Shadow - [3.23] 🔵 Penance Brand Trickster Guide + Uber Boss Showcase (100m DPS all content viable) - Forum - Path of Exile (2024)

Offense - We convert the penance brand damage fully to lightning and focus on scaling cast speed as well as critical strike chance and multipliers. This build reaches 12 power and frenzy charges which give a massive amount of crit chance, spell damage, generic damage and cast speed.

Defense - Defensively this build relies on a pool of 5k energy shield, 67k evasion, 100% spell suppression chance with 56% spell damage reduction, complete ailment immunity, complete chaos damage immunity through Chaos Inoculation, increased maximum elemental resistances, 5 endurance charges, over 500 ES regen per second, over 1000 ES leeched per second with Trickster overleech, ES recovery on hit and Ghost shrouds.

Mobility and Utility - With 12 frenzy charges and other attack speed increases we utilize incredibly fast shield charge as well as over 200% bonus movement speed which comes in part from the Restless Ward chest piece. The One Step Ahead Trickster passive also makes us immune to all action speed slows, such as Delirium hands.

Here is the skill gem setup for this build:

Chest Piece:

Penance Brand of Dissipation - Energy Leech - Power Charge on Critical - Increased Critical Damage - Awakened Lightning Penetration - Awakened Added Lightning

Gloves:

Discipline - Zealotry - Grace - Enlighten 4

Helmet:

Wrath - Increased Duration - Divine Blessing - Conductivity

Shield:

Shield Charge - Faster Attacks - Momentum

Wand:

Flame Dash - Arcane Surge - Enhance

Boots:

Immortal Call - Cast When Damage Taken - Increased Duration
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I highly recommend having Ruby/Sapphire/Topaz flasks ready to swap in place of quicksilver for difficult uber boss fights, they can give you around 40% damage reduction against their respective elemental damage type and will make these uber fights much easier.

Solaris, Yugul, Kill all bandits

Solaris helps us deal with crit and physical damage during boss fights. Yugul makes us reflect immune together with the elemental mastery for reduced reflected elemental damage take and helps to mitigate some of the curse effect on us. Fully upgrade both of those pantheons.

Modifiers on charms/That which was taken that are important for this build include:

- Spell suppression to reach 100% cap
- Remove bleeding when you use a flask
- 1% base critical strike chance at maximum power charges
- Area of effect per power charge
- Critical strike multiplier per power charge
- Increased evasion per frenzy charge

At the time of writing this guide, the total cost of all gear with charms, jewels, flasks, gems etc. was approximately 1000 divines. With the affliction mechanic this league it's easier to get this currency than any other league before, but it's still an expensive build and not a league starter.

I've had a lot of fun playing this build and it's definitely one of my favorites of all time. I've never played a more well rounded bosser that was so fun to map with and do all content in the game.