Strength Stacking: Progress and Changes in Path of Exile 3.25

The character in the video is using a strength stacking build to clear maps easily but struggles with single target damage against high tier bosses.

### Path of Exile: Strength Stacking Chieftain Update #3
* 🔥  The build is now able to **clear high-tier maps and bosses**, with Maven taking **24 minutes to defeat**.
* 💰  Currency drops remain scarce, with only **one Exalted Orb found after 40 hours of playtime**.
* 🛡️  Changes were made to improve tankiness, including switching to **Determination and Purity of Elements** for **ailment immunity**.
* 🔧  Gem and flask adjustments were made, with a focus on **maintaining maximum resistance**.
* ⚙️  The Atlas passive tree was adjusted to avoid Ritual encounters, which were considered **overtuned**.
* 🏗️  The focus is now on **maximizing all buildings** in the Heist mechanic before sending ships out for **income**.
* 📊  The long-term goal is to **reach Rank 10 on all jobs** and **upgrade the mapping device for high-tier maps**.
* 🤑  The player estimates their currency value at around **15-20 divines**, mostly from **converting various fragments and essences**.

hey guys, and welcome to new video. Today update number three on the strength stacking more, namely aesthetic strike Shockwave Chief Tain using Brutus lead sprinkler to generate damage out of stacking strength for the flat fire damage. So, um, yesterday the TL was we pushed into like, we cleared the white tier Maps, the yellow tier Maps. We pushed into high tier Maps, but we figured out at the Guardians and stuff like that, um, yeah, it starts to become very rough in the single Target departure, but and clearing is a very Breeze with this character. And today we did a couple of changes, not too many, but still they were very effective. So now I'm doing like, I even had like possessed, uh, Guardians and something like that was not a problem. I also killed Maven, and Maven was, um, yeah, the character is very tanky, okay, but it doesn't really deal a lot of damage. The Maven fight actually took 24 minutes, but I still did it. So yeah, I could do more damage, but things are looking better today. Um, I changed my

gems I changed my flasks, and I did revamp the skure a little bit and made some adjustments left and right, and it works out pretty pretty well so far. In terms of the currency, another day just absolutely no drops. It's actually so crazy at this point. Um, we have a playtime of 1 day, 16 hours, so about 40 hours right now. Um, we have killed um 270,000 monsters. We dropped one single exalted orb, zero divines, zero anything else that is valuable. Um, we had a widow hail drop today um that rolled with 154% out of 250, so that is completely garbage. And I got my first eyes of the Great Wolf drop, which is quite nice. The B part is it is, I think, the absolute worst I of the Great Wolf I have ever seen. 10% chance to freeze, shock, ignite, and 14% increased effect. Like if the game gives you a lemon, you know, uh, doesn't matter. Fact is drops are absolutely do [ __ ]. I spent like probably three divines.

today in my gear talking about flasks and buying gems and I even like I grinded a lot today so I leveled up my gems from level one up to level 20 on every single or almost every single slot so so I've been grinding a [ __ ] ton but as I said the drops are just not in our favor but it is what it is it is just very slow progress um but therefore you know slow and steady I guess wins the race or dies starving or something like that I would say let's do a map showcase and then we talk about the um stuff that I changed let's run a crater map over here so you're going to see that the uh mapping aspect is super super fine for now um another thing that I want to mention is that I um made another Atlas passive tree because as you remember I really wanted to do um what is it a ritual but ritual is actually complete I would say overtuned so what is the problem with ritual first of all they

added a ton of wild mood monsters on there, and I think they are a bit overtuned, especially when it comes to these unique monsters in there. The amount of like on-death effects in a ra show is absolutely ridiculous. There is like some green volatiles, um, they do so much damage, and in one ritual, they can spawn like probably, you know, you have to constantly run, otherwise you get just blasted with those things. And I don't know, I would say like a 100 of these volatiles are like, uh, up at one point, so that is like absolutely ridiculous. And I figured out, you know, what, we're not going to do that, we do something else. So I decided for some easy, um, strategy basically, which contains like, we still have shrines, we have Eco, uh, but we also added strong boxes and some harbes. But as you see, um, Dam, like, tankiness wise, is really, really nice. We're running 90% maxr wa. This is a bit cheated here with the, um, the

shrines, but um, it's 82%. Um, regularly, um, but if we have the um Ruby flask up, we are having 87% maximum resistance, right? So it is very, very nice. And with our enduring cry up that I now have specced, and we're actually on almost 2,000 uh life per second. So this is actually really, really sick. So it actually kind of feels like an agnostic play style, right? So no dot, no nothing kills us. Another thing that I changed, which makes the character a lot tankier, uh, I'm I had yesterday, um, Herald of Ash and anger, and I swapped those out for determination, as well as purity of elements, just to get the ailment immunity. So we're well over R capped right now, and um, means I should also, um, swap away from AA because this is what I took from um, like doing the campaign, basically all resistance, cuz I thought it might be like super nice early on, uh, to help you get Ras capped, but now we are like so over Ras C. So tomorrow, um, I'm going to do this like

one vendor recipe to reset my choice for uh the the thing right. I'm not sure. I think I'm just going to go flat out for the one skill point, even though it's not a lot. But the other options, you know, the what is it like 50 Max life or something, is not really good resistance. I don't need. And the 8% movement speed, there is an argument to be made for that, but I think this is like later on for like really endgame gear where you don't care about damage, where you don't where all you do is care about speed. But I think this 8% movement speed will not really be any noticeable as of right now. So I guess I'm just going to take the one skill point, get a little bit more strength, a little bit more damage, and uh live with that, basically, right? Uh, we also changed our main skill gem setup. So as I said, there's a lot of like bits and pieces that I changed, uh, but not really high investment wise. So I

just hope tomorrow. First Divine up drop. It's about time, dude. I cleared the entire Atlas. I did almost all the Pinnacle bosses, you know. I did the um invitations today with all the four conquerors. I'm literally just face tanking the majority of those. It is like very, very insane, especially with the enduring cry up, you know. Like, this is like our endurance charge generation now, so I don't have to rely on anything, um, like in charge to Melly stun or something like that. So let's take a look at the gear and what has changed, basically the setup. The gear itself is absolutely the same. And please note here, because I had comments like, Why are you hiding a 50 divines replica Alurn Warpath in your gear and claiming it to be a leak starter, bro? This is just for you. This is normal replica, a normal Alburns Warpath, and they're going for two chaos, and this is already four link with good roles, okay? So just to be clear, good, um, what they

change from the main setup. Basically, let's go over the links we have: Vitality, arrogance, and precision. I have a lot of life, so I don't think it's like too drastic to reserve those on life. Here, I have leap slam with faster attack and my blood rage. And then on the helmet, I have Mar on hit life tab with assassin Mark and a frost bomb for monsters that are actually having life resistance, so we block that or at least 75% reduced life regeneration rate. Then on our main links, we have static strike, shock wve, increase crit damage, pulverize, the inspiration, and Al damage with attacks. We have burer blood and Sand, which is not activated by the way. I just have it to level it up, but I cannot Reserve that yet. Then pure development and determination. Then we have a Caston death portal, which is just like I always have this early on with mapping, but I went from level 90 to level 94 today, and I don't really die at

all so this is kind of getting useless at this point, but it was very helpful like in the first one or two days. Then, Battle Mes cry for the base crit and enduring cry for the endurance charge generation and a lot of like recovery rate. And uh here is one thing I want to mention here. I got a level 21 shock wave because this is basically our main damage. So, our main damage is basically static strike, the beams, and especially shock wave, right? So, I want to have shock wave as the highest level, and we don't want to level up static strike. So, the reason here is cold down management is very similar to like fire burst with the herald of Thunder tick rate here is the same, right? Um, my um shock wave is currently is 0.65 um cool down, right? And my static strike has a 0.33 seconds cool down. So, means um the second hit after 0.66 my shock wave is ready again for this single Target damage, right? Means at the moment

every second beam will um proc a shock wave, right? Problem is, if you level this too high. If I would level this now to level 20, it would go down to um 32 seconds beam frequency. That means my second um beam from my um aesthetic strike will not trigger a shock wave because it's still on cool down, right? So, you need to like minmax that a little bit with the cool down of your shock wave. You can reduce that by cool down recovery rate, but you cannot change the tick rate. So, you don't want to level up static strike too high. Level 19 is perfect with my um 15% CDR that I have over here. If you have lower CDR or no CDR, then make sure that you're not leveling static strike up too high. You know you have to find The Sweet Spot good for the flasks. We have a corrupted blood immunity or/ bed immunity, um life flask. We have a diamond flask with crit. We have an a granite flask with armor, a ruby flask with reduced effec of curses.

and poison immunity. Since I don't really have a lot of chaos resistance, and since we're Chieftain, if I pop in my um Ruby flask, you see that my resistance are going up um to 87, all rest because um our maximum fire resistance is equ or at least counts for the lightning and cold resistance as well thanks to the baloca storms and breast. So this like a very, very good um things to have, and then we can stack a lot of fire resistance, especially now with the mastery for gaining um life region for unkempt fire resistance. Um then we have here um these like circular things where it adds three strength to every single note for non-unique Jewels, so that's like nice for strength stacking. And here I have the war CES have infinite power means um I just I use uring cry, I get my maximum endurance charges, I use my Battle magees Cry um to get the crit effect and stuff like that right. And the way I play it, I just go in it's not like a slam build.

where I have to preuse all my war cries. I just hit get my static strike up, and then I war cry because I have nothing else to do anyways, 'cause I don't want to sit here and like Hammer um static strikes like whatever, right? Good. So we talked about the gems and the flask, anything else that changed? I don't think so. A couple levels, so I took here the maximum resistance. So if you take the left path with the One Max here and the two Max here, we get three to maximum resistance with this cluster. So I think this is like worth spending those three points. I mean three points with three max R is kind of nice. Maybe we can skip that one at some point because there is still two maximum fire resistance Jewels, but a good raw Jewel with like stats that you want to have is very, very rare. Good. That is basically all for today's gear upgrade. Let's take a look at the um the leite mechanic. And here I've done a couple of changes. I basically decided after quite a

while to completely stop going for um income here right so I don't send any ships out there just like sitting here. I don't even care about that. It's not even too high. It's like level five or something right um. I started to develop mapping and I let them run quite a lot of maps um today mainly white Yer Maps um. But they cost a lot of gold like I I don't 15 20,000 Golds or so for like yellow tier maps and it will go a lot higher as well. A friend told me today he has about 60,000 gold per hour consumption just because of his mappers basically right. But since they're running low tier maps and it takes quite a lot of gold. I'm taking a different approach now which is I don't want to spend anything um on like resources here that means I don't have income but therefore I want to minmax all my buildings first because I think like you know spending a lot of gold for letting

your mappers do white tier and yellow tier Maps. That I'm just not going to spend anything or at least just like the normal ones for like Mining and small smelting or whatever it's called. Um you know the Harvesters and so on and so forth and just try to maximize every single building before then I can choose to just send everything with like millions of capacity on the ships and so on and so forth. So I got mining rank to maximum and today I also got my um my recruitment up to maximum. This cost a lot of gold like 100,000 on the last stage and so on but you get like very nice benefits. Uh and I think the next one that I'm going to go for is the farming so farming and smelting. So basically all the passive income whether like if I get my ores basically what the miners can mine then they send the ores to the smelters they going to generate bars for that right and the farming is

basically passive income from what, whatever um you're harvesting, right? And you see, as you see over here on my stats, here we have thousands of everything. We're really bulking up, but I don't really care too much about it. It's just like, you know, I'm going to make gold, I'm going to have like, um, my workers do stuff, but then I'm when the next 100,000 gold, I probably just go ahead and level up farming, and then I basically just check, okay, what do I need? Um, here is just gold, so I can just upgrade that, um, but I don't not going to do this now, because I'm going to go to bed soon, so I want to have the gold in my storage just so my farmers can farm, my miners can mine, and so on and so forth, right? But basically, um, every time I'm go further, and then basically just adjust whatever, uh, currency, whatever I need, right? So if I go over here, I have everything here. I just need to click the upgrade button, right? And when I see, okay, I have like

for example 6,000 Ori Calcom ore. That basically means I can just check where is this Ori Calcom ore and then just um like here. This is like kind of useless, right? So if I have so much, then I can just remove one or two um here and say, Okay, what is my minimum? I have like very few versum or so. I'm just going to um put him some miners over here, right? Um, also my miners are pretty much all over the place. This is like still from like very early. I'm rank two, rank three, and something like that. I have a couple five, six, seven, eight, and even up to like some are like level 10 or something, right? So what on my plan is, I just don't care too much about it right now. All I want to do is get now gold to upgrade these two buildings. Then I want to really like fish for Rank 10 on every single job and fill up my mine, my uh farming, and my smelting to level 10 so I have like the

maximum resources that I can get passively by just mapping and farming. And then I want to like do the shipping and the mapping device upgrade this to maximum get like um level 10 mappers and really let them do high tier maps. And then with all the stuff that I have here if I don't need them, I'm just going to send chips with like millions of resources um into the Forin SE and see what kind of drops I'm am I going to get there. So this is basically the current goal. But yeah, I started to do some Del because I think it's like very nice. It gives you a lot of maps and you want to have a lot of maps in store anyways for your mappers to just you know throw them in and let them run the maps for additional uh income. But yeah, this is today's update. Um, I'm just going to continue grinding grinding grinding and hopefully the replica albron are going to get cheaper at some point so I can finally afford them. I don't know what my

currency statement uh state right now is I would say like like 15 divines maybe. I only have like five divines flat, but I think just based on like all these like bubble gum currency fragments that I'm getting like Guardian fragments and stuff like um Essences, whatever I have here, you know, I think if I convert everything into chaos and Chaos into divines, I maybe be like 15 or 20 divines at this point. We're going to see um how things are going to look out tomorrow. All right, boys, thanks for tuning in, thanks for watching, and see you on the next video.

[PATH OF EXILE | 3.25] – STRENGTH STACKING MAROIDER – SETTLERS OF KALGUUR – DAY 03!

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Update on Aesthetic Strike Shockwave Chief Tain Build

The build has successfully cleared white, yellow, and high tier maps, but struggles with single target damage against Guardians.

Despite a 24-minute fight, the character was able to defeat Maven, although with low damage output.

The player has made effective changes to gems, flasks, and gear, but is experiencing extremely low drop rates for valuable items, leading to slow progress.

Rebalancing Strategy and Character Build in Path of Exile

The player found the wild mood monsters overtuned with an excessive amount of on-death effects, so they decided to switch to a more tanky strategy with shrines, Eco, strong boxes, and harbes.

By maximizing resistance and life regeneration, the character now has a very tanky and agnostic play style, making them almost immune to damage over time.

In addition to the defensive changes, the player also adjusted their skill gem setup and is planning to reset their choices for a vendor recipe to further improve their build.

A Successful Atlas Clear and Build Update in Path of Exile

The speaker has cleared the entire Atlas and defeated most of the Pinnacle bosses, emphasizing the ease of face-tanking encounters with the new setup and endurance charge generation.

There has been a significant focus on gear and gem links, with a particular emphasis on shock wave as the main source of damage.

The speaker also discusses the cooldown management between shock wave and static strike for optimal effectiveness.

Optimizing Static Strike Build for Maximum Efficiency

Leveling Static Strike too high can cause a cooldown that disrupts shock wave procs, so it's important to find the right balance.

Utilizing cooldown recovery rate and not leveling the skill too high is crucial, especially with low or no cooldown recovery rate.

The build focuses on stacking fire resistance, using specific flasks for immunity and resistance buffs, and optimizing war cries for maximum endurance charges and critical effects.

Minimizing Gold Spending for Map Development in the Game

The cost of running high-tier maps in the game is causing a significant gold consumption, leading to a change in strategy to focus on maximizing building upgrades.

Building upgrades, such as mining and recruitment, are being prioritized to boost passive income and minimize the need for spending gold on map development.

The player's strategy is to bulk up resources, focus on farming and smelting upgrades, and strategically adjust their spending based on the in-game needs.

The player plans to upgrade buildings and reach rank 10 on every job for maximum passive resources.

They also aim to upgrade mapping devices for high-tier maps and explore the Forin SE for valuable drops.

The player is focused on grinding for resources and hoping for a drop in the price of replica albron.