Anonymous: wrote:I might actually try that trickster in this new league since all i have done for every league is to start as duelist Any tips for the build ? How is it for mapping in general, safe solo, single target/crowd control ?
Incredible clear speed, really decent boss killer with maybe one Bane (not required just a bit more dps) and Vaal Blight up for that Wither debuff (applies Hindering = slower move speed + increased chaos damage taken per stack of Wither applied) , very safe early game (and mid-end later with smoke mines and phasing). ED shoots a projectile that doesnt do much on its own but then you cast Contagion on the target with essence drain and it spreads to every mobs next to it. It's like a very early explodey chest but on Chaos damage. Everything around the ED'd mob gets melted when you cast Contagion over it.
Because it's Trickster, you’re already innately fairly tanky through Ghost Shrouds and Energy Shield recovery every 2 seconds, for as long as you’re actually taking damage. Since Trickster also scales very well with dots it's pretty much gg everything melts. You're naturally going to stack Evasion stack on Trickster, so it's an "avoid as much damage as possible" build and stack just about enough health pool to survive the content you’re tackling to never get one-shot. What's also nice is Essence Drain doesn’t require any unique items and has a decent amount of slack for you to to stack health passives in the skill tree, so you dont really have to focus too much on stacking all that damage (which you shouldn't because then you'd be too glass canon even with stacked evasion)
Since you also automatically recover your Energy Shield you should stay topped up throughout most of your playthrough. Just don't try to tank the obvious telegraphed one-shot mechanics, that won't work.
I'm so tired of league starting this build, so i think i'll go Toxic Rain Raider instead, despite the HUGE Toxic Rain nerfs with how far the pods land which will make it harder to consistingly get good numbers on AoE overlap...but should be ok.