Velyna's Explosive Concoction Ascendant (PoE Trial of the Ancestors 3.22)
Introduction
Turn your flasks into explosive grenades and blaze a path of destruction, Explosive Concoction will consume charges from your topaz and sapphire flasks to deal big chunks AoE elemental damage. This is one of the few remaining skills that can shotgun so we push that AoE as big as we can! Playable at leaguestart very cheaply this build becomes capable of deathless Feared when it is fully built out. Defensively no slouch either, it has a nice amount of evasion/armour with spell suppression and overleech. Nearly ailment immune as well.
Below is a video guide I made for Youtube. This is a good place to start and goes over gearing as well as Pros/Cons. The PoB’s and guide may be more current so make sure to check!
Overview
Pros
✔️ Damage AND Clear: Because our damage overlaps, we stack a LOT of AoE resulting in nice clearspeed without any hit to boss DPS.
✔️ Easy Leaguestart: Very few required uniques, just running Carcass Jack and
Atziri's Step for early league.
✔️ Infinite Flasks: The charge generation is insane, if you are like me and just spam flasks constantly it still keeps them full most of the time.
Cons
❌ Charges Required: Until you have adequate flask crafts and talents, you will run out on bosses and DPS will drop.
❌ Uncommon Gear: With a small market for the gear we use, it’s sometimes hard to find. This can be fixed by crafting it yourself.
How Does it Play?
Explosive Concoction feels like firing 6 grenade launchers at the same time. Mapping is an absolute breeze thanks to free rage generation, 30% increased AoE and overleech from our ascends. Combined with
Herald of Ash the clear becomes nuts with one volley clearing huge groups of enemies.
Damage and Defensive Scaling
Explosive Concoction uses no weapon, and instead gives large amounts of flat elemental damage per gem level. This means the absolute best way to get DPS is through level bonuses such as
Skin of the Loyal and
Empower Support. Next in line are penetrate, attack speed, and exposure. Certain generic damage sources like AoE damage, attack damage or elemental damage will also work.
For defense we have defiance banner + Determination and Grace with spell suppression cap. Overleech from Glorious Vanity, stun immune from ascend. Ailment immune with crafting.
Help
For help with this build, the best places to ask are:
My stream https://www.twitch.tv/velyna
Autarkis stream https://www.twitch.tv/autarki
PoE Vault Discord https://discord.gg/q2P5Q9g
PoB Imports
The current PoB’s for this build are always available here:
Gear
The gear page has premade item searches and info about each item in the late-game PoBs.
Leaguestart
Use the skill setup below, not the one in leaguestart PoB, until finishing acts 1-10.
All of my Leaguestart PoBs contain step-by-step pathing, and you can scroll down on this page to see what skills to use in acts 1-10.
Act 1
Level 1-12
You can use whatever you want until level 12, this is what I used. Remember to check the gem vendors after quest completions and boss kills to get all the power available.
Splitting Steel-
Chance to Bleed Support-
Added Cold Damage Support
War Banner-
Clarity
Dash
Steelskin
Level 12+
Poisonous Concoction-
Chance to Poison Support-
Volley Support
Clarity
Dash
Steelskin
Withering Step
Act 2
Poisonous Concoction-
Chance to Poison Support-
Volley Support-
Cruelty Support
Clarity-
Herald of Agony
Dash
Steelskin
Withering Step
The gems we get here should be enough to get us to the end of act 3 where Explosive Concoction is. Start leveling
Elemental Focus Support and
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support in a weapon swap.
Act 3
Explosive Concoction-
Volley Support-
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support-
Elemental Focus Support
Clarity-
Grace
Dash
Steelskin
At the end of this act it becomes possible to switch into EC, and I usually do this right after library. Buy Inspiration Support and start leveling it.
Act 4-10
Explosive Concoction-
Volley Support-
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support-
Elemental Focus Support-
Inspiration Support
Vitality-
Grace-
Precision
Blood Rage
Dash
Steelskin
Berserk
Mark On Hit Support-
Sniper's Mark
Ancestral Protector
Need Help?
I try to give all the information needed to enjoy the build and succeed, but questions do come up. If you need any help with my builds the best place to go is either My Stream or My Discord
This site also has guides for game mechanics, trading, crafting, and just about anything else, all collected here:
GL out there, Exile!