Lightning Strike: Tips and Considerations for the New League

Lightning Strike tips: prioritize league mechanics, consider unique items, and beware of potential drawbacks like rage on hit.

### PoE Lightning Strike: Mistakes to Avoid and General Tips
* ⏰  PoE players often rush through softcore content, but the **time-gated nature** of the new league mechanic may require **early engagement**.
* 🛡️  Consider rare items and mods that may become **chase items** in the new league, such as **triple attribute gloves** or **unique Delve mods**.
* 🧠  Reconsider the effectiveness of **Rage on Hit** from Lethal Pride, as it may not be as powerful for right-side builds due to **rage decay mechanics**.
* 🌲  Flesh and Stone's damage reduction effect does not scale with aura effect, and its radius **decreases linearly from 1.5 meters at the center**.
* ⚡️  Lightning Strike tips include **prioritizing attack speed**, avoiding **Lightning Strike of Arcing** on Warden, and using **at least 6 projectiles for better coverage**.
* 💊  Tinctures may provide **significant damage boosts**, especially when properly scaled with **increased effect**.
* 🔴  Beware of **ailment immune maps** potentially negating **freeze effects** from Hoarfrost stacks.
* 🌀  Dark Marrows nets are recommended for early game damage boosts, providing a **free aura with significant damage potential**.

hey guys poon here, and today let's talk about mistakes to avoid for lightning strike, and also general tips and tricks, or maybe things I'm thinking about before the league starts. Whenever you're watching this, it's probably this weird time right before the league starts where you're just sitting around, um, you're just watching random streams, and you don't really know what to do. So, this is perfect, just some useless ass video to watch in the meantime. That's my specialty. Okay, so if you came for lightning strike, it's going to be a little bit later in the video. I'll put a time stamp at the start. It's going to be very few, but, uh, just a few general observations. Okay, the first one is for the sweaties. A lot of people will be, as always, on softcore, trying to complete everything as fast as possible, completely ignore the league mechanic, just outpay later, right? You don't have to do the league mechanic, whatever is in there. You can just buy whenever you just progress, you make money early, and that's that.

don't get me wrong. That will always work. Just realize that we have something very unique in this league, which is time-gated content. I personally, whether it's efficient or not, I don't really care that much. I can play for a long time since it's kind of the privilege of doing this, right? But I will be doing lead mechanic on day one, and on day two, I want to set everything up because I don't want to be in a situation where I progressed really far, I have all these resources, but now I'm sitting here waiting hours or maybe even days to set everything up. We don't know how the whole mechanic is going to work to build your whole camp. And yes, the rewards might be minuscule to whatever you're making when you're absolutely pushing it, but remember that there's at least one thing that you might not be able to engage with at all, and that is number two recommendat. I would highly advise you to watch some of the older videos in terms of what items were possible.

could swap basis. Although they did say they nerfed Recombinator. If I understand the Q&A correctly, they mostly mean the mods that were on there. For example, the Attribute Stacker mods or whatever. But there's still a lot of things that are possible in the game that I don't hear enough people talk about. And those are going to be some of the chase items, with my favorite being triple Ava gloves. You look at these and you think that's not possible, and it is with Synthesis. It is possible. I still remember getting this one, and it was, I think, in week one. Now, probably not going to be that easy this time around, but if you have any sort of build that can use these gloves, chances are they are not going to be replaceable. So, that is a huge, huge thing. So, think about stuff like Delve mods, think about stuff like Ava mods, all these things that aren't in the normal drop pool. You can check them out on Craft of Exile and think about how they usually maybe wouldn't combine, but now

could combine also, and this is especially valuable for, I guess, non-trickster energy Shield-based builds that will exist quite a bit this league with how the base types have been changed. Although the top region of the tree is looking a little bit dry, I'm sure there's going to be some pretty crazy stuff in endgame. You can get mods that you usually couldn't, so that means physical damage reduction and spell suppression, um, unless they change that. You can actually swap that over to a base where usually couldn't occur. This also goes for stuff like attributes. All I'm saying is that if you are planning out your endgame build, get your mind in shape again for what's about to come and what is going to be possible. Number three, and this one is a little bit riskier 'cause I might be eating my words on this one, is rage on hit from Lethal Pride. If this is the first time you heard it, just wait for me to burst your bubble. I don't think this is going to be

as good for right side builds as you think. If you are already invested into a rage on hit chances are you're not going to want this. Maybe like a random one from a lethal Pride but mostly the builds that use lethal Pride are the builds that also need the strength. So those are right side builds mostly. So B builds um this leag also lightning stripe builds m stri whatever Frost blades these kind of builds will have a rough time to keep rage up. What I see a lot is people have 30% more damage in config for rage um so let's quickly go that. So if we look at the description of rage right here we can see that every rage grants 1% more that's like up to 30% unless you scale it. Lose 10 rage per second if you have not been hit or gained rage in the last two seconds. That can happen quite quite quickly especially on high avoidance right side builds so um yeah most likely it's going to fall off immediately and it falls off.

by 10 per second. So it's going to be way faster than it used to be, and only one hit every 0.5 seconds can cause you to gain rage. Yeah, especially against single target where you would need that damage the most is probably not going to be up. Now, your counter might be, well, it's not that much investment, but I literally think you're going to feel almost nothing. And you're also missing out on double damage. Like the mods on Lethal Pride are not that bad. You're also missing out on double damage on life and whatnot. And you also have to remember that these Jewels are going to be very sought-after. So you're not just going to lose whatever like the mods that would usually be on there. Let's, for example, say this one was plus one rage. It would probably be so expensive that you would lose several other mods for the same investment. So I'm just going to throw it out there before you pay 50 Divine or 100 divines for that perfect Lethal Pride with double damage and rage on hit.

but uh we're going to see how it goes, and another thing I want to talk about before we go into the lightning strike is flesh and stone. So the or effect does not scale flesh and stone. This doesn't surprise me. This is not like uh okay house Uprising because otherwise it would been pretty broken, okay? So flesh and Stone's radius is interesting though because it says you get 20% less damage taken nearby, but it also says up to right the 20% is from a 21. Actually no, it doesn't even scale. I was lying. 19%. Okay. Mark did answer this in the Q&A. So what he says here is that enemies within 1.5 meter of you receed the full effect. 1.5 M only has the full effect. Then it scales linearly down to nothing at the edge of the area. So let's quickly look at how this AOE would look like. Okay, so this is what I had in my lightning stri video exactly so 2.9.

meter radius. I have a little bit of extra Aura AOE from this one right here. I have a little bit of extra Aura AOE from this note right here. Yeah, 12%, so not all that much, but yeah, I could take some a little bit more if I really wanted to. But if you're not scaling AOE, this is what would basically look like. So if you're a lightning strike character, right, in order to double hit hit the enemy would at least have to be here already because otherwise you're not double hitting. You don't want to stand on top of the enemy. So already that guy is going to let's say deal 7% less damage 'cause he's outside the aura. If he was here, he would deal full damage. You just Reserve 25% of your reservation for this. And if he just stands a little bit away, you're just going to get absolutely destroyed, right? So every enemy that is outside here just deals full damage. If you are a melee build and you are scaling some kind of AOE for

this it might get more interesting because for example let's say the aura was this big. Now it would scale outwards from 1.5 a lot more flexible. But if you were, for example, somebody who just removed der term from their build, and they're going something like Arctic armor and flashh and stone, which I've seen a few people do, I don't think it's like a terrible setup. But these are all conditionals. That's just what I want to say. So this will depend on how good flesh and stone actually is in your build. But enough yapping about random stuff. Let's quickly go over lightning strike. I already updated this in my note section. If you're playing lightning strike Slayer, or you're playing dead or something, maybe there's something interesting in here. I'm going to go over it right now. But some of that is also tailored towards Warden. The most important thing that only affects the woodens is attack speed is absolutely massive. So let's go to Mid game right here in order to get a good

amount of attack speed you'll have to get it from everywhere. The biggest thing people will do, uh, that don't watch this video, will be they PA out of here. People love doing this, right, and it is correct in endgame most of the time because of cluster Jewels, but it isn't for a while. You're getting 16% attack speed here for two points. You're probably not going to need the decks. Do not do this too early. If you have space for rare jewels, get attack speed as much as you can. Life, attack speed, life, attack speed, attack speed with claws, right, whatever you can get. It will make your build feel a lot better, and that's even more true because you want to run multi-strike, and multi-strike is going to feel like ass if you don't have attack speed. Now, don't use lightning strike of arcing on the warden. Lightning strike of arcing, if you want to play that skill, I would highly recommend to go dead eye. I think it is great on dead eye. It's built pretty.

different you use certain medium cluster jewels to scale your damage. That is a completely different if you get this randomly from somewhere. Just don't just slap it on. You start with no extra projectiles so it's going to feel pretty bad. Now if you had enough damage to actually put in GMP and stuff like that, then sure, but that's way down the line. Now don't use four projectile lightning strike. Six is okay, but four has a really weird shape. If you want to know more about that, I'll also talk about that in my main guide, but the reason is it kind has like a v-shape where the projectiles sometimes not even hit the enemy right in front of you. Six is better because it's more together. So if you see, for example, I have a fan of blades cluster, that is why how to position is in the guide video. I explained that. I'll just want to point that out already for anybody. But most of the lightning strike videos I've seen have that included. This might be a little bit of a confusion.

point for some people who didn't play lightning strike back in the day. Also, Pebbles or objects, you're not going to summon your projectiles. That is one of the sacrifices you take with playing lightning strike. It is annoying, but it also is what it is. Trinity I explained right tinctures in general, you should be using one. You don't need to spec into it. I specced into it in my end game guide, but you can spec into it. You don't need this only if you're ranged. You need to actually spec into any of this. Just put it on. Like, for example, here I have this trinket. I didn't take it 'cause I don't know about the uptime, but 100% Al damage, some crit multi. I'm probably going to change that to attack speed, actually, now I think about it. But this is the worst, I think. Sure could be right. And in end game, if you spec into it, you're going to get a ton of increased effect quy actually multiplies everything that the trinket does as we

now know from the Q&A, but even if you don't, if you aren't invested at all into it, if you need extra damage, you can press this at whatever you need, and it's going to do you well. I already have pretty good unreserved Mana 'cause my lightning strike kind of costs a lot relatively, so I have 128 unreserved Mana. The mana burn, you're not even going to feel it, but yeah, tinctures might be broken. Check back for further videos. I'll definitely make a video on some tincture mods that are maybe out there. Um, once again, I have some tinctures in the end game guide, but um, strength in is annoying. Look out for it wherever you can. That is very specific to my guide. The returning projectile enchant on claw, I don't think I have to remind you 'cause that's what most people are hyped for, but if that actually exists on lightning strike, lightning strike is going to be one of the strongest skills. It will already be very strong, but that is like.

that would be the cherry on top um if you're physical version. And that goes for a few versions of the build. They also have these notes. Just make sure that you only convert 99%. So you can actually apply bleed. And then I guess one more important thing is Aid immune Maps might screw your freezes over. We don't exactly know how the uh hor Frost is going to work with ailment avoid. Like if you would activate a freeze with hor Frost Stacks. Do those still get removed. Now some say Obviously yes. Some say obviously no. We don't know. So that might make ailment or or like close to ailment immune Maps pretty annoying. Especially if you have map effect. And yeah dark Mario Nets a lot of people have been saying. Why do I even include this. It's like if I don't include a free Aura. I know it's annoying to set up. But come on. It's it's a free Aura. A raap early can give you like 30% more damage in end game um. For example the current endgame.

version, which once again is going to change multiple times. I'll probably cut some of that damage because depending on what content I'm going to run, I'm not going to need it, but still, I mean, it's still important to keep in mind, and this is something you should be looking out for ASAP. But yeah, that's about it. If you guys want to chill on stream, I'll be online whenever the league drops, probably two to three hours before, over on twitch.tv/pastron. Um, yeah, I'm just really looking forward to it. I'm going to be honest, I might take this league a lot more casual than I usually do, maybe even not roll five to six days in, maybe just like chill in town, build some stuff. I don't know how the league's going to pan out, but um, I really like the vibes so far. We're going to have to see. I'm super stoked. P really needs a win after last league, so I hope that's what we get. And, yeah, wish everybody a Happy

League start whatever you play. And um, yeah, since I still don't have a slogan, see you next time. [Music]

Thoughts for 3.25 Leaguestart & Lightning Strike Tips | Path of Exile

Palsteron

Lightning Strike: Mistakes to Avoid and League Preparation Tips

Many players overlook the league mechanic in their rush to progress quickly, but the new time-gated content in the upcoming league makes it important to engage with it from the start to avoid waiting later on.

It's recommended to review older videos and explore possible item swaps, such as the highly valuable triple Ava gloves, which may not be easily replaceable and can greatly benefit certain builds.

Players should consider unique mods and items that are not in the normal drop pool, such as Delve mods and Ava mods, to prepare for the upcoming league.

Potential Challenges for Energy Shield-based Builds in the Upcoming League

The changes in base types may pose challenges for non-trickster Energy Shield-based builds.

The introduction of rage on hit from Lethal Pride may not be as beneficial for right side builds, potentially leading to a struggle to maintain rage.

Investing in Lethal Pride for rage on hit may result in minimal impact and the loss of other valuable mods, considering the high demand for these Jewels.

Flesh and Stone's effect does not scale, providing 20% less damage taken only to enemies within 1.

5 meters and scaling down to nothing at the edge of the area.

For a Lightning Strike character, this means enemies outside the aura deal full damage, affecting the effectiveness of the skill.

The impact of Flesh and Stone on a build depends on factors like playstyle and other conditional setups, making its effectiveness vary for each build.

Maximizing Attack Speed for Lightning Strike Build

Prioritize getting attack speed from various sources and consider it a higher priority than dexterity in the early stages of the game.

Focus on acquiring rare jewels that offer attack speed and life to enhance the overall feel of your build, especially if you plan to use multi-strike.

Avoid using lightning strike or arcing on the warden and opt for dead eye if you prefer that skill.

Additionally, refrain from using four projectile lightning strike and instead aim for six projectiles to optimize your attack shape.

Tips for Enhancing Your Lightning Strike Build

Maintain high unreserved Mana to offset the mana cost and mitigate the effects of mana burn when using Lightning Strike.

Keep an eye out for the returning projectile enchant on claw, as it can significantly strengthen the skill.

Be cautious with ailment immune Maps, as they may interfere with freezes caused by Hor Frost.

Consider including a free Aura like Dark Maro in your build for a substantial damage boost in the end game.

I'm sorry, I couldn't find any relevant information in the provided text.