[3.24] fezz's Toxic Rain Champion - Step-by-Step PoE Build Guide for Beginners & Casuals

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a_poitato wrote:

Hello Fezz.

First and foremost, thanks a lot for your guide. I am very new to the game. I've put in about 30 hours so far, but I have had to restart because I get lost following other peoples' builds online. Yours is the closest thing to a step-by-step that I can find. Anyway, I know the league is ending soon but I'm committing myself to this build...that way I can at least get a good start in the next league.

I did have a question: I am in Act 1 and level 13, working on the quest The Way Forward. The way I am reading the POB passive skill tree, it says to take the Bow Damage with the chance to gain phasing on kill—but on the step-by-step guide, it says I will not be using a bow until level 33. Is this intentional?

I think maybe it is good to get them now because of how exp scaling at the higher level works? Is this correct? I am just following at the bottom of the "Tree" tab in POB, where it says [3.17]1, 2, 3, as I go.

Anyway, I can't tell you how much I really appreciate your hard work. It's made me feel like I'm being useful with my time even if I am going a little slow. I hope I am following it correctly, and I will try my best to make you proud! Cheers.

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enginbulutlar wrote:

Hey!

After many many build to learn, yours is east to follow and applicable. Thank u for your support yo understand the game

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voxnor wrote:

Been using your guide and loving it - great way to play the game... until I saw the patch notes.

How do I make up for mana res mastery going away? is the 8% passive up the right side enough? where do you recommend we take those points from?

Would love your thoughts on it - and again, amazing guide m8.

Edit:

Made some changes to my build to drop mana res mastery ahead of the upcoming change. It works, but its a bit tighter. Had to crawl up the right side to get 8% small passive, and had to sacrafice herbalism and some hp to do it.

Also requires double mana res on helm (the mod, and a eater of worlds/searching exarch one - don't reacll which of the two).

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Trindokor wrote:

I wanted to thank you for this extensive guide!
Your explanations regarding crafting the endgame items really has helped me a great deal in understanding how this crucial part of the game works.

I am now comfortably running up to t14 and depending on mods t15 and don't really die, which is a great change to my first build I did xD
For this to work I do however had to drop Malevolence and go Grace instead. I don't have the needed Mana-Reservation yet (and won't have anyway in a few days) to run both, so I feel like the added Defenses are much more important than the extra DPS - especially seeing how much a death costs you in terms of XP. Maybe when I learn to dodge a bit better I can swap them out again^^

With this, I do have 2 questions:
The belt lab-enchantment "Enemies withered by you have -6% Chao res"... Will that work with your totems applying Wither or would that only trigger on you using Withering Step? The other option for an enchantment would then of course be the "+300 armor while fortified".

And for the upcoming Mana-Reservation Changes, would it be worth it to annoint Sovereignity for the 12% ManaReserv. and 10% AuraEffect instead of the increased WitherEffect you are reommending right now?
It should help with both offsetting the nerfs to defiance banner and the loss of the 15% making the 3 Aura setup somewhat possible again, shouldn't it? Or would the loss of DPS be that substantial?