[3.25] The Infused Trickster | Demo videos up : T17 Fortress | T17 Citadel

Cyberpsycho setup - 3.21

https://pobb.in/XzJLnLc1Bq-i

Heatshiver, Marylene's amulet, Arn's Anguish belt (Brutal charges) and two Call of the Brotherhood rings.

Viridi setup - 3.20

https://pastebin.com/CsSj44h4

Viridi's Veil setup : pseudo-low life, curse immune.

* The Essential Guide to the Infused Trickster (3.18)

> The main mechanics of the build, explained in a short format. Viridi's setup.

3.21

#5 : The Annihilating Tendrils. New setup with the Annihilating Light staff : 60% more DPS ! Will be updated for 3.22.

#4 : Perfect Crime. Testing the Triggerbots granted by Saboteur's Perfect Crime ascendancy, so as to trigger the spells channelled with LT.

#3 : Lightning Aegis. With Perepiteia shield.

#2 : Full Borg. With Phantasmal LT.

#1 : Cyberpsycho. With normal LT.

3.20

Skills medley. LT channelling : Arc, Crackling Lance, Shock Nova or Spark.

Vaal Smite

3.19

#5 : More Punk Than Machine

#4 : Eradication. Possessed Eradicator with 45% life as extra ES.

#3 : A Digital Storm. LT + Cast While Channeling + Shock Nova.

#2 : Going to level 95
Using Phantasmal Lightning Tendrils to inflict big shocks. Galvanic Field against bosses.

#1 : Electronic Nightmare
Shock Nova, Galvanic Field.

3.18

* Raw Power
> 4mn of complete run in a juicy Minotaur map, played live on the music !
The video displays the character with Skin of the Lords, legacy sceptre and Born in the Shadows from Forbidden jewels.

3.17

#6-7 : Born In The Shadows, Raised In The Fury !
#5 : The Rampage. LT level 30, 10M DPS with Strong Pulse. A lot of farming and bossing.
#4 : Electric Judgement. The Searing Exarch.
#3 : The Trial. T16 Coward's Trial in league.
#2 : The Stormweaver. T4 map in league with Ritual and Archnemesis.
#1 : Divine Wrath. Showcasing the "unlimited power" of the build after the 3.17 huge buff to Lightning Tendrils.

3.16

#1 : Traffic Jam
#2 : Divine Shield

3.15

#3 : The Eradicator. A kind of cyberpunk short movie against the master of Lightning Tendrils !

#2 : Steam Wars. Using Secrets of Suffering to brittle and sap enemies, while the Skitterbots still shock and chill them.

#1 : Metamorph Factory. T16 Foundry, twinned bosses, Metamorph.

3.14
#4 : Steampunk. A Cyberpunk-inspired video, with a 10-boss fight and some intense farming.

#3 : Force Lightning. Two Cast While Channeling skills : Crackling Lance for farming, Wave of Conviction for bossing.

#2 : Liquid Nitrogen. Self-chill setup.

#1 : The Dark Seer - Fanaticism. A variant of the build with the Inquisitor, featuring Fanaticism.

#1 : Pain Attunement. Testing the Viridi's setup in several encounters : Ritual in Vaal Temple boss room, T16 Infused Beachhead...

3.13

#8 : Alive and Kicking ! The Shaper with Maven. Leap Slam replaces Lightning Warp.

#7 : T16 Towerless Blighted Map. Using Hydrosphere as a moving tower that replaces all the other !

#6 : Righteous Discipline. Adding Vaal Righteous Fire against bosses.

#5bis : Playing bowling with Hydrosphere - US version. An alternative edit of the previous video, which is blocked in the USA due to copyright claims.

#5 : Playing bowling with Hydrosphere.

#4 : 10 boss fight.

#3 : T16 Cage - Rampage up to 1000 !

#2bis : Pure Uul-Netol's breachstone. Correcting calculations for Phantasmal LT from the previous video.

#2 : The Elder with Maven. Using Phantasmal LT.

#1 : Trinity. Using this new support thanks to a Call of the Brotherhood ring.

Archnemesis League

- level 93 : https://pastebin.com/eVXLfAuU
- level 92 : https://pastebin.com/fg8DWimS
- level 90 : https://pastebin.com/HCGs8dSr
- level 88 : https://pastebin.com/N75aCJKk
- level 85 : https://pastebin.com/2tsJGwPq
- level 78 : https://pastebin.com/HyE9fEq6
- level 69 : https://pastebin.com/UaTuquFt
- level 39 : https://pastebin.com/pnaBj0Lu
- level 21 : https://pastebin.com/JppSQpVH

LT = Lightning Tendrils

1- Level 29 Lightning Tendrils gem.

The spell skills scale very fast with the level of the gem. We reach level 29 with :
* A level 21 gem for LT
* Skin of the Lords : +2 levels to all socketed gems
* Empower level 3 becomes level 5 with Skin of the Lords : +4 levels
* Awakened Added Lightning Dmg at least level 3 : +1
* On the shield : +1 level to all lightning spell skill gems

* For level 30, you'd need "+1 level to all lightning skill gems" on the amulet.

Now let's buff LT as much as we can !

2- Trinity

Trinity support grants a lot of dmg, but you need to alternate between two kinds of elem dmg.
Basically, you'd need two skills, for instance one fire and one cold.
But we can do this with LT alone, by using Call of the Brotherhood ring : it converts 40% of lightning dmg to cold, which is sufficient to proc Trinity effect.
Due to the high variance in lightning skill dmg, some hits of LT will deal a majority of lightning, some a majority of cold.
You can add elem quality with Tubulent Catalysts to get 48% lightning converted to cold, but that's not necessary.

3 - Elemental dmg gained as extra chaos

Harness the Void node on the Ascendancy grants a % of elemental dmg gained as extra chaos.
Since we convert a portion of lightning dmg to cold dmg, Harness the Void use is doubled.
Because "gained as extra" is counted before "converted to".

This is a bit technical, so let's take simple numbers:


4 - Secrets of Suffering

Secrets of Suffering (SoS) grants a LOT of dmg !
Sure you can't shock and freeze.
But Cold ailment becomes Brittle, which raises your base crit chance, making it easy to get 100% crit chance.
You have two sources of SoS :
- The Interrogation small cluster jewel
- An Alternating Sceptre, which has SoS as implicit

Additionnaly, the lightning ailment becomes Sap, which reduces the dmg dealt by enemies.

Which leave us the last alternate ailment to consider...

5 - Scorch

With SoS, Fire ailment becomes Scorch, which reduces ALL enemies elemental resistances.
Nearby enemies are scorched thx to Legacy of Fury boots, which also proc cool burning explosions.
And we increase Scorch effect with Increases effect of elemental ailments on the tree.

Now it's time to add Auras.

6 - Reduced mana reserved

We use three clusters on the tree to reduce the mana reservation of auras : Influence, Charisma and Sovereignty.
+ we link Wrath with Divine Blessing to make it a temporary aura that reserve no mana.

Auras : Determination, Discipline, Purity of Elements, Vitality, Zealotry + Wrath.
To reserve all these auras, you will need an Enlighten level 3 linked to Determination, Purity and Zealotry.

7 - Upgrading Energy Shield

- With Eldritch Battery + Mind Over Matter, we can reserve all our mana and still use the ES to take 30% of dmg before life.
- With Frost Shield, we can buff our ES while stationary, taking less dmg.
- With Divine Shield keystone, we quickly regen ES when hit by phys dmg. (/!\ You will need to remove it against the Infinite Hunger, because its debuff will destroy your armour, preventing you from regenerating ES.)

* Optionnally, we can use Corrupted Soul from a Glorious Vanity jewel of Doryani to get 15% of life as extra ES.

8 - Curse immunity + pseudo low-life setup

- Immunity to all elem ailments from Purity of Elements.

- Curse immunity comes from :
Viridi's Veil helmet + magic ring in right slot + Coward's Legacy belt.

- 30% more spell dmg while on low-life with Pain Attunement keystone.

9 - Cast While Channeling

I use LT + CwC + Crackling Lance for farming.
Crackling Lance feels like a natural extension for LT, giving it the AoE it lacks.

Other skills you can channel :
* Arc
* Ball Lightning
* Shock Nova (with Secrets of Suffering, it becomes a Sap Nova !)

* Storm Call is too slow and weak

10 - Miscellaneous

- Assassin's Mark for more dmg.
- I like to use Vortex on left-mouse button. Despite the use of Secrets of Suffering, Vortex can still chill enemies, which is a good defense.
- Withering Step, if that's not too much button clicking for you.