hey guys paan here and today let's talk about the day one update for my lightning strike Warden. Now, as I said in my previous leak starter videos, I was quite concerned about how Warden would actually perform, especially how the freeze node would be, how the like Unbound would be with irregular damage up time, how tinctures would perform, how shock would perform. And I got to say, most of the things were surprisingly positive. The positives definitely outweigh the negatives. There's one negative which we're going to talk about, which I did not expect, but everything else is beyond expectations. On top of that, lightning strike in whatever form you want to play it is definitely, definitely back. It feels incredibly fresh. I don't even have to plus two strikes from the gloves yet. I don't even have plus one strikes that I just have the one from the passive free and it already feels like home. However, as always, I've gathered quite a bit of information here about what I've been playing and basically the most asked

questions we're going to put into this video. I'm basically going to start out with stuff that you guys were asking. Stuff that people had problems with. And I'm going to put all of that into like a huge topic. Of like uh points that I'm basically going to Rattle down. And after that I'm going to go over my gear and talk about my decisions. So first up we're going to start with the campaign stuff. Bark skin is completely ridiculous during campaign. I've never played with anything like this before. It's like having three or four determinations on at the same time. Or at least that's how I imagined it to be. Once you put this on. And just so you know. You have to put it on. It's a reservation. I've literally had two people who said bark skin does nothing. And they did not know it wasn't like. It is a reservation you actually actually activate once you have that. Is ridiculous. Now you still have to build resistances. Because it doesn't do

anything against Elemental damage, but when it comes to any sort of physical hits, it will basically carry you to Maps. Then let's talk about the freeze node, which I said you should take second, which is oath of winter. When I say bark skin is broken early right, it's not all that great later. It's like okay, it's worth it for the 10% reservation, but it will be Respec once we go into the tenure stuff more than that later. Oath of winter is exactly the other way around, and that's what we actually want, right? It is early game, it's noticeable, especially if you have herald device on. You can enjoy explosions during the campaign, it's kind of nice, right? And it does something if you have the cold damage to back it up. That's important, you need to actually deal the cold damage, but because you can't really be picky during campaign, but this becomes so goddamn ridiculous. I don't know if you saw it in the intro, like there is monsters that just literally

cannot move once they once they're frozen. Once they will never move again. And I don't exactly know what's wrong. I don't know if there's maybe a bug because these freezes are sometimes not two seconds. And as far as I understand this, it says enemies Frozen for at least 2 seconds. Now if the hor Frost gets you from 0.3 to two, I don't understand how that would be higher than two, right? Because that's the Baseline. I don't think well either way. I have no clue. But sometimes you just freeze for 4 seconds. It comes out of the freeze and like a tiny fraction of a second later, it's frozen again. It like it does like this and it's frozen again. And it just never goes out of phrase like certain bosses just do not ever recover from this. Obviously we'll have to test this later against like bigger bosses. So far I've had like big Essences and map bosses and stuff like that. But yeah, this note is completely crazy. And if you're playing

Warden and you're not including this. You are trolling and then I'm just going to round this up. Aat of the Wild is very strong um and there's two reasons for that. The first one is it's up when you need damage and it is a lot of damage. At first, I thought the delay is kind of annoying and especially when you run labs for your lightning strikes and stuff like that. It doesn't really do anything because you can use a Isaro but trust me once you get into Maps you will see how strong this is because maps all revolve around certain encounters right where all of a sudden you need a spike in damage so a vat the Wilds very strong thumbs up about as strong as I expected it to be. This note here has been big so far now we knew before the league started that in order to get a 2% shock you need to deal as much damage as usually a 5% shock put deal and I've looked at that in PEB with certain

numbers, and it just doesn't really add up. And I think what's happening is it's because PoE takes the average of your damage, right? But think about it this way. Let's say, for example, the lightning roll here is 15 to 271. Well, on PoE, you're going to see the average, and it's going to look like you're always going to shock for 5%. But in reality, half of the time you're maybe shocking for 10%, and half of the time you're shocking for 1%. But it doesn't matter whether you shock for five or 10%. Those are always the same shock, right? But the small ones don't get registered at all because if it's under 2%, you don't get anything. So I feel like this is a node that might be good in endgame, but I don't know, especially after seeing how strong yours are. More than that in a second. I'm not sure I'm ever going to include this, and most likely what I will be doing is all of

winter plus Avatar plus the two tinure notes but let's move on a lot of people have said that after campaign they felt a fall off from rain of arrows to uh going into lightning Shing and that is quite normal rain of arrows is an incredibly strong skill even into yellow Maps um you can even go Al hit of spectrum welcome to Bose right however lightning St should not feel as bad as some people have told me and then I look at their PS and I'm like oh what is this going to be and they have claws that are not very good now you have farmed through the campaign you probably un ided like 40 rare bows and you have gotten some kind of really good bow that you're really proud of do you really think that you're going to go to lightning strike and then I don't know the first claw you find or something that has like a little a tiny bit of damage is Absol has garbage attack speed is going to compared to that of course not you need to prepare a

claw. Now, what that claw looks like depends on your budget. Obviously, after campaign, you might have a few chaos left over. Um, so what you're mainly looking for is two of these and two of these. Now, if you can, you want cold. Cold is basically mandatory, actually. Not if you can. And then lightning and fire are kind of interchangeable. Lightning is slightly better than fire. And you want high amount, right? For example, this claw looks incredible, right? Like if you just look at the first three lines, you're like, Oh, Triple L damage. But then you realize that's a tier five fire damage and a tier 2 lightning damage. It's more than double of what that gives. So if I just had an upgrade from tier two to tier one, it would almost be as much as not having that fire at all. So that's what I'm trying to tell you. You have to actually check how much damage it deals. And, uh, I guess another big thing, which I'm going to tell you right now, is on the Run smithing table, if you get

these runes, you can actually put another implicit on there. Actually enchant, right? Not is it, but you can put an enchant on there, and if you get flat lightning or fire or whatever you have the runes for. It costs like eight of one of these runes. You get these runes from shipments, by the way, mostly. As far as I know, uh, over here, this kind of stuff is, uh, you just have to read the stuff. You can kind of progress your city. Maybe I'll make a video about it later, but it's mostly self-explanatory. Now, how do you get a claw? The first one is the RNG route. If you have absolutely no money but you have a little bit of gold lying around, you can go to the black market right here. Now, in order to get to the black market, you have to upgrade the town a few times. So if you didn't do the league mechanic during the campaign like I told you, you're screwed. You go to the black market and you see you can get a random claw. For me, this costs a lot, but at

lower levels, it costs a lot less, and then you just have to roll for it and hope that you get a good claw. The second option is obviously that you already found a claw during the campaign because you thought ahead. You're like, Okay, I'm going to play lightning strike. And the third way is you buy a fracture. Now I have a search right here that I'll link down in the description: cold, fire, lightning damage, attack speed, crit. If you get either of these, you definitely want to look out for what kind of base it is. You want as high attack speed as possible: 1.5 fine, 1.6 fine, 1.3 big big, very bad. Don't get baited by, for example, certain bases that already have attack speed roll and it looks like they have more than 1.3. Better look at Poe Wiki before you do that. 1.5, 1.6 attack speed, high crit, that's what you're looking for for the best. Are the flat damage ones, the crits are probably the worst, but you

have to take what you can get. The attack speed is pretty solid. And then make sure that this is also a lot. You can also sort it by this. You just click on this, for example, and then the one with the highest fire damage is going to show up. The difference between the highest and the lowest is going to be like double. So that's like straight up double damage. That is how important these mods are. And after you bought that fracture, you have to buy yourself an Essence. Now you can craft with three different Essences: Essence of Hatred, Essence of Anger, which would be here, and then also Essence of Wrath. These are the ones that give you flat damage. So what happens is we just got one of these mods with a fracture, which cannot go away, so we eliminated one of them. Then the essence is going to apply the second, and then you also have a craft at the end, so you have a third one. So all you have to do with one of these Essences is hit a single extra mod, and it's a decent claw. You don't need.

all of these five uh four is completely enough. That is all you need to get to like end of yellow Maps. Now um, I don't know what your budget is at this point. It really depends on how much you farmed in uh lab, but uh, the defining are right now like five chaos or something. I had a really shitty claw until I got to the red Maps. Uh, right now I have this one, which is also really bad, mainly because I have very low crit. Now, another thing you can definitely do right um, is you can also just search for claw right here and then just type in edps if you want to, right like you put like 350 or something, uh, search for it and you're going to get like an okay claw. These are usually trash, but sometimes you find some treasure in here. In general, look out for a good implicit, good base, hpe. Make sure you have a craft open. For example, if it has no attack speed and there's no suffix open, it's trash right um, so yeah, maybe you can

find a lucky pick in here but yeah that is the biggest mistake I've seen people make. It's like attack builds, your weapon is everything. If you go from really good bow that you found during campaign to garbage claw, it's going to have garbage outputs, that just is what it is. Um and upgrade your claw once you have money. Claw is always something you want to be on the lookout for to upgrade, just get better and better. The second biggest mistake I've seen, lightning strike needs levels to be good. If you haven't seen my leveling video where I go over, you have to kind of uh farm lab to get 20 quality V lightning strike. I got it in round about an hour, some people got it in three hours, some people got it on the first try, it kind of is what it is, right? You can also buy quality and then corrupt those. If you found, for example, if you found like an i snowa Frost bolt on your lab run, right, you can just sell that and literally buy the quality.

already then you don't have to run over and over and try the V. It is what it is. You can also delay your V. Lightning strike and just go with a 20% quality one. It's a lot easier to farm in Uber lab. Although then you have to have more gear to do that. Whatever lightning strike needs levels. This is important. You can just go ahead and do a level one lightning strike. And I know where this mistake comes from because attack skills didn't used to really scale well with levels. Now I want you to look at this. If you haven't looked at the patch notes. The difference between a level 20 456 damage. Effectiveness a level one 198. You're dealing almost a third of the damage of a level. It's almost like spells. It's not as crazy as spells. But it is a crazy difference. If you forgot to level lightning strikes okay. You're kind of screwed. But you can still go to act one vendor. You don't have to go to Lily and buy level ones. You go to

the Act One vendor to Nessa, and you buy lightning strikes here. They're down here, right um, and you buy them. They're at least level 12. And then I don't know in some area you farm it up to at least level 16, and you have an okay lightning strike. But yeah, don't forget that. Also, before you roll, get yourself a tincture on Respec. These are super cheap. We're talking an ALK to a chaos. And then you can roll them yourself with alterations. The two mods you want are penetrated or attack speed, although attack speed will make your build feel so so much better. Now for ures, you just want to press them basically once, right? You press them once, and then uh, your Mana is going to Deen. Actually, this only works in maps, so let's or in in certain areas. So let's quickly go here. Leech is basically going to carry you, so while you're in combat, this is going to be up permanently. You will see the Mana deing here quite a bit.

in a second now for me, it's a little bit later because I actually have Clarity on, but you can see, I mean, it's stacking up, it's stacking up, it's stacking up. At some point, it falls off, and then you have a cool down, and after that, it comes back up. And if you're Mana leeching in between, you sometimes have it up for like 20 seconds. I got this tincture at like level 70, and it literally doubled my damage, or even more. It is like if you're not using, if you're not using a tincture, a prismatic tincture that gives you Elemental damage with weapons, you're missing out. Once again, it is huge. Next point, do not run Shm Soros because these convert 100% of your fist to cold, which sounds nice. It doesn't really do much. You shouldn't have much physical damage anyways, and what you're doing is you are completely negating everything these notes here do. It's a lot of crit you're losing. You cannot bleed if you

deal no Fizz and then one more. I guess I'm I'm going to chime in that I've seen mistake people do is um delaying spell suppression until way later right like delaying armor delaying Dawn breaker. The problem is if you're too squishy you cannot level and then you don't get power. A lot of your power comes from your passive points. You get um you get life while leveling up. You get man which makes your tinctures easier um or not easier but it it makes your Mana Le a little bit more proficient. So yeah you just have to get spell suppression at some point. I just I just started getting these round about level 80 or something whenever was in higher yellow maps and then start looking out for Dawnbreaker. Da breaker is very cheap. It drops from normal searing xar. Everybody's doing searing xar. I bought this perfectly Fizz damage taken with okay block for like 25 chaos and you can buy a I don't know 187 18% roll um for

round about five Kos, and then the rest right armor and determination is another one. I'm running der term right here, as I told you with perseverance. It is very strong. The fortify isn't perfect, but when it's up, which is while mapping, you also get Onslaught, which makes your build feel better. You get a ton of increased attack damage. You get life. You get cold res. You get the whole package. It's just a very, very strong package. And um, yeah, D term is just incredible. What can I say? It is going to carry you. You have to understand that bark skin, and this is, I think, a lot of people are becoming complacent because they're so tanky during campaign, and then it falls off like a brick. Is this gives you flat damage reduction. If you have armor that mitigates before bark skin, your flat damage reduction becomes better again. So you have to adjust enemies do more and more damage. So you have to have more and more damage reduction. And then I guess also a lot of people were asking about

strength. I have this in each of my PO so maybe you haven't looked yet, but there's two ways to get strength for this build. The first one is inertia, which is the threshold Jewel around here that converts dexterity to strength. And then there's lethal Pride, a small trick. So I bought this lethal Pride for 50 chaos once I had the chaos for it, but a small trick right here is if you want to know what these do, you can actually do that. So for example, let's go here, lethal Pride. Now you're not going to search for exactly the lethal Pride you want. There's like 72 up and there's tens of thousands of versions, right? No, what you do is you're like, Oh, this is 50 chaos. Let's see. So you can go here, item text copied. You go control V right here in the items, and it's going to pop up exactly the number you put it where you wanted to do it. And now you can hover over everything you have. And if you before

import your character. You can even exactly see how many stats it gives you right. You hover over plus 20 strength. Burning damage sucks. Thunderation sucks right. You're like and you check all your noes. And even if it's bad, it still gives you a ton of strength. And it's still better than inertia. So that's just something you can check out. Maybe check out a few and you like. You take the one that sucks the least. But either way, you want one of those Jewels before red Maps. Basically one of these Jewels. This could be too expensive before red Maps unless you get lucky. But inertia is totally fine. And another thing, don't miss out on Quality. Quality got increased this league. As improved this league. It's now a more multiplier for everything. So you want quality on your items. My items aren't perfect. But it is very important important that you use armor scraps. And you now need less of them. So overall, you're going to be fine if you don't have them. I bought like I.

don't know 80 for 10 chos, but if you can't, you probably picked up a lot of them. This can be the difference between you taking 20% or 30% more damage and taking more hits, uh, between evasion and armor on all of your gear combined. Actually, one thing that I've struggled with and a lot of my viewers have struggled with is, for some reason, you get Frozen a lot in this patch. And I couldn't first figure out why it was, but there are actually, I don't know if it's just rares or also magic packs that reflect ailments back to you. So what happens is, you're Warden, you're freezing everything, uh, you're going to get caught. So usually, you would just wait until he gets all of the Brank King for the freeze immune. And later, you're going to get ailment immune with boots anyways. I would highly recommend if you're getting into maps to pick up Arctic Armor Plus heral device, right? Those are two 25% auras instead of whatever other Aura.

you're using, and then whenever you're doing the armor transition. Uh, now you have Pro most likely at that point. Uh, you have Sol of the Brank King, which is U basically Tanner, which I think is coral ruins. I'm pretty sure, yeah. So if you complete Coral ruins with the Divine vessel, you get the freeze immune, but until then, Arctic armor big up now. Then we have Guardians blessing. This one is kind of dead as of now because the raise specters, the specters that we would raise that would come up over and over and over again, apparently have a cooldown between DEF where it's not up for 4 seconds. So I'm not sure yet if it's completely worth. Maybe we put in like a hydrosphere tornado setup here. I'm not 100% sure yet. So I also have open sockets as of right now. This is something we'll have to see. This is a Nerf to almost everybody, so it is what it is. The other thing is, and I don't

really have an anoint yet. I will not be going for static blows, 'cause I will be respeccing out of the shock nodes. I think they are not very good, so I won't be going for all that jazz at all. When it comes to annoyance, I was thinking about Nature's Concoction, but I don't think it's as good as I thought because it isn't up during the linger. It is only up while the tincture is up, so it doesn't have great uptime. In terms of what I'm going to take, if I have a good Lethal Pride where there's a good Heartseeker effect, I could, for example, take Heartseeker. You could also take Claws of the Falcon, although this one costs a Golden Oil. I actually don't know what Heartseeker, yeah, Heartseeker is pretty cheap. It's like double red and a teal. In general, I will look out for it. I'm not 100% sure yet. Let's talk about something important though, the ascendancy nodes that I'll be going.

forward the shock note has underperformed pretty hard so far so much so that I went from added lightning to added cold. I actually bought an awakened added cold, which was super cheap. I think it was like 20 chaos whenever I bought it, and the added Lightnings were like out of this world. Um, so this gives me better freezes. It takes away from the shocks, but it gives you way, way, way better freezes, which is already a good payoff, but shock just didn't really do much, whereas usually I would shock for like 10 to 12% just with a single hit. Uh, now I would always only shock for two, and it would ramp up to like 12, 20, maybe 25. It wasn't very good. I don't, I don't know what to say. Uh, maybe this is a really good note in endgame, but as of right now, I don't really feel it. As well as that, I really want to go tinctures. Tinctures are, I think, completely busted, and I think that I

will respect mother's teachings and oath of spring into them. I guess you guys didn't know on of Exile there are the Ure mods that have been basically data Min and there are different bases. The three bases I'm looking at is the one I'm currently using which is uh the Prismatic tincture then there's also tincture that gives you up to 150% crit chance and uh just so you know these are the base level things so you could get increased effect on there you could get more effect from the quality you could get increased effect from the passive tree quite a bit actually so we're talking not 100 or 100 six% increase damage we're talking round about 200 also don't forget that the small notes here and tier also give 10% effect now the attack speed they showed us in the trailer was I think 177% turns out you can get up to 29% attack speed when everything the dust is settled this will be round about.

70% it is mind-blowing, and it makes the bill just feel so much better. So that's what we're going to go for. And on the second one, we're going to go for the crit one or the rage one. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go for crit, though. Um, maybe rage in endgame. And we're going to go for pen. So pen, we thought would only go to like 15 'cause that's what they showed us, but it actually goes to 19. So we're going to get, I don't know, like a few hundred percent crit, a few 100% increase damage, 70% attack speed, and straight up like 50 pen. Now this I'll have to make an update on. I'm just throwing this video out there right after playing, right after stream, right? I didn't do the math yet. I'll present it to you once I actually respec into it. But just so you know, if you haven't done Uber lab yet and you want to save yourself

the hassle you can probably already go into enduring diffusion. This note is very good. Basically, after your cool down is over, what this basically means is you will get 6 seconds while the cooldown is up, right? You cannot forgo the cool down. The cool down will always be there, but you can make it so that you almost have 100% up time. And also means you don't have to press it as often. In general, this node, even on one tincture, is already better than this. The reason I'm not using it right now is because I'm literally broke 'cause I just upgraded quite a few pieces. I'm broke. I don't even have the regrets for it. I still have to respect Oak on day one because it was bugged and I had to take Oak instead of AA. It's a little bit of a show, but just so you know. Let's look at my gear real quick. Dagger is quite good. Don't forget the life per hit implicit. It will carry you quite hard. I would love to have some crit on there.

makes the freezes a little bit worse, but there everything's still Perma Frozen all the time. This helmet is absolute garbage, self-found garbage. I don't even have a craft on it. I'm kind of trolling. I bought this Dawnbreaker right here for 25 or 28 Chaos or something. Definitely don't forget the quality. These Boots important is, uh, you don't need movement speed on your boots. The way that looting now works and whirling blades not scaling with movement speed, I felt very confident without it, but if you can't, you can't. These boots I think cost me literally three chaos. I'm not trolling you. If you wanted these with movement speed, you would be paying 20 upwards. Perseverance, only use this once you already have your armor up. You would want to have determination. You want to have Dawnbreaker and, uh, you also need a granite flask right here, so be sure to do that. I'm also automating some of them. I don't have all the instilling orbs yet. In terms of gloves, these are garbage.

bought them for, I think, two chaos. They are what they are. Uh, this is self-found. Uh, I will replace this with chaos res. If you check right now, my only deaths right now are coming from chaos damage. I'm on us KR, which is very, very bad, but that's about it for my gear. I have a jade flask, a granite flask, and a diamond flask. Now, increased evasion rating, increased armor rating. It doesn't matter where it is, but it's very strong. You can also get reduced effect of curses. And as for my passive treats, it's literally the same that I was already talking about. So yeah, what I'm doing right here is I'm actually puffing up to this Jewel right now. I'm probably going to spec out of the claw nodes. I'm going to connect here, and then I'm slowly but surely here at the at the at the tinure noes. And I'm actually going to resp. I just realized this actually has a decent mod, 20% armor. That's pretty cool. Yeah, so I'm slowly

but surely going to Respec into two tinctures, and I guess that's about it for the build in terms of the updates to the tincture version. That's going to come either tomorrow or somewhere tomorrow. Day after, is it might be a day, two-day, three-ish update. I'll try to get it out as soon as possible, but I also have to kind of play the game to know stuff. And I'm also going to talk some stuff about the lead mechanic. Right now, I'm not too familiar with it, but there's a lot of stuff out on Reddit, a lot of tips and tricks that I would highly encourage you to look at. And yeah, that's about all I got. See you guys tomorrow or day after or something. And uh, since I still have a slogan, see you next time.

Lightning Strike Warden Day 1 Update + F.A.Q | Tinctures GOOD, Shock Node Meh

Lightning Strike Warden Day 1 Update + F.A.Q | Tinctures GOOD, Shock Node Meh