[3.10] From League Starter to Shaper – Cheap, Tanky, Fast and Fun Physical ST – Very Detailed Guide

Love the build, always end up coming back to ST every few leagues lol, too much fun, wondering why you don't take Vitality Void(duelist leech nodes)

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Ertigre wrote:

I'm on a good spot no, i killed Elder and Guardian and mapping without problem. The lack of regen destroy the Delve experience, regen is quite useful for exploring in darkness. I don't know if i'm gonna use VP or just use another pg for delving.

I use a Thief's Torment for Delving into the darkness, obviously u cant stay that long anything over 50ish stacks gets impossible to survive 2 secs without a bunch of mobs around you but makes it really easy to get the reasonably close chests without using flares.

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Special0ps wrote:

Love the build, always end up coming back to ST every few leagues lol, too much fun, wondering why you don't take Vitality Void(duelist leech nodes)

The answer's in the FAQ.

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Aias_o_Telamonios wrote:

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Special0ps wrote:

Love the build, always end up coming back to ST every few leagues lol, too much fun, wondering why you don't take Vitality Void(duelist leech nodes)

The answer's in the FAQ.

thx didnt see the faq on the second comment :)

So here's the thing. If you socket Unnatural Instinct https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Unnatural_Instinct into our rightmost jewel socket, and respec the critical nodes right next to it, you can squeeze out a little more damage through taking Weapon Artistry on the tree, or adding another jewel socket to the build close to the Perfect Agony keystone.

If you're struggling with resistances, you can then also take Cloth and Chain near the Duelist starting nodes.

Alternatively, for one point extra, we can pick up Sniper, as well as a random damage node for even more damage vs. bosses.

Quite a lot of flexibility!

Sure you can do that if you want more damage. I prefer to use jewels with high life rolls. Especially abyssal with flat life which are pretty damn great. You can balance the build wherever you prefer, there's definitely a lot of flexibility.

Hi, this is my second time playing a start of league and I'm really enjoying this slayer :)

I have a question: I feel like a lot of my blades are whiffing, do I need a certain amount of accuracy? Before I picked up my ring/gloves with accuracy, it felt like I was dying a lot from not leeching enough (not doing enough damage). The character feels a lot stronger now though I still struggle a bit with say, T14+ Eradicator, especially in a two party group. I can clear T15s easily on my own (I haven't tried big bosses, usually save those to do with my husband). Is this build noticeably weaker non-solo?

Is there anything major I can improve on with my gear? I'm unhappy with my hp at the moment (6570ish). I'd appreciate any tips, thanks!

Your chance to hit needs to be at least 90%. With your gear it should be at that level. That doesn't mean that you can tank everything though. Use WB a lot to move around. This will do wonders for your survivability.

All guardians (Shaper and normal) should be easy. With your gear you're ready for the Shaper himself but you need to know the fight. If you don't then you'll definitely die the first few times. 6,5K life without a Belly is ok. It could be a bit higher but it's enough to do everything.

As for improvements, there are only minor things. You can get some attack speed on the gloves, replace added elemental damage with physical, get a bit more life and better scourges. But these won't make a huge difference. Better do all that together when you're ready to go to a Belly.

Hey man just wanted to say first thanks for the build I've been using it in the new league and for maps/red elder it's working well. My problem lies in uber atziri and 235+ depth special areas in Delve.

Tried uber atziri and felt super squishy on 2nd bosses + atziri. I died 3 times on the trio bosses cause bladefall one shot me basically. I had 3 portals left for atziri and got her to around 60% before running out. It felt like I couldn't do enough damage to kill the clones fast enough while dodging aoe's and spears.

And sort of the same issue in the mines. When I go into special areas the projectiles kill me in two hits and it seems I can't out-leech the damage.

Since so much of the damage relies on flasks + buffs from kills it feels difficult for some boss fights.

My hp: 6040
Resists: 66/93/130/-30

Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks!


Here are my 3 jewels.

Wait, you're playing with uncapper resists ?? That's a huge mistake. You're taking 36% more fire damage than you should. You must fix this ASAP.

Your gear has a lot of room for improvement. No steel rings, no crit multi stats on jewellery, no AS on gloves, med life rolls on some items etc. Your amulet and belt are just terrible. Also only one of your jewels has life. Get a Sin's too.

For Uber Atziri. That fight is more difficult than the Shaper. For the trio you can use faster attacks instead of SP so you can have some distance. I assume you're taking a chaos flask, if not do that. For Atziri you just need to avoid everything. It's not easy but yellow storm calls and flame blasts will insta-kill you easily. You just need to learn to do this, there's no other way.

You are not meant to outleech everything. You still need to use WB when you see your life going down. Also keep your darkness resist close to 75% at whatever depth you're at.