[3.19] Tanel's OCCUPYING FORCE Toxic Rain RAIDER\CHAMPION - True ALC & GO build!

4K Video Guide from 3.17 Siege of the Atlas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yaeeh6z6yI






Patch 3.19

Literally no changes, build still as strong and a very good league starter. Am very bored of the playstyle myself so trying to start something else but this one is just super strong for starters and fast. In 3.18 I made a Champion with Arena Challenger Forbidden jewels and that was insanely tanky and could do Wave30 simulacrums with about 50k dot tooltip damage. Ubers doable but you need to learn mechanics as dot dam is super slow.

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Toxic Rain now deals 7.9 base Chaos Damage per second at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 238 at gem level 20 (previously 285.1).

So as some of you may know Toxic Rain got nerfed by about 15% in this patch. On the other hand though.. a lot of gear got bufed that makes all of it up and then some! So to keep it short.. not nerfed!




This was my TR Champ Day 1\2 in T16 maps with a Quill Rain and SUPER budget gear, pretty much copypaste from Raider start but a lot tankier, which is good for Archnemesis mods.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDMSCywUALU

So no changes made in 3.18!
Then again you COULD SAY it got BUFFED.. Now we can get an AWAKENED EMPOWER support gem.. moar dot dam!
Highly recommend this build now to anyone looking for a great start to 3.18 :)
Again in short why?

+ALC AND GO, can do 5LINK Quill Rain up to T16 maps pretty easy, dont have to worry about any mods or any bosses if you have 60\60 evasion\phys reduction and chaos res.
+Super SSF friendly
-Viridis Veil you need to wait 2-3 days until price comes down from 1EX to 5-10C, and maybe a day more with the enchant.

Want even more tank, just respec a few points to Duelist start and get Champions perma Fortify with the loss of a bit damage and speed.

With Champion youd take Fortitude, Conqueror and Inspirational.
Then Forbidden Flesh and Flame with Gladiators CHALLENGER and youd get insane attack and movement speed buff to RIVAL Raider and with the Onslaught Totem jewel youd have perma Onslaught..

edit: DAY 2 of 3.18
Man I play like a snail and take my sweet time :P but I did my first T16 on a 5 and 6link setup with Quill Rain. Missing about 6x the damage but yeah Champion this league feels super nice for this build. Also 3k life andy still.

T16 Map clear on 5LINK totems and 6LINK TR and Quill Rain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CukCDEaC1jY


So a quick update on the Champion version. DAY2\3 of Sentinel
This is my full setup JUST BEFORE switching to the 12EX crafted bow!
Pretty optimal, nothing too crazy expensive.

MINOTAUR run with crafting, just a reminder this is with Quill Rain that is about 6x LESS damage then the 12EX crafted bow\Empower setup :P at a pretty beefy Minotaur run.

T16 MINOTAUR with crafting 5LINK totems and 6LINK TR and Quill Rain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAv8N124pc

edit: End of Week 2 here and finally took time to kinda minmax the Champs gear. I have never seen so much dot deeps on my TR before, usually capping out at 30k dot but now easily getting 50k.. and giga APS to go with it.
Pretty stupid when mapping, will try Ubers next but missing around 1k life from levels.

T15 DROX run on good gear (relativley cheap still)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llckJ2qWHp0

80% Quant Searing Exarch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAscwlAPyhg

Full 30 WAVE Simulacrum run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnm_7DxalcE



PROS:
+ ALC & GO any map, all content, do not need to think about mods or how many are on the map, ever!
+ Very tanky
+ Can do all content (Minus Simu30 and Uber Breaches)
+ Can be 0 MANA COST build pretty easily
+ Can get to T16 maps with a simple 5-LINK QUILL RAIN and still feel OK
+ 60-70% Physical Damage Reduction
+ 60-90% Chance to Evade
+ 75% Chaos Res
+ 100% Spell Suppression
+ Very easy to obtain good gear, most crafted by yourself!
+ Speedy Gonzales.. thats what RAIDER IS with PERMA ONSLAUGHT and 5 FRENZIES!
CONS:
- DOT aka Damage Over Time build, you will not be oneshotting any bigger single targets
- Damage ramps up the more wither stacks enemy has so might take time to get going
- Clear is fine for myself but not amazing
- I myself am UNABLE to pass SIMULACRUM 26-28 rounds, Kosis usually gets CHAOS RES at that point and its then almost impossible to complete that round.
- UBER BREACHes are also id say impossible to do as it needs DAMAGE and DOT is not really damage that excels in speed, the mobs have too much health to do Uber Breach.







So here is how I have it mapped out:

LEFT CLICK - Molten Shell
SPACE - VAAL Molten Shell (But not important to get VAAL as it has 30s cooldown)
RIGHT CLICK - Dash
Q - Withering Step (Puts 7 stacks of wither instantly and gives ELUSIVE)
W - Toxic Rain
E - Toxic Rain Totem
R\T - VAAL Molten Shell
CTRL Q - Malevolence
CTRL W - Grace
CTRL E - Determination
CTRL R - Defiance Banner

Entering map it is very easy, we pop our mana flask (If we dont have Clarity Watchers eye and 0 mana cost of all skills) and start spamming Q\W\E.. at single targets if you have the Occupying Force Ascendancy jewels you do triangles so you would always have three Mirage Archers out and then blast with Toxic Rain yourself too, at the same im hitting "W" I am also hitting Q to stack quick Wither stacks on nearby enemies and also boosts our movement speed and at the same time I also put out all the Toxic Rain totems with "E". So to keep it short, I spam Q\W\E all the time, pretty easy actually. Do note here that when we hit Q our Withering Step it will create an AURA around us that puts 7 stacks of wither to EVERYBODY it touches.. so the main idea is to hit Q and then just move around not using any other skill because Withering Step will cancel immidietly when you use another skill. This is so if we have a ton of totems down and also our Mirage Archers they will be clearing and we just stack 7 wither to a large pack of mobs in a few seconds by running through them. The small downside is that Molten Shell that is on our left click will cancel it out while having Withering Step active.



My LVL93 character LINK - https://pastebin.com/9mP4PwJX
Feel free to mess around with new items that are released each patch!
And here is my 3.17 DAY 12 POB LINK - https://pastebin.com/MqsVVTdC
I added 6 extra points to damage, extra Frenzy Charge and Life nodes so you know where to move if you choose to go all the way to LVL100!
The gear is almost minmaxed here id say with 90% Phys Reduction, 90% Evade with the Blind body armour!
Leveling LINK - https://pastebin.com/jfcdR19g
Leveling POB with some leveling items to help out, you don´t need them all but some might be nice and helpful!

Use Path of Building FORK: https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding
















So overall the gear is pretty simple and can be crafted by yourself which is the cool part. The build uses very few uniques so there is a ton of freedom here. Also as always, when new uniques or items in general come out in POE check them out and dont be afraid to add them to this build!

BOW & QUIVER:

As said earlier, can EASILY use a 5-LINK Quill Rain up to T16 maps and still do most content pretty fine BUT as soon as you hit maps your main goal should be to craft the bow.. ofcourse there might be very cheap other gear options out there so it is totally fine to spend a few chaos here and there to get a decent Quiver with dot multi and an Amulet with dot multi to help out. Also you might wanna still spend extra to get a 6link Quill Rain and a random 6link chest armour with HIGH Evasion and Armour base, eighter unique or crafted rare, just make sure they have good Armour and Evasion.. 600\600 is decent but 1300\1300 is Exceptional for leveling!
On the Quiver side of things the ENDGAME strat would be to get one with DAMAGE OVER TIME MULTIPLIER and CHAOS DAMAGE OVER TIME MULTIPLIER T1-T2 mods with T1-T2 LIFE and some resists on top.

HELMET:

So the best DEFENSIVE layer in terms of gear has to be Viridis Veil. It is superduper cheap right now without the Toxic Rain enchant at around 5chaos orbs. With Toxic Rain damage enchant its like 80C. It can be hella expensive first 2-3 days of the league.. like 2-3EXALTS without enchant.. just wait, you dont need it THAT bad. Chill, the price will come down by a lot the more people slay Maven to get this to drop. In any case though when buying.. be sure to buy it already with +2 to socketed level of gems, otherwise you might be spending 3-6 Divine orbs to get it to go +2. This is important as the helmet is where all our MAIN auras are and an Enlighten gem will turn from LVL3 to LVL5.. and ofcourse the main reason for the helmet is that when our LEFT ring is magic quality we are CRIT IMMUNE and enemies hitting us are UNLUCKY, which basicly means their damage numbers will roll the lowest damage numbers when hitting us. Its a huge defensive layer.

BODY ARMOUR:

So pretty free choice here but I wanna try out the new implicit modifiers so I chose to go with a regular rare Triumphant Lamellar for its nice Armour and Evasion rating and also to be able to craft the "Gain (9-10)% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield" roll which will grant us around 600ES that goes insanely well with GHOST SHROUDS that we take on the passive tree! Otherwise something like a unique "Queen of the Forest" can be good but I feel a rare with new Implicit modifiers can out triumph uniques right now. There is an option to go with an Awakener Influenced Body Armours but there are not a lot of build defying mods on those to make it that much better then just a regular rare with great brand spankin new Siege of the Atlas modifiers! Right now I have chosen to craft as much ES as possible to further boost the life pool total and get more out of Ghost Shrouds, seems to work well, not too much phys reduction\evasion loss!

So after enjoying all the content the game had to offer I thought why not try something different.. and well it seems that crafting an ATZIRIS SACRIFICAL GARB is imo one of the best strats to do! It has ES\ARMOUR\EVASION already on it at quite a decent amount! This along with Awakener Orbing double influence on it gives it a very nice boost to clear AND pretty much should CAP our EVADE CHANCE to 90%, atleast for nearby enemies as it is around 70-80% without it.
The idea is now to re-craft this until you hit anything good for PREFIX and SUFFIX like T1 life and T1-3 resistances and maybe STR\INT. As Atziris Garb already has a DECENT ES roll on it then it doesnt matter if you dont hit an OPEN PREFIX to craft the LIFE as EXTRA ES roll on it! So the start is to keep crafting this chest and selling ones you miss the right mods until you hit a craft that gives you T1-3 LIFE and T1-3 Resistances\STR\INT!

GLOVES:

So here the most important thing is to have an OPEN PREFIX to craft the Increased AOE and have it at 9%. Because Toxic Rains best damage output comes from the default 4 projectiles it means 39% Increased AOE is the best for the pods to overlap and do really nice single target damage. We get to 39% by getting this craft, 10% on Toxic Rain quality and 20% from Bow Mastery on the passive tree. Other then that again I chose to go with new influence to roll 26% Chaos Damage Over Time Multiplier for the Implicit and Chaos Damage leeched as life, pretty good stuff and as you can see im in the middle of upgrading my implcit modifiers. Again, suggiest you watch GRIMRO-s guide on how to properly craft with the Influence orbs to obtain the best crafts the easiest way possible. Also right now I have chosen to go with an ES base to boost Ghost Shroud effectivness and our total life pool

BOOTS:

For boots its wide open, as we are a RAIDER we have a TON of movement speed already AND we get a ton of SPELL SUPPRESSION by default.. meaning we actually do not need ANY Spell Suppression on gear.. which means CHEAP GEAR and crafting! Mine are still in the middle of upgrading but the Implicits I feel are gonna have to be "Increased Action Speed" and "Increased Cooldown Recovery Rate" and actually there is even a bigger Cooldown Recovery Rate of Movement skills that would work perfectly with our Dash! Still for my own ENDGAME strat is to Essence craft both my boots AND gloves and perhaps ADD AN ABYSSAL SOCKET on both as we are not really socket starved and 2 extra abyss jewels will be pretty insane power! Here again my latest update was to go with an ES base alltogether and craft boots and gloves via Essences that are really cheap and then used the new implicit modifiers along with Eldritch Chaos orb to reroll prefixes or suffixes.

BELT:

A simple Darkness Enthroned is OP imo, always a few chaos orb item and jewels are pretty cheap too. For the ABYSSAL JEWELS I recommend getting T1-2 LIFE, then Increased Damage Over Time with two handed weapons and then Increased Attack Speed OR resistances OR STR\INT. Get similar jewels for your Boots and Gloves if you go with extra Abyssal Socket boots\gloves route. Once more I found myself more in loss of STR and INT so I got a decent jewel with STR and INT on top of LIFE and RES and Damage over time, paid 1EX for that jewel but could have bargained it cheaper as it was on trade for like 1 day.. always try to bargain :) And right now I bought an enchanted Darkness Enthroned with the Wither enchant, goes usually around 8-10EX but was able to get one for 5EX which was reasonable vs running i83 lab over and over and over and over and over.. and over again, without Twice Enchanted.

Also have an AUTOSEARCH up on the background, I picked this jewel up for 3EX today on DAY12-13 of the league!
DO NOT FORGET all of the stats on ABYSS jewels will get increased by 75% by Darkness Enthroned, this is hell of a lot of resistances, STR\INT and damage!


AMULET:

So here is where you can get a TON of damage. Mine is still not the endgame version here.. but it is more then enough! I suggiest just searching for a simple "T1-T2 Damage Over Time Multiplier" with T1 LIFE and OPEN PREFIX for starters and as AGATE AMULET, we are STARVED of INT and STR so wherever you can find get STR and INT on gear so you dont have to spec extra points on the passive tree! In the very end though the IDEAL amulet would be a +1 Chaos Skill Gems, 20% Chaos Damage Over Time Multiplier, 20% Damage Over Time Multiplier, T1 Life and OPEN PREFIX.. with STR or INT as extra on the suffix side.. and a res lol

RINGS:

As mentioned in the crafting section you need to search for a MAGIC ring into your left finger and a decent other ring into the right. Nothing too fancy, pretty straightforward, LIFE and RES is great, get STR and INT if you can. What I did right now was craft the ring with Essences to have a big ES and LIFE pool, missed the life roll but it got big STR that I needed, INT and a nice ES roll with a free prefix so I was happy with that.

JEWELS:

So lastly the jewels. The Occupying Force Forbidden Flesh and Flame might be a bit hard to find at league start so keep them in your endgame item hunt. Suggiest just leaving them on autosearch so if one pops up you can instantly buy it. In 3.17 the more expensive one costs around 3EX about 2 WEEKS into the league start and the second about 30-50C. Occupying Force is pretty neat and can help out with clear and also with single target damage ofcourse, very undervalued Ascendancy atm imo. The Watchers Eye is pretty straightforward, just get the Malevolence one with Damage Over Time Multiplier while affected by Malevolence.. next step would be to get one that has the -9 to Non-Channelling Skills Mana Cost while affected by Clarity, that would mean we put a lvl1 Clarity somewhere on our gear just to get this modifier, then we can actually drop the Mana flask and put something else there as our final flask. For the cluster jewel setup, pretty straightforward again, the chaos ones are the best, Cannot be interrupted by stuns when using chaos skills is great and I really havent felt any stuns in all my 93 levels of playing since league start. The medium ones are just increased chaos damage and one with life, cheap option is to buy a medium cluster jewel that has Aerodynamics and Eye to Eye to boost our TR damage until we can afford the expensive ones.. AND finally the SMALL Cluster jewel is very neat imo, it will give us ENDURANCE CHARGES that gives us 9% of Physical Damage Reduction, specially good when in a pack of mobs.. that we are doing most of the time so we are gonna get hit enough times for it to stay on us at the most crucial times!

FLASKS:

Just a simple quick recovering non-instant life flask is great to fill all your life pool instead of a measily 600 life with an instant flask. Bleed removal for the suffix is best imo. For the other Utility flasks just one with Reduced Effect of Curses on you so with our Pantheon we would be near immune to any curses which is super powerful and then one flask would eighter be Shock Immunity or Remove Burning and Ignite! The enchant on the flasks I feel the best is the "Use when flask gets full" so they would be turned on automaticly the entire map pretty much. Mana flask you just want the Enduring Mana flask to have no mana issues!



For our Pantheon we want Soul of the Brine King for FREEZE IMMUNITY and semi Stun Immunity and Soul of Yugul to help us get Curse immunity with one curse immunity flask!



KILL EM ALL, we need as many passive points as possibru.

Updated my Watchers Eye today (8.5EX) to have the Clarity mod on it "NON-CHANNELLING SKILLS HAVE -10 MANA COST" alongside the usual Malevolence mod and this enabled me to get the entire build to cost 0 MANA. So can do Cannot Regen maps without mana flask. Right now added a Stibnite flask to give us blind smoke clouds and a bit more evasion so its pretty much capped at 90% now.

Thanks for the guide and write-up! Build is good so far, doing t16s at lvl 73 with 5-link quill rain and lvl 17 TR-gem :)

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DecardCraig wrote:

Thanks for the guide and write-up! Build is good so far, doing t16s at lvl 73 with 5-link quill rain and lvl 17 TR-gem :)

Good to hear!
Yesterday was one of my best days in a loong while.. got 5EX from Tujen, 4EX Arakaalis Fang from Gwennen and then 17EX Awakened Spell Echo from Maven :D
Used it to buy a better quiver and do some decent crafting on my gloves and boots. I chose to ditch Armour base and just get ES boots and gloves to maybe work a bit better then the extra few percentage of phys reduction. Also tried crafting my chest and that turned out pretty decent for my liking aswell.. still a ton of stuff to do if I want :P but I might be looking at doing something completley different soon, wanna use new uniques and the Ascendancy jewels to make some interesting builds.

NEW ITEMS I bought (Crafted) yesterday:

Good Evening Sir, excuseme for my english language; i from Italy, my name is Stefano 56 old. I haven't played in a long time, and I have a lot of difficulty understanding the mechanics. Thanks for your guidance, I'm studying it. request; what is a Hunter exalted Orb? Quote: 2. Buy HUNTERS EXALTED ORB - Around 1.5EX usually Thank you.

Updated the guide a bit and added a few more boss fights from today :)


3.17 - DAY 9 SHAPER on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETbss20O2E

3.17 - DAY 9 ELDER on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwyRQHM-uDU

3.17 - DAY 9 8-SECOND T16 BARAN on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDST4sFtiNA

3.17 - DAY 9 My first UBER ELDER this league on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNKbASpIAYE

3.17 - DAY 9 i83 UBER LAB on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkBESnABsk

3.17 - DAY 9 T16 Juiced Expedition run on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOZh2onhPbA

3.17 - DAY 10 UBER ATZIRI on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7O0rnhsRcc

3.17 - DAY 10 i83 CATARINA on Endgame 6-LINK BOW and EMPOWER LVL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgkFFlvz0zU

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jackufuma wrote:

Good Evening Sir, excuseme for my english language; i from Italy, my name is Stefano 56 old. I haven't played in a long time, and I have a lot of difficulty understanding the mechanics. Thanks for your guidance, I'm studying it. request; what is a Hunter exalted Orb? Quote: 2. Buy HUNTERS EXALTED ORB - Around 1.5EX usually Thank you.

That is advanced crafting I guess, id say GOOGLE and search on Youtube how to craft with currency in POE first.

But in short, you just buy the Hunters Exalted Orb from POE TRADE site and then right click on the Hunter Exalted Orb and left click on the Thicket Bow to make it Hunter influenced, this enables it to have Hunter specific modifiers like CHAOS DAMAGE OVER TIME and CHAOS DAMAGE OVER TIME MULTIPLIER :)

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Good to hear!
Yesterday was one of my best days in a loong while.. got 5EX from Tujen, 4EX Arakaalis Fang from Gwennen and then 17EX Awakened Spell Echo from Maven :D
Used it to buy a better quiver and do some decent crafting on my gloves and boots. I chose to ditch Armour base and just get ES boots and gloves to maybe work a bit better then the extra few percentage of phys reduction. Also tried crafting my chest and that turned out pretty decent for my liking aswell.. still a ton of stuff to do if I want :P but I might be looking at doing something completley different soon, wanna use new uniques and the Ascendancy jewels to make some interesting builds.

Cool, thanks for the update! Do you stream btw? Found your twitch account but couldn't figure out if you are actively streaming or not.

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DecardCraig wrote:

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Good to hear!
Yesterday was one of my best days in a loong while.. got 5EX from Tujen, 4EX Arakaalis Fang from Gwennen and then 17EX Awakened Spell Echo from Maven :D
Used it to buy a better quiver and do some decent crafting on my gloves and boots. I chose to ditch Armour base and just get ES boots and gloves to maybe work a bit better then the extra few percentage of phys reduction. Also tried crafting my chest and that turned out pretty decent for my liking aswell.. still a ton of stuff to do if I want :P but I might be looking at doing something completley different soon, wanna use new uniques and the Ascendancy jewels to make some interesting builds.

Cool, thanks for the update! Do you stream btw? Found your twitch account but couldn't figure out if you are actively streaming or not.

Nah I just make casual POE videos here and there and review some tech on Youtube.

Damn, I didn't realize 21/20 TR is 20c after but a week in the league... No reason to even level one yourself. That was a quick buy. Unfortunately, empower / enlighten are still helluva expensive as usual.

Also shows everyone's farming Eater and nobody Exarch, earlier on blue Occupying Force was 30c and red one was 2.5ex lol.