Infernalist witch - Exploding Poison Cloud - League Starter - 1 button build

GGG pushed the hotfix, and it seems like it does not affect skeleton snipers so far

Just to begin with, I have never done my own build, and I am just playing around a bit with what works for me. So I don't expect this build to last long. But for starting the league it should work fine. Especially for people having problems at the beginning with the witch and weak minions.

- If the damage is not enough in Act 1 go for chaos damage, corrosion and Essence Drain
(I did play with arsonist minions but they didn't work well, so a better fire skill should make enough damage with bombing the clouds)

I am currently start of Act 3

I will update this build as I go (I am slow, so bear with me)
Feel free to change this build around however you see fit

Passive Skill Tree:

- It feels like the exploding clouds scale with your minion sniper damage, so minion damage feels like a nice thing
- Minion Health and Faster Revival is pretty good too
- Go into dex, strength and Int as needed for level ups and support skills
- If you have problems with survivability you can go in extra energy shield, but it should not be needed (for now)

Skills:

- Until you can ascend use a fire skill of your choice that ignites the posion clouds from your snipers
- After ascencion this will be a 1 button build (for now)

Skeletal Warrior Minion on Staff - extra damage and tanky
- Meat Shield - More max life
- Minion Instability - Extra damage when they die, more life means more damage
- Brutality - more damage, why not?

Skeletal Sniper - our main damage dealers, poison cloud needs to be used actively
- Corrosion - Our poison clouds will damage the armor of enemies, so when it explodes it does higher damage | because the clouds explode instantly with hellhound it can be that the armor doesn't shred so you can put faster attack speed in here
- Scattershot - More arrows
- Acceleration - faster arrows

Grim Feast: - Much more survivabilty (if you don't have enough spirit remove clarity or vitality)
- Clarity - mana rec
- Vitality - Life rec

Pain Offering: - Extra damage if you struggle
- Persistance - So that it is longer on the field
- Magnified Effect - more AoE to reach your minions


Armor:

- Spirit is the best, otherwise go for max life and resistances (in the beginning everything you need, later fire and chaos)
- whatever you prefer

Ascendancy:

Infernalist

Loyal Hellhound:
Summon Infernal Hound: - He automates the igniting of the clouds and tanks for you
- Elemental Army - Better Survival
- Last Gasp - The longer he lives, the better

sorry to be the one saying this, but https://x.com/pathofexile/status/1865939374304886931

Nice... but yeah, when it doesn't work anymore I will prolly change to something different
But thank you for the heads up!

So far (Act 3) this build still works pretty well, let's hope it stays like this

I made some changes to the support skills that push more damage

But I am not sure if our poison clouds still shred enemy armor because they usually blow up instantly by the hellhound. But for the rare occurance they do stay a bit longer on the field I keep it. But you could put faster attack speed into the snipers if you want to