Toxic Rain Pathfinder was my starter build for League and it didn’t disappoint me at all. You can easily scale into the late game while remaining tanky. You can also easily farm tier 16 empowered Legion and Expedition. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Skill Itself And Area Solution

Our skill choice is Toxic Rain. Fire a projectile with your bow, which will spawn Spore Pods where it lands. Over time, this will start to cause chaos damage in an area, and they can overlap each other.

We’ve gained huge buffs in this league, but we’ve lost gems that increase area quality. Therefore, we need a new method to reach the area threshold of 39% increase.

I’ve seen others use Searing Exarch Helmet Implicit, which increases the area. But I think giving up 15% or more of Despair Curse effect is bad.

So I came up with a simple solution, which is to exchange for a Medium Cluster Jewel. In this way, only 1% of damage is lost in exchange for 10% Area of effect and 8% life.

Clear Skill

To increase the speed of clearing, we use Caustic Arrow. When you fire a projectile, it creates Caustic Ground where the projectile lands. Over time, this can cause chaotic damage.

But it is difficult to pass the level using this skill alone. Therefore, we added Arrow Nova Support. With this combination, our clearing speed will be much faster.

Secondary Source Of Damage And Damage Scaling

Our biggest and best multipliers come from secondary sources using Ballista. We can have 5 of these and they will help stack Wither on the boss. By default increases Chaos damage by 90%.

In addition, we also get an Ascendancy node, which will increase the Wither effect and give us the chance to cause a Wither.

The other really big damage increase is skill effect duration. Because Pods will stay in the fight longer and deal damage for longer.

We can keep all the mana because we use Eldritch Battery for the build. We’ll spend our Energy Shield just like we have mana, but we can use our skills more freely because we don’t have to worry about mana.

You need at least 400 Energy Shield as I think that’s a good breakpoint for Divine Blessing to set. Even after you use Divine Blessing, you have enough Energy Shield to send Toxic Rain and still not deplete Energy Shield.

Which New Ascendancy?

We can use Charm because we selected Wildwood Primalist as our secondary Ascendancy. I also used 2 Spell Suppression Charm and a Mana Reservation Charm, so we didn’t have to use Enlighten.

Also, because I’m using a clear setup rather than a single target setup, this means the damage we take will be much higher. And POE currency cost of running the map is very high. Therefore, this build will need to continue to be updated. Of course, you can adjust it to suit your play style.

Defensives

On the defensive side, we convert 63% of physical damage into elemental damage. Of these, 50% were achieved just by using Lightning Coil. The rest comes from the helmet.

Because we treat so much damage as elemental damage, we can use all elemental damage reduction flasks to reduce converted elemental damage, such as Ruby, Sapphire, and Topaz Flasks.

In addition, we can also use Grace Aura to increase the evasion rating, so that we will almost never die from the monster’s normal attacks or projectiles.

Now that we are almost untouchable by physical attacks, the remaining danger is spell damage. Skill Tree, Gear and Charm can achieve 100% Spell Suppression.

Items

Since we’re using Eldritch Battery, you’ll need Energy Shield and Evasion Bases and the pure Energy Base Helmet.

• Weapon: Our weapon is a standard crafted bow with +1 socketed bow gems that increase attack speed and cause chaos damage over time. Quiver’s life and damage overtime are mostly related to attack skills and bow damage.
• Quiver: Now we use Penetrating Arrow Quiver because I also use Caustic Arrow for clearing, which is why I say this is not the best setup for a single target.
• Amulet: Amulet is also a crafted one. You just buy an amulet with Fractured Chaos Resistance and reforge Chaos through Harvest until you deal damage over time and get +1 for all Chaos skill gems.
• Gloves: High life chaos resistance and attack speed. Suppression and chaos damage multi as implicit.
• Boots: Suppress movement speed avoids Elemental Ailments and avoids Elemental Ailments and action speed by implicit.
• Helmet: Life and large Energy Shield rolls, for Eldritch Battery crafting physical damage treated as fire. And improve implicit physical damage, such as Cold or Lightning and Despair Curse effects.
• Ring: Life and attributes and resistance and crafting lowest Frenzy Charges.
• Belt: Life and strength also increase Flask Charge buff and increase the effect of flasks on you.

Flask

So the flasks we use are Ruby, Sapphire, Topaz, Quicksilver and Divine Life flask. All flasks require this mod: increased effect and reduced duration.

Be careful when you roll your flask, as there are many mod combinations of the two, but it will reduce the duration even more. So your flask won’t have 100% uptime.

The sub-mod reduces mana cost, chance to avoid being frozen, and all elemental resistances. When you get into a boss fight, change your Quicksilver flask to a Silver flask with attack speed.

That’s it for my Toxic Rain Pathfinder build guide. Ready to dive into Affliction League with Toxic Rain Pathfinder build? Looking forward to seeing you in the game!