Lightning Strike Slayer: Build of the League (Probably) [PoE 3.25]

Alternate Title: Play This Build Before It Gets Nerfed in 3.26!

Llarold’s here with a breakdown on LS Slayer, a build you can play in Path of Exile: a game that exists!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Why LS Slayer?
3:28 MTX Breakdown
4:30 Pros & Cons
8:49 Gear
25:53 Skills
31:33 Passive Tree & Cluster
39:23 Ascendancy
40:29 How to Craft Claw
48:03 Weapon Enchant
49:01 Leveling
51:43 Pantheon
52:40 Bandits
52:43 Conclusion

[jacksonhanbidge]

For those don’t have a MB and are using arns anguish give this a go:

-Rottgut Flask
-Bottled Faith Flask
-Atziri’s Promise Flask
-get a decent Watcher’s eye with the gain a flask charge every time you crit while affected by Precision.

Super fun perma uptime on flasks and hefty damage increase :)

[alienangel]

This was really nicely explained, thanks. I'm not even playing Slayer (playing the Deadeye version of LS) but your explanations of the various items, interactions between them and why you choose each key skill/passive item was really helpful for a new PoE player.

[Gazer]

Okay, okay. I was not going to try this build since everybody else is already doing it, but now since you're highlighting it and I love the stuff you're doing, I'm starting it up now. Thank you for the great content.

[terlyon]

This build is absolutely crazy. Started as lacerate bleed, invested quite a bit, it way okay at bosses, but mapping didn't feel good. Saved up 20 divines and swapped, then was comfortable enough to sell my bleed gear to fully invest in the swap. Bought a HH for mapping fun, and threw out the stormshroud since shock immunity from tempest shield is enough for me, bought some other jewels including a 3x 5% double damage lethal pride for only 8 divine, and I'm now at 27 mil Full DPS with 493k EHP. At level 100, I'll crack 30 mil with no upgrades needed. This is the first league I've owned one of the big two belts or killed any Ubers. Loving it!

[VoidExileYT]

Been using this build for the necro settler event and I've never had a been this efficient before. In 5.5k hours+ I've never reached level 100, but with this build that is more than doable, especially in this event

[gregreyes]

Listening this like a podcast, currently working right now, ill change from lacerate to this when i get home, thanks bro

[danielparkes]

About to get fired trying to watch this while working - thanks! Was looking forward to this one!

[dinor]

I just switched to this build and so far It's amazing.

I used Lokati guide for leveling slayer, but used Rog to craft all my stuff, so leveling option proposed by Llarold’s can be better for people who didn't run expedition on first character(I can give away this items if anyone is intresting).

So Far I spent 58 div, I aimed for perfect rolls, so as example Svalinn costed me 5.5div with 15% Chance to Block Spell Damage instead of 1.5div with 14% Chance to Block Spell Damage.

I am missing tincture and jewels Interrogation, Large Cluster Jewel, Prismatic Jewel, Viridian Jewel - this set alone can cost around 25 div.

So total cost is around 85 div(at this moment).

I thought I will need to spend more but I believe I was lucky, got claw that have a little bit better stats(and all white sockets) than Llarold’s claws for 15 div.

And I am lvl 76, missing good helmet and armour + Awakened Elemental Damage, also 50% of the gems in this build I just started using so missing a lot of stats here, I also run only 2 labs, so I don't have 4 ascendancy points,
but, I hit red map, 5 lvl above my character and I cleared map without any issue.

Mistake I made(someone can find this helpful), Timeless Jewel will give you a lot of strength stats, so you maybe don't need strentgth on the items, I bought armour with strength attributes and it's useless now(yes I know you can use tatoo).

It looks I will be able to buy mageblood after I sell simplex + I have 70mln crops but only 11 mln dust(it's so slow, items giving you 30k dust max) so it looks like it will be fun ;)

I will update post after I hit 95lvl+ and starting doing T17 and ubers(I am not able to do it on my first, RF character.)

Edit, the build is great, I am doing T17 maps without issue, I sometimes dying to bosses butit's mostly skill issue as I don't know what to expect and dying one shot.

[DrJupiter]

Really helpful overview for me as a new player. So much information that's hard to find from other sources. Finding it useful to clarify totally different classes and builds. Very helpful, thank you.

[ILoveMyBGE]

you can sneak in 1% attack block by using a tatoo on your one +10 strength node. Your Svalinn is also missing a 1% of block for Spell Block. This can get you to 87/87 block.

[Lordwolfie]

I just wanted to say thank you for this build. I swapped to this build from a flickerstrike build and have to say it was a blast. For the first time I was able to basically anything in the game I wanted and finish the season challenge. Thank you!

[mikkelkristensen]

Could you release a POB with the changes you would make, if you were to use Headhunter instead of Mageblood? :3 Great vid!

[norbertrezz]

Great video dude, i've been playing several versions of ls slayer and i may say this one is top
Gl further, exile!

[hydraspirits]

Hi! Looking through the PoB and I can't work out how you're reaching the 100% Shock avoidance for Stormshroud (I can see the 44% on quicksilver flask)? Would love to know what to allocate to grab the 100%, as I hate getting chilled/frozen. Cheers!

[opegamin]

You crafting that claw, has taught me more about crafting in this league then any league before. Im doing Ive Nova Hierophant. Farming t16s essence. Now i feel comfortable crafting a new chest piece/profane wands. Cheers bro

[Cptwinter]

Hey man how are ya? I just wanted to ask since my LS has been all over the place, i just farmed a nimis and a MB with my main build (icenova hiro) and want to try LS before poe 2…i dont really have anything else other than a svallin (the main reason i wanted to try LS XD) and a unique one handed sword…the main takeaway from this is there ant recommend passive skill tree i can go for using my stuff there? And any gems as well cuz dear lawd its just a cluster fuck for me… ty for your awesome vids it really helped out a lot <3

[nethstar]

I have a non svalinn version, but before I change over: I'm still a little confused on how you're gaining endurance charges (as seen in the intro) with no endurance charge mastery or endurance charge gain on body implicit, as you mentioned.

I thought maybe it's masterful form matching your frenzy charge to your endurance charges + ralalesh setting at max charges + popping blood rage or something but i tried this and... Nothing showed up on my buffs list at the top to indicate I had endurance charges active. Killed a bunch of mobs to check if it appears on kill. Nothing.

I must be missing something but can't quite get it?

[ronibilis]

Hi there. Thank you much. Your Stacked Deck Farming enabled me to farm up some currency and made so much fun. And this build was recommended to me on reddit and i must be honest i first thougt that this is again one of those builds where you need insane amounts of currency. But i now spent about 20ish Divs and damn this build is disgusting but in a positiv way. Just cleared Wave 15 Sim with only one death. I face tanked Omni and Kosis at the same time without any issue. Thanks. Pls keep up the great work. Just wanted to say this. Peace Exile

[jasonli]

Hi mate, excellent build guide right here. Much appreciated the effort put in! Quick question, in this build you are using tri ele dmg claw without hit can't be evade. May I know how do you make sure to cap hit chance here?

[thegodwarsable]

I haven't seen the whole video yet so forgive my insolence, but I'm planning on making a MB with banishing sword ignores ele res on crits, I'll be using watchers eye that's brilliant for vitality and when using purity of elements gives me +49 chaos res, any other recommendations for me?