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Intro & build description
Venom gyre is a fantastic choice for an elemental damage build, although the name wouldn’t exactly suggest that. The skill itself is quite unique, and works together with whirling blades, making the projectiles return to you. This synergy creates an ability to clear really fast and deal a lot of single target damage – everything you’d want in a starter build. This is one of my personal favorite builds and I’d suggest that you give it a go as well.
Build Pros
- Cheap - perfect for a league start
- Very fast leveling due to the nature of the skill
- Can obliterate uber bosses with some currency invested
- Very fast map clear
Build Cons
- Can get one-shot occasionally, but has good life gained on hit as well as damage reduction from Focal point ascendancy
Passive tree(s) and Path of Building
[3.21] Skill Tree PoB Community (Pastebin)Bandits
| Bandits Quest Choice |
| Kill all bandits |
Ascendancy skill points
| Labyrinths | Skill point choice |
|---|---|
| Labyrinth 1 | Gathering Winds |
| Labyrinth 2 | Ricochet |
| Labyrinth 3 | Endless Munitions |
| Endgame Labyrinth | Focal Point |
Skill gem setup
Helm
Anger
Berserk
Wrath
Blood Rage
Body Armor
Venom Gyre
Awakend Fork Support
Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support
Trinity Support
Inspiration Support
Nightblade Support
Gloves
Tornado
Whirling Blades
Cast on Critical Strike Support
Rage
Boots
Sniper's Mark
Mark on Hit Support
Vaal Arctic Armour
Lifetap Support
2h Weapon
None
1h Weapon
Portal
Cast on Death Support
Precision
Offhand weapon / shield
Flame Wall
Hydrosphere
Cast When Damage Taken Support
Build uniques / Example rare gear
Tip: Click on the item to view it on PoE Wiki or to view similar rare items in poe.tradeHelmet
Rare Blizzard CrownLook for Blizzard crown as a base, with “Venom Gyre has a 25% chance to keep each caught Projectile fired with whirling blades” lab enchant.
Use essence to craft reservation efficiency on it by using Deafening Essence of Loathing, ideally together with some life and resistance or 2.
Until you can afford it, use regular rare helmet with high life and resistances.
Body Armour
Rare body armourSimilar to the helmet, we are looking for reservation efficiency on body armour.
You can just buy and 6-linked body armour, use essence of loathing for reservation efficiency + some life and resistances, craft % life and mana and call it a day.
Gloves
Kaom's SpiritGreat gloves for this version (Rage) of the build, which allow us to keep it up.
Before you can get these, use regular rare gloves with life and resistances.
Boots
Atziri's StepAtziri’s Step is a fantastic, inexpensive, farmable option due to the high life, movement speed and most importantly – spell suppression.
Before acquiring these, any boots with 30% movement speed, res and life would do the trick.
Left Ring
The TamingThis build uses 2x The Taming rings, that are perfect for us due to very high damage that we get from them.
Amulet
Rare AmuletLook for a rare amulet with high life, global critical strike multiplier and elemental damage with attack skills.
Belt
Rare Stygian ViseLook for rare stygian vise with high life, elemental damage with attack skills and resistances.
1Hand Weapon
Rare Imperial ClawLook for or craft an Imperial Claw with following mods at the minimum:
1) Increased attack speed (25%+)
2) Increased critical strike chance (30%+)
3) 15-300 lightning damage
Any other offensive mods like cold damage or fire damage on top of the core would be great.
Best way to guarantee 2 of these mods every time is to buy Imperial Claw with one of the 3 core mods fractured and spamming the claw with essences. It’s likely that you would get a good, usable weapon quite soon.
Offhand
Rare ShieldLook for rare shield with as much spell suppression and life as you can. Craft attack speed or elemental damage with attacks on it.
Any resistance / evasion mods would be good bonuses.
Jewel
JewelsThis build uses regular rare jewels and 3 cluster jewels.
On regular jewels look for:
1) Maximum life
2) Lightning damage to attacks
3) Attack speed
On cluster jewels look for:
1) On Large cluster look for Fan of Blades, Heavy Hitter and Wind-up notables.
2) On Medium cluster look for Eye to Eye and Repeater mods.
3) Endgame version of the build also uses The Interrogation unique jewel to gain Secrets of Suffering. At the start of the league, this jewel is usually expensive, but drops off quite soon after.
4) Build can also optionally use Watcher’s Eye with Anger and Precision mods – whichever you can get.
Flask
Flask SetupBuild uses following flasks:
1) Divine Life Flask with instant recovery
2) Bottled Faith / Dying Sun (Optional)
3) Diamond Flask
4) Silver Flask
5) Granite Flask
