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POE Betrayal Latest Popular Shadow Builds - Trickster, Assassin, Saboteur
The Shadow is Path of Exile's dexterity/intelligence hybrid class. He makes surgical use of offensive spells while dodging attacks, always outmaneuvering his opponents. Build your most powerful Trickster, Assassin, Saboteur league starters by browsing the Poe 3.5 Build we collected for you!
Shadow Assassin Builds
POE Betrayal Assassin Molten Strike Starter Build - Fast Life Recovery, Cheap, Tankly
Pros
- Looks nice
- Mostly cheap
- You can tell everyone you did Shaper with <10k tooltip DPS
- Can do every map mod, doesn't rely on leech or regen
- Literally melts bosses
- Tanky, can facetank most of the game with good gear
- Vaal Pact nostalgia (very fast life recovery)
- Slows down enemies a lot
Gems Setup
6 Link: Molten Strike - Added Chaos Damage - G. Multiple Projectiles - Multistrike - Ancestral Call - Deadly Ailments
The first five gems are pretty much required to have, Deadly Ailments is the best DPS gem we have left.
Level 21 Added Chaos Damage is very desirable because it's the main source of base damage
A 6-link is very important for your damage, as the final link is another 60% bonus.
Recommend getting a Tabula Rasa or 6-linked rare item for a cheap start.
Volkuur's Version
Replace Added Chaos Damage for Immolate because it has higher numbers (you can ignite with critical strikes).
Frost Blades
Frost Blades - Added Chaos Damage - Chain - Multistrike - Ancestrall Call - Damage on Full Life
If you want, you can try out Frost Blades It produces less lag than MS and has better area coverage, but significantly worse single target damage.
The gem colours are the same as Molten Strike, so you can easily swap between both skills. Threshold jewels are not needed.
4 Link: Shield Charge - Fortify - Faster Attacks, Arctic Armour
As Movement Skill I highly recommend Shield Charge, as it's more precise than Whirling Blades and costs less mana.
With Fenumus' Weave, these gems have to be in the gloves because every other setup would support Aspect of the Spider, increasing the mana reservation.
Volkuur's Version
Replace Arctic Armour for Anger for some extra fire damage.
4 Link: Spell Totem - Wither - Increased Duration - Faster Casting
The totem pretty much doubles our damage and should only be used in bossfights. The Hinder debuff does not stack with Aspect of the Spider, but overwrites it for a stronger effect instead.
4 Link: Cast When Damage Taken (level 1) - Immortal Call (level 3) - Increased Duration - Enfeeble (level 5)
Just the usual IC/Curse setup to protect you.
Note that you can use any curse you prefer, but Enfeeble is the most defensive.
3 Link: Herald of Agony - Pierce - Minion Damage
Adding support gems to the Agony Crawler will increase you mana reservation to a total of 85%, which is still fine.
If that's too low for you, you can swap Minion Damage for Additional Accuracy (which doesn't have a mana multiplier).
Note that the Crawler starts extremely strong, but falls off the further you progress through maps
A level 21 Crawler with 40 stacks will end up dealing ~120k single target DPS, which makes it sufficient for packs, but relatively weak against bosses. If that's not enough for you, feel free to consider another setup
Level 21 on the Herald is highly recommended, as is 20% quality.
3 Link: Cast When Damage Taken - Summon Lightning Golem - Blood Rage
Both of these buffs boost our attack speed. Blood Rage can be sustained with our life regeneration, so it actually helps survivability by increasing our hit rate.
These gems are on CWDT because I'm too lazy to activate them myself (Blood Rage is instant so you could also manually activate it if you want).
POB link
- Fenumus' Weave: https://pastebin.com/16WnwTbf
- Volkuur's Guidance: https://pastebin.com/JcB46nre
POE Betrayal Assassin Rain of Arrows Starter Build- High Clear Speed, Cheap, All Map Mods
Pros
- +Can reach 1 million shaper dps with garbage gear.
- +High clear speed with +173% movement speed while mapping, good aoe from Rain of arrow.
- +Cheap, around 1 exalt in total, but of course we can gradually build it up.
- +1700 Life leech/s. 43% Evasion, 30% Spell Dodge, 5k life, 50% reduced curse effect, overcapped resist for elemental weakness, plenty of evasion, artic armour, pantheons.
- +Don't care about map mods.
Gems Setup
Listed in order of importance.
Single target: Barrage-Added Chaos Damage-Greater Multiple Projectiles-Withering Touch-Deadly Ailment-Vicious Projectile
Clear:
Rain of Arrows- Added Chaos Damage- Mirage Archer – Deadly Ailments- Vicious Projectile- (Vile Toxins)
Note: Toxic rain is a viable alternative, but it is a bit slow to apply life gain on hit part, which can be dangerous in some situation.
Actually you don't need a 6 link Rain of Arrow to kill trash mobs, 5 links is fine.
Herald of Agony setup:
HoAg – Minion Damage- Vicious Projectile- Faster Attack
Note: No greater multiple projectile, the mana multiplier is just too much.
Cast on Damage Taken : CoDT – Immortal Call – Enfeeble – Chaos Golem
Utility setup: Phase run – Blink Arrow- Arctic Armour- Whatever you like (Decoy Totem?)
Shadow Saboteur Builds
POE Betrayal Saboteur ARC Mine Starter Build - High Speed, Low Cost Start, Endgame
Pros
- Start game and End game Easy
- Cheap to kill uber elder (<50c gear)
- Fast to kill uber elder (< 2 minute)
- Delve more than 1500 depth(
- Fast mapping(87%IIQ 280%IIR 1:20 map T15 Belfre or 2:30 T16 Burial Chambers)
- Magic find(87%IIQ 280%IIR and easy to mapping)
- Any map affix can be completed
- High movement speed, Run lab(MF gear 230% UP, Fight gear 250% UP)
Gems Setup
Main 6L Body
Minefield Support + Remote Mine Support + Added Cold Damage Support + Increased Critical Strikes Support + Arc + Lightning Penetration Support
If you have a call of the brotherhood you can swap out added cold damage for added lightning or controlled destruction
If you have a 4L or 5l
4L Setup --> Minefield - Remote Mine - Inc Critical Strikes - Arc
5L Setup --> MineField - Remote Mine - Inc Critical Strikes - Arc - Added Cold
Helm
Lightning Spire Trap + Lightning Penetration Support + Advanced Traps Support + Elemental Focus Support
Movement Skill/How We Proc Arcane Surge (huge damage boost)
Arcane Surge Support + Faster Casting Support + Flame Dash
Quality of Life Gems
Smoke Mine + Detonate Mines + Spell Totem Support + Increased Duration Support
When you put this spell totem down it will detonate your mines instantly if there are enemies around, so you don't have to press detonate yourself.
Smoke mine gives us a huge movement speed bonus.
Aura Gems
Clarity + Wrath
Defensive Cast When Damage Taken Setup
Cast when Damage Taken Support + Immortal Call + Phase Run + Enfeeble
Don't level up any of these gems past 2
POB link: https://pastebin.com/xA38DXvn
Shadow Trickster
POE Betrayal Trickster Toxic Rain Starter Build - Cheap, Safe, Fast Recharge, Endgame
Pros
- + Cheap to start, cheap to invest in upgrades, scope for further investment. Start levelling for 3C; all yellow maps on ~75C.
- + Mandatory uniques are very cheap. Flexible about others.
- + Layered defenses
- + Both active and passive recovery mechanics.
- + Inpulsa-style explosions scale damage with trash mob health (and give a satisfying pop-pop sound!).
- + Explosions rapidly delete packs: the safety of upfront damage, with the sustained powered of DoT
- + DoT and poison scaling for bosses/high HP rares.
- + Quill Rain QoL
Gems Setup
Primary clear skill 5L on weapon:
Toxic Rain - Vicious Projectiles - Added Chaos Damage - Void Manipulation - Swift Affliction
Possibilities for 6th gem for 6L
Mirage Archer, Increased AoE, Vile Toxins, Faster Attacks, Poison, Unbound Ailments, Empower
Debuff totem
Ranged Attack Totem - Rain of Arrows - Withering Touch - Faster Attacks - Added Chaos - Lesser Poison
For high-tier bossing, perhaps swap Barrage in for Rain of Arrows (not necessary in yellow maps). Rain of Arrows also works very nicely in delves. Alternatively, have Barrage instead of Toxic Rain on a weapon swap.
Minion clear
Herald of Agony - Minion Damage - Damage on Full Life - Vicious Projectiles
Defense / Utilit
Discipline
CWDT - Immortal Call - Increased Duration - Phase Run
Blink Arrow
Summon Ice Golem
Up to you whether to self-cast Phase Run (nice for Delves), or trigger it with CWDT for a "vanish" effect.
POE Betrayal Trickster Caustic Arrow Starter Build - High Clear Speed, Cheap, Amazing
Pros
- + Good clear
- + 124% increased skill duration for smoke mine and phase run. Smoke mine lasts 13.3 seconds, phase run lasts around 4.18s with no frenzy charges up. The cooldown on phaserun is 4 seconds meaning we have permanent up time with no frenzy charges, With 6 frenzy charges youll get about 15s of uptime, great for delving into darkness.
- + smoke mine + phase rune = 80% increased movement speed at all times.
- + Mirage archer + CA is amazing for indoor maps
- + Has one of the most amazing feelings of
- + progression for a character I've played so far, and im just into maps.
Gems Setup
For clearing
[Caustic Arrow + Swift affliction + Vicious Projectiles + Mirage Archer + Concentrated Effect + Damage on Full Life]
Once you acquire your offhand 6l +3 bow use these
[Caustic Arrow + Swift affliction + Vicious Projectiles + Void manipulation + Empower + Concentrated Effect + Concentrated Effect]
POB link: https://pastebin.com/8ALRQHej
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POE Betrayal Pathfinder Viper Strike Starter Build - High DPS, Cheap, Fast Speed
This build is based on the skill, Viper Strike. Viper Strike is an attack that hits the enemy with chaos damage and applies poison. This build have crazy DPS - up and beyond 5,000,000.000 DPS! No matter what, the build will be cheap because of common uniques.
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POE Betrayal Deadeye Voidfletcher Build - Low Budget Viabe, Fast, Endgame
An ordinary Void Shot isn't especially impressive, it deals around the same damage as a typical unsupported skill, but since it's not in a socketed piece of gear you've no way of adding support gems to it, which makes it seem underwhelming. However, it scales extremely well on extra arrows, better than any other skill (barrage and molten strike included), because it's extremely easy to get the explosions to overlap
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POE Betrayal Raider Cyclone Starter Build - Pure Physical, Cheap, Friendly
Cyclone is the core skill in this build. Cyclone is an skill that initiates a spinning series of attacks as the player travels to a target location. This build is a perfect league starter. You can do it with only about 30 chaos. This build also has the capability to scale amazingly well. You can dump 100+ exalts and still see substantial results. The only two map mods the build can't do are physical reflect and no leech.
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POE Betrayal Deadeye Elemental Hit Starter Build - Cheap, High DPS, Endgame
Elemental Hit is an attack skill, executing a basic attack with added damage of a random element. An Elemental Hit may be performed with any weapon. Combat Focus now causes Elemental Hit to deal 50% less damage of the prevented element, including damage that gets converted from the prevented element to a new element. This build need a low budget, and it will cause an impressive damage. A good choice for novice players.
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POE Betrayal Guardian Dominating Blow Starter Build - All Version Viable, Cheap, Endgame
Dominating Blow is the vital skill used in this build. Dominating Blow is a melee attack that applies a debuff which causes the monster to summon a Sentinel under your control when killed.
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POE Betrayal Trickster Caustic Arrow Starter Build - High Clear Speed, Cheap, Amazing
Caustic Arrow is the main skill used in this build. Caustic Arrow is a bow attack that fires an arrow dealing chaos damage and exploding in a caustic cloud. By this build you can start playing as from the get-go and really shines with some investment. If you just like run around as stuff dies, it's maybe suitable for you.
