Lightning Strike of Arcing Champion PoE Build 

Thank you! It's still a pretty good build, you just have to make some adjustments to account for the removal of Charms!

Hope you enjoy it!

​@@PathofEveningare you planning on releasing a league start guide?

@@Praferany lightning strike league start guide would work.

​@@PathofEvening didn't had time to see the patch changes, did this build got affected by any chance?

With the update coming Friday, we don't have enough time to make a video that is up to our standards for this.

Excellent, thank you!

Fourth Vow's pretty good, and by dropping Doryani, you don't really need to do any of the weird resistance reduction stuff, either. That frees up a lot of gearing pressure elsewhere!

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Glad you like it! As for the projectiles, strikes aren't projectiles. Strikes are strikes! So you're getting an extra strike and an extra projectile. You'll need more projectiles in order to fire more projectiles!

@@PathofEvening Thank you for the answer! In the end i realized i needed fan of blades and now the build it's playing super smooth and fun. LS of arcing is way smoother and fun than normal LS!!

Excellent, glad to help!

Thank you! We've been looking at doing some league start testing with Hexblast Mines, so this is a great suggestion!

It's a mix of all the appearances, and they're all pretty good looking! The Kurgal fight (0:18) is showing the default appearance.

Yeah, that would be the approach!

Nothing gamebreaking. You'll need to get Culling Strike from Whirling Blades, and the build loses a bit of Max Fire Res. That's it!

You can try a Determ or Grace one instead. It won't be quite as good for damage, but your mana will still work and the build will function.

Pretty much, yeah. It's a great offensive buff, but it's also an insane defensive layer, so depending on the content and how much you hate dying, you can just keep it available as a defensive lifeline.

@@PathofEvening I guess the offense/defense is alrdy strong enough on this build, no need to force it. Appreciate the reply.

np, we're trying to get to all the comments, sometimes slowly lol

@@PathofEvening No worries, enjoy the league start mate!

Absolutely, elemental penetration works really well. What doesn't work is lowering enemy Lightning resistance, since their Light Res is EXACTLY the same as yours. For making a weapon, the most basic approach is to use Deafening Essences of Zeal on a T1 Fractured Lightning Base until you're happy with the suffixes, then craft Attacks Cannot Be Evaded. That's the budget approach. For a higher-end weapon, you'll want to spam Essences until you get a t1 Crit modifier and an empty suffix & prefix, then lock suffixes, use the Harvest bench to Add Crit/Remove mod. If the Crit mod is good (t3+), proceed, otherwise start over. Once you're set there, lock suffixes and use a Veiled Orb, block physical prefixes and unveil. Hope for % Increased Lightning Damage, but Attacks Penetrate % Ele Resistances is good, too. Then craft Attacks Cannot Be Evaded, and you're good. Depending on your luck with the Harvest bench, this can get expensive.

@@PathofEvening thanks for the help! Why cannot be evaded is so good? I mean is it mandatory? Can I craft instead pen, light damag? Can I fit a precision gem level 1 as well? My prismatic eye has ele pen and multiplier (precision). Or should I try to get the watchers eye like yours? Thanks for the help! Really appreciate it.

If you don't have Cannot Be Evaded, then your attacks *can* be evaded, and you don't have that much accuracy in the build, so you will lose like 10-15% of your total damage. Your Watcher's Eye sounds good, fitting in Precision can definitely work!

Tempered By War is granted by using a Lethal Pride with the Rakiata tag. It converts any Keystone Passives in the radius. It's pretty much required for this build to work.

There are versions of this build that get Ailment Immunity through other means (Stormshroud and a Bog Moss Flask, for example) and anoint Panopticon instead. They would also just use regular LS, and that will deal a lot more damage for doing content like Feared rotas, but it sacrifices some mapping QoL.

Smite requires a Sword/Axe/Mace/Sceptre, so it wouldn't work with a claw or dagger, or any of the Nightblade/Elusive components of this build. You probably could make a Smite build work with Mahuxotl's & Doryani's Prototype, but the Armour stacker Smite build that dual-wields Replica Dreamfeathers seems like it's already really well established (although it can be expensive).

Not this specific setup, since it requires a unique that's from the Trialmaster fight, but LS Champion is an excellent league starter, and you can transition out of that and into this pretty easily.

Hopefully we'll be able to put together a league start version of LS Champ for Necropolis, it's just a matter of whether we have enough time between now and then. Making a somewhat-different version of this build as a second or third build in next league is also a possibility!

The max Fire res is from Purity of Fire and charms (which were removed), but the change to Ruby Flask pretty much covers the missing max Fire res from charms. The max Chaos res comes from one of the keystones on the Shield: Divine Flesh.

That's a completely different build, and Hateforge is wildly more expensive than Mahuxotl's Machination.

Good thought

@@PathofEvening thank you, i stole it my self :D going for LS next league so I'm trying to put several good builds together to min max it

It would take substantial changes. Smite doesn't work with a claw, so Nightblade won't support it and all the claw/dagger/Elusive nodes won't have any impact.

Unfortunately not. We wanted to, and LS Champ is a viable starter, but we didn't have enough time before Necropolis League launch to get a build guide up to a level we felt good with. This still works well as a second build of a league, or something to transition out of a Steel Champ into. The only loss from Affliction League is charms that granted more Max Fire Res, and that's not a huge deal. It probably gets compensated for by some cool Necropolis mods!

so still going strong for necropolis lightning strike?@@PathofEvening

Yup. No major nerfs, and the Affliction charms really only added max fire res.

Make sure you have Mana Reservation Efficiency on your helm as an implicit, Level 3 Enlighten linked to your main auras, and an Aul's Uprising. Aul's Uprising that grants Wrath Has No Reservation costs about 10 Divines right now, but a Grace version only costs about 4, so that can save you a bit of currency for a slightly-weaker version. Just be sure to swap your skill gems around to compensate.

@@PathofEvening the thing is i bought the aul,and the the dilemma is the auras.My helmet has a 7 percent mana reserve with a level 3 enlighten.i think i might anoint it with 3 silver oils to fix the problem

That should definitely fix it.

You probably could run this as a Jugg build, but the starting position in the tree as Marauder is awful, and you're not scaling Accuracy at all, so it just really can't compete with Champ.

We're definitely interested in looking at this build again in Patch 3.24 once we know more about the Necropolis crafting system, to see if it has any huge benefits like penetrating monster resistances. Losing Charms and TWWT is okay, actually. They didn't provide functionality to the build, just extra power on top of the existing infrastructure. As for Patch 3.24 changes, surprisingly there is only one that affects this build in a substantial way: The nerf to elemental resistance flasks. Ruby Flask will grant Fire Res & Maximum Fire Res, but not Fire damage reduction. This is a nerf, but it's a nerf to some very overpowered defenses, so it probably isn't going to meaningfully affect the build. The main change is that it means you won't need as many sources of + Maximum Fire Resistance, and that was really the only thing we were using Charms and TWWT to accomplish, so losing out on those is okay. You will need to find another source of Reflect Immunity (Awakened Ele Damage with Attacks will work) or stop running Ele Reflect maps until you do.

It took down ubers pretty easily, so yes, but not all T17's are the same. Some mods are absolutely brutal, and others are trivial. You can spend a LOT of chaos rolling t17's for good mods. Some of this can be affected by your atlas passive tree (e.g., Tormented Spirit mods are insane, but get turned into buffs if you take Speaker of the Dead), as well.

@@PathofEvening Gotta say, thank you! The build feels amazing to play. Pure enjoyment!

Awesome!

Tempered by War (www.poewiki.net/wiki/Tempered_by_War) grants 50% Less Light Res, which actually increases it because it's negative.

You convert it all to Fire and Chaos damage, just like with Lightning.

They're t16's, and the map mods don't matter as long as they're not Cannot Leech.

No. Worse in every respect.

@@PathofEvening Yes man, i forgot to delete my comment, when i watched whole video i got it nimis suck here

No prob

Start with an Imperial Claw that has Fractured T1 Lightning Damage. Use Perfect Fossils to get the quality up to 28% before doing anything else. If you need to enchant Crit later, you want that quality at 28%. If you don't need a Crit enchant and you want to use an AS enchant, then 24% quality is all you need, but in 3.24 Perfect Fossils will be the only way to increase the quality of a weapon without corrupting it, so you have to do this first. Once that's taken care of, slam the weapon with Deafening Essences of Zeal until you get a high-tier Crit mod, either Crit Multi or Crit Chance. At this point, if you have any other suffixes, you will need to annul them off. If you annul off the AS or the Crit, go back to slamming Zeals. Once you have a weapon that just has AS and Crit as the two suffixes, craft Lock Suffixes and use the Harvest bench to craft Add Crit, Remove Random Modifier. This will cost a ton of lifeforce, including a Sacred Crystallised Lifeforce. If the new Crit mod was high-tier, then you're good to proceed. If it's low-tier, you may want to start over with slamming Essences, or you can finish the weapon and sell it off to try and recoup some of the cost. If you have any prefix modifiers other than the Fractured T1 Lightning Damage, lock suffixes and Scour to remove them. Once you're down to a 1-prefix weapon with 3 good suffixes, craft Lock Suffixes again and hit it with a Veiled Orb. Craft % Increased Physical Damage on the weapon to block as many Veiled mods as possible, then unveil and hope for Increased Lightning Damage (best) or Attacks With This Weapon Penetrate Elemental Resistances (good). If you get either, craft Hits Cannot Be Evaded, and you're done. If you get neither, Lock Suffixes, Scour, Lock Suffixes, hit it with a Veiled Orb, and repeat until your prefixes are good. It's a fairly long and expensive craft. You can absolutely set a currency tab on fire making a high-level LS claw, but the end result is pretty nice.

@@PathofEvening thank you so much for the prompt reply sir. I dont understand half of the things you said but im going to go on craft of exile to try it out. I really want to play this in 3.24.

@@PathofEvening Will you be using the graves to craft this claw? Or are you playing something else?

The reason why I am asking this is we cant craft "Hits cant be evaded" using the grave. Is this mod compulsory meaning we have to use the old way of crafting? Thank you sir

@@leonardlaw4676 This is a strategy for crafting that weapon just using old methods. You probably can make a comparable 5-mod weapon with the graveyard that would work pretty well, and then craft Hits Cannot Be Evaded on afterward, but that does take a lot of setup. Hits Cannot Be Evaded is super important. You're not hit-capped without it, so you'll lose around 10-15% of your damage if you don't have it.

You convert 50% of it to Fire and 50% to Chaos.

@@PathofEvening Thx. Did it survive patchnotes? Im going between this build, frostblades or traps atm

Yup, no significant changes to LS Champ.

Yup!

Check your Config tab for Everlasting Sacrifice and make sure it is toggled on. This is a recent addition to PoB, we previously had to add it by putting the line "+5% to All Maximum Resistances" in the Custom Modifiers window, but it is a checkbox option now.

@@PathofEvening sorry i mean how do you get to 85% max Chaos res? i cant find anyway to raise it higher than 80 in game.

If you attack until you overcap your ES, you will gain the buff Everlasting Sacrifice, which increases All Maximum Resistances, including Chaos, by 5%. It only lasts 5 seconds, but you leech enough to easily maintain 100% uptime.

Probably pretty good.

@@PathofEvening what would you suggest as core items to get going aside from chest and shield

You can save a lot of currency by just using a Perseverance belt initially. That will add a ton of damage and free Onslaught for like 1c. You can probably get one with decent corrupted modifiers for cheap just because it's such a common unique, and basically only useful for Champion builds. Aul's Uprising is super strong, it adds a lot of stat budget and helps with mana reservation. A Wrath or Determination one will be expensive, 10+ Divines, but a Grace Aul's is like 3-5 Divines, and that will work on a budget. The stats aren't as good, but it will get you up and running. A "bad" Ventor's Gamble with positive Fire Res and Negative Light Res (potentially two of them) will work, and you can probably find decent ones (non-negative Quant/Rarity) for just a few chaos. Non-awakened support gems will all work, as will regular LS, or non-Vaal LS. You can upgrade into the others once you have the currency, if you're enjoying the playstyle and want to keep progressing the build.

@@PathofEvening I played ls before when ls raider was "meta" and really enjoyed it. My goal with the currency I have is get the build to a similar point of league starter which I've got to 800k hit dps, 110k ele hit, 90k ehp (it's a life/str stacker hexblast), just kinda done with the build, it did what I wanted it to, but with no way to sustain other than running away and waiting for 2s, it's tankiness is meh when ya clearing T17s

@@PathofEvening I'm guessing, the ventors are pretty good because the negative lightning can't really be obtained on any other rings and since we don't need cold res, we just need a high fire res roll. What would a rare ring look like, and would it even be worth losing the negative lightning res?

Use a base with Fractured Life, use Essences to roll Suffixes until they're good. This can take a while. Use Eldritch Annuls to clean prefixes if needed. Lock suffixes and use a Veiled Orb. Craft mana to block, then unveil +2 to Level of Socketed AoE Gems. Repeat if you don't get it. Once you do, craft the desired prefix.

@@PathofEvening did they remove veiled chaos orb?

Yup, it's Veiled Orb now. It's the old Aisling slam, but itemized and rare.

League starting as LS Champ is very doable. Farming Mahuxotl's Machination from the Trialmaster in SSF might be kind of painful, but that's probably the hardest part of getting this build set up in SSF.

Mahuxotl's Machination is farmable but very RNG ( first you need trailmaster AND he needs to drop it) wich chances are ... low if you ok to farm ultimatum for most of your progression - prob you will be fine still RNG can screw you over ( my friend has as his last chelenge deafet trailmaster and he think about doing endgame grind cuz how unlucky with spawns he is thou here we talk t16)

Champion is great at league start. They're so tanky, and LS combines a lot of the best aspects of melee & ranged!

Pretty close, at least. The only change that affects it is the nerf to resistance flasks, which were changed from granting less damage taken from that element to increased max res for it. This build got its max fire res up into the high 80's using Charms, which are being removed, so the reworked Ruby Flask will get your Fire Res back to the high 80's again. You lose out on the reduced Fire damage taken, but that was kind of overkill. It definitely still works. Not strictly a league starter since this version requires some uniques that won't be available day 1, but you can league start LS Champ and transition into this pretty easily, and it will definitely still rock.

This build clears Ubers. Just deathless'ed Uber Eater & Exarch, got a pair of fat 1c uniques out of the deal. You'll want to switch to regular LS for more single target damage, but that's it.

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