[2.0] YeahPete's Hardcore Elemental Molten Striker | custom Loot Filter | Affordable

Welp.

Was doing a Zana Academy map and had to port out. Was getting some nasty damage spikes, game was feeling laggy. Instead of investigating further I decided to just push through the lag I've done it before anyways plus my gems were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO close to lvl 20 to get quality on all of them. So. I threw up a low level map and was tearing through it. Get to a strongbox and I don't even think twice since everything is instantly dieing all around me. Yeah thiers a bit of lag but who cares right... Welp I open the strongbox and try to leap away. Off the corner of my screen I see it... Detonate Dead. Trying to leap away and I saw 2 leaps not register and there I am atop a whole cluster of corrupted corpses I just killed. I was hoping I got away and them boom dead. :(.

ANd there you you have it folks. Even the easiest of maps, you decide to not follow the simple rules it will bite you. What I should have done was survey before opening the box and leap in the direction of no corpses. I take 100% of the blame lag or no lag you always survey the area period.

I took a video in A3 town and it showed 4k frame times. Wasn't even lag. Something in my computer was really bugging out. I restarted the game and all was fine.

So another tip. If the game isn't feeling right, restart the application. I restarted and everything was fine.

Good news is I will check what gear I have laying around in standard. I'll get some gear together and make a video of some higher maps to prove the build is viable in higher maps. I have one more set of atzuri pieces. I will give that a go too when I get the gear together.

I'm still a bit of a noob when it comes to this game so excuse the stupid question. What does the loot filter do and how do I use it?

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What does the loot filter do and how do I use it?

It filters out all of the shit that appear while playing and only shows the stuff you might actually use.

Go to Folder Options and make sure to find "Show all Extensions"

Create a text file.
Copy all the text in my loot filter.
Paste it into a blank text file.
Navigate to:
My Documents < My Games < Path of Exile
Put the text file there
Change the extension for the text file by replacing the .txt w/ .filter.
When you start your game in the options / UI tab at the very bottom select the loot filter.

Btw, very good elemental claw with life per hit and nice APS for sale on Warbands, feel free to write me an offer.




I just upgraded to what i believe, is the number one elemental claw in poe. If you found any better one please tell me.

Reeeep, was gonna happen sooner than later anyway

75 Plateau Map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhIjo-al8SY&feature=youtu.be

Should be done in 5 mins?


I scrounged an Alpha's and Belly I had in standard I want to see what this build is capable of. Wish I had some chaos resist gear and some nice 30% movespeed tri-res boots but oh well.

DPS is WAYY up there. over 50k tooltip w/ 3 frenzy charges. I saw 57k tooltip w/ many of my buffs active.

What I will be working on is getting some specialized flasks together, making a few more high level map vids, while leveling a Purity of Fire and a Purity of Lightning to 20 and then go for an Atziri run. Then I'll make a final build video.

Thanks so much for the build guide YeahPete. This was my first ever POE character and it got me all the way to Merc A3 on Tempest (long time HC D2 player so I went straight for HC). It's been fun to play and worked well as a league starting character. Kinda surprised I made it that far to be honest!

You know whats weird...I also RIPd to a corpse explosion strongbox, so reading your post was uncanny. it was one of the tempests that repeat skills. after opening i whirled out but i think it auto-whirled me right back near it. there were also some existing corpses as id just killed gravicius and his entourage. in any case i didn't have enough time to react. so thats just a game lesson really. the build feels tanky so long as you can be whacking on things.

do corpse explosions cicrumvent defenses? they really took my health (>4k) down in about a second. maybe its a weak point of the build or is it just that CE is dangerous and to be avoided like the plague by all? i guess in my case enduring cry didnt even get a chance to be active because i was whirled back in to the pack/bodies by the tempest prior to casting - so that could have been a factor.

once again thanks and will definitely be remaking again soon!

I'm interested in playing this build since I really like the defensive mechanisms behind it. A few questions...

Would you recommend the passive tree going over to Templar or the one staying in the Ranger area? I have a free respec on my lvl 85 Ranger I can use...I'm leaning more towards the Templar tree since the Ranger tree seems to spend too many points on increased armour/evasion in a build which doesn't really have much of it.

How important are critical strikes for this build? For that matter, what is your critical strike chance with Molten Strike at the moment?

You mention Imperial Claws, which I think had their implicits changed from life gain on hit to leech. So I guess Gemini or Noble Claws are the best now - but I can't seem to find any good ones (with two types of elemental damage + increased elemental damage + attack speed) to buy. Do you rely on self-crafting these?

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do corpse explosions cicrumvent defenses?

In a way. Detonate dead always hits and does fire damage. So even Max resist and 5.6k hp and 12% reduced fire dmg from arctic armor it still ripped me. Spell block does not block it and phase acrobatics does not dodge it. One of the reasons why investing heavily into block is pretty useless.

I was also auto-killed by detonate dead. The approach of each strongbox if Unid need to be approached as if it's a Freeze + Detonate Dead strongbox and always approach it from an area where there are no corpses. I made the mistake and paid for it.

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Would you recommend the passive tree going over to Templar or the one staying in the Ranger area

Templar area has more hp, but don't invest into the aura nodes until you have Alpha's. Also. Get the onslaught node by Point blank. I have not yet added this to the tree. HUGE DPS boost that gives. Only time I may despec that is for Atziri. I also spec'd out of double curse and opted for more hp. I have so much dps I am killing stuff before I can even curse them. I chose the onslaught buff instead of double curse.

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How important are critical strikes for this build? For that matter, what is your critical strike chance with Molten Strike at the moment?

You don't really need crit until you start alching maps. I will make more videos when I have flasks but I'll explain a bit here.
You see all those flasks. WHen you alch maps, you can't really control the mods and they become a major pain in the ass. Chilled and shocked ground, elemental weakness, vulnerability, reflect, ect.... With these flasks you can completly negate the effects of the map and with ~30% crit chance, you can keep the flasks up 100%.

I have about 28% crit chance.

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You mention Imperial Claws

PoE Website shows Imperial Claws as life on hit. You might be seeing legacy claws and they used to be leech.

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Do you rely on self-crafting these?

I bought mine in tempest. Just do a search in poe.trade for:
Claw
APS > 1.79
Life on hit > 14
DPS > 200
Then personally search each claw and determine which are in your price range and what mods you can add. I got super lucky when I found mine it had almost every mod I needed.

You can self craft pretty easy by either alching or all those alterations. Way cheaper to buy though. Your weapons don't need to be very good either speed is most important then weapon ele dmg, then the dmg mods. You can do plenty of damage with just the aura's. You can also use a shield w/ just a single claw for extra tankiness.

Thank you for your detailed answer! It will help me a lot in tinkering with the build...

I value the Surgeon's flasks well but I have a hard time justifying taking crit nodes/using the crit chance gem just because of them. It seems that apart from that interaction, your critical strikes don't have that much effect since you don't have lot of multiplier (unless you put in Crit Multiplier as a sixth link) and you don't enhance the ignite effect from the fire damage in a meaningful way - or am I overlooking something? I am thinking of trying this build without crit, meaning something like Increased AOE/Added Fire Damage/Point Blank as fifth link.

It's a shame almost all the Claw/Dual Wield/One-handed melee weapon nodes seem to scale off physical damage and thus are not much use to this build. Also, the wiki says the elemental weapon damage can roll on shields as well but there is exactly one shield in poe.trade with it and that's Aegis Aurora. Do you think Doryani's Catalyst as offhand weapon would work or is the loss of implicit life gain on hit for that weapon too big? 0.2% life leech doesn't really make much difference it seems.