[3.0 HC/SC] The ORIGINAL Hybrid HoWA ST Raider [ALL CONTENT] [2:45 Shaper Run][Vids Included]

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Vyvanne wrote:

HC player here. You have a couple of options. First one is what Invalesco suggested w/ Storm Cloud before switching to Howa. Usual twink gear like tabula/meginord belt/wanderlust/goldrim, Death's Harp. I might suggest swapping into howa maybe in the late 30s once you can pick up gmp/slower proj. THat will give you enough points to get to the jewel slots and hp and proj nodes in duelist and start making your way up to shadow.

Option two is what I did after I died stupidly a few times. Oddly enough in PoE I vastly prefer melee over casters, where in every other game I always pick mages, but anyway, because of that I've built up a bunch of twink weapons for leveling. Sunder is god tier for leveling, and on my current character (lvl 93) I did 1-70 as Sunder, then respecced.

General gearing tips - there are certain level benchmarks where you can find good low level rares that give you a lot of bang for your buck. Examples below.

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-Highly underrated leveling uniques - Honestly up to act 3, you can ignore resists. If you are smart about avoiding and actively dodging attacks, you can get by without any problems. Tbh you can go to act 4 without worrying about resists, but a few moments in A3 will be hairy (sewer discharge guys can kill you in one shot), so to be safe I always swap to Goldrim once I hit the sewers, but before then use Crown of Thorns and Ondar's Clasp. This gives you a big enough ES buffer in the early game to keep up 30% attack speed, that makes leveling SO much easier. Crown of Thorns/Ondars/Onslaught gem + qs flask = you will ZOOM thru the early game. Very early on Meginord is better than Magnate, but if you can get 200+ str on a build, the all res is very nice and 50% flask charge boost means you will be permanently quicksilvering thru zones.

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-lvl 28 - shop for rings with 40-50 hp and 50+ total res. Huge bonus points if you can get added phys. They shouldn't be too expensive, might have to keep an eye out for bargain deals.

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-lvl 44-46 - Starting at lvl 44, you can find boots with 30 move speed. Search for boots that require lvl 44-46 with 50+ life and 20+ resist. Often these boots are wildly priced, but you can find some good bargains. Ideally you'll want 50+ res total, so if prices are silly, look for a pair of boots with maybe one resist and open suffix to craft another res.

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-high 40s/low 50s- This is where you can also start looking for rares in your other slots to shore up life/resistance needs that will keep you over until the desired level to swap to your main build.

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Here's my leveling weapons. Remember that Sunder only does main hand damage, so once you swap to sunder at 12, you only want to care about what bonuses your offhand gives and not the damage. Cleave from 1-12, 2x Brightbeak to 2x Screaming Eagle. At 16, swap mainhand to Dreadarc and offhand to The Princess/Tempestuous Steel. Swap mainhands as needed, rough benchmark levels for looking at weapons is around every 5-10 levels.


For leveling trees, this is what I did as sunder.

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I also went up into the maurauder area and took Warrior's Blood, Heart of the Warrior, Born to Fight, and Life & Armor nodes in maurauder start. With twink gear and tabula, I was never lacking for damage.

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Projectiles which travel up to 10 units get the full 50% more bonus damage from Point Blank.

You get 0% bonus damage from Point Blank at 35 units, and you suffer a penalty from this point on.

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With a 3 unit radius enemy the damage breakdown with point blank would look like this:

Hit #1: t=184ms, d=10.664 units, damage bonus: +48.672%
Hit #2: t=484ms, d=22.514 units, damage bonus: +24.972%
Hit #3: t=784ms, d=27.491 units, damage bonus: +15.018%

t=851ms: projectile reverses direction

Hit #4: t=1084ms, d=29.705 units, damage bonus: +10.591%
Hit #5: t=1384ms, d=38.473 units, damage bonus: -01.510%

Average damage bonus: +19.5486%