Path of Exile 3.25: Lightning Strike Champion Update and Gear Review

The Lightning Strike Champion struggles with content due to gear limitations and lack of damage, aiming to improve with a corrupted six-link.

### Fuzz Gaming: Lightning Strike Champion Day Three Update
* ⚔️  The Lightning Strike Champion build has progressed to Day Three, with **minimal gear changes** and a focus on **Atlas progression**.
* 📊  The build has cleared the Atlas, obtained **two Watchstones**, and prepared the tree for **Destructive Play**.
* 💰  Upgrades included a **corrupted six-link chest piece**, improving damage but resulting in **more frequent deaths**.
* 🗺️  The Atlas strategy involves **unlocking the 5th map device slot** and **preparing for higher tier content**.
* 🏛️  The build is not yet ready for Destructive Play due to **lacking damage**, with plans to incorporate **endurance charges**.
* 🌐  The lead mechanic has been somewhat disappointing, with shipments yielding **minimal rewards**.
* 🛠️  Future gear upgrades include improving **boots, rings**, and potentially adding an **enduring composure cluster jewel**.
* 🎮  The next video will focus on **Destructive Play farming strategies**, aiming to **increase currency gains**.

hey all, and welcome back to Fuzz Gaming and a Day Three update for the Lightning Strike Champion. In this video, I'm going to try and make as quickly as possible because I haven't really made many changes. I made the decision to just push through my Atlas clear and my first two voice notes on the setup I had in the last video. So, five link fairly basic gear. I made a few purchases for like three to four SE to upgrade the gear to make sure that I was still accuracy cap, to get a bit more life, and to get a tiny bit of damage in. But overall, I made the, in my opinion, wrong decision to just push on a five link. That was mainly because I wanted an uncorrupted six link, and they were still really expensive. Even the corrupted ones with the right colors on an armor evasion base were too expensive for me. So, I decided to push you on a five link. I have now upgraded to a corrupted six link, which will go through later on in the video, but it has meant that I've died more.

often I've died 35 times, and yeah, a lot of that was probably because I was just trying to do content that the build wasn't quite ready for. But I did get my Atlas clear, got my first two void stones, and I've now got my tree set up for going destructive play when I'm ready to do that, which is not quite yet. I don't know if I'm living too lazyy ago, but for some reason I totally forgot that destructive play now needs basically you to roll the maps. The harder the maps are, the more additional bosses you get, so you can't just scour and go or magic and go anymore. Um, so I'm going to give that a go, but I think it could be tough on some maps. I've completed an Elder Guardian map just to get another favorite slot, and then I'll do a shaper one at some point. But mgear is still fairly basic, so I don't want to go jump jumping into content until I've got a bit more gear, at least some damage on.

jewelry. Maybe expect the tree to get more damage 'cause I feel like even though life is nice, it makes it harder to get your accuracy above your life, and I think damage would be better. I've not done Uber lab yet. I've been very lazy and not gone into any lab trials, but I will get that done because that gives us another 10% reduced damage taken. I won't go through the gem links because they're exactly per the PO, except I haven't got my molten shell set up yet. I will do that after this video, so I'll just go over the gear that I've got. I cleared the atlas pretty much with the gear from the last video. I think I upgraded my amulet and my helmet, um, but I didn't really have any more damage. It just came from the gems. The bosses actually felt fairly comfortable, but six-link I would definitely recommend if you can. The reason I didn't is the even corrupted armor inovation. Six links were like 45C for a decent roll, and I didn't want to.

spend that money on them. In the end, after I've done it all, I bit the bullet because I came down a little bit in price. So I got this chess piece for 35c. We'll go through the gear in a minute. And what I've decided to do, because you ideally want one of these new armors that have the higher evasion and armor on them, I've had one drop, which is a Conquest Lamellar, which I think is the best one you can get. So I'm going to six-link this myself as like a long-term project. It's also a chess piece that I can take to another melee build if I decide I want to play Champion, but respect something else if I want to play Slayer, or if I want to level up another character, this chest piece is going to work fine for any of those characters that I want to play. So we'll go through the gear I've got on now. It's going to be just very similar to the PO. So we have a helmet with some

life resistance attributes, and then some increased armor and evasion. I've probably unlocked the higher craft. Now I'll have to take a look at that. I have managed to roll minus Mana cost on it and attack damage. The gloves are, again, decent life resistances and accuracy. I would like attack speed in here, but I did feel that I needed accuracy because you'll Mastery where you either get plus accuracy um but less accuracy per level or dexterity because I'm getting rid of a lot of that with the inertia Jewel. I just wasn't capped. I actually had to get one item with accuracy on it. This fit the bill. I purchased it. They weren't expensive. I think they were like 5C. And then I've just rolled with Embers and I call until I hit something that was useful. So my spell suppression with lucky is now 99. And then this gives us a bit more attack speed. The boots I will change later on, but I'm not alant immune because it's too expensive at the moment. So I've just

crafted chance avoid being chilled and movement speed, which you unlock. I believe from Ren in syndicut one of the Rings is just a ring. I found on the ground. It's nothing spectacular, but it had the intelligence that are needed and life doesn't really offer much else other than resistances. And in this one, I'm Bound in Syndicate on like day one. It's not great, but it gives me minus 10 to non-channeling skills. I don't actually need it anymore 'cause my Mana cost is four. So the ring is the next thing I up to upgrade, whether that's getting a taming or something that gives us a lot more damage. And then we have two Ichimonji and then the amulet I crafted myself. I bought the base with fractured resistance for 5C and then rolled with Essences of Spike to hit intelligence. And then as soon as I got something that's usable of anointed Divine judgment crafted increase ear damage with attacks. And then that's kind of the

build where I want it. At the moment, it definitely needs more damage if I want to do destructive play. Al and go. I totally, totally forgot you couldn't just run them scouted anymore. U but it's doing okay. It's cleared the atlas, which is what I wanted it to do. It did it really, really cheaply. Um, now I've spent a little bit more money, the build should at least be able to do um some sort of early t16 strats. I don't know what I want to do yet for two reasons. I was going to do ritual, and it's so Rippy, it's unbelievable, so I will not be doing ritual. So in regards to my current atlas tree, it's exactly per my video on my channel, and then I haven't done anything with my second tree yet, and I haven't done anything with my third. I've unlocked my fifth map device slot from doing the 10 ways. Obviously, I need to do a t17, but I'm definitely not ready for that at the moment. Let's talk a little.

bit about the lead mechanic cuz is actually starting to disappoint me a little bit. I'm still really enjoying upgrading my town, but the shipments I just find you don't get anything. I went to bed, I sent a ship all the way across the world on like a 4-Hour timer. I provided what they wanted for their contract, and I got back about 2 Kos, some really really bad rares, and then some bubble gum currency. I don't know if this gets better later on, but it's a million miles away from what they showed in their reveal. They did say they were going to Nerf it slightly, and I just felt they've probably over nerfed it, but I know their strategies normally go low because it's easier to raise stuff than Nerf it. Hopefully they look at it because I just don't think it's worthwhile at the moment. Uh, we've got a fair bit of disenchanting dust with Rog, but until we figure out whether the combinators are actually any good, I won't be doing anything with those.

either do need to start leveling up my map device because it is four slots and still just white Maps. No, we've upgraded to Yellow, but I do need to get six portals unlocked because even yellow Maps. I've got like a 10% risk of my map Runners dying, which means realistically every 10 Maps I'm having to replace a map Runner. This does seem brutal, this mechanic. It's kind of like I'll lob you in, you got a 15% chance you're never coming back. Uh, I haven't had anyone hijack my shipment yet, but from everyone I've seen on Twitch, it's bugged. And when you go in the portal to fight the boss, you get disconnected from the instance and then you lose anyway. Farming is kind of where I wanted to try and spend my upgrade because that's how you get currency for those that didn't know. When you send farming materials off, you get currency back. When you send the ORS off and things like that, you get gear back. So I do want to upgrade this. I just don't

want to waste all my gold at the moment. At the main town is level seven, so we've got some upgrading to do there as well. But in terms of the lead mechanic in general, other than the crazy Elemental ones, I'm finding it pretty comfortable what I'm doing now, which I would recommend you do as well. When you come across one of the elemental, uh, mining materials, drop a portal. Go and kill the map boss, exit character select, then you can go in your portal, click the node, and go back out again. You don't need to have it active throughout your map, you just need to activate it and then they'll go and mine it straight away, and then it puts all the difficult, um, like debuffs and damages into the map, but you can just do it before you leave. What I'm going to do is test out whether this build as it is can do destructive play. We'll farm some red alters, and then I'll bring a video out tomorrow just going through the strategy that I'm going to use to get my first bit of

currency. Like, I'm not swimming in currency because I've really just been concentrating on Atlas and League mechanic. So, I've got 59 chaos, got some runes, probably got some Essences, but not a ton, but probably some that we could sell. Um, but now I need to just get on and farm some currency. So, we'll go and do a quick map showcase. So, let's actually go and see if we can even do disruptive play chisel done out. We'll find out what you want to do for modifiers is you need to avoid reduced Aura effect and blind on hit. The rest of them, I think you just cope with, but those two you lose so much damage that it's not worth doing. You're better off spending the scour and the Alchemy to roll. So, this one's going to be deadly. It's got fizzes extra crit multi crit chance vulnerability, so it's not going to be fun. And because we do have to take a few of these increased modifier effects, this is going to be quite deadly.

for a kind of budget build, but we'll go in and we'll give it a go. Uh, yeah, Sentinel, why not? It's probably going to kill me as well, but so from what I remember about these, you have to try and group some enemies up. I can't even remember the button. I think it's F2 for me, and then I lost my button completely. Yeah, I need to remap my buttons 'cause that was not comfortable. Yep, died. Thought I would. All of the new league mechanics or not League mechanics. Oh no, disconnected. Anyway, awesome. So I probably lost that map. All of the stuff that they've introduced just seems Rippy. Um, Sentinel is going to be, and obviously I've got silly mods on this map, so I'll probably just die from every hit. But the Sentinel does buff the monsters quite a lot, and we got nothing from it, which is great. But anyway, on we go. Right, that's that one farm, so we can do that. Oh, didn't need to put my adrenaline on, and that was silly.

oh these ones are quite Rippy as well so we'll give this one a go as well. Oh this annoys me when you start channeling you get some want attack you. You basically just got to hope you don't die extra life and hasted just what you want to see right. It's that done trying find that where I'm going probably should have waited a bit to do that. Oh wow. Oh it's the bloody stupid graveyard boss I thought something melted me there. Yeah so I think we definitely need more damage to do this but I don't think we need a lot. But we got a synth map Minotaur map conqueror map and a t16 so yeah it was a little bit not nice but those mods are pretty pretty deadly. Uh with the crit multi fiz X fire and vulnerability. Uh we just about survived if you forget about the death at the beginning but yeah there's definitely some work needed. I think endurance charges I'm going to get into the build they're just too powerful not too so I.

think maybe dropping some nodes on the tree going to Cluster set up and just putting in a small enduring composure cluster jewel is what I'm going to do. So for those that don't know, I actually have an armor cluster Jewel here. You can roll a mod on a small armor cluster Jewel, which is basically gain an endurance charge on hit, and then you gain them up to your maximum every second. There's lots of ones on never heard of there we go enduring composure it does exist. So what I'll do there is just make that rare, absolutely garbage jeel, but let's have a look to see just quickly what this would go for on trade. So we've got enduring composure with two passives, so yeah 30C. So you could just roll these for profit to be fair, but yeah I will look to get that into the build with a large cluster jeel, probably an attack cluster with as much attack speed as I can get 'cause that's where I feel is very noticeable on melee now is the lack.

of attack speed. So just a large cluster attack cluster with as many attack speed nodes as I can slot. This enduring composure in and then we've got space then for if we wanted to go Al later once the Jews come down in price a bit. But that's it for this video. Any questions you got, feel free to leave them in the comments. I'll try and get a video out tomorrow with how my destru Play Farming went. Thank you very much, take care, see you in the next one.

Atlas Clear & First 2 Voidstones Day 3 Lightning Strike Champion POE 3.25

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Update on Lightning Strike Champion Progress

The player made minimal changes to their gear, sticking with a five-link setup due to the high cost of six-link items.

They have experienced an increase in deaths since upgrading to a corrupted six-link, but have successfully cleared the Atlas and obtained their first two void stones.

The player plans to focus on improving their gear and damage before taking on more challenging content, and intends to complete the Uber lab for reduced damage taken.

Building a Versatile Chess Piece for Gaming

A gamer discusses purchasing a chess piece for 35c and plans to six-link it for a long-term project.

The gamer also talks about their current gear, including a helmet, gloves, boots, and accessories, and their plans for future upgrades.

The focus is on creating a versatile chest piece that can be used for multiple characters and gaming scenarios.

Need for Improvement in the Game Strategy

The player is struggling with the effectiveness of their current build for destructive play and is facing challenges with the lead mechanic in the game.

They are also experiencing difficulties with map running due to the high risk of their runners dying.

The player is looking to focus on upgrading their farming strategy to improve their currency gains.

Tips for Efficient Gaming in Path of Exile

Focus on upgrading the main town and dealing with elemental mining materials.

Use portals to mine quickly and efficiently without keeping the debuffs active.

Prioritize the strategy of farming red alters and currency to enhance your gameplay.

Be cautious of modifiers, avoiding reduced Aura effect and blind on hit for better results and increased damage.

Struggling with the Sentinel in the New League

The player is having difficulty with the Sentinel and feels that the new league mechanics are challenging and deadly.

They believe that more damage and endurance charges are needed to improve their performance in the game.

Despite the struggles, they were able to obtain some valuable maps.

Using Enduring Composure in a Cluster Jewel Setup

The speaker plans to add an Enduring Composure jewel to their build for the benefit of gaining endurance charges.

They also consider the potential profit of this jewel in trading.

The focus is on incorporating the jewel into a large cluster for increased attack speed, with a possibility of further adjustments in the future.