PoE 3.25 Lightning Strike Warden: Final Build Update and Future Upgrades

Pon's final update on Lightning Strike Warden includes cluster Jewel changes, Herald of Ice addition, and crafting upgrades for future improvement.

### Lightning Strike Warden Final Update: Optimizing Cluster Jewels and Future Upgrades
* ⚔️  The main changes since the last update include optimizing the cluster jewel setup by using **Thread of Hope** to cut inefficient points and add powerful notables like **Fan of Blades** and **Martial Prowess**.
* 💎  The second major change was reintroducing **Herald of Ice** into the build for **additional damage and freezing capabilities**, utilizing the **Enlighten support gem** to manage mana reservation.
* 🧤  The final upgrade involved crafting gloves with **+2 to Strike skill gems**, a process that required upgrading the desired mod to **Tier 5** through a series of crafting attempts.
* 🛠️  For future upgrades, recommendations include acquiring a **Watcher's Eye with beneficial mods** based on the chosen auras, obtaining a well-crafted **Darkness Enthroned belt for significant damage boosts**, and potentially adding powerful unique items like **Headhunter or Mageblood**.
* 🔮  An alternative endgame option is suggested, involving a respec to Deadeye for a **chaining Lightning Strike variant**, which may offer **benefits for mapping-focused gameplay**.
* 🔧  The respec to Deadeye is described as **relatively inexpensive**, with the ability to **revert back to the original setup if desired**.
* 🎮  The content creator expresses enthusiasm for the build and the overall league experience, highlighting the **diversity of potential builds** and their **excitement for future projects**.
* 🔗  The video concludes with a reminder of the streamer's Twitch channel and **plans for upcoming content**, encouraging viewers to **stay tuned for more updates**.

hey guys Pon here, and today let's talk about my final update for the Lightning Strike Warden. So after last time, we unlocked everything. Since then, I have upgraded a few things that I think are quite important for the build. So I wanted to make this final update. Like I said, I'm usually done after week one with my league starter, and I'm moving on to new projects. That being said, this video will entail everything I've done since the last update, and then also some things for the future in case you want to get this build to the next level. In general, though, this build has been amazing. If Warden doesn't get any changes, I cannot see any reason why I wouldn't put this, for example, in a map or something or updated in the future. Now, there are three big changes that I made to the build since last time. The first one is the Fertile Hope respect. As you guys can see here, there is a cluster Jewel. The problem with cluster jewel is it costs eight points, and you are very

dense on the right side in terms of power per point. However, with a bit little bit of fiddling around and also getting some levels, currently level 98, and a massive threat of hope, we did kind of get there. Now, what does the extra cluster Jewel give you? It gives you an extra projectile here with fan of blades and also gives you Marshall press. Although the second note can be mostly whatever you want as long as it does something. But first, talking about the thread of hope. So, a massive threat of Hope currently is a lot cheaper than it was back in the day and a lot cheaper now, round about a little bit over a Divine. And what this lets you do is it lets you allocate all the points in the radius, and that includes some down here. So, you're able to cut some very inefficient points, which is super good. You get weapon artistry aspect of links. That the important thing is these all fall into the lethal Pride category right here. So, if you didn't have them before, now you can maybe reconsider.

getting a new lethal Pride that also includes these three notables. If you want to be truly stun immune, by the way, and this is something I could have done as well, is you can take perfectionist right here, which gives you 30% chance to avoid being stunned. And there's also you get like 28% from here. And there's also tattoos for 10% chance to avoid being stunned. So that's a nice one right there. Slide of hand and also blood siphon, an extremely, extremely efficient Jewel as well as that this reservation note, which we'll get to in a second. And this basically made it so I can use a cluster drw. Now, since we're very Point starved, it would be optimal to have fan of blades, which is the only really important one in front. Now you might think in projectile doesn't really make much of a difference. In my opinion, it does, but you don't have to like break the bank for it. I paid 10 divines for this cuz I knew it would have resell.

value 'cause everybody's playing Claws and daggers right now. But it also gives 20% increase damage, so it's not like you're really sacrificing anything. And that's what makes this note so good. Now, people have asked me, is it weird to have an even number of projectiles because kind of the spread red like the V. Uh, personally, on six projectiles, I didn't feel any problems with that at all. It was a lot better than five. Four is a little bit weird and icky. That's why I said, definitely get the quality and lightning St. ASAP. Now, in case you guys don't know, how can you see which nodes are in front and which are in the back? There's a little bit of a trick right here. I'll show you this real quick. Now, cluster Jewel always has two prefixes and one suffix. If it has three notables, right, you have to roll for them or you have to buy for them. Now, you can know which one's behind because it's the one in the middle of the three that you

choose here this is the pedb and let's for example say my prefixes are vicious curing aggressive defense and then my suffix is heavy hitter. Of these three heavy hitter is in the middle which means it's going to be in the back and that is all there is to know. So yes disease Vector Works others work as well I'll link this down the description and like I said it's not the end of the world but I'm assuming not everybody's level 98 so you're going to struggle on points right that's why I'm pointing this out. So this one is a huge power Spike and very strong. The second thing I did is I actually got heral of ice back into the build. Heral of ice isn't exactly all that important it gives you like 6 7% more damage in terms of flat uh it has cool explosions it does kind of help with like freezing packs um in general it was just something I could put in because I had open gem sockets as we talked about I still have one here.

actually I do not this should be a flame Dash. I'm going to edit that in the PO, but either way, if you get an enlightened three, you most likely don't need Enlighten 4. Then you get Herald of Ice. Now, if you had an Enlighten 4, most likely because I actually have too much reservation. Actually, let's do this. If you had an enlightened four, you could probably cut this point right here. But since it's very convenient and I really like having a lot of Mana open, you can do that. But with an Enlighten four, probably maybe you just cut this either this or this, but you would have an extra point. And the last thing I did was uh craft plus two to additional enemies, uh plus two strikes. If you've never crafted these El, I will actually, uh, put on the screen right now, um, how we crafted this. Okay, so we need to upgrade the blue mod to tier four because then we have more chance to upgrade the strike skill boom. Doesn't matter what it is. Okay, so we got it to tier two now we

reapply it then. We have tier four, tier two. Okay, now we have a tier three. We need to get to tier five in order to upgrade it. Oh, it went down to tier two. Try again. Okay, exceptional and Grand. Okay, please. Yes. Okay, we're on tier four. And now it's a 50/50. Now it's a 50/50. It's not that bad. We only need a tier five. We don't need a tier six. Okay, tier five is already plus two. All right, this is the one. This is going to be the one. Please, please, dude. I don't want to buy more. Please let it end. Please. These are so expensive. Okay, the exerted. We know we hit when the exerted attack goes down. Okay, okay, good. We're on tier four again. Exceptional, exceptional. All right, watch this. Watch this. This is the one. I mean, it's that easy. It's that easy. Now we just have to roll for Pierce and we're, we're golden. There you go. Gloves are done. Let's roll. Let's get 70 life on though. Looks kind of

69 is fine. All right, there you go, huge. Now in terms of upgrades for the future, which I'm not going to get to, but you might. First off, a Watcher's Eye. In terms of what you want here, it really depends on which of the auras you keep into endgame. Are you going to stick with the D-Term version or not? But in general, increased movement speed is fine. Chance to suppress spells. Chance to vit is actually quite strong. And on the D-Term side, if you stay with it, you can get a lot T here, especially if you get something like PDR. But that's a defensive upgrade. How about offenses? You would get a Darkness enthroned. Important to know is there is a way to drop five and six stat Abyss jewels in this game currently, and people are doing it with Legions. So you have a chance to get five or six random modifiers. So you will see some freaky accident items that you wouldn't think they existed. So make yourself searches. For example, I found this one the other day, um, and as you can

see right here, this can get pretty freaky. You can get those for claws. They are quite expensive, but the difference between a good and a bad one on a darkness and Throne is insane because the darkness and thrown doubles the effect. After that, obvious upgrades Head Hunter, Mage blood, you guys know the drill. Um, Mage blood might be a little bit weird to get in. I honestly think that head hunter would be the GG or if you're not juicing or farming, you could probably stick with the darkness and thrown. I just wanted to throw it in there. Reason Mage BL is a little bit weird is because we have two tinctures, and I kind of would like you to get a progenesis eventually. It is one of the strongest defensive flasks in the game straight up. Um, so yeah, but that's up to you. And then Alva gloves. If you guys remember the endgame version I had in here, I had these freakish gloves. Now the way you made these back in the day were combinators. You could actually Rec

combinate several of these hybrid Temple Mods together. Now, as far as I know, these Temple mods got quite nerfed. So here's the recombinator, and I haven't played around with it much. I didn't have the currency. Now I do. We're probably going to do some fun stuff. But in general, if you want to throw stuff in here, make sure that you kind of maybe research how it used to work Sentinel a little bit. But then also understand that um, they have nerfed quite a few things about this. So maybe do some research on Reddit or wait until more stuff is known. Now otherwise, I know that loal is also playing lightning strike. So maybe he's going to make some more update videos. He loves lightning strike. He's going to play it for longer than me. And also period on ninja is always a good resource. Just I don't know search by DPS search by ehp whatever you want here lightning strike Warden. And you can kind of look in maybe they have some kind of

tech right and then you just go look at this guy Head Hunter. Wow, I wouldn't such a mind-blowing item, right? Okay, now I'm going to buy a Head Hunter. Um, so stuff like that and yeah, progenesis once again is incredible for every build in general. Now, there is a second option that you could do. This is especially good if everything you want to do in end game revolves around mapping, and that is a respect to Dei. If you guys don't know how lightning strike of aring looks like, it is basically the same as lightning strike, just that instead of pierce, it chains. Now, the downside of this skill is that you have less damage, and it doesn't work as well with returning projectiles. However, once you have enough damage and you are maybe now in that position at some point that you have maybe too much damage, even you might look into this. Now, I have not played the build, so I cannot guarantee it, but Tuna absolutely loves the build, so I will link the max guy down below, maybe get

into it maybe look into it. When it comes to Dead Eye Respec, I mean it's like 40 regret points or something. If you don't like it, you can just go back, but this is something I've heard people say very good things about. But yeah, that's about it for me for this league starter. Look out for my next project, which is coming very soon. I'm a little bit tired, not going to lie. I'm probably going to rest for like a day or something, and then we're back to full. In general, this league start has been degenerate as hell. I've been absolutely loving every second. There's so many builds I want to play. I don't even know when I was last this enthused about the game. So in general, I'm really happy with everything. Hope you guys had a good league start. In general, if you want to watch the stream twitch.tv/ pastron, I'll go to sleep since I still don't have a. You guys know the drill. See you.

Lightning Strike Warden FINAL Update

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Final Update for the Lightning Strike Warden Build

Pon provides the final update for the Lightning Strike Warden build, focusing on three major changes.

The first is the Fertile Hope respect, which involves a cluster Jewel and a massive Thread of Hope to reallocate points.

The update also allows for the consideration of new lethal Pride with three notables and the possibility of achieving stun immunity.

Additionally, Pon discusses the efficiency of the cluster Jewel and the cost he paid for it, emphasizing its impact on the build.

Tips for Enhancing Your Gameplay in Claws and Daggers

Increasing damage by 20%, the Cluster Jewel's quality and Lightning St.

are highly recommended for a power spike.

The positioning of nodes in the Cluster Jewel can be determined by the middle notable, which indicates it's in the back.

Acquiring Enlighten 3 can eliminate the need for Enlighten 4, allowing the addition of Herald of Ice to the build for extra damage.

Strategies for Upgrading Gear in the Game

Tier upgrades are being attempted with a mixture of frustration and hope, aiming for the elusive tier five.

The focus is on obtaining specific modifiers, such as increased movement speed and chance to suppress spells, depending on the chosen auras for the endgame.

Unique and powerful modifiers can be obtained through the use of Legions, offering potential for significant upgrades.

In the future, the acquisition of items such as Head Hunter, Mage blood, and Alva gloves is recommended for enhancing gameplay.

Advice for Using Temple Mods in Path of Exile

Temple mods have been nerfed, so it's important to research how they used to work and understand the recent changes.

Keep an eye out for update videos from other players and use resources like Reddit and PoE Ninja to gather information on the best strategies.

Consider exploring the option of using Resolute Technique for mapping-focused end game builds, as it offers a different approach to lightning strike.

Additionally, take into account the advice of experienced players, such as Tuna, when considering different build options.

Feedback on Dead Eye Respec in the Latest League

Some players are speaking highly of the Dead Eye Respec, which offers around 40 regret points for flexibility.

The speaker is looking forward to their next project after enjoying the degenerate yet exciting league start.

They express a high level of enthusiasm for the game and are overall happy with everything.