95% Critical Hit Chance Shadow [Without Charges]

Welcome back again to the 95% Critical Hit Chance build that I've attempted every time there's a wipe during closed beta. You can take a look my previous attempts here:

0.9.8
0.9.10: Featured on Build of the week #10
0.9.12: Same build as 0.9.10, improved

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Video

Video in action: Clearing maps



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FAQs

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The Build

In order to reach 95% Critical Hit Chance easily, we will abuse the very high critical chance of wand attacks and the quality bonus of Elemental Hit.

Wands have a base critical chance of 8%. For a series of wands with low attack speed (1.1) and high physical damage, the base critical chance is 8.6%.

For all INT weapons (staff, wand, dagger ...) with a base level >60, the critical chance is boosted slightly. For example:
Tornado Wand: lvl 65, Attack speed 1.3, Critical chance: 8.3%
Prophecy Wand: lvl 68, Attack speed 1.1, Critical chance: 8.96%

Next step is to acquire a wands with an ilvl 73 suffix Of Incision (35-38% Local Critical Chance)



For the purpose of building a well rounded characters, a 1.5 aps wand is used. You can reach 95% crit chance easier if you sacrifice attack speed and used this instead:



Either way, that leave us with a base critical chance of at least 11.04%

Acquire the unique item Maligaro's Glove:


And an amulet with preferably an Of Incision suffix:


Then max the following gems with 20% Quality:



And follow this build, which takes pretty much every Critical Strike nodes on the trees:

Build LVL 79 Help no bandits

Passive tree: 445%
Elemental Hit: 80%
Increased Accuracy: 40%
Increased Critical Strike: 113% /125% maximum
Maligaro's Glove: 50%
Amulet's suffix: 33% / 38% maximum

Total Increased Critical Strike: 761%

Critical Hit Chance = 11.04% * (1 + 7.61) = 95.05%

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Passive Tree Explanation:











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Final:

Thanks for reading. I hope this build inspire many other adaptations (direct copy is lame). The next build for me is probably the same one, except doing with spell. Have fun slinging for all you wanders :)

Thanks for the informative guide

How high could you get your crit chance with daggers?

Good read thanks :)

very nice post and build!
but, could you post a link to your passive tree please?

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feuerbach wrote:

very nice post and build!
but, could you post a link to your passive tree please?

Its in there, at the part where im calculating crit chance and show where the 445% from passive coming from. I should have been more clear

ah okay, completely missed that! :)

Just a little question: how do you think your survivability would be if you would not use a shield but dual wield (i know that getting two good wands could become expensive, but it should be possible), because in that case you could get Twin terrors (the whole path to it would be 125% increased crit chance, so you could drop the Bloodthirst circle near the templar and 4 of the 15% nodes while still beeing at the same crit chance (if i got the numbers right in my head)) and you would free up 5 or 6 passive points...

EDIT: i just checked what you could do with those 6 nodes and you could push your crit modifier quite a bit (around 80% further increased crit modifier) ;)

could you re link a build for the 1.01 patch please ? :)

It isnt hard to reach 95% critical strike chance (without power charges) with daggers as well. With 10.04% crit chance dagger you can reach 81% critical strike chance with passive tree only, and you even wont pick those crappy "+15% crit chance" nodes for that. And it will get CI, GR, VP and US - all you need for endgame.
With Flicker Strike Q20, you will have 89% crit chance, and gaining 6% extra crit chance through gear is easy as cake (2 diamond rings, for example). For other skills, you need 15% extra crit chance from gear, but it could be gained with gear too (Maligaro + 2xdiamond ring + amulet with crit chance).

And yes, we dont even need added accuracy, nor increased critical strikes gems for that (though, with current accuracy mechanics, you will probably want Added accuracy gem anyway, for total consistency).

Here is a link to a build -

Although i appreciate your efforts with wands, i think you sacrifice too much for 95% crit chance. Your build wont be even close to optimal for end-game realities.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

It isnt hard to reach 95% critical strike chance (without power charges) with daggers as well. With 10.04% crit chance dagger you can reach 81% critical strike chance with passive tree only, and you even wont pick those crappy "+15% crit chance" nodes for that. And it will get CI, GR, VP and US - all you need for endgame.
With Flicker Strike Q20, you will have 89% crit chance, and gaining 6% extra crit chance through gear is easy as cake (2 diamond rings, for example). For other skills, you need 15% extra crit chance from gear, but it could be gained with gear too (Maligaro + 2xdiamond ring + amulet with crit chance).

And yes, we dont even need added accuracy, nor increased critical strikes gems for that (though, with current accuracy mechanics, you will probably want Added accuracy gem anyway, for total consistency).

Here is a link to a build -

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYA_5MeGjBUmVcoKrVIsbPtQaZ_h9sWv-tj8-qZmnBSwFG29-OEES8OSKc0EZZ_xp2jVurBxaKj_KsFfen-LL-IQsHzuXyGrpAbbRnssBXXcFY74S0fjAvXhpoT4vdMs0cGVmPb1KcrBAdfasLsHwK0xTbFBbWX0NgkDPJW9acIpcu5Po9G224dFH3j-tJmnsAaWfOYb6yqkn1yqeXP9zL460Gq8YoUcSdPpzBEgQHnGLA26J_L3CNkoz-bGlUGOWEhEuGi6u9OKLUqOIFJsjhmTw==

Although i appreciate your efforts with wands, i think you sacrifice too much for 95% crit chance. Your build wont be even close to optimal for end-game realities.

U've any details guide on this build? Like gear, gems etc? Thx!