Path of Exile 3.25 Bow Trickster Update: Testing Scourge Arrow and Defense Upgrades

The bow trickster character has been upgraded to 23,000 energy Shield, testing new skills like Scourge Arrow and aiming for 30k ES.

### Path of Exile: Bow Trickster Build Update (Scourge Arrow, Defense Upgrades)
* 🏹  The build has been upgraded to **23,000 Energy Shield (ES)**, up from **17,000**, reaching **level 97** with additional **large cluster jewels**.
* 🎯  The player is testing Scourge Arrow with Point Blank, alongside Aeronova and Toxic Rain/Spore Burst skills, aiming for a **30,000 ES goal** for **quad-ghosted feared voided maps**.
* 🛡️  Upgrades include a better helmet for **more ES** and a new chest piece, reaching **suppress cap** due to **suppressed tattoos**.
* 💰  The build is designed for high-tier content, aiming to **ensure survival in high-risk voided maps** to **maximize profits**.
* ⚔️  The character can comfortably clear Tier 7 maps, easily handling most damage mods with **minimal investment**.
* 🔮  The player showcases an **Uber X'Arq fight**, demonstrating the build's **tankiness and damage output** against endgame bosses.
* 🌐  The build's unique mechanics, such as **ailment immunity through Watcher's Eye** and **reserving all damage as fire**, provide additional defense against various ailments.
* 📈  Future upgrades may include **shock immunity** via boots or flask suffix, as the current setup rarely exposes the character to shock.

Hello and welcome, Exiles, to the second update to the bow trickster. As you'll notice, we made a lot of upgrades. We're now at 23,000 energy Shield. Previously, we were at 17K. We're now at level 97, so a lot of that ES was just getting levels, but it was also upgrading to additional large cluster jewels. As well as you may notice, I did a bit of a tree swap because right now I'm testing out a skill, Scourge Arrow, the Menace, which I believe works with Point Blank. Well, if we're doing aeronova and we're doing toxic rain of the Spore burst, this is just what we're currently testing out. I don't know if this is the best thing to use right now, but right now we're testing out and it's working fairly well. I'm going to continue to play with different skills and see what I like the most, but right now this is the thing we're testing. On top of that, we have made a better helmet for a bit.

more es. I believe we upgraded our chest piece. We are now at suppress cap due to having suppressed tattoos, and we have ourselves a goal 30k es tormented quad ghosted feared on voided map, and we're pushing towards it. As you notice, we open the video here with a quad ghosted feared, and we're almost there. We're getting closer to the level of tank we need to consistently do that in avoided map. In a non-voided map, I felt safe enough to do it, but obviously there were close calls there where I would have been like, Oh, if I was in avoided map, I'd be really freaking scared right now. And we need to just, we need to up the defense a little bit because you can do avoided map, you maybe you make a 100 Divine profit from selling the Mage bu or whatever you get, but this character is already multiple mirrors of investment at this point, and if it dies, I will have needed to succeeded like 15-20 Maps or whatever it

is to just pay for the investment. So, the idea is if I go into that voided map, I want to be sure I'm going to come out a winner, even if the internet fails me or whatever crashes. I want to make sure my character is not going to die. That's the goal. Granted, you might end up seeing my name in lights as a character who dies, or maybe I'll make a video where I did avoid the maps and it didn't go well. But, uh, we're progressing. That's what we're going for. All right, now I have some Abomination maps. For the time being, I'm getting XP using an atlas like this, where I'm just kind of farming some monster Quant and gold. Steve is still going hard classic, and let's get in showcasing you guys what it looks like for mapping right now. It's pretty chill. I'm just shooting the, uh, toxic rain up in the air with aeronova, I believe. With GMP, it would be a bit better for Clear, 'cause this adds a bit of a delay for the AA to

go like up in the sky, and then down on the ground, and then the pods burst. So it's delayed. It's not the greatest in terms of that delay. In the future, I might just swap to regular GMP, but for right now, I'm doing the uh, the Aeronova, which seems to place the pods in a decent pattern around the enemy where it's likely for a lot of the pods to all hit. Whether or not that's true, or whether or not I'm coping, I don't really know, but the idea is we can go in a map like this with gain 100-300% and you know, minus surprise, and a lot of mods that break our character, and we can still hopefully come out without any relative difficulty. So far, I've managed to die on this character a total of seven times while leveling due to, oh, I rolled this map. I was just testing out what map mods I could and couldn't do. One of the map mods I ran with was the one that guarantees that the enemies

remove 18% of my ES on hit. This map ends up rocking a lot of hits. You'll notice everything's hitting me a bunch of times. And when you give the enemies the ability to guarantee hit you for 20% of your life pool, no matter how small their hits are, that's a bit dangerous. But we've learned our lesson. We're starting to pick our mods a little bit more carefully. The guaranteed removal of life on a boss like this, where they just hit you a ton of times with spells, probably not the best idea. The 50% less defense mod, when you almost multiply the difficulty of the map by two, takes you to like 90% less defense. Obviously, if we go from 20K to 2K ES, that'd be problematic. But for the most part, we can do a very large amount of these mods. Action speed mods, petrify statuses, drowny orbs, all that stuff, don't really care. Ground effects doesn't really matter too much. We just kind of

just cruise we we we turn off our brain we shoot some arrows, and we cruise. I got a phasing on kill jeel now so we have pretty consistent phasing while mapping, and that feels fantastic. And whenever we're doing this map, we get a lot of these mods up here, which the downsides aren't usually very much a problem for us. If you look at them, there aren't normally things that matter too much. Chill ground doesn't matter, sap really doesn't matter, a lot of times they'll give you mods like minus cold, lightning r that doesn't matter. We're all Fire-based. They'll give you mods like um reduced defense per frenzy charge. We have a lot of increased es that would take us from about 23k to about 20K es, losing like 90% defense. It's not the end of the world. Our character will Cruise just fine. So the character so far fantastic for t7s. I use an average of like one, maybe two chaos per map just to just if there's mods I don't want to run like if

I get double pink mods. I might just be like, Nah, I'd rather not take that much extra time to kill enemies. But as far as damage mods and stuff like that, this can run most of them pretty easily without too much difficulty. So the character right now cruising t7s annihilates Uber, so to speak. I guess I can showcase you what an Uber looks right like right now for this character. The only really hurdle I have left to jump, that is really the last checkpoint, is can I do that voided map. So here's an Uber xar real quick, give you guys a little showcase of what this looks like doing an Uber xar. There's not too much things that oh I should mention oh for for the video. I played with regen flask on, but for 99% of my gameplay, I've been running with a rarity flask just to farm gold. And when I do that, I unspec out a zealot oath, and I go over and I grab a power charge and 30 in.

so it's a bit of a Respec based on if you're trying to do hard content and for that tormented fear. I did spec for the regen just so I could take advantage of the regen flask. Now you'll notice you might think Lance what are you doing for ailments what's your solution. Number one for ignite specifically we're taking all fire damage we have immune to ignite from a Watcher's eye. Number two if we have any sorts of chill or freeze ground stuff like that we are trickster one step ahead one of my favorite ascendant nodes gives us the ability to essentially ignore all action speed things and that includes freeze and chill and then after that you have things like sap if we lose a little bit of damage I don't care and sap is rare to begin with and I want to point another thing out when you take 100% of lightning and cold as fire enemies cannot inflict shock or sap or chill or freeze of those they can't afflict those ailments anyways unless they have a mod

that says all damage can do this which that is a very rare thing so for the right now technically I'm not Shock immune but in most circumstances it doesn't matter because they can't shock me. It's basically just like if I ran a map with shocked ground that would be problematic or for example the eater let's get this guy to do some like real skills attack him a little bit just so he starts using some actual skills and not just uh not just Annihilation real quick here. Yeah so that's what it looks like when you're doing an U wall let him phase let him phase guess he's going to blow up on us that's what it looks like when he does that all right now let's go ahead I think I mtim that Immortal call by the way I need to fix my gems a little bit so I have want to fall with the ration but this is what it looks like when we're doing a um an Uber X Arc it's most things we can just ignore and this is

the case for pretty much all the Ubers. I still need to test out Uber Maven and uh Uber eater. I'm not sure. I don't think we have enough tank to do the Uber eater ultimate nuke yet, but we will. I'm pretty sure we'll get to that point with the characters. So let's go ahead and finish him off right now, unless he phases real quick 'cause sometimes he does like the really quick phase if you already did damage to him. Now we get to call oh omns. If only this was last League or not this league 'cause this thing, this thing is tanked and pricey. It's still worth two bu. I'm kind of happy about it, but anyways, that is an Uber X Arc. I was getting a little bit distracted as for the ailment thing. Eventually, I will either do avoid shock on my boots or avoid shock via a flask suffix, which would allow us to get that ailment immunity for things like shock ground. But for the time being, I've been Lo. I've been playing with no

shock immunity just to see how often I get shocked. It just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen. It's basically the only times I get shocked is I click the alter that says reflect ailment. My character shocks enemies and thus reflects the shock back to me. But outside that, my character, I just don't get shocked. And that's CU. It's just, it's shock ground or it's nothing. Uh, kind of a cool little feature that I didn't really appreciate last time I did a res conversion, but it does work out quite well to be able to take all your damage as one ailment 'cause it makes it so for the most part enemies can inflict those other ailments unless they have some special mod that allows them to apply an ailment to you without dealing that damage type to you, if that makes sense. Anyways, this is the current, uh, iteration of the character. I'm going to keep trying to upgrade it. Pour more currency into it. See how we can push this character. We have goals. We have aspirations. Hopefully you enjoy the

Journey, as always, thanks for watching. Exiles, take care and peace out. Have a good one.

Bow Trickster Quest For Immortality

CaptainLance9

The bow trickster build has seen significant upgrades, reaching 23,000 energy shield and level 97.

The player is currently testing the Scourge Arrow skill with Point Blank, along with other skills like aeronova and toxic rain of the Spore burst.

The goal is to increase defense to confidently tackle voided maps and ensure a profitable outcome.

Strategy for Navigating Challenging Map Mods in the Game

The Aeronova strategy is currently being used, but there is a consideration of switching to regular GMP in the future.

The character has died seven times while leveling, learning to select map mods more carefully, especially ones that guarantee hits or reduce defense.

Despite facing various challenging mods, the character is able to cruise through the maps comfortably, with phasing on kill providing a consistent advantage.

Efficient Enemy Annihilation with a Versatile Character

The character can easily handle most damage mods and is currently cruising through t7s and annihilating Uber.

The main remaining challenge is to tackle the voided map.

The character's build allows for flexibility in addressing ailments, with strategies to counter ignite, chill, freeze, and sap.

The Limited Impact of Shock Damage on the Character's Gameplay

The character is not technically shock immune, but in most cases, it doesn't matter because they can't be shocked.

The player is considering adding shock avoidance to their boots or via a flask suffix to gain ailment immunity, but for now, they have been playing without it.

The character is able to ignore most things, including Uber X Arc, but still needs to test Uber Maven and Uber Eater for their tanking abilities.

The Rare Occurrence of Getting Shocked in the Game

The character has a unique shock immunity, only getting shocked when using a specific alter to reflect ailments.

The design allows the character to take all damage as one ailment, making it difficult for enemies to inflict other ailments.

The player plans to continue upgrading the character and investing more currency into it.