Lightning Strike Warden: FAQs, Tips, and Build Optimization

Lightning Strike Warden excels in 3.25, addressing common questions on gear, auras, and transitioning to crit for optimal performance.

### Lightning Strike Warden: FAQ and Optimization Guide
* ⚔️  Use a **dagger** instead of a sword for Venom G in the POV, and swap to **double claw** when you have two good claws.
* 🔮  Allocate **Charisma**, **Mana reservation efficiency wheel**, and **Leader of the Pack** to run two 50% auras, **Herald of Ice**, and **Barkskin**.
* 🛡️  Swap to a shield when you **swap to crit**, and transition to crit around level 77 with **specific passive tree adjustments**.
* 🧪  Recommended tinctures are **Prismatic for increased Elemental damage** and **Rosethorn for crit**, with **specific modifiers for each**.
* 🛡️  Survivability tips include using **Granite and Jade flasks**, **Purity of Elements**, **Grace**, and **instant recovery life flasks**.
* 🐾  Always attack without moving to optimize **Lightning Strike**, and be cautious of a bug affecting **enduring suffusion linger effects**.
* ❄️  Oath of Winter is recommended after transitioning to crit for **increased freezing potential**, with a pre-crit alternative path.
* 🛡️ " I've seen some really just lame comments of people being like this build sucks, don't waste your time. Rather spend that energy coming to Discord, coming to the stream, asking for help because that's a **win-win**.

the lightning strike Warden has been doing great in 3.25. It's actually even better than I expected. But I've been getting a lot of the same questions. So in today's video, I'm going to be addressing those. First thing, Venom G in the POV. I put a claw and a sword, but you cannot use Venom G with a sword. So what do you use instead? A dagger. The reason that I put a claw and a sword, that's more for lightning strike. I should have put a dagger. That's just my mistake. Just read the skill gem, and it'll explain it. Now the next thing is how am I running two 50% auras, also Herald device and bar skin. And the answer is you need to allocate Charisma, you need to allocate this Mana reservation efficiency wheel, and you need to allocate leader of the pack. Now I've specced out of box skin. I'll explain why in a sec, but you need these three. If you cannot fit them all in, drop Herald of ice while we using precise technique.

provides a marginal extra bit of Cal damage, but we aren't really making use of the shatters of this, so it's not too bad dropping Herald of Ice. But if you get all three of these, then you can fit in all of these auras. As for which auras during the campaign, I was using primarily after allocating Charisma. I was using purity of elements and then anger, but later with tinctures, which are really broken, really even better than we thought. You can even just use one tincture before you've taken all these points. I decided let's swap out anger for Grace a bit earlier, and then the damage was still fine. So purity of elements, Grace, and then bark skin, and you can also use your Herald of Ice if you've allocated all of these. Next is when do I swap to double claw. A lot of people were seeing me using two claws instead of ambidexterity. The answer to this question, you can swap to double claw when you have two good claws. So once you're playing lightning strike.

instead of doing this, you unspec this. Remember you can use gold at Fus in Kings March. You unspec all of this. Well, not that far, but you unspec that. And then instead go up this way and grab Claws of The Magpie. An inherent attack speed bonus from dual wielding is doubled while wielding two claws. So, when you have two good claws, start keeping your eyes peeled. Also, remember to use the black market with FCE in Kings March to find good claws. I got this one from him, which is an amazing, amazing find. So, double claw when you have two good claws. Next question, when do you swap to shield? And this one I was thinking about and struggling to answer a bit. When do you go one claw and a shield? My answer to that is when you swap to crit. But we need to now answer when do you swap to crit. So, I'm now on a five length and I am running crit and it feels really good. How do I do this? Well, firstly, we do need to do a bit of a

Respec on the tree. I'm currently level 77. Check the crit swap tree. Or I can even post this one. But if we can get this cornered prey wheel, this grants us 190% increased crit chance against bleeding enemies. The two points before it have 10% chance to bleed to answer that question. So this is 190% increased crit chance. Next, we have our tincture. This is 179% increased crit chance with melee weapons. Not even perfectly rolled. So this is bringing us a crazy amount of crit, which is then being scaled by our tincture nodes and our ascendancy. So this thing alone is giving us, I think, about 350% increased crit chance. Plus this. Well, this alone is giving us. Let's see where our crit chance is. 26. With my tincture up, it goes up to 49. And this is not taking into account the night blade base crit or the bleeding enemies or the power charges that we are getting from the next thing, which is Assassin's Mark. So when you swap over to crit instead of

using snipers Mark you want to use assassin's Mark to get increased crit, and also if you go increase crit precise technique, remove it. Otherwise, you will deal no extra damage from crits. All right, hopefully that answers when to swap over to crit. Next question is which tinctures do I use. My answer for this is a prismatic tincture for increased Elemental damage with melee weapons. This does apply to the projectile portion, yes, and then a crit tincture later on. If we can get crit C without this, I would probably go with a rage tincture, which is an implicit. I thought it might be a suffix, but it's actually an implicit. So for now, Prismatic and rosethorn. As for which modifiers you want on your tinctures, one like this is great. As for which explicit modifiers we want on our tinctures, the prefix we want is increased effect and increased mana burn rate. Make sure it's this one. There's another modifier, I believe it's reduced effect and then reduced mana burn rate. Don't

get that one, and then as for suffixes, increased melee weapon attack speed is excellent. We also have melee weapon damage penetrates Elemental resistances. This one's also really good if you're going crit. Another good suffix is crit multiplier with melee weapons. And then once we play more, we'll explore more, but these are the ones I'm going for. I'm pretty sure these are the best ones for now. All right, survivability. Granite flask, Jade flask, and then purity of elements and Grace. You're getting so much damage out of these tank is that you don't need to run anger, so use your auras for more defensive stuff. And if you're still using bark skin, keep using that, but these are our damage on the build. So stay alive like that. Make sure you have an instant recovery life flask. I don't because I ran out of ults. Bleeding immunity, corrupted blood immunity on your flasks. Roll your floss better than me. Mine not really bad again. I ran out of alterations, so try to get better.

suffixes than this, but Granite flask, Jade flask, and these auras should keep you alive. We are a bit squishy early on, but we are getting much tankier much quickly. I doubled my life pool just by paying attention to my gear. I was running gloves from like act three that had no life. These life rolls are crazy on Armor now, so try to get better gear again. Black Market do your shipping with the league mechanic to get some upgrades, and then as you level up, we will allocate more points, but we are a bit squishy early on. WE tank up later. As for endearing cry, I put it in the PO kind of last second to have some kind of endurance charge generation. I would just say drop it. It just doesn't feel good. It really just doesn't work. So if you're using endurance cry and thinking it kind of feels a bit sucky, just take it out. We'll get endurance charges later. Don't worry about it. Another hugely important thing, especially for new players, always attack without moving. Make sure you have

this on otherwise lightning strike is going to feel so gross. What you do to get this you actually click on your skill bar, click it, and then always attack without moving. Make sure this is on, and you can do the same with other skills like this, your V lightning strike, and well, pretty much that's it. But always attack without moving is very, very important. Now there is one thing that I need to talk about, which is a very annoying bug that I noticed on stream last night, which is that the linger effects from enduring suffusion is kind of turning off when you use a life FL. So I'm going to put on my tinctures, you can see I'm building up stacks of manab bur. I hit 12, now I have 6 seconds of free up time from my enduring suffusion that counted down, but let's watch what happens when I use a life flk. So we go up to 12, we get our six fre seconds. I use a life flask and it instantly goes off. This is very annoying. We suspect it has to do with

colloidal mixture 15% increase effect of ensures if you've used life flask recently. So we think this is kind of interacting with the linger in a weird way that just turns it off. We have reported it to GGG so hopefully they are looking at it. But just be aware if you have your tinctures up try not to use your life floss. Don't just Spam it randomly. Use it when you need it until they fix it. As for one other thing before we go oath of winter. This is really good when you swap to crit grab oath of winter. Unspec bar skin oath of winter is your best friend. The reason we only taking it after crit is that without crits we don't really have a decent chance to freeze. So it just it didn't feel that good when we weren't crit. After you go crit that's when you start noticing like everything is getting Frozen. So when you go crit oath of winter one thing that I did try and you can try it too but if you're still

on the non-crit version of the build, and you want to try out Oath of Winter because it's really good. What you can do is un-spec Forces of Nature and then do a bit of a repath down this way, and then grab Primeval Force but path on the left side. So, this grants us 10% chance to freeze, shock, and ignite on the left side. So this, and this is 20% chance to freeze, and then this gives us another 10%, so that's a 30% chance of freeze. And that's with just hits that deal cold damage, not crits. So make sure you have that. I'm sure there are a lot of other questions, leave it in the comments if you have any issues with the build. Join the Discord, join the streams, ask, please ask. I've seen some really just lame comments of people being like this build sucks, don't waste your time. Rather spend that energy coming to Discord, coming to the stream, asking for help because that's a win-win. I don't have to read

your dumb comment. Your build gets fixed because no. This build doesn't suck. This build's excellent. You just screwed it up. And then thirdly, the community is less sucky, so do that in said next time. All right, I'm going to go catch you later. Have a wonderful day. Stay safe. Bye-bye.

Lightning Strike Warden Day 1 Update | PoE 3.25

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The Venom G in the POV should be replaced with a dagger instead of a sword, as the skill gem explains.

To run two 50% auras, Herald of Agony, and Barrage Skin, players need to allocate Charisma, Mana reservation efficiency wheel, and Leader of the Pack, while potentially dropping Herald of Ice.

Using tinctures allows for swapping Anger for Grace during the campaign, providing better damage.

Players should swap to double claw when they have two good claws, and consider using a shield when transitioning to a critical strike build on a five-link setup.

Build Optimization for Level 77 Character in "Respec"

The "Cornered Prey" wheel provides 190% increased crit chance against bleeding enemies, with the previous points offering a 10% chance to bleed.

The "Tincture" node gives 179% increased crit chance with melee weapons, potentially providing a total of about 350% increased crit chance when combined with other factors.

Using "Assassin's Mark" is recommended for increased crit, and it's important to swap from "Sniper's Mark" to ensure extra damage from crits.

The suggested tinctures to use are a prismatic tincture for increased elemental damage with melee weapons and later on, a crit tincture.

The recommended explicit modifiers for tinctures are increased effect and increased mana burn rate.

Recommended Gear and Survival Tips for Melee Build in Path of Exile

Prioritize increased melee weapon attack speed and melee weapon damage that penetrates Elemental resistances.

Consider adding crit multiplier with melee weapons, especially if going for a critical build.

For survivability, use Granite flask, Jade flask, purity of elements, and Grace to maximize damage and defensive capabilities.

Prioritize having an instant recovery life flask and ensure bleeding and corrupted blood immunity on your flasks.

Focus on improving gear with better life rolls and utilize the Black Market for upgrades.

Avoid using Enduring Cry for endurance charge generation and remember to always attack without moving for better gameplay.

Tips for Using Skills and Dealing with a Lingering Bug

To always attack without moving, click on your skill bar and then click the skill.

There is a bug where the lingering effects from enduring suffusion are turned off when you use a life flask, possibly due to the colloidal mixture.

Report this bug to GGG and be cautious with using life flasks until it's fixed.

Oath of Winter is most effective after swapping to crit, as it significantly improves freezing abilities, so it's best to take it after reaching crit.

Reconfiguring the Build for Oath of Winter

Un-spec Forces of Nature and path towards Primeval Force on the left side to achieve a 30% chance of freezing.

Make sure your hits deal cold damage, not crits.

Join the Discord or streams to ask for help instead of leaving negative comments, for a more positive community.