[POE 3.18] Beginner Friendly Leveling Guide With Chaos Spells: ED + Contagion + Blight + Bane

[Music] hi guys esmo here and today i have for you a bit of a longer video a lot of people have been asking for a full leveling video so this is going to be one of that we're going to call this character a small uh let's say purple stuff because we're gonna be leveling with a chaos skill so this is like a fresh start and so self found so this is gonna show you uh what you would do as a completely fresh character i'll try to give a lot of tips for the beginners and people who are wondering how to level this character a lot of people have been asking also for how to level with chaos skills because i recently released um edie contagion trickster build and this is going to be fairly similar uh this is going to be on a witch but you're going to have access to most of the same gems not everything because you won't get like spelled to them and wither but you don't need to necessarily use that so i'll try to explain as much as i possibly can and this video is intended to be basically like a chill leveling well you can follow along and learn stuff there's gonna be a pob in the description with the exact skill tree that i'm gonna be following and while i'm doing this i'm also going to be trying to figure out how to do probably soul render build because i have an idea for a solvent occultist stacking a lot of explodes and having like a very safe clear for like crazy expedition encounters and the most juiced maps possible so this is supposed to be a character for that that can can do that type of a content but first of course we have to level through the story so i'm gonna try to explain as much as possible so the passives are gonna be in the uh description we're gonna grab a blight and i'm gonna make a point actually to level uh as much as possible with chaos skills because people are saying like how do i level that how do i level this character uh because they think that you cannot level with these skills but you actually can and i'm gonna show you how it's not the fastest it's not maybe the optimal way of doing it uh but it's definitely something you can do um we're looking for ones that have like plus two chaos we're looking for ones that have to that have the links that we need um so the links that we need are like blue blue blue and blue blue green that's the majority of the stuff that we need so from now on i'm basically gonna be just using the uh chaos skills so you wanna set uh attack without moving so you click on a skill and set set always attack without moving this is pretty important it's gonna make it so that you can press the button and you immediately cast the skill instead of you having to wait for your character to uh move somewhere where your character can actually target uh you know the enemy uh so this is something that i definitely recommend doing we are not leveling the uh arcane search so we right click that and normally you don't want to kill stuff here in the coast you can skip that but because we're playing with a weak skill blight like blight early on this week later on we're gonna have crazy uh good damage but for now we're not gonna have that good of a damage so we need to compensate for that with levels because uh these uh skills like when you're leveling with spells most of your power comes from the level so if at any point of this leveling you feel a little bit weak uh you need to probably gain some levels and xp to level the gems so we're encountering mudflats this is gonna be uh where a lot of people die because the roads are scary and if you find some magic rust then you're probably going to die but that's normal that's just part of the game so i'll try to kill a bunch of them try to move around them get a medium life flask once you open the roanest they become enraged and they do more damage so you want to make sure you clear it out before uh and yeah we're just gonna slightly over level i mean over level we're gonna like stay on like around the levels of the zone uh magic packs give a lot of xp so you can see like if i kill this magic pack which is gonna take some time holy that's all the bras so i'm trying to just move around them and slow them continuously so they cannot attack me this is taking ages but at least we're gonna get a good amount of experience for killing them because this is uh a lot of blue monsters i can equip this chest that's gonna give me a lot of extra survivability early on a lot of people tend to not equip a chest because it slows you down uh it has like a hidden uh movement speed modifier i think it's like minus five for a heavy one minus three for a light one but it's totally fine to equip if you are worried about uh killing ross in fact actually a lot of racers uh if they find a chest early on they keep it in their inventory and they equip it for fighting the ross just to fight the ross a little bit safer because of course they're super deadly and even the racers and players who are very advanced are gonna die to them as you can see we didn't die using pretty weak skill picking spell damage um i could go right now i'm level four so if you wanted to you could go to lionize and you can pick up uh extra skill so you could pick up contagion for example and frost blink and then we can look for the socket colors that we need which are like blue blue blue so i'm gonna pick up this um and then we're gonna see also if we have something here so we unfortunately don't i can check for like chaos skill gems nothing available here so we're just gonna grab the contagion with uh arcane surge and then we're gonna grab the frost blank and we can go to the coast so we get contagion we got frost blink and we're gonna try to put them all on attack without moving as well attack without moving okay and so contagion lasts uh how long or let's pick up the wisdom scroll contagion lasts right now four seconds so we put it on and then we blight for four seconds okay we see a ramp here so i'm going the other way because that means it's going to be actually closer to go this way so you can put contagion and cross blink away and that will pretty much kill everything in the back so all i need to do is put contagion first blink away and that's gonna be enough contagion do this cross blink away some lighting contagion okay very easy pick up everything that he dropped and then we can go to the character screen and press enter if you get awakened pov trade you can set up a hotkey for going to the character screen which is gonna make it faster for you right all right since we didn't level the shop is gonna have the exact same stuff because uh again we didn't level i can potentially pick up this if i want to but i don't really okay so now we're gonna get a couple of gems we're gonna get quicksilver we're gonna get infused channeling and then i don't think we need to pick up anything else so we can just put infused channeling with blight now grab this we go on we go on dnd because people are messaging me even though i'm an ssf right now as you can see ssf sent to the league all right uh and then okay let's move this important to equip quicksilver before you uh exit the town pick up chain belt uh if you equip the flask before you exit the town you're going to get the flask charges so that is really helpful okay we see an essence what kind of essence is that that's essence of whoa which is gonna actually give me spell damage so that's a very useful essence so i definitely want to do that one it's gonna be a little bit tough but that's okay let's blite these okay pick up this pick up this pick up this pick up this and since we see this bridge here whenever you see this bridge here you can leave a portal uh and we're gonna come back to this portal later it's basically a faster way of getting everything done in the early game then it would otherwise be oh wait this is a what oh yeah this is the exit okay all right we're level five on the ledge probably level a little bit more that means i should be killing a little bit more stuff i'm gonna use this essence either on boots if i find boots with good links or i'm gonna use it on oh my god we're taking so much damage or i'm gonna use it on a wand potentially because with this character we don't benefit from flat damage like cold damage or lightning damage or fire damage like added to spells that much because we're doing damage over time rather than uh rather than hits okay you can see that i just got a notification from my loot filter now we got good sockets that i'm gonna need uh i'm gonna take this off for a moment do this do this um i recommend uh grabbing a loot filter that is uh like for example neversyncs loot filters semi-strict is gonna be a good loot filter to get you started if you want the specific loot filter that i'm using which is like caster summoner leveling filter you can check out a patreon link in the description i basically have my loot filters available for patreon supporters and they're like specifically tailored for leveling this stuff but you will be just fine by just going to filterblade.xyz and picking up a semi-strict loot filter from there it's gonna show you all of the stuff that you need you just need to pay attention to what you're dropping and you might not get all these like sound notifications and color highlights and so on all right we got a transmutation we got some gloves in here we got a better vana flask okay i'm getting blasted here okay we're leveling feel like i might want to invest in some life okay magic boots uh magic boots are worth identifying because they can potentially have movement speed these don't but movement speed is super important uh so it's definitely worth looking for it i can equip this probably it's gonna give me some extra life all right we dropped a portal but i can't be bothered going back for it this is a very dangerous zone because these goats are super scary so the game really discourages you from rushing through it very fast early on at least because these monsters uh do significantly more damage if you have a low health and if you're like not wearing a chest for example it's nice to have some energy shield because if you have at least uh like one energy shield i'm just gonna dodge all of that if you have at least one energy shield one point of energy shield over here um then you're gonna have like an inherent uh 50 percent uh stun resistance right so every time you would have been stunned it's gonna roll 50 50 if you're gonna get stunned or not if you had energy shield when you were hit all right let's go to town now and then we take the portal so it's gonna be up or down it's down okay good so i'm going the right way now we're gonna do the skill point i don't have a level eight yet so no reason to go talk to the vendor but when i hit level eight maybe i could have checked the shop if there are some like there's some good stuff because if you find like a wand with uh plus one to level of all chaos spells or something like that that would be incredibly strong for your leveling okay so i'm killing these magic guys all right let's grab some extra life and mana all right second four seconds of this and then we're blasting with a blight all right pick up everything uh let's do a little bit of a tetris yo can do this can i do this can i do this and i can do this there we go don't need to necessarily do it early on it's okay to leave some magic items and so on let's grab the skill point let's sell it um yes we probably don't need like i could identify it uh i got fire damage over time spell damage it's not necessarily great the most important thing early on are the links links are what you really care about early on uh let's do this let's see if there are any colors that we need okay so we've got blue blue green which is something that we do need so i'm gonna pick that up uh we potentially could grab this as well which is gonna give us a chromatic orb let's see what else we've got we've got void manipulation that's another good one okay there we go we got a really good wand that is uh with the exact colors that we need uh so that's great so we're gonna definitely use that now with void manipulation we can also purchase we have two transmutations so i can purchase for example efficacy and then we can put contagion in that and then i could replace this and we can have for example blight infused channeling and then efficacy would be actually the preferred one um this does have an intelligence requirement so here's what we can try to do we can try to buy this chromatic which is rgb combined sell it and then we can try to chrome this helmet and if we chrome this helmet into blue blue blue didn't work out so unfortunately i cannot do that so let's still do just infuse channeling and leave it for now and then we're gonna go combine frostblink with arcane surge put this in the off hand and uh we're good to go all right so let's sell this if you want some scrolls you can start armors armor scraps as well and then we can also sell uh yards one for squirrel fragment each uh all right so i could potentially put the whispering essence uh of woe in here that would increase my spell damage because this has good links um and i could also do the recipe if you exchanged a rare chain belt uh i think it's like rare chain belt plus let's see your air chain build let me check this recipe very quickly so i can actually not lie to you so we'll go if you ever wonder about stuff like that you can go to poe ninja dot net and then you can sorry not pure ninja poe wiki dot net and then we can go to uh recipe okay uh recipe and then we can go for let's see um chain belt magic weapon will increase spell damage so okay blacksmith whetstone yeah that's what you do you use blacksmith redstone with magic rear or unique chain belt and scepter staff wand or dagger and you're gonna have a magic weapon with 10 to 29 increased spell damage right so this is going to be similar to what we're gonna get with this essence so we drop this essence and we've got a little bit of extra spell damage okay so that's it um anything else here that we need not really the only thing that i would buy now would be the another efficacy for blight so i have blight and fuse channeling and that but i don't have the socket right now so i'm not going to worry about it we're just going to continue and go to prison i grab some extra life so now my contagion is going to be doing a good amount of damage okay we skipped the trial or is the trial it's gonna be to the right here i think yep so one contagion should be killing most stuff in this area um there is a bleed effect you can grab a steel skin if you want to deal with that or you can just use the strategy of don't get hit don't get hit and don't die i can put this here so we're picking up these magic and rare items just because i want the transmutations right because the transmutations will allow me to pick up all the skill gyms that i need okay so this is gonna be the other way and that's big more life in mana okay pick up the western pick up the portal you can open this usually this okay we got uh as a scepter actually we don't want to wear scepters because i would have to wear two scepters or two ones you cannot mix and match melee and ranged weapons on the receptor there's a lot of bleeding going on here okay these guys are just constantly bleeding me oh what did we drop like a chance orb it's very important to pick up chance orbs early on especially if you want to later do contracts or maps you're going to need a lot of chance orbs in order to purchase them i'm going to actually go to town and we're going to do a couple of things okay first i'm gonna try to make it easier for you for killing bluetooth and for myself i guess uh and then secondly we're gonna sell all this stuff that we don't need i'm gonna id this no movement speed unfortunately then i can sell this for extra scrolls we can check for the colors again that we need so we've got for example a plus one two level of all chaos spell skill gems now this is a ridiculously powerful okay so this is going to make a big difference here and because we're searching for it i'm going to put this in the description as well this rejects you basically paste this and it's going to show you the things that you want to highlight so like movement speed the right colors and so on um so this is perfect so now we're gonna put frost bling arcane surge and this in here uh it's gonna put in the offense so we've got plus one to level of all chaos skill gems now uh which is incredibly strong let's see if we got any other colors that we need nope i can grab this and then we see what we got here i could grab also or is it devouring totem is there a decoy to them does which get a decoy totem which does not get a decoy totem do we get a weather maybe uh whether we don't get weather yet so the only thing that we also could get would be okay i think we're good then i think we're good then i could get potentially like the holy flame totem which is not gonna do much but we just want something to taunt him uh so we take less damage so this is something that you can use uh for this fight even if you're not necessarily what the hell there's an essence here i've never seen an essence here okay that is very interesting we're getting stunned okay that is very interesting okay i can potentially put this on some kind of pair of boots that i find that is going to have um good amount of sockets and links that i need all right bluetooth let's see it's gonna be challenging you can always portal okay put this put this on him okay move away to the side just walk around him put the totem down get out of his way okay and he's dead grab all the items we can go back to town because after you kill a boss like that the next waypoint is usually unlocked automatically so you can just uh go to town and we got another transmutation which means we can potentially purchase uh for example the efficacy or the void manipulation so i would probably grab the void manipulation here uh and we can put the void manipulation with uh let's put arcane surge first thing here we got blight and infused channeling and then we're also getting a couple of new skills so we're getting weather here actually uh so this is great we're getting weather uh we're gonna put it on a totem as well in a moment and then we also need a mobility skill which we're going to get in a moment so we need more transmutations this is telling me okay we need more transmutations so let's try to pick up all the magical items that we find so that we can have easier time and this i can just throw away but i'm helped a little bit because brutus is not really moving we got uh amber amulet which is going to be helpful the the attributes if you're playing on a top part of the tree that you're going to be missing are going to be usually either dexterity or strength so it's good to have those amulets highlighted by the loot filter okay let's grab this let's go now i think i'm gonna go up here right let me quickly consult the pob yep i'm gonna go here wait for a bigger pack to happen and then do damage to it you don't wanna like use your abilities on like couple monsters always want to wait until there's uh more of them as you can see if we just uh first blink away they get low enough so the contagion just keeps spreading between them so it's very very easy level tense after this zone we're gonna actually get much more powerful because we're gonna get essence drain which is gonna be our main damage for a while and then we go here all right nice huge amount of damage so essence drain we get at level 12 so one more level and we're gonna be able to get it these guys have a bunch of uh energy shield but because we're doing chaos damage we don't care about that this is this build is by the way made with uh with that in mind the fact that it's mechanically uh gonna avoid a lot of she still hits me here okay that's incredible you don't want to fight that thing it's a kind of a waste of time but mechanically like this build is supposed to avoid all the issues that other builds have such as proxy shields such as um different like monster mods where like they block damage you don't care about monsters blocking damage because you're doing damage over time i can pick up this extra chromatic chromatics are very useful you can go here or some extra damage i said i want to pick up all the magic and rare items and stuff so i'm gonna do that this guy is almost dead so i'm just gonna finish him oh and another magic item okay our skills are leveling because my inventory is kind of full and i really want the extra transmutations i'm gonna take this opportunity to go back to town and i'm level 12 so i can actually pick up the essence train so i'm gonna sell this gonna check for skill gems for colors that i need um we can potentially grab these try to maybe recolor them unfortunate all right and then we've grabbed the essence drain which is going to go actually it's going to going to go instead of contagion in here and contagion doesn't really need anything i can put contagion with arcane surge for example but i think frostblink has lower cost but yeah i'm gonna put it with this just for some more damage um we're looking for something like chaos damage or something like that uh which we don't find in here that's okay uh i could potentially use the blue blue blue because the the ones that i have are not grade so i could potentially use a blue blue blue one like this um and then we can drop the void manipulation in here frost blink efficacy essence drain and then in the blue blue blue we can have uh yeah i would normally have uh blight and fuse channeling efficacy and here here we have void manipulation so we can have contagion arcane surge void manipulation for example we can drop that in the off hand let's do it like this and then one more thing that i would like to pick up i'm going to put weather here and then there's going to be weather totem here uh spell totem here but i don't have enough um transmutation shards yet but once i'm gonna have that i'm gonna pick up this uh spell totem for that okay so i think we're ready for that so we've got the essence drain let's go to the ship's graveyard so essence drain contagion um blight okay we do it like this and we got weather as well if i want to ever cast it okay okay fair grace is here whether a weather is best on a bottom but we got we have it like this for now so what you do is you put contagion and then you shoot essence drain on something that has contagion on it and it's gonna keep spreading like this so i put it on that guy and i can put weather as well or just spam light there we go okay we can go back to town and maybe get the totem let's see if i have enough to sell okay movement speed please decrease movement speed perfect we got ms boots uh unfortunately i don't have the transmutation yet but we're gonna get it soon we have a portal you can come back for it and have it for mervail uh oh and we need to get a skill point as well completely forgot okay uh and then we go for this so we can grab this damage over time all right one second okay so we just put ed contagion and just keep moving in contagion and just move never wait for like the monsters uh your loot filter should tell you when something valuable drops behind you there's lots of bleeding here and vulnerability that's a very nasty uh set of debuffs if you really want extra currency what you do is you kill the extra unique monsters it is completely optional normally you don't do it but if you want to get more powerful it's going to slow down your leveling but you're going to get extra stuff like a sapphire ring which we can put in here extra cold rest it's gonna be helpful and now we've got enough for the totem i'm gonna pick up damage over time multiplier just dash through these guys so we're missing dexterity which means that's the amulet i should be wearing gonna kill this so it's important to know how long your skills last as well for example my essence drain is like four seconds right now so i should keep that in mind and refresh that every four seconds for example all right we're gonna sell all of that stuff and that's gonna give me enough for the spell totem which i'm gonna put in here and now my wither is um gonna be self-applying which is gonna give us a lot more damage i think we're good for everything so again we're just looking for more transmutations this character likes to have a lot of transmutations some characters when you level them you don't need that many transmutations this character really likes to have a lot of them because if i could i would do so much more if i had more transmutations right now i could craft resistances and so on but i'll have to show that a bit later okay put this essence drain and blight i can put contagion as well spam blight essence drain have the totem here spam blight okay shoot the essence drain contagion put down the totem spam blight essence drain totem contagion blight and she is dead i mean at least her first phase okay try to kill these ads because there is a ton of them here essence drain this contagion spam blight essence drink totem spam blight where is she this way essence drain contagion totems from blight essence drain contagion totems from blight again it just keeps jumping non-stop and she's dead very simple our damage will keep scaling as we get more components of this build it's actually a huge amount of damage let's get to this because this gives me some cast speed actually cast speed is really helpful it makes your character feel less clunky all of your spells go off quicker and it's very nice to have right grab more damage over time all right so all of these um actually if i have like a big big rare weapons potentially what you want to do is identify them because then you're going to get actually more shards of alteration than from other stuff sometimes you're going to get augmentation but that's okay so we've got a couple of these let's see if there's anything good to pick up as well though like in terms of the colors that i need ah i don't think so okay so what we need now is i need i think maybe gloves with better colors something like that okay what we're looking for is the cave now let's level this level is there's the cave um we can enter the cave or leave a portal because of where it is i can actually enter it because i'm not going to really waste any time so in this case actually faster to enter it if it's somewhere like on the top left side or something like that then it's actually faster to just leave a portal there go to the next waypoint and then go back and enter the cave and look out afterwards okay this guy is going to give us a lot of gear okay so we pick up uh everything useful here and we check this for movement speed so movement speed life strength so this is going to be possibly slightly better because of how much life it gives us and that we can keep moving a lot of magic and rare mobs in here very tough uh bears and stuff let's grab this node now 15 to damage overtime multiplier that's a huge amount of damage increase all right we got him um i'd like to pick that up maybe there we go so we come out pretty much the same spot we entered and then we go to here that's actually very quick zone right now our damage is not that great yet but it's gonna go really high up with levels so right now if there are like extra things like for example beasts i don't care about killing beasts that much uh we really need decks so i'm definitely gonna go buy an amulet now so we're gonna sell this stuff and then i'm definitely gonna grab a quick silver flask from here and we're also gonna grab a dex amulet so i'm looking for something actually i'm gonna spend orb of chance uh because transmutations are more valuable to me right now so this is kind of cool that i have an option of spending an orb of chance so this dexterity allows me to level my stuff and we're gonna get some dexterity on the way as we're going later in the opposite direction and maybe i should actually prioritize going there then okay let's sell this because we need some scrolls uh we've got this quicksilvers now we got two quicksilvers to run faster we can sell this and this as well and then we're looking for useful stuff we're looking for useful stuff in here in terms of the colors and links this is kind of useful actually i probably should grab this pair of gloves because i'll probably want to wear that instead i can do this for example i can throw this away all right uh if you want it to be really safe you can also grab um you can also grab something like uh oppa's ring right now if you don't find a topaz ring but you find an iron ring you can make a topaz ring with iron ring and a green skill gem you can make a sapphire ring for cold dress with a iron ring and a blue skill gem and you can make also a fire resistant the ruby ring with red skill gem and an iron ring as you can see i just dumped this and everything around dies i just drop essence drain contagion and things are just dying i'm not gonna be interacting with the league mechanic because this guide is supposed to be uh valid for more than just this one league so we don't want this to throw us off uh i personally usually don't interact with league mechanics until i get to maps but if you're a new player then you can just go ahead and interact with them i think it would be wise for me to pick up this scales damage maybe so we have to go for life and this but it's going to be like one two three four five six uh one two three four five six seven i think we just go to the right side i think we did a great migration right now our damage is gonna suck for a while but it's okay maybe maybe it's gonna be fine because which has to pass to the right side of the tree here and it takes some like unfortunate amount of travel points to do so but it is still worth doing and it's gonna help us with any dex issues that we might have and it's gonna basically get us quicker to that stage and early on you gain the passive points very quickly okay that's actually a weird zone so we have to go up to the trial pick up this orb of chance okay we got sedimus and bone spirit shield which is useful if you're playing a summoner it's not useful for us though you can just run through these drops they don't do that much all right uh so we pick up we swap this flask and then what else do i have these gloves uh if you identify uh uniques they're gonna give you some uh alchemy shards but if you don't identify them they're gonna give you nothing so i want to identify unix if you're gonna sell them and i'm still using frostblank because again to get to get flame dash i would have to spend a transmutation i should probably do it then it's about time to swap to that let's pick up these two things and go back to town right here we're going to pick up our king clock cold snap there's actually nothing that we want to grab from here ah i could pick up cold snap calls that was actually good damage at this point but i don't really need it and anyway okay this might be good uh this is some life and resistances so i'm actually gonna keep that we can throw this let's check for good sockets and uh items of good stuff so this is uh all right as well this has no movement speed and now we have a lot of alterations which we can depend on some stuff from here we can pick up also uh life belt for two scrolls of wisdom that's very useful and then we want to grab i think skitter bots that's gonna increase our damage and then i could grab potentially you don't get a blood rage as a witch so i think that's going to be about it tempest shield potential if i want to be tanky but i would rather get something like for example vitality okay um so now i wanted to grab something from act one yes i wanted to grab something from act one uh to increase our damage further and there's a few things we can do which is uh first of all i want to pick up the vitality uh i'll pick up strength on the way but i don't want it to level further so i can pick up that we can also pick up withering step but we have the wither totem which is better for a single target for for longer fights and that's the only time we pretty much care about it but i want to pick up efficacy so i can put blight and fuse channeling with efficacy because it also gives us duration which helps with blight a lot and then we'll pick up vitality because i would like to run it all right and then we can basically continue now we're gonna go to the left side okay so we're gonna pass now through all these travel nodes and i still didn't pick up lame dash could have picked up flame dash instead of the vitality but it's okay i can actually jump with this yeah okay good i can pick up the armor scrap so now my blight will be actually doing significantly more damage okay we get ambushed by colas all right so in this zone if you want to kill alira uh i think we're gonna kill everything but i can just pick up the waypoint and go do the other stuff uh that is slightly easier first so just go to the trial and excuse me but i think i'm gonna put some mtx on because my character currently looks uh yes okay what are we gonna put in put on we can put on this stuff we can put on this and we can grab the nicer looking essence drain blight contagion wither i can grab this and yeah i think we're good and a nicer shield or no shield actually about that all right slightly better so now my stuff is gonna be looking like a rainbow rather than purple means my name is live until i get the explode node on the ascendancy which is gonna give me the purple explosions i can tell my blight is doing significantly more damage and blight is the thing that you get a lot of your single target from like all of your single target damage comes from blight so you see i didn't attack these uh insects following me until i got to another pack and then i got another pack then i just killed them all with one ad contagion here we're just looking for the trial actually a lot of the time i don't even need to put the essence drain it's still gonna die ouch all right grab this kill stop if you want and then you can just look out because we get the trial that's what we came for and then we grab the dexterity we can check for stuff that we need i don't think there is anything really useful here we can sell this and then we can continue to kill the bandits foreign so let's grab the wisdom scrolls because i don't know if i'm low i'm okay so this shield that i have here with the plus one to level of chaos skill gems this is something that i'm potentially gonna be using for a long time because it's a really massive increase to my power and if you keep searching uh for stuff like that you're actually pretty likely to find uh either chaos damage over time multiplier or uh something like that on a wand or a shield okay you can look out and then we can id this if there's okay we got chaos damage over time multiplier on this wand but because it doesn't have the right colors um i don't really want to use it right now but i'm going to keep it so that's very nice i can sell this as well so we keep this wand i can put it potentially into the stash just so we don't have to worry about it right now but yeah when i get some colors and stuff later on i'll probably uh wear that okay now we can kill alira the order i like to go in this zone is to go where the waypoint uh points away from the road kill alira then go down kill the guard and then go kill the weaver alright and we just kill earlier uh it's really like it's really no need like unless like sometimes when people are like speed running uh they kill they they help alira because it means that they have to spend you know a minute less on like worrying about the resistances uh but it's very very easy to sort your resistances you should never like help alira because you won't be able to fix your resistances now you always gonna be able to fix your resistances it's just gonna take you a minute longer you know it's gonna take you uh some small like extra extra couple crafts you know extra couple items you need to pick up uh that's it so it's not a big deal but if people are speed running and doing that so just know that that's why they're doing it and not because that's necessarily um the best thing to do on every character it gives you some mana but we're already gonna have good mana um we're already gonna have the resistances and the crit multi we'll never gonna use so we don't need the mana we don't need the resist we don't need the crit multi so that's why we're not doing that we don't get einharr here i haven't helped iron her yet and uh he's not coming to my aid for the weaver fight unlucky now we're not getting much power now because we're just grabbing the travel nodes so it's just like intelligence and dexterity and some strength on the way okay we got some chromatics okay we already see the orange doorway which is the exit and actually our essence drain is leveling just in time for this that's perfect okay i just got stunned like crazy holy what the what the what what what what what hello let's throw this am i so slow i've never been this slowed in my life in here like i got slowed and then i got stunned as well that was uh not nice all right pick up everything most importantly the malaga spike and we can go back to down and then we pick up there's a lot of things we can pick up here we can pick up control destruction which is going to be 25 more spell damage which is actually going to be better than a lot of the links we're using if we have the blue sockets like better than void manipulation for example so we can pick that up for the future and then i can sell the other stuff that we have here all right and then we got what else we got after this actually we can also look at these so if you see rings like this look out for rings that have 16 uh two resistances i'm going to show you what to do with this later when i get the currency for it but that's what you want to pick up you want to find rings that have 16 to 2 resistances that is going to be one of the things that helps you a lot with fixing your res okay we got another one that is 16 okay so we got two rings right now called lightning fire lightning so we're gonna wear them later and we're gonna craft on them later i'm gonna show you how faster casting is something you could put on spelt autumn weather if you had the extra sockets and then control destruction is something that you can use as well as cruelty actually but cruelty early on is not gonna be good i think but a control destruction uh is gonna be great with essence drain for example uh which i could put in here let me try actually with this is 25 more spell damage and then efficacy uh like if i had contagion with efficacy i can do for example this contagion with efficacy to avoid manipulation and i can put oh i didn't have skater bots on as well that's a big deal i could do frost blink with arcane surge skater boats are massive as a huge mistake that i didn't have that on actually oh and we can also go to act one pick up um pick up our book of skill so we can grab this and that gives us the strength and then since i have a bunch of chromatics i can likely get a red here and then i can put this here and then this gives us enough strength and we have these two horas right now all right time to go kill oak turn on these auras slide this thing there we go how about we wear this there we go much better do i have a i don't have a transmute i need to get frostblink okay kill oak okay kill the other guys as well shoot a dog grab all of that stuff i'm gonna find a waypoint and then i'm gonna grab all of my stuff actually we can just use a portal so we're gonna do a few things we're gonna sell this gives us a transmute talk to this guy gives us a couple skill points which gets us faster to this now i can go for live but this way actually i'm gonna find damage faster well actually i want to pick up this first one two three ah maybe we go down maybe we go down and i wanted to grab flame dash because it's longer which means it's better and it has three uses of course right that's the main thing awesome funny enough the contagion is doing so much damage pick this up grab the life in here so now we're gonna start to get all the power um i think it was actually a good choice to traverse to that side of the tree early i'm just getting mold from every direction augmentations are great if you grab three early on you're gonna be able to craft some movement speed on your boots if you have an open prefix on them uh it's not level vitality because we might have to exchange the boots and then not have enough strength for it i need to like monitor how much strength i have kill these guys kill these guys so skaterbots are like the only aura right now that is helping us with damage that is taking uh that is giving us shock and chill chill is very nice because it slows the enemies because we do damage over time so we definitely want the enemies to be slow so they don't kill us while we're still damaging them because it takes a while for our spells to kill them that's not instant and it doesn't stun them as well and then also the shock is increasing the damage taken to the enemies so no matter what type of damage you deal or even if you have minions or anything else it's going to increase your single target damage okay this is annoying this is uh very annoying it's like thousands of tanky monsters okay i'm gonna pick up the whetstone this soon we're gonna hear this sound uh when we cast our spells all that soon but eventually okay we grab this this is going to give us a lot of strength and life transmutation nice actually found a very low amount of currency so i guess this run is a good example of how you can progress if you're not getting we get these rings now um so once i okay i have two transmutations so i can show you um i can show you now so here's what you do with these uh we go to our hideout do i have uh oh we can purely trade okay so you want to grab these two rings that have cold and lightning resistances and you want to equip them and you want to see what is your lowest res so you can see fire and cold are my lowest right so what i do is i craft on one of the minecraft fire on one of them i craft cold right one got good roll one got bad roll it's between 16 to 20. but now my resistances are somewhat okay for where i'm at and then you can craft that on other pieces of gear as well as you get more transmutations that's why we're getting these transmutations you can craft you can craft on an item that is just white or you can craft on an item that has an empty prefix which looks like uh this one actually has three prefixes you can see armor life and movement speed so we cannot so we can craft resistances on that because there's empty suffix sorry uh so as you can see resistances are a suffix right there are suffix which means we can craft resistances on these boots for example but if we wanted to craft life on it then we cannot try because it already has live and also it has three prefixes so uh that's the basics of it so these rings are gonna help us um a lot i can get rid of that get rid of that and that's it all right just making a little bit of an order here perfect so early on the gear you're going to be picking up it's going to be dictated 90 by the links right so the main thing is going to be i need the links because it's uh very hard to actually i found a jeweler's orb but it's very rare to be able to like redo the sockets on your items early on uh so you're gonna be uh finding some jewelers orbs and if you're very lucky you'll find like a binding orb uh but it's gonna be the minority of what you're finding most things that you're gonna be able to get are going to be like alterations transmutations some essences um an occasional alchemy orb or chance orb so you're going to be paying attention to sockets more than anything else because you need the sockets more than anything else you got movement speed if i had boots without movement speed i would need uh three augmentations and i would be able to craft movement speed on the boots so now that i have this recipe okay we go to the left here this is a cool actually i'm gonna teach you something about layouts if you look at this zone right it goes like this and like this which means it's probably in this kind of a square right that makes it more likely for the entrance to be somewhere to the left in here rather than to the right because the zones are never like in a big line right usually they're in kind of a square uh so the entrance is going to be here that's something that could help you like figure out where to go in the zone and in the ancient pyramid this is especially prevalent because now i know i'm on the bottom corner of the square so i know it's going to be on one of the other corners of the square that the exit is going to be at so i'm most likely gonna just head up and expect it to be somewhere in the opposite corner and most of the time it's gonna be somewhere in that direction yep as you can see it's on the opposite corner i'm gonna grab this so now you can see this is right corner so now we're looking for the left corner here and this is top corner so now we're looking for the bottom corner it could be also on this side sometimes in here but you know it's going to be like on another corner there we go and the zones get smaller as the pyramid goes to the top pick up this recipe this is a spell damage recipe that is a prefix so if i regal this i'll be able to craft something more on that i should craft on this spell damage chaos damage every time multiplier we're getting lucky we're not finding stuff but other than like the shield but we're getting uh we're getting lucky of the rafts let's put in 4d on this but our damage is definitely not popping off yet and if you are going with something like fire skills orb of storms or storms of a storm blast mine it'd definitely be faster to hear but then you'd have to figure out also how to transition to this right and a lot of people were asking for a way of leveling with just these chaos skills you know how to do it in the simplest way possible so that's why i'm showing that um this is not great so we're just gonna spell that and we can of course like exit the character selection and then we're gonna have the next waypoint every single time after killing a arctic boss oh we got an alchemy nice i wouldn't have seen that if not for the filter okay so as you can see this item has no four sockets because this is coming from a boss item level 25 item level 25 is uh the first item level level where you can find four links so if you want to find them from a vendor for example the vendor always has items of a one item level higher than your character so as soon as we are item as soon as we are character level 24 we can look for um we can look for four for four links and the vendor jewels early honor usually not great it's it's hard to find a jewel that's good and if you're playing in trailig you'd actually buy a unique jewel for one chaos but we'll see maybe i'll migrate the character and um when we get to the later stage and get some chaos to show you what you would buy for your first couple chaos nobody likes this zone because monsters are like so spread out and it's uh hard to move through there we go so here we're looking for another trial and this is crematorium people say um sometimes you'll hear like get fire resistance for this zone very important to get fire resistance i would say more than anything i'm ignited okay um more than anything what do you want is lightning resistance actually in this zone because you're gonna be fighting a boss that does a lot of lightning damage that is very scary so that's why i recommend like grabbing these rings as soon as you're like level 19 search for the resist resistance this guy was like body blocking me what a root necromancer yeah as soon as you're like level 19 search for the resistance rings like the two stone rings that have 16 to each res all right we got the essence drain and then grabbing this okay transmutation nice you can see we got a bow four link it's gonna be not useful for us but we can start finding four links now okay what the hell is putting vines on me what do these guys have they're putting vines on me really and tangler that's lovely okay we're spiding all right we go back to sarn and we got a few things here so first of all we got the despair curse which is massive uh then we are level 23 so we cannot find four links quite yet i could potentially link this thing but it's gonna have wrong colors so let me sell that which i don't need and yeah we're gonna be finding four links here looking for maybe movement speed boost or something but nope and then we can grab this this is usually where you want to look for the rings as well like this is a actually a very good ring that i can craft life on because six okay if you look at the number of resistances right six to all elemental resistances that is 18 right which is going to be better than this and it's also going to give me a prefix that i can craft on right so that is very very nice potentially looking for strength index amulet because i kind of need both of those but ideally something that is not crafted already okay so this is not going to be needed anymore um we can just move on actually there is a few things you can buy as well you could potentially grab for example malevolence so i could grab malevolence which would be 14 damage over time more damage over time and then also skill effect duration there is one thing that we can get uh and then is there anything else there is bane as well uh bain is something that we can if we have extra sockets i can link bane with the despair and it's actually gonna do more damage than just putting on the despair uh and other than that purity of elements is very useful as well and i think that's about it yeah so we're gonna be looking for some extra sockets so let's see what do we have here that we can change control distraction contagion doesn't need the void manipulation at all contagion you just want to have a with like uh area of effect because it's not what deals damage it's the essence drain that deals damage so i would look for like extra couple sockets i would look for like a red blue blue and then have the despair there okay with the bane random four length but wrong colors and this is a base that requires strength slash armor base which means that is very unlikely to roll the colors that we would need which is like blue blue blue green which means we are not interested in it okay grab this yeah so this four link is not gonna be good for us this is level 26 zone and we're level 23 so we are three levels below the level of the zone which is totally fine like you can be like two three levels below uh and that is totally okay if you want to be more powerful then just kill more monsters and you're going to get more levels and you're going to be stronger let's grab the fusing in case you want to link something and then now let's grab the damage over time and then we're going to get more duration as well and because we have a couple auras now that we can use i would probably like to go toward mana reservation efficiency nodes which will let me potentially use like moral rust and otherwise because we would like to run scarborough and malevolence then that way we're gonna have a massive amount of damage okay i can grab this this so you want to grab this waypoint go to the catacombs do the trial and look out and you're going to come back to here but we just want to pick up the trial and to look for the trial you want to look for a book on a mini-map an icon of a book there are two in here one is like lore and one is the actual trial uh this is the trial so we are actually lucky to have a nice zone pick up the recipe and we can look out so now that i'm level 24 i can actually find uh four links in the vendor so i'm gonna sell these that are not gonna be useful in any way and then we're gonna look for four links and even four sockets are potentially going to be very good for me and the bases that we're looking for them on are going to be like an intelligence basis mainly so i don't see anything so we can move on and then we want to go for this anything else here that we're getting no i think we got everything i could potentially grab like uh a dix the strength uh x30 but unfortunately i cannot craft on this um in terms of the colors i would like to maybe swap some colors uh in here to fit some extra gems i would like to fit the despair which means i need to change some colors the void manipulation here is not needed at all uh we can try to change the color of this because it has end requirement uh so i want this to be all blue so we can do efficacy with contagion or i can do do we need the efficacy i can do bane instead for example so we can do bane contagion despair in here and then we can lever the level the efficacy and then i would like to maybe put malevolence in here as well so i can try using malevolence so we can do lame dash malevolence and is that going to affect malevolence let's see it doesn't okay so we're good okay so we go back to the marketplace and now i have an option of maybe using the malevolence a bit low on the mana side so i can maybe skip the scatter boards for now and just use the malevolence because malevolence is going to apply to everything even if we're spreading damage like far away from us um we've got the totem and then we also want to be able to use the bain which is gonna apply the curves so we have like a more complicated rotation though there's a lot of skills that we can use i could technically just run with only bane if you wanted to make it easy on yourself you could just use bane you could literally just kill stuff with bane and like blight maybe open ed on a rare so at this point you have access to so many skills that it's kind of a personal choice i could potentially even go for something like soul rend which i'm definitely very interested in making a build for a problem with bane is gonna happen when you encounter monsters that are hex proof and you don't have the passive that your curse is applied to hex group monsters yet the idi contagion has definitely better coverage it kills more monsters and uh people say oh bane is just you just press one button right and that is true you just press one button but you have to press it more times so now that we have um the earth now that we're able to curse the enemies we actually have much more damage like the curse is absolutely massive in terms of like increasing our damage output and that's why people think i think that's why people think bane is so strong because of the curse but the others because of the curse the curse just multiplies our damage and reduces the enemy resistances right since we're level 25 we could clear more in here because we're pretty low level dogs are a great zone to catch up on xp and if you're wondering how i'm casting the bane i have it on s you can have the hotkeys on the control bar rebound to anything you want so it doesn't matter if if it's visible or not visible you can still cast it if it has the hotkey assigned it doesn't have to be control plus something foreign all right good to go uh since we leveled we can check the vendor for four links we can check this as well it's gonna be annoying being tied to this uh shield so much now because it has the plus one so now i like never wanna replace it all right let's go to the battlefront yeah this is a good time to like experiment with different skills see which skills you want to play with let me check if we get solar end here maybe i can try solarend because solarend becomes better when you can get a four link because you need extra projectiles uh we don't get the soul rent actually we actually don't get soul rent okay so we would have to do the library or do it later never mind then it's gonna go like this all right so this is level 27 zone we're level 26 do i have some mdx for bane don't have mtx robain oh it doesn't have a it's not in the same bundle that i have unfortunately okay so this is gonna be a four link that will work for me the reason is it it's uh end base i'm at this flask okay wait that's not even the right way so we can easily get it to or blue as you can see and ideally i would get it to also have a green but i could do for blue no already using efficacy no because i want to add like control destruction i could just run with bane itself and then have have like bane and then contagion or do the library and actually run solarend that could be quite fun let's try that maybe no but edi contagion is so much better clear in these situations let's grab one green in this all right we need uh dexterity this go back to the source and then i think i want to grab this charisma wheel try to get the green nope nope not getting the green what do we got here mana resist uh we got some fire res here that's a good timing for that actually all right so set up the totem curse these oh my god i got uh smacked so hard i could not get stunned that would be perfect okay edie blight him to death now perfect okay i think this is where i get sold and maybe but this is the right links right this is uh now we have the right links and we can combine we can get even more damage i have an idea actually of what to do with these links now this is kind of perfect this is kind of perfect you see this spread like i cast i cast two but with uh then i would have to cast more times like here i cast one i guess one like i cast spells right once bane would have to be like few guys like three forecasts to cover that so for certain packs it's better but now i'm actually gonna make a better setup because i have the sockets for it plus the thing with ed is like once it goes off and you have enough damage you're kind of immortal because of the region that it provides you with and you can see like the rare monster just died there okay so here's what i want to do i think we're getting the soul rent here right potentially we got hex plus we had sold on the area okay uh let's check for extra four links let's see no four links here uh no four links here okay so i want to do a little bit of uh and i'm trying to do this slowly so that people can follow as well because people often say that it's like too fast for them for so we've got some live open suffix on this so let's go and craft the resistance that we're gonna need so this is gonna be the lowest which is lightning so we're just going to craft the lightning rest on this okay so we got live to res for link perfect right um what we're going to use in this is going to be essence drain uh control destruction void manipulation and efficacy that's going to be our main damage setup and then we're going to also have i can craft something on this but maybe i'll wait for an essence um here we can have contagion bane despair and i'm going to also put in here efficacy or i could put arcane surge as well but i think efficacy is going to be better so i'm going to go to act one and buy the efficacy i think until like level 14 or 15 these gems keep leveling so we've got level 6 efficacy in here that's going to increase the damage and it's going to increase the duration of both contagion and bane so this is quite massive um yes okay so we can drop that if you ever want some extra chaos stress for like act 7 amethyst flask is very useful for that we can sell that i can drop this gem actually level it in the off hand if you want to ever swap to that and then i'll have it and then i'll also craft live on this perfect and then if i wanted to i could also put like augmentation didn't hit anything good but could have potentially uh no empty suffix on this we can also craft another res here let's craft something like a lightning res on this we also craft something on the gloves let's grab something like cold res and then uh this has spell damage chaos damage over time multiplier and empty suffix so we're gonna craft fires okay now we've got 75 56 74 so i need only cold rest right so if i found an item like this let's craft it then uh let's go over the cold dress okay now we are almost capped on resistances i got if i got a better roll in here i would have been capped on resistances we can uh augment this as well 29 live perfect we got ourselves a chest almost capped on all the resistances uh and we're doing very very well in terms of the sockets i think i'm fine flame dasher can surge malevolence twitter skier boats gearbox are not necessary at this moment but still good okay so we added a four link to this and we added uh bane as well being set up as well and we get the chaos.multi okay so now everything is doing huge damage this is where our character actually pops off once we get the four link actually multiple four links uh the character becomes much stronger oh my god yeah the damage now is going to be ridiculous augmentation found another one of those uh if we find like an essence uh it's very unlikely that i'm gonna roll something better than this it says yes life region mana double res like what this is a great helmet very unlikely that we're gonna replace it which means like most likely until like the end which means i'm just gonna throw this because it would be waste of like an essence for example to try to craft that when i have other uh slots that would much rather that i would much rather improve right so you never want to like improve an item that you're unlikely to improv to improve you want to invest your resources uh to replace items or slots in which your items are the worst right you want to replace your worst items so now for piety we're gonna have ridiculous damage so i'm gonna leave the this here i'm gonna grab that okay where is she this this this okay she disappeared easiest fight in the world this is when our bill where our build is like popping off um since we're popping off let's take the travel notes now because we can afford that now uh okay i'm gonna sell this sell this sell this and this okay we have the extra skill point because we're gonna be able to grab also skater boats which it's gonna be amazing uh so we go down and then we go for the charisma wheel if you wanted to you could also run a defensive aura i'm not sure if you get like grace or determination probably get one of those uh if you get that as a witch or you can do library and get them but i usually want to avoid doing library when i play it's something that is a big waste of time and you just need to finish like a couple of acts like one act and then one really short act afterwards in order to get access to all the gems anyway okay i think i need to go this way we're gonna grab the trial for the lab awesome so we've got all of the trials now for the first lab and we're probably going to take a void beacon probably or nearby enemies having reduced chaos res so when we're blighting and we're going to be doing massive massive damage these are very dangerous so watch out for porcupines they're not as staff as in the later acts in the later acts you can just get one shot if you don't have enough defense but yeah that's why i like running with the shield i like playing with the shield a lot i think shields are in a really good spot right now especially if you can get some offensive stats on them as well what level am i 29 so i'm like three levels under the zone which is totally fine so as you can see this these zones are like a circle so this is like top side of the circle so we're looking to go on one of the opposite ones oh why did i pick this up we don't want to interact with the league mechanic because that's cheating okay there we go we got the exit wisdom so now it's gonna be either bottom or on the left it's on the bottom okay and we pick up this uh i like doing lab later on you could do lab early on as well if you really wanted to in fact our character is strong enough that we can't do the lab i usually just do it slightly later because it's safer like because if you if you like die on dominos right nothing happens you just like walk into the room again but if you die in in the labyrinth you have to redo the whole thing which means you really want to avoid that and we have enough damage for this anyway like my character is really strong right now all right hello i don't get stunned and destroyed all right eddie curse and spam blight eddie curse and stumble okay i'm like ignited bleeding and all of that okay this guy is running away from us there we go pick up some stuff this is a nice item get out from the slum what do we got here max live gold rest this would be nice on a trickster we got better flask better mana flask but if we swap them now we then we get no charges i can put portal preemptively okay easy peasy let's grab this now and this and we're back i turned on the skidder boats for a moment instead of vitality but it has a little bit of mana trouble there in the middle but it's all good i just wanted to increase the damage slightly okay stop stunning me and blocking me thank you all right this one is 350 oh it's the same type of flask okay yes there's like one small compact pack then you can do bane if it's a bigger moving thing or like chained packs together then you can do easy contagion you can just use one you can just spam bane if you really want to there's nothing wrong with that okay we got boots to craft on so now i'm looking for some essences i'm gonna drop the stuff i don't need in here and then these boots are waiting for some kind of an essence i find hey these guys are moving me and stunning me that's annoying okay let's just burn this guy down okay we got the banner and the recipe i think as well so we're good to go this one is plastic level of socketed gems gems are supported by level 10 spell echo if we were playing with soulrend this would be very good but i would have to have three sockets in this so let's see maybe we can try it out uh for that uh apparently we don't have anything to craft the boots so let's just move on and maybe look for other four links uh like for example gloves so let's see we don't have any we can grab the chromatic we have this armor energy shield so it's actually good bass to be honest and we just need to chrome it um so i would need to get mostly blue on this uh okay unlucky if i got like blue blue blue red or blue blue red that'll be great always worth clicking on the sulfite nodes um because you can potentially get a divination card there's a chance of getting a divination card when you click on them that gives you 10 alteration orbs which is very nice to get you see these strugglers like when you do idi contagion you don't have these strugglers chasing you as well because even if you don't aim the contagion at the whole pack uh it's just gonna propagate and kill everything so you end up actually getting more xp if you use easy contagion than if you're using bane okay we got an essence but this is i think toward the quiet no we're looking for the quest item which is in this zone okay there it is kill this guy oh my god i'm just getting mold i just got stunned and stunned and stunned over and over uh these rare monsters sorry this these magic monsters have some kind of uh like extra damage mod or something obviously or something that like reduces my stun threshold or something let's see what are they uh rust weaver resists cold so like extra cold damage so maybe i was getting like micro frozen or something okay we'll grow this this okay there is okay oh it's spawning okay it's a boss as well like a unique monsters or whatever being spawned here right sacred like flask the bus flask let's just move on another essence that's nice okay we got essence of greed that is very nice of course very dangerous but that's whatever okay we got anger and greed so i'm kind of looking to use um or use a greed on this probably or we can use the anger for resistances uh let's use the greed so we've got no movement speed but we can craft movement speed on these boots uh so we just need some chromatics for the gloves these monsters have like very high physical hits by the way in these mines and some of them like i think these like these that work on four legs or whatever have very high chance to stun you so if your life total is not high in here uh you might get stunned a bunch like these guys as well they have a very high chance to stun i think just keep finding magic packs over and over of these guys that's done more magic packs jesus okay this guy holy what is this thing this is usually where your character is like the most at least for me the most under leveled and a little bit weak because it's missing the labyrinth right so we have its combination of like not doing the labyrinth uh these monsters stunning plus also me not investing enough into life and so on all right but now we've got the extra point open this this is 15 movement speed to res no prefix for life but it's not too bad but we would have to get the sockets for it so we're gonna grab increased mana reservation efficiency of skills and then we're gonna grab the chaos.multi then we're gonna sell this stuff try to get couple oh perfect there we go that's what we wanted so i can now go craft some movement speed on boots in the hideout we got movement speed please good roll 11 okay could have been worse at least uh so we go skaterbots uh oh wait we need two red on this i actually need to read on this i can drop the vitality for now so i can do this spell totem wither and then we can do skitter bots i could also do blight in this efficacy infused channeling control destruction for blight so that is something that we could do uh so i just need to pick up a control distraction from act two could be even faster casting but i think control destruction is going to be slightly better okay we've got 28 percent more spell damage and of course we don't care about crit because this is just dots uh and then we can craft something we can put res on that res essence and we can craft another res on it so if i put this on what are my resistances the lowest one is called so we craft cold res on that there we go spell totem wither and then i can also do another thing if i want to be even stronger we can grab faster casting put it with this wither and then we can grab this aura in here this aura in here so we got these two auras in here uh combined and then this is gonna just sit in here for when we need it and we can sell these there we go so we still have a couple of essences not very useful ones our resistances are almost capped 74 74 75. and then we can basically do the lab get some extra power get some extra levels so our weather is gonna stack faster our blight is going to be stronger 33 and we are level 33. and i got like an extra es buffer we don't have the increased aoe yet and that's what's gonna make the idi contagion feel much better but we're gonna get it later right now we got a lot of damage and like a lot of damage oh he's not taking damage anymore because he's already faced but he needs to play out his animations i guess that's a lot of gems to level so the reason why this is a strong way to level once you get all of the gems it's in the beginning it's not strong right in the beginning is pretty weak but then later gets much stronger the reason why it gets stronger is because you get to use multiple damage setups and that's what makes a strong leveling these days like something that can utilize more than one skill so for example the reason why leveling with minions can have like absolutely insane damage at some point it's because it's quite easy to get four lit with a four link right so once you get like multiple four lengths and you have like three four links and all these four links have skills that you're stacking together and they all are dealing damage you will do much more damage than a single skill rather than a single four link just like an attack in a four lane just doing some damage or like a single spell doing some damage so that's why this is so uh powerful okay let's kill this thing let's put this on him and let's blight him a bit let's kill all of these uh little helper skeletons let's see what's on these boots uh a couple of resistances and movement speed but nothing too great nothing to rave about and invest currency into you okay this is the right way nice so now we've got a lot of the setup for the character done and it's just about improving the gear in preparation for losing a bunch of our resistances so all we want to do now is just look for how we can improve the gear path efficiently to the passage that we need i've got tons of stuff here so uh we can potentially pick up this robe nice and then we can check okay word of winter went ahead pick it up and then we go occultist and then i think we are going to go for void beacon i could go for the pop-up but it's not really gonna do that much for us early on extra curse we don't really have a spot for that uh and we go for this so we can get the this node second so we're getting gas damage yes and then nearby enemies have minus 20 uh two ksrs i can drop this just to see if they're gonna roll something good if it doesn't then we just sell it check this nothing great and we just sell it uh okay so what are we looking to upgrade now we're looking to upgrade a belt the wand honestly is very good so we're looking to just upgrade belt rings we're looking for extra resistances and stuff potentially better gloves because it has couple reds but nothing more okay kill this guy oh wow okay i'll do my passives i can wait for them to come to me and then just kill them like that okay this guy is not letting me spread my contagion and stuff she's killing monsters before i get to do it i can't i can't with this guy einhard is just destroying things before i can uh before i can put contagion so like the first mob dies and then the the back ones don't get the spread because he destroys the first ones so i can't like use ev contagion here okay got the transmutation let's kill some beasts for him so he pisses off wisdom okay there we go we're about 34 still and it's level 37 so instead of progressing further here i'm gonna go to the other zone i'm gonna grab this as well and we're gonna go do another zone of the same level and that way we're going to be closer to the level of the actual zone while we're going through it oh my character got stuck on a chest why is my character stuck again like what stuck on little pebbles and stuff why can i not move my character jesus christ this zone is just full of little pebbles uh this is one of the things why it's good to have really high movement speed instead of just only relying on movement skills because if you only rely on movement skills like for example shield charge in some situations you're gonna be very fast in some situations you're gonna hate your life but that's okay okay eddie leveling now so it should oh yeah now it does how does it do so much damage suddenly i felt like i was hitting the previous box with ed and i was doing absolutely no damage and now i'm just absolutely melting them so this is uh okay let me just kill this stuff this is level what of essence drain seven so eight with the plus one so going from level seven to level eight is actually a massive difference okay and now we can keep progressing going from level seven to eight feels very impactful that's why if at any point you feel a little bit weak and you know i was like multiple levels under the level of the zone uh then you just level up kill a little bit more monsters and uh you're gonna gain a lot of power okay we can't move through this how can i not click on this okay it is literally impossible to click on this there we go can we not go this way so this goes down so we need to go the opposite way actually went the wrong way okay that's okay because we need to catch up in xp or regardless something that would help you a lot while leveling as well especially if you needed the extra strength and dexterity you could potentially pass through slightly different nodes you could pass through this which will give you res chance to avoid interruption from stunts while casting as well as lots of strength and dexterity these are these nodes are actually not too bad we could grab okay i think we go for this now here yep all right put this this and blight all right and he's dead just melted now i actually want to do einhard mission if i see einhar i'm gonna finish his missions his mission because i wanna do i wanna show you a craft that would be very useful right now there is no einhard though so we're not gonna be able to do it so we could try to get lucky because normally you want to craft a flask with the beast instant recovery removes curses that's annoying okay that's a lot of that's a lot of monsters okay let's level the gems again these are these are these have a lot of cc they're stunning they're putting the um extra zone around uh where's the other one more like recovery went on low life sure we're looking for it has an empty suffix so we could potentially beast craft that because we want to get bleed uh removal for the next zone it's very useful okay they definitely buffed the density in these zones i remember like going through these killing like nothing but now there is so much stuff in here and that actually feels much better oh if i don't just get demolished these corridors still have like nothing in them all right we got a wand and i wanted to check this as well and that's another magic one immunity to hinder let me sell this stuff i want some extra alterations because i want to roll this bleed flask show you the difference it makes so to get alterations we need to identify these i can [Music] spell these as well sell this drop this one here and let's try a couple more times removes curses rose curses unlucky i should have done the beast i'm gonna show you on the b i'm gonna grab the beast let's go to act two riverways uh or maybe if we enter like this talk to this guy meet ironhearn the riverways okay now if we kill his beast now it should be just like one beast that we need to kill so let's look for it should be somewhere on the way because i want to show how to do that okay we got a nice shrine here perfect okay where is that beast where is it there we go mission complete okay so now we need a flask that has just empty suffix so i'm gonna grab a fresh one from act four should normally find one but it's going to be very easy to get so let's grab one and then you go to your menagerie and then this is the first one that i want that i would recommend doing this with earlier on it's not very important but this is the first one like the sacred flask level 36 and then we scroll down and we look for a ceiling ceiling is the bleed removal and actually i don't have enough beasts to do it that is unlucky i can't do it still oh my god i should have been killing beasts but i skipped too many so i can't show this right now that's okay um we have to go once more through this okay so let's do i'm going to show you how to reset the zone you control click on a waypoint or on an entrance to it and you click on new and that way you make a new zone that's because i use the portal that's why and in this zone you want to go to the left first if you go to the left first you're gonna most likely find the right exit okay these guys are powerful and again we go to the left just always stick to the left okay sticking to the left and now we got the boss he's jumping a lot so we let him jump we stuck some debuffs on him you can like curse him beforehand as you can see he's barely able to do anything all right and now it would be nice to have a bleed flask which we do not have but it's okay so you can try a couple more times uh augmentation no and oh we got it okay reduced amount of recovery increased recovery from our low life immunity to bleeding okay so this is the type of flux you want you want a flask that says bleeding on a suffix like removing bleeding that's gonna be extremely extremely helpful right now i'm gonna go up and then go to crystal veins talk to this lady and go because you usually wanna like run uh one of these monsters is gonna hit you with a puncture like these guys they're gonna hit you with a puncture let me show you okay they're not doing puncture right now but you're gonna like want to escape from them right and when you get hit by the bleed and you're just taking lots of damage and you want to run away running actually makes you take i think two and a half times more damage from bleed which is kind of counterintuitive right so if you're bleeding you should actually stand in place but if you're standing in place then you're taking damage from these monsters so what the hell are you supposed to do right you're supposed to have bleed removal and so that's why we crafted that flask okay we got bleed here and you can see i got instant recovery when on low life i think right yeah uh so that's why we are super super safe right now even though this is a very deadly zone and it's very easy to die in here so from this point on you pretty much always want to have a bleeder removal on your flask got a four link that's as a five link okay from this point on pretty much you always want to have bleed removal on one of your flasks usually it's going to be life or mana flask so you see i'm bleeding taking damage but i can just use this and if you use normal flask and you don't have the bleed removal your health is probably still be going down it's probably still gonna be going down while you have the flask active and running with the bleed on depends on the base damage of the monster especially if like a blue monster hits you with a bleed and see if i'm using this other flask you see my health still going down i had flask active my hair was still going down it's a lower level flask but still it shows you the massive difference that bleed removal makes at this stage also if you're gonna be shocked like i just was you're gonna take even more damage from that that's why later you wanna take care of uh immunities to different ailments all right this should be very easy our damage is just at such a high uh level right now that we're just melting everything and we are a couple levels below the zone still but this is a this used to be chaos craft i think but this is a different craft now yep i'm using the other flask and then this last yep oh yeah these guys are super deadly i'm gonna go back for it because i'll be going this way again okay put edie cursing and spam blight now we pick up our transmute okay nice wand moonstone ring we missed because she moved that's okay put this stuff on her again and she's dead we've got a live spring but this would be good on level one but now it's no longer good for us another level for essence train okay starting to get a little big i want to avoid the purple because the purple makes me unable to move properly ah to drop something and there we go i think i should show leveling at least until like act 6 because i think in act 6 we finish pretty much all up and after that it's just there's nothing else that changes about the character really so everything that you need to know will be pretty much contained in like act 6. if i just show the act six so we'll try to do that for sure that's when you get the last set of skill gems okay we're just doing massive damage right now i'll put this here start spamming blight ed right okay he's already like zoned phased or whatever okay put this here ed on him spam some dots put ed on him again now he's gonna do the last heart and we go back to him and finish him actually let's check the let's grab some stuff so i can have a more currency okay i can sell this i can maybe check the wand only all right and then we can check what kind of gems we get here increased aoe uh this is great definitely want to use that and uh not going to intensify it i guess so what else we have we have golems golems are not necessary to use we've got the aoe which i'm gonna grab for from quest reward i think custom damage taken we don't need to set that up just yet uh multiple totems i could possibly set that up for weather and that's pretty much it i'm just gonna grab the aoe from the quest reward and there it is and we want to put it with um contagion here so i could maybe swap something slightly i could have contagion with increased aoe with arcane surge with lame flame dash maybe goes actually maybe flame of templar flame that goes caesar as well like bane efficacy despair so now because we care about the aoe for contagion the most bane aoe is like whatever because we're using it most for single target damage you can use it for clear and if you use it for clear then the aoe will help but then you're lowering your damage but with idi contagion the hello with e-decantation okay that's a ghosted beasts okay these these guys have no chill okay let me just get out of this tight little space with crazy beasts jesus christ okay well then that happened okay i feel like my character is lacking defenses we should get some extra block or something uh normally you can run a defensive aura this time at least we're killing enough beasts so that we are going to going to be able to craft the flask so the contagion is going to also get intensified gem in it later which is going to give you even more aoe all right this is a pretty deadly uh zone like this this whole act actually you get a lot of uh holy you get a lot of monsters that have very high high base damage so this is where i recommend definitely paying more attention to your defenses and also fixing up your resistances in this act you're looking to get your resistances above 105 or like to 105 that means when you lose 30 you're gonna be still at 75 which is the cup chaos i probably don't need to go for more damage right now on the passive skill tree i should just prioritize grabbing more life this our damage is overwhelming but because we're using dots we're still going to be taking hits so i definitely need more defense and we got a chaos which means technically i could do something different with the totems uh fire lightning let's see if there's anything good on this all lars big life gold dress this is pretty nice so i can exchange one of the rings that i'm wearing like this and then i can swap one craft and we're good i can swap some firecraft into the cold dresscraft and i'm going to be kept and i'm gaining more life so this into cold actually i should have crafted the bigger one let's grab the bigger one i got a bad roll anyway so now we are at 93 97.78 and this shield a person to circulate melee oh if this is plus one to chaos somehow that would be insane all right so we can sell this and you can also sell that and since i have one chaos the thing that i would buy right now would be um spreading rot jewel so i think i'm actually gonna migrate this character to the trade league to show you so let's migrate this character uh yep sentinel just so i can show you what i would buy so i would basically throw away the scales and i would buy one of these this is what i would buy the spreading growth for one you can buy it for one arc it doesn't matter but this is gonna help us get uh more links because we're gonna basically swap the weather on the spell totem into blight and it's gonna be much easier and nicer to play with oh where are my auras there we if go feel like something is really dangerous you can always like hinder the enemies with blight to slow them we're getting stunned a lot in here need to wait for the charge level the skill gems jump up and then we're gonna grab this jewel socket we need to grab a jewel socket that's going to have at least 40 intelligence around it you don't have to allocate that for the intelligence but needs to exist and the passives around it to enable the spreading road unique jewel and those spots are i can point to like three spots this dual socket this dual socket come on stop hitting me this dual socket this dual socket and this dual socket will all work grab the eyes of zeal so that was a boss didn't look like it but there was a boss that just died to collateral damage basically right now we can grab a defensive flask which is going to be either jade or granite uh honestly i would probably recommend jade most of the time but i'm going to take the grenade flask just to test it for myself so we're going to grab that throw this away and then i'm going to grab also a skill point which you're going to use to put the spreading rod in here and now that i have this i can throw away faster casting i throw away a weather and now our blight is going to apply weather so we're gonna have a spell totem with blight and then we're gonna drop the infused channeling because we're no longer gonna benefit from that and um it says cannot support skills used by totems so that no longer works and we're gonna use efficacy and control destruction efficacy for the duration control destruction for just the damage you could also use faster casting but yeah this is okay uh i can level then fuse channeling here because later i will want to use blight and then faster casting if i want but the blight is not going to be useful in any way so we got an extra four link here which means we can potentially use bain with this with efficacy with despair and then we can put also something like maybe arcane surge or control destruction there let's see what else do we have faster casting void manipulation i'm going to grab control distraction for it for just extra extra damage why not use the four link when we have it right our single target damage setup is going to be a huge uh internal metal focus control destruction there we go so we got four link four length four link four link we got four four links for damage uh and then we've got another set of sockets that i can use for something else all right and now we have one hotkey less actually now bane is nuking stuff as well let's see how the witter totem is dealing with stuff as well okay our damage is insane right now if the pack is far away enough i can use uh essence drain and then contagion but normally i use contagion and then essence drain or as a corrupted zone here okay we're level 40 in a 42 zone so all good okay we've got some essence here i can put the totem do this and everything's just gonna die and i'm still gonna prioritize uh going for more life and resistances on the tree actually that is above the witch area okay we'll go this way if you ever want to catch up in experience and get stronger this is the zone to do it the chamber of innocence has a lot of magic packs of monsters that give you a lot of xp and are just gonna cut you up in levels very quickly it has a good amount of density so a lot of monsters and we got i feel like my damage is super high and then i see my gems are about to level that's crazy uh so now we're gonna go here and then grab all that live okay we see like almost half a level i leveled in this zone and i'm already like almost half a level to the next level let's not get blasted okay he's got soul eater or union of souls rather more magic guys actually i can level okay there we go we got extra level which is gonna give me uh some extra life let's pick the defense grab this and then we're going to put ed curse blight and this guy is phased already that's it the cool thing here is we don't care about proxy shields or any of that we shoot through the proxy shields because we're not hitting i mean ed has a head component but the dot still applies even if the head is blocked okay so put this eddy i don't i i didn't even get to blight i mean i did put the torrent but like i didn't even get to apply everything and it's so quick so now and for single target i pretty much do two things i have the totem down and then i just put ed and uh bane for the curses and that takes care of everything i can put contagion on if i want as well for a little bit of extra damage and this guy should very shortly die i thought i'm disappeared oh no he faced he has another face okay so he stopped taking damage because in poe unfortunately you can do a million times the life of the boss per second but he's still gonna be invulnerable when he switches faces or something okay this totem pain contagion is dead check out the two stone ring see if there's anything good on it live cold res and no open suffix but that is still better than what i'm wearing in here if i check my resistances now okay the total balance of resistances is better so i can replace cold for lightning like on the gloves for example so i'm again i'm getting more life i'm getting more resistances and total uh we're going to replace this cold for lightning so this craft would not be accessible to me yet because i migrated the character this one would be in this one would be and since i don't have the alchemy orb i'm going to craft with this so we've got the lightning and we have capped resistances and cold is very high which is very good because that's what you need mainly in the next act so we can sell all of the other stuff and i can actually sell these so i can have some scrolls all right okay let's do delirium this is a very early delirium but because we have ed contagion we can stain all between all of these monsters oh and die i think i didn't have the granite flask up at that time okay kill the delirium monsters yeah these guys stun really hard oh yeah we got we died to these magic guys they're very scary oh the boss also hit me here oh my god okay hello hello excuse me i'm dead i couldn't slow that because i don't have self-casted blight right now uh i had to wait for the totem to start doing damage okay we got chance we got a belt okay we need to upgrade the belt cluster jewels are also very good on this type of a build like chaos dot builds really like their cluster jewels so what do we have nothing good uh just live and we've got coldress so i could craft on this and that would be better than what i'm wearing right now because it has more life some strength are more and i would be potentially able to craft better res but maybe i would save my currency and wait until i find a little bit of a better belt all right let's get out of this dangerous zone with tight areas which are great for spreading of my contagion but not great for avoiding the mobs oh and we need to turn our auras but we're gonna go in here pick up the quest stuff it's gonna go down alteration spread the ed contagion this guy is a rogue exile so he's gonna give a ton of items and then we got this life with five to all elemental resistances which is going to be very helpful so we only need a little bit more res there is a recipe here normally that you want to pick up as well okay like i literally cannot move through them because they're nonstop stunning me okay maybe it is worth going through these uh done nodes like either more live or going through these nodes could potentially go for that or having defensive flask up so i want to leave a portal in here and then we want to head downstairs and not use a portal not log out until we get back to a waypoint level of that stuff we could set up castle and damage taken at this point as well but i'll probably do that after this act although i really don't want to replace this shield so we would have to somehow recolor stuff okay we got other gloves that are slightly better base i guess and uh because it's higher level and we're going to be able to improve the gloves that we have potentially without losing the sockets and that's always what you want to keep looking for okay ad contagion next act our aoe is gonna go up by a lot oh also we should pick up aoe that's a good point now it's a good point to pick up aoe should have probably done it earlier but that's okay i think it's i'm like one travel note away from a bunch of aoe actually i'm close to a lot of aoe yeah maybe that's what we pick up now because we don't need all the damage that i have all right so we got all the fragments here yeah we're going to create amazing idi contagion chains when we get more aoe so that's going to be the plan now the next act is going to be crazy we go back to the town and then i have some essences so i can [Music] try to spend it on that rolled really poorly we grab i'll grab the blue one and then we go ahead and sell that i did but unlikely there's gonna be anything good yep sell this sell this and i think that's it and we get the life so i can potentially get the life or i can grab aoe so we got aoe here aoe here um this is area damage that doesn't help us area of effect and then we've got we want to go for this passive to go here and then i'm going to grab this passive to grab grab this aoe so right now i'll just grab the live we'll grab the six percent live we'll get a little bit tankier and then we'll just continue cookie double also gonna need some resistances so i'm gonna need extra rest so i'm gonna need a better belt like if i get a belt with a single res on it that's gonna be great and then if i get i can get life on the amulet actually but i don't have a portal scrolls right now because i've been doing a bad job picking them up also if you're playing an ssf uh if you're if you're in trade then you can just buy it but if you're playing an sf you could go to um like the corrupted side areas the ones that have like a red portal to them and then you can either find a valve light or you can just pick up other corrupted gems and and at siri fragments eventually and you're going to be able to get val orbs if you combine one fragment of sacrifice um with i think is it like six or seven uh val gems you're gonna get a val orb and then using val orbs you get like maybe one and six or something to make a volume three transmutations very nice okay ouch ed leveled as well perfect timing and we get 50 more life all right grab this grab this don't get me mold by this guy why is my totem not okay now he's faced was my thought i'm not shooting at him yeah my totem is not shooting at him what the hell oh there we go it needs to be like really close apparently that's insane amount of damage increase that it gives me okay this is doing all the damage now all right so put the totem close do this this and just put all my skills on him now that i don't have to sit with blight it's like i don't have to do anything almost i just press two buttons like every five seconds or something oh holy these guys are not having it because this is five seconds this is six seconds and this is i can't look right now because i'm gonna die so this is oh it's like three seconds so bane you can use more often the curse is gonna last longer but it's still a lot of damage so now my defenses are gonna go down i'm still gonna have good cold res and that is the most important one for act six because you're gonna find a fight a boss that is doing a lot of cold damage the other resistances are acceptable but i'd like to of course cap them but like we're not we're not in a dire situation actually i know what i'm gonna do with the shield i would like to grab a red socket and grab a shield charge we're not going to have that much attack and cast as much attack and cast speed as a trickster would have for example but it's still going to be a decent amount and if i can roll like let's see okay one red if i could also roll green then i can do faster attacks with that okay nice spread oh no no no no no there's a ghost in here this guy's gonna like go into the corner of the zone and then we're gonna have to look for him under there are beasts in here as well and we have to kill all the monsters in this zone for the quest all right kill this kill this kill this these guys have a billion endurance charges all right make sure to not skip any mobs okay and we actually killed them all nice and then we can set up our remaining gems so i can talk to lily normally you can kill like the next boss and then she's gonna be a little bit closer but that's okay so what are the gems that we need we definitely shield charge that's gonna help our mobility and normally we would combine it also with faster attacks if we can again get a green socket um in terms of other stuff that we need there isn't really that much other than the aoe right so we get intensify so increase aoe arcane surge and then flame dash goes away intensify goes in that's going to give us extra aoe and then we can put flame dash in here if i can recolor this to rgb that would be perfect and shouldn't be that hard and then that is mainly it there is other stuff you can take advantage of if you have a five link you can use swift affliction for example let's try to recolor this let's see rgb please oh red red green actually that's okay so what i can do is put flame dash in here and put this with faster casting and now we're going to be able to flame the surround all right sell this this maybe keep this in case i get some great essence all right so now we can move around faster my aoe is going to be bigger i'm going to be investing in some aoe as well we're finding chaos i could also invest in a defensive aura you know what okay this is crazy why is there like such a insane horde of monsters chasing me i might go for the termination as well so okay we've got this life here so we can grab some aoe we can also grab grab this region uh this is spell damage as well as aoe so i think i'm gonna go for this i'm gonna go grab this wheel later but first we're gonna grab this stuff uh i could refund this past these passives and start grabbing this aoe already because i don't need them and later you wanna respect and go this way instead of this spell damage i could even do that now so how many one two three four five respect points i would need a couple more uh all right and yeah i wanted to grab like determination or something which i cannot actually use because i don't have enough strength what about uh what about grace i have much more dexterity i will pick up uh fine let's just keep going with what we have here i can grab i can pick up the vitality here that's what i can put in that's going to make it so that at least we get some extra region all right and then we can turn that on and we can level it as well so now we're gonna be moving significantly faster we're gonna have much better clear or level my 45 in a 46 zone transmutation right grab this grab this grab this put the totem down level some skill gems we're basically almost uh done with setting up the character at least for like the entire leveling because for the next acts there isn't really anything that is going to change in the character setup we're just going to get a little bit more aoe so i just want to show you how the character will look like in that sense and that's pretty much it okay so this guy's gonna go down now we set this up put dots on this put this on this put this on this and then he's basically dead we just wait for a door to open ouch ouch ouch i'm getting like stunned or frozen or something see a defensive aura would definitely make this more comfortable because we have definitely enough damage but we would either need to have grace i would need a green socket and that would probably be the better option or determination in which case i would need to invest in some extra strength we're also getting a little bit taxed on our mana but it's fine and it's nice when you get enough aoe and your damage starts spreading between packs that are next to each other that's when uh ed contagion really pops off all right this is like max level that it's gonna hit because we don't have any more uh what's it called strength we need to get more strength okay we're rich grab extra aoe okay now we're looking for a way down because i see the exit but i also need to find the trial here even though i migrated the character so i technically don't need to anymore for myself but just to keep the demonstration as it would be the league start ouch nice the easy contagion is just spreading really hard waiter this way accidentally going the wrong way and i don't think we go down and around yeah it's back we gotta go back i think this way yep so you can see i didn't really hit this big guy but he's dead like he just he he just run with me through a couple of packs and he just died because of that so i never really targeted that uh monster but he ended up dying that's why as ed contagion you're gonna get more xp than bane it's like you you kill extra like just huge rare monsters even it's not just like couple of extra strugglers it's like is these rares that normally you don't want to spend time uh hitting oh my god okay this is a bit dangerous it's rare that you'd never don't never want to spend time like sitting with them and hitting them for extra time but if they just follow you through a couple of packs they're gonna get a couple of contagions and uh and just die okay i'm getting destroyed in here okay these have like block and stuff oh and there's also okay of course there's uh a rogue exile with them these archers are ridiculous i'm gonna turn this off now a delirium we're done with it for now what did we get on this nothing exciting maybe a belt uh the belt has some life one res and does it have a suffix no it doesn't have an empty suffix i've got 11 passes damaged with some attacks okay okay this guy dodged my stuff that's okay uh hello okay so now he's dead we hit this guy sites say the rotation should be put the blight totem down bain ed bain bain and put the totem down bain edie okay this guy's dead uh we can go down to the next room pick up the recipe or we can just exit to town and we can sell the stuff we do not need like this and then i definitely want some extra let me sell a couple of transmutes so i have the scrolls a giant amount of life no suffix though this gives me immunity to shock which is better than nothing actually immunity shock is very powerful uh we can get rid of that this uh blind yeah this is nothing exciting looks similar to another unique that's actually worth something on the league start but no uh okay we can grab this check the helmet it has good live lightning res and no empty suffix so 29 res and this one has more than 30 res on it so slightly better for now uh we've got the 20 aoe that is awesome and we go kill some extra bosses okay we've got some crazy bleeding dogs okay let's see grab this ed is now spreading like crazy with the big contagion aoe could do this uh corrupted zone if i wanted to as well okay let's put this down this this made a very quick work of that guy uh and then i can grab more aoe because why not could start grabbing extra damage but i like the aoe this this ed this and by this i mean the totem and the blight okay as well as the bane another great thing about essence drain as opposed to bane when it comes to like just hitting bit big packs is that you get this big region and the higher the level the more powerful it is so early on you don't feel that region but later on you become nearly immortal because of it as long as you have essence drain rolling on the targets and because you get uh later so much damage like later you're doing millions of uh of damage let's say you have like 1 million dps right 1 million dps on essence drain is going to mean like how much of it is being healed uh let me just not die here holy they're not letting me check my skill gem they're like shield charging into me so how much of it applies is 0.5 so half a percent right half a percent so half a percent right now when i do like a few hundred damage like doesn't do that much but when i'm doing a million dps with that skill then proportionally to my life pool it's a much higher number and it ends up like regenerating your whole life in one second um especially when it's not not only on one target that you hit but also on like 20 targets that it's spread to with the contagion all of them are giving like individual regen to you and you end up being ridiculously uh tanky in terms of your recovery this is a minion essence i don't necessarily need to kill that but it's just very quick i guess also cool thing about occult is in this zone you can see these little monsters on the ground because they get a debuff circle around them which makes it easier okay everything there is dead we can just put this bane again idi again he's gonna go somewhere we put the totem pain get my money back okay uh do i have a portal i don't have a portal i can log out and i get a couple of books more books and see if this is anything good nope sell that sell that sell that and then just in case i need i'm gonna grab a portal perfect and now that i have all of this aoe i could potentially grab also this point and then i can refund this point and then i'm closer to another jewel socket for example if i wanted to do that and then i can also start heading here damage mana region actually i need some mana so that's actually very helpful now there's a little like piece of uh sand or crab or something on my mousepad on it right under my finger and for situations like this that's why we have the d key or whatever key you can you can bind it to space you can bind it to something else and it's very helpful for moving around i don't think i explained this yet but basically you can move around for example with items on your mouse cursor if you have movement uh skill on something else then the left click so for example i can grab the scales i can move around with it and i can use my abilities and it's totally fine to do with the open inventory like that and i'm not dropping it because i'm using d to move takes a little bit of a practice to get used to but it's very helpful i find it also extremely helpful for when i go in town when i go to town and i spawn my character like spawns after a portal or logging back in i prefer to spam move the key instead of clicking over the mouse because if i click with the mouse i will sometimes accidentally click on some mpc or something like that and i don't want to click on the npc i just want to move right so by only using the move only um on the key i'm forcing is the movement and i will never interact with any piece of thing that i can click right so i will never click on an npc on a notice board or anything like that so that's what it's also useful for picking up some more live nodes right now also gonna give me some extra strength which is going to give me more life because that's what my character needs right now i just want to be tankier not have any danger of dying because we've got huge damage we got good mobility now we've got a good mana situation with like three auras that we're running right now okay i have to move this thing from my mouse but what is it okay there we go i think we're good okay i got stunned like crazy but because of the insane region from ed i survived oh this is the dead end what this one is going to give some currency very useful to open especially early on while leveling you can pick up some extra blacksmith whetstones and get a lot of scrolls of wisdom that will set you up always feels nice to find an early artisan you can see the crazy spreads going on okay we got another level more life and yes after we leave this oh my god what the these guys hit me so hard i need to actually get out of this zone like don't just stay in the zone because uh you want to really really not have this move back but then you're gonna actually die like it's okay to come out of this for a second uh so after we get we finish this there's going to be actually a cool animation skip you can do which a lot of people think doesn't work anymore but it still works you just have to go a little bit further but other people think it doesn't work anymore because it used to be easier to do all right so what we do is we click this we click this we jump back we go down here and we jump back and we go that here and we can keep the animation of him jumping out of the boat and stuff saves us a little bit of time and uh you don't have to wait for the fat guy to jump out of the boat okay so most importantly cold res is capped here rest is decent as well we've got three alterations it's very nice early to help you roll flasks for example flasks are super important to sort out especially like once you get to maps that should be one of your first priorities to get good flasks because all it costs is like a couple alterations and maybe like crafting a beast suffix on it or something and your character is gonna feel much stronger all right also we didn't pick up the pantheon but i'm gonna pick the pantheon this is i usually pick the pantheon after killing this guy so i kill this guy i look out back to town and then i pick my pantheons that's pretty much what i do every single time because that little thing doesn't really help that much early make sure you get some extra life flask charge surface reduction it's not a big deal okay let me just keep up the bane on it vane has a pretty short duration it's like what three seconds barely okay put the totem down put bain ed and keep putting bain every couple seconds and edie basically like two times bain one time essence drain that's pretty much what you want to be doing put down the totem totem starts shooting we put bain ed bain again bain ed totem bain i can put contagion here as well get rid of this these little guys okay put down totem then eddie bain again and he should be dead now perfect and then we just log out go back to town press whatever is the hotkey for buttons by default i have it on b but i think that's not the default select the pantheons and you're good and i think that's going to be it for this guide because it should basically get you through the entire campaign after this point there is no real changes to the gems that we have we are using every single socket for something useful for us so we're not wasting any sockets uh we just need to cap our resistances which is something that you continuously work as you're leveling i'm gonna look at this and there you go we have this what i would try to do now is i would try to maybe quality it up a bit with these armor scraps to increase the chances of linking it and then i would try to four link that there we go we got a new four link this is more life more resistances and this is fire and lightning so i would have to craft some cold resist on something else is actually perfect uh now i just need some cold res instead of what i can sacrifice like 20 fire uh where do i have a fire crafted on something uh can sacrifice maybe this lightning and craft a couple res yeah so that's basically it for this guide the pob is going to be in the description that you can uh follow for this uh the next passage that i will be going toward would be picking up this written in blood for the extra energy shield alive and strength and then going toward atrophy and then maybe going toward arcane sanctuary because it's a very very powerful node as well and then we can head up this node this node and pick up like corruption and heart of darkness but i'm probably gonna be doing some uh a little bit different stuff with this character now i'm gonna go for like soul rend and do a little bit of experimentation which is not really gonna be fitting for this guide but this is basically how you level uh chaos character whether you wanna level uh shadow if you level a shadow a lot of these passives are gonna be the same uh you can also pick up the life here you can pick up the life here that's what i'm gonna be probably doing next um and you can do very similar tree on a shadow as well and uh it's not gonna be much different you can skip this part of the tree on a shadow but you still want to go for this and you basically earlier grab the atrophy arcane sanctuary and so on but you can follow the pob from my previous video if you want to see um how you would set up the trickster passive skill tree so hopefully this will help you a little bit about with leveling especially for the newer players i tried to include as many like basic tips for leveling as i could in this but it's not that easy to like freestyle and remember every single thing that you can do so if you have any questions let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching and see you next time

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Keywords: Path of Exile, PoE, poe build, path of exile build, poe beginners guide, path of exile beginners guide, path of exile 2, poe 2, path of exile leveling, path of exile chaos skills, chaos spells, ed contagion, essence drain, blight, bane occultist, occultist leveling, how to level a witch

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Length: 221min 19sec (13279 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 02 2022