[2.6] [WIP] SAB - The Unethical Ice Trapper - Ice Trap with chaos conversion

• Cold to Fire | 70 str | 26 str on gear | very important and easily achievable
• Spell Totem | 70 str | 26 str on gear | to be honest, we don't care about lvl because it gives damage
• Flame Golem and Stone Golem | 98 str | 54 str on gear | nice buff
• Fortify | 111 str | 76 str on gear | we don't care at all about lvl because it gives melee damage. q on the other hand gives fortify duration, so a 1/20 gem is what we need
• Increased duration | 111 str | 76 str on gear | both lvl and q gives increased duration, but 76 str on gear are a lot. don't go overboard just to max out this single gem

going to link it when i start to use them

ACT 1 NORMAL
start as a shadow. you can level as an ele trapper.
pick fire trap and link it with multiple trap as soon as you enter prison in act1.
do the prison trial.
after you enter cavern buy a lightning trap from nessa.
you can start spamming fire and lightning trap in rotation (trash clearing should be fine).

now, there's a thing i do with all of my trapper and that is to skip the crab and fairgraves missions in normal and cruel.
it's not a pro strat thing or anything like that, it's just my personal "fail-safe". bear with me, you'll see in merciless why i do this.

ACT 2 NORMAL
in act 2 remember to do the trial in chambers, you can skip the church one for now because is a little out of the way.
after chambers take herald of ice.
after the spider boss take trap and mine damage and like your trap with it.

help oak.

in the meantime rush for clever costruction.
your tree should look like this by the end of act2/start of act 3

23 POINTS SKILL TREE

ACT 3 NORMAL
after the first quest buy temporal chain or enfeeble

in crema do the lab trial.

when you arrive in market do the trial.

kill gravi and take ice trap.
you can start to use it in a 4l like this: ice trap, trap damage, controlled destruction, multi trap.

after piety do the pages quest, take blashpemy and link it with the curse you've taken before, and then buy cold pen in town.
from now on you can swap multi for cold pen against bosses.

skip maze trial because it waste time now (or do it, i'm not your boss)

in the tree go north and take all the trap nodes nearby

ACT 4 NORMAL
if you took the trap nodes, at some point in act 4 your tree would be like this

35 POINTS SKILL TREE

from now on we start to path towards the witch area

do the quest, get xp, not much to say.
take cluster trap for the kaom/daresso reward. you can swap multi trap out for cluster or not dependings on your likes.

finish the act and start cruel

ACT 1 CRUEL
skip crab
do prison trial
skip fairgraves

ACT 2 CRUEL
do chamber trial
kill al the fuckers for the point

by the end of act 2 you should be in your middle 40s.
after taking the witch aoe nodes fill the life nodes we leaved behind

49 POINTS SKILL TREE

ACT 3 CRUEL
do the "nearby" trials
not much to say just do the act

ACT 4 CRUEL
by the end of the act you'll be in your middle/late 50s

at lvl53 equip your two consuming dark. from now on put void manipulation instead of cold pen when facing bosses.

if you don't have them yet continue the build as an ele trapper.

in the tree we path for herbalism and acro/spell acro

62 POINTS SKILL TREE

MERCILESS
a little side note on labs and the "fail-safe" that we setted up.
if you have seen the previuos tree you've also seen that we are 6 point away from master sapper.
the "problem" is that master sapper isn't very useful for us now, but will be vital when we spec in sab chain reaction.
so. when to take master sapper?
that's the purpose of the fail-safe.
as soon as you do cruel lab and spec into chain reaction you'll do the act1 easy quest and you'll get the six point to allocate master sapper.
in the meantime you can continue to level and path in other areas of the tree.
i don't know if it makes sense to you, but for me it works :D

anyway, back to levelling.
in merci to the same things you did for cruel except for bandits because +1 frenzy is nice (or kill them if you want the skill point)

all of your skill point now should be spent to get to the templar area.
don't forget to start to use orb of storm with increased crit strikes as soon as you allocate ele overload.

85 POINTS SKILL TREE

after you get the templar aoe nodes you can start to spec into the damage nodes in the area between shadow and witch (plus fangs of the viper).
by this time you should also have done the cruel lab.

101 POINTS SKILL TREE

from now on you can start to spec the jewel socket and the last life nodes.

if you want you can also spec out the initial ele point for the chaos ones (because poison will then double dip).
i'm not so sure of this anymore, but for now i'll leave this here for consistency with the final passive tree i've linked in the passives section of this guide.
this could change.

116 POINTS SKILL TREE