Crafting Path of Exile: Endgame Gear for Lightning Strike Slayer

The input discusses crafting and improving gear for a lightning strike Slayer build in the game Path of Exile.

### Crafting an Endgame ES Stacking Lightning Strike Slayer (Path of Exile)
* ⚔️  The player is crafting an endgame **Energy Shield (ES) stacking Lightning Strike Slayer** build in Path of Exile.
* 🛠️  The crafting process involves optimizing gear for **maximum ES, block chance, and damage**.
* 💰  The player is investing in **high-quality items**, such as a **6-linked chest** and **powerful jewels**, to enhance the build.
* 🔴  The build focuses on using the "**Ephemeral Edge**" sword to gain both **offensive and defensive benefits** from ES.
* 📊  The player is fine-tuning the build's **passive skill tree, cluster jewels, and other key components** for **optimal performance**.
* 🌟  The build is designed to have **high ES pool**, **block chance**, and **damage output** for endgame content.
* 🎨  The player is customizing the character's appearance with **MTX (Microtransaction) effects** to match the **build theme**.
* 🏆  The build is being tested in various map scenarios to evaluate its **effectiveness and potential for endgame boss fights**.

Jesus Christ, okay, we got a 164 quality or 164 as base, all right, by a [ __ ] of fers. Let's go, all right, which ones dance. Oh, you know what, it's just single, single dance. Yeah, so look, I've been farming Del Guys without ever entering the azerite mine. Look, and now I can buy this. Look at that self-farm the azerite. GG. Wait, what is that? There's a node on the tree here. Sulfide veins and chests in your maps have 10% chance to also contain an equal amount of azerite. So in the 100 Maps I've ran, I've had this node. It's like three points off the beaten path and uh, I probably farmed like one or two divs of uh, a site resonators more. Pretty cool. It's way more. Okay, so we're starting with dance spamming this Helm T12 Mana 553, oh, one, two, six. Okay, that six has to go, dude. My alls are not on points right now. It's

dead it's not dead no it is dead never mind it is dead I hel the T1 for or flat [ __ ] oh T1 flat again but T oh my God that hybrid is so bad though I'm not annoing that go again 53 one six okay that's good that's anable just an all T6 is it yeah of is get T1 flat yeah yeah yeah okay this an all has to hit dude I can't an all for [ __ ] today oh my God okay I'm almost out so this this has to be at 6 3 4 2 tier one tier six okay if we if we remove the T6 if we remove the T6 nice then I just make it one red lightning damage to spells and then we funny slam yeah I have one why is beautiful penis Exile in my Hideout norx all right here we go huge huge slime tier 2 Thorns tier two Thorns is one to four F damage reflected that is

amazing. I don't, I don't, don't know, right, uh, yeah, you do, okay. I did not save it, okay, keep going. That's bad and that's that, all right. More fossil, okay. So, this will take a while, guys. We'll, we'll do a lot of, uh, clicking. Cheap but slow because we are poor. I'll use the last one, okay. It's bad, all right. One Divine orb, okay. It has to, it has to be 500 plus. This is a, the one Divine orb, 20 plus. Oh, I got a challenge for it, it is so good, okay. 514, that's a pretty good draw, that's high on both actually high on all three, nice. Okay, prefix is done, guys. We are back to the helmet suffixes. We try to slam some res and, uh, in is nice but, uh, prefer two res, yeah. About to slam it twice or at least once. It's at least once but you need to block something first, no. Oh well, it's bad. It's energy Shield recovery R, that's, uh, 50/50. Oh, I saved it, all right. Should I

block okay something de block accuracy accuracy yeah I can flat accuracy yeah yeah yeah okay I'm it life regen that is unfortunate remove crafted modifiers okay 50/50 and all I saved it again okay accuracy here we go guys weee stun and block recovery okay let's try to save it again I didn't save it it is now only stun and block recovery okay I'm chaos in it it's int lightning res and energy Shield recharge rate bad lightning res bad int o okay guys that is bad we buy some more [ __ ] okay it was not that Jesus was one and seven you missed a three okay it's not too bad mhm here we go guys big chaos coming Rarity okay let's chaos it again lightning res there we go T2 lightning res that's good okay block accuracy okay and then let me calculate okay now we have some really good chances guys to slam the stun and block recovery 844 it's one a mhm tier one Global accuracy what the [ __ ] man you're not

even hitting like bad R what is this. That is amazing means you're going to be very lucky on the ring surely. Yeah, all right. I saved it with the all. We can try again going to hit right now. Right. It's going to be right now. Yeah, it is. It is. It's going to [__] hit now. Tier seven Fire Res. Is that good enough judging by the other items is probably good enough and not going to lie. Okay, well we'll stop here guys and we'll revisit this if needed. I'll craft int or some [__] or can you craft like dual r or something? Yeah, you can. Yeah. Okay then we can. Okay, we'll put uh, whatever. We'll put a placeholder cold dress on this. Okay guys and we'll reconvene in the future. Tier seven you have to do anyway because you don't have the other pieces right so you don't know what. Yeah, exactly. All right guys we have a one piece we'll finish this soon TM next item Cog workor ring we need to

split this attribute qualed split the item into two. Ow, all right, now we have two of them. Okay, is it fossil GE or no, it's inces Ence G. Okay, surely this will work. Oh, uh, damn2 strength. Okay, so you need to hit a R like a T2 R and T3 or plus strength, that's it. Okay, and then we evaluate the damage. All right, let's try the bad one. No life T2 strength T8 res O. Okay, that double [ __ ] res, oh my got even roll life. Oh my God, that's a cool ring. All right, I'll buy some enses. Okay, guys, it's shopping time. We have 112 tries here, good luck looking for high strength and at least one goodr life. T7 strength T1 res, that is not quite the strength that we need. T1 res, do I try slamming strength if I roll a good res, that's like bad life too. Uh, the life doesn't life being bad is fine, yeah, yeah, you can craft a prefix and try to slam.

okay, I need to craft a suffix block AR. Yeah, yeah, okay, lightning res, whatever. Okay, if we slam a good strength, this is good. Tier five strength might be enough. This 42 strength with 42 before. Yeah, yeah, that's good enough. Actually, I now swap the rest. Yeah, all right. Harvest G called light. Fix your game G. Lightning 18 months already. 60 Lightning res. God damn, that is max all T1. Holy [ __ ]. Okay, okay, are we hitting this? No, no. I need to give it to me so I can craft something stupid on it. Okay, sure, that's an S. Wait, I need to think about this. Mark, is you here? Give me light. If the mod cannot be inverted, does it count for the math or no? Like, for example, a six-modded item is 50/50 six times, but a five-modded item is 50/50 five times. Does that matter for the map here? Like, we need three good mods or no? It counts. Okay, GG noobs. All right, there. So, so it, so you can use a craft that doesn't get

inverted to re to dilute the pool of things that can be basically is what what's happening yeah because the difference would be like hitting a 50 and then hitting at three and five like aspect mhm shock near by enemies for 5 seconds when you focus what if this gets inverted to focus every 5 Seconds enemies around you focus for 5 seconds if you shock yourself imagine okay okay I'm clicking first missed good luck minus lightning oh it's good strength oh my God it's so good it is actually good okay so it's not that good because it rad low works damn 124 in 60 strength minus 90 lightning shock yourself for eight seconds when you focus yo self shock unlock okay anyway ring is done for now it's improvable of course but I mean honestly it's it's pretty pretty good yeah okay next craft okay boots we'll spam him with movement speed essences and try to hit some res and yes all right whoa what was this crafting talk that first Essence yo

hello T1 per T3 int, and double res. T1 chaos, T1 cold. What? Just close your eyes. I mean, yeah, I would prefer more ES, but we can do a funky and all right, a prefix all we can. Okay, okay, we can sell this, whatever bro, whatever. You split the base anyway. That, whatever, man. [ __ ] profit crafting. God damn it. How much is this, guys? I guess four Divine at least, and that's without taking into account the ES. Yeah, it's basically like this, but with CLDR and 32 MS and better chaos. So, we'll try, we'll try four DA. Okay, guys, new craft beginning right now. No, go again. Oh, okay, we got a T1 res, T2 per ES, and shitty life. We are all the life. Uh, yeah, we did, in fact, in all the life. Okay, all right, craft some random suffix or funny Slam. By the way, actually, it is cheaper, but whatever, it's one and 21 Mhm, T3 life. [ __ ] unfortunate.

okay do I all okay. I will uh. I will un all the life now. Oh yeah yippee. Wow. I did it. I en all the life for the second time and here we go guys tier one. Yes, surely it's Mana [__]. I will un all the Mana. I did it again saved for the third time. Okay, now I'm crafting something else to block reduce effect of chill and shock on you. I will do that because I shock my myself with the ring if I focus so this will provide the perfect slam for us. It's tier 7 in unlucky slam again again tier three Mana. Can I save it again fourth time. I remove the suffix and wait it's still fine. No, the movement speed is gone. It is not fine. Okay go again guys. We are moving on from this base to a a worse base but with fractured movement speed so it's easier to craft this will go into the abyss and uh to be continued. Okay boot craft guy is back guys got a movement speed.

base and we'll try to hit some nice es. Hit it in three, two, one. T1 per T3 flat. Not bad, but uh, we can, we can probably do better. Yeah, probably shouldn't have entertained that, but that's fine. Maybe he didn't know about the thing. Look, 230 that flat is sad though. Can we fix it? No, we can't. Wait, we can still fix it. I can fix this. Okay, T1. Yeah, what is this? Prefixes can change reforge defense. No, this is or just slam slam. Okay, craft any suffix. Man, this is so awkward because the prices are so low. It's not worth to reforge ever. Mhm, because you can buy so many fossils with two do suffix. Yo, nice, nice. Oh my God, 270 holy [ __ ]. Okay, prefixes are done. Oh my God, slamming T1 still feels good. So we're just upward 50c for our plus one frenzy crit multi syring it's a nice offer. I'll consider it. It's actually crazy how many people are like

trying to scam you when you have items like this. Hopefully he doesn't know what the [ __ ] it is. And then yeah, I'll try. I got like seven div offer, five div offer, one div offer, 50 c offer, 10 offer like this. Just the frenzy alone is uh is like a 150 d right now. Yeah, yeah, those are all scammers. Yeah, I know, I know. Look, just actually just the plus fun frenzy is 300 div at the moment. That's and that's not even like, you know, triple synth with other useful things like 50c. Maybe, maybe I get it for 50c all right. Suffix time. So we want of the helm some res. All right, so we got to make it ether dominant. Yeah, there we go. It is now ether dominant. And then we chaos it to roll suffixes. If ether is dominant, that's terrible. Goan, that is that is dog [ __ ] go again. Actually, it's only one mod. So maybe now we anal it and then we start slamming. Let's buy.

some funky exalts. All right. Than. Thank so we un all this and then start. Start slamming some good. Watch this life regen. That's not the good. Watch this T5 res. That's also not the good. Watch this tier eight res. Not good. This is either going to be Bas or cringe. Okay. I got good int. Now we're just going to hit it with some nice res. Yeah. Uh. Uh. Uh. Block something. Block block. Okay. Actually, I can block a life regen for you. Now I can block life regen. It's in. It's a craft that you have to unlock via finding a hidden thing on the place. Oh, what the. Wait. You can't craft that on on boots. It's only on amulet. Okay. Never mind. It's blast. Now I touch it. Don't block. Okay. What am I blocking then? You don't. You just slam. What. What. There's nothing to block, really. Yeah. Okay. Okay. There is nothing. Yes. We got pretty good. GG NOS. Holy.

I just got to look away, just got to look away, holy [__]. All right, and then finish with something. Doesn't matter right now, we'll finish with whatever later, okay? Another item is done. Okay, can we do implicits on this? Actually, perfect, here we go. Surely we will get action speed out of 33, right guys? Guys, movement speed, action speed. Oh my God, we actually did, getting a lot on the boots. Okay, I don't know about the blue side. I think it doesn't matter. Wait, maybe we can get something useful, chance to avoid ailments. All right, so we go for BS boots are done for now. Yeah, let's do belt next. Next, craft belt, a Crusader Crystal belt. Double ES is what we're looking for, flat and percent. So, we're back to Fossil G3 tier 12. That's a thing, one to three ES welcome on an 84 item. Very cool. Okay, oh, tier one, tier two. Okay, with armor, that's kind of cute. Armor is relevant. Yeah, that's cute. Okay, I like.

that and it Max all the percent too. I don't have to Divine this your your Bel is done. Yeah okay what about suffixes though that stun and block recovery is not looking good. Prefix cannot be changed rep any resist I mean you can slam too uh it's limit once like BL something block strength and limit once okay. Yellow flask duration nah no okay so prefix cannot be changed yeah prefix be changeing reforge fire or cold or whatever yeah cold okay nice tier two cold alone yo that's sick okay and now block slam block strength yeah block strength let's block that strength now it's going to be an amazing slam fire as okay okay okay okay 33 tier two tier four nice cool belt that's a lot of wait I can uh blast that some more holy [ __ ] wait that's only so much he has oh no no it's pretty good it's pretty good look at that 50 flat es and 18% es with some armor thank you now it's uh glove time

let's quality it. Should I sacred orbit? Maybe maybe I'll sacred orbit and we get lucky. 63 69 nice. Okay so that's our glove base and now with zal for attack speed and uh hoping for the best. Let's go T6 in tier n int. Okay come on come on now T1 decks. These life rolls you can slam you can slam that's T3 flat T1 H. You're not looking at the prefix. You're not looking at the prefix. Okay so just in okay then I will slam this. Okay we're slamming T1 in on this as simple as that. Okay T2 chaos res [ __ ] okay um maybe I know okay sure is T1 it's dead. Okay it is dead G. Let's go um that's anable. Okay I'll craft some random prefix and here we go huge in Slam coming up guys after that fizz yes recharge rate. Okay I will remove the craft and slam slam the an all here we go huge watch this fire as [ __ ].

okay, remove craft and another. The fire has saved craft something. Slam the fart. No, it's regen. I need int saved. How many times can I save this life on kill? No, I'm out of X, but I saved it again. Okay, I'm buying X. I need a hero. Watch this. Elon ma, Elon ma. Okay, it's a shitty prefix. Nobody cares. Fire Res, can we save it one more time? No, it is finally dead. It bit the dust. Go again. Next Essence. Oh, there we go. T1 in with res. Okay, with 3 fire. Holy [__], that's good. All right, now, now you block life. Don't think, don't think, block life. No, no, think, just go quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. I almost thought. Okay, yes, hybrid. Okay, and then that's bad craft percent. Yes or what or craft? No, ah, I need to make it dominant or some [__]. Ah, yeah, wait, wait, wait. It has to be, we're removing a prefix, so it has to.

be searing boom. No, think okay, saved. And now slam, slam quick. I'll, I'll craft the best life boom. Tier 12 Mana [ __ ] un like okay, the change of plans. Okay, okay, new plan. Suffix, suffix cannot be changed. Okay, yes, reforge defense. Go boom, boom. It's hybrid, it's [ __ ]. I don't like it [ __ ]. I don't like it. It's [ __ ] slam. Okay, tier three flat okay. I mean fun. God damn it. Ah, why are thinking stop thinking okay. I un all one of them. I un all the flat. There's still a [ __ ] hybrid. Okay, one more, one more before defense. I okay, okay, okay, okay, go D1 flat. Easy stopping, easy stopping. Just C it, no thinking. Stop thinking, just craft okay, okay, okay, okay. Guys, we're, we're, we're done with this gloves for now. We'll, uh, return to implicits in the future. Go quick. Okay, thanks. How about 18 okay, it's shiny at least look, it's.

green. It's green and blue, Mrs. Baldo. I like green. The green color, it's nice, looks good. A Light Of Me, meaning we got a that which was taken. Guys, it's working. We're building something. All right, it's time. We're not hiding things anymore. We're playing an Emeral Edge. Es stacking Dorian's prototype lightning strike Slayer. That's the very, that's what we're playing. There is a bunch of stuff missing, so you know there's more stuff to buy, but that's the build. Why Slayer? Yep, it's Slayer. Voice of the storm. Oh my God, why would you willingly have that pet? Holy [ __ ]. Why two Divine amulet? Very good. We can uh blast this so it's blessed. Very good. Look, increase damage and Es, that's cool. Oh my God, that's a cool Hideout. Was like a a harbor. Okay, why is it always cion? It's not, it's not cion. Okay, that's our chest. Surely this next trick. Five sockets, no, five linked.

sockets, and then boom, guys. I'm afraid we can do it again, but we need one more tainted fusing. Baba tuni has one more, just it's just one more, just one more is all we need because it's a 50/50 look, guys. All it takes is one, and that's how we do it. And then we one green it, and in fact, we're out of wall orbs. So, in the next episode of uh, putting this character together, we will farm more wall orbs so we can continue crafting this chest. Guys, we're back with the next episode of crafting this chest. We have acquired more wall orbs, and all we need is one green and six, five red, guys. When we come back next time, we will have even more. Guys, we're back, and we're trying to craft green on this chest, and all we need is five red and one green. And so, as soon as we hit that, we will be done with the chest. Unfortunately, we are out of wall orbs, so we can no longer continue crafting this.

chest. So next time, we will continue. See you guys then, okay? I picked up some Jewels. They are the wrong base, so I'm missing out on 3% increased damage. But this should uh increase chat interaction quite a bit over the next day or two until I replace them. And I picked up some uh regular jewels. And now I ate like a 100 regret orbs. And I'm about to build my tree. So let's do that all the way back. Way back to the start. Look, 116 points left. Let's go. Wait, why missing yug go gemling Legion. Love Is Dead deal with the bandits. Okay, one second, guys. Let's uh let's go to act 8. Pick up some books. Level 97 support character. Get some Onslaught here. Get a cluster here. Okay, we're going the block angle. We're doing iron reflexes. We're getting extra charge and charge on kill. We're getting versatile combatant. We're getting block here. We get 1% chance to spell block per five attack block. We get some rme 10% Aura.

effect on myself. We're getting precise technique cuz we don't want to crit. Anyway, critting is for losers. Then we get e with more block and then we can get frenzy generation on a boss. Okay, I get a socket. We get a frenzy charge, another cluster Jewel. We'll grab the mark Mastery. This guy has a marked enemies cannot D critical strikes. It's kind of cool. We get even more frenzy charges. We get evasion and energy shield and evasion per int. So we're in stacking. Okay, then we get some lightning damage. We get Ghost Reaver. We get CI, all the keystones. We get this and also increased energy shield from helmet because our helmet has a lot of yes. And finally, one more cluster. Now can we put some gear on ring, two rings. Wow. And now I can put everything on that's crazy. Belt. I have zero es. Okay, 900 es, 1,700, 2,400. Okay, maybe I unspec this so I can at least pretend to have some es there.

go okay hm that should be big 4.2k. Okay 5K little attributes 5.1 5.9. Okay not bad not bad not bad can we do better martiall prow feed the fury split personality 6.2k 6.5k same thing but this time we put in some other jewels. First of all the light of meaning into here with es 7.2k yes. Okay Watchers eye let's put that here and then some of these heav yes 7.3k. Still have 12 points oo rme 7.5k and we have two more Jewel sockets. Okay I still need all the gems and all the flasks and some points and some socket fixing but that's looking okay. Guys we are back for the chest coloring Adventures exactly where we left off. We need five red and one green so we have some more W ORS and chromes and hopefully this will do the trick almost so close guys so close there we go beautiful we have our

colors nice oh by the way they added this hotkey guys PSA control right click on anything you can dump or take out and one click okay use it it's op very good awaken multi strike support 92 div guys multi strike support how about that um any bossers in the chat all right 15c I think we can afford that chance to block attack or spell image is lucky this is another lucky build unfortunately these are expensive lock is expensive in this game okay we're down to 11 Dev what content are you going to farm hope y everything more base or cringe stuff bunch of different Atlas strats okay more than a scill we are now lucky on the Block very good we all all of these to charge on fall what's there we go that was easy let's do it again I smited him all right now we are no longer Champions we are not Champions we're Slayers for the over Leach and for uh some other stuff so maximum endurance charges

equal to our friend charges which is big because we're stacking Friendzy charges somewhat. We'll have over Leach and then we'll have more damage if we've killed recently and also attack speed and kill enemies that basically Slayer call 20% call headsmen. Well, well, we're doing it lightning strike. I don't have anything for this void Emperor Vulcan or meridon. Let's see them preview video. Okay, what about this? Okay, it's like fire. And what about void Emperor? Oh yeah, yeah, that is the most screen cancer. Oh, that's the falling strike. Okay, yeah, they're all kind of cool actually. Okay, I we'll start with this. Okay, I'm buying this one. It's the most expensive one so it's the Best Buy purchase successful. Oh my God, it's red. Okay, MTX. Can I make the shield Tempest Shield like not fungal Tempest Shield? What is that? Or we go full Fire Lord fire Edge Lord. That's fine, I guess. And then we don't have to worry about

boots ragnaros. Okay, I will buy the fire one then. Vulcan, this one. There we go, that fits the Blood Fire Lord. That's it guys, let's go. Holy Edge, okay, look at the Blood Lord guys. The Blood Fire Lords, it's happening. Poor corrupted creature dude, this Blood weapon is so bad. The red blood slashes actually okay. I don't like this bloody weapon thing. Do we have like a firing one? Sun stone, okay, that looks better guys. It's time. Exceptional Elevate, okay, we elevated the Pierce one more time. Exceptional, and we did it. Holy [ __ ] nice, okay, two pier. And then I'll spam some red stuff for rage I guess. Attack speed, I mean attack speed is nice, but rage is nicer, right? I love crafting, okay, one strike range. We'll see how that feels compared to not having that. Okay, and then helmet. We can do RME and reduce mana cost of scales 20%, okay, that's something. And then boots.

is fine for now. No speed Shrine still fails pretty fast, as long as I don't get stuck Shield charging on this thing. Yeah, yeah, the bearce feels pretty good, and the extra strike range, that was a pretty big difference just on this one map. Okay, now we got the font Shrine. All right, let's see boss damage. Yeah, it's pretty good. Missing, missing is 300 bucks. Okay, seems to work. Let's see if it works on some more dangerous maps in future Bas or cringe episodes. We'll find out soon. What build is this? Doran is yes deing all lightning strike with a lot of block and a lot of yes for your character to have a lot of ES because you get defenses and offenses from ES because you're using the ephemeral edge sword. The build SC.

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