Been playing this build last league. But the way you explained it this time around was way more understandable for me, thanks for taking the time you put into this. Cheers bud.

And so it begins, happy to see all the build guides and how you update them with the knowledge from last league :)

Played this last league and it was super fun! So much more details in this video, awesome!

thx for the update, was planing to play this build after many league start test

Hey! I'm late to the party but this build really is easy to follow and scale really well! Right now I'm crushing it, doing stuff I haven't really done before just because I feel I am strong enough to do it. Really impressed by the build, didn't know it was THAT good, I wished I played it earlier!

Previous Gems section is a pretty neat addition! Way to go, Ziz!

Thanks for the guide, I'll definitely try it this league. :)

Thank you Ziz for your guides. They have really helped me out throughout my time playing PoE!

Best Intro. I cant even watch the video, I'm just rewatching the intro over and over

Going to have to put this in the top ten of your intros for sure!

Yo Zizaran! Ima recent subscriber and love your content. You have helped me out so much about poe and how it works. Im so amazed how u can put out quality videos daily

Would love to see you continuing building this char as a new player. I played your follow along and got to maps really easy but fell kinda stuck trying to get upgrades, 6 links with perfect colours etc.

Thanks Ziz'. The Intro' was a good one. ♥

Man ZIZ. I'm such the newb. I just found you notes section where the GOD GAMER in you SHINES like a diamond. THANKS FOR THE AMAZING BUILDS MAN!!!!!

Thank you for the build guide. I'm planning on using this for heist.

Nice! I hope the Spark Guide will be updated too :)

Best build i ever tried! Got to level 100, did all the bosses, all mave invitations and everything i always failed to do in previous leagues :) Tusen takk Ziz!

Just finished campaign with this build, effortlessly. around the end of act 9 i realized i was still using a white bow w a 3 link on it. loving it.

Defo giving this a big go. Many thanks Ziz superb build guide and great notes in POB!

I used this guide last league and it was my best league ever. All bosses down full atlas clear. Amazing build absolutely recommend.

i tried this build last league but the hiero version and i cannot recomend it enough, smooth lvling, smooth mapping, smooth gearing, i played this game since 2017 and this is the first build that made me clear everything in the game. If you like the totens gameplay or are a new player trying to find a build that its easy to play and easy to go to the end game, this is the one!

I absolutely love your intros

I love the intro xD brilliant!

Going to be trying a Steel -> Frost Blades -> EA league start to see if I can get around the painful leveling process pre cruel lab. Great build, strongly recommend it for anybody thinking of dipping their toes into HC! Insane survivability.

This is probably one of your best intros ever

thanks for the work, the guide and the POB are amazingly well detailed.

You're the goat with these intros

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers!!!!!! THANKS AGAIN ZIZ!@ honestly do love the guides and content you produce, and glad that with the new league being a character power freeze that were going better thne ever. its honestly time i thought id have quit finaly but this freeze is the one thing ive always wanted ot get to experience nad league start hard with builds that actualy have the ground work and understanding. played EA champ last league till well past lv 95 and while i burned out trying ot level new characters (we still need testing experiments for alt 2+ char leveling methods plz lol) but i absolutly loved it. obviously i more loved the power brain investing in conceptual understanding and gearing. it was the first time i could really give myself a chance to try to self craft some gear and all the tips and methodolgies worked amazing. especialy for how specialized some champ gear can be with all the epic eldrich influence option.s never got OP op BUT i was 1 harvest enchant %as away from what woulda been damn neer the perfect +3 bow (ran harvest but just didnt grind enough). im going to learn a bit more for league start and its FINALy the time where true leveling practice actualy matters and will pay off for me the most so that my goal in the few days we get. especialy because BalorMage did an entire 10+ (24hrs+) video series following EA elementalist version as a working person schedual vibes and i love it. sc trade is all about the power BUT i enjoyed playign defensivly enough that i didnt over work myself. super super sad i didnt commit to fortitude forbidden jewels when i had the chance because i think that version of champ would be next level hilarious and fun. buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut yea so imma league start EA ele cause its got the damage and some video knowledge and it finaly lets me have motivation to learn spell start with witch and MAYBE i will get to maps BEFORE 15 hours KEKW gotta say though which's "skillgramige" to get ot panopticon has me a little disappointed, because the one thing i loved about champ was HOW ABSURDLY SATIFYING each and EVERY single skill point i kept getting was. every one from basicly 88-95 felt super impactful SIDE NOTE: 10000000% anyone that is playing something like this is soft core: TAKE THE GAURD SKILL WHEEL NEAR PANOPTICON AND USE ASHES OF THE STARS! i know its a little generic BUT the extra quality for your molten shell along with left click bind for it AND the gaurd skill crd and such makes it SO satisfying! i was pushing 4 seconds+ for the full 10k molten shell cause of the armor (still not enough where vaal molten shell really felt worthwhile) but i also only had like a 2.2 or 2.4 second cooldown which was sooooo qol for that extra mapping ehp pool. 10/10 would love to see more people build that ANDDDDDDDD a good armor mastery if you can get the points to spare was solid (if you give up the armor + regen wheel) cause you can get the crit damage protection or the extra efficiency on determination. only down side was alot of life tap taking of gem slots~ buuuuut i gotta say some of thme might not evne be necessary and i was having alot of fun reutilizing combinations for the frenzy setup instead of using culling strike. im happy i had as much fun as i did minmaxing the build and enjoying such a good mapping time but i probably only had like 20ex into the build and 12ex in raw in the stash by time i quit. i started in month 2 and left a few days into month 3~ so im HYPED AF for what is possible with a legit league start nad active trading on a league like this where we know everything and have MASSIVE powered enemies to try to take down. never did get past 6 favored slots but i deffinitly want to push the build and my skill knowledge to take down shaper nad elder this league nad maybe even try a few mavens. will be a blast. best part is that i know EA champ so well at this point that if EA ele big boi dps numbers arnt enough for me to enjoy it with the new atlas passives and all that, then i KNOW i can super cleanly reroll my gear into EA champ and push that shit to the upper extreems. its not gonna be cheap, it WONT be easy but itll be fun. im worried how itll work for me cost of gear wise to keep trying to balance alot of the accuracy and mana costs on witch when i was only balancing suuuuuuuper easy ignite chance (ashes KING) on champ and maybe some life regen. CHEEEEEERS GOOD LUCK EVERYONE :) cant wait to be a massive hype andy and rejoin all the communities i just havnet had the irl time to join. over compensating a bit because my job hunt for a career change so far this year and going much but its cool. multitasking irl with tons of fun league stuff to do with FINALY a league where builds are what i know they are and can trust and enjoy is perefct. whether i burn out early trying ot reroll a build or get al lthe way through a self casting EA hit raider with call of the void shit idk hahaha cheeeeeeeeeeers

introductions are getting better and better!!!! rofl

Holy shit, that intro. So good. :D

The only Champion we need is you Ziz. ty for all the work.

Hey ziz, will this be updated for 3.19?

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That intro was 10/10. :D

At around 15:00 during the eater fight it's heiro game play, but great guide, thanks ziz

Thanks for the guide! Boneshatter incoming maybe? 👀

yeah this will definitely be my backup if nothing else interests me more... only managed to down Shaper with it in SSF last league and never dropped Dyadin dawn or RoS and also just in general didn't farm efficiently, so theres lots of improvement easy to find.

Possibly your best intro so far. 🤣

ahahaaha the intro is KILLER!

thank you for build

ZiZ is the best there is guide are incredible as always hes just the best

I was deciding if I was gonna go RF or seismic trap and now I'm thinking about going this

Don't forget that you can also get like 150-175 life regen on chests. That took my build in archnem from being durable to face tanking Sirus. Of course that level of extra survivability assumes that you have several other layers of mitigation and a reasonable investment in regen scaling, but 150 flat is a lot.

How does the Slayer Version stack up to this for 3.18? I wonder how vast the DPS difference is, the approach on the PoB looks TOTALLY different.

The intro is golden

I love you ziz 💕

Can you advise, I want to play in this league on SSF, as it now plays Poisonous Concoction? and how he has in damage progression if it will not lead with the loot and crafting?

I will be starting this already tried it out after announcement and just like 15 minutes before Server shut down I did searing exarch for the first time without help with this build

DD Ignite Buildguide when? :-) waiting for this man thanks a lot

Where I can get/buy the Choas T-Shirt Ziz wearing?

"Fluffy Ziz Balista Totem Skin" pls be the next gauntlett reward

Ziz, can we have a Cyclone or Shield crush guide? Would love to make a decent meele

Is there a POB for the Hiero version? I am going to do this build in SSF but want to try Hiero.

Best intro ever!

Alira early is gold for min max auras at start vs mana cost/regen. I always tweak it so that i can just use my Totems/skills and the regen is high enough to keep up, take early mana effiency nodes and get a lot of qol with those auras. Sure a pro player dont need to bother with that, its just it comforts me alot. Also using Purity of elements is so good, much more freedom with equipment, it just eats alot of skill points early endgame to get Purity/determination/Grace running, but its massive for tankyness, even when its overkill for SC champion xD i like overkill, as EA is such an insane high dmg skill with the ballistas and Quillrain for early endgame/maps it works great.

Based on the 3.19 patch notes should anything be changed about this?

I've seen many builds use infernal cry but they have *no* focus on the gear, how would one use the cry at that point? Do they just run into a pack and pop it and run away?

I can highly recommend EA Champ. Played it last league and beat everything aside of simulacrum. Best build I've ever played by far.

Hey Zizaran, i am completely new in PoE. Your Playthrough on this build made so much easier to get into the game's mechanics. Thanks for the great Content. Now i have a very specific question: In your PoB a midgamequiver is Skirmish which gives +1 to totems. Now i founda broadhead quiver with 10% Attack Speed and a few other good mods. Now how to i get up to 6 Totems after dropping my skirmish? Thanks in Advande.

added lighting/cold dmg is enough for ee? you just apply it with frenzy no?

1 confusing part. You say the levels are important on smoe of the gems and but on some of them it says level 1 but you mention that only 4 specific other gems should be the exact level? So I should level those level 1 gems to 20? Is it an error in the guide?

Worth mentioning on softcore that you can just start as ea champ for very ez start and respec later to lightning strike champ or any other duelist really which might be a lot stronger but needs more investment

This or skele mages for starter? I'm looking for a bossing build that is kinda easy to play (I'm not really advanced, I would like to kill every boss in this league tho :D)

Got extremely lucky and picked up an exalted while passing the story, where should i spend it to invest in this build, 6 link short bow with +1 +2 gems or an amulet with +1 fire skills and allocate watchtowers?

So when's the MTX that turns your ballista totems into a 30% size version of yourself?

Now we need an ENTER THE BoneZone collaboration guide w/ Carn

Would you suggest this for first time HC ssf player? Played trade in the past but never HC

Great guide as always Ziz. Just a recommendation, can you also put Atlas Tree recommendation for each build, especially which extra content to be blocked on the passive? I feel this build cannot handle Delirium early until the damage is nice because need constant moving, which I would block Delirium at first mapping.

Hey ziz, any chance at a boneshatter slayer guide?

What gem would be best to swap out for Empower?

What about Seismic trap that is a good starter, I'm still questioning what build I want to go Explosive arrow or Seismic Trap.

Your Pob says 22.8mil total damage per ignite at 5:14... however I'm using your pob and have the same setup on the tree and items and my pob is only showing 9.3mil dps per ignite. What am i missing to show the proper damage?

hi would you recommend EA Champion or Ea Elementalist? Also what's the difference between the two?

my best build i played so far.

I did this build last league but I'm just so burnt out on Bow Builds and the struggle of crafting them. I actually ended up with a pretty good bow last league but I quickly ran into a mountain that I just struggled to climb to get even just slightly more damage. can't wait for more guides :) Looking for a Spectral Helix build!

about the minion node, i didn't find it useful with my build last league. Is it really important

Are all Builds Ziz is doing for Hardcore?

Love the intro's lol

in the vid your PoB shows 23m dps, but when i open the PoB i'm only seeing about 10m with the endgame tree and gear. why the discrepancy?

Any loot filter made for this ?

What would be better for new end game champion or ele does champ have the damage to do it

how do you get 100% chance to ignite i got 6 link gems and i'm only on 45% i'm clueless

in the video you explained and said "quill rain is better then storm Cloud cause the mastery" but i dident fully understand what is the mastery u were refering to

I managed to do a couple of simulacrum 30 waves with elementalist EA. It's doable but you get one shotted by omni and khosis in the end.

But...Only a hit that deals damage will apply these resistance modifiers. Blocked hits or hits with no damage ( Ancestral Bond ) will not trigger Elemental Equilibrium. True?

played 48h on this build and only realized now about pierce fucking my build 😭thanks for the vid

how u get so many totems? its from extra projectiles? or enchant?

How soon can I drop my Mana Flask and which flask will replace it?

Are you going to do a DD guide?

please do another one of this build for this league

Hi guys whats best version Hiero, elementlist or champion? I loves buys low deaths playing, whats is best for start and upgrade dps for all endgame?

i just wanted to say ty for making it idiot proof as for me im a casual player and seen some of your guides and sometimes it feels like you breeze thru stuff that i just dont understand or get a good grasp of. Im sure im not alone liek crafting is a nightmare and an ex is rare as hens teeth and i just wont use it in fear to stuff it up.

Do item filters persist through patches or will i need to re download one after 3.18 release? thanks for the guide still deciding what i want to start with.

@Zizaran do u think that Spellslinger DD and/or Spellslinger DD+VD could have enought dmg , at least for a league starter with those Spectres unchanged? ( to take advantage of the smoother game play , faster mapping and .. 1 button i guess ! etc) .Would love some updated info on If / why not etc from ppl with high knowledge around those skills !

Those intros

Ziz, as a recomendation, you can take first to strike, last to fall for adrenaline and proc it via haste + divine blessing + lifetap. 45% attack speed for free

What is better? 92% hit chance + skitter bots or 100% hit chance with precision no skitter bots?

POGGERS Intro

I was running the Hierophant version for a bit last league, and it was very good. I suppose I'll try the Champ version now.

seems like the bow enchantment does not change anything in PoB. Is ok to use fire damage over time instead? Ballista does not have minion tags