Patch 3.25! Sorting through the fallout, I'll have an update for you soon. I crunched the Hatred numbers and it's a very small nerf. Recording the update now (finally). Thanks for your patience!
I plan on playing Explosive Trap next league (of course following your knowledge about the skill :p), sad about the hatred nerf but seems that Herald of Purity gives around the same damage as the new Hatred and you can fit in the new autoexertion + enduring warcry. Can't wait to see your thoughts on the patchnotes and wish you the best !
Traps as far as the eye can see... thanks for your patience. Lots going on. See you on the beach! SSF: Solid, though you'll want to prioritize crit chance more as you gear up since Alternating Sceptres are rare. Leadership's Price is the most farmable access to Brittle. Corrupt all the high evasion body armours you find looking for +2 AoE / +2 Trap or Mine. See the notes section for a bit more info. Sanctum: I would not recommend this right out of campaign, mechanically Explosive Trap is at a disadvantage vs other skills like HBM because it delivers its damage over 1s instead of instantly which will make progress more difficult. Once you have damage later in the game (T16+) sanctum is fine if you aren't using a Sunblast, which also delays your damage. HC/SSFHC: The PoB is not configured for HC, you'd need to prioritize things differently. Don't yolo the SC trade PoB in hardcore without being comfortable adjusting it for HC.
Haven't looked at a trap for years... what mapmods brick the build? Similarly, how is it for things like expedition (apart from the obvious immune to fire remnants)
@@evilme73it’s an exceptional Expedition farmer, that’s what I do on league start. Bricked mods are mostly no recovery related, otherwise anything your build can handle defensively
Amazing. Can you please include a leveling note section at the end with how to do it on explosive trap from lvl 1? Support gems and just general tips? Your experience with the archetype can come up with something better in 10 mins than someone like can do in two full days. I just know how to make currency in this game. So I know this seems backwards but I am also waiting for the mageblood version of the build as for me personally that is around where I end up end of week 1.
IT's the best build ever! i have 10k hours played, and I was lonely and poor before playing this. Now, i have a high paying job, i got married to a wonderful person and every time i kill a boss, i get a divine drop. I don't care about what all the noobs like zizaran, steel mage, and that noob ben_ say, this build has dramatically changed my life and i HAVENT EVEN PLAYED IT yet! that's just how good it is!
Thanks for giving the guide for one of the best starters i've ever played,was soo close of rerolling into a minion build but you saved me from that.Cheers!
@fedorsilva7687 tell me whats nerfed,what i understood is that the explosives is only a nerf for small hit box bosses (not many as i know.)And i also used the normal version most of the time.
Thank you so much for this! I had been debating playing this but being newer I wasn't comfortable without a good guide. Cannot express enough how much the guides and breakdowns are so appreciated!!
Just wanted to say, after leveling with this build and just breaking into white maps, awesome work. Very detailed, the POB and notes section answered everything for me and I love that I can see what the very next step is for me to progress. I am praying this build isn't nerfed up in 3.25 because I plan on making it my league starter.
Thank you for this amazing guide and your countless hours of research and work to put all this together along with all your other Explosive Trap related videos, definitely excited to play this as an SSF league-starter tomorrow for 3.24! See you on the beach.
wanted to league start with dd for the first time after 6k hours of poe, but gladly found your vids with explosive trap! so i changed immediately to your build! ty for the guide
I loved playing DD back in the day, but I like this better due to not having to click a second skill. Just my personal preference, but I find the activation time (traps don't do damage instantly like DD does when you click it) to be a non issue for me. the preset on bosses that spawn in or activate upon getting closer, is so fun. You throw a stream of traps, walk forward, boss spawns or becomes 'damageable' and then it's life just drains from him. really satisfying for me. I hope you love it too
Wow, you put in a lot of work and cleared up any confusion I had from the older guide. I now feel like I can take down all the bosses for the first time with this build and the streamlined access to bosses. I am super excited now. Thanks for all the hard work!
Great video/guide, I did your build in 3.23 and had a blast. I got really lucky, found an alternating sceptre in my 2nd blueprint and bought a max roll Sunblast for 1d on day 3( really lucky as I’m playing on console and the difference between the pc and console as item availability is really bad). I’ll follow ur guide this league as well, big thanks for the videos and the guide!
I do leveling with explosive trap then merc lab spam for the shrapnel, kinda comfy I don't mind high efficiency run with rolling magma and stuff, thanks forthe vid
Thanks for this awesome guide! I have just started playing it as my first alt in SSF. I had to farm normal lab >50 times with my Explosive Arrow league starter, but it finally dropped last night, so I got started. I know it's not optimal, but I'm playing it "right off the beach" as you mentioned in your video and I'm already having good fun. Hopefully I can get my guy powerful enough to follow your late game/high-end version updates in your later videos. Thanks again - SSF is good fun and rewarding when key items finally drop :)
Thank you for the hard work you put into this. I can't play PoE without people like you who are dedicated and are willing to hand-hold from leveling to end-end-game with your notes.
Hot damn man. This is amazing. I’m beyond excited to try this build tomorrow. The amount of work and how well it’s presented is absolutely amazing. Thanks so much for this. I can’t wait to get stuck in
Man thanks a bunch for the guide. I play hardcore but used your skills and mostly your tree to lvl. Hate lighting trap. Just wanted to say ty for the guide. It was definitely helpful and ty for all the work you put into it.
Oh yeah.. forgot to mention. Carcass Jack felt really good for an early body armour until you find Kintsugi. Gonna try and find a 5-link of it at the beginning, since it's a pretty common drop
Thank you for this my man, I'm relatively new 500 hours never played traps till I tested last night but love traps in epoch , been looking all week for a good build guide like this ! Can't wait to get going now
elementalist is rarely mentioned as an option for these builds, but it's insane with the golem pack and slavedrivers hand. very durable too with juiced chaos golem and free endurance charges, and stone golem solves the hp costs
Your guide is wonderful and your PoB is what every build maker should aspire to. I'm going to turn my brain off for the league because I won't need it thanks to your guide. Utterly amazing.
My first build on this side of the tree. Had to move from melee. Came from zizarns league starter for explosion trp. I will def follow you along for the end game for this build. Thanks !
Glad you talked about Born in the Shadows being extremely underrated. Out of every ascendancy I've played, I swear that node makes a trapper/miner with 2.5k life feel immortal. Something about it just feels so much tankier than armor/block/spell suppression, etc. (at least in my opinion).
Day 1 this felt great. I've never played shadow. I got so lucky with rarest through act 5. I'm fairly confident that I will be good to map once campaign is over already. Cheers
Glad to see this can map as well as do bosses well Definitely my league starter for 3.24 Palsteron is going ball lightning hierophant So you should be safe as the only trap starter XD
I tried it last league, didn't work well I don't know why... BUT I will try it again because I really enjoy the passion you put on this specific build. Thanks again for the PoB for 3.24 !!
@@AdraelKnight Was having a hard time killing boss. It was not the ET skill not ET Shrapnel but I was having a easy clearing and a soo hard time killing boss after T12 even with or without sunblast. Maybe with more time and more investment I would have done good but I just switch for something else that's why I'm here again :) I'm pretty sure the problem was me, not the build.
@@AdraelKnight btw I still have the SAME issue... after 10 div spend... This "boss" killer, can't kill a fucking tier 6 boss.... I hate myself, should have play something else.
Thanks dude, I'm tired of playing melee builds and i want to actually have fun. I really want to learn trap archetype and how it works, so your experience and insight is greatly appreciated!
Been excited to play this build on League Start and was looking forward to this guide + POB, really appreciate the detailed Notes. For SSF would you potentially recommend Inquisitor over Trickster? Suppression may be a problem but seems it would solve most other problems. obtaining Brittle is a concern. Love the build guide. Thanks!!!
Inquisitor is a great SSF choice. I think both will be fine, you can invest in crit on gear / tree to mostly offset the loss of Brittle or farm a Leadership's Price from Heist in SSF for Trickster.
Thanks for the updated guide, again quite concise and well explained. I like your sort of dive into the ascendancy choices. I personally think leveling with fire trap and explo trap is super easy and the time saved with Rolling Magma is not for me personally (as you said clunky). Really enjoy your guides and glad to see this trap has seen some love. The damage for the invest is just ridiculous and the clear has been solved. Was also the first build I did HotGM with. Anyways, have a good start, will be interesting to see what you do with Sabo. I also wonder how MB prices will pan out this league considering the nerf and the supposed higher drop rate / more card drops.
I finished my PoB too with 2 different trees for fire trap into explosive trap. I'll build it on Elementalist because the transition from fire trap is super easy and shaper of flames is probably the best ascendancy node for ignites early on.
Loving the build so far, just getting into red maps and wondering if you have a loot filter past the early game you would recommend? Thanks for all your hard work on this build and the guide, your love of this build really shows!
I'm playing this build, so far so good! With 4L my lvl is 80 and beating unidentified yellow maps not that hard unless league mechanic doing some wierd things
I've never been so excited to start with this build. I've always followed your incredible work, but I ended up opting for other builds to league start, this time I'm totally convinced. What would be a good farm recommendation for this style of build? expedition and boss kill/gamble? Do you think invitations will continue to be profitable? Thanks for your work man
Thank you for that guide, can't wait to play it! It's going to be my second league, and i really want to get to bossing, as i didn't manage that last league. I was wondering, do you have any atlas strategy tips, for a beginner like me, trying ET for the first time? Eventually I'd like to try and get to boss farming, but with the new t17 I'm a bit confused as to how it all works - hopefully I'll figure it out.
To the beach! So nice to pour over this and find a few places to make solid adjustments to my own starting plan, thanks heaps as always! Love the content as always, this will be my 3rd league start with ET thanks to your videos. Really interesting going Fire Trap as primary single target, I'm keen to try. Could anyone explain why Swift Assembly is better than Immolate or another gem here? Is it best just to scale the hit and hit lots? Have an awesome league everyone, o7
I'm considering running this build along with destructive play, are you planning on sharing your atlas strategy as well? Great guide, really looking forward to playing this one!
This is my first time trying out on of your builds and so far enjoying it a lot, I was wondering if you stream on twitch or somewhere? So I can watch your progress and ask questions about the build
No streamer aspirations at the moment. My playtime is somewhat spotty and unscheduled with family and work commitments. I’m about to be traveling for the next two weeks, for example.
@@fearlessdumb0 I noticed my traps have a very low overlap %. I believe pob calculations says I’m below 25%. Besides gem level is there a way to improve it? I noticed your build sat around 75%
FYI, Speedrunners and the greatest lab runner Cpt Lance say for the double rolling magma hits, it must be at the bosses feet as you said... but also NOT namelocked. In case people don't know what namelocking is, it is where you directly click on a monster and can see their health bar EVEN WHEN YOU MOVE YOUR CURSER OFF THEM. So seeing health bar when your cursor is NOT on the boss === no double hit from my understanding.
Ty so much for this great Guide, it helps a lot ! Can u tell me what Farmstrat u would start with this? like Destructive play + expedition (just logbook farm and sell it). Since we cant sustain the guardian maps with the missing sextants, would u just run normal invitations for the Maven splinter? Im a bit lost with all the changes and would like to get some tips to farm currency :) And should we go for june early too for the elreon crafts or just buy unveiled elreon items (which wont be that early to sell tho)?
Thank you for the work put into this guide. Haven't played traps since seismic sabo was a thing. I'm ok with a slower mapper, but am curious what is the better bosser - necro dd of cr or this build?
Thanks so much for the build! Very detailed and love the notes you have on the PoBs. Just one question: is there anywhere you can point me to understand overthrowing of traps better? Thanks!
I know it's an explosive trap guide, but what are some thoughts on other trap skills that I can sub in for a faster mapping experience if I want? I havn't played traps in probably 5-6 years, RF/FT doesn't count ofc. Will do some of my own testing when .24 goes live but if anyone has some info lmk
Lightning Trap is probably the only better clearing trap than Shrapnel, and only with the patch notes changes for 3.24. If you had asked me before patch notes dropped I would have said Shrapnel is the best clear trap in the game. If you have a Sunblast then Ice Trap of Hollowness is pretty decent too.
@FearlessDumb0 Thanks really much for that video! I've played a few Miners, but want to give a Trapper a chance this league. I still waver between this and Hexblast Mine Sabo. Would you mind giving a little bit of input/insight of which will perform better considering both, mapping and Bossing combined. Thank you in advance and have a good start!
Thoughts on playing this build SSF as a starter? I would like to try SSF for the first time, and this build is the best fun I've ever had in this game. When I'm thinking about it, besides the jewels theres not too many uniques. Thoughts?
This might be a dumb question but do u have the regex code on what maps we shouldnt do with this build? I want to run this in my private ssf grp league my mates are running.. im fairly new to poe so that would be awesome! Guide looks great
Thanks so much for the comprehensive guide. One question, if I were to go Saboteur for some QoL, what would be the go to for Forbidden Flesh/Flame? Should I go with swift killer, one step ahead, polymath, or Ambush and Assassinate?
Thanks so much for this build, dumb0! I'm wanting to do some delving this league, around 300-350 depth for farming. Seems like this build would do well - is that right?
