Elementalist - Flameblast Vortex Arc Fire Storm Ice Nova Ball Lightning, strong and cheap vid guide

Bandits:
Oak
Alira
None (can take oak)


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For completing quests you get books with passive skill points or skill gems. Also after completing quests some skill gems are available from vendors in town.
You can view all quests under world map tab “U” on your keyboard.
Normal:

Act 1.
Use 1 mana, 3 life flasks, 1 quick silver (you can get quicksliver flask from 2nd qest you get in town).
From 1st quest (killing hillock before town) you get reward from Tarkleigh. Take Freezing Pulse. it is best starting spell.

Then go do “Mercy Mission” quests and from rewards take Quicksilver Flask

Next quest is ”Breaking Some Eggs”. At level 4 you can also buy “Decoy Totem” from other players on www.poe.trade. So if you will find chaos orb or fusing orb try to buy it.


Continue journey to Prison and after completing “The Caged Brute” take Flame Dashgem from rewards.
It is great movement skill gem. If you got linked sockets slots in your gear you can also get Added Lightning Damage or Added Cold Damage and connect them with your freezing Pulse.

After entering The Cavern of Wrath go to town and talk to Nesa. Take Ice Nova or Fire Storm spell gem from her.

Use it for packs of mobs, but Freezing Pulse will be still good for most rare mobs and bosses.
Act 2.

During entire act when you are in town check Greust stock and look for 3-link sceptre, Quartz Sceptre is the best because it give 20% increased Elemental Damage but other sceptres are still god 3-link is most important.

When you get sceptre use Orb of Transmutation to turn it into magic item.
Than based on what skill you use, sell Scepter, Orb of Alteration and
Ruby Ring (Fire Gem) or
Topaz Ring (Lightning Gem) or
Sapphire Ring (Cold Gem).
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You will get sceptre with “+1 to level of Lightning/Fire/Cold Gems in this item”. This is very powerful mod for weapon. Put your main skill in this scepter. Also wield Quartz Sceptre in second hand for additional damage.

1st quest in act2 is “Intruders in Black”. As reward you get auras. Take Herald of Thunder.

From 2nd quest: “Sharp and Cruel” that you get from Silk you can get Faster Casting Support and Controlled Destruction Support. You can link new support gems with your main skill (firestorm/ice nova).

3rd quest is “Deal with the Bandits” You have to deal with 3 bandits:
- Alira - kill
- Kraytin – kill
- Oak – help (he give you +40 base Life)
After completing “The Root of the Problem” buy Arctic Armour from vendor. Don’t use Arctic Armour now, it is good in later level.

Continue your travel to act 3.

Act 3.

“Lost in Love” Is first quest in this act.
- from quest reward take Elemental Weakness (increase damage you deal with elemental skills)
- from shop buy Enfeeble (reduce monster damage)
- from players buy Warlord's Mark (life and mana lech, endurance charges).

These skills are curses. Monsters can have only 1 curse at once but later in game you will be able to increase this limit. Level them all but Enfeeble only up to lvl 5. Use Elemental Weakness and Warlord's Mark depending if you need offence or life/mana, at low levels conductivity can be more useful when you don't have any problems with mana.

Continue act 3.

After completing “Sever the Right Hand” You can get Ball Lightning and Vortex skill gem.
If you plan to sitch your main skill remember to use it in +1 sceptre.


With this set up you should be fine in Lunaris Temple. After Lunaris Temple quest you have to got to Imperial Gardens.
In garden follow road and go up-left from waypoint to library. You can start “A Fixture of Fate” quest there. From this quest take Lightning/Cold/Fire Penetration Support gem as reward and Blasphemy Support gem from shop. IF you use Ball Lightning you can also buy slower projectile gem from players.


Connect Blasphemy Suppor with Warlord's mark. Now Warlord's mark will be cursing every mob around you. Your aura set up should be Warlord's mark and Herald of Thunder from this point.
Lightning Penetration and Slower Projectiles link with Ball lightning

Depend on what main skills you use your 3 link main skills should be:

Ball Lightning > Slower projectile > Lightning Penetration
Fire Storm > Faster casting > Fire penetratio
Vortex > Controlled destruction > Cold Penetration
Ice Nova > Controlled destruction > Cold Penetration

Labyrinth (statue in town in act 3) is level 33 zone so it is better to finish act 3 before going there (I like to do it after at 4 becasue it is much easier then) . After completing Labyrinth you have to select your subclass. Take: Elementalist and Shaper of Desolation node.

Shaper of Desolation - make you shock, ignite and chill all enemies. Shock is very good becasue it give great damage boost.


Act 4.
THis act is the hardest and can be difficult.
At level 40 yo ucan use Colossal Life Flask, you can buy them from vendor in act 4 town.
ON flask use currency:
- Orb of Transmutation,
- Orb of Augmentation,
- Orb of Alteration,
to roll flask that give instant life:
“Seething” >” Bubbling” > “Panicked”
example of instant heal higher level flask:

Also try to get anti bleeding mod on one flask “of Staunching”. It help in Dried Lake and in last areas in act 4.
Also you can buy Granite Flask from other player on www.poe.trade and replace 1 life flask.
Flask setup should be 2 life(3 if you don't use mana pot), 1 granite, 1 mana 1 quicksilver.

You might want to level up a bit In The Dried Lake or in The Aqueduct before going into mines.

After killing Malachai you can get:
Increased Duration (from other player)
Immortal Call (from other player)
Spell Echo (from vendor)

Cruel:
Cruel can feel much easier than normal difficulty and can be played much faster. Do not kill every pack just run by smaller ones.
Try to get 4 link for your main skill:

Ball Lightning > Slower projectile > Lightning Penetration > spell echo
Fire Storm > Controlled destruction > Fire penetration > spell echo
Vortex > Controlled destruction > Cold Penetration > spell echo
Ice Nova > Controlled destruction > Cold Penetration > spell echo

If you don’t have 4 link use 3 link in your scepter with +1 to lightning skill.

IF you have chaos orbs you can check poe.trade for 5-link armour with life and res, if you don't have currency you can still use 3 or 4-link.

During entire cruel ty to get 4 link and make this combo:
Cast when Damage Taken - Enfeeble - Increased Duration – Immortal Call
This combo will canst Enfeeble and Immortal call every time you take some damage. This is great defensive bonus. Remember that this combo use Red-Red-Red-Blue socket colors. So you need item with armour to get these colors. Windscreamunique boots are great for getting that colors in sockets)

Collect currency to buy:
- Windscream – unique boots (good for getting red-red-red-blue socket for Cast when damage taken links)
- Doedre's Damning – unique ring
These uniques allow you to use more than 1 curse.

other Gams and link:
Blasphemy - Warolrd's Mark
Flame dash - Faster Casting
Decoy Totem
Herald of thunder


With uniques you monsters can have 3 curses at once.
- 1st from blasphemy
- 2nd fro CWDT combo
- 4rd manually casted

In cruel you lose 20% on elemental resistance. In defense tab “C” on keyboard you can check your defenses stats. Try to get enough rare items to get 75% on all resistances.

Act 1 and Act 2 Should be very easy for you.
In Act 2 Help Alira in bandit quest.
Act 3 is a bit harder but also shouldn’t be problem for you. If you want you can level up a bit in City of Sarn (first area in A3). .

Act 3: After killing Dominus you do not try to do Labyrinth becasue its level is higher than any area in act 3. Wait till you will be around level 60.
Later from Labyrinth take
- Liege of the Primordial Node (if you use Ball lightning)
or
- Beacon of Ruin (if you use Fire storm, Ice Nova or Vortex)

If you take Primordial go to act 4 and buy 2 golems: Fire and Lightning)

Act 4 is harder. Check you resistances. If you still don’t have 75% resistances buy rares from other players. Don’t forget that you can Farm Dried lake for good rares and level up a bit. Bosses in later part of this act can make you problems. Remember to use curses, stay close to them so they will get warlord's mark on them and use flame dash to dodge their attacks.

Merciless:

Game reduce your resistances by -60% So you need to get better gear again.
You can start using shield instead of second weapon. Also try to buy good rare wand from other players.
Run through act 1 and 2 to get to act 3 as fast as possible. Farm first zone in act 3 so you can do chaos recipe. It will allow you to get currency to buy good gear.
Chaos recipe: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system#Full_Rare_Sets

In act 2 kill all bandits or help Oak.

In act 3 You can start doing maps after completing Fiery Dust.

Later from Labyrinth take:
- Pendulum of Destruction (If you use Ball Lightning)
or
- Liege of the Primordial (if you use Fire storm, Ice Nova or Vortex)

If you take Liege of the Primordial then go to act 4 vendor and buy 2 golems:
- Fire - it increase your damage
- Lightning - it increase your cast speed
I do Merciless labirynth at level 70+ so it is easy and qucik.

You can go to act 4 but there is no reward for gully completing it. You can just do “An Indomitable Spirit” quest for addition skill point.

Weapon:
Wand or sceptre with high elemental damage and cast speed

Armour:
This build focus on getting
1. Elemental resists
2. Life
3. Energy shield
Elemental resists can be get from jewels. Each jewel can give over 50% total elemental resistances
Base stat on items should be energy shield and on mods focus on Life. Only 2 uniques are mandatory to apply more than 1 curse on monsters:



Flask:
It is good to have
3 Life flasks with instant heal
1 Quick silver
1 Sulphur

Example items:

Main skill to use in body armour:


support skills:


* instead of Elemental Weakness you can use other elemental damage curse:
- Flammability
- Conductivity
- Frostbite

Elementalist:

normal: Shaper of Desolation
- it is always active and circle between buffs. Shock and burn give very good damage boost.
- Every 14 seconds:
- - Gain Chilling Conflux for 4 seconds
- - Gain Shocking Conflux for 4 seconds
- - Gain Igniting Conflux for 4 seconds
- - Gain Chilling, Shocking, and Igniting Conflux for 2 seconds

cruel: Beacon of Ruin
- very good to increase DPS, great to spread largest ignite and longes shock/chill Very torn when using cold spells as it help freezing entire pack of mobs.
- Elemental Status Effects caused by your Skills spread to other nearby Enemies - Radius: 12

Merciless: Liege of the Primordial
- give 2 golems that can take agro and that give very good DPS bonus. Golems are immune to elemental damage so they are very tanky.
- 40% increased Damage of each Damage Type for which you have a matching Golem
- Your Elemental Golems are Immune to Elemental Damage
- 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Elemental Golems
- +1 to Maximum number of Golems

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endgame: Paragon of Calamity
- allow you to run reflect maps and even give dps boost while doing them
- 50% reduced Reflected Elemental Damage taken
- For each Element you've been hit by Damage of Recently, 40% increased Damage of that Element
- For each Element you've been hit by Damage of Recently, 8% reduced Damage taken of that Element

or

endgame: Pendulum of Destruction
- just DPS bonus
- Every 10 seconds, gain 100% increased Elemental Damage for 4 seconds
- Every 10 seconds, gain 25% increased Radius of Area Skills for 4 seconds

Popped in to say thanks for this guide. Great write up and walk through. ~ DirtyLary

I think it's quite amazing how well this build plays with only a 4-link as main damage. ~ Nanouk

5l Carcass and I'm cleaning maps so fast... Again, Many thanks for the build ~ smileistheway



If you have any questions feel free to ask them, I will be happy to answer them. :)

1. videos
2. Tree
3. Leveling
4. Itemization
5. Gems
6. Uniques
7. Ascendancy
8. FAQ


[2.4] Video Guide - Atlas of Worlds
old:
[2.3] Easy reflect maps with Paragon of Calamity[/b]
[2.2] Voltaxic Rift with Ball Lightning
[2.2] Video Guide
[2.2] Shipyard - Tier 12 map with high damage mods
[2.2] Gorge Map fast run 3:17
[2.2] doing maps at lower level
[2.2] Ball Lightning demo - Crematorium - Tier 11 map (level 78 zone)
[2.1] Old gorge map run
[2.0] Tier 10 map (lvl 77 area) with all monster apply bleed effect on hit
[2.0] No life/mana regeneration map
[2.0] Ball Lightning demo - Precinct Map Tier 11 map (level 78 zone)

If you have any questions please post them in this thread. I will try to answer as fast as possibile. :)