[3.0 SC/HC] Aixx's indepth HoWA ST Raider Guide ♣ [ Shaper | Guardians | U. Atziri ]

This is how I leveled my char and it was very smooth and fast.
Try to get some ES gear, you will need it with level 67+ if you want to respec into CI.
Start as a Ranger and equip your Goldrim, Wanderslust and Lochtonial Caress.
Get Frost Blades as your Hillok reward and use it until you killed Brutus.
Now you should equip your Tabula Rasa and swap to Spectral Throw, link it to Lesser Multiple Projectiles and Added Cold Damage.

At level 22 you can equip your Astramentis and both Hand of Thought and Motion, this will carry you until level 68 where you just have to upgrade your claws into HoWA with 1x Blessing of Esh.
Act 2: you will get Faster Attacks and Weapon Elemental Damage just add it to your setup.
Act 3: Do your library quest to unlock every gem you need (except for Enlighten) from Siosa, here you can remove your Added Cold Damage gem and add Lightning Penetration and Elemental Focus.
Act 4: Swap Greater Multiple Projectiles for Lesser Multiple Projectiles and dont forget your Slower Projectiles gem against bosses. You will oneshot everything anyway but you will need it later.

The items I recommend for a good leveling experience:

The best way to farm currency right now (if you dont want to flip) is to run shaped spider forest with 1 white and 2 yellow sextants and a breach, onslaught and nemesis leaguestone.
This map can drop a "the doctor" divination card (8 cards for an headhunter).

You can also farm yellow Dunes/Strand maps with a Breach Leaguestone to get some nice currency AND xp.

t10: The only t10 map you want to have is shaped dunes
t11: The only t11 map you want to have is shaped spider forest
t12: Dont complete any t12 map - if a map drops for t12 and you dont have any t12 complete, it will lose 1 tier and will drop as your t11 map (which is shaped spider forest)
t13: The only t13 map you want to have is shaped shore. The t11 boss can drop t13 maps.

The best way to level up very fast right now is to run shaped shore with 4 yellow and 1 red sextant and a bloodlines, beyond, nemesis leaguestone and the map device beyond mod.
If your gear isnt good enough you should farm shaped dunes/strand without sextants.

You can also farm yellow Dunes/Strand maps with a Breach Leaguestone to get some nice currency AND xp.

t10: The only t10 map you want to have is shaped dunes
t11: The only t11 map you want to have is shaped strand
t12: Dont complete any t12 map - if a map drops for t12 and you dont have any t12 complete, it will lose 1 tier and will drop as your t11 map (which is shaped strand)
t13: The only t13 map you want to have is shaped shore. The t11 boss can also drop t13 maps.

Level ~20
Go into the Shadow area and get Coldhearted Calculation and life for leveling.

Level ~40
Go into the Duelist start area and get Art of the Gladiator and more life.

Level ~68 BEFORE CI
Get leech here and prepare your switch to CI

Level ~68 AFTER CI Respec all your life[/b] and skill CI, if you have 4000+ Energyshield from Gear.

Endgame Tree
Arcing Blows > Elemental Overlaod > Acuity > Primeval Force > Forces of Nature > Coordination > Primal Spirit

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Jewel placements:

You will need 3x Fertile Mind

Way of the poacher > Avatar of the slaughter > Quartz infusion > Avatar of the veil

[Act 2] Deal with the Bandits: Kill all Bandits for 2 skillpoints

2 Skillpoints are way better than 6% attack and movementspeed from Kratlyn, which would be the second best choice.

Weapon
Nothing to say here, this build wont work without this Claw. Try to get 11%+ intelligence on it.
Shield
Use an Shield with high Energyshield here
Helmet
Here you want at least 300 ES, resist and INT, accuracy is great too if you dont have some on your rings.40% increased spectral throw damage is the best entchant.

Chest piece
Get at least 700 ES and INT on this. A 5link will work but I recommend to get a 6link. This can cost you some chromatics, since you want 3green and 1 red socket on an INT based Item.
Gloves
Get at least 120 ES, INT and some resists here.
Boots
Get at least 150 ES and as much INT and resists as possible again. You dont need movement speed here since we are using whirling Blades 95% of the time. The Raider gets a lot of movement speed anyway if you really want it.16% increased attack speed or 10% elemental penetration as your entchant.

Belt
Crystal Belts are best in slot here, get resists, Elemental Damage with Attacks and of course INT. With decent gear, 40 INT will give you more ES then 40 flat ES.
Amulet
Astramentis is a very good item for this build, it gives you up to 116 INT and thats what we really need for this build. Also you dont need to care about your gem/gear requirements. DEX is also nice for our claws (2% attack speed per 25 dex). A very good rare Amulet with Elemental Damage with Attacks, 90+ INT and ES can be better, but then you will need strength and dexterity somewhere else.
Rings
Get your missing resists, Weapon Elemental Damage, 250+ accuracy on 1 item and INT. ES is good too.

Atziris Promise is great for extra Chaos Damage and life leech.
Vessel of Vinktar provides you great leech and extra damage. This flask shocks you and nearby enemies (shock = 50% increased damage taken from all sources). But since we are a Raider, we are immune to status ailments which includes shock. 10% Penetrations is also great. This Flask will give you 6% max. lightning resistance, use it against enemies with elemental reflect.
Thats a very cheap and very good flask. 20% Lightning Penetration if your lightning resistance is the highest of all 3. Try to get the same amount of uncapped fire, cold and lightning resist. For example: you have 140% fire, 140% cold and 140% lightning resist, you will get the offensive and the defensive buff of every element.
Onslaught and Anti-freeze Flask. Onslaught: 20% movement-, attack- and castspeed.
This mana flask here is just a quality of life thing, its nice for maps without mana regeneration and 5 uses with anti-bleed is great too.

6L: Spectral Throw, Greater Multiple Projectiles / Slower Projectiles,
Elemental Damage with Attacks, Faster Attacks > Lightning Penetration > Elemental Focus

3L: Whirling Blades, Fortify, Faster Attacks

3L: Lightning Golem, Vaal Haste, Vaal Discipline

4L: Cast when damage taken (4), Immortal Call (6), Vortex (7), Conductivity or Enfeeble (7)

4L: Enlighten, Discipline, Wrath, Ancestral Protector (for attack speed buff)

4L: Orb of Storms, Curse on Hit, Conductivity, Increased Critical Strikes

With this build you will have 6 Jewel sockets.
Try to get 3x Fertile Mind jewels. You can look into the Skilltree section for more informations about them.

On your 3 rare jewels you want:
- resists
- attack speed
- attack speed while dual wielding
- attack speed with claws
- attack speed with one handed melee weapons
- increased lightning damage
- int

Shaper - full run

Uber Atziri - full run

Atziri - <0,5 sec Vaal kill!

Shaped Strand T11 2.0

Uber Labyrinth - bosses only

Map mods you can't run:
Elemental Reflect

Others:
Temporal Chains: this slows your attack and movementspeed down, annoying but you can run it.
No life/mana leech: You can run this mod using a mana flask until t14 maps. I recommend to reroll this mod if your gear isnt that good or if you want to run t15+ maps.