so while Locus sp's par siphon is probably one of the smoothest League starts that's ever been had especially as a trickster now day four day five day six you're looking to make some improvements into the later part of the game while I haven't previously thought a lot about how I'd build this in the end game because in previous leagues in stackers of this have existed I've put a bit more work into this now and I'm going to present four different variations of the build in this video. Firstly I'll go over my existing build probably roughly where I'll end off on this thing because there's other ideas I want to reroll into but there's some higher improvements that I have made and I want to talk about these things. Secondly I'll go over a poison perfect Agony setup that I Theory crafted in po only um I'm certain that this does work as advertised but it's really really hard to actually access these items and they're really contingent on trade.

usually the items cost almost nothing. A lot of times other than R cash, but sometimes they go up a lot because there's such scarcity on the corrupted implicits. So, it just depends if other people are trying to make this setup, whether or not the items will be available. Really risky to do, wouldn't recommend unless you know, you know that every single thing is there. The third thing that I want to go over is an intelligence stacking setup that's roughly based off of Quantrix Po from last League. I've retooled it a little bit, so there might be some mistakes, but I think this is probably what I would do if I was going to push this into the really high end. It's a close to Invincible build and gets about 20 million DPS. And lastly, I'll go over a little bit of what I see on Pey Ninja, some of the stuff I like, some of the stuff I don't like, although I would say I don't like most of it because most people on Ninja, especially in softcore.

trade are just a little too damaged obsess for me, and I don't really see the point in having much much much worse defenses. Anyhow, let's get into the PO section of this. So this is my current character, not much has changed in terms of the tree. There's a few differences, for example, I dropped the Pierce node for a lot of the content that I do because, you know, I'm doing a lot of bossing these days, a lot of form rotations, and I have plus one pierce on gloves, and that tends to, you know, be enough. I've also put in a Timeless sh at this point. This is a double damage lethal Pride. It also gives you a lot of strength, so it's much easier to run things like volatility, a high level Shield charge, better life tab setups, that sort of thing. I've also chosen a path down here. This is better when I don't have dexterity on my chest, but yeah, this is a three-point jeel, and I think it's solid to go for. There's also

this option, but there is more Jewel space. I could also look for, um, I guess that which was taken. I think that's what it's called, this patch, and maybe look to put that like here or here or maybe even here, um, but there's still some other options also. Wormhole, anyways, the gear. Let's go for the uniques first. So I hit a plus one curse marilin bought this, and then I've anointed this with overcharge. It allows me to run punishment without having to grab Whispers of Doom. So four point save there. iLab Bond's trickery. So this, people keep asking me about it. To me, this is just a plus one power charge helmet with relatively good ES. I would rather have a plus one power charge Crown. The inward eye. I would also probably rather craft myself a 500 to 600 ES helmet with like accuracy on it or like, you know, res suffixes. Elemental shift M throw speed. It can be really, really strong. Um, you can also make a warlord helmet.

um or you can go for like a corruption on the helmet to get plus one, but there's a lot of different options on helmet. I'm just using this because it was 30 chaos when I bought it, really cheap. I've also opted now for oxum. The main reason why I'm using oxum is 'cause I'm not using doy's ten year, and my wand is also different. So, because of these two slots being different, I have much less increased damage on my build. In my pre-league Po, I was at about 1,000% increased damage total. You can see I'm a lot lower here, although I don't know that this is exactly representative. I think it was closer to 1,000 on my pre-league, but now without doy's and stuff, it goes down a lot because um, I just don't have that increased spell damage from the gloves, and I'm also not using Crown the inor eye, which gives all the trans, these things, basically transfigurations, yeah. So, that's a pretty big loss in

increase damage so that Baseline multiplier is gone. Oxygen becomes much better. There I hit a trii Wan. This is a fracture-based Essence spam until I hit that. Then I clean suffixes, redo suffixes. You could also go for the veiled mod for attributes, although it does drop my crit chance even lower, which can be a problem. But that would allow me to drop this area of the tree and then opt for more nodes. Like maybe I could grab like Heartseeker with that extra um, you know, C passive points. And also grab the multi node here 'cause I think the final multi node is actually reasonably valuable. Uh, it's a 5.3 so that's probably pretty good to do. So I might consider redoing that later. Um, The Shield. I just bought this off trade. I'm pretty sure looking at the shield, this is a rck shield. More like ground loot, but it was really cheap, 70 K when I bought it. But I'm really using this for the avoid ailment and I'm using this to

pair with boots, and this allows me to skip the essence. Craft on boots for avoid ailments and still hit 100% avoid ailment with ancestral Vision. I have an acrtic armor, really, really easy to make these things very, very good to do. Would not recommend using a unique over this because defensively it's just absolutely insane. You see if I take this off, put it back on, it gives me like 2.5k es and a gajillion evasion, like 13,000 evasion. So it, in essence, actually more than double your defense. It also gives you Elemental shift and gives you endurance charges, really crazy to do. So just dense fossil spam for prefixes till you get Triple T1, or in my case, I went T1 t124 and then used elich Chaos on the suffixes with eater influence. Easy to do, just settle for what you want and suffixes after that, but extremely easy craft. I think on average this will take like five divines, although dense fossil keep going up a price. I switched does over to gloves.

this is for three main reasons. Firstly, I wanted to suppress cap really easily so Dan on his necrotic armor for his ball lightning build. He used fractured orbs for hitting suppression on it. I don't want to go for something that insanely expensive and gambling and pain so I went for suppression on gloves. And this allowed me to suppress cap in combination with my current Watcher's eye. And then I also wanted accuracy so that I could drop Precision on my gem setup. Um, otherwise I'm just have life. Um, those two implicits tend to be pretty good as well need more accuracy. And intimidate is a free little bit more damage. Boots avoid ailments life surp and I also managed to buy this pair of boots with regen on them. And this is the one of the reasons why I don't actually run the regen Mastery. A lot of people are struggling with recovery on this build or feeling like they're running out of life. I would recommend taking this if you feel like your life recovery is struggling instead of this um but.

it's up to you to do what you want to do. All right, and then finally rings are just like rest. You just need to fix rest through your rings. I'm most using a forbidden set. This is Bor in the shadows. Um, it's the most defensive set you can use on a shadow. There's a lot of other options. Steadily infusion, unstable infusion are both really solid, although unstable is probably much better than that. Opportunistic, in my opinion, is probably best in slot for a lot of builds or it's plug-and-play, really freaking good for a lot of builds. Ana is never bad because you know it gives you a bit more damage. Um, although I think it's probably the weakest option. And then on the Sabo side, there's also pyromaniac. So, pyromaniac is interesting because it pairs really well with one step ahead. If you want to take this combo with this and then maybe like not run spell breaker, that also could be an option. Um, or if you're playing into a power charge.

stacker, this can be a good secondary option because power charge stackers don't take Swift killer. The skill gem setups also changed a little bit. The thing about support gems is this: there are three main support gems - Barrage, Charged Mines, and Swift Assembly. Once you've used these three things, everything else is just based on what Path of Exile tells you in terms of, you know, damage or like, you know, actual gem requirements. So just use what Path of Exile tells you on your specific build. It might be a little bit different depending if you went for like a spell damage one instead, which I think is usually better. I mean, I'd much rather have a Prophecy base with two T1 flat added and spell damage, but it is what it is. And I also have a lot more Mana unreserved now because I'm running an Enlighten setup on my reservations. And because I'm running Enlighten three, I'm able to actually use an Arcane Surge setup without Life Tap, which means I can automate three skills really, really

great for playability, and I think that's, you know, pretty sweet as is. Anyways, this is the core of my character. It's got a little bit more damage now, a little bit pretty, pretty well-rounded defense, and I think it's fairly safe to do all content. I mean, if you're doing Ubers, you're unskilled, it'll be a little bit difficult, and I've been hesitant to push that content, but I have like done t7s, and mostly I'm just running form rotations and running Gravius' Betrayal spam because that's what I want to gamble with my build. Good template, kind of just pushing the existing POV from pre-League up a little bit more, but actually in the same kind of range of investment. Second thing I want to go over is this poison setup. So I was thinking back to my Affliction character. I think it must have been, yeah, with tinctures, and I remember Doyscorn exist, and I was using this on a KB fragmentation wander. So I wanted to do this again, obviously we

lost that tenure for one hit um but I was thinking about ways that you could play Perfect Agony, and I realized that I really don't want to try to play with V Corrupted because of Pathfinder. This is basically unplayable. There's a few setups you can go for, for example, Petrified Blood with a small life flask, but I think that's really, really stupid to do. So instead, I decided I want to get a lot of chaos damage. There are three sources of flat chaos in this build. Firstly, the one does give you a little bit. This is, in my mind, an Essence-crafted wand to accuracy cleanse everything else. Multi-mod crit chance, chaos damage should be good enough. You could also go for multi. You could also go for my throw speed, that sort of thing, but I think this is fairly solid. This build has much less increased damage than other builds for Parason because you can't leverage that 150% increased spell damage line from Parason because this is Poison. The

second source of flat added is awaken outed chaos really really good. This is always going to be mandatory if you play this, or if I play this, or if anyone plays this, because this really helps out your clear DPS. You're not Arab baning your curses. You'll see that the damage does go down quite a lot, like half the damage, but it should still be enough to clear. With the third thing that is sour of flat out is doy scorn, and this is how you get a lot of flat chaos from a helmet. It's also really good to get a plus one power charge. This is usually hovering around that one Divine range. It can be a bit more, can be BL, who knows. I don't care about budget anymore; the economy is just way too volatile depending on what like one or two people flipping or bandwagoning want to do. But it's really crazy because at six power charges, I have one from here, one from here, one from here. I'm not actually anointing this, um, so at six max.

power charges. It's giving you six curses that lets you run two curses from asnas so temporal chains, plus whatever curse, um, assassin's Mark for one more curse, three, and then AR BR up for three more curses, um, I think that's really, really, really strong. Just gives you a ton of flat. You see, if I take this helmet off, it's like insane actually. This thing gives you 1% more. Actually, it's like tripling my damage or something like that. It's almost quadrupling my damage. It's actually absurd for this setup. And it's the core unique that's actually setting this up. Rikes becomes mandatory in this because I want to play with the lesio as a perfect Agony build using that sort of crit to dot multi scaling. You want to stack a ton of frenzy charges and then you want to turn those into Affliction charges and have both R cach let you do that super op. This is the most expensive item ever and cost as much as the whole.

rest of the build combined again unless be looking items finally Marilyn's fallacy this is just absolutely absurd still on this character almost sort of doubling your damage um and then it annoy savag actually I think it only gives you 56% more damage. If you want to be more defensive, replica Badger Brotherhood is also an option. It's a lot of extra Dr and I think actually on balance is probably the slightly better item but you know you make your pick re ring. I mean this is probably a giga ring or some like that you know or you can reforce chaos that sort of thing and just have a lower life roll and then anma to make leverage of that power charge stacking to give you maximum amount of curses so six curses with anma Do's. You've seen this setup before if you followed me before and then yeah Al is glorious fandy this thing is super cool because this is now a chaos build I need to apply wither and I'm getting

Wither on hit through ritual Shadows. You could also go for balance of Terror, but I really like this super easy to get cap because Locus mines has insane throw speed and also throws three mines at a time. This should be fairly decent, especially with temporal chains. Secondly, I use corrupted soul in the setup. Now, this is very interesting defensively. It's not actually that much of a gain, and it could be something else if you wanted to be, especially if you have lower ES on gear. Like you actually want to value life a lot more on your gear and on your tree, but I like this because it makes your recovery more agency focused in the sense that you have more control early on. So normally when you play trickster, you take like a hybrid trickster, you take no damage, your ES goes kind of ping-ponging at the top because you have ghost RS recovery, whatever else may be, but if you suddenly lose all your ES, you're really squishy even though your whole life pool hasn't been touched. With corrupted Soul you

deplete from both pools at the same time. You're able to use your life flasks efficiently much more early on when you are in combat, when you are taking damage, and it also does give you some Max hit. It's really cool, but I really like this setup with this and I really aim to have this node ritual Shadows on steep and the profane, because it gives you access to the cursed Mastery, which gives you more poison chance, 'cause the other way that this build gets poison chance is pretty much strictly off of tattoos, which are really abundant in this league, easy to self-arm, that sort of thing. Watcher's eye for suppression and this forbidden set. So usually on a lot of trickster poison builds, you want to run noxious strike, but because you aren't the one applying poisons, your minds are, you don't get the poison duration easily. Now there's ways to do this, but I think it's way too annoying to do. Although the poison chance is good, toxic delivery though it tends to be the most

affordable forbid and set. This thing is usually nothing in price um, but this is a clean 25% more damage for this build particularly cuz it's already cck capped. It's just not well. Actually, I think it's not exactly cck capped right now, but you know if I apply the poisons, it will be cck capped even without this additional poison. It's already c c so it's probably around 27-28% more damage for a really, really cheap forbidden set pair. One last thing to note, this forbidden set needs to go here because I need Ghost Dance over here. I need the plus one power charge and power charge scaling over here, and then down here I do need in better it so there's not really good locations. I was thinking about allocating it right here, but then I end up me the reservation efficiency. The gem setup tends to go for a more chaos-focused thing. I mean just read the gems you see fit. Fairly straightforward, but I really like this build. I thought it's super cool. I wanted.

to make it but just annoying to set up but I think probably the most creative setup for this and has great damage. You know it's approaching dot cap with I think relatively affordable gear. I think this is everything in mind under 100 Vines which I mean there's more efficient builds probably but you if you've played this build you know what it clears like you know what it feels oh and one last thing because it's poison based there's a really good chance you can benefit from polymath so damage over time effects um count as you when it's from your mines when your traps I think from your totems as well it all counts as you um which means you can actually get recovery on kill if you play this build but again last morning one more time really hard to set up third thing in Stacker this is based off of quan setup and this is a super high-end build but you can see that's basically Invincible this is without a guard skin enabled um and it's just

insane. I mean, I've changed a few things around, and I think the character might actually sort of be worse than this character from last League. We do lose certain things like grave crafting and whatnot, but this is like, you know, a really, really, really nice build. It was one of the core templates that was used. I think by Ru, obviously Quanchi had much better gear, built character better, um, and then Lily tried to sort of emulate this in a budget idea last league, and that character did like no damage, but this one is really good. 20 million DPS, 300K Max Ellie in the range of about 50k Max Fizz. Obviously, this makes a pretty big difference, but it has 1.3k ES region and a 16k ES pool, so super freaking strong there, and um, I mean, I probably take like Solaris and uh, Rach. It does need to get bleed cleanse from somewhere, um, or you'll need to like log that or, you know, something like that, or maybe just the regen is enough.

anyways, it's an insta-stacker, so it's really expensive. Um, gem set up first. It's really straightforward. There's a lot of flexibility here, but it's fairly similar to what I'm doing. I no longer run Wrath on this. It's only a 20-something per Aura, whereas Skitterbots is roughly the same amount of damage and allows me to run Precision here, which allows me to drop this wheel. Um, and it's a pretty node-tight tree. Secondly, the tree. Ugliest part of the tree first. Zealot O. I don't think this is skippable. Um, I think it's insane. I think it's really, really, really good to have. You don't have a lot of source of recovery otherwise other than regen, so I would go for this. Otherwise, it's fairly similar to most insta-stack trees in the late game or at least the mid to late game. This is again focused for hardcore, so a lot of it is defensively set up. It's got Wind Dancer, Suppression Cap. It runs two 35% clusters that are

you know, it's insane, you'd want to do this by starting out by trying to fracture one of the really hard mods to hit. So, 35% increased effect, maybe fracturing int can be okay, but I think fracturing 35 tends to be the way to go. But I'm not super sure, I don't exactly know how to craft every piece of gear, but we'll go over that later. And the rest of it, just grabbing stuff in and fairly straightforward. I'm going for opportunistic now on this PO, I think this is the generic set that's pretty good. I think it's very unlikely that this build dies to Pure single enemy, but if you get swarmed by like, I don't know, like a really highroll fear or like, I don't really know what this build tends to die to in regular non Valalo type content. Um, but I would say opportunistic could have possibly useful defensive properties. Gear-wise, this is the wand I have, imagine synth implicit wands, uh, with lightning damage Essence.

until you hit T1 or T2 spell damage, open prefix, uh, lock prefixes. Veiled orb until you get a prefix. If you had a suffix, just, you know, cleanse suffix and go again. But I think you want that attack pen. And then I finish with a multimod crit chance, crit multi. Shield is this is literally Quantic Shield but different res. Start out with spell damage fracture. I think this is probably um, a dense or an Essence craft to finish off prefixes. And then reforge Elementals or something like that till he hit suffix. I think this was actually done in grave craft last league, so it's much harder to do. But you really want to hit one of the three max reses on plus three. And then you want to switch that Max Str into max liting. Afterwards, you can also go for r or just buy Shield. I think Shield is tends to be the most weird thought to craft helmet. Lich ciret. I would start out probably with an in fracture Lich or try to fracture life, um, but probably

fracturing into this is likely Essence Craft um until you hit percent and life, and then finishing off by doing like metacraft suffix so like Elders CH ERS exalts, that's sort of thing, and then with a benchcraft to end shouldn't be expensive to do fairly easy um but you need to roll that Max liing plus two because this is a melding setup for 90z chest really easy again this is uh start with a fractioning orb suppression dense craft and then you finish off suffixes afterwards with El currency to hit T1 intelligence and then roll the implicits as such gloves same deal again this is starting out with incursion fracturing the Alva chilled mod so I think this would actually you'd recom the chill mod as a single mod onto a good base because I think recomping double Alva is like almost impossible to do this patch and then you want to fracture that onto the new base or you can just get these dropped on the new

base. It's also possible to do and then it's probably dense or Essence on prefixes lock prefix veiled orb to hit plus two AOE expensive step sort of and then suffixes same deal metacraft El currency these are both elevated mods on the implicit with orbs of conflict annoy to do but plus two Pierce and M but the plus two Max cold is um so I probably just say plus one pierce and plus two Max res boots I would start here with fractured int and then actually I might start with fractur move speed I'm not really sure These Boots are fairly like whatever but they're just avoid ailment boots so at some point this is an Essence craft and at some point use El's currency again this one's actually probably the easiest to do and there's a lot of different ways to go about this one so it should be easy the two things I don't know how to do Simplex amulet helical ring if you followed inst stackers before you know how to do these things I would say if

you're trying to make this build. You know how to do it anyway. These things cost in the range of like a mirror each to make. They're really freaking expensive to do. I don't even know how you do this one anymore. Um, but this is sort of the reach items that you want to go for. You know what if you're like a high-end player you can figure it out. I'm not that smart and I don't want to think about it 'cause it makes me feel really poor. Lastly, CL just touched right now has 10 of ir so once you're done this at least you get a free one and then a mage blood. Mage blood melding on this topaz melding. The reason why I do this is one because Max lightning on helmet is basically free to do. Um, actually I should run like a level one Clarity on this too. Like a low level Clarity. Um, just the Mana region is looking a little dicey. Uh has to be real like normal Clarity but this also gives

you Max res off of here so this is Plus One Max res here plus two off helmet and then Jewels this patch are insane they give plus two maxres as well so really really op that you can get plus4 maxr like this and it's super easy to actually get melding cap now so I think that's a really nice thing for this patch the Clusters I went over a little bit already um the mediums I think are really nice it's not what I opted for originally but once I saw it I'm like yeah this makes a lot of sense it's pretty solid it gives you like res if you rolled them well Max res and mind throw speed on JS that's your priority you're also looking for like percent es maybe but not really that good and all attributes is quite solid as well and then finally ancestral vision is the last thing to talk about this is also my core po but basically you're 100% suppressed so it's 50% chance to avoid ailment and then you have uh

yeah, the other GS that I already mentioned. Okay, the last thing I want to go over is possibly some things I kind of liked on PO or on PO ninja. So there's two setups I want to go over really quickly. The first is a power charge type stacking setup. So a lot of people think of this as the default. I really don't like this setup. It is glass, no matter how you build it, sort of. I mean, this does help with your ES recovery in a lot of ways, but no matter what setup I look at, it's really hard to actually make this a relatively tanky build because you give up so many slots and it's really hard to like actually solell for everything. But these builds tend to do several things. Firstly, you're looking for a plus one power charge rings. So it has a lot of investment still to go up and it's already like, I'm going to guess it's around 30 to 40 million DPS right now. You want to go for the classic charge tack setup so

Malachai badge rikes plus one power charge helmet will Clash is probably ideal in the scenario. And then wand is actually better as a flat added one as opposed to void battery. It's just super super powerful right now to get a flat added one with spell damage. The void is relatively competitive. It's pretty close but this build is pretty crazy. Um has unstable infusion for forbidden jeels. I think if you look at this if you want damage, this is a fairly. I would say simple way to construct in that you don't need to think too much about the items. You just get the classic power tiar setup and you just go for as much as you can sort of. You're just building more. Um what I would say is that this setup has relatively low crit multi. So if you get crit multi in certain places. For example like as a on your rings you can get crit multi or I don't know even like crafting on your weapon can be good. He has it here. Yeah like double crit multi can be a

good option, but this has much, much, much lower multi much higher crit chance overc Cap's like crazy. The second way that I think a lot of budget players might want to like boost their DPS while still retaining o defense is this sort of thing so cheap uniques. I mean he's using a rare helmet. You can also use, you know, one of the crazy unique helmets, but replica hes is a contentious item for me. On one hand, 3400 evasion is crazy, and that flat added is like insane, you know, that's like tier one outed lightning, so huge boost your damage suppression is also sick in is kind of whatever to me good chest, but obviously necrotic armor is crazy this patch, and this as a base already cost six divines, but does give you a lot of damage. If you go marilin this chest do with a good corruption and or helmet with a good corruption this core setup will be really, really powerful to go for um. Oh yeah, and I also forget Abyss jeels.

are really good on the setup depending on how your gear is established. For this character, Abyss jewels would actually be lower value than it is for a lot of other characters, but I think it's still fairly solid. So, this is sort of the last way I would think about. You know, if you want more damage right away or you're not confident in your ability to click dense fossils on a chest, you could go for Replica Hres. So, this setup was also fairly cool. Anyways, sorry for the relatively long video. I just want to cover a lot of the different types of options to go for, 'cause I really think this is a fairly flexible build. The way that I designed this as a League start, it's a generic Elemental crit build with ES scaling and hybrid scaling. So, there's a lot of different possible ways to take it. But because of how efficient the early game was established using like really cheap uniques and that sort of thing, and it just becomes quite an expensive task to upgrade into the really high end.

what I would say to the last thing if you're struggling with this build so far. I don't really know how. As long as you watch the initial guide, there's like three main things that people have screwed up. Firstly, it's your chest is terrible. If your chest is terrible, that is a huge problem because trickster's opness this patch is because of escape artist. So, click some dense fossils on the armor and you know, do that. The second thing is suppression cap. If you're not suppression cap, try to do that. The spell breaker node on Sher is really, really good. When you pair that with Wicked Ward with faster start of e es recharge on your tree, your defenses are much better, especially when it comes to bossing. And the final thing that I think people are screwing up is they are not really understanding why certain items are in certain places. And what I would say is you should try to read three things. One is what the skill gem says. Okay, the skill gem says things like it scales with power charges. It has more

damage or like increased damage scaling with spell damage. So when you're looking at that, and you're looking at different uniques and stuff just to search for, there's actually quite a bit of flexibility on those on uniques other than milyan falacy. And it's a reason why I have iLab bonds my helmet or whatever may be, but there's a lot of different options. I would say if you don't know what's going on, you feel overwhelmed. This is a fairly simple build to understand. And what I want to say is read the skill gems, read the gear that's being used across, and try to think for yourself because it's a really easy way to learn. I think it's one of the best opportunities to really learn about building right now. I think it's a great League. Star still the high-end is interesting as you presented. If you do get that full poison setup going, let me know how it goes for you. I think it's sick. I'm really most curious about that.

really cool use to perfect Agy but yeah I mean good luck guys. I'll be rolling something really really weird coming up. It's going to be my build of league for sure, my favorite build, and hopefully I don't screw it up, hopefully I don't die. Um, oh also, by the way, obviously I'm not ding my character so it's a hardcore B build as well. So yeah, bye.

4 End-Game Power Siphon Locus Mine Setups [Path of Exile 3.25]

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