3.9 Magma Orb Deadeye - 7 chains, deathless Uber Elder & Sirus, kill metamorphs offscreen

Offense

Every time Magma Orb bounces, it can hit the enemy an additional time. Therefore, Magma Orb benefits heavily from slow projectiles and increased area of effect, because both of these stats allow Magma Orb to overlap its bounces on an enemy. A large sized boss can easily be hit by a single Magma Orb 2-4 times.

In order to ensure maximum bounces, your single-target weapons must have 0 projectile speed. However, I do recommend having a second set of weapons that do have %projectile speed on them, so that you can clear maps faster.

Defense

Leech: Obtained via Gloomfang as well as a notable granted by Glorious Vanity jewel (You will have to keep trying different Glorious Vanity jewels until you find a notable with fire leech)

Resistance: Use a Glorious Vanity jewel in the socket below Pain Attunement. This grants the Divine Flesh keystone allowing you to stack up to 85% chaos resistance. If you can achieve this much chaos resistance, you end up taking 25% less elemental damage, so it is very powerful.

Acrobatics and Phase Acrobatics: Dodge/spell dodge. Don't get Energy Shield gear.

DPS setup:

Supporting skill:

Movement:

Auras: . If you can grab a level 3 Enlighten, add Aspect of the Spider.

Level up with Shrapnel Shot. At level 12 pick up Toxic Rain and aim for the following links: Toxic Rain - Mirage Archer - Void Manipulation - Vicious Projectiles. Use a Quill Rain or Storm Cloud bow if you can afford it. Use Withering Step to help you kill bosses and clear maps faster. Kill all bandits in act 2.




After level 50 start moving towards the Witch side of the skilltree. Switch to Magma Orb after obtaining Merciless Lab at around level 70(Gathering Winds -> Ricochet). Use any wands with spell damage or fire damage on them. Buy a cheap Kalisa's Grace gloves and socket in Magma Orb - Inspiration - Intensify - Elemental Focus.


For bosses make sure you debuff with Wave of conviction - curse on hit - proj weakness - combustion.


Skilltrees

• Level 50 skilltree: http://poeurl.com/cH7i
• Level 70 skilltree (after obtaining Merciless Labyrinth and switching to Magma Orb): http://poeurl.com/cH7f
• Endgame skilltree: http://poeurl.com/cH8m

In order to optimize dps, you should prioritize buying these items in the following order (see "Budget Gear" section for more detail):

• Gloomfang
• Gloves with Slower proj & Faster casting. (May craft on +aoe gem levels, don't worry about multimodding until later)
• Wands with % proj speed for clearing
• Single target wands without %proj speed (Shade of Solaris is a cheap option right now)
• Ring with life gain on hit for spells
• Kaom's Heart
• Circle of Anguish
• Glorious Vanity

You can still get close to 1mil dps and decently tanky with less than 1 ex invested. Note - these are all prices of items in mid-league Metamorph. During league start the prices of items may be very different.

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Helmet enchanted with Magma Orb Chains - 5c

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Glove with slower projectiles / faster casting - 2c. It will cost a lot more to craft a multimodded +2gems glove, but it only costs a divine orb to craft +1 aoe gems.

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Circle of anguish with increased HoA effect - 30c

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Gloomfang - 5c.

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Kaoms heart - 40-50c.

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Wands can range anywhere from 1c to multiple ex. A nice entry level wand is shade of Solaris which is just 10c. Make sure you have 2 wands with projectile speed for clearing maps, and 2 wands without projectile speed for killing bosses.

Example PoB with budget gear: https://pastebin.com/hRHuDxeq