this V Fireball Pathfinder is a quintessential junk build. In that it is poison, it is a spellcaster, it is return projectiles, it is shotgunning, and I really need to hump the boss to do any damage at all. It uses a lot of different interactions to make this build come together, but there's three main challenges and interactions that I want to highlight. First and foremost, first is to do with V skill uptime. Second, it's do with Fireball's unique shotgunning mechanic. And thirdly, I want to talk about Fireball's interaction with poison on this build. So this build is enabled primarily by the new dagger enchant introduced this league in King's March, allowing socketed Evol skill gems within your dagger to have 100% Soul gain prevention. This means you can immediately start generating Souls right after casting, which allows us to use a Soul Ripper, the primary battery for V skill generation on this build, immediately after using my ball skill. I'm also using Master Alchemist, a set of

forbidden jewels to allow me for a 50% chance to cast for free, which is basically just a 50% more damage multiplier because of the dagger enchant. Though this means that don't need to run things like Soul Ripper or trivert authority or rely on duration scaling to allow me to use my ball skills relatively freely. Secondly, as far as shotgunning goes, fall Fireball is very specific. So while most shotgunning mechanics have basically been removed and the ones that are still remaining have very much to do with overlaps rather than shoe shotgunning. V of Fireball sort of like I winter fires projectiles from you asynchronously. They fire out at different times and because the projectiles come out of you from different times, they can actually all shotgun on that enemy. Now it's kind of hard to do and you really want to be inside of the boss for your outgoing projectiles. However, even when you are entirely inside the boss, those projectiles on whe they're outgoing can

ghost they can miss entirely. However, when I do use an active hydrosphere for some reason, this disables that kind of ghosting behavior, which can occur sometimes, which is really nice. In other words, you have 32 outgoing projectiles. Those projectiles can s by Fork, creating more projectiles, and then all those projectiles can return. I've estimated 50 projectiles per cast in Po, but according to my testing, it's usually around the 60 to 70ish range as far as number projectiles that can hit per cast when using Vol Fireball with return projectiles. Lastly, this build uses the new Vine Spike cordial anoint. Now, it's probably possible to play as a Sit base, but because of the natural synergy as a Pathfinder, I believe that playing poison on this is really strong. Vine Spike cordial allows you to apply grasping Vines when you have a life active. Now, Pathfinder can have Perma life activity, and grasping Vines is really good when it's paired with inextricable fate, which

allows you to poison. In fact, it gives you 100% poison chance and allows for any damage type to poison when an enemy has more than three grasping Vines. So because Fireball is already hitting a gajillion times per second and I have this Vin by cordial anoint, it becomes very efficient to use inextricable fate. However, I'm also able to scale the damage over time multi-dispatch with a new Perfect Agony. This is really great for getting really high dot multi without having to click a lot of dot multi on the tree, instead relying on crit multi, which I get kind of for free on my weapon with the I think Elder suffix. Now, then when you're running Perfect Agony, it's very difficult to get enough Critical Strike. Now, when you're running Perfect Agony, you really want to have high Critical Strike chance. In fact, you want crit cap. Normally, this is quite difficult. However, I'm also using the I'lls Harmony amulet, which gives you a ton of Critical Strike chance with no

downside because of the amulet interaction with perfect Agony, rather than Critical Strike multiplier. Now, while this isn't a particularly cost-efficient build, I think it's something that's really fun to play, has a lot of cool interactions, and it's still relatively strong and tanky. I'm still playing with that sort of semi-HC restriction, so this character has not died yet. It's t17 viable, it's definitely viable farming all kinds of things, bossing, mapping, and I've really enjoyed it. If you're still interested to learn more, let's talk more about the build right now. Let's get into the PO. So I really want to talk about the items one by one because I think there's a lot to parse through. The weapon itself has the enchant as the most important thing, which I've already covered, but as far as the rest of the craft, I used an Awakener Orb. Originally, the goal was to Awakener Orb increased crit strikes, which is Shaper suffix with spell crit chance with increased crit damage, which is an

elder suffix, but I failed this, and instead I think I used um the crit fossils um and just you know slam those over and over again, and over and over and over again um until I think I had one open suffix, and I think I suffix locked and reforged crit something like that to get that crit MTI against enemies are on Full Life. There were some different orders, and then after that I used a suffix lock, so that was a beast craft that forces suff can't be changed, and then I did a I think reforge buyer, I want to say on the prefix, get that Elemental extra chaos, but that's sort of just like cherry on top, basically ICS ICD, and then benchcraft chaos damage as the primary because I'm using this as my main links for fall Fireball. I also use the Squire, pretty self-explanatory here, just three more sockets, really really powerful. I think it like you know well in my scenario gives me a ton more damage, but it at least triples your damage.

usually helmet place to find res life um pretty generic here not important piece doppelganger guys. I do want to talk about this. So there's a discussion right now in my head between doppelganger coil and maybe fourth F of Aqua as far as Pathfinder goes. So I think fourth F setups are okay. Granite flash scaling can go pretty far, but this build is pretty flash stared because I'm using both penesis and soul Ripper. Coil I think is better when you're playing with Dawn breaker or other sources of Elemental shift um and I think doble ganger is sort of the best down alone. This also pairs really well with progenesis because that 10% regen per second when you're hit actually pairs really well with like you know penesis petrified blood. And I do use petrified blood depending on the content that I'm doing gloves are another slot that's sort of flexible in a sense um for res but that new benchcraft that you can get from Act 2 in the secret place right.

before you go up the Vault pyramid gives you 60% increased damage, which is really cool. I also get plus two Max cold res, which is really good for me because I'm playing melding cold inextricable fat is self-explanatory ills Harmony really cool amulet 330% crit chance, which is basically like having you know your power charges doubled or something like that, and then it's also giving me my anoint and a plus one curse. I was using Plus One Max res, but I realized with flast effect scaling you don't actually need it nimus my Quin essential ring. I'm allowed to have this on a build it's like approaching 200 200 divines, insanely expensive good luck this can play without this and go return PGE but pretty big damage loss, and then as far as my ring goes I want to play recoup because of penesis, but otherwise you know I think I actually started with a fractured base reforge chaos, um, and I actually hit the life.

naturally, but normally I'd reforge chaos until the second resistance suffix luck, and then reforge life for the last prefix ties of time super sick for this build. Um, also makes your life flast heal way more. You can see that when I take this off, my life flast recovery actually goes in half, so this is really great for your recovery. And obviously, it's good for both for Genesis uptime, for Genesis battery, and for soul repair, which is actually just more damage. I'm running three different cluster setups. So one is a 3p of voices, which is fairly cheap this patch. One is um, an AP chaos cluster, and the other is also an AP chaos cluster. It's just because there's a lot of jewels that aren't cluster Jewels I do need to run. As far as those Jewels go, I am using one medium. This gives you spike and coction Alchemist genius, always will great, and Bre for poncy super sick really easy jeel to craft in general. Reforge speed, I think guarantees um, or maybe it's a 50/50 on SP.

concoction. But yeah, I tend to reforce speed to make this thing, but I just bought this one this time, the jewels, the vidian jewels. These two vidiians and the Cobalt are really sick because you can get plus two Max cold res this patch. I think the fact that you get plus two Max res this patch on rare Jewels is insane. So I've matched, you know, St a couple of these. These were really cheap. They're two or three mod jeels. Um, this one's actually a four prop, but the man of reservation is actually useless for me. But yeah, those R JS pretty big. I'm running a grand Spectrum up life mid endurance charges and L resz. I actually don't really need the L resz cuz I'm quite overcapped. I could move things around, but I like to stay safely overcapped cuz I'm farming eater Alters. Didn't think of many other good sources for endurance charges, but I found that, you know, having that Spectrum was really, really, really good. Um, especially on a

build with relatively low Fizz damage reduction. Now, this Fizz damage reduction is not actually additive with doppelganger guys, is uh, less physical damage taken, so that's a little bit unfortunate but still quite strong. I've mentioned my forbidden set already, which gives me more V Soul uses on average, and sometimes you get to use your V skill like, you know, five or six times in a row. And then I'm playing elegant hubris with Supreme entation. So this jeel is also really cool because it's allowing me to get power charge on Critical Strike, and I do need my power charge generation. I could also play peacock as my main links, but it's, you know, not very strong to have when you only have four power charges. Entation for this build is sick because it plays with a relatively low strength tree. Dex is fairly useless, and int is also Al useless, and allows me to tattoo the rest of my build and get my suppression through this. Technically I'm suppress cat with soul Ripper up, but at

the start of the map, I actually don't have Soul Ripper for the first couple of seconds. And because I'm playing, you know, HC light, I don't want to take that risk. But entation for this build is very efficient. There are also other things that could be taken, like there's like, you know, crit multi on here, but I think with list location, there's only like one free node. So yeah, that's why I put this here. I think it's a really great thing to have in general. The tattoos have gone for impression. I did have one single hinder tattoo, which enables um, this touch of Cruelty for extra damage. And then there's like some chaos damage or reduce curse effect. It just happened to be the tattoos that I already had, but I should probably have a tattooed chaos rest get me capped out there with my progenesis up. That's that. As far as the ascendency goes, um, the two chaos nodes Nature's master surgeon, pretty self-explanatory for any sort of Vine Spike cordial build that needs to play.

Perma life flask, right? And then this is really nice to have instead of like taking like one two. Um, you take one two and then you master or you forbidden this because Nature's Boon is not very good for this build. It can be good for enabling melding, but I only play two, uh, Magic utility flasks, so that's a bit of a bummer. Doesn't really scale panesis and definitely doesn't scale Soul rer any further. Rest tree, you know, is sort of self-explanatory. It is what it is. Um, and then as far as the skills go. So because I'm using a squire setup, I'm able to have my chest completely open. Normally people like to run auras here like an enlightened four in your chest, but there actually aren't a lot of auras that I want to fit with this. I could also put in petrii Blood and Run Reservation on the tree, um, but I'm sort of more comfortable with this setup right now because I was running a lot of

expedition. And when I do Expedition, there's that 20% culling node, and I would prefer not to juggle that with um petrii blood just 'cause the monsters can just execute you straight up. Sometimes you drop too low um, so but this setup, this six setup, is really nice because it's a build that has relatively low cast speed. So faster casting on my ARCA brand is really sweet. I've also mentioned that I need hydrosphere to create sort of more consistency as far as hit skill on bosses. For some reason, don't know why this works even. And then I do have my tracker setup as mark to spare temp chains, which is enabled by both Whispers of Doom giving me plus one, and then ungos Harmony for my second plus one. In the case of only two curses, I was playing without temporal chain. I have a cast and damage taken tornado setup. Not super important, I think. I don't even know how well this works like poison or whatnot, so very confused there. And then Immortal call is my guard skill of

choice, and it's pretty good. Um, definitely better than skill skin for my build, especially because I have a very small life pool. Lastly, I play Shield charge faster attacks momentum. It's a build that again, that has low Casp and low attack speed 'cause I'm not like onsa scaling or anything like that. So I think having all these extra links really looks for this, and with the final socket that I do have open, I think in my gloves it could go for something like um plague bear, um, I was, or also oros swapping haste with flesh and stone and Herald of Agony, but that's sort of the gem setup fairly straightforward too. There's a little bit of flexibility and a couple things you can do, but yeah, that's sort of the build, um, a lot of interactions kind of coming together to make a build that barely functions, but I mean it's still able to do all the content in the game, um, without too much issue, and it's got fairly decent numbers with my guard skill enabled, you can see.

that you know it's pretty high. Um, I'd be guessing, especially with guard skill up and petrified blood on, I could probably tank Uber shaper slam, but I'm too lazy to check the config right now. But yeah, that's the build. If you want to give this a shot, good luck. Really hard to put together again, really, really expensive. And honestly, I think he would get more mileage out of playing all lightning strike, um, with a hate Forge setup. But I do think this thing is really cool, pretty defensive, and just like a solid all-rounder that I was really happy to play and probably will play for at least a couple more days.

Perfect Agony Vaal Fireball Pathfinder [Path of Exile 3.25]

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