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PoE 3.25 - The Lightning Strike Deadeye League Starter

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This content provides a detailed guide for league-starting with the Lightning Strike skill in Path of Exile, specifically advocating for the Deadeye ascendancy due to its early access to the "Lightning Strike of Arcing" gem and overall utility.

yo what's up it's tuna hope you guys are

doing well today and welcome to my

lightning strike deadi ey video

basically an overview of what I'm going

to be doing this leak start what I'll be

playing yeah you might you know as you

probably just guessed I'll be playing

lightning strike deadi eye now a lot of

you might be thinking why you not

playing Warden you know it's the new

stuff and all that kind of uh stuff yeah

like Warden actually looks very good but

the reason why I want to go deadi ey is

because deadi ey has actually access to

lightning strike of arcing early and

Ling strike of arcing is a really really

really nice gem so just to compare the

normal lightning strike with Ling strike

of aring by the way these are not yet

updated with the effectivenesses of next

league and the fact that they got

removed added Ling damage but just keep

that in mind so the difference with

arcing is that it has a little bit less

damage in that the base Effectiveness is

only 388 as opposed to 400 on the normal

lightning strike but the big difference

is that normal lightning strike fires a

total of four projectiles whereas

lightning strike of arcing fires only

one and one projectile sucks right

obviously but the upside of that is the

fact that we have nine inherent chains

built into the skill and then on top of

that we get 10% more damage for each

time the the skill is Chained what this

means is that you know as it chained

through monsters it just gets stronger

and stronger and it improves your

clearance in capabilities so if you're

stacking maybe a little bit of pro speed

in addition to some other things I'll

talk about a little later but that

synergize well with chains and that sort

of stuff uh this becomes like a really

really strong clearing skill which is

the one thing that I feel like is kind

of lacking in normal lining strike now

you might argue that if you do stack

projectiles through you know projectile

mediums sorry through uh larges like

claw larges and things like that as well

as dying Sun you will be able to

actually get enough project do to play

LS of aring on Ward but the difference

is that you won't be able to start it

and I want to be able to start LS of

aring because right off the get-go I

want my clear to be good it's something

that I you know I really enjoy Plus on

top of that dead eye is just the

greatest tendency it provides utility

provides speed and damage now let's take

a quick look at the sendes in depth we

have Warden that has some very insane

nodes in Avatar of the Wilds as well as

oath of spring oath of spring gives you

a ton of damage on paper but you do have

have to actually stack up your shocks

you have to hit minimum Shock first of

all and secondly you have to be hitting

a ton so in case of lightning strike you

would have to be hitting upwards of 10

times per second with double hits in

order to actually get maximum shock uh

taken into account that your shock

duration is going to be about 2.3

seconds with the increased duration

nodes here and then we have Avatar of

the Wilds which is also very strong

because it actually gives you 80% more

damage when you need it um in that

you're going to be finding maybe a tanky

rare Soul Leader rare or a boss and

you're you're going to click it and then

you have 10c downtime uh of it

recharging and then 10c up time of it

charging so you could theoretically say

that it's about 40% damage but um yeah

it's you know 80% when you need it so

that's pretty good but the coolest note

I think is going to be oath of winter on

Warden and yeah this is like a really

really strong defensive layer in that

you can freeze things for two seconds

and when you don't freeze them they are

much more likely to be frozen on

consecutive hits so yeah this Cy is

really strong but the last node is a big

question mark right cuz oo summer is is

terrible in that we do not deal a large

enough fire hit in order to hit like a

high Scorch and to be able to actually

get high Scorch we wouldn't be able to

essentially um invest into that hard

enough but tinctures are a question mark

they could be very very strong but I do

encourage you guys that if you do want

to play a normal or variant of lightning

strike palon is actually playing it on a

warden so normal non- arching LS and

he's going to be leak starting that so I

you know I think you guys check him out

but in my case I am going deadi ey

because deadi ey as soon as it gets

merciless laboratory we go for Endless

Munitions and as soon as we have endless

Munitions we are actually able to equip

our lining strike of arcing gem so yeah

thanks to that we can pretty much

already have good clear right as we get

to Maps as long as you have actually

acquired a lightning strike of aring gem

and yeah aside for that we also get

Ricochet and Ricochet is really nice

because it's able to make your

projectiles collide with terrain and

when they do they have a 30% chance of

then you know chaining back to an enemy

or something like that then we have

Gathering winds which was slightly

nerfed but it's still amazing and that

it gives you you know more movement

speed attack speed and all that kind of

stuff so action speed is just pretty

nice it's a multiplier for all your

actions and then focal point which is

going to be making our Mark uh increase

the Critical Strike damage that the

enemies take as well as increasing your

Critical Strike chance so overall the

package on on data is is very good and

there is a of course another alternative

which would be Slayer Slayer is honestly

the best descendency for normal

lightning strike non- arching but again

It suffers from the same issue uh that I

think Warden does that it is not

actually able to start as uh lining

strike of arcing therefore in my opinion

is worse off as a league starter in

comparison to Dei so that is why I want

to be playing Dei now there is a lot of

other things that um you know play into

this but that that is the sort of like

the basics as to why so now I'll talk a

little bit about the build and what it

looks like in end game and then how

we're going to be getting there from uh

you know early on and so on so forth so

first of all in endgame we are actually

going for armor because this league they

um they indirectly buffed armor by

making monsters not overwhelm as much

now overwhelm was a mechanic that

basically made monsters ignore your

armor you know tldr and um that that

made building armor really bad in

general in for in most cases pces

because you would just die anyways

against Monsters where you actually

needed your armor the most but they have

nerfed a lot of those sources so now we

are actually more incentivized to build

into armor so building armor on this

character we can get a very high amount

so I have like 40,000 armor right now

and that that is thanks to the light of

meaning which is a new that which was

taken Jewel you can see which gives you

7% increased armor per passive in the

radius and that's pretty much all of the

percent increased armor that we need we

have 231 per increas ined armor when I

click this off I go all the way down to

uh you know not having any increased

armor whatsoever so we go from like

16,000 all the way to 231,000 that's 231

per increased armor just from this so

that's pretty damn crazy and I think

it's going to be one of those jewels

that you might want to pick up you know

rather early in your progression and

overall is how we're actually build into

armor as a deadi eye on the right side

not having access to any actual will you

know increased armor and that sort of

stuff now the rest of the armor is

coming from the termination which is

already been accounted for in the Nerfs

here in the path of building so we have

determination and then we're also

feeding into molten shell and because we

have all of that right you can see that

we have like a Max physical hit of

177,000 which is fairly modest for a

character like this but when we click

molten shell that boosts our you know

effective HP pool which is a number you

shouldn't really pay too much attention

to but uh your phmax it to 30 ,000

however you know molten shell is just

going to be there as a last resort for

when you're taking overwhelming amount

of damage and um since we are actually a

build that has very high recovery we can

use that to our advantage because you

know since we'll be getting hit a decent

amount um we'll just be like leeching

all uh all of that back thanks to like

the claw implicits which is like life

gain on hit as well as the Mana uh Mana

G on hit and that sort of stuff that we

get as well so yeah we're gonna be like

able to tank big hits deal decent amount

of damage and we're also essentially

very fast because you know we we stack

up to like 240% movement speed and all

of that kind of good stuff so that is um

you know the late game variant but how

do we actually get there is the big

question is what a lot of people

probably be wondering so like all my

other guides U that I've been like leag

starting I wrote a Max roll guide for

this too you'll be able to find all of

this information in the path of building

as well and that is right here at the

bottom you can see that I have

progression from Act One 2 to 4 4 to six

um 6 to 8 to the claw Respec 8 plus and

then also to the crit LS into early game

and you can also change all of your item

sets here so we have bow leveling claw

leveling early game mid game end game

and also the skill gems act one act two

act three act six Clause crit respect

early mid and late so yeah you go at any

point and you can swap these over and

you can see like where you're currently

at in the game and you you just uh yeah

you just change those over accordingly

but for those that want a more um

detailed kind of explanation you can go

here on the max roll guide and the max

roll guide basically has a leveling

section you can click here at the top

where you can use this slider to sort of

uh dictate like what level you currently

are and then they will show you which

passives you are taking at that level

now because melee actually sucks early

on like it's really really bad um

especially lightning strike you're

actually going to be leveling with a bow

uh and you're going to be leveling with

a bow all the way to act six until you

get the additional strike a lot of that

stuff is detailed here in the in the

tips and tricks so you can just like

check those out here and um you know

whatever information you need hopefully

it is covered here otherwise you can

always come by the stream and ask a

question I'll be leak starting in myself

also you you can follow along and do any

of that sort of stuff but yeah so if we

close here the tips and tricks you will

see that we will level um in act one and

we will grab you a precise technique

into the on slot

as well as some life and flat life there

too and the accuracy to help us with

precise technique and then from here we

will take Point Blank because you know

you'll just deal a ton more damage when

you are close to enemies but we'll swap

to rain of arrows at this point because

I think rain of arrows is just really

nice the fact that it has a ton of

arrows and you don't need to actually be

getting more arrows to have decent clear

but some people prefer to go for like a

one Arrow lining Arrow you can do that

too and then I'll be using shrapnel

ballista as my sort of like

supplementary single Target uh with a

couple of other things like blink Arrow

Dash and that sort of stuff you can see

all the links though I won't be going

too far into detail then you go here and

we want to grab the uh treat monster

resistances as inverted and really

important you want to go through the

chance to ignite shock and chill that

means that you know since we're not a

crit build we'll still be able to in

inflict those ailments and uh that's

good for us so yeah ailments good then

we go for the accuracy again to feed

into our precise technique to make sure

that we're getting the 40% more damage

now if you're ever wondering whether

your precise technique is active you can

always have open the character panel in

your path of excel character so if I was

to like open it here for example you can

see offenses and you're you know don't

don't mind the fact that I'm not

actually capped you see 2,818 how it

says main hand accuracy 2818 you hover

over your life and if that's below 2,818

that means that your precise technique

is not act so that's how you check it so

as you level then you want to be like

respecing a couple points going through

Quick Step for some movement speed and

then you want to rush multi-shot because

once you have multi-shot you have access

to the nonv strike skills Target one

additional nearby enemy and this Mastery

enables you to uh use lightning strike

so from here is when you'll be swapping

out to lightning strike as soon as you

get to this point you can take um you

can respect all of the bow nodes that

you see here so you respect the bow

nodes and then um you respect some of

those here you will take these away as

well and once you take all of those

nodes away then you will also path to

the CLA noes and that is basically when

you'll be taking lining strike in so

that's when you have lining strike and

hopefully you'll have a four links so

that's liing strike added cold Trinity

support and added lightting damage now

as soon as you have anger and added cold

in your links Trinity support should be

no problem but always double check on

the top left of the screen that the

little um that the little things are

like all lit up so that you know that

you're getting the additional damage

from that so yeah and then it goes all

the way here and it tells you that

leveling is complete and you can always

come back to this or the path of

building to know exactly whether you

know you are specking into the correct

nodes then once you've done that you can

go into the progression because the

progression is where all of the bulk of

the upgrades are going to be detailed

and the type of items that you're going

to be buying at what stage of

progression you do have passive trees

here at the top early mid and late and

this is just like in a path of building

but you'll see that you're like oh tun

like early game level 100 but uh it's

not actually like level 100 you can just

like scroll it all the way back and it's

just to show you kind of like the node

priority like if you were level 100 what

nodes you would spec but if you weren't

level 100 what nodes you would resp so

make sure that you're using these little

arrows but again you can always check

that out in the path of building or

anything like that so yeah you can see

um the sort of order of priority and

then into mid game as well it shows you

where to put your jewels and that sort

of stuff and right here is where the

light of meaning is going to be the new

Jewel that I showed you just earlier in

the path of building where we get all

that armor and then end game as well we

do a couple resps and we go for the the

big clusters that give us additional

projectiles so with these two clusters

that's how we're going to be shooting a

ton of P five six uh say four five six

yeah six projectiles in total with these

it's really nice um once you get all

those and there's some other really cool

stuff with these clusters in that follow

through gives you 15% increased damage

with hits and ailments for each

remaining chain and that means that your

first your first projectile hit is

basically going to be dealing um like

130% increased damage which is pretty

cool and you can multiply that by how

many however many clusters you take and

then the second one you just take some

more projectile damage with attack and

cast speed which pretty nice but the

second one could also be like projectile

speed or something like that yeah these

clusters um fandom blades are going to

be very expensive early but know that

you don't necessarily need to have a

three notable cluster you can always

just like alt span for fanom blades and

you know kind of just whatever it right

you're just going to have the fan of

blades here at the back you take it and

then you still have access to your Jewel

sockets so that's pretty much all there

is to know about the passive tree but

the gear progression is uh what's very

detailed here so it will take you

through everything that you need to know

with the gear so swapping to linning

strike of arcing what you want to know

and that sort of stuff the type of

weapon uh what kind of rares you're

looking for as well as like potentially

how to craft them making sure that

you're keeping up to um you know keeping

up with your gem colors your links when

to look for six links what type of

uniques you want at what time what type

of flask you want like it's literally

all there it's explaining absolutely

everything including even like obscure

mechanics such as uh the Spectre setup

that we're going to be doing this league

like dark Marion Nets that you're going

to want to be linking and that is all

tied as well to the skill gems that you

see here on the side so basically like

um you know the path of building

profiles that I was showing you earlier

it's just a neat way to display all of

that stuff and also to give context to

what you are doing as well so like yeah

you can swap between mid and late so you

can see kind of like the kind of gems

that you'd want to be looking for at

what point of progression and um all

that stuff right and as you go through

and you upgrade all your gear there's

this Nifty little thing where you can

tick it here at the top left and as you

tick it it starts to populate the

equipment here so you can kind of get an

idea of where your character is at and

what it should be equipping at what

point and if you ever like take

something by accident you can always go

back and untick it and you know it'll

it'll go back to normal there so yeah

that'll take you to mid game and will

basically redo all your gear and then

end game again will you redo all your

gear again but that's just kind of like

the life cycle of a path Exel character

so yeah this gu is is sort of intended

to give you guys a step by step as well

as a small explanation as well as some

crafting guides for the endgame items to

give more context and to make your guys

life easier um to to do well with the

skill now I have to say lightning strike

is one of those skills that you really

want to be investing into it is pretty

money hungry like bow builds as well if

you guys have ever played those it's

much like a bow build in that it scales

very generically just with flat damage

as well as all of the other stuff like

attack speed um increased Elemental

damage and that sort of stuff so it's

fairly easy to gear as long as you are

looking for the right things but it's

hard to M Max because trying to squeeze

as much damage out of each item slot is

going to essentially be the trick here

right and in end game as well we're

using things like the Yoke of suffering

which introduce a new scaling vectors

that allow you to then inflict

additional ailments and each different

ailment that you inflict is going to

give you more damage and we do that by

getting you know bleeds and poisons as

well through tattoo as well as clusters

on the passive tree that allow us to do

that and so that we get like a ton more

damage from the Yoke of suffering and

yeah in general as well there is a cool

item that I really really enjoy that is

the soul Ascension which when you're

doing very dense Maps you put the soul

asens on and you get like a decent

amount of Soul Leader Stacks which can

go up to 55 if you have the plus 10 ones

and with 55 increased so leader Stacks

which honestly like it's it's quite hard

to to stack it's like a 25 second ramp

up time for it um if you're constantly

hitting on cool down on single Target or

if you're constantly hitting rares or

unique enemies on coold down then um

yeah you're going to be getting

basically double damage from these

gloves and it feels really cool because

you're just super fast and attacking

super fast and yeah overall this build

is really satisfying to take from early

into endgame and it's been buffed by 88%

so I did a run all the way from Act One

into uh my watch stones and I have to

say when I was doing my watch Stones the

damage wasn't amazing the damage was

pretty bad and I had a six link but for

context a six link is actually less

damage than you would deal next league

on a four link so assuming that you know

the Buffs are coming through and we're

going to be having the same gear as I

was having in this run then your damage

is going to be pretty insane but now let

me finally explain one of the most

important mechanics as well as one of

the most um you know one of the things

that people ask a lot basically with

lining strike and how you may Max it

which is what I set up here standing

next to the old kaduku and um yeah how

do you double hit on lightning strike so

lightning strike is a skill where if you

use additional strikes to um your

benefit you know through having them

allocated here you can see non strike

skills strike one additional Target what

you can do is you can actually hit an

enemy twice so you can see right now I

am hitting the floor and you see one of

these light beams striking onto the

floor that is your strike and then the

projectiles are what's hitting the enemy

so you see that one of those projectiles is

disappearing and I'm striking the floor

but if I was to position myself a little

bit closer you can see that there is

actually two of those light beams now

hitting the Target and then one of those

projectiles is still disappearing and

what that means is that I'm actually

able to hit with both my projectiles as

well as my strike in one action meaning

that I am getting the additional damage

that I would be from my melee hit as

well as a projectile um by just having

clever positioning which is one of the

only strike skills in the game that is

actually able to do this which

essentially doubles the effectiveness of

added damage that we have and yeah makes

the skill extremely strong and on top of

that the skill gem also has a Val

variant in that is fall lightning strike

which is an insane button um I'm mean

standard so everything is a complete

mess here but it it's a button where

like you press it and just like puts the

projectiles everywhere and it deals

insane single Target so that'll be a

high priority for you to get um uh early

game or like whenever possible right

especially with like Val LS of arcing I

would just prioritize getting the Val

version over putting quality on your

gems and then in end game later on you

can you know min max and go for the 212

Val through the Ala temples and that

sort of stuff yeah I'll uh quickly show

you guys exactly what my character looks

like for the run that I was doing so

this is the character that I took to the

watch Zone runs to kill eer and exarc as

you can see I got pretty lucky on a six

link but as I said earlier this is going

to be less damage than a uh four leag

next league and my claw I you know I got

kind of Lucky on that fracture and we

just put an Essence on it and then we

crafted Critical Strike chance but it's

not something too insane to achieve next

League especially with Rec combinators

and hopefully with with the new gamble

type of um NPC that you'll be able to

get your your your claws from and just

basically all your rares from and that

sort of stuff now since this was a ssf

run I just dropped shadows and dust so I

ended up using them and the rest is just

very generic items like here I'm using

this for the Critical Strike multiplier

and the reservation uh like the

Precision Mastery sorry the Precision

Mana reservation efficiency then some

just random boots some everything else

is basically just resistances and uh

yeah this character did all right you

know it wasn't amazing I can I can kind

of run a map to give you guys a little

bit of a of an idea of what your

character is going to be looking like in

t t15s on a four link so if you were to

actually get to the point where you're

in t15s on a four link this is um this

is what your character will look like I

won't run the whole map but U just to

give you guys an idea of what LS of

aring looks like and uh what it does so

yeah I'm am uh I'm looking forward to

playing a lining strike and I'm also

looking forward to starting on the

ranger ascendency because it's my

favorite ascendency in the game as you

guys probably know I'm just like a bow

guy that now is playing like claws that

are actually just bows as

well so yeah I mean this is kind of like

uh what the skill looks like it's really

cool that it uh it chains between mobs

you can see it jump around and if you

have the MTX it also looks very cool but

as of right now this character is like

it's pretty it's pretty bad right like

in trade league on day one you should

have already way better gear than this

and you should also have way more damage

because of the Buffs to lightning strike

too so this is kind of what you can look

forward to on day one and the nice thing

is that like you're you're actually

really really fast uh you're just like

kind of zooming through maps with Shield

charge or whirling blades whichever one

you prefer I like Shield charge myself

because with the movement speed and

attack speed that we have um in that

we're like dead ey and we're getting a

ton of action speed as well as uh all

that good stuff and we're almost dying

to an Exodia

rare uh yeah like you're just going to

be like zipping around really really

fast with your Shield charge so it's

really satisfying but the downside of

that is that Shield charge like tends to

like get stuck on stuff as you can see

here for example which a lot of people

don't like whirling blades doesn't do

that so yeah that's the upside of

whirling blades but that's kind of like

a little Showcase of what the the build

looks like and I hope you guys have

found you know the Showcase slash my

little ramble slash all this information

dump a little bit helpful at the very

least and if you do have more questions

and that kind of stuff you know at me in

my twitch chat I will be around and I'll

be leak starting this build as well and

yeah actually hopefully a lot of the a

lot of the questions you guys have

should be hopefully answered by my Max

roll guide as well you can always go to

the frequently asked questions to see if

maybe like a question that you have is

covered here or maybe just like look

through the progression and that kind of

stuff so yeah y thanks very much for

watching guys I hope this video was

helpful I hope um hope you guys and wish

you guys a fantastic leag start and like

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