TbXie's Toxic Rain DoT Trickster Bandits, Pantheons, and Ascendancy Page (PoE Necropolis)

Ascendancy (Shadow – Trickster)

One Step Ahead

What shall I say? Potentially one of the best ascendancy nodes in the game. Action speed is a really really valuable stat but more so are the free mini temporal chains. Reducing action speed to 92% of their base value is incredibly strong & will make leveling very very smooth. On top of that, it makes you immune to Chill, Freeze & Temporal Chains. Time to zoom!

Escape Artist

This Ascendancy notable basically enables Trickster further. Since it gives you Evasion per Energy Shield on your helmet. The fact that it gets you a free 300 Energy Shield from Body Armour also is pretty significant For our ability to keep maintaining to cast Toxic Rain.

Spellbreaker

The 20% Flat Suppression basically means you’re essentially capped without using any gear. We are also Spell Suppressed cap meaning we almost always are regenerating ES for the early game before The Devouring Diadem. This is an extra layer of protection after we get Diadem becomes a tool to never go out of “mana”.

Polymath

Polymath is an incredible node. Not only does it provide you with a tremendous amount of Damage but it also gives you an obscene amount of recovery. This basically makes you a swift mapper with so much sustain that you’re going to have a really comfortable time whilst playing the build in endgame maps.

Bandits

There really only is one option here. You want to kill all to help Eramir for 2 Skill Points. None of the Bandit options are particularly useful to you for this build.

Pantheons

Major Gods

Soul of Lunaris is probably your best pick. No one has ever said no to some extra Physical Damage Reduction!

Minor Gods

I would recommend Soul of Shakari here as Damage over Time cannot be Dodged or Evaded. Some extra defences against that are always nice!

Upgrading your Pantheons

Whilst upgrading your Pantheons never hurts you, it’s not that important for this character. If you have nothing else to do at some point, sure, why not, but it shouldn’t be something you focus on or spend a lot of time on.

Pantheon powers can be upgraded by using Divine Vessel in the Map Device while you are activating the particular Map that contains the boss you need. Once you’ve killed the boss and captured his soul, you need to deliver the Divine Vessel, which’ll be filled up in the map device, to Sin in Oriath.

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