[3.28] Fire Trap of Blasting - tanky, all content

Bump, as patch notes are known. No major changes, still viable, stil off-meta and (hopefully) cheap.

Funny, I was looking for builds and cool things to try. Im a casual player and returning after many leagues.

The only 2 builds that really caught my attention are this one and some frostblink totem that claims can scale to 120m+ dps.

I really like both. Just realized are all yours haha. There must be a reason! Maybe I like off meta builds. And also traps. The only time I cleared all content was with some low life lightning traps years ago. And also Im a bit intimidated by meta builds. I never really understood how to make thousands of divines or mirrors in a league like most people figured out by now.

I hope i can make it again with your builds!

Anyways thank you.

Hello. If you're returning player, I strongly recommend this build instead of Frostblink Totems. It's more tanky, more forgiving and better suited for re-learning the game. And first of all, have fun this league :)

Made a spreadsheet of every ascendancy I leveled before including already deleted characters (thx ggg for giving me list). Looks like Ascendant is my least played and then ranger. No real ranger ones I wanna try that I haven't played before and I played fire trap before it was used with RF so should be decent.

PoB looks very solid and items super easy to get lmao. Grateful the leveling section doesn't say use rolling smegma until fire trap of blasting entering maps or something gay like that. Get to actually use the skill to level with from the start almost :D.

Congrats on making the most off meta build I actually wanna roll after like 17000 hours lmao.

P.S- who remembers playing fire trap back in the old days when it was Pohx's goto skill instead of RF? LMAO.

Ok, PoBs updated to 3.28. It also looks that they added special kind of Vaal Orb that can change numeric values on unique items. Hope it won't be prohibitively expensive, getting above 30% reduced damage would actually be very big buff to survivability.

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PoB looks very solid and items super easy to get lmao. Grateful the leveling section doesn't say use rolling smegma until fire trap of blasting entering maps or something gay like that. Get to actually use the skill to level with from the start almost :D

Fun build > playing meta. And fun isn't mutually exclusive with being strong and clearing all content. This league I'm gonna make Will of the Lords work, lol.

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P.S- who remembers playing fire trap back in the old days when it was Pohx's goto skill instead of RF? LMAO.

I remember leveling with Fire Trap + Elemental Proliferation back in double dipping days, it was very comfortable experience.

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Congrats on making the most off meta build I actually wanna roll after like 17000 hours lmao.

lol, thanks

Im slowly but surely leveling up, with a comfy campaign so far.

I wanted to ask why do we use Eldrich Battery (lvl 50-maps leveling tree). My mana is fine with bots+zealotry+clarity so far.

Also, The gem links in your gear explanation part is different from the skill links part, which one should i aim to?
Im trying to use the POB links but only the leveling trees one is working, the other ones says are using a different skill tree :(


Thanks in advance!

POB doesnt work any of them

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I wanted to ask why do we use Eldrich Battery (lvl 50-maps leveling tree). My mana is fine with bots+zealotry+clarity so far.

If you don't have mana issues, you can drop it. IIRC I had mana issues because of extra 3 Fire Trap levels from Dragonfang Flight, I got this item early.

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Also, The gem links in your gear explanation part is different from the skill links part, which one should i aim to?

Gear section snapshots items when I posted them, don't look at links and gems.

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POB doesnt work any of them

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Im trying to use the POB links but only the leveling trees one is working, the other ones says are using a different skill tree :(

You need to update PoB to work with 3.28 trees. I also recommend ticking "Opt-in to weekly beta test builds" in "Options" so you run the latest version. If it somehow still doesn't work, let me know, I'll export them again. You can also quickly view build at pobb.in, it works.

EDIT: or here are 3.27 PoBs from the old post version:
Levelling
89lvl 5L
97lvl Low Life
99lvl min-maxed with Mageblood

This might be a stupid question, but where does ignition come from? From the trap skill itself?

Critical strikes with Fire Trap ignite. In Mageblood version, we get ignite chance from flask instead, so we can take fire mastery for a big dps boost.