[3.15] Elemental Hit Ballista Totem Hiero | Budget Friendly | League Start to Endgame

hi, do you have an updated PoB link?
thanks for the build :)

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zhupi8712 wrote:

hi, do you have an updated PoB link?
thanks for the build :)

Hey! The pob link is on the first part of the guide, it may look like it's 3.12 but it's not, there's a version that doesn't need a tree update. Just a naming issue.

(23rd July 2021) 3.15 POB(Update 1): https://pastebin.com/29bqjJpx (Bow Gem Setup changed for more DPS)
(22nd July 2021) 3.15 POB(Original): https://pastebin.com/3AJkiYUK

am i correct?

What are backup plans as we gather currency for the needed uniques? Blood Aq/Quarry farming? Unfortunately some are pretty hefty right now.

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Vague_Density wrote:

Hey! The pob link is on the first part of the guide, it may look like it's 3.12 but it's not, there's a version that doesn't need a tree update. Just a naming issue.

Thanks for your help. :) I have renamed(Long Overdue!!) the "3.12" into 3.15 and updated the POB link so it won't cause anymore confusion.

For anyone else reading, everything else is still the same, just a name change.

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Vague_Density wrote:

Thanks! Yeah I snagged one by refreshing the search between zones :) I'll try to wiggle those links in, Arcane does look massive. Any thoughts on opting for Frostblink over Flame Dash?

Sorry I missed your question earlier. In case you are still looking for my thoughts. Frostblink cares about positioning so if your playstyle can take advantage of that(e.g. Always travelling from Pack to Pack), Frostblink is good. Otherwise Flame Dash is better since we don't need to think about positioning. Flame Dash also store up to 3 charges which helps when we need to trigger our movement skill immediately again, say, if our first dash end up in an undesirable position.

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Vague_Density wrote:

What are backup plans as we gather currency for the needed uniques? Blood Aq/Quarry farming? Unfortunately some are pretty hefty right now.

Some ideas for Gathering Currency:

- Blood Aqueduct(Act 9) Farming for Humility Divination Card
- Low Tier Map for Unidentified Chaos Recipe
- (Recommended) Channel Map(Tier 1) farming for both Humility Divination Card and Unidentified Chaos Recipe.
- Doing the league Mechanic if it's profitable(I haven't played the league so not quite sure about this)

Other backup plan is going for a rare 5 Link Body Armour first which I checked cost around 3c at the moment. I wrote some info on 5 and 6 Link setup in "10.3 Note for Early League Rushers" of the guide which you can refer to.

The most important thing to get at the start is the 2 Combat Focus. Without these, the build "don't work".

Rain of Splinters is pretty costly at the moment so we can go with Lesser Multiple Projectile as the 5th Gem in the 5 Link Body Armour for now as a substitute to Rain of Splinters.

Hope the above help.

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zhupi8712 wrote:

(23rd July 2021) 3.15 POB(Update 1): https://pastebin.com/29bqjJpx (Bow Gem Setup changed for more DPS)
(22nd July 2021) 3.15 POB(Original): https://pastebin.com/3AJkiYUK

am i correct?

Use this one :)

(23rd July 2021) 3.15 POB(Update 1): https://pastebin.com/29bqjJpx (Bow Gem Setup changed for more DPS)

Thought i could at least get the Jewels before the Frostferno but both Combat focus ones are 5c and the Rain of Splinters is 45c+ .

Hard start..

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Hey0cean wrote:

Thought i could at least get the Jewels before the Frostferno but both Combat focus ones are 5c and the Rain of Splinters is 45c+ .

Hard start..

Yeah the pricing is pretty rough. Rain of Splinters demand/price sky rocketed a lot due to the popularity of Forbidden Rite Totems. :(

Hi Vei i try to change Gem from your PoB
i change from Awakened ele dmg with atk (642k Dps) to Combustion it show (660k Dps) and both of them have 140% mana multiplier so i want to know it's good or bad to change and why thanks a lot

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Dassort wrote:

Hi Vei i try to change Gem from your PoB
i change from Awakened ele dmg with atk (642k Dps) to Combustion it show (660k Dps) and both of them have 140% mana multiplier so i want to know it's good or bad to change and why thanks a lot

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3005581/page/108#p24211388

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Vei wrote:

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Dassort wrote:

Hi Vei i try to change Gem from your PoB
i change from Awakened ele dmg with atk (642k Dps) to Combustion it show (660k Dps) and both of them have 140% mana multiplier so i want to know it's good or bad to change and why thanks a lot

Hi Dassort,

Thanks for highlighting this. I did what you mentioned and I got the same numbers as you.

Short Answer: Yes, we will change (Awaken) Elemental Damage With Attacks to Combustion

Long Answer: I am not sure what caused the change, Previously I tested the numbers 3 times, 1 time before POB was updated, and 2 times after and confirmed Elemental Damage With Attack(EDWA) + Fire Penetration give the best numbers.

I tested 2 sets of data, Level 20/20% Quality Gems for "End Game" and Level 16/0% Quality Gems for the Tabula Rasa Setup. I took a look back at the Level 16 Gems POB I have and the result is still the same as before, which is EDWA + Fire Penetration still give better numbers than Combustion + Fire Penetration so I am a bit puzzled why the numbers for Level 20/20% Quality Gems changed.

Maybe some numbers/calculations could have been updated in POB. I don't have any way to get back the old numbers so there's no way for me to find out what changed. For now, I compared the Level 20 Gem Numbers in POB to the one on POE's website and confirmed they are the same.


Since Combustion + Fire Penetration gave us better numbers, we will go for these 2 gems then, which means the Elemental Hit Setup in our Frostferno will be:

Elemental Hit + Ballista Totem + Combustion + (Awakened) Fire Penetration

This will require 2 Red 1 Blue and 1 Green Socket, similar to what we need for the helm in the past.

Here's the Updated POB to reflect the changes:

(25th July 2021) 3.15 POB(Update 2): https://pastebin.com/V9dDn3Ji (Awakened EDWA Gem in Helm swapped for Combustion)

The guide will be updated shortly to reflect this change.

Mate , you're the Flash when we talk about the speed of answering questions and guide updates. Thanks for your work, really :)

After my message about rough prices on jewels got 2 EX drops in 20 mins, so happy rn . Can afford almost everything to start transition to Ele hit!