[3.25] ❄️ Icicle Mines Deadeye ❄️ Cheap / League Starter / Fast Mapper / 1st Day T16

Something to think about regarding blind status on us:

Not sure if this is fully true or not. Will have to test it out today. There may be an earlier fix to preventing our blind. It would involve getting the blind mastery wheel between shadow & ranger and picking the 100% chance to avoid blind. They claim it has been tested & has the same effect as not being blind. It's 4 points, but negates a downside until you get the pantheon upgrade or just want it for something else.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1itt5uo/to_all_soon_to_be_blind_prophet/

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Amannu#1860 schrieb:

About the event, what skill are we going use until icicle? I saw that without charged mines sucks, so stormblast until 34? or any suggestion

A friend of mine said that he will level up with venom gyre

I go explosive trap, easy and smooth until A7 seems best for me, not much of a respec. Traps have good nodes on the tree very early on regarding no mana or hp issues at all. also good single target which I like early on.

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Vortigaunt1337#7433 schrieb:

I go explosive trap, easy and smooth until A7 seems best for me, not much of a respec. Traps have good nodes on the tree very early on regarding no mana or hp issues at all. also good single target which I like early on.

Any particular guide you use to get going with Explosive trap? I may do something similar today. Figure I can try something different for the hell of it until Icicle starts to feel good to transition.

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jddc78#1131 schrieb:

Any particular guide you use to get going with Explosive trap? I may do something similar today. Figure I can try something different for the hell of it until Icicle starts to feel good to transition.

No, but it is a very smooth and "natural" way anyways:

You get explo trap at early act 1 quest reward "enemy at the gate". I rush down the 2 dex nodes from shadow start and go for "Master Sapper" and the mastery gain 30 life when triggered (massive QoL). After that I go up to the trap/mine nodes as usual and for the elementary node. I dont go for the flask nodes down there.

You also get swift assembly and trap and mine dmg early, additionally even get icicle mine at like lvl 12(?) as a reward and just level it off hand (also minefield as reward at A4 I think). Use bear trap as a secondary dmg source and a curse later.

Did the icicle switch at early A5 after I got a B-B-B-G link. Easy respec at Faustus in Kingsmarch. Continuously looking for better spell dmg shields and weapons. That is definitive slower as with deadeye and tailwind, even slower as explo trap in the end, although it has more dmg and feels better for the clear. The low mine throwing speed is not optimal in the beginning, but that's all. No need to speed rush this for me. From there on it will only get better with more nodes.

As the first buys I'd go for the usual Bitterdream, Mutewind and this time an Essence of Zeal for the mine throwing speed on any good belt.

I also completely forgot about the fact that we don't have automated detonate mine for a while. Think I am going to take you up on this approach just to try something different with traps early.

Thanks for the direction!

Bruuuuh just go Pconc + shield charge. You need only to swap flasks... You start as shadow rush flash recovery nodes at ranger area + chaos dmg. You can respect few points with Kingsmarch. Its fastest.

If u dont like this spell just go with Arakali asc (15lvl envy) and cobra skill. A lot of guides on YT for lvling shadow this event. 5 hours camp for avarge player. If u re good with this asc you can get around 3h I guess.

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Bruuuuh just go Pconc + shield charge. You need only to swap flasks... You start as shadow rush flash recovery nodes at ranger area + chaos dmg. You can respect few points with Kingsmarch. Its fastest.

I don't disagree this is the fastest. I did this last league and it was super comfortable. Just going to go hipster this time around and try something else unless I'm completely turned off by the playstyle.

I'm going to miss a week of the event due to work. So the optimal start is kind of lost on me this time around.

What's with the Bitterdream prices? Since when it doesn't cost couple of chaos? Some new starter build I'm not aware of?

Yeah the build is unplayable.
Can't even buy bitterdream.

Kinda like veeeery limited supply. normally in the hundreds listings.