Optimizing Builds in Path of Exile: Elemental Sunder Guide

Elemental Sunder builds can be optimized significantly with strategic changes, enhancing damage and gameplay experience.

### Path of Exile Build Optimization: Elemental Sunder
* 🔨  The player's existing build is optimized for **staff nodes**, which are not ideal for a **two-handed melee weapon**.
* 💰  The budget for improvements is limited to **11 chaos orbs**, with additional currency provided by the **advisor**.
* 🗡️  The player is advised to switch from a staff to a **two-handed axe for better damage scaling**.
* 📊  The new setup more than **triples the player's damage output**, from 125,000 to 800,000.
* 🔄  Ascendancy points are **respecced to better suit the new weapon and playstyle**.
* 🧪  The build incorporates unique mechanics like **Spiritual Aid** to convert minion damage to **increased damage**.
* 🔮  The advisor guides the player through **gem changes**, **passive skill tree adjustments**, and **gear upgrades**.
* 🏆  The final gem setup includes **Sunder, Ruthless, Hypothermia, Life Tap, Fortify, and Trinity**.

okay right wait run me again to what you're trying to do. You're trying to do Elemental Sunder, so instead of telling you that you're the idea is [ __ ], which I think a lot of people would do. I think you make this work. I would probably switch to claws. Wait, you can't send it with a claw. What's the fastest thing? Can you send it with a sword? You can send it with a sword. I'm pretty sure you can send it with a sword. Maybe you can. Maybe you need an axe. Okay, I would probably go axe. How much currency do you have? 11c. Okay, so let's make this dream happen. I'll spot him a Divine. I don't think you should unless he's okay with it, but like I think it's so easy to ruin a new player's first time by giving them too much stuff. I mean, a Divine wouldn't hurt, I guess, but I'm not a huge fan of giving people uh two-handed melee weapon non-unique. Okay, what's the most edps we

can get yeah this. This is kind of based for 5c. Can you buy this? I'm going to DM you this, and you buy this. I think you go for this. What's your name, random lemon man? My tree has a lot of Staff nodes. Uh, okay, you're screwed on staff nodes. We're going to fix that. Okay, you can take some regret handouts. You should not be using staff n. He's too high level to respect with gold. Let's buy that. Let's say that you get some regrets. Okay, here's this cap. That's good. Your chaos rest. Wow, you have more chaos R than I do when I'm uh. Okay, so your flat are bad. We can fix that. Your belt is decent. Is there anything we can do really good for belt? No, honestly, your belt's probably fine. It doesn't have life, but you don't need life right now. You do need life. You have 1,700 life. You have a 20 regrets. You're going to need a lot more. Okay, what staff nodes do you have? Okay, you're

currently level 81. Okay, so currently at 125,000 damage. I have no idea what you're turning on, so I'm going to just see how much of an improvement this is. Okay, cool. Even though you have staff nodes, this is more damage, so that's good news, right? We're on the right path. We're on the right path, and you're 81, so let's move all your staff nodes. Oh, you only have those to be fair. Okay, so currently have sulfur, so you're not using a Mana FL right now. You're doing it with Mana nodes. Okay, let's look at the rest of here first. P there effectively don't have it there, so we can upgrade that. Your boots are fine. Says no results found unless I paste it in the wrong place in Path of Exile. It didn't have rings, right? Do you need that Dex? You do not. Perfect. Oops, minimum, not maximum. Why is he FK? This is amazing. Okay, try this. See if that guy replies. It's 1 C. Oh, and by this one. Wait, this is so fun. No.

no, no, we'll fix X later. This is great. I should just see her fixing people's builds all day. He has autoly on. Okay, what about the second guy? That guy says he's here. He might be here. The second guy might be here. Let me know when you put on both the new Rings. Thank you, nork, this real hero. I'm basically a firefighter. They should name schools after me. Both rings are on an ax. Okay, have you refreshed the instance? Like, just travel somewhere so that I can have an updated po corruption coil on right now. Perfect. So this is what we're looking up, and you have 7 C left Annihilation. I'll sell him this for 1 C. I have it listed for 3 C, but nobody asked. There are reasons. There are reasons nobody wants to pay 3C for this. There's reasons. You should sell this to the vendor. Um, let's see. Oh, is there son in your weapon? No, uh, no. Now I have five 'cause I bought the two rings. Yeah, okay. All right, let's see if I can afford to fix

him with a six link. What is he going to need? Um, suer, suer. He wants multi-strike awakened. Okay, dude. R. This con's kind of nice. Okay, let's see if we can get to my 16. Why is momentum? Why is momentum hypothermia? You're definitely chilling. What if we don't chill though? What if we do Focus? It's not worth it. I don't think we want to use celty. All right, that's the best six we can get you. Honestly, this one's pretty based. Buy this now. But I think this will be the best. We'll fix your rest somewhere else. I think your rest fixed anyway. All right, this is 3C. You have three C left, right? You have five, three, or five. I got remember what did it say. No, I have five. Perfect. So we have two C after this. Oh, we're rich as [ __ ]. Dude, you can get so much done with so little in this game. Um, so I'm having him buy this six thing. I'm having him buy this six thing for try.

I'm so good at finding things and stuff for this is a blast. This amazing content. You should do a stream one day where all you do is help new players and try to pour so much knowledge into their builds as you can. I would end it all. I don't like helping people. I'm not a helpful person. I just do it now and again for fun. Okay, did you see the last thing I told you to buy, the six thing? Yeah, it's finishing a dungeon or something. Okay, get back to me on that. So, let's assume that we get this now. We've doubled your damage, by the way. We have literally doubled your damage. We have not even respawned your character. So, we're getting rid of all of these. Boom. We're getting rid of all of those. I really want to figure out a better way to fix your mana, honestly. What if we life tap? Ah, but he going to... It's going to suck for you. Okay, also just like some things to explain. Herald of Ash does... doesn't really do

much for your build because you don't have much base physical damage. Um, so I don't know how your Mana is unreserved 28. We're going to try to work with your Mana. So right now you're 240. If you use skitterbots instead, that's 260. That's slightly more Mana though. Also, vulnerability does not do much for you. You should be using Elemental weakness. So now we're nearly tripled your damage. So if you switch, but I'll walk you through that in a sec. I'll walk you through that in a sec. How do we fix this Mana without currency? Do I LIF tap? Is that going to be super raids? What's this setup? I don't know what that is. Don't have that. Do you need Precision? Aren't you RT? Why aren't you RT? Ah, this is so much Mana. This helps. Okay, you're going to delete Precision. You're going to take resue technique. Yeah, we're going to get him life. We have loads of skill points. What uses 109?

nothing that not that what use is this perfect if you don't level up your hypothermia to level 20. You actually don't need that Dex node bringing up a point there non crit Inquisitor but I mean he has 25% crit right now. Did somebody give you regrets? You need a lot of regrets. Um what's happened here? I see ah cute uh one two okay um G 50. He might need a little more okay perfect. So we're actually going to resp you do this. This isn't super ideal but like with what you're doing and what you're working with. He's not got to have enough gold. Reex at 81 is not cheap. Re only cheap early uh with what you're working with. You're not really in the state to go crit easily. So I'll explain a few things that we're changing right now. So we're going to be respecing your ascendency points to these. So what does that give you? These is nearby enemies takes 16% increased Elemental damage.

really good on its own. That is basically the same as Mora damage, so very, very good, right? This is just going to give you loads of energy Shield recharge. That'll be really good for like over-hit things. It'll just be really, really nice regen. You don't have that much energy Shield, but it'll be very noticeable, so you're going to be resp. You don't have to do la again to do these. We are going to be taking res technique that gives you crit, sorry, that removes your crit. How much crit do you have without? You do lose DPS with that. Wait, why is your accuracy so high? How is your hit chance 100? Why is your hit chance 100 without Precision? I don't get it. Wait, it isn't. I don't know why it didn't update, but his hit chance is super low. All. I don't know why I wasn't updating. That's weird. Um, okay, so you do need RT. You got the test. Okay, cool. So we're looking at the same thing. You just haven't resp Spike yet.

beautiful. H, you were level 81, so a bunch of points. How is your Mana feeling currently before I changed anything? Like, how does your Mana, like, do ever run out? Okay, I think we do that. You spam your V and spell cool, and well, like I said, doesn't do anything. You want Elemental weakness. Okay, so now in your chest, I would try Sunder, multi-strike, ruthless, concentrated effect, hypothermia, and then life tap. Okay, cool. Um, and then you should be able to get rid of Arcane capacitor. You have a random Point here, don't really need the points here, where get life up. If you talk to Lily, she'll just s everything. It's just here. It's a level eight Ste, so it is enact one somewhere, right? What uses so much intelligence? We'll need some intelligence, but we don't need this much. So where do we get it? Is it Al weakness? It is. So you're just going to go with a lower Alo weakness. You also don't need Frost blink to be hella high level. Okay, you will

need a point. We're going to take that here perfect, so that's one point. Freeze up two. I will, I'm just thinking out loud. I will walk you through the changes I'm doing. Physical damage with 200 weapons. We're going to ditch these now. No, I'm unsure what's happening down here. Bleeding these nodes actually do nothing for you at all. But what nodes do? How do I scale Elemental Sunder? Do I do like these are good, but you have those. You have actually not taken the best node that you can get. You need Divine Judgment. You should take this Mastery again. I will scale Fizz and convert. No, we're keeping true to the image of the build. That's the important part here. But where do we get Ellie? None of these NS do anything. Wait, this will no don't ailments and physical avar fire and commer fist to fire. No, no, no. We have a pure La weapon. No, he doesn't have Fortify. We should get him Fortified too. Yeah, we have a pure Elemental weapon. I

don't care about anoint right now. Would mind these NES, but they're far away and pointless. No, you can't put anything in. Oh, hello, aha. Honestly, spiritual Aid is definitely need to play. He should definitely need to take spiritual Aid, shouldn't he? Just do ice crash, nah, should he? But that's not the spirit of the build, is it? I mean, it's basically the same thing. You can try ice crush and see if you like it, but that's not that important. Are there no more like attack damage nodes? Attack, how do we attack? The weirdest thing I've ever done. Are you using? He's not using slams. That'll help. Okay, okay, we can do this. Do we ditch this entire thing? This one is good, but it's so far away. Is there anything that's not physical? Why are they all physical? Oh, oh, based. It is a crit node, but honestly, we kind of have to take it. Oh, oh, oh, this is huge. Oh, this is massive. Wait, what? Rage isn't physical, right? Rage is attack damage. Please say

rage is attack damage. Oh, thank [ __ ] this pathing is hella unfortunate. That does basically nothing for you right now. You do have some Fizz, but you're just going to blood rage, mate. There must be something we can do here. Let's path down here instead. Uh, we need to get him stats though. Okay, let's worry about stats later honestly, and then we have an excuse to take them. This is Elemental [ __ ] Sunder, yes sir. Why is your rest so crangle? Oh, but you have open suffixes. Oh, we're so sorted. I'm so smart. Could job pass this R. Holy [ __ ] we are so [ __ ] smart, right? What level is this? 82, okay. By the way, we have tripled his damage, literally tripled, and we haven't even put war cries in yet. Uh, I'm going to put blood rage in your build. You're going to use blood rage. Seems so in your element right now. This is fun. Okay, we're at 103.

points. Did somebody feed you regrets so you can actually do this? Do you have berserk? Does berserk do anything? Now what does berserk even do? Increase rage effect? That's kind of dog. Okay, but at least you have rage. Okay, so [ __ ] you know what? I might as well show you how to set up a jeel search or not. Um, so we're going to search for count. Count. I'll do that slower. We're going to search for count. You click this button here and then search for count. And then you can do like count three and then you start working out like what are the things that actually scales my damage on a jewel. Uh, so for your build, you're looking at melee damage, uh, increased damage. Where's increased damage? Uh, area damage, uh, elemental damage with attack skills, uh, attack speed. And then you're using axes, damage with axes, attack speed with axes. I'll share this in chat after which one can come. What else? What else can we scale elemental damage with that isn't fire, cold, and lightning?

damage he doesn't need light 200. Thank you, yes, speed, no, he's not crit now. I mean life, but like we want cheap. He has two c left, okay? We can get three stats. Is there global Elemental damage on je? I don't even remember YOLO. Hey, this one's nice. Buy this one. Can you let me know if this guy replies to you? You need two. This is your last two. See, uh, yeah. I'll be pasting it to you. Message those two. That's your last two chaos orbs. No, no, no. I want to see if I can make it work. He only had 11 seats. More fun than a budget. You can give him currency afterwards. This is the last thing you take, by the way. So we're actually past 81 points now. So we're at 83. So this is going to be like the next thing when you keep leveling, uh, and then you take a war priz. Have a minimum power of 10 power. Power. So that's like your next four points and only take the jewel spots.

When you actually get those jewels, I messaged you hopefully either of them will reply. He does need flasks, but he can ult roll those, so I would recommend looking at the flask I use of every build guide, right? It's basically like curse effect is good, armor is good. You don't use evasion, can't get attack speed, but get movement speed, reduce curse effect, and armor on your flask. The prefix isn't as important, and for your life flask, you really want to get either instant or half-instant life flask. That's really important 'cause we don't die slowly in PE, we die fast. Couldn't you get rid of savage wounds? What's savage wounds? Oh, why is this here? Yes, yeah, so again, bleed doesn't do anything, uh, no. Now you're 81, actually. Now remember, at the moment you're not resist capped, but uh, with this you will be, and you have open suffix on both your rings. Now you are going to be doing intimidating cry. Can I not say that they're exerted somehow? What if instead

of Ruthless, you had fortify. Honestly, you can try then and see if you like it. Top left General box. All right, instead of multi-strike, we're going to fortify. That's why. Like, you might be able to put some Elemental damage on your axe with the runes. What about Trinity? Ah, I don't know if he can activate Trinity. No, it's a new color. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, if he can do it instead of con effect, how do I know if Trinity is on though? Where can I simulate Trinity? He's got all three on his weapon. Yeah, he might be okay. What is it? Is it if all three bars are filled? Trinity is good, right? It's been like half a year since I've used to it. Okay, so okay, you actually might be okay with Trinity. Your Lynx is going to be Sunder, Ruthless, Hypothermia, Life Tap, Fortify, and Trinity. I'd rather he just had for up all the time. He has way more than enough damage. We came here with like 110,000 damage.

now we have 800,000 damage. I don't think that's a terrible job at all for like what was it we started with 11c holy okay we like got some regrets from chat but who doesn't have some regrets chat nice so you have Sunder ruthless hypothermia lifetop fortify and Trinity so you're no longer using multi-strike you're no longer using conk effect not using Elemental damage for the text do know you actually have more damage than a lot of people in chat probably I need to do my threee first cuz this I don't have enough stats for the gems yeah all right to be fair this is also why I don't do when people aren't following my bill G CU like that took soing long holy but that was fun I enjoyed it okay hopefully that'll feel really good I wish you had recorded like a before and after cuz that would be fun to see let me know if you have any questions I removed some of your skill gems and I added new ones so

make sure you pay attention to that like blood rage, intimidating cry, elemental weakness. I don't know how your Mana is going to feel either. We'll work that out. Where does the Minion damage come into play? Ah, that's a great question. Um, so if you see that note called spiritual Aid, what that does is it turns minion damage into increased damage. So since we were struggling to find increased damage, since most things near you is physical damage, what it does is now like, oh actually that means we could actually add that to the jeal search. But basically, whenever it just says increased minion damage, that's now the same as increased damage. Um, oo spicy. But like, don't confuse that for more damage. Like, you can't use minion damage support now. It is very specifically increased minion damage, nothing else. But it's like a very, very useful thing. And then the reason we dropped out of Herald of Ash is you don't have any base first damage. You could do base food and then convert. That works too. That's a better

way of doing it than what we're currently doing. Uh, but I wanted to try to keep true. It's like, you know, when your kid gives you a drawing and tells you to continue drawing on it, right? You don't want to remake the drawing. Um, so you're my kid now in this analogy. So, it is better to be Bas face and then convert um than what we're currently doing. But what we're currently doing works.

Over 5X MORE DAMAGE with only 11 Chaos! - Fixing a Beginner's Build

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The discussion revolves around optimizing a new player's build in Path of Exile, focusing on weapon selection and skill tree adjustments.

The player has 11c in currency, and the speaker offers to help with divine and regret handouts.

The goal is to improve the player's damage and life while fixing staff node issues and upgrading gear.

The player is seeking a six-link item and multi-strike awakened support for their build.

The narrator is helping the player make strategic decisions to double their damage and optimize their mana usage.

They plan to respec the player's ascendency points to increase elemental damage for nearby enemies.

Optimizing Energy Shield and Mana Management

The strategy focuses on maximizing energy shield recharge for better regeneration and hit chance.

The character's high accuracy and low hit chance need adjustment, along with a reevaluation of intelligence points.

Key changes include adjusting skill levels, reallocating points, and prioritizing Fortify and Elemental damage scaling.

The speaker is discussing the character's build and the need for spiritual aid and attack damage nodes.

They are considering different skills and paths to take, aiming to maximize damage output.

The speaker is also sharing tips on how to search for damage-increasing jewels and discussing various ways to scale elemental damage.

The character has two chaos orbs left and is aiming for three stats, with a focus on global elemental damage.

Flasks are important, and the recommended prefixes include curse effect, armor, movement speed, and reducing curse effect.

The character is not resist capped yet but will be with the current setup, and there's a possibility of activating Trinity for additional damage.

Damage Optimization and Skill Gem Changes

The damage has increased to 800,000, surpassing many in the chat.

Skill gems were removed and new ones added, including blood rage, intimidating cry, and elemental weakness.

The "Spiritual Aid" note is crucial, as it turns increased minion damage into increased damage, aiding in the overall damage optimization.