1.3 The Community's Molten Strike, Face Melting Build!! 1h+shield and 2h variants available

1.1.5 MS base - Added 1h damage + Block nodes or 2h damage + More HP as desired.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBAnEEswUtDjwUIBRNFHEWbxiRGYUaOBpVGmwbyB0UJKonLymlMn4yiTboNuk6Uj38QzFKfU4qUEdVxlb6Vw1X4lhjWfNbr14TXz9gS2EhZKNmnmegah5yqXK7dEF07Xbnd-V673zZgziE74d2jM-PRpAKkFWRzp7Nn8uhbaIApKykwqcwp4SoGKyqr422QbnNu-28n8AaxtjPZdDQ0iHdDeNq45_sOO8O73zwH_Iv8932SPcy-tL8xQ==

***The main build includes shock chance as I highly recommend doing the shock + Three Dragons Combo***

AMPLIFY - Thanks to Falcyon we now see that Amplify is totally worth the investment up to low and mid level maps. High level maps still need to be tests. This is a great node that gives a little bit more damage and a little bit greater AoE radius. 74+ map testing still to be done.


Progession (In Order)

Go for Resolute Techniques


Blood Magic, Unwavering Stance, Iron Grip, HP and Golem's Blood


Iron Reflexes, HP, and Point Blank


HP + Shield Block + Elemental Adaptation



Shock(if you have 3 dragons) then Templar


Block + more HP


**There is a Int node in the final build - grab this when you run Doryani's**

2 Handed Variant, 100% viable
to be added

(note: You should be specing out of BM passive by now since you can use a 5L chest.. also you can move the 1 point by BM and place it in line with the duelist tract setting you up for some damage nodes for the future)

Lots of options from here:
-duelist section( IAS, dmg, hp, incr. melee range, move speed reduction... its just a little bit of everything)
-Some people just love those berserking nodes and can grab those and the scion wheel if they wanted.

if 2h
-Wrecking Ball Cluster
-Marauder 2h Dmg nodes

***My top recommendation if you have the $$ is grab block, get a shield and buy a Doryani's Catalyst***

non AoF Variant:
Drop LL for Faster Attacks or Added Fire and use a Carnage Heart

AoF Variant:
Run Fire Pen instead of LL while using Doryani's Catalyst and Doryani's Invitation.

Hi, Fhark here, it took me till my second character before I learned a few basic recipes which should make you a fair amount of currency as you level. Here is a small guide to help you have a much easier time on your first or your next character. There are more recipes but these are the ones more commonly used.

1. Chromatic Recipe: any 3 different colour's linked will vendor for a chromatic. Doesn't matter if the item is normal, magic or rare. This recipe will probably make 1/2 your currency as you level.

2. Selling of Quality Goods: Any group of quality (Q) item's that add up to 40Q can be vendored for the relevant crafting item, eg: total 40Q armour will vendor 1 armour scrap. The same works for blacksmith stones. Generally this method is only useful for q gems as gem cutter prisms are worth a lot but the recipe can help for fresh starts and new leagues to help get people blacksmith stones to rolling blue weapons.

3. Chaos Orb Recipe: any full group of items that drop from a lvl60 or higher map can be vendored for 1 chaos. Eg 2 rings, 1 amulet, belt, shoes, gloves, chest armour, helmet and 1 2handed weapon or 2 1handed weapons. Unidentified is worth 2 chaos. Regal recipe is the same but all items lvl75 or higher. To determine an items level click on the item and type /itemlevel in the console.

4. Cartographer's Chisel Recipe: Any stone hammer, rock hammer or gavel at 20% quality with any map.

5. Unidentified Coral or Paua amulet: One rare Coral or Paua ring with 7 iron rings will vendor one unidentified Coral or Paua amulet. Useful for unidentifed Chaos recipe.

Currency: Basic Rates: get your monies worth.
NOTE: These are average rates to guide you through Wraeclast. Real market value will always depend on the league itself but this is a good starting point.

*Vendor: 2 Alterations = 1 jewellers, 4 jewellers = 1 fusing.
*Market: 2 fusings = a chaos, however
*40 fusings = an exalt and
*30-32 chaos = an exalt, so if you have to sell your fusings try to get 10c:16fus etc.
*8-9 chromatics = a chaos
*3 chisels = a chaos
*3-4 alchs = a chaos
* orbs of chance = a chaos.
*2 scouring = a regret, 1 regret = 2-3 chaos
*GCP gem cutters prism = 3-4 chaos

Further to help capitalize on chaos gained it is almost always better to convert currency into fusings or regrets as these will give a greater return. These two items also sell quicker then their lower component counterparts.

Good luck out there!
-Fhark

Firstly explore everything, break everything... As a new character this can lead to some easy extra chaos, even an exalted orb. For example: I got my first ex of the league from a barrel in act1 cruel graveyard. $$ is everywhere, it only goes to those who look.

Orbs of Fusing (2 to 3:1 chaos)
(dont have fusings, convert some lower currency to fusings)
Gemcutters Prisms (1:3 chaos or sometimes 2:3 chaos)
Orbs of Regret (ranging from 1:2C to 2:3C).

These are what I generally will try and sell these for on the market. We are looking to try and get as much bang for our buck without spending too much time trying to sell things. By this you should at least have your Multistrike by the early to mid 20's.

Selling quality gems you will not use is another easy chaos gain, use poe.xyz.is to price them as well as uniques you may find. (generally only for 10%+. You can use the quality recipe in Fhark's section to convert the lesser ones).

This method also plays into the an easy way to gear... see the next section

First, we use poe.xyz.is. Make sure you select the appropriate league.

Enter your parameters and hit search.

example:
I want a chest so I select "body"

I want armor or armor evasion so I simply put a "1" in min under armor and this will at least give me all the armor, armor evasion, and armor energy shield options (we can neglect this last one).

I need fire resists:
I select +#% to Fire Resists

I also need some cold resists:
I press "add mod" and then select +#% to cold resists

I lastly would like to try and get some HP on the item as well
I select +# to maximum life

Select buyout and online now (if in a rush) to see the most convenient options available. The same idea can be applied to purchasing end game items but do not just simply shop online now. Check out all your options and add the player to your friends list if they are not online and wait a bit for them to appear. When you add them right click and "edit note". here put the item name and price you were looking for. Helps a lot.

Now most upgrades should be listed around 1 chaos or so, for leveling gear at least... 99% of the time you can contact the player and since leveling rares don't move fast you can probably pick it up by offering 1 fusing, or 10 alts, or even an alchemy for it.

That is gearing on a budget and is a great way to keep your defenses capt.

If you don't love spread sheets, then why did you click this?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai7lxebgMvl1dGhiNDRINks2NFgtTy1GM3VGcWVheFE&usp=sharing

What you know about this!?

https://docs.google.com/a/my.csun.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aola0b1my3YOdENwdFlOTUNWUVRuRE9kcE92d0lJRGc&usp=sharing#gid=0

Marohi, oh Marohi, how your damage is so leet but your price is so high.

Do you need a Marohi? Hell no. Do you want a Marohi? up to the preference of the stupid rich player who can blow currency out the door.

What is the advantage of a Marohi? Best damage per projectile hit. But its DPS is not superior to many rares for a 5L (6L debatable) or less overall.

For example:


has 50 more weapon dps when you calculate in the attack speed then Marohi (perfect phys dmg roll) and cost me about 1/4 or 1/5 the price of a 5L. Now this saves me tons of currency cause I can now easily by 5L or even a 6L chest piece. We don't need the sockets in our weapon either and since a 6L Marohi is like what, 20EX on ambush, its just not worth it.

The pro of Marohi is it does act as a 7 link (with +Inc Aoe gem trait on it). It is slow as hell though and you would want quite a bit of attack speed to counter this... thankfully this build does provide that.

On the other hand the IAS from the build works great with a rare, like the one i listed. Lots and Lots of fireballs oh my.

TL:DR - If you are a billionare go for it. If you are an average joe skip it. Only worth it if it is a 6L.

Not worth it. The damage lost is massive with this weapon. I tested this with and without AoF. One would need to stack some serious phys dmg nodes to make up for it and the defenses are not worth the dps drop. Much better to just run a 1h weapon + shield.

Bringer of Rain put up a good race but in the end it simply is not worth running. BoR just has to many holes to fill when running with molten strike. We need to run BM for auras as the loss to grace is a big hit vs our physical mitigation. Life Leech was less of an issue when running with a Carnage Heart as we could sustain ourselves quite well off of the physical damage alone but it could not hold up as well versus burst attacks. Also when the community progresses to a 6 linked item it will be hands down the better choice to run. Also BoR is vulnerable to stun. We could run but this would require us to run both BM and LL dropping our damage below a 5L community set up by a decent bit.

TL:DR to many holes to fill with BoR leaves it subpar to LC + three dragons

Char: Kry_BringerOfMoltenRain
Level:67
RIP: 0
Chaos Earned:113c (found a good roll Rats Nest)
Chaos Spent:48.5c
Current Wallet:64.5c
Goal: 3ex+ Doryani's Catalyst level 75


HP:4057
Res: 79/78/78
tooltip dmg: 6050 (1h dps)
*running point blank now, 50% dps boost to projectiles*
*running Hatred*

current weapon:



lvl 19 - Bought Multistrike 2C (ambush) expect 4c in HC
lvl 21 - Bought 4L Geofri's 2C
lvl 31 - Bought Carnage Heart 10c (Please do not purchase this until my testing is done).
*I find the best time to gear up is before your piety kill or before you work towards dom*
lvl 36 - Bought HP/x2 res helm, chest, boots - 1 fusing each (138/88/95) Pretty set for cruel. Still looking at gloves.
lvl 48 - Bought 5L chest - 3c
lvl 49 - Bought 300dps lvl 65 1handed axe - 30chaos
lvl 51 - Bought 1h weapon - 3c (could have gotten better for less but I was impatient)


Current Skill Tree (not updated)

http://poebuilder.com/#character/AAAAAgEABS0OPBQgFHEYkRpVG8gnLymlMn426DpSPfxDMUp9TipQR1b6Vw1YY1nzW69eE18_YEthIWSjZp5noGoecql0QXTtdud673zZhO-HdozPkFWRzp7Nn8ukrKTCpzCoGKyqtkG77byfwBrG2NIh3Q3jn-8O8i_2SPcy9778xQ==

-Take unwavering stance till you equip your BoR

Yes this is a shield build, but we do not need shields until we want to replace Geofri's, or if we get lucky we can get a temporary replacement giving us more time to save.

***I will level this build through merc3 without relying on anything I previously own. All items bought will be earned from drops only on this character***

Normal Recap


Cruel Recap