PoE 3.25 Lightning Strike Slayer: Endgame Build and Performance

The Lightning Strike lead starter build excels in most game content, except Ubers, where melee combat proves inefficient and challenging.

### Path of Exile: Slayer Lightning Strike Build Overview
* ⚔️  The player has transitioned their Lightning Strike lead starter character into a Slayer, focusing on **non-Uber boss content**.
* 🏛️  The build is designed to handle most game content comfortably, except for Uber bosses, which are **particularly challenging for melee characters**.
* 💰  The player estimates the build is **not particularly expensive** to put together, with **self-crafted gear** and some **cost-effective item choices**.
* 🎯  The character has achieved several **deathless wave 15 simulacrums** and comfortably handles **t17 maps**, except for certain mods like "**enemies cannot be leeched**" and "**ell reflect**".
* 🛡️  The build emphasizes tankiness, with the ability to "**just stand there, face tank everything in the simulacrum**".
* 🔧  The player discusses various gear choices, crafting methods, and gem setups, highlighting the use of **tinctures for increased damage in single-target encounters**.
* 📊  The skill tree has been adjusted to **optimize for accuracy and attack speed**, with a focus on **maintaining high frenzy and endurance charges**.
* 🎮  The player concludes the video by attempting a **difficult t17 map**, showcasing the build's performance under **challenging conditions**.

a futile inevitable you are p oh I will not be made a fool oh keep you fresh sity my chaos. You Shall Serve me whether you like it or most I not going anywhere. Hey all, and welcome back to Fuzu Gaming, and what's going to be my final update for my Lightning Strike lead starter. As per the last video, I've now transitioned into Slayer. I've built the character up to where it can do most of the content in the game, other than Ubers, comfortably, and I don't really plan on taking it much further because I don't Uber boss, and on melee, they all suck, to be honest, so I think this build pretty much does everything else. I'm happy with it, so I thought I'd run through how I've set the character up. In terms of content, it's done quite a few deathless wave 15 simulacrums. The only time I haven't completed is when it either puts extra life and extra lightning resistance because it takes a little while, and I just get bored, or it does triple Fizz as

Ellie, that can sometimes kill me t7s have done quite a few of them. I don't really like doing these Maps because it just takes so long to roll them because there are just so many mods that are horrible to deal with, but they're pretty comfortable for this character. The only Uber I've tried is exarc, and I failed. Melee absolutely sucks for this. F you spend 80% of the time dodging stuff, then when he finally becomes attackable, he sits on top of a stack of runes so you can't get anywhere near him. So you have to do loads and loads of ball phases. You've then got to take down all the minuts. It just yeah wasn't fun at all, and I failed miserably. If you want an Uber bosser, this is 100% not the bill for that, but it does everything else really well and it Maps very quickly. Now I've have no idea how this compares to all the crit builds, but when I looked at Imp in ininja to go and change to claw.

and crit. They all look a bit too squishy for my liking. And even though it is softcore, I want to try and build a well-rounded character in this build. Pretty much I can just stand there, face tank everything in the semi-lack room. The only thing I'm missing is stun immunity, which I try and fit into the build somehow. T17 some of felt really easy, some felt more difficult depending on the mods, but overall I'm really, really happy with how the builds come on, especially because it's something I've kind of just made up from scratch, working really well and not needing to transition to crit and buy a claw that's probably the price of my whole build. I'm really happy with the result. I've no idea on the cost of the builds. I've crafted a lot of stuff myself and then when people what you do then items go up in price if people look for exactly the same thing that you're running, uh, but it's not been a particularly expensive build to put together. Now the build does

come with downsides. Accuracy is not that easy to get when you've got like 4K life, so you either have to overspend on the tree or look at other ways to get accuracy. So, I've got some tattoos on my tree. I've got accuracy on my gloves, and I've got accuracy on a cluster Jewel. And I've got a little bit of increased Aura effect. It is also a build where a lot of mods are a bit uncomfortable to run for maps. So, no recovery turns off Slayer leech. It's possible when you take instant Lee, but without it, it just feels really bad because it's hard to get recovery into the build. So, you basically just life flasking all the time. It doesn't feel great. Less accuracy will break your damage, but it has got really, really good damage anyway. So, you could get through most Maps even with the damage penalty. Same with less Aura effect. It reduces your offensive auras, your defensive auras. Perseverance Belt doesn't work as well, but it's doable. The only 100% no mods that I do for me are

enemies cannot be leeched and ell reflect. Now, ell reflect can be circumvented with a level five awakened Ellie gem, but then you've still got leap slam and smite, so you have to link brutality to both of those so it doesn't do Ellie damage. Then you're immune. I'm not 100% sure I want to do it. If my gem gets up to that level, I'll then decide what I want to do with it. The main reason I didn't go crit is because I'm a little bit lazy. I already had a lot of the gear for the precise technique version when I looked online and PR ninja and things like that. Yes, I could get more damage, but the defenses looked a bit lacking and need to spend maybe 50 to 60 divines more on my character. When it does everything I want it to do, there are still lots of upgrades that I can make as well. My awakened gems still need to get to level five. When that happens, I get an increased level to my lightning.

strike more lightning damage, more Elemental damage from awakened Ellie damage. And if I can get a few more levels on the character and get to maybe 99, that's either more life or more damage that can fit in the tree, and might even mean I can fit in two cluster Jewels. For those that have been following my build, there are a couple of errors I've made. I forgot I wasn't dual wielding, so my cluster jeel is dual wielding, but none of the main nodes you need to dual wield for. It's just the fact that the one minor node for 10% I don't get any benefit from, so I will look to replace it at some point. But it's maybe like 1% more damage, so I'm not fussed about replacing that until I get everything else sorted. In the PO, I will put the correct Jewel. I will also set the gems to what they would be, so you know level five for the awak and added lightning just so you can get an idea of the damage. A last upgrade I

definitely need to do is get a 2120 V lightning strike, but they're very expensive. I can't be bothered to go and try and corrupt them in Temple, so for now I've just got a 20% Quality. Quality will obviously add a projectile, and then plus one just gives you a bit more lightning damage. But there's a few things I can add here and there, but I'm pretty much done with the build, and I'm happy with how it performs, and it's really, really fun to play. So what we'll do, we can just go through the gear. I'll try and explain how I crafted it and what my thinking was on the gearing, and then we'll go through the tree and the skills. So body armor is basically the same body armor that I had before. This was just spammed with Essences. It's the requires level 84 base. It's the highest base for armor and evasion, and then I've just spammed Essences on it. I can't even remember

what Essence I spammed. I think it was C resistance until I hit something decent. I've rerolled my implicits to melee hits 45 with a 9% chance. I found that it was just too many points on the tree to get Fortify in and it's pretty much up all the time. There might be a little bit of downtime but when you need it, Fortify is there. And then I've got increased effect of non-curse auras. I could obviously push these up a little bit but for now I'm happy with where they are. The helmet, I haven't really looked at this since I originally crafted it. It's intelligence which I do need life chaos res armor and evasion. And then we got reduced Mana cost of attacks and then damage penetrates lightning resistance which is with the Lesser. So I could get that up or change that to something else but at the moment I'm happy with it. We've got our voices of the stor amulet. I've changed the

anoint to frenetic to get an extra frenzy charge, and in turn, an extra endurance charge. The weapon I actually crafted myself, so I bought a fractured attack speed Eternal sword. It was dirt cheap. Then I've spammed deafening Essences of Wrath until I've hit either fire or cold damage. Then I've got rid of the suffixes, multi-modded it with double damage and ell pen, and then I've crafted 3 to 64 lightning damage with the new crafting mechanic. The Shield is not ideal because it's quite a low base, but I wanted a spell suppression fracture base, and at the time, this was the highest level base available. And I've spammed Harvest just literally either cold, lightning, or fire, which costs 50 each, 'cause that hits Elemental alone avoidance fairly frequently. I waited until I got something decent crafted Life Shield done. I wanted to get at least 32% on it because then I can get almond immune without needing things like um ancestral Vision storm shroud things like

that the boots are life resistances, and then chance to avoid all elements. These were crafted with Essences of loathing, so I just bought a fractured pair of movement speed boots. I wanted the tier higher, but they were about four divines for the base, and at the time, I didn't have the currency, and I just waited until again I got a pair of boots I like. You guaranteed the avoid all elements from the essence, and then I've rolled avoid all elements on the boots along with increased action speed. The gloves I have rerolled since last time because I needed accuracy, so basically spammed Essences to guarantee attack speed until I hit accuracy, and then I've just crafted whatever I can on it. Again, these were a fractured pair; they weren't particularly expensive. I think they were 50c. The only thing I need to do with these is push the Val strikes up to two. It just makes a massive difference in terms of clear. It also potentially frees up this Mastery here, which I have dropped at the

moment because of a t17 mod. Normally, this would be plus one V strike, but it means you can maybe run this block one the whole time. So we will just refund that to what it should be. The belt is still perseverance, the Rings same from the last episode, they're just stats damage life. They got no kind of Mana cost or anything on there, they're just yeah life resistances and damage. And then the flas I've finally automated them so that I don't have to press buttons. We've got just a bleeding life flask, quick silver with chance to avoid being stunned, Granite with armor, Jade with evasion, and then we've got a quartz flask with reduced curse effect. The courts FAS I need to get to spell suppression cap, I think I'm like 95% without it, which I'm fine with anyway, but it just means the FL up that I'm fully capped. In terms of the skill links, not much has changed. I've added in an Enlighten because I needed to drop some.

nodes on the tree. So we'll go through the main skill first. It stayed the same. It's V Lightning Strike, Awakened Added Lightning, Awakened Ell Damage with Attacks, Volatility, Multistrike, and Inspiration. I could fit Returning Projectiles in 'cause I think it's get slightly more single target damage, but you do lose the support gem in terms of damage, and you lose Point Blank. So you lose damage on your melee and your projectiles, and you lose Point Blank. So I think overall, I'm not sure it's a huge increase. It might clear a little bit better, but the reason for not running it is I, in difficult maps, want to kill stuff in one hit with Returning Projectiles, lowering my initial damage quite a lot. That might not happen, but I am definitely going to play around with it. To see what it feels like. In the helmet, we've got our Faster Attacks, Endurance Charge, and Melee Stun and Le Slam. I probably don't need this now 'cause I've got Endurance Charge on kill and when I'm hit, but essentially at the

beginning of the map. It means I can jump onto a pack, and then I get my endurance charges going. But yeah, I think I'll probably replace this with something like Brutality if we do try and go reflect immune. We got our Sniper's Mark, Life Tap Mark on Hit in their sword. The Shield I've got Precision linked to Arrogance, which I need at the moment because I don't have the Mana. When I get my next point, I can take a Mana reservation Mastery. And then it means I can just move that aura into my Mana AAS, and I get my life back. But it's not a huge amount. You're talking like just over a 100 life to reserve the Precision that I need. Uh, Flame Dash for Grassing Vines, which turns up all the time in t7s. It's even a mod on one of the maps, which you might have seen in the highlights where every single time an enemy hits you, they put two Grassing Vines on you. And the gloves got Molten Shell, more duration M Smite, and then cast when

damage taken for the Molten shell so might link with more duration gives me a 10c buff, and it's about a million more damage. 1.5 million more damage, it's worth keeping up pretty much a whole time. We've got really quick attack speed, so I'm just into the habit now every time I jump into a pack, I'll just hit Smite before I start attacking them. Then the boots, we got the auras, so we got our Enlighten level three, wrath determination, and then Grace. So one last thing to talk about in terms of gear is tinctures because they are a crazy amount of damage, and with a lot of Mana leaks, you can actually get them to be up for maybe like 10 or 11 seconds on single Target, and it gives you about 40% more DPS. I don't even know if I have a good tincture because I'm still working out how they will work. So when I want more damage, I put on this tincture, which is 115% ell.

damage with melee weapons increased cool down recovery rate, and melee damage penetrates all resistances. This was 40c. There's probably much better tinctures, but this gives you about 40% more damage for the time that it's up, and it's up for normally 10 to 12 seconds. So spoiler, there's a t17 map con with 160% more Monster life. This would have been very handy there, but I just ran it with my normal flasks. I like a quartz flask 'cause it gives you phasing. Caps my spell suppression gives me a reduced effect of curses, but if you're on damage, these things are insane. Definitely put them in if you feel like you need a single Target best. I don't run them, probably a mistake on my part, but what I tend to do is if I'm just doing a boss, so say I want to go and do Sirin XR Maven, whatever I want to do or wave 15 on the simulacrum, I'll stick this in and just

time it for when I'm going to hit a boss, and it gives me about 10c uptime, and the downtime is only 6 seconds. So even if you accounted for the fact that it's probably up 60-65% of the time, it's probably a 30% more damage overall. So if you do care just about damage, stick one of these in, but I don't feel the build needs it. But it's totally up to you whether you kind of go with a tincture or not. In terms of the skill tree, I've changed it up quite a bit. I've dropped all these fortification nodes because there are just too many points. Like the body armor isn't always up 100%, but it's up enough of the time. I added lots of tattoos on the tree to get accuracy, and then I had a tattoo drop for increased armor. So I'll just put it on a strength node because I don't need the strength. We have a Lethal Pride that's basically just got lots of strength and one lot of

double damage this not particularly amazing and I'd like to replace this with one with intimidate. As well, we have a jewel that I crafted here, which is just loads and loads of attack speed, and it's what I wanted because I felt that was what was lacking in the build. We have a Watcher's Eye here, which is lightning damage while affected by Wrath, which is fairly cheap. This one also comes with reduced extra damage from crit strikes when affected by determination, so that gives me a nice defensive layer. I didn't realize it was actually double Wrath, so I probably overpaid for this because the Fizz as extra lightning does nothing for me. I think I paid three divines, four divines for this, and I think if it didn't have the other Wrath mod on, I might have got it for one, but it is what it is. Uh, cluster jewel is wrong 'cause I bought the wrong one, but the mods are fine, so I accidentally bought a dual wield in one 'cause I forgot I was now running a shield, and it's Drive the

destruction, feed the fury. Marshall pros, and that was kind of exactly what I wanted. Drive the destruction at the back, Marshall press, feed the fury, so it gives me accuracy, damage, and then tons of damage and attack speed while leaching, which is a Slayer, is all the time. We've Sublime form, which is to give me some more reservation efficiency and resistances, and then we've got enduring composure for armor and endurance charges every time I get hit. So we get plus one frenzy and endurance charge from the ascendancy, so that's four. Then we've got five, six, and then we've anointed the seventh one. So pretty much all the time I've got seven frenzy and seven endurance charges. The build feels super tanky. Um, it wasn't my idea to make it really tanky. I just wanted to have some fun with the build, but every simul AC I've done has almost felt like Easy Street. There's only a couple of combinations of mods that just suck, but overall it's yeah been fairly smooth.

sailing through that content same with t7s other than the mods that you just hate getting it's been pretty easy to go through um those Maps some of the bosses can be difficult when you're not bursting them down with like 100 million DPS you have to know the mechanics but I haven't found any of them particularly difficult and I think the defenses that come with the build make it quite forgiving um not much has changed on the tree so I won't run through the rest of it but it'll be in the PO if anyone's interested I guess what we can do is going and run a t17 before I finish the video I'm going to run it with my gold f in Atlas tree so it's boosting up all the implicits to make them much harder so this may be a brick but even if I don't kill the boss I get so much gold I don't really care so the reason I don't like t-17s is especially for this build

there's loads of mods. I just can't run, and it annoys me. Just rolling and re-rolling now. I don't know what any of these bosses are, so we're just going to go Citadel and see what it is because I really don't know much about t7s. Um, so we got impale. Is what it is. Impale, power charges, loads of monster life, in feeble, endurance charge on hit. The monster life and in feeble combined is not too bad, but when you add endurance charges in, that's more Elemental damage reduction. So, I do think this might be a zdps map, especially once I put my atlas tree on this. It's probably 125% more Monster life. Um, but we have got pretty good defenses. I'm going to give this one a go. I've have no idea how this is going to go. I'm hoping it'll be okay. Um, so yeah, we got the map tree where we're getting loads and loads of increased effect, pretty much every single mod for increased effect. So, this might be we

don't do enough damage with all the monster life that we're going to be dealing with here. But I can't put any extra things in because I'm actually running and wavering Vision to get more nodes. Because I'm not interested in scarabs because most of them are worthless. Um, so I can't actually put any extra stuff in the map device. So we'll just run it as it is. We'll go s an xar. I'm just going to go and make sure I've got the right things on. We'll go we'll go burning ground cannot be blinded isn't amazing but it is what it is burning ground can hurt a lot especially with extra mods on. So we'll go and give this a go. Uh, get some volume on turn it down a bit and let's go. I've picked UT Tre Avan. That is not good. I hate this boss oppon it just goes on too long for me this boss fight and I also hate the layout of nearly every t77 map. They're horrendous like

what is that thing this thing here no idea. You say I haven't run t-17s that much. I just run them like when I have to or if there's certain maps that don't sell because they're not got available fragment then I'll run them. The DD monsters are insane in t7s this thing here. It kills me at least once a map because it's very hard to see where they are. They just turn up explode. It's just such a dumb mod. I know there's been other people complaining about it as well but I just don't like fake difficulty. And to me that is fake difficulty adding that rubbish in because it's so quick. It kind of goes against there if it's a big explosion you'll get time to get away from it. Well not what that monster. You can't. Oh there's loads of them as well. What are these worth taking? Uh no. We don't want the boss but conr ground down that would break the map for sure. Oh they have got a lot of life.

this boss fight is not going to be fun. Oh, there's another DD monster. I can hear him getting out of there. He is. They also absolutely aggro from a mile away. Is there another one? I don't think so. If I hear that noise again, I'm very tempted to duck out and do a different map 'cause it's so frustrated. Hopefully, this is a nice collection of gold. Oh, he's tanky. Oh, LED resistance. That's why. Oh, another one. Lovely. We're going to have to try and kill him. We got him. Or is there another one? There is another one. Wonderful. This is just crazy. Uh, I hate this map. I'm not using that outed chaos, by the way. I'm just leveling it up, right? We do not want less flid again. We don't really want tons of fizz's X fire damage. Where are we going? No idea. He what the hell? Oh, 'cause that probably put him on about 300% more life. Um, I have no idea where I'm going here. Oh, is it here? Am I blind? It is.

here oh it is this fight. This is not going to be fun. ES wow we're not doing much damage here. When I die, which we will, I'll check out how much life is actually got. Oh, I just went immune. I've wasted my charge already power. Oh, this is so slow with this monster life. Oh, there's another dude over there. I didn't even see him. Whoa, what on Earth some me slowed me there. That's probably getting hit by that beam about a million times. I'm kind of struggling here CU. I can't move, and I just jumped into it again. Oh, at least get one of them down. I don't care if I die. I just want to get one of them down. There we go, broken the circle. Just you get a health back every time. I'm not sure. Oh, I don't know where we can just tank everything. No, we can't just checking. Oh, these are so slow sometimes. I check this monster life out. Oh, and in feal so 153% monster life. And he gets endurance charges, which I did not.

see and in feeble this could take a while God right in the wrong place there. Oh, this is so annoying this fight. I mean it is when you don't know the mechanics anyway. Oh, I'm slowed again. I don't even know what got me there. There, I thought I avoided that. Right, let's try and do some damage. Oh, I don't know, does that hurt me? Probably slows me again. We are shut up will. Oh, come on. I mean this boss fight's long at the best of times but when you got this monster Al is even worse. All right, one more that. Oh, oh, idiot fight. Well, oh, that hurt. Oh, I got in the wrong place there def. Well, that was so boring. So boring apologies. We would have to watch that whole thing. I probably shouldn't have done the more Monster life um. So we'll go and I'm going to farm the rest of this gold and then I'll see you back in a sec. I she gave up there's ddms all over the place. I'm not that desperate for.

gold that I want to sit through that absolute show um so yeah that's kind of why I hate t7s the map mods are just broken. I don't mind them. I'd rather to make the monsters harder and take these ludicrous mods off especially the fact you can still get Stig and revenants in pretty much every single t17. And but yeah if you wanted to do them it can do them. I think the content is absolute dog and I don't enjoy doing it but if you want to it's perfectly capable of going through and dealing with most of the mods on the maps. Uh that's it for the video. Thanks for watching take care and see you in the next one.

Easy T17s and Simulacrums - Final Update Lightning Strike Slayer

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Final Update on Lightning Strike Lead Starter Build

The player has transitioned the Lightning Strike lead starter build into a Slayer, capable of handling most game content except for Ubers.

The build has been successful in completing deathless wave 15 simulacrums and T17 maps, but has struggled with the Uber boss due to the challenges of melee combat.

The character is designed to be well-rounded and able to withstand a variety of challenges, with the ability to face tank most enemies in the simulacrum.

The build is noted to be relatively inexpensive to put together but has downsides such as the difficulty of obtaining accuracy and the discomfort of running certain map mods.

Deliberating Potential Upgrades for My Character Build

Considering using a level five awakened Ellie gem to circumvent ell reflect and linking brutality to leap slam and smite for immunity.

The decision to not go for a crit build was based on having most of the gear for the current setup and concerns about lacking defenses.

Planning future upgrades including leveling awakened gems, increasing character level, and adding cluster Jewels.

The character build is almost complete, with a focus on gear crafting, fortify uptime, and specific affixes, while still considering potential improvements.

Crafting Process for Equipment in "Path of Exile"

The player describes the process of crafting their own weapon using a fractured attack speed Eternal sword and deafening Essences of Wrath.

They also explain the crafting of their shield, boots, and gloves using different methods and essences to get the desired stats.

The player also discusses the use of flasks and skill links in their equipment setup, highlighting the addition of an Enlighten gem.

Adjusting Skill Gems and Gear for Increased Damage

The main skill gems remain the same, with a consideration for adding Returning Projectiles for potentially better clear speed.

The use of Faster Attacks and Melee Stun in the helmet may be replaced with Brutality for reflect immunity.

Precision is currently linked to Arrogance in the shield due to mana constraints, but this may change with a mana reservation Mastery.

Grassing Vines in t7s and the use of tinctures for increased damage are also highlighted.

The possibility of using a tincture with 115% ell for more damage is being explored, with the potential to significantly boost DPS.

Effects of Tinctures on Melee Damage and Build Adjustments in Path of Exile

Using a tincture can significantly increase damage output for a short period, especially effective for single targets or bosses.

The build has been adjusted to focus on accuracy, armor, and attack speed, dropping some fortification nodes.

A Watcher's Eye jewel provides both offensive and defensive benefits, although the player may have overpaid for it.

Summary of Slayer Build Experience in Path of Exile

The Slayer build provides high damage, attack speed, and leeching, making it feel powerful and tanky, while also offering good resistance and armor.

The build has made it easy to navigate through content and maps, with the only difficulty being certain boss mods.

The player is unsure about the outcome of a t17 run due to challenging mods, but is confident in the build's defenses.

Dealing with Challenging Monster Life in T-17 Maps

Struggling with the high monster life in T-17 maps and unable to make changes to the map device.

The burning ground mod and exploding DD monsters are causing frustration and making the boss fight difficult.

The excessive life and aggro range of the monsters are making the map challenging and less enjoyable to play.

Struggling with a Difficult Boss Fight in the Game

The player is having trouble dealing damage and staying alive during the boss fight, expressing frustration with the mechanics.

The high monster life and slowing effects are making the fight particularly challenging.

The player ultimately decides to give up on the fight and expresses a dislike for the game's difficult map mods.