yo, what's up? It's tuna. Hope you guys are doing well today and welcome to my Lightning Strike Deadeye video. Basically, an overview of what I'm going to be doing this league. Start what I'll be playing. Yeah, you might, you know, as you probably just guessed, I'll be playing Lightning Strike Deadeye. Now, a lot of you might be thinking, Why you not playing Warden? You know, it's the new stuff and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, like Warden actually looks very good, but the reason why I want to go Deadeye is because Deadeye has actually access to Lightning Strike of Arking early. And Ling Strike of Arking is a really, really, really nice gem. So just to compare the normal Lightning Strike with Ling Strike of Aring. By the way, these are not yet updated with the effectivenesses of next league and the fact that they got removed added Ling damage. But just keep that in mind. So the difference with Arking is that it has a little bit less

damage. In that, the base effectiveness is only 388, as opposed to 400 on the normal lightning strike. But the big difference is that normal lightning strike fires a total of four projectiles, whereas lightning strike of arcing fires only one. And one projectile sucks, right? Obviously. But the upside of that is the fact that we have nine inherent chains built into the skill. And then on top of that, we get 10% more damage for each time the skill is chained. What this means is that, you know, as it chained through monsters, it just gets stronger and stronger, and it improves your clearance capabilities. So if you're stacking maybe a little bit of pro speed in addition to some other things I'll talk about a little later, but that synergize well with chains and that sort of stuff, uh, this becomes like a really, really strong clearing skill, which is the one thing that I feel like is kind of lacking in normal lightning strike. Now you might argue that if you do stack projectiles through, you know, projectile

mediums sorry through uh larges like claw larges and things like that as well as dying Sun you will be able to actually get enough project do to play LS of aring on Ward but the difference is that you won't be able to start it and I want to be able to start LS of aring because right off the get-go I want my clear to be good it's something that I you know I really enjoy Plus on top of that dead eye is just the greatest tendency it provides utility provides speed and damage now let's take a quick look at the sendes in depth we have Warden that has some very insane nodes in Avatar of the Wilds as well as oath of spring oath of spring gives you a ton of damage on paper but you do have have to actually stack up your shocks you have to hit minimum Shock first of all and secondly you have to be hitting a ton so in case of lightning strike you would have to be hitting upwards of 10

times per second, with double hits, in order to actually get maximum shock uh taken into account that your shock duration is going to be about 2.3 seconds with the increased duration nodes here, and then we have Avatar of the Wilds, which is also very strong because it actually gives you 80% more damage when you need it, um in that you're going to be finding maybe a tanky rare Soul Leader rare or a boss, and you're going to click it, and then you have 10c downtime, uh of it recharging, and then 10c up time of it charging, so you could theoretically say that it's about 40% damage, but um, yeah, it's, you know, 80% when you need it, so that's pretty good, but the coolest note I think is going to be oath of winter on Warden, and yeah, this is like a really, really strong defensive layer in that you can freeze things for two seconds, and when you don't freeze them, they are much more likely to be frozen on.

consecutive hits. So yeah, this Cy is really strong, but the last node is a big question mark, right? 'Cause oo summer is terrible in that we do not deal a large enough fire hit in order to hit like a high Scorch. And to be able to actually get high Scorch, we wouldn't be able to essentially invest into that hard enough. But tinctures are a question mark. They could be very, very strong. But I do encourage you guys that if you do want to play a normal or variant of lightning strike, Palon is actually playing it on a warden. So normal non-arching LS. And he's going to be leak starting that. So I, you know, I think you guys check him out. But in my case, I am going deadi ey because deadi ey as soon as it gets merciless laboratory, we go for Endless Munitions. And as soon as we have Endless Munitions, we are actually able to equip our lining strike of arcing gem. So yeah.

thanks to that, we can pretty much already have good clear right as we get to Maps. As long as you have actually acquired a lightning strike of aring gem, and yeah aside for that we also get Ricochet. Ricochet is really nice because it's able to make your projectiles collide with terrain, and when they do, they have a 30% chance of then you know chaining back to an enemy or something like that. Then we have Gathering winds, which was slightly nerfed, but it's still amazing in that it gives you, you know, more movement speed, attack speed, and all that kind of stuff. So action speed is just pretty nice. It's a multiplier for all your actions. And then focal point, which is going to be making our Mark, uh, increase the Critical Strike damage that the enemies take, as well as increasing your Critical Strike chance. So overall, the package on data is very good. And there is, of course, another alternative, which would be Slayer. Slayer is honestly the best descendency for normal lightning strike non-arching, but again

It suffers from the same issue uh that I think Warden does. That it is not actually able to start as uh lining strike of arcing. Therefore, in my opinion, it is worse off as a league starter in comparison to Dei. So, that is why I want to be playing Dei. Now, there is a lot of other things that um, you know, play into this. But that is the sort of like the basics as to why. So now I'll talk a little bit about the build and what it looks like in end game. And then how we're going to be getting there from uh, you know, early on and so on so forth. So, first of all, in endgame, we are actually going for armor because this league they um, they indirectly buffed armor by making monsters not overwhelm as much. Now, overwhelm was a mechanic that basically made monsters ignore your armor, you know, tldr. And um, that made building armor really bad in general in for in most cases pces because you would just die anyways against Monsters where you actually needed your armor the most. But they have

nerfed a lot of those sources, so now we are actually more incentivized to build into armor. So building armor on this character, we can get a very high amount. So I have like 40,000 armor right now, and that is thanks to the Light of Meaning, which is a new that was taken jewel. You can see which gives you 7% increased armor per passive in the radius, and that's pretty much all of the percent increased armor that we need. We have 231 per increased armor. When I click this off, I go all the way down to, you know, not having any increased armor whatsoever. So we go from like 16,000 all the way to 231,000. That's 231 per increased armor just from this. So that's pretty damn crazy, and I think it's going to be one of those jewels that you might want to pick up, you know, rather early in your progression. And overall is how we're actually build into armor as a deadeye on the right side, not having access to any actual will you.

know increased armor, and that sort of stuff. Now, the rest of the armor is coming from the determination, which is already been accounted for in the Nerfs here in the path of building. So, we have determination, and then we're also feeding into molten shell. And because we have all of that right, you can see that we have like a Max physical hit of 177,000, which is fairly modest for a character like this. But when we click molten shell, that boosts our, you know, effective HP pool, which is a number you shouldn't really pay too much attention to, but uh, your phmax it to 30,000. However, you know, molten shell is just going to be there as a last resort for when you're taking overwhelming amount of damage. And um, since we are actually a build that has very high recovery, we can use that to our advantage because you know, since we'll be getting hit a decent amount, um, we'll just be like leeching all uh, all of that back thanks to like the claw implicits, which is like life.

gain on hit, as well as the Mana, uh, Mana G on hit, and that sort of stuff that we get as well. So yeah, we're gonna be like able to tank big hits, deal a decent amount of damage, and we're also essentially very fast because you know we stack up to like 240% movement speed and all of that kind of good stuff. So that is um, you know the late game variant, but how do we actually get there is the big question, is what a lot of people probably be wondering. So like all my other guides U that I've been like leag starting, I wrote a Max roll guide for this too, you'll be able to find all of this information in the path of building as well, and that is right here at the bottom, you can see that I have progression from Act One 2 to 4, 4 to six, um, 6 to 8, to the claw Respec, 8 plus, and then also to the crit LS into early game, and you can also change all of your item.

sets here. So we have bow leveling, claw leveling, early game, mid game, end game, and also the skill gems, act one, act two, act three, act six. Clause crit respect early mid and late. So yeah, you go at any point and you can swap these over and you can see like where you're currently at in the game and you just change those over accordingly. But for those that want a more detailed kind of explanation, you can go here on the max roll guide and the max roll guide basically has a leveling section. You can click here at the top where you can use this slider to sort of dictate like what level you currently are and then they will show you which passives you are taking at that level. Now because melee actually sucks early on, like it's really, really bad, especially lightning strike, you're actually going to be leveling with a bow and you're going to be leveling with a bow all the way to act six until you get the additional strike. A lot of that stuff is detailed here in the.

tips and tricks so you can just like check those out here and um you know whatever information you need. Hopefully it is covered here. Otherwise, you can always come by the stream and ask a question. I'll be leak starting in myself. Also, you can follow along and do any of that sort of stuff. But yeah, so if we close here, the tips and tricks, you will see that we will level um in act one and we will grab you a precise technique into the on slot as well as some life and flat life there too and the accuracy to help us with precise technique. And then from here, we will take Point Blank because you know you'll just deal a ton more damage when you are close to enemies. But we'll swap to rain of arrows at this point because I think rain of arrows is just really nice. The fact that it has a ton of arrows and you don't need to actually be getting more arrows to have decent clear. But some people prefer to go for like a one Arrow lining Arrow. You can do that.

too and then I'll be using shrapnel ballista as my sort of like supplementary single Target uh with a couple of other things like blink Arrow Dash and that sort of stuff. You can see all the links though I won't be going too far into detail. Then you go here and we want to grab the uh treat monster resistances as inverted. And really important you want to go through the chance to ignite shock and chill. That means that you know since we're not a crit build we'll still be able to in inflict those ailments. And uh that's good for us so yeah ailments good. Then we go for the accuracy again to feed into our precise technique to make sure that we're getting the 40% more damage. Now if you're ever wondering whether your precise technique is active you can always have open the character panel in your path of excel character. So if I was to like open it here for example you can see offenses and you're you know don't don't mind the fact that I'm not

actually capped you see 2,818. How it says main hand accuracy 2,818. You hover over your life and if that's below 2,818, that means that your precise technique is not act. So that's how you check it. So as you level, then you want to be like respecing a couple points, going through Quick Step for some movement speed, and then you want to rush multi-shot because once you have multi-shot, you have access to the nonv strike skills. Target one additional nearby enemy and this Mastery enables you to uh use lightning strike. So from here is when you'll be swapping out to lightning strike. As soon as you get to this point, you can take um, you can respect all of the bow nodes that you see here. So you respect the bow nodes and then um, you respect some of those here. You will take these away as well and once you take all of those nodes away, then you will also path to the CLA noes. And that is basically when you'll be taking lining strike in.

that's when you have lightning strike and hopefully you'll have a four links. So that's lightning strike added cold Trinity support and added lightning damage. Now as soon as you have anger and added cold in your links Trinity support should be no problem, but always double check on the top left of the screen that the little um, that the little things are like all lit up, so that you know that you're getting the additional damage from that. So yeah, and then it goes all the way here and it tells you that leveling is complete, and you can always come back to this or the path of building to know exactly whether you know you are speccing into the correct nodes. Then once you've done that, you can go into the progression, because the progression is where all of the bulk of the upgrades are going to be detailed, and the type of items that you're going to be buying at what stage of progression you do have passive trees here at the top early mid and late, and this is just like in a path of building.

but you'll see that you're like oh tun like early game level 100. But uh it's not actually like level 100. You can just like scroll it all the way back, and it's just to show you kind of like the node priority. Like if you were level 100, what nodes you would spec. But if you weren't level 100, what nodes you would resp. So make sure that you're using these little arrows. But again, you can always check that out in the path of building or anything like that. So yeah, you can see um the sort of order of priority. And then into mid game as well, it shows you where to put your jewels and that sort of stuff. And right here is where the light of meaning is going to be the new Jewel that I showed you just earlier in the path of building where we get all that armor. And then end game as well, we do a couple resps and we go for the big clusters that give us additional projectiles. So with these two clusters

that's how we're going to be shooting a ton of P five six uh say four five six yeah six projectiles in total with these. It's really nice um once you get all those and there's some other really cool stuff with these clusters in that follow through gives you 15% increased damage with hits and ailments for each remaining chain. And that means that your first your first projectile hit is basically going to be dealing um like 130% increased damage which is pretty cool. And you can multiply that by how many however many clusters you take. And then the second one you just take some more projectile damage with attack and cast speed which pretty nice but the second one could also be like projectile speed or something like that. Yeah these clusters um fandom blades are going to be very expensive early but know that you don't necessarily need to have a three notable cluster you can always just like alt span for fanom blades and you know kind of just whatever it right you're just going to have the fan of blades here at the back you take it and

then you still have access to your Jewel sockets, so that's pretty much all there is to know about the passive tree. But the gear progression is, uh, what's very detailed here, so it will take you through everything that you need to know with the gear. So swapping to Lancing Strike or Arcing, what you want to know, and that sort of stuff. The type of weapon, uh, what kind of rares you're looking for, as well as like potentially how to craft them, making sure that you're keeping up to, um, you know, keeping up with your gem colors, your links, when to look for six links, what type of uniques you want at what time, what type of flask you want. Like, it's literally all there. It's explaining absolutely everything, including even like obscure mechanics such as the Spectre setup that we're going to be doing this league, like Dark Marion Nets that you're going to want to be linking. And that is all tied as well to the skill gems that you see here on the side. So basically like

um, you know, the path of building profiles that I was showing you earlier. It's just a neat way to display all of that stuff and also to give context to what you are doing as well. So, like, yeah, you can swap between mid and late so you can see kind of like the kind of gems that you'd want to be looking for at what point of progression and um all that stuff, right? And as you go through and you upgrade all your gear, there's this nifty little thing where you can tick it here at the top left and as you tick it, it starts to populate the equipment here so you can kind of get an idea of where your character is at and what it should be equipping at what point. And if you ever like take something by accident, you can always go back and untick it and you know it'll it'll go back to normal there. So yeah, that'll take you to mid-game and will basically redo all your gear and then end game again will you redo all your gear again but that's just kind of like

the life cycle of a Path of Exile character. So yeah, this guy is sort of intended to give you guys a step by step, as well as a small explanation, as well as some crafting guides for the endgame items to give more context and to make your guys' life easier. Um, to do well with the skill, now I have to say, Lightning Strike is one of those skills that you really want to be investing into. It is pretty money hungry, like bow builds as well if you guys have ever played those. It's much like a bow build in that it scales very generically just with flat damage, as well as all of the other stuff like attack speed, increased Elemental damage, and that sort of stuff. So it's fairly easy to gear as long as you are looking for the right things, but it's hard to Max because trying to squeeze as much damage out of each item slot is going to essentially be the trick here, right? And in endgame as well, we're using things like the Yoke of suffering.

which introduces new scaling vectors that allow you to then inflict additional ailments. Each different ailment that you inflict is going to give you more damage, and we do that by getting, you know, bleeds and poisons as well through tattoo, as well as clusters on the passive tree that allow us to do that. So that we get like a ton more damage from the Yoke of suffering. And yeah, in general as well, there is a cool item that I really, really enjoy, that is the Soul Ascension, which when you're doing very dense Maps, you put the Soul Ascension on and you get like a decent amount of Soul Leader Stacks, which can go up to 55 if you have the plus 10 ones. And with 55 increased Soul Leader Stacks, which honestly like it's quite hard to stack, it's like a 25-second ramp up time for it. If you're constantly hitting on cooldown on single Target or if you're constantly hitting rares or unique enemies on cooldown then um

yeah, you're going to be getting basically double damage from these gloves, and it feels really cool because you're just super fast and attacking super fast. And yeah, overall this build is really satisfying to take from early into endgame, and it's been buffed by 88%. So I did a run all the way from Act One into my watch stones, and I have to say when I was doing my watch stones, the damage wasn't amazing, the damage was pretty bad, and I had a six-link. But for context, a six-link is actually less damage than you would deal next league on a four-link. So assuming that, you know, the buffs are coming through and we're going to be having the same gear as I was having in this run, then your damage is going to be pretty insane. But now let me finally explain one of the most important mechanics, as well as one of the most, you know, one of the things that people ask a lot, basically with Lightning Strike and how you may max it, which is what I set up here standing.

next to the old kaduku and um, yeah, how do you double hit on lightning strike? So, lightning strike is a skill where if you use additional strikes to um, your benefit, you know, through having them allocated here, you can see non-strike skills strike one additional Target. What you can do is you can actually hit an enemy twice. So, you can see right now I am hitting the floor and you see one of these light beams striking onto the floor. That is your strike, and then the projectiles are what's hitting the enemy. So, you see that one of those projectiles is disappearing and I'm striking the floor, but if I was to position myself a little bit closer, you can see that there is actually two of those light beams now hitting the Target, and then one of those projectiles is still disappearing. And what that means is that I'm actually able to hit with both my projectiles as well as my strike in one action, meaning that I am getting the additional damage that I would be from my melee hit as well as a projectile, um, by just having

clever positioning, which is one of the only strike skills in the game that is actually able to do this, which essentially doubles the effectiveness of added damage that we have. And yeah, makes the skill extremely strong. And on top of that, the skill gem also has a Val variant in that is fall lightning strike, which is an insane button. Um, I'm mean standard, so everything is a complete mess here, but it it's a button where like you press it and just like puts the projectiles everywhere. And it deals insane single target. So that'll be a high priority for you to get. Um, uh, early game or like whenever possible, right? Especially with like Val LS of arcing. I would just prioritize getting the Val version over putting quality on your gems. And then in end game later on, you can, you know, min max and go for the 212 Val through the Ala temples and that sort of stuff. Yeah, I'll, uh, quickly show you guys exactly what my character looks like for the run that I was doing. So this is the character that I took to the

watch Zone runs to kill eer and exarc. As you can see, I got pretty lucky on a six-link, but as I said earlier, this is going to be less damage than a uh four-link next league. And my claw, you know, I got kind of lucky on that fracture, and we just put an Essence on it and then we crafted Critical Strike chance, but it's not something too insane to achieve next league, especially with Recombinators and hopefully with the new gamble type of um NPC that you'll be able to get your claws from and just basically all your rares from and that sort of stuff. Now, since this was a SSF run, I just dropped Shadows and Dust, so I ended up using them, and the rest is just very generic items. Like here, I'm using this for the Critical Strike multiplier and the reservation, uh, like the Precision Mastery, sorry, the Precision Mana reservation efficiency, then some just random boots, some everything else is basically just resistances and uh, yeah, this character did alright, you know, it wasn't amazing. I can I can

of run a map to give you guys a little bit of a of an idea of what your character is going to be looking like in t t15s on a four link. So if you were to actually get to the point where you're in t15s on a four link, this is um, this is what your character will look like. I won't run the whole map, but U just to give you guys an idea of what LS of aring looks like and uh what it does. So yeah, I'm am uh, I'm looking forward to playing a lining strike, and I'm also looking forward to starting on the ranger ascendency because it's my favorite ascendency in the game. As you guys probably know, I'm just like a bow guy that now is playing like claws that are actually just bows as well. So yeah, I mean this is kind of like uh, what the skill looks like. It's really cool that it uh, it chains between mobs. You can see it jump around, and if you have the MTX, it also looks very cool.

as of right now, this character is like, it's pretty bad, right? Like in trade league on day one, you should have already way better gear than this, and you should also have way more damage because of the buffs to Lightning Strike too. So, this is kind of what you can look forward to on day one. And the nice thing is that like you're actually really, really fast. You're just like kind of zooming through maps with Shield Charge or Whirling Blades, whichever one you prefer. I like Shield Charge myself because with the movement speed and attack speed that we have, um, in that, we're like dead eye, and we're getting a ton of action speed as well as, uh, all that good stuff. And we're almost dying to an Exodia rare. Yeah, like you're just going to be zipping around really, really fast with your Shield Charge. So, it's really satisfying, but the downside of that is that Shield Charge tends to get stuck on stuff, as you can see here, for example, which a lot of people

don't like whirling blades. Doesn't do that. So yeah, that's the upside of whirling blades. But that's kind of like a little showcase of what the build looks like. And I hope you guys have found, you know, the showcase, slash my little ramble, slash all this information dump a little bit helpful, at the very least. And if you do have more questions and that kind of stuff, you know, at me in my Twitch chat. I will be around, and I'll be leak starting this build as well. And yeah, actually, hopefully a lot of the, a lot of the questions you guys have should be hopefully answered by my Max Roll Guide as well. You can always go to the frequently asked questions to see if maybe like a question that you have is covered here, or maybe just like look through the progression and that kind of stuff. So yeah, thanks very much for watching, guys. I hope this video was helpful. I hope, um, hope you guys and wish you guys a fantastic league start. And like and subscribe. Yo, thank you, bye-bye, guys.

PoE 3.25 - The Lighnting Strike Deadeye League Starter

PoE 3.25 - The Lighnting Strike Deadeye League Starter