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POE 3.20: My Plans For Participating In The Gauntlet

Feb 14, 2023

The Sanctumgauntlet has started on Feb 10th at 8:00PM GMT! It gonna be a pretty weird event where a lot of people aren't playing their final bossing build during progression. I'm going to be the same although I'm not going on Boneshatter. I'm not gonna be playing Spark. I'm going to be playing a Fire&Flamethrower Traps Saboteur that transitions into a Poison Blade shop sample for bossing.

The idea for a fire chat progression came to me when I was watching Nick on Exile stream a couple weeks ago. And his damage was really starting to fall off around T16s and we were thinking about different ways to supplement single target damage for Fire Trap Sabo, which is a pretty nice mapping build and it is also pretty defensive reasonably fast. By the way, if you want to try more strong build, then preparing lots of POE Currency will help you a lot.

POE Fire Trap Sabo

And my solution here was just put on a Flamethrower Trap and then pass over to Elemental Overload, something we haven't seen for a long time. Probably, it was in about 15 or 16 leagues. We haven't seen this combination of two skills and after playing it through I felt like it was actually pretty strong.

The second part of the puzzle Poison Blade shot is a result of several leagues. Now of Po being back in the day. I procced Perfect Agony Nightblade Poison Blade shot, what actually did work as honestly you used knifely in two separate setups and procced your Nightblade Elusive using Helix at that time.

Another top racer had sent me a POV for a sword-based Poison Blade Trap, using Withering Touch Support and a Fizz Bass. This time around though Temporal Chains, Poison and Despair have all gone huge buffs since the past couple of leagues and it is the premier art time moving into this event.

As a result, I'm going to be playing Blade Trap and I'm using Pneumatic Dagger as the final piece of this puzzle. And this allows you to scale Elemental Damage into Poison Damage. When you're able to do this, you get really powerful auras and really powerful ways of getting base damage to feed into your poison. It also means that you don't have to craft a really powerful Fizz weapon and that can be really painful instead.

POE Pneumatic Dagger

I just use an i-73 plastic bag dagger thrown in Essence till I hit a T2 mod and then a multi-modding for Vegan, probably trap throw speed maybe cast on Multi would probably Track Pro speed. This build probably casts out at about 15 million DPS for a three to four day progression time. On a top racer we're talking about, it may be about 60 hours of fast mapping. Maybe it will be a bit less if you're really fast and a bit longer if you're a bit slower.

And I do think it is competitive with Poison SRS and it can be played on a variety of Ascendancieds whether it's Juggernaut Champion Sabo Scion, it can be kind of fit on all those different things. So, anyways, that's my basic plan for Gauntlet.

I obviously don't recommend that people just play this. I do think fire chat is a fine progression build in general but most people playing the Gauntlet are playing hit Level 90. And in that sense, you should just play the strongest builds available to you and these are gonna be detonate dead, maybe Seismic Trap because I guess the level as opposed to some Toxins early on. And then you can play Boneshatter, you can even go for Cold DoT Trickster called the Elementalist.

Those are all fine bills this time around for progression because there aren't huge damage mods while you're mapping. But in my opinion, there's no reason to actually deviate from the band skills if you're just playing Gauntlet at any rate.

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