[old build] Doomfletch's Prism Elementalist (Budget and strong) [Top30 PHC]

Path of Exile in 2.3 is actually quite laggy for me(as you can see in the videos below), so I don’t feel comfortable recording. If it gets better than I’ll make some proper videos of t13+ maps or boss kills.

T13 Waterways gfy. This is how the build clears in high maps.

Here’s a video showcasing the single target burns.

Here’s a 2man Gorge speed run. (Seawitches/Rampage so super easy, just wanted to show the potential speed of the build).

I’ll record some videos that showcase the build better when I can.

Base Leveling Tree Skeleton.

Level 85 Complete Tree. From here get Jewel sockets, Frenzy Charges, and more %Life.

Current tree at level 96. Getting the 4% life node and Frenzy Charges to finish the build at 100.

In this section I’ll attempt to explain how the bow works, and how to scale it higher. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.



This mod: Gain 110% of Bow Physical Damage as Extra Damage of each Element. Flat physical damage is used as a base for this bow’s damage. Elemental damage added after, from this base physical damage. We then scale this total sum through other modifiers. Elementalist is also used for free shock/chill/ignite based off the total damage. Because there are many steps to the damage calculation we can use damage scaling modifiers to double or triple dip with this damage scaling.

To make this simpler to explain, I’ll focus on 3 parts to the damage; base phys, added ele, burn damage. I’ll also presume that the base damage of the bow is 10-20 phys, and the mod is 100% of phys added as ele.

So first, you need a high base damage to this bow. Flat x-x phys damage on other gear also applies to this base phys (gloves, quiver, jewelery, etc). So we scale this bow like Facebreaker builds, stacking flat phys as a base to our damage.

Lets presume that with all gear your base phys is 10-20 (will be way higher, using this to simplify this explanation). Then 10-20 is added as each element, leaving you with 10-20phys, 10-20light, 10-20cold, 10-20fire. So 80-160 combined damage. The tooltip for this bow is inaccurate, it does not show your added damage.

Now, how to scale this higher. Projectile Damage double dips with this bow. It scaled the base damage, then the burn that's based off the base damage.

I hope that makes sense.

The two most important stats for DPS scaling:
Flat Physical Damage (for a base, like Facebreaker)
% Projectile Damage (double dip)

Other ways of scaling damage:
% Physical Damage
% Elemental Damage (double dip)
% Weapon Elemental Damage
% Fire Damage (double dip)
Flat Elemental Damage

Conflux, proliferation, no reflect.

Shaper of Desolation (Normal Lab)
Elemental Conflux for hock/Chill/Ignite on all monsters.

Beacon of Ruin (Cruel Lab)
Elemental Proliferation, spreading the conflux and greatly increasing AoE clearing.

Liege of the Primordial (Merciless Lab)
Allows you to use Flame + Lightning Golems for great damage buffs and boss tanking.

Paragon of Calamity (Uber Lab)
No reflect issues, slight occasional damage buffs.

A 6L isn't required, the build can be created from a very small budget. My gear is obviously extremely good, but I'm level 95+.


Doomfletch's Prism bow.


Drillneck for flat phys, some defense and mad Pierce/projectile double dipping :)


Jewelry with flat phys, life, res. Attack speed, leech, accuracy, %wed, ele dmg all bonuses.


Rustic Sash base with life, res, %wed or movement speed. Meginord's Girdle is great for leveling but a good Rustic beats it.


Evasion helmet with life, res, accuracy.


Evasion gloves with flat phys, attack speed, life, res. Accuracy, leech and ele damage is bonus.


Brinerot Whalers are best in slot, phys% and proj% damage.
Atziri's Step a solid option for more defense and move speed.


This is my favourite body armour, it enables strong cwdt+immortal call, and has solid defense stats too.
Lightning Coil, Kintsugi, Kaom's Heart also good options. Or even a rare evasion 6L. Cloak of Flame and Lioneye's Vision also strong, but hard to get 5/6 off colours.


My preferred pot setup, use what you're used to.

My gem setup is in the gear above.

Split Arrow is used because it has large AoE coverage, can hit a lot of monsters, and from there proliferate burns. All without needing to use LMP/GMP that reduce the base hit. We want to use our support gems for MORE damage multipliers.

Split Arrow + Pierce + Physical Projectile Attack Damage + Weapon Elemental Damage.
Faster Attacks and Slower Projectile as your 5th and 6th link, whichever order you prefer. 6L is not required, I got mine at level 91.

Auras:
I use Arctic Armour and Grace. You don’t really need DPS auras, but can use them if you like. Essence Worm ring could be used for Grace (or Wrath), and Arctic Armour and Herald of Thunder for 70% reservation.

CWDT:
Immortal Call, Enfeeble.

Mobility:
Blink Arrow + Faster Attacks +(Faster Projectiles optional)

Golems:
Summon Flame Golem + Summon Lightning Golem (+Minion Life optional)

Utility:
Blood Rage, Vaal Haste, Enduring Cry.

Leveling is really easy past level 40.
As a Witch, level however you want until level 28. I used bows from level 9 (unique bows + dps leveling gear). You could alternatively use spells.

At level 28 swap to Doomfletch and flat phys gear (jewelry, Meginord’s, Foxshade, etc).

At level 40 equip Doomfletch’s Prism, complete the Lab, get Conflux and faceroll the rest of the game.

I got to level 80 in around 12 hours. My friend did it in 10 hours 25mins.
The first difficulty isn’t amazing leveling speed, but level 40+ it’s gg.

Expect to get 350-560 million exp per hour in Dried Lake.

Bandits:
Normal: Oak
Cruel: Krait (or Oak)
Merc: Krait (or Oak)

Because the Split Arrow tooltip doesn’t show the real damage, or the real dps, there’s no point in showing it.

Here’s my defense in hideout with no potions.
Here’s my defense in hideout with potions.
Plus Endurance Charges, Immortal Call, Enfeeble.

Can run every map mod, the only ones I skip are “-max resistances” (rippy on HC) and “cannot leech mana/life” (red maps only and super rare).

Make sure to over cap your resistance for Elemental Weakness maps (in hideout: 165% for yellow maps, 169% for red maps).
No/low regen is no problem.
Phys reflect hurts a little but safe.
Ele reflect hurts a little more but safe if you don’t spam in to “allies can’t die totem/aura”. Don’t run Ele reflect maps before doing Uber lab!