Grinding Gear Games has announced Path of Exile: Synthesis, its newest expansion and Challenge League for its free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile. TThe Shadow is Path of Exile's dexterity/intelligence hybrid class. R4PG lists some PoE Synthesis Shadow Assassin, Saboteur, Trickster builds for starter that can help players quickly leveling, funny and interesting. There are also many powerful builds that can endgame. For old players, if you haven't tried these builds before, there is no harm in trying it. 

 

Top 3.6 Assassin Builds

POE Synthesis Shadow Ice Nova Assassin Build - Fast Clearspeed, High DPS

Pros

  • + Up to 7m Shaper DPS (~2 sec per phase)
  • + Amazing clearspeed and Movement Speed
  • + ~8000 EHP @lvl 90
  • + Everything dies instantly with best defense

Cons

  • - Melee Can be hard to dodge stuff with Cyclone • Not the cheapest build out there (not very expensive either).

 

End-Game PoB: https://pastebin.com/e6zZEEr1

 

Top 3.6 Saboteur Builds

POE Synthesis Shadow Lightning Trap Saboteur Build - Cheap, Fast Mapping, Endgame

Pros

  • Start game and End game Easy
  • Cheap to kill uber elder (<50c gear)
  • Fast to kill uber elder (< 2 minute)
  • Delve more than 1500 depth(
  • Fast mapping(87%IIQ 280%IIR 1:20 map T15 Belfre or 2:30 T16 Burial Chambers)
  • Magic find(87%IIQ 280%IIR and easy to mapping)
  • Any map affix can be completed
  • High movement speed, Run lab(MF gear 230% UP, Fight gear 250% UP)

Cons

  • - may be not suitable for some demanding players.

 

Path of Building Link links: https://pastebin.com/dM3fka7N

 

POE Synthesis Shadow Lightning Spire Arc Saboteur Build - Fast, Mapping, Endgame

Pros

  • + great map clear speed
  • + serious firepower with very low investment
  • + end-game viable (need very good reflexes for end-game though!)
  • + massive life regen (up to 20% per second and even more with Tinkerskin)

Cons

  • - Squishy as low Life pool (hard to go over 5k)
  • - Pretty slow with a wand and Flame Dash
  • - sketchy for HC

     

 

Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/qwAv98Cw

 

Top 3.6 Trickster Builds

POE Synthesis Shadow Caustic Arrow Trickster Build - Safe, Hardcore, Endgame

Pros

  • + Trickster's Patient reaper makes mapping a complete breeze
  • + Smooth leveling process and transition into late game
  • + Can preform amazing on a budget
  • + Very defensive oriented, good for hardcore (Although not played myself)
  • + Highly scalable although can get expensive quick.
  • + Every piece of gear is rare no required uniques, Even kaoms can be supplemented for a 6link if you don't enjoy weapon swapping.
  • + Can run any combination of Map Mods perfectly fine, no gear swaps needed.
  • + Able to run Toxic rain and Caustic arrow, Two fun and new skills

Cons

  • - Single target becomes quite lackluster towards endgame guardians, although very do-able.
  • - Again single target sustain is an issue when it comes to harder bosses, relying on flasks/passive regeneration.
  • - Caustic arrow not being able to target flying enemies. Small gripe but in some cases can be annoying (Haku missions, Arsenal map) although having a weapon swap for toxic rain fixes this.
  • - Ideally needing a +1 curse amulet to take full advantage of mana reservations.

 

Path of Building Link links: https://pastebin.com/rqQ7xcND

 

POE Synthesis Shadow Essence Drain Contagion Trickster Build - Insanely, Start with Cheap

Pros

  • + insanely high exp/h gain
  • + can level as itself without any external abilities required.
  • + start with a very low budget
  • + It's works wonders in low budget to accumulate enough currency fast for the higher budget version.
  • + Has one of the most amazing feeling

Cons

  • - if you are looking to kill end-game bosses this build CAN do them, but will require investment and even at that point there are a lot of other builds that would work better than this

 

Path of Building Link links: https://pastebin.com/k3EeeBqk