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How To Build The Best Energy Shield Molten Strike Trickster In POE 3.22?

Oct 10, 2023

Molten Strike Trickster is definitely one of the best POE builds I’ve ever played. His damage and tanking performance will make you 100% happy with my build. Here, let’s take a look at what this build gets in terms of damage.

Skill Itself

Our skill of choice is Molten Strike. When you hit an enemy, it will spray Rolling Magma. If you slow down the projectile, all the balls can hit the same target. We expanded the projectile count to 7 and started scaling Energy Shield to use Ephemeral Edge.

POE 3.22: How To Build The Best Energy Shield Molten Strike Trickster?

How We Scale Damage?

This weapon has some statistics that are unique only to this weapon. First and most important part, attacking with this weapon increases the maximum lightning damage by 20% of the maximum Energy Shield, while also giving us a large amount of Energy Shield.

Through this league, our builds gained a new support gem, which is Volatility Support. This will give us more maximum attack damage and less minimum attack damage.

Since this is a lightning damage based build, we already have very high max hit damage, which will increase further. Smaller minimum damage isn’t really an issue since our minimum damage is very low by default. But its damage range will be higher, and its overall damage will be higher.

This is the perfect time to use the unique Voice of the Storm. This Unique Amulet, which only requires 8 Chaos Orbs, can bring us non-critical lightning damage. It means that every time we deal damage to an enemy. The game rolls twice and chooses the higher number. This is especially useful when your damage range is very high.

Precise Technique

Because of this amulet, we can’t scale critical hits. But we can use a very interesting keystone, Precise Technique. If accuracy is higher than max health, it increased attack damage by 40% in exchange for our inability to deal with critical hits. Since our maximum life is 1, this keystone can be used to its best effect.

POE: Precise Technique Keystone Passive

Base Damage

Now that we have the damage multiplier, we just need the base damage. This is when we start expanding the maximum Energy Shield.

Let’s start with the biggest source. Because we chose Trickster, we came into contact with a very interesting node, Escape Artist. It gives you +1 maximum Energy Shield for every 6 points of Evasion Rating your equipped Body Armor has. We need to use Hybrid Body Armor to benefit more from it.

Tattoos

The next important source is global defensive tattoos on every small attribute node. This build now uses 38, so we’re almost over the 50 limit. But we don’t stop there.

They’ve added a new tattoo to Mid-League, and that’s Journey Tattoo of the Soul. +40 Energy Shield per Tattoo of the Soul assigned. We can allocate 4 of them, giving each tattoo 1.3k Energy Shield. This is the best way for us to use the least POE Currency to turn defense into offense.

We can use 3 curses in our build due to the use of unique ring spells. Our curse limit is equal to our maximum Power Charge. We also used another unique ring, Anathema. Basically, this ring doubles our DPS.

POE: Journey Tattoo of the Soul

Defensives

On defense we have Elemental Ailment Immunity because we use Ancestral Vision. The modifier that suppresses the chance of spell damage also applies to the chance of avoiding elemental anomalies, but is only half as valuable. We get the rest of our avoidance odds from our boots.

Aspect Of The Crab

So what does Aspect of the Crab do? This will give us a Crab Barrier every half second and reduce physical damage for each pile of crabs. So this aura alone reduces physical damage by 20%. But when we are attacked, we lose all the stack.

If we use Grace Aura for Evasion Rating, we will almost never die from the monster’s normal attacks or projectiles.

Because we use Grace, we can use Ghost Dance keystone. When we take a hit, we regain 3% of our Evasion Rating as Energy Shield, and we can do this 3 times in a row before the stack recharges.

POE: Aspect of the Crab

Energy Leech Support & Ghost Reaver

Because we chose Trickster, we have access to an interesting node, Soul Drinker. This allows us to absorb Energy Shield. And if our Energy Shield reaches maximum, it will not eliminate the drain effect.

In addition, we can also choose to take Ghost Reaver keystone. But it’s in boss fights like Eater of Worlds where you can’t hit anything when you need to collect orbs. Because your Energy Shield cannot be charged.

Items

There are some important unique items required in the build.

Ephemeral Edge has some important stats that are unique to this weapon. First and most important part, attacking with this weapon increases the maximum lightning damage by 20% of the maximum Energy Shield, while also giving us a large amount of Energy Shield.

It is also important to mention that you need Resolute Technique corruption. Otherwise, your hit rate will be very low, or you will need to limit your accuracy with your equipment.

Path of Exile: Unique Ephemeral Edge

Next, Atziri’s Reflection gives us more Energy Shield and curse effects, and makes us immune to curses. The non-critical lightning damage from Voice of the Storm is lucky.

With Ring of Anathema we can use 3 Curses in our build, which also gives us Intelligence and a bit of Energy Shield. Your projectiles will be returned to you.

Overall, Molten Strike Trickster built for POE 3.22, offers an exciting gaming experience that blends the fun of trophy hunting with powerful offensive and defensive capabilities. While it may require a modest investment, it offers a rewarding and dynamic play style.

Whether you’re a newbie or a veteran, this guide should give you all the information you need to conquer Wraeclast. Dive in and may your loot always be plentiful!

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