Lightning Strike Character Update: Gameplay and Build Overview

The updated lightning strike character showcases immense strength and semi-infinite mapping capabilities, highlighting impressive gear and gameplay strategies.

### Updated Lightning Strike Character Showcase and Gear Overview
* ⚔️  The character showcases an updated Lightning Strike build, focusing on the use of **Valyrium Strike for mapping** and **high DPS against bosses**.
* 🔧  The key gear includes an **11-link weapon with "hits can't be evaded" mod**, Abyss jewels for **flat damage**, and unique items such as **Yoke of Suffering** and **Retch belt**.
* 🌟  The character utilizes a combination of **Slayer and Gladiator ascendancies** for **high damage output and survivability**.
* 💼  The build is designed to handle **tier 17 maps**, with specific gear choices to **counteract difficult map modifiers**.
* 🎯  The character has **high effective health pool (EHP)** and **damage output**, making it suitable for **end-game content**.
* 💰  The gear setup is considered complete, with potential for **further upgrades and corruptions**.
* 📊  An alternate "Mage Blood" version of the character is mentioned, offering **higher tankiness** at the cost of **some damage**.
* 🛠️  The creator plans to provide a **crafting guide** for the showcased gear in the video description.

hey guys. I want to make a new video going on my updated lightning strike character. Now, this character is extremely strong. I want to go over all the updates. Also, I want to get some gameplay showcase. Yeah, essentially the TLD drr is where 11 link weapon mirror ring, very good helmet, gloves, and chest, all pretty much perfect now. And yeah, better jewels and all that. So let me show some map gameplay showcase. So first, this is like a semi-infinite Val strike to show this off. I'll do a legion map, and this is not infinite. I'm not using hay Forge or anything. I don't think hay Forge is needed for mapping. It's pretty good for like bosses, for like billions of DPS, but for MPP in, I don't think it's needed. And this enchant alone is enough to essentially have a semi-infinite Val L trick just for mapping, and you'll see what I mean. So I'll just do it standard tier 16 showcase and also show Uber boss right after just so you see DPS. Yeah, it's pretty much semi-infinite.

as I'll pretty much only press Val liner strike in this map, and as you can see, it will constantly refill back up and can be quite laggy. It's my first map of the day, so yeah, a little bit more laggy than it should be. Yeah, as you can see, it's legit like semi-infinite. You can just keep pressing Val liner strike. Only the enchant alone is good enough. You don't really need the whole hate Force set up for mapping, at least you do need it for bosses, but I'm playing this character as a regular strike for stuff like bosses, as you will see in the boss showcase. Miss one this Legion, but you know, pretty standard stuff. But yeah, it's pretty much like infinite for mapping. You can just pretty much only press Valri from mapping. You don't have to press regular strike at all. Sometimes you do, but yeah, it is very, very strong. Can cause you to lag if your piecing is that good enough, so you know, keep in mind of that. Yeah, I just

want to show this off just to show like the dagger chant alone is all you really need. You don't need a hate Forge setup, and I'm not planning on going to hate Forge of all the issues it does cause. So here's the boss damage real quick, and this is going to be no Val strike as I don't have a way to generate Soul charges on a boss, but the DPS is still very, very good, and you can get more DPS in this if you want. Def here, the boss probably die in like 3 or 4 seconds. It does get 80% Dr for the first, I don't know, 3 seconds or something, and then yeah, that's the ball showcase. Still dies really, really fast without having the whole infinite Val L strike stuff going on. Uber xar, so let's go with the character now. Guess also ID this juel, see? So yeah, I'll bring out the PO here. Now I do have two PS. I have one with Head Hunter and one with Mage blood. The

Mage blood version is waste ehp of this one. You have double the max hit of Elemental and like 50% more Fizz Max hit. So if you do want to play at Mage blood, you're pretty much unkillable, I would say from appin um. It's extremely Tang at Mage blood. So yeah, let's go over my pu real quick. The main changes are this 11 link weapon: crit strikes, faster attacks, crit damage, damage attack skills, and socketed skills deal 4% more damage with then crafted hits can't be evaded. Now it's 11 links because Three Links go on your Squire, Three Links go on your weapon, and then the weapon itself has essentially five links for a total of 11 with hits can't be evaded. So big reason why I go hits can't be evaded is to avoid as much map mods as possible. I think this crafted mod is extremely underrated. This allows you to do stuff like reduced Aura Maps where if you're relying on level 20 position to cap your

accuracy. If you reduce Aura, your accuracy goes to garbage. Also allows you to do the negative, like 44% reduced accuracy maps. Once again, if you only have 100% accuracy and you do a 44% reduced accuracy map, your damage goes completely in the gutter. So, this model just makes tier 17s a lot more bearable. You can roll more maps, you don't have to skip as many map modifiers, you know, these horrible map modifiers that you might have to skip. You can just do with hits can't be evaded or might otherwise tank your damage. Yeah, this is why I went for this weapon. Very, very, very strong. If you are wondering, this is a m weapon. You don't need a weapon exactly like this. You can craft a 10-link weapon for probably roughly 200 divines, and that includes the enchant right here, maybe 200-250 toine. So, keep that in mind. It is very, very expensive either way. But if you do want to craft a 10-link one, you can do it without mirroring this weapon.

Squire, of course, just went over Lem link setup helmet. Uh, so big thing here is we're using two Abyss sockets: one in the helmet, one in the gloves, and all Abyss sockets on our skill tree, essentially a bis stacking. Because your weapon does not have flat damage, you have to make up the flat damage on all your Jewels, which we do get quite a bit. So yeah, ays stck on the helmet. I will leave a crafting guide in the note section here, by the way. It won't be done right now, but I will have it done by the time this video is uploaded or shortly after. So if you're wondering how to craft all this gear, I will leave it there. Will'll be for the helmet, chest, and gloves. Yeah, B helmet, nothing special here, just plus one pierce and then reduced ma cost attacks. So you do need a high reduced Mana cost attacks and plus it. As you can see, our L check is 20 Mana because it has so many links, so it has so many Mana cost multipliers. You can also do some

different stuff here as well. I was thinking about getting Fizz taken as on the implicit and getting reduced Mana efficiency on the explicit. You can also get Fizz taking ads on the chest as well and then get 45 entry. There are some options here. This build, I would say, it's pretty much complete, but there are some variants you can do. Yeah, chest armor next. This is where we're going to get our fortify. Melee hits have a chance to fortify. Increased effect non-curse auras is very weak for this build, but there's nothing else to get, and it does help overcap our res. So, a main goal of this build was to essentially do as many tier 17 M mods as possible, and one of the ways you do that is by overcapping your resist. So, in my version, I do have a resist Head Hunter, and this essentially allows me to click either Alters with no issue because e Alters to give you like NE 50% resist. So, if you don't have over

50% catch resist then cook those Alters will most likely kill you. Yeah, the regular version with no resist Head Hunter, um, you're still overcapped, but not as much, so keep that in mind. Body armor has fist damage reduction, chance to block, chance to speci fall damage, and a 10% reduce crit damage per endurance charge. So, you have eight endurance charges. This is 80% Critical Strike damage reduction, which is close to crit immune. I'd say it's good enough. If you do want the last 20%, you can get the Mastery right here. Instead of the 50% increase effect, you can take this right here to be completely CR immune. Up to you. Gloves, so non-ball strike skills, Target to additional enemies. Very, very good implicit. Until I want to use R gloves over any unique gloves for Speed clearing. That's, I do think, the setup is just way faster than Val L strike with permanent hate Forge, whatever, because the plus two strike skills is extremely, extremely good, and you don't get that hate Forge. I

personally found like only clear batt L strike can be a little bit slower. So yeah, this is why I went for the Hy setup, which is like half foul L strike and half Ling strike. Besides that, these are very annoying to make, by the way. I would not try to make these one-to-one exact. Once again, I will have the crafting guide in the notes, but yeah, keep in mind these are really tedious and really annoying to make. The 50% increased damage of hits against sh enemies can also be the fire damage against burning enemies on the suffix for the temple mod. Either or is good for me personally. That increased damage to hits against sh enemies was the better mod. It gave you more damage. Yeah, once again, these are very annoying to make and very expensive, but I will go over how to make that in the notes. Rach, so big reason why I use Rach is once again to ignore more T tier 17 modifiers. If you don't have R cat, then you can't do map modifiers that say

monsters steal your endurance, friendly charges, or cannot gain endurance, fry charges as it pretty much completely breaks your damage and defense. With Rach, you can skip all these tier 17 mods that completely break your build. So yeah, that is the big reason why I use Rach. Very, very, very strong. It just allows you to do more 10 tier 17 modifiers, which is the whole point of this build, is to do as many tier 17 mods as I can, and I can pretty much do all of them outside of the really annoying ones, stuff like cannot damage 4 seconds out of 10 seconds, reduce action speed, etc. Right, yoka suffrin. This amulet is really good for two purposes. One is the increased damage for each type of ailment you have inflicted on the enemy. We have at least five ailments, so you have ignite, chill, shock, poison, and bleed. You get poison from a tattoo, and you get bleed from this bleed wheel down here. So yeah, it's 50% increased damage taken, which essentially is a 50% more multiplier.

Although it is added with increased shock, yeah, with that's the other part of yoke, it gives you a higher shock effect. So, we're going to 44% increased shock, and we have 50% increased damage, making enemies take 94% increase damage, is essentially 94% more damage. The other good thing about yoke is giving you a ton of resist, which is something this build did tend to lack because, yeah, usually, resist aren't a big issue, but once again, if you're trying to Max juice Maps, are going to take these negative res alters, and you have to be overcat resist, have to be um. Next would just be the ring. So, this is the m ring. Now, the Mir ring is the least required piece of this entire build. You can just make a budget ring. You can buy a plus one frenzy base and make a pretty similar ring or just buy an amethyst ring with a, you know, fracture a damage attack skills or tier one life and yeah, either way, you can make a more

budget ring of this. You don't need the Zack ring. Whatever you want to do, plus one frenzy or a regular rare ring, it's up to you. The reason why we are using this overment is for the negative Mana cost. Without the negative Mana cost, this skill would cost 27 mana, and that's just a little bit too much. 20 Mana seems to be pretty much fine for me. 27 Mana? Yeah, a little bit too much. So yeah, nemies. This doubles your damage. Really, really good. I recommend a catalyst for resist to upper cap your resist for Alters. Um, oops, actually Mage blood. Whoops, huner. Yeah, anyway, uh, header, of course. Like I said, I do have a full Mage blood Po, and if you want the Mage blood Po, I will leave it in the description down below. And then standard flask. One thing I want to talk about the flash real quick. You got some Flex options. This Granite flask, you can make it just a light flask, which is what I'm doing right now. CU tier 17s have a lot of dots.

and having an instant life flask is kind of nice. Besides that, you can also try out a Soul Ripper with 40 charges used. This will just allow you to spam more Val strike in your maps, and it also allows you to do like four Val strikes on a boss while also spamming line of strike, which will give you really insane boss DPS if that's something you want to do. And then, yeah, besides that, all the Abyss jewels are just flat added damage. Some one of them has strength, and one of them has intelligence to meet the attribute requirements. Because the way I'm fixing my spell suppression is by using all my Dex tattoos for spell suppression, I have something like 15 spell suppression tattoos, and then the rest of the tattoos are going for resist to once again that overcap requirement. And as you can see, my fire resist is pretty much exactly capped without dying sun, which is fine. You don't need to overcap your fire resist because if you're doing e Alters.

you don't get Negative fire, get Negative cold, and negative light resist, yeah. Plus the jewels, phanom blades, plus Fe to Fury, this is the best combo. Plus, it's way better for clearing, it makes it more consistent for single Target damage on using enemies, gives you random projectiles. Be the fury, is just the highest single notable one. Plain Slayer gives you a ton of damage while leion, and you always leion as Slayer. Besides that, I guess the lethal Pride, this is the best lethal Pride on Slayer lter strike. At least it gives you four double damage and two rage on melee hit. So, the two rage on melee hit is very, very nice, allows you to stack 2 30 rage way faster. So yeah, this is the best lethal Pride. There are ones you can get pretty similar, you can get 3 DD instead, you can get like 2 DD intimidate. So you can get way cheaper ones than this, you don't need this one. This one probably cost like a one M or two mirrors or whatever. Yeah, this is the

best one if you are wondering. It also solves your strength issues. Of course, second cluster Jewel, same setup, and also for the cluster Jewels, real quick. The last, I guess, AIX on its item is a suffix, so in this case, it's SM the weak. And this can be any suffix for cluster Jewels. There's three suffixes: there's Smite the weak, there's Heavy Hitter, and there's Marshal Prowess. So yeah, this can be any of those three, and it needs to be one of those three, so it's always in the last spot, so just keep that in mind. For cluster Jewels, you don't need Smite the weak. This can be Heavy Hitter or Marshal Prowess, and you get the exact same result since you're not taking anyway. It doesn't really matter what this notable is. Instantly, so I decided to go for Instantly. This completely solves the less recovery maps, less recovery Alters. Instantly solves all those issues. I highly recommend to get this. And last thing to talk about is this Pro speed Mastery wheel dger.

mastery the reason why you want Pro speed. It makes your game lag less. The reason for this is that the projectiles on your screen don't last as long. So if you have like four or five Val L strikes going off, and if you have no Pro speed, there's just like twice as many projectiles on your screen, which can make your game lag. So keep that in mind. This deer Mastery is very, very good if you're all lagging. Make sure to take this, the one poison tattoo, and I think that's about it. So real quick, I'll just go over the Mage BP real quick. So as you see the defense right here, 232k EHP, 35k fizz max hit, and like 84k L max hit. Pretty, pretty good. I've been leveling on this character. I leveled from 98 to 99 yesterday and all the way up to 43% EXP. I'll probably get level 100 today. So the character is extremely tanky. You are doing, you know, max juice tier 17 maps, probably the most dangerous.

mapping content in the game so you know if this build can survive this, then it can survive any type of map content in the game. But if you do want to play the Mage mod version, it is way more tanky now. We'll leave Link in the description below, just go over real quick. We Mage version, it is less damage, but that's fine. Your damage is already pretty Overkill, and as you can see, it's pretty 2K Fizz Max hit 169k Le and 400k ehp. Essentially, the only difference really is you're using the utmost and using try La res flask, and then you can also get Fizz taken as on your chest and Fizz taken as on your helmet. And it has less damage because you have to take this 45 wheel 'cause you need to get 45 somewhere, so you do do miss abysal socket. Yeah, that's pretty much it. So that's so character, very, very happy with it, extremely strong, um, loving it quite a bit, we'll be playing it for quite a bit.

longer as well, maybe do some more upgrades, change a little things here and there, but for the most part, I would say the character is complete. I probably do need some corruptions as well, like on maybe yoke or Rach, but yeah, um, that's all. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment in the video, and once again, the crafting will be into notes once I finish it.

Multi-Mirror Semi-Vaal lightning strike Update/Showcase - 3.25 Path of Exile

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Updated Lightning Strike Character Showcase

The updated lightning strike character is extremely strong, with perfect gear and better jewels.

The gameplay showcases a semi-infinite Val Strike for mapping, eliminating the need for a Hay Forge setup.

The character also demonstrates impressive boss DPS, dying within 3-4 seconds, and offers a unique playstyle with two different PS setups.

Optimizing Mage Blood Setup in Path of Exile

The Mage Blood version offers double the max hit for Elemental and 50% more for Fizz, making it a strong choice for survivability.

The 11-link weapon setup, with hits can't be evaded, helps mitigate challenging map modifiers and ensures consistent damage.

Abyss socket stacking on the skill tree and gear is crucial for making up flat damage, while a high reduced mana cost is essential for managing the character's abilities.

The build focuses on overcapping resistances to handle tier 17 map modifiers, with a resist Head Hunter aiding in this goal.

Chest armor provides fortify, damage reduction, and critical strike damage reduction, aiming for near-crit immunity.

Gloves with non-ball strike skills targeting additional enemies offer a faster clearing setup, while Rach is used to ignore more tier 17 modifiers.

Optimizing a Build with Rach and Yoka Suffrin

Rach allows players to skip problematic tier 17 mods, enabling them to focus on maximizing these modifiers for their build.

Yoka Suffrin amulet provides increased damage and shock effect from multiple ailments, offering a significant damage multiplier and valuable resistances.

The Mir ring is optional, providing negative mana cost for skills, while the build also incorporates a Mage blood Po and flexible flask options to handle damage over time effects.

Optimizing Boss DPS and Spell Suppression

An instant life flask and a Soul Ripper with 40 charges can enhance Val strike spamming for increased boss DPS.

Abyss jewels provide flat added damage, while Dex tattoos are used for spell suppression and resist overcap.

The best combo for clearing and single target damage includes Phantom Blades and Fe to Fury, with Lethal Pride offering double damage and rage on melee hit for faster stacking.

Pro speed reduces game lag by minimizing the duration of projectiles on screen.

The character has a strong defensive setup with 232k EHP and impressive max hits, making it suitable for challenging tier 17 maps.

The Mage mod version offers increased tankiness at the cost of slightly lower damage, with key differences in flask usage and defensive stats.