[2.2] Arly's Lightning Arrow - Elemental Pathfinder

Im slightly confused as to how you maintain your power charges, in your videos i dont see you cast it, i've been following your build, but apply the curse for charges via split arrow + chain

Could you please enlighten me?

build is going great so far!

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Yaaaak wrote:

Im slightly confused as to how you maintain your power charges, in your videos i dont see you cast it, i've been following your build, but apply the curse for charges via split arrow + chain

Could you please enlighten me?

build is going great so far!

Curse on Hit/Assassin's Mark/Herald of Thunder

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Nephalim wrote:

New optimized skill tree for mana based builds

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIBAF4B0QMeBS0FtQguDPINjQ3RES8WvxmOGo0byB9BIXYj0yP2JP0mlSoLKwouUzBxMHwx-jY9N9Q51DpCPs9DMUd-Sn1LeEz_TZJOKlFHVUtaGlsmW69d8mHiYqxjQ2VNZ6BsjG5pbydwUnTtdct293rvfXV_K3_7hNmGzod2idOK8Iw2jX2Nfo2_j2CaapuNnaqgn6OKpcuv67CrtMW3trvjvTa95r6nwTPC7MMzxILEos_d02_TftQj1fjWitrB3ajjhOOf51TpRupi7T_tg-4O73rxivzF_rr_3g==?accountName=Nephalim&characterName=Arlianth

Jewel equivalences

Gale prism: 13337.9 dps

Entropy cut: 13347.6 dps

Hynotic bane: 13086.

It is very hard beat attack speed as an affix but damage and multi will help you one shot packs and shock where as IAS has diminishing returns and is great at buffing damage numbers but not as great for for the fore mentioned. IAS will also burn your mana or life faster.

bow attack speed + projectile damage provides the best bang for you for buck but even if the dps number is lower on the multi/light dam jewel, it still may be more beneficial. Since LA is a lightning skill you can benefit from lightning damage, crit/crit dam for lightning skills and attack speed with lightning skill jewel affixes.

Even the same affix but different roll will have a large impact. 6ias/10 projectile vs 8ias/12 projectile for example has a 220 dps difference.

Should this tree replace the one on the main post?

Hey, got myself an alpha howl.
help me figure something out.

wrath 50%
anger 50%
HOI 25%

alpha get 8% reduction in the mana reserved - meaning i still cant run all 3 of them at the same time.

what am i doing wrong?

Great build, good fun, but I'm really struggling for life. I am currently @ 1500 and pretty much any boss will 1 shot me.

Any suggestions as to where I can make up survivability (be it through auras or items) on a budget?

Thank you.

Get most of the life node first.
Get life on every piece of gear.

Aura dont give health sadly,maybe one day they make a + life aura :).

so its either :

1-Your passive tree. Id aim for 200% at the least but im on hardcore :)
2- If Your items doesnt have life. Get LIFE/RESIST FIRST. This is a must. Then go fancy and try to get added damage,attack speed,wed,shit like that. Alwais get 80+ life on every piece you can,under that its a crap item to me.

Edit: Rings and amulet have less life though.

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Deadbringer wrote:

Get most of the life node first.
Get life on every piece of gear.

Aura dont give health sadly,maybe one day they make a + life aura :).

so its either :

1-Your passive tree. Id aim for 200% at the least but im on hardcore :)
2- If Your items doesnt have life. Get LIFE/RESIST FIRST. This is a must. Then go fancy and try to get added damage,attack speed,wed,shit like that. Alwais get 80+ life on every piece you can,under that its a crap item to me.

Edit: Rings and amulet have less life though.

Thank you for the help. I just realised I missed out a whole node section of life! I only have 1700 now but it's a start.

Does this build benefit from any cast on damage taken combos? Molten shell, frost wall etc?

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xour wrote:

Should this tree replace the one on the main post?

Yes, I have revised both versions of the passive tree both for BM and non BM here and in the main post. Use the one in the main post because it will net you 4 passives.

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huntsmon wrote:

Hey, got myself an alpha howl.
help me figure something out.

wrath 50%
anger 50%
HOI 25%

alpha get 8% reduction in the mana reserved - meaning i still cant run all 3 of them at the same time.

what am i doing wrong?

Use the tree for BM gem. Meaning take the 3 aura nodes next to vaal pact.

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kassynder wrote:

Great build, good fun, but I'm really struggling for life. I am currently @ 1500 and pretty much any boss will 1 shot me.

Any suggestions as to where I can make up survivability (be it through auras or items) on a budget?

Thank you.

Prioritize resist and dps on jewels and get life on gear slots and passive tree. I recommend CWDT+temporal chains or enfeeble + vaal grace + increased duration. You can replace vaal grace for immortal call if you're willing to to manual cast enduring cry but I know this is something most players dread having to do or replace assassin's mark for warlord's mark (to generate endurance charges) but you will lose out on power charge generation which I do not suggest.


For the time being I would only recommend going BM gem if you have koam's heart, 6L lightning coil or a high evasion 6 link chest in order to take advantage of the defensive power of having a third 50% aura for grace or for herald of thunder + arctic Armour.

There are some amazing things you can do with heralds+warlord's mark, arctic amour and coil in order to mitigate physical damage and while you can use the third aura for anger I do not think this will out perform a 6th damage gem like added light or critical damage.

Prior to 2.1 it was not viable to run mana but all that changed with the introduction of mana attach leech and improved mana per level gains.

Updates: as suggested, blast rain is now used in place of TS and the life regen cluster above coldhearted calculation is a good choice for those who already have a lot of health.

I'm using a 6L Voltaxic and changed the ICD gem to VM as you suggested, but it seems to have lowered the cold damage of my HOI enough to cause a lot less freezes on crit. So even though the tooltip dmg is higher with VM, I get less HOI on kill procs, assassins mark curses and power charge generation. I'm unsure if I should get more crit multi on my gear to fix this or maybe just go with VM and not take the 4th power charge on the tree.

UPDATE:
I replaced my %lightning dmg talisman with a crit multi and flat cold dmg amulet, which seems to greatly help with the shattering. 9% of my dmg output is now cold, so I don't think it will matter too much against reflect.

First of all: great build and thanks for sharing!


I'm at 17k GMP / 3.5k life at lvl 80 using ur setup.

Equip:




Now I tried sth else and replaced chain with pcoc, got those 4 nodes to get piercing shot (40% pierce) and connected projectile weakness with curse on hit et voila: free pierce and dmg went up from 17k to 28k

Guess I'll stick to that setup since it seems more viable for me