gems. Make sure you don't neglect to take the jewel sockets as per the Leveling guide, they make a lot of difference while leveling. With appropriate DPS you will easily outleech everything in the storyline content. You MUST use gear with Int AND ES. Re-read the Leveling section starting from "Reaching lv 39" in case you overlooked or forgot something.

Problem: Constantly running out of mana while leveling.
Cause: You are either not using WM+Blasphemy aura, or staying too far away from the enemy, or not using Scorching Ray+CwC.
Solution: Use Scorching Ray+CwC and WM+Blasphemy, keep everything within your aura.

Problem: Getting perma-frozen or stun-locked.
Cause: You don't have protection against freeze and stun yet.
Solution: Until you get Unwavering Stance, don't leap into mob packs. Just cast Scorching Ray/Icestorm and get close enough to leech from them. Carry an anti-freeze flask.

Problem: Leap Slam is very slow.
Cause: Your Faster Attacks gem is too low level or has no quality.
Solution: Level the Faster Attacks gem and add quality to it. Leap Slam is still a slow attack, but it will be a lot faster with a 20/20 Faster Attacks.

1. Which version is the build is the best?
It really depends on your goals and personal preferences. The Witch is very powerful all around and almost immune to reflect, I usually recommend trying the Witch first if you haven't played this build yet. The Templar is very good at boss killing and has nice party support perks. The Marauder is fast and strong, good for clearing and running the Lab, a good boss killer too. The Scion has great clear speed and xp/hr which matters a lot if you plan on leveling above lv 94, although that class is in need of a buff.

2. Is this build HC viable?
Yes. It's extremely tanky and leechy. Just remember that this is NOT a ranged attacker build and don't try to range/off-screen everything. Your main defense is leech. Avoid leech immuninty, Hexproof and ele reflect maps to be safe. Don't tank the attacks that are meant to 1-shot you. Be careful while leveling, outlevel the content by a safe margin. Don't try to faceroll dangerous bosses until the build is complete (lv 80).

3. What map mods should I avoid?
You don't have to avoid any mods, but if you don't want to take risks, avoid these:
- Leech immunity. Without the ability to leech you have to range kill everything, and a random reflective rare means trouble. You can do this mod, but only if you really have to.
- Combination of elemental reflect with Hexproof.
- If you are trying to level above 94 or playing in HC, avoid ele reflect and curse immunity altogether to be safe.

Everything else is fine.

4. Can I play this as LL with Shavs?
You can but it will be not very good. You will have a lot less ES, chaos/poison damage will be a thing, and you won't be able to survive the top encounters. The extra auras from reserving life will not compensate for losing so much ES and Int. The 30% MORE damage from Pain Attunement is absolutely not worth the pain. We already use several multiplicative (MORE) damage modifiers.

5. What about Skyforth?
Too expensive, no Int, low ES, no resists and no real stun immunity anyway. You can still get stunned at the worst possible time. You can buy amazing body armor, gloves and boots, plus all the required uniques, i.e. your whole set of gear, for less than the price of Skyforth.

6. Can I play this as another class?
Yes. You can play as Witch, Templar, Marauder, or perhaps Ranger (I haven't tried that yet).

7. Can I MF with this build?
Yes, even in the highest tiers. This build has much more power than you need to clear most maps with most mods. You can always trade some of that power for more/better drops. Swap Concentrated Effect for Item Rarity (+70% IIR). If you are in the Standard league, swap Fire Penetration for Item Quantity (+44% IIQ). This will only lower your DPS without making you any less safe against most enemies. Against the top bosses you can use a swap staff with MF gems and Culling Strike. You can go even further by using items with inferior stats/resists that have MF, depending on how easy the map is for you.

8. Isn't leveling as CI hard?
Not for a build that does tons of AoE damage and leeches ES. The combination of WM+Blasphemy aura with Life Leech makes sure your ES is always replenished. Just don't play a range attacker. Get close to the mobs you are killing. See the Leveling section.

9. Can I drop Unwavering Stance and use all those points elsewhere?
Stun immunity is very important for this build in endgame content. You can easily get stunned (or even stun locked) and die in the top tier maps without it. This build has no Life from items or the tree and no physical defenses. Our defense is leech, and getting stunned is very bad for your ability to leech. Items such as Skyforth or Valyrium don't offer stun immunity, you can still get stunned at the worst possible time. Unwavering Stance costs only 5 skill points. All nodes on the way to it are used for good things, except 5. When considering an alternative to US, simply check if 5 skill points can compensate for the loss of Int/ES/resists/other good things and give you more power. With Skyforth and Valyrium they can't. If new alternatives become available in the future, they will be considered.

10. What about Hyporthermia?
Hypothermia is weaker than the weakest DPS support gem we use (Elemental Focus) and does not work on chill immune targets. All current endgame bosses are immune to chill.

11. What about Heretic's Veil?
No Int, losing 15% Int bonus from Black Sun Crest will hurt. Still won't have enough mana to run all curses as auras. Lv 22 Blasphemy is just more radius but it would lose 20q on Blasphemy (additional 10% curse efficiency = 0.2% leech from WM). Not worth the sacrifice.

12. What does Orb of Storms do?
It triggers Elemental Overload. Orb of Storms crits per hit, i.e. very, very often. In some endgame boss fights Orb is also used to curse the enemy (see the Boss Guide).

13. Why convert the damage to fire?
Adding fire damage mods on top of the cold damage ones is good for DPS. Ascendancy comes into play for even more DPS. Dealing with elemental reflect is a lot easier when it's fire because of Arctic Armour. See Build Theory for more details on the offensive and defensive bonuses of the damage conversion. It also makes it much easier to find good jewels.

Leveling with the Whispering Ice is a blast. You can start using it at lv 33 and switch to CI at the same level (although since CwC was added to the game it makes more sense to switch at lv 39). This way you get used to the play style and feel very comfortable by the time you graduate from the storyline content into the maps.

Video: Leveling as CI with the Whispering Ice (Templar version)

Don't listen to the people who say that leveling as CI is hard. It is for other builds, but not for this one, as long as you use the recommended items and take tree nodes in the recommended order.

It does not get any harder at higher levels and diffculties, as long as you do the recommended upgrade in A4C.

Other than the staff and jewels (that may cost 1-5c depending on the league), all other items used for leveling to 70 can almost always be found on poe.trade for 1 alc or less (with a total budget of 10-20 alc plus the staff). Some of the items for leveling can be easily crafted with minimal currency investment.

Before starting

This build is based on The Whispering Ice. You must have the staff before proceeding past lv 39 with this guide. If you don't have the staff, you can level any way you know how, but this guide will not work after lv 39 without Icestorm. Other skills such as Firestorm will not have enough dps/leech for safe and fun leveling as CI.

It is highly recommended to obtain Pyre before lv 39 (or at least before A4C), although a ring with high Int and some resists can work too. If you already have Astramentis, it will make everything trivial.

And the first jewel. It has to be Fertile Mind.

The following items, or similar, must be obtained before lv 39:

Everything before lv 39 is way too easy and you can use any self-found gear to get there.

Useful twink items for trivializing lv 1-39:


Don't skip quests that give skill or respec points:


Start

Your starting skill is Spectral Throw. Use it to kill Hillock and throw it away. Take Lightning Tendrils as your reward from Tarkleigh. You will be using it until lv 39. If you already have twink gear - great. If not - you'll still do fine. Use wands, not any other weapons.

You will be leveling as life+ES hybrid until lv 39. Any self-found gear with life and ES will do.

Lv 2: Buy a Paua amulet from Nessa for mana regen.

In the skill tree, go up and right via Harrier and head for Crackling Speed:
Lv 13 tree

The Climb: Rescue Navali. Get prophecies from her any time you find silver coins. They can be extremely helpful. Save crafting prophecies for lv 33.

Axiom Prison: Go to town, take Added Lightning Damage as your reward from Nyssa and support Lightning Tendrils with it.

Lv 10: You can start using Clarity or Rallying Cry to help with mana. However, Scion doesn't get either gem and needs to buy it from another class.

Next, grab the resist nodes:
- Fire/Cold/Lighting Resistance
- Sentinel
then some ES:
- Arcane Focus
- Deep Wisdom
and start preparing for greatness:
- Ghost Reaver
- Vaal Pact
- Snowforged
Lv 38 tree

Act 2: Go West, open the passage, finish The Way Forward, kill Alira, kill The Weaver, take Controlled Destruction as your reward from Silk.

Lv 18: Add Controlled Destruction to Lightning Tendrils.

Lv 20: Equip Astramentis if you have it and say good-bye to stat requirement woes.

Finished Crematorium: Take Warlord's Mark as your reward from Maramoa. Do not level this gem if you don't have Astramentis, because you won't have enough Str to use it after converting your Str nodes to Int at lv 39.

Lv 24: Buy Discipline from Clarissa and start using it.

Help Siosa in the Library, take Fire Penetration as your reward. Buy Blasphemy from Clarissa.

Killed Voll: Take Summon Flame Golem as your reward from Oyun and start using it.

Lv 38: If you have Astramentis, you can start using CWDT - Immortal Call.

Reaching lv 39 is the turning point of your experience: you can equip your Whispering Ice and spec into CI! Do it! Refund Crackling Speed, take CI, Infused Shield and Vaal Pact:
Lv 39: A4 Normal

You need 59 Str to equip the staff. If you don't have Astramentis, you need an amulet with as much Int as possible and some Str. Look for a rare amulet that has Int or Int+Str implicit, Int explicit and optionally All Stats and extra Str. Example:


Stop using Clarity. Your two auras should be Discipline and Warlord's Mark/Blasphemy.

Stop using the twink gear. From now on, you must be wearing gear with as much Int and ES as you can find. Your armor, helmet, gloves and boots must have Int AND ES. No need to buy the top rolls this early, just look for cheap items with Int, ES and some resists.

Special mentions:

Shavronne's Pace is by far the best boots for leveling all the way to 70. They are very cheap and common and give you 35% inc movement speed (you are always at full life with CI). Get them.


Icetomb is very common and cheap. It has good Int, ES, takes care of your cold resist and makes you immune to chill.


Doedre's Scorn is another cheap unique great for leveling, and it gives you extra damage for cursing the enemy too. This helmet is good until you reach 1200-1300 Int, somewhere around lv 80-85. After that Black Sun Crest will become the top option.

You can craft your own armor easily with no budget at all. You must have met Haku and Catarina by now. Don't ignore them. Helping them once or twice gets them to lv 2, and you can invite them to your hideout or just place their crafting benches there (type: /claim_crafting_benches).

All you need from the armor at this point is a level-appropriate amount of ES (example: see the wiki for ES gloves; at lv 39 you want Embroidered or Silk gloves) and 20+ Int. Pick up the drops of those types. If you happen to find a magic or rare drop with 20+ Int and extra ES - that's great. If not, you have options:
- if you have a rare drop that already has 20+ Int: craft increased %ES on it (Haku)
- if you have a rare drop without Int: craft Int on it (Catarina)
- if you have a white drop: use a transmutation orb and hope for Int or ES, then use an augmentation orb.

Use the belt slot to get as much resistance as you can.

Your staff should be at least 4S / 2L and have these gems in it, in the order of importance: Scorching Ray, Cast while Channelling, Life Leech, Elemental Focus, Controlled Destruction (5S), Cold To Fire (6S). SR must be linked with CwC. No other links required, all support gems in the staff apply to Icestorm automatically.

From that point on, you will be steamrolling everything on your way through the game. Use Quicksilver flasks to move fast, with various useful mods such as anti-freeze, anti-bleed, extra resists, etc.

Important: If you try to range kill everything, you lose the massive advantage of the WM aura. Don't be afraid to get close to the enemy! Very few enemies can really hurt you through that leech, stun and chill. The radius of the aura is very small at first, but it will grow substantially as you level the gem and take Blast Radius.

Next:
- 4 jewel sockets that you passed by (2x Fertile Mind, 1 Brute Force Solution, 1 Izaro's Turmoil or rare Int/dmg; see Gear-Jewels)
- Exceptional Performance (below the start)
- Blast Radius (near the Witch start)
Lv 43: A2 Cruel

You can do the Normal Labyrinth at this point. Dodge Izaro, don't tank him. Take 40 Int and skill point near Witch Ascendancy.

Next, through the Witch area:
- Occultist's Dominion
- Frost/Fire Walker
- Elemental Overload
- Avatar of Fire
Lv 53: A4 Cruel

Elemental Overload: Start using Orb of Storms to trigger it.

Avatar of Fire: Convert your damage to fire for the double-dipping bonuses and resist penetration. Your staff must have Cold to Fire now. Gems: Life Leech, Cold To Fire, SR - CwC, Fire Penetration (5S), Elemental Focus (6S).

A4 Cruel: Upgrade your gloves, belt and non-unique jewelry before facing Cruel Daresso and Malachai. Get more Int, ES, and start looking for resists for Merciless.

Next, grab a couple of things from the Shadow space:
- Coldhearted Calculation
- Nullification
and head into the Templar area:
- Light of Divinity
- Faith and Steel
- Elementalist
- Retribution
- Amplify
Lv 64: A4 Merciless

Finish the storyline content if you care about it, or grind to lv 80 quickly in the Lake, or head into the maps. Don't forget to free Deshret.

Lv 70: Wear your endgame gear and do the Labyrinth on Cruel and Merciless: take Elementalist Ascendant and 40 Dex, then skill point and Raider.

Now it's time to take the journey down the tree and get stun immunity for the endgame content, and then finish the build by adding the 3rd curse:
- Socket between Scion and Marauder (Brute Force Solution)
- Hard Knocks
- Unwavering Stance
- Whispers of Doom
Lv 80: safe and sound

By then your staff really should be 6S. Gems: Scorching Ray - Cast while Channelling, Life Leech, Cold to Fire, Fire Penetration.
The 6th socket:
- Concentrated Effect for tough bosses
- Elemental Focus for map clearing
- Item Rarity for MF'ing
SR has to be linked with CwC and optionally with EF for more damage. CE, FP and LL never need to be linked.

You are good to go for all content in PoE! Do the Endgame Labyrinth and grab the hybrid 20 Int/Dex and 20 Int/Str nodes. Farm Uber Lab for xp, currency, maps, sellable frags and uniques, random quality gems for the GCP recipe. Get the leech enchantment for your boots, then start enchanting the helmet. And keep working your way through the Atlas.

Video: Uber Lab farm run (Marauder)

After that, you just add more and more power:
- Lv 82: Templar area socket (Brute Force Solution)
- Lv 84: Witch area socket (Izaro's Turmoil)
- Lv 87: Socket between Witch and Templar (Izaro's Turmoil)
- Lv 91: Shadow area socket (Izaro's Turmoil)

At this level you can farm T16 and the Shaper once your gear is good enough to survive them.

And the final levels, should you decide to go that far:
- Refund Nullification and/or Faith and Steel if your resistances are good enough. You can also change your Normal Bandit reward to Kraityn to get 10% all resists for 1 point.
- better curses: swap the useless Curse Cast Speed node near Whispers of Doom for the two Curse Effect nodes.
- more DPS: Trickery, socket south-east of the start (Fertile Mind), socket near Whispers of Doom + either Might (Brute Force) or Agility (fertile Mind), Catalyse, Thief's Craft, Ballistic Mastery.

You can switch between those options every time you level up. Refund something smaller, grab something bigger.