Beginning our adventure today, we immerse ourselves in the nuanced mechanics and essential equipment necessary to excel in the Spellslinger CoC Detonate Dead of Chain Reaction Inquisitor build. Renowned as the premier league starter for POE 3.24 Necropolis League, mastering this build is paramount to success.

Key Mechanics Of This Build

A character we are playing today is Spellslinger Cast on Crit Detonate Dead of Chain Reaction Inquisitor. We can swiftly develop this build as early as Act 4 with a basic four-link setup.

For the initial endgame phase, I’ve opted for a comprehensive unique equipment setup. This choice simplifies matters, as many players, particularly newcomers, may not feel comfortable with crafting or may lack knowledge in that area. By focusing on assembling appropriate POE Items with compatible gems and sockets, victory becomes achievable.

As for the advanced endgame, such as in the first week of play, I’m still deliberating whether to commit fully to this build for all content or pivot to another option. My decision hinges largely upon forthcoming patch notes.

Skill Gem Configuration

The surge in popularity of Detonate Dead, or the possibility of its nerf, could pose challenges for our build. However, should GGG decide to significantly alter the Transfiguration Gem associated with Detonate Dead, we have alternatives such as Volatile Dead, including its Seething variation, or even conventional ones. I’ve conducted tests on these alternatives, and while they perform adequately, they do exhibit a slight delay.

In some instances, acquiring these gems may prove costly on the first day. Therefore, if you’re not keen on racing ahead or adopting a highly competitive approach, I recommend investing more time in the labyrinth to craft your own gems and farm unique items for your setup.

Upon obtaining our skill gems, it becomes imperative to boost our critical chance to support gems like Cast on Crit and Volley Fire Barrage. Personally, I find Barrage to be a superior skill for triggering Cast on Crit as it feels less cumbersome. Additionally, using a wand that facilitates quicker power charge accumulation can enhance our corpse detonation rate.

Obtaining a Diamond Flask at the earliest opportunity, preferably with a chance to gain flask charges on Critical Strike, can significantly enhance our quality of life.

With the primary DPS gem setup addressed, incorporating a Spellslinger setup for Desecrate contributes to our overall quality of life. However, this setup tends to be quite demanding on mana early on, necessitating the use of mana flasks until we secure mana leech support to sustain it.

Other essential gems, such as Arcane Cloak, Shield Charge, and movement skills, can be customized according to individual preference. It’s important not to overlook the inclusion of Mark on Hit and Assassin’s Mark to facilitate easier single-target encounters.

In the interim, focus on leveling up a spirit gem for Desecrate to maximize our damage output. Additionally, integrating the Precision Aura into our setup is advisable.

Unique Items

Regarding the wand, our ideal choice is the Eclipse Solaris Engraved Wand, or any wand boasting Critical Strike chance. However, the Eclipse Solaris stands out as the top contender in this slot, surprisingly affordable at less than one chaos. Not only does it impart blindness upon enemies, but it also offers a Critical Strike multiplier, attack speed, and all the essentials required for our build, essentially free of charge.

As for the shield, our target is the Lycosidae Rawhide Tower Shield, which ensures our accuracy. Consequently, we can bypass the need to allocate a passive point for accuracy, as our strikes never miss.

The helmet primarily serves to enhance our quality of life. While the choice here is flexible, Onslaught proves particularly beneficial due to our reliance on attack speed.

When it comes to armor, we seek the optimal balance between evasion, block, and spell suppression. Early on, acquiring a unique armor such as the Briskwrap Sun Leather for mana regeneration from flasks and Pragmatism to amplify damage output, or Yriel’s Fostering Exquisite Leather for an early boost in critical chance, provides the best value.

For gloves and boots, our priority lies in securing life and Mana Leech, alongside a high dexterity stat to accommodate the build’s dex requirements. Lioneye’s Paws and Slitherpinch emerge as top contenders, offering both substantial stats and quality of life leech benefits.

Wurm's Molt is indispensable for the belt, ensuring our survivability and mana management during the early endgame phase. Its additional stats are equally crucial, especially considering Inquisitor's Righteous Providence, which heavily relies on stat stacking for critical chance.

Opting for a Thief's Torment Prismatic Ring proves a wise choice for the ring slot, offering invaluable assistance with resistances, life, and mana on hit.

Regarding amulets, the selection can be somewhat nuanced. Early on, Ungil's Harmony is essential for maintaining a high cast on crit frequency, later transitioning to the Bloodsoaked Medallion as we level up. If Ungil's Harmony is chosen, it's imperative to allocate the Elemental Overload Keystone to mitigate the downside of reduced damage from Critical Strikes.

Today, we’re going to provide an overview of the upcoming events in POE 3.22.

November Events Intro

In November, 3 Path of Exile events are on the horizon.

When strategizing these events, the goal was to cater to the diverse preferences of our player base. GGG team understand that some of you relish crafting unique character builds. Others seek added challenges and some simply crave the thrill of intense combat.

As a result, these events have been thoughtfully scheduled to avoid overlapping, allowing you the flexibility to participate in more than one should you choose. Your gaming experience is their priority. 

However, if you want a better gaming experience, you’d better prepare enough POE Currency.

Awards

By achieving level 50 in any two of the events, you will secure two guaranteed Ancestor Mystery Boxes for your account. In total, this amounts to two guaranteed mystery boxes distributed among all three events. 

These events also feature an extensive array of microtransaction prizes, which will be randomly awarded to characters reaching specific level milestones.

Further details about these rewards will be elaborated upon shortly. 

Krangled Passives

Beginning with the first event, Krangled Passive is set to commence on November 3rd.

In this event, the passive skill tree, along with all ascendancy trees, has been intentionally mixed up. 

The distinctions between minor passive skills, notables, keystones, minor ascendancy skills, and major ascendancy skills have been interchanged within these categories, meaning that a notable passive skill remains a notable passive skill. But it’s now randomly assigned.

Additionally, all players will be working with identical skill trees, but the Scion character class is not accessible in this event. 

The GGG team has introduced a range of additional POE Items for players based on their level achievements. The rewards become increasingly valuable as your character’s level rises. The top three players overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle.

Blast From The Past 

Next in line is Blast From The Past scheduled for November 10th.

Unleash the potential of the Sentinels and embark on an adventure into the enigmatic Kalandra Lake, the Blast From The Past event extends an invitation to rediscover past Path of Exile leagues or venture into them for the very first time if you happen to miss out on them.

During this event, nearly every corner of the Path of Exile world is infused with the mechanics of both Sentinels and Kalandra.

And remember, this event operates without the voided rules, ensuring you can fully enjoy crafting with recombinats.

The supplementary reward system closely resembles that of the previous event. Your chances of receiving relevant rewards increase as your character’s level rises.

Shifting Stones

The final event, Shifting Stones, is scheduled to commence on the 17th of November.

Have you ever dreamt of hosting 10 Tormented Spirits in the mud flats? In the Shifting Stones event, that dream becomes a reality.

In every area, you will encounter one of the following league mechanics, amplified by an Associated Atlas Keystone:

• 10 Tormented Spirits with Speaker Of The Dead Keystone
• Blight with Cassia’s Pride Keystone 
• Legion with Timeless Conflict Keystone 
• Delirium with Unending Nightmare Keystone 
• Beyond with Endless Tide Keystone 

These mods will change every 15 minutes. 

Today, I want to share with you my thoughts about playing Flameblast totem, also known as pizza totem, using the same setup as Blazing Salvo.

When I first had this idea of playing a build centered around the unique Consuming Dark dagger, the skill that I had in mind to play was Flameblast. This is because Flameblast is the only fire spell that can have its fire damage fully converted into chaos damage.

Unfortunately, this only works with Anomalous Flameblast and is therefore not league start viable.

The Enslaver

Another thing is that I would need to scale a lot of cast speed to make the skill less clunky, which is a little bit difficult during league start, adding yet another reason to not league start with this skill.

I then tested a few fire spells and went for Blazing Salvo because this skill has innate extra projectiles.

The Eradicator

It fires a total of 7 projectiles at level 20. So, you don’t need to support this skill with Multiple Projectiles.

You can instead use other support gems, like Faster Casting or Concentrated Effect.

The Twisted

I tried playing Flameblast using the same setup to see how it fared against Blazing Salvo and to see whether it was worth it to convert into Flameblast.

I did some Elder Guardians’ maps and invitations.

Mapping

Flameblast is known for its clunkiness and therefore you don’t see a lot of people playing it now, but it used to be very popular.

According to PoB, the cast time for my Flameblast to reach full 10 stages is around 1 second, so there’s a delay in damage.

But once the explosion is released, the mobs are cleared very quickly due to the huge AoE. I like the sound of explosions a lot. It’s very satisfying.

Flameblast can do whatever that Blazing Salvo can do, but I feel like mapping is a little bit slower, compared to Blazing Salvo.

Blazing Salvo still offers smoother mapping and bossing experience.

Shaper

Shaper is still very easy, but I think the damage is lower than Blazing Salvo.

One way to scale the damage is by inflicting wither to increase chaos damage taken by enemies.

Unlike Blazing Salvo, Flameblast doesn’t have a lot of projectiles to hit the enemies many times within a second. So, it takes a longer time for Flameblast to inflict max stacks of wither.

I used Level 21 Concentrated Effect for Flameblast instead of Level 4 Empower because it gives slightly higher damage.

To say that Flameblast is flashy is an understatement. It literally blinds you. It will be good if it blinds the enemies, too.

Overall, I think Flameblast totem is playable, just slightly worse than Blazing Salvo. Damage is a little bit lower, and mapping is also slower. But in return, you get the sound of explosions and fantastic visuals. So, if you’re into eye cancer builds, then this is for you.

Wild Strike is back folks! And it’s prettier than it’s ever been! So I’m gonna be sharing my thoughts, tips and instructions on how to execute this build now. Because it ain’t that simple to get started. 

But if you’re beginner or poor in POE Currency, this might be a good build for you.

How to Prepare?

So when I started this build switching from my other build in the same character, I was quite disappointed and sad the way how bad things were. Turns out I was wrong. Had to wait patiently to level my gems...... 

I bought a level 21 ice bite support and the rest of ma damage gems of level 20. Well, that changed the performance of the build entirely. And then, I made a couple of tweeks here and there trying out different POE Items. 

And finally, it turned out to be a great build, and that’s why I’m making this guide. 

About the Build

So getting to the build, it’s cheap, and less than 15 Divine Orbs. But this one is exclusive only to this league. Unless we get the new items called Honoured Tattoo of the Barbarian back in a future expansion. It’s great for running a T16 Harvest, Legion, Ritual, Expedition and regular bossing.

It’s a budget melee build, so I wouldn’t warn you about these things unless it was a ranged character. Do not roll map modifiers such as chance to avoid elemental ailments, cannot leech, nor any sort of stuff like monster are crit resistant. 

The worst of them are monsters steal power, frenzy and endurance charges. Because this build depends entirely on frenzy charges.  

If you lose all your frenzy charges, you’ll be like an old doggo who lost his feet on his way back home. It ain’t that worse, but if your character dies, just use The writhing Jar Flask. 

When you kill 2 worms, you get at least 6 charges back. This is why we are grabbing this mastery instead of the regular damage mod. Unless you play it you won’t get it, numbers on PoB can be quite decievin in practice. 

With the worst outta the way, let me tell you how strong it is. How many melee builds have you seen with fortify, arctic armour, tons of evasion, fully capped spell suppression, and 4 to 8% effect of sap? Were able to stand toe to toe with map bosses and pinnacle bosses coz of this. 

With 15 Divine Orbs, I could make a spell based power charge stacker with way more damage with safer playstyle, or another boring totem build. But until GGG gives us that magical buff where you can actually bring a knife to a gunfight, this is as best it can get for true melee builds. 

Another one of my budget builds like this is that Volcanic Fissure build with Vengeance Cascade. 

Another important thing to note in this build setup is that since we’re using Utula’s Hunger body armour, we can’t have any other life mods in our gear setup. You can grab life modifiers in your passive tree, but not in your jewels and gear slot, not even life leech mods. 

The playstyle can be quite different for a lot of you. If you have ever played a Boneshatter build, it’s just like that. 

While mapping, you gotta Leap Slam, then Frostblink, Blood Rage, then hit a few bad boys, then Leap Slam and Frostblink. It’s a fun playstyle to get used to. 

Now, don’t set to always attack without moving. Because you don’t have much melee strike range on this one. When you face a bunch of bosses, put down your totems first, then Blood Rage and then start hitting. I would recommend moving a tile or 2 if you’re taking too much of damage. 

The most annoying thing is the ground degens, especially from maven balls. 

If you’re a new player looking to dive into Path of Exile for the first time, here’s a list of five builds that’ll help you to have the best first possible experience in array class. 

Even if you’re an experienced player, each of these builds is still a great option for league starters for POE 3.22 Trial of the Ancestors League.

1. Pohx’s Righteous Fire Inquisitor 

First up, we have Righteous Fire.

This is the top of everyone’s list for a reason because it’s one of the top performing builds of all time and Pohx’s guide is hands down the most comprehensive guide without question.

The idea behind this build is that you cast your Righteous Fire, which is like a burning circle around you. You just run through monsters. They all explode and then when you get to a boss, throw some Fire Traps on it.

It’s very easy to play. Not only that, you don't need to spend a lot of POE Currency. It’s very tanky. And most importantly, it’s a lot of fun. It also doesn’t require much manual targeting except for when using your Fire Trap and it doesn’t use too many buttons.

If I could suggest only one build for a new player to start with, this would be it. 

2. Aer0’s Ice Shot Deadeye 

Next up, if you’re a new player who likes living out their bow wielding hero fantasy, aer0’s Ice Shot Deadeye has you covered.

This guide is very new player friendly. It includes a very comprehensive hand-holding written guide as well as a full leveling guide from one of the game’s best speedrunners Tytykiller.

Bow builds are genuinely one of the best most fun archetypes in Path of Exile. So, if you’re a new player or you want to play bows, give this one a shot.

3. Zizaran’s Explosive Arrow Champion 

Now, if you’re looking for a more involved playstyle, Zizaran’s Explosive Arrow Ballista build is a very well-rounded tanky totem build, capable of completing all content in the game.

This build has a very smooth playstyle with very few downsides that many other builds face. As a new player, if you want to explore all aspects of Path of Exile comfortably without having to try multiple builds, this build can do it. 

The full guide goes through all aspects of the build, so you’ll know how to play it as well as all of the mechanics that make this build function. The father building guide is also very thorough. 

4. Anime Princess’s Spark Inquisitor 

Now, for players wanting to enjoy a more spell-based gameplay, Anime Princess’s Spark Inquisitor has you covered.

The place out for this build is very easy on the hands. It requires no aiming, so you don’t need to click on any enemies to hit them. You just push the button, your spell flies out, and whatever’s there is gonna get hit.

The video guide is also very honest and very comprehensive with Anime Princess explaining all aspects of the build in great detail over this almost hour-long guide on the build. 

So, if you want to take a deep dive into this spellcaster build, Anime princess has you covered in every regard.

5. Lolcohol’s Blade Vortex Pathfinder 

Last but not least, I’m going to be recommending my own build Blade Vortex Pathfinder.

I’ve done everything I can to make this build guide as beginner friendly as possible. I’ve included a very detailed part of building that’ll carry you all the way from level one up until level 100 if you get that far. I’ve also included a spreadsheet that includes a leveling guide, showing you which gems to take after completing which quests, nodes explaining all the skills we use, the different mechanics of the build and what kind of POE Items we need to use. That little spreadsheet has everything.

This build is slightly more complex than the previous ones mentioned. But everything you need to know is in the guide. On top of all of that, I have included a full leveling playthrough of the build from Act 1 and all the way to maps.