[2.6] SignalShot™ CI Full Ele Conversion TS/Barrage / Shaper & Uber Deathless / with video!

Hey guys,

I think there's some tips that can be useful to people getting this build going, as I was frustrated until Diceman helped explain them to me over the last month of the league.

1) Vinktars is not as much of a lock as it seems unless you are using a legacy vinktar.

There are a few reasons for this, 1 being atziri flask offers excellent leech and damage without the downside of shock, which also frees up a second flask slot to run a kiiara's determination which lets you drop eye of chayula or valyrium ring. This allows more budgeted players to fix stun issues while still adding good damage from an opal ring or a diamond ring. All in all I'm sure some people will argue with me here, but I ended up selling my penetration Vinktar after testing this.


2) This build ABSOLUTELY needs at least the dying sun or the +2 barrage helm enchant to feel great.

The difference is absolutely night and day, and the moment I got dying sun (and then the enchant) I went from struggling to do single target on bosses to absolutely melting them faster than I've ever done in POE.


3) WED is a massive damage scaling method for this build.

Diceman recommended I grab higher WED rings and ammy, and after purchasing those upgrades I found a massive DPS boost. Definitely do not sleep on them.


4) If you try this build on a budget it won't be that strong.

The fact is Pathfinder and Signal Shot in general is built around abusing very expensive flasks and items to their fullest extent. The build is amazing at doing that, but in order to do so you need to spend a lot. All in all I've probably put about 40 ex or so into this char, and I still die in high tier rippy content (tier 13 double breach beyond bloodline maps for example). What I can say though is that when the barrage hits are connecting nothing survives more than a few hits!

5) Survivability for me is still an issue.

The damage is insane, but breaches and other swarming / burst dmg typed content can be a real problem. Granted I don't have Skyforths yet which would free up the power charge links to possibly run CWDT immortal call or something, but I am definitely still working on ways to fix this. One thing I considered was running warlord's mark in the HOI setup with running PCOC in lightning arrow's links, but I didn't find the leech reliable enough from it to justify. I might test this further.

My gear if anyone is interested:

Skill tree link isn't working. Can anyone save the day?

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af09 wrote:

:/ are there any other way i can see the skill tree?

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achan070 wrote:

Skill tree link isn't working. Can anyone save the day?

You can look at my skill tree, it's as close to blasting's tree is. Using Skyforth but no Legacy Vinktars. Ezendor is the character, on Standard.

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achan070 wrote:

Skill tree link isn't working. Can anyone save the day?

budget: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAIAAAHRBfkIiQ5IDlwPqw_EES8RUBGBEZYUdRXXFr8ZihslHU8hdiPTJIsknST9KgsqOCsKLL8tHzB8Mfo1uTnUO3xEDUV-SVFJsUuuTLNOKlFHVmNW-luvXWhd8l9qYlpjp2r6bRltbG8ncFJ293fXePl-3X8rf8aExYauhs6J04wLjDaNuY9gj_qTJ5UFlSCXBppqmvGbJpu1oJ-hIqEvokCio6TCpyun1K_rtUi4yrl8vjq-isEAwTPBxcHzwzrEosjwyqnQH9DQ037Xz9lb3UbfmOdU53TpAutj7BjssO4O73rviO_r8NX0-PVL-Tf9bv7I_94=


elite: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAIDAAHRBfkHHgiJCpsOSA5cD8QRLxFQEYERlhR1FdcWvxeWGdcbJR1PIXYknST9KgsrCiy_LR8wWzB8Mfo1uTdMN9Q51Dt8RA1FfklRSbFLrkyzUUdWY1b6W69daF3yX2piWmOnavptGW1scFJ1_Xb3d9d4-X7dfyt_gH_GhG-GrobOidOMC4w2jbmP-pMnlQWVIJUulwaa8Zsmnregn6EioS-iQKKjpMKnK6fUrTOv67VIuMq5fL46vorBAMEzwfPEosedyPDKqdAf0NDTftRC18_ZW91G35jnCudU53To1ukC6ZjrY-wY7LDtP-4O73rviO_r8NXxbfT49Uv5N_1u_sj_EP_e

it's same skill ?

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huntsmon wrote:

thats my gear for now, cant really afford the mighty boots.
im having trouble with bosses, seems like the leech isnt enough (when i run out of vinktar charge) im using LA for trash as it seems faster (even when i got 40% TS on my helm).

what do you think should be my next upgrade? got around 4ex (temp league), working on getting more

Hey op (or anyone else who understand) im still with the same gear and same problem (lvl 82 atm)

@huntsmon: I'm not an expert at this build, just leveling it at the moment (lvl 82 right now). But maybe some things might be useful for you anyway ;)

Short answer: Imo you miss some of the most important nodes at this point - and got too low crit chance / crit multi because of that. After speccing into things like "Heartseeker", "Lethality" and "Throatseeker" and getting better flasks your damage should be much better.

Longish answer:

Imo you can get a lot more done, even without the boots. You'll be getting the notables from the tree anyway, so I'll share some things I've done so far. Its up to you to decide whether you like them or not^^. Your gear is probably better / more expensive than mine - I don't have a 2nd 6link and some really crappy pieces of gear ;). My +2 enchant on the helmet is just an investment in the future, because I don't even run barrage up to this point (no 2nd 6l and no Point Blank).

For bosses I found the enchant



helpful, so i bought it. The boots offer a nice dmg boost and decent overall stats, so why not ;). Since you got so good res on your boots, you could think of farming lab to get this enchant as well (or attack+cast speed for mapping).



I saw this one used in another build and liked it a lot. With fire trap + multitrap socketed there, it's really easy to get full power charges before every boss fight. Once you are on full charges, you don't need to use PCoC in both of your setups, giving you a big dmg-boost for barrage.

Wise-Oak + dying sun: those are great imo. As I switched to CI in the 70s and bought a filler regalia, I bought a fillerring with str as well - just to match fire+lightning res. Thx to the suggestion of Rupenus to use Wrath with deaths opus (completely forgot about the existance of the skill), I only deal fire+lightning dmg, so that's an additional clean 30% resistance penetration vs bosses during the flask effect. I'm not sure, if wrath is viable for harbinger as well - but you can play around with matching the resistances and getting some additional penetration this way.

P.S. you could bless your bow to 49-50% and its "metacraftable" too. I'm not sure if I would to this though, because it's divined very well.

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juerk wrote:

@huntsmon: I'm not an expert at this build, just leveling it at the moment

ty very much for your inputs, ill try some of the stuff you said and will update how it goes.

when buying a bow, is legacy RoTC a better option than a high end harby?(i plan on using lightning arrow if that matters at all)

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herotown wrote:

when buying a bow, is legacy RoTC a better option than a high end harby?(i plan on using lightning arrow if that matters at all)

Unless you can afford an absolutely insane harbinger legacy reach will be better.