Kid Theifs - Thunder Trap Shadow** Lots'a Numbers

Introducing my latest project to be, The Thunder Trap Shadow.
Days in the making tieing everything together I have devised an end game plan to be reached.

** Making some updates and considering an alternate to some things.
** Added Leveling Section, Discovered some errors in the passive tree.
** Critical Strike Chance with daggers "Does Not" work with spells.
** Cannot detonate "traps" manually, but they trigger often.
** May switch out Voidbringers later.


Table of contents:

Overview of Inventory
Passive Tree + Bandits
Special Gear Crafting
Base Stats & Gem Breakdown
DPS Outlook
Leveling & Farming Guide


So what's this all about you ask? well the key idea is to have manageable crafting in completing a character, while maximizing it's potential with items synergizing efficiently.
The heavy emphasis on uniques in this build makes it a lot easier to get near Best In Slots
without having to craft endless amounts of gear. The uniques themselves in this build tie in together specially to make it best overall to use uniques over rares. As we walk through the theorycraft, you will see how this all pans out :)

Level 92 "completion" Bandits: Alira - Passive - Alira
Simple enough, get more mana to up the base to help with regen and depth of pool to cast the high cost trap spells and skeleton totem. You don't need any physical, cast speed, or attack speed from cruel difficulty and finally the power charge ties in with the crit/spell damage theme of the build.

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Special Gear Crafting
This next section is an "indepth" look into which rare items need to be crafted. If you decide to follow my build I hope this piece I researched and put together is a handy ledger for you to use and simplify your crafting processes. Before opening this next section, the image is rather large and might confuse you for a second lol ^^ but this is 3 items side by side where the main stats of the item are under the "possible outcome" underneath that are all the possible prefix's and suffix's that item type can have. This will help you calculate the odds to get the right stats when you craft up.

Rare Items to Craft in the Build <-- Open me in New Window!

Potions will be as such:
Hallowed Mana - Dispel Bleeding/Recharge on Crit
Ruby Flask - Dispel Burn/Recharge on Crit
Topaz Flask - Dispel Shock/Recharge on Crit
Granite Flask - Curse Immune/Recharge on Crit
Quicksilver - Move Speed/Recharge on Crit

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Base Stats & Gem Breakdown

Starting with the builds gem setup, a quick mention that pierce/lightpen should be used early game. I can't test it for a while but I think that pierce will be best while leveling and farming in docks for new leagues because it will help you clear faster. When you get into the big game and get to your 6L my idea is to use the new Empower gem to just bolster everything up without adding any more mana costs.

Gem Slots & Macros <-- Open me in New Window!

Base stats in here, I use the gear in the above section of special crafting in my calculations to get a better picture of what we will end up with after all this investment.


Elemental Calculations and Aura Reservations

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DPS Outlook

This is one of the more exciting sections :D how much Whupass are we dishing out. Well as far as I can tell, it's a Helluv a lot my friends >_> time for some more reading.



Some micellaneous additions with Movespeed & Cast Costs

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Leveling & Farming Guide

Normal Mode


Cruel Mode

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If anyone wants to crunch some of the numbers and leave some suggestions/comments please feel free to do so :) all in the process of fine tuning a good build.
I'll be putting this into practice when the new league comes out
wish me luck and all the same to you guys too!

Point blank won't work. Only for projectile "attacks"

indeed sir it doesn't, thx for pointing that one out :)

You don't take the second trap cluster? The trap laying speed could be useful?
Also, a trap focus would go nicely with dual or triple totem. Spork, arc or ice spear?

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYB_5MeGtIZ1tG0OOUZjDYTnqSRfjNd8nDVwFFwUuOEY0PcYjN4HvDz6ha_8uHC7EcGX2rb54_67BjBxSy_hq4V19eGVmN718Ntf8Yc3JMntAwRD2-eH1t5z36wQ9ID2z8nbqqukyo4iELyHaKjwfNtGS0fTLNQMNteXvr8qypbO-Hi96cru9YRUI0Z4BLdjI-mRKtVriycwbTk7HYR3nfVT66zBUJBloIQ37C29xEv1AV1ipma62NPv0NUHdm0xSsKwQDbGhB79Uu-Oofbqvg=


There's my pure CI lightening trapper theory passives
Uses power siphon to obtain power charges

Vaal Pact? Ghost Reaver? Pain Attunement? They are useless..
Pain Attunement works only if you're on low life, and being a CI meaan you're Always on full life

Traps don't leech, o Vaal Pact and Ghost Reaver are useless. You can invest those nodes in more ES or crit chence

wow cool to see people talking about this build :D I'm going to make a Huuuuuge update to this thread soon! so stay tuned ;) I got big surprises for ya'll.

Bump for interest

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Chiliconkarma wrote:

You don't take the second trap cluster? The trap laying speed could be useful?
Also, a trap focus would go nicely with dual or triple totem. Spork, arc or ice spear?

I don't think that the 2nd cluster is really necessary. The first ring of traps is useful mostly because of the +1 to traps and you get some extra speed from that to help things along. The cost of getting the 2nd ring is 6 more passive points, for those points you can invest into the whole ring of Anti-Status ailments, 70% More crit multiplier Or a whole side of extra ES%/Crit Chance. So that's why I opt to leave this out.

In my tree I took anti status' because I like the idea of being immune to most things ^^ The crux in this build is the Total ES is low compared to other builds. 6500 is a long end game, before that this will be sitting at around 4-5K which is pretty low. That said I imagine that the build will have it's aces in surviving due to the wide range of defenses against all types of damage & being ranged behind a skelly totem with permanent temporal chains curse.

Dual Totems is not really an option because the dual totem keystone is really too far away for a shadow to reach while maintaining this much survivability and crit chance. Soul mantle IMO is not really the best idea because you won't get enough ES/Resistance & then theres the drawback of curse reflect which can be a little annoying and sometimes dangerous.

While leveling and maybe even in the endgame (Need to do more tests later) Ice spear is best to be used as a charger more than anything else. It also keeps you engaged more physically and makes playing feel more "active".

Wondering if anyone has any information on how crits on traps behave. My question is - After the remote mine is placed, detonated and has thrown 3 traps, do each of the traps from then on perform a crit? or is the crit decided by the first mine layed on the ground.