POE 3.5 Betrayal Witch

"Feed a storm with savage intent and not even the strongest walls will hold it back."

Elementalists deal in all things elemental. They have access to conditional but powerful element damage bonuses, some granted periodically or with a skill requirement.

The purpose of this build is to do all endgame content on a budget. Including Shaper, Uber Elder, Hitting Level 100. As a result, this build needs speed, damage and survivability.

 

Quick Jump

 

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • + Super Fast
  • + Very Tanky (enough to tank Shaper Slam)
  • + Variety of ways to gear
  • + Lots of ways to improve gear/build
  • + Easy to start up on a budget
  • + Very good Single Target DPS with Lightning Spire Trap
  • + Excellent AoE DPS with Storm Brand
  • + Brainless
  • + Flexible

Cons

  • - Storm Brand needs LS to help Single Target when not geared.
  • - Lightning Spire Trap can sometimes not activate if a mob moves.
  • - Not invincible

 

 

Uber Elder Kill

 

Skill Tree 

Ascendancy

Shaper of Desolation -> Beacon of Ruin -> Pendulum of Destruction -> Mastermind of Discord

Bandits

Kill all for the 2 Skill Points

Passive Tree


 

Gems Setup

Helmet

Flame Dash - Cast when Damage Taken (7) - Warlords Mark (10) - Immortal Call(6)

Gloves

Lightning Spire Trap - Added Lightning Damage - Lightning Penetration Support - Controlled Destruction

Boots

Shield Charge - Fortify Support - Multiple Totems Support - Faster Attacks

Weapon

Herald of Thunder - Elemental Weakness - Curse On Hit

Shield

Brand Recall - Arcane Surge - Empower

Chest

Storm Brand - Added Cold Damage - Hypothermia - Lightning Penetratino - Controlled Destruction - Concentrated Effect

 

Gear

Overview

Detail

  • Weapon 1: Tempest Bane, Sambar Sceptre
  • Weapon 2: Masna Ecli.sis Pinnacle Tower Shield 
  • Helmet: Hate Horn, Royal Burgonet
  • Body Armour: Carcass Jack, Varnished Coat
  • Gloves: Dragon Grasp, Hydrascale Gauntlets
  • Boots: Grim Track, Strapped Boots
  • Amulet: Sol Rosary, Turquoise Amulet
  • Ring 1, Ring: Blood Eye, Opal Ring Grim, Fate Gyre, Prismatic Ring
  • Belt: Torment Harness, Stygian Vise
  • Abyssal: Foul Iridescence, Hypnotic Eye Jewel

Flask

  • Chemist's Basalt Flask of Staunching
  • Heated Imbued Wand of Disaster
  • Chemist's Jade Flask of Grounding
  • Ample Stibnite Flask of Warding
  • Seething Divine Life Flask of Heat

 

Leveling

Level with Freezing Pulse and get Frost Bomb at level 4 - smooth sailing until you get Storm Brand at level 12. While leveling you also to want to use another skill for more DPS against bosses - I recommend Blade Vortex.

First 47 Points

For Leveling you also want to pick up Flame Dash, Brand Recall and Arcane Surge ASAP in a 3L. This will help with mobility, mana regen and give you more damage overall. This is a permanent setup pretty much even deep into endgame until you get en Empower level 3. For Auras I just used Herald of Thunder and Wrath

At Level 28 you'll want to pick up a Lightning Spire Trap, helps single Target immensely. Run it in a 4L. More sockets you have while leveling more smoother this build becomes.

Links while leveling are

Storm Brand - Controlled Destruction - Elemental Focus - Added Lightning Damage

This is until level 31 where you get your Ascendancy first Ascendancy - Shaper of Desolation. At this point , replace Elemental Focus for Lightning Penetration. At level 38 you Replace Added Lightning Damage for Concentrated Effect.

Your new 4L at level 38 is

Storm Brand - Controlled Destruction - Concentrated Effect - Lightning Penetration

If you can get a 5L or 6L (Tabula Rasa) - You can do

Storm Brand - Controlled Destruction - Concentrated Effect - Lightning Penetration - Faster Casting - Added Lightning Damage

It's important to note this is the pure leveling setup. I personally take Hypothermia and Added Cold damage later on for survivability in maps.

Tree at 84 Points

This is pretty much the endgame tree. At this point you can decide what you want more, life, damage utility.

Tree at 105 Points

This is level 82. At this point pick what you feel like you need most.

Tree at Level 95 - 118 Points

 

Expectations & POB

POB link: https://pastebin.com/G0E9Csh0

(If you do not know how to use it, see the instructions below, otherwise please ignore)

  • Download Path of Building (link: https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding)
  • Copy pastebin URL.
  • Launch path of building.
  • Click on Import/Export.
  • Click Import from Pastebin
  • Paste the URL copied in step 2.
  • Done!