[3.10] Bergerbrush's Frost Blades Raider - Project Builds

Your 2 options in the "Deal with the Bandits" quest in Act 2.

Either KILL ALL Bandits and recieve 2 Skill Points from Eramir

This is good because we can utalize 2 More Skill Points in our Skill Tree for more damage or life, or other good Skill Nodes.

And your second choice is..

SAVE ALLIRA Saving Alira and Killing the other 2 Bandits will give us a hidden buff from Alira that gives 5 Mana Regenerated per second & +20% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier & +15% to all Elemental Resistances

This is also good because for League Starts it can be really good to get some extra Resistances as it is usually very tough to balance your resists after killing Act 10 Kitava.

It is also good overall for builds such as ours where we perhaps use a lot of Unique Items that doesn't give us Elemental Resistances and we rely on very few Gear pieces to get our resistances up. Alira also gives a decent damage boost from the Global Critical Strike Multiplier and the Mana Regeneration is OK in some situations.

Video of Labyrinth & Trials Explanation

1st / Normal Labyrinth: Way of the Poacher
2nd / Cruel Labyrinth: Avatar of the Slaughter
3rd / Merciless Labyrinth: Quartz Infusion
4th / Eternal Labyrinth: Avatar of the Veil

Phase 1 Skill Tree ~ Level 85


Phase 1 PoB ~ Level 85: https://pastebin.com/knKqg619

IMPORTANT - You always wanna try to keep your Gems atleast Level 20 with 20% Quality unless I specifically say something different. If the Gems in this Guide don't have 20/20 Gems it is because I don't have those myself and can therefor not link them in this Guide.

5 Link



SWAP out Fortify Support for Ancestral Call Support for better Map Clear. And SWAP back to Fortify Support for BOSSING.



6-Link



SWAP out Ruthless Support for Ancestral Call Support for better Map Clear. And SWAP back to Ruthless Support for BOSSING.



Auras



IMPORTANT - You wanna keep Precision perhaps between Level 5 all the way up to around 10. We need the Accuracy and we also utilize the Critical Strike Chance. But you should only level up Precision until a point where you feel good about your mana pool and can cast Frost Blades without issues.

Curse on Hit Setup



IMPORTANT - No need to level up Elemental Weakness higher than Level 12. It doesn't give that incredibly high of a DPS increase with higher levels and it just makes it harder with Intelligence Requirements.

4-Link Totem for Single Target Damage



Vaal Ancestral Warchief can be activated for Bosses to help nuke bosses down.

Movement Skills



Whirling Blades for getting around the map and between Packs Fast.



Dash and Second Wind to Dash uphill and downhill and through certain objects.

Utility & Extra



Your Ice Golem can die and needs to be respawned if it dies. Ice Golem is great because it provides us with a lot of Accuracy which we need to hit 100% Hit Chance and it also gives a decent damage boost with increasing our Critical Strike Chance.

- Weapons -


CHEAP - Touch of Anguish is very cheap weapons that also gives us a great amount of DPS for this Build.



- Body Armour -


CHEAP - Tabula Rasa for a 6-Link or buy a cheap 6-Link Rare Armour with Life any perhaps any Resists that you may need.



- Helmet -


CHEAP - Starkonjas is a cheap and great pickup for us, it gives us Life, tons of defenses and also a bit of damage as well!



-Amulet-


CHEAP - Rare Amulet with Life, Resists and some Intelligence. If you can pick up any damage here that would be great as well. We look for "Physical Damage to Attacks" and "Cold Damage to Attacks" mainly.

ANNOINT - We annoint "Snowforged" (Sepia, Azure, Black) for the Critical Strike Chance, Cold Damage and resistances.

Clip of me Explaining how to Annoint your Amulet




- Rings -


CHEAP - Any Rare Rings with Life and any Resistances you may need. If possible try to get any form of damage once again with the mods "Physical Damage to Attacks" or "Cold Damage to Attacks"



- Gloves -


CHEAP~MEDIUM Prize Here is where it gets a little bit tricky. There are a special modifier that gives "% Increased Damage against Chilled Enemies" and this is a major DPS increase for our Build. It can be a little bit difficult to pickup extremely early in the league but if you can, try to pick up Rare Gloves with this modifier along with Life and any resists you may need. Also pairing that with any form of Damage IF POSSIBLE is always nice.



- Belt -


CHEAP~MEDIUM Prize Any rare Belt with Life, any resists that you may need and the mod "Increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills" is what you are looking for. It doesn't really matter what belt it is.

Of course a Stygian Vise with all these mods are better because we can then get more life and damage with an Abyssal Jewel.



- Boots -


CHEAP - Darkray Vectors is a very cheap and good pair of boots for this build. With the Raider ascendancy and "Avatar of Slaughter" we gain a bunch of great stats from having more Maximum Frenzy Charges and so does the boots give extra much because of our high Maximum Frenzy Charges amount that we have.

Every character has a base of 3 Maximum Frenzy Charges and we have 3 extra in our Skill Tree, 1 extra from our Ascendancy "Way of the Poacher" and then another Frenzy Charge from these boots. Which all in all gives us a bunch of defenses, movement speed and damage.



- Flasks -


CHEAP~MEDIUM Prize - I suggest at least a Instant Heal Life Flask paired with Anti-Bleed. A Diamond Flask crafted with "Increased Critical Strike Chance during Flask Effect" and any Flask with Anti-Freeze.

If you can afford it also pick up an Atziri's Promise and Taste of Hate Flask for increased damage.

I have the "Increased Critical Strike Chance during Flask Effet" craft. Just ask me on Stream and I can craft it for you.



- Jewels -


CHEAP - You want 2x Fight for Survival Jewels and you can socket them in any of the 3 Jewel Sockets that we have in the Skill Tree.

You are given a "Fight for Survival Jewel" as a reward in Act 5 after defeating "High Templar Avarius" in the "Death to Purity" quest.

Phase 2 Skill Tree ~ Level 90

Remember to use Intuitive Leap in the Middle Jewel Socket and only Skill the Large Nodes.

PoB for Phase 2: https://pastebin.com/HLxwQi4i

- Loreweave -


EXPENSIVE Prize - Loreweave is an overall great item for a lot of builds and especially this Build. We get Stats, Life, Critical Strike Chance, Elemental Damage and Maximum Resistances. All these things are fantastic for this build! But getting a 6-Linked Loreweave in Phase 2 can be a bit hard or expensive. If you feel like you do not have the Budget for this. I suggest waiting with this Upgrade til Phase 3 or til you can afford it.



- Taste of Hate & Lions Roar -


MEDIUM Prize - These 2 Flasks are great upgrades for this Build as they add a ton of damage and also some form of defenses as well! I would still keep the Life Flask, Atziri's and the Diamond Flask to go along with these.




- Opal Rings -


MEDIUM Prize - Opal Rings can be a tad difficult or expensive to accquire at this point. And if you already have great rings with Life, Resistances and a lot of damage then you might not have to upgrade to Opal Rings. I specifically tried to get Cold Damage/Elemental Damage with Attack Skills/Cold Damage added to Attacks on my Rings paired with Life/Resists.




- Intuitive Leap -


MEDIUM Prize - Intuitive Leap is actually one of my favourite items to use in Path of Exile on the Ranger side. It free's up a lot of skill points for us that we can use in other important places. Put this in the middle Jewel Socket of the three ones we have and only skill the Big Nodes and refund the smaller ones leading up to them.

Squeezing in any extra form of damage where ever you can is always good. Getting crazy good Opal Rings, or an insane Amulet. Getting a high Elemental Damage with Attack Skills roll on your belt and so on.

Phase 3 Skill Tree ~ Level 95

PoB for Phase 3: https://pastebin.com/32E8tLW5

- Pandemonius -


EXPENSIVE Prize - The Pandemonius amulet gives an incredible amount of damage for this Build and should be a high priority to invest in once you approach Phase 3. You can try farming it yourself by doing Tul's Breachstones as well fyi.

ANNOINT - You should annoint Dismembering once you pick up the Pandemonius as well because that gives an incredibly high DPS boost. (Remember to keep track of your resistances though once you drop Snowforged)




- Frost Blades Enchant -


MEDIUM Prize - A Good/Decent Helmet with the Frost Blades Damage Enchant can be a great pickup for increased damage. And since we swap over to Pandemonius for our Amulet we might start struggling a bit with resistances so we can balance our resistances with this enchant on a rare helmet.