Lightning Strike Warden Day 5 Update: Defences, Damage, QoL | PoE 3.25

[@Lolcohol]

If you're looking to find your perfect Timeless Jewel, I just released a video here explaining how: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p33Oq5R6ZcaJidk

[@caseyjenkins1890]

I just want to say thanks, while your guide isnt as hand holding as others cause you arent pumping out videos 24/7, your videos are great for people who know a bit and want to learn as well as further their own knowledge along and potentially try to make their own choices. You've helped me a ton this league settle into a better place for my own builds

[@caseyjenkins1890]

On another note, what do you think of annoiting retaliation when going claw/shield?? Also do you have a Filter you can share?

[@Lolcohol]

Glad you enjoyed it! And Retaliation is great - I'm using it :) as for the filter - I'm just using Neversink's

[@rubberdogmagnus8536]

Hy Lolcohol i want thank you. i just finished my 40/40 your build scales incredible and every transition feels like the forth growing into the sky. it was amazing for maping even T17 250Q no problem, pinical bosses no issues. I played since 3.21 Totem and it feeld after some rething bossfights very good and comfy. Thank you for this Step by Step advice and i made my first Mirror (and NOT in my Town)

[@bayodashi7283]

Frostblink for the last socket feels really nice when you need to jump over edges, since you cant with whirling blades.

[@destroyermaker]

4:30 Don't forget blind on hit. Blind is so underrated 5:50 And max res on shield

[@Lolcohol]

Frick. Yes I forgot blind but it was in the original pob!

[@awildcatappears6804]

just got to end game, made a lucky 10 div claw with 5 esssences on a fractured crit strike claw (it rolled all 3 ele t2 so i just added attack speed), and man this build is great, thanks for the help and guides, been a blast

[@akai7499]

Followed your build and this is the league where I'm having so much fun. Getting to pinnacle bosses in a day or two

[@4ssarad]

Personally for belts I'm a big fan of a well rolled Darkness Enthroned. You put ur Shock Avoidance Jewel in there and another nice one. Frees up boots implicit allowing for a Elusive + Action Speed combo. And I'm currently thinking of putting in an Enlighten for Grace, Determination, Arctic Armour freeing up one passive skill point additionally to freeing up the helmet implicit allowing for Pen/Phys taken as

[@Lolcohol]

Those are great ideas yeah. I've been farming Abyss for a nice Darkness Enthroned and jewels. Best so far is 84% but no good jewels yet!

[@Scoobert54]

Just wanted to say, using your build today I beat Maven and Uber Elder for the first time ever!!! Cheers!

[@Lolcohol]

Congrats! That's such a big achievement - well done :)

[@JayBigDadyCy]

I went ahead and grabbed a dark marionette. It's not bad tbh. You get wrath as a CD essentially. It's not necessary, but fun to mess with.

[@alekseimoiseev9896]

Hi, your build inspired me to try a different flavour of it. I went a "no tinctures" route (no way I'm pushing tincture buttons every 8 seconds). Grabbed all three oaths and Unbound. Really enjoing it. I don't stack armour, only have it from the shield and some gear here and there. Instead I use Dawnbreaker shield (19% phys as fire) + Arctic Armour combo (21% less phys + 19% less fire, which goes nicely with Dawnbreaker). For pantheons I go for Lunaris and Tukohama for more phys mitigation. Evasion, some block on the shield, instant leech from claws, spell suppression and blind nodes on the bottom of the tree help a lot too (also blind nodes give us crit; will grab Blind Mastery for crit on lvl 95). Generating Endurance charges from the Lethal Pride jewel (not on bosses though). Freezes from the Oath of Winter are super helpful too. I still don't have fortify on the chest (need to replace it). But it already feels very nice and tanky (for a Ranger). Still don't have ailments immunity. Arctic Armour gives antifreeze. Winterweave ring is super nice (chill immunity, good flat damage, HP, cold resist). Got stun immunity (well, 96% avoidance, which is enough) from the tree. Shock and Ignite immunities are still waiting for the boots :) Chaos Resistance is also a problem, need to get it from the belt and a ring (when I replace Winterweave after getting ailments immunity). As for damage - it feels incredible. All three oaths are working. Oath of Summer is probably the weakest for now (but it should become better later, when our damage goes high), but it gives two stacks of 7-10% scorch even on toughest mobs (which converts to 14-20% reduced ele resistances). Goes 20%+ per stack on others. Oath of Winter is extremely helpful (map bosses, syndicate members, essences, harvest mobs etc. are freezed to death). Oath of Spring helps with damage a lot (I can maintain 25 stacks only by attacking and close to 50 stacks with Vaal Lightning Strike active). Links. I use Rage support, because it gives us 30% more damage (on full Rage, and it is full almost always) AND 19% attack speed on top of that, which is super nice and helps with the Oath of Spring and overall smoothness of the build. PoB currently calculates Rage Support incorrectly (if you want to see the true numbers in PoB, take some rage generation from the tree, like the Flash Freeze, and set rage to 30 in PoB configuration). Also I use Ice Bite for cold damage and Frenzy Charges generation while mapping (I HATE Blood Rage, never using it, if I can't sustain the degen; technically Blood Rage is better, because of additional Attack Speed; Added Cold Damage support is also better, if you use Blood Rage). For bossing Frenzy Charges are covered by the Mark Mastery. Another combo I like: max level Cast when Damage Taken + golem. Ice golem gives us 30% crit and 30% accuracy. The accuracy part allows me to remove the Accuracy Mastery on the tree. If I get some flat accuracy on my gear, I'll unspec all accuracy nodes from the tree. Golem is up all the time, no problems here. Also I use Cast when Damage Taken (1 lvl) + Hydrosphere (1 lvl) + 18% elemental mastery on the tree for exposure (with Oath of Summer you don't need 25% chance to invert resistances from Elemental Mastery). All in all, Searing Exarch went down without casting his balls even once :) Very satisfied with the build, will try to improve it as much as I can.

[@escasati]

I'm playing with the Slayer version by Fubgun (using Lycosidae and Darkray Vectors), and I'm also in a Private League with a few people, and I want to know opinions if it's worth rerolling to Warden. Aside from over leech and culling, Slayer is a bit boring right now. For context: The start of the build was very slow, but I've already progressed a lot in the Atlas (100+ maps completed, 2 Voidstones, almost getting the third). I have a 6L, a decent Claw with 430 elemental DPS, but NOT crit capped, Perseverance, Dawnbreaker, The Taming, and all three Tinctures mentioned in the video with the recommended explicits. I'm currently focused on farming Essences (claw) and Expedition.

[@jarede3724]

Loving the build, thanks for the updates!

[@Yittt]

Check the pob calc tab or just run some maps and watch the trinity indicator bar is working. Awakened added cold made my trinity not work as well as awakened lightning. It depends mostly on claw and flat DMG on gear

[@radicalindividual7774]

Wrath is an easy Button Press on bosses, and super simple. You don't need it for anything else. It brings like 1.25 tooltip to 1.8m tooltip alone. +Scorch for Taming. You're already spamming VLS every few seconds anyways. You're already spamming Tinctures every 12 seconds. it REALLY isn't that bad to just Tincture+Tincture+Unbound+Wrath+VLS to do what feels like double damage after you get Pen Tincture. Which Pen Tincture alone at 22% feels like 5x Damage. It's like saying on my Wall of Inconvenience, I don't want to use one more Inconvenient thing.

[@harrynazarian3184]

I think someone else in your chat mentioned using Added Cold Damage, and I did the same as well. I have annointed Disciple instead of Smashing Strikes, namely because it was more reliable on Bosses. This was on my LS Raider. Great video! Wind Dancer is tricky, because I had some bad rolls on map mods where bosses or mobs never miss/always hit. It made those maps dreadful in early maps when I was trying to get map sustainment. Later on when I had a steady stream of maps, it was okay to use. Okay at best.

[@Lolcohol]

Yup! Tons of great input from the community :) Yeah Wind Dancer is feeling good to me now but it it's in a bit of an odd spot compared to last league. I'm still trying to figure out when the best time to allocate it is but it's tricky with our freezes and elusive and other effects

[@harrynazarian3184]

@@Lolcohol Going off of last league with the Raider, I swapped back to Wind Dancer when I was in T13 or T14 maps. By then I had a steady stream of maps to reroll for more favorable mods. In all honesty, I don't know how this will do on the Warden. Raider, again, it was just OKAY, borderline not worth. Maybe Warden would be better to use Wind Dancer on, I don't know, tbh

[@rsac43]

Thanks for the update :)

[@johanb9043]

With claw, is it better to take From the Shadows or go with Dazzling strikes? Im using the latter atm but perhaps Elusive effect and culling strike is worth more.

[@brot1991]

In one of the free Sockets I have just put in a Banner. It doesn´t do much but better than nothing I thought :D

[@soulflyac4019]

Really nice guide. I'm a bit stuck with my damage

[@martins2246]

instead of marrionnette, I use a arcanist brand with a hydrosphere and a tornado gem....figure both interact with my projectiles and look cool honestly....we'll see how late I keep it, just started mapping.

[@HorizonVertigo]

Still going strong in HC with this build. Thanks for the reminder about Steelskin VS Molten Shell, easy to forget that!

[@Lolcohol]

You're a madman but I love it. How have you not died? :D would love to see the PoB if you've made a bunch of tweaks

[@nolan66617]

Madman im playing this right now and survivability isnt its strong suit.

[@HorizonVertigo]

@@Lolcohol No mistakes allowed in HC but I did have one close call in early maps. I'll post my PoB in the Discord chat if anyone wants to have a look at it sometime tomorrow when I'm back playing. It's not far off from what you are doing, though I don't have a decent shield to use yet.

[@HorizonVertigo]

@@nolan66617 Out of curiosity what is your /deaths number at? I remember last league a lot of HC players were talking up Pohxs RF tankiness and then he said something like 58 deaths in the first 3 days!

[@nolan66617]

@@HorizonVertigo 263 right now but havnt played in 2 years died a ton in the story and I also die a ton on t16

[@MrLu4o]

Hello mate , great build ! Is it worth to go for the cluster variant or to spend 10 devines on my gear and to follow the non-cluster POB?

[@Lolcohol]

Honestly I think the cluster setup is a bit overrated but others may disagree. I mainly added it for people who kept asking but I could think of a lot of other good things to spend your currency on first, like a better claw!

[@MrLu4o]

@@Lolcohol Thats what i thought .. Cheers mate ! 🤜🤛

[@khaioang1252]

just found a cool lethel pride which give 2 double dmg note and 1 note give 5% to gain endurance charge on kill on a same line. Should I still anoint Disciple of the unyielding or just go for offensive

[@Lolcohol]

You could go for something else instead if you're mainly mapping!

[@akutooth]

When you say we only have our tinctures active for 2 seconds, you're referring to the effect from natures reprisal, correct? Otherwise, the actual tincture buffs are near 100% uptime

[@Lolcohol]

Yes! I meant the real Tincture activity, not the Enduring Suffusion linger :)

[@Loser91915]

Gr8 content as usual ty

[@HDWB_Gaming]

does recovery on block still fit with this build ? it gave big life recoup, also with a lot of phys > ele + flask

[@johnathangieger8032]

If I was better at this game, I would play it more. Prob the best ARPG on the market. Im just horrible at it with over 1200 hours played. :)

[@TheInSanS]

Yea man :) totally agree with you. But you are here and thats great because loco is a great source of knowledge. Keep going! Good luck exile

[@johnathangieger8032]

@@TheInSanS bc of you I am going to start this league today. :)

[@Ryxxi_makes]

How are you running so many auras ? arctic armor, purity of elements, grace, determination and herald of ice and then tinctures ? I have 3 aura cluster and run out of mana from mana burn and i only use 3 auras.

[@PeterControl]

Finding rare mobs harder to kill than bosses… is this normal. Using the original POB before crit swap (early maps).

[@einkar4219]

after this video I got well rolled dawnbreker and changed my suports (fortunately I had already leveled added cold suport) both my dmg and survi definitely increased form having difficulties at t9 and went to doing t13 without many issues I even did infinite hunger on first try (2 times I was dumped in goo lake) which never happened

[@Lolcohol]

So glad to hear it! Yeah, the difference between having a good time and bad time is just small tweaks, knowledge and experience. I'm glad that you found something in here that so dramatically improved your fun with the build :)

[@LowGodd]

Soo your original LS video has a lootfilter on it, that says youre going to update it to 3.25. Wheres the update on that? And if youre not going to update it, why it is still in the description for your video.

[@blackb1rd]

I got lucky in the early game and managed to get Lightning strike of arcing while running my first ascendency trail. Do you think it's worth changing from piecing to chain or will it brick the build?

[@Lolcohol]

I probably wouldn't use it - Vaal Lightning Strike will be much more impactful and LS of Arcing will feel pretty bad unless you're on a Deadeye :)

[@wander1027]

Why volatilty is good with wraith? I def saw damage loss when swapping from cold added damage to volatility so thanks for clearing that up

[@hamburgerfatso]

Cuz lightning min is already tiny, so reducing it basically changes nothing, but raising the max which is very high increases it a lot

[@Crimson50]

Firstly I was going with the Non-tincture version, but now it seems you have completely abandoned that and the builds focus on tinctures all around, which I understand damage wise. I just am not sure if I like the tincture playstyle, so I had a question; Do you rely almost completely on your tinctures for all of your damage, or are they only something you pop on bosses/super tanky enemies?

[@TheInSanS]

The tintures are "oh sh!t buttons" to 2-5x your dmg. For me, my dmg is totally fine for clearing red maps up to t16. I always try to keep them active especially for big enemies like essence Monster and bosses. The answer is yes/no.

[@Crimson50]

@@TheInSanS Ahh I see, thanks! I was personally worried the build would rely too much on the tinctures, I find myself sucking ass on league start and dont know if I should keep trying or make another character. But glad to hear that the build doesn't rely on constant 24/7 tincture upkeep

[@Crimson50]

@@TheInSanS or well... I am kinda confused lol... Idk what to do at this point...

[@Lolcohol]

Tbh I rely on them heavily and feel like I hit like a wet tissue without them. That being said, my gear is SSF trash which is probably why. I try to keep them up as much as possible which is something you get used to pretty quickly!

[@hamburgerfatso]

Use a macro bro, with the 12 manaburn turn off mastery it has deterministic timing

[@陳森堯]

I think my attack speed is a bit slow I had atk spd on my both claw and glove and it still quite slow im using blood rage too

[@radicalindividual7774]

14 suppress 128 life 35 movespeed, Suffix Craft (Exalted FOOKIN 8% RARITY!) boots. How do I solve other Ailment issues if I can't or don't want to swap Boots? Because with a 35% Shield I'm stuck at 90% Shock.

[@pedrohpm]

What about Sione's Ambition annoint?

[@olmanriver2355]

my whirling blades doesn't proc rage, what am I doing wrong?

[@muhammedadel9673]

This build chews through mana with how much attack speed we have i don't know why people aren't using Sigil of power to replace wrath on single target

[@scapywpzs4172]

Hi , what is the first flask that you are using ?

[@Lolcohol]

It's just a normal life flask with an MTX :)

[@victorschmidt593]

What do you think about using Automation support for guardskill + phase run + more duration . I've been enjoying that a bit. Cause of the free gem sockets to fill up

[@Lolcohol]

Because we mainly use whirling blades to move, that isn't too useful on this build, but I love that setup on many other builds :)

[@DoNotLookHerePlz]

Spell suppression with Phasing mastery is a great defense tool, with some extra nodes it caps you on SS and frees your on gear for extra sup

[@shaun2312]

What loot filter do you use?

[@homewolf]

+1 to this! Also interested in what Loot Filter to use. Loving the lightning strike warden so far!

[@Lolcohol]

Just Neversink's :D nothing fancy

[@shaun2312]

never mind, i found your profile

[@haxanator1513]

I dropped determination for arctic armor, herald of ice, and sand and stone.

[@jasonricher2605]

I dropped a Yoke of suffering from the T17 fortress boss. Anyone know if it would be good with this build?

[@TroyGamingtv]

When do we get rid of Barkskin

[@JustinMiller-h7q]

Where do we slot the jewels? More so the stormshroud

[@Lolcohol]

You can use the socket above Charisma, or in Large Cluster sockets, or in the cluster sockets around the tree!

[@MrPcconway]

would this build be good for a headhunter?

[@Lolcohol]

Yeah HH and LS were made for each other :)

[@johanb9043]

Ive got the rage on melee hit Lethal Pride. Im not seeing any rage counters tho among the buffs. Is something wrong?

[@JamieBunpup]

Rage is a meter around your mana, it does not appear in the top left corner

[@johanb9043]

Thats great. I didnt know that.

[@brrian]

what are uniques we can use if we arent SSF? besides the shield

[@Lolcohol]

Check the PoB! Lethal Pride, the taming and then either stormshroud or ancestral vision :)

[@kassixo]

How much accuracy is needed for all of this to know if I should anoint Claws of the Falcon or not?

[@Lolcohol]

Open your Character Sheet (press C), click on the Lightning Strike icon in the page that comes up, and look under Offence - it should say "main hand chance to hit" or something like that. Try to make sure that is 100%, and also try to also make sure it's 100% chance to hit elusive monsters

[@jayngo23]

I’m lighting strike dead eye but will switch to warden. Will this switch give me more damage ?

[@Lolcohol]

Yeah Warden dps is unhinged

[@ishashal]

Question, what about the devoring diadem ? Thanks :)

[@Lolcohol]

We don't use that in this version of the build! We only used it to get a divine blessing aura and divine blessing was removed in 3.25 :(

[@ishashal]

@@Lolcohol erf... already go one... well will sell it x)

[@Lolcohol]

@@ishashal Eek! Check the 3.25 version, not the 3.24 version! :D

[@ishashal]

@@Lolcohol but I do ! XD

[@bcn_clips]

Can we use Shield Charge instead of Whirling Blades?

[@TheInSanS]

Yes you can but I prefer Whirling Blades because you can easy dash through enemies and cant get stuck. I dropped my shield charge and my frostblink for it. I put it in a 4 link: WB + Momentum + faster attacks + rage support.

[@Azrael-xdd]

is there a non tincture pob somewhere? i dont really like using them even tho they are really good

[@Lolcohol]

There is on my pobbin profile but I really can't recommend it over the tincture version :( Tinctures are insane

[@Azrael-xdd]

@@Lolcohol think I might swap to slayer then. I followed a pob from fubgun to try out but his doesn't use to tinctures, and I wanted to explore other non tincture options. Warden definitely hasn't disappointed me tho!

[@poeyoink]

Can someone please explain why we drop elemental damage with attacks support??

[@Lolcohol]

Other gems give more damage :)

[@BaboRockRanch]

how do you get enough strength to wear the shield?

[@Lolcohol]

Lethal Pride helps a lot!

[@MUZA1875]

why take the dagger nodes if we are using claws?

[@project_valor8642]

Taming or Rare ring?

[@Lolcohol]

Both can work. Well rolled Taming = lots of damage, but stretches your attributes. If you can get a mega good rare ring it could beat it out but it won't be as easy as a well-roled taming

[@_knife_gun_axe_]

Right klicking divine vessel? When was this added? I still walked to sin this league. 🙈 I checked the wiki: It was added 3.20.0 sanctum, six fucking leagues I've been doing it wrong. 💀

[@VincentKun]

Thing is: Is so tedious keeping tinctures up, you must watch them each second and then press the button

[@izzy5990]

na you get the tincture mastery that turns it off at 12 stacks and the ascendancy that tinctures linger for 6 secs - you just press them every 11 seconds thats it

[@hamburgerfatso]

Macro

[@VincentKun]

@@hamburgerfatso what type of macro should one use?

[@ДмитрийАноченко]

Gain 1 Rage on melee hit, doesn't work on my Lethal Pride

[@Lolcohol]

Look above your mana to check your rage generation :)

[@ДмитрийАноченко]

@@Lolcohol Thaks! use rage mechanics first time

[@Psycrovv]

FIRST !!! Good video :D

[@Lolcohol]

Thank you :)

[@igorpak1802]

flesh and stone , its ok

[@jaanuskrevald5456]

glascannon softcore build -.- meh. bleed gladiator in hardcore and mobs go pop like popcorn :D way to go. noone dying here

[@Lolcohol]

It's not a glass cannon later on :) if you wanna play HC, that's great but comparing SC defences to HC defences is like comparing HC damage to SC damage.

[@therealhaalia]

Warden is definitely a softcore class. Damage is good but defensive layers are lacking.

[@iamSephirothGaming]

XDD

[@aleksandyrveliki162]

slayer better

[@Lolcohol]

State your case, Exile

[@PeterControl]

@@Lolcoholendurance charge - I rest my case

[@Lolcohol]

Pwned. Fine you win

[@vox7441]

good for standart?

[@Lolcohol]

For sure