[3.15] EXPLOSIVE / FLAMETHROWER TRAP Saboteur Build. Cheapest League Starter for ALL CONTENT!

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Cry0nicS wrote:

Just wanted to take a moment and say "thank you" to @Angry_Roleplayer for taking the time to make this guide and keep replying to the questions all of us have.

I managed to get #top2 on poe.ninja (dps wise) without much investment (TBH, the top guy is cheating a bit for statistical purposes).
Truth be told, tho, harvest crafts made things easier for us.

At first I thought this will be just a starter, before I transition to something more meta. However, I ended up enjoying it enough to not wanna change it for this league.

While I mostly followed the guide, the one change I made was to get Arcane surge passive on the medium cluster and drop the 2 passives around "Holy Dominion" as it doesn't do too much anyway (and some other small passives) in order to use the points together with an Intuitive Leap, like this.



I feel like I get more for the points spent.

Anyway, cheers ARP!

ohh awesome feedback and great idea!!
Thank you!

Explosive trap is doing fairly filthy amounts of damage now - though the delayed nature can be a bit tricky.
Just crafted this amulet - ideally I'd lose the fire res but no safe way of doing it (Well not sensibly, I'd have to lose the crit multi, then try and put it back on)



It's about 32% more damage when I equip it, not including the anoint.

Rest of gear now



Belt and chest need a little finishing off, and a double damage circle of anguish would be nice (Or drop it for a decent rare), but I'm mostly done gear wise.
Only 5.4k life, but I do have wind dancer and divine flesh.

A8 Sirus, uber elder all fine, and totally deletes conquerors/guardians etc.

As im fairly new to using cluster jewelsm would large jewel be more beneficial if you got the currency to use it? (Instead of medium cluster)
What nodes should i be looking for if that's the case, or does it have to be any changes to the passive tree if i use large cluster?

Thank you for build and replies!

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Ryztard wrote:

As im fairly new to using cluster jewelsm would large jewel be more beneficial if you got the currency to use it? (Instead of medium cluster)
What nodes should i be looking for if that's the case, or does it have to be any changes to the passive tree if i use large cluster?

Thank you for build and replies!

large is useless, too many points wasted

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Angry_Roleplayer wrote:

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Ryztard wrote:

As im fairly new to using cluster jewelsm would large jewel be more beneficial if you got the currency to use it? (Instead of medium cluster)
What nodes should i be looking for if that's the case, or does it have to be any changes to the passive tree if i use large cluster?

Thank you for build and replies!

large is useless, too many points wasted

Ahh okey thanks! Also i see that you're using hypnotic jewels instead of ''normal'' jewels, what is the reasoning for that? Is it because its cheaper, or better for dps?

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Ryztard wrote:

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Angry_Roleplayer wrote:

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Ryztard wrote:

As im fairly new to using cluster jewelsm would large jewel be more beneficial if you got the currency to use it? (Instead of medium cluster)
What nodes should i be looking for if that's the case, or does it have to be any changes to the passive tree if i use large cluster?

Thank you for build and replies!

large is useless, too many points wasted

Ahh okey thanks! Also i see that you're using hypnotic jewels instead of ''normal'' jewels, what is the reasoning for that? Is it because its cheaper, or better for dps?

hypnotic are for spells. we run a spell, can roll some juicy mods

Worth to mention, with Harvest it is pretty easy to craft some tripple "crit-multi" jewel + %life. Something like this


Probably you can craft it with under 40 Chaos and some remove/add caster & remove/add life.

There's this guy that made a tutorial on how to do it. It might be that the price of the base skyrockets a bit, now :) Last week I paid 40 chaos for 2 bases :)

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Cry0nicS wrote:

Worth to mention, with Harvest it is pretty easy to craft some tripple "crit-multi" jewel + %life. Something like this


Probably you can craft it with under 40 Chaos and some remove/add caster & remove/add life.

There's this guy that made a tutorial on how to do it. It might be that the price of the base skyrockets a bit, now :) Last week I paid 40 chaos for 2 bases :)

You can definitely get some very nice jewels, that would be worth a ton in any other league, but you do need to weigh up the seed/craft costs as well.
It's odd, slamming life should be more common than hitting totem life but I swear I hit totem life 5 times more than the life roll!
If you aren't interested in selling services/seeds (And I can't be bothered myself) then it probably is the best use though.

I'm running 2 * crit + utility (resists/stats/throwing speed) + life, which tend to be even cheaper, and make gearing easier.
I'm overcapped now though so might try and roll a triple multi jewel.

I've dropped my circle of anguish for a rare ring now which is more damage and has life. And managed to get some crit multi on my bow



Probably can drop some damage for some more life/QoL - it's hard to work out the actual DPS, but especially on anything with a large hitbox it's more than enough.
Conquerors go down in under a second, so at least 20Million dps when preloaded, probably more.

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Carlovski wrote:

I don't think that ring is too great. I mean, I don't know what changes when you use a bow, but "curse on hit" won't work with Traps.

Here's my choice in rings. Because the only slots I could get rez was helm, rings and belt I was a bit constraint of getting that rez o rings, tho.


Both are self-crafted and quite easy. Hardest part was to get the right influence and "influence a jewelry item" craft is not very common. But common enough :))

yeah, you don't "hit" with traps. So any on kill or on hit things do not work