Path of Exile 3.1 brought us 32 new maps, 48 new unique items, many gems, Abyss Challenge League (contains 40 new challenges, for completing 12 of them will reward you the Abyss helmet skin, and 24 for Abyss Wings, 36 for Abyss Portal), and heaps of minor bugs fix and balance tweaks.. Now the experience penalty has been increased for lv.95+ characters. But our Shadow build guide need to continue, here’re Assassin, Saboteur, and Trickster Build, each of them are the one of the best builds currently. Not confirmed whether it suits for all stages of gamers, but dominating in their own aspects: mapping, boss, PvP and so on. Hope you can write your own build guide for us. Massive cheap PoE Orbs are waiting for you!

 

PoE 3.1 Shadow Build – Discharge CI Assassin

 
Original Idea of This Build
Discharge has always appealed to me. Ultrafast build, extreme DPS, great AoE and overall just satisfying as hell to play. Shatter noises - the only voice I could hear while farming. What’s more, this build also exalts drop rate. Wish you can build a better aDischarge CI Assassion in PoE 3.1.
 
Ascendancy Passive Skills Intro
Unstable Infusion – Gets us started with Power Charge Generation.
Deadly Infusion – Grants base critical strike chance and crit multi PER power charge.
Ambush – HUGE crit chance/multiplier vs Enemies on Full Life. Makes it very hard not to crit with Shield Charge.
Assassinate – More or less guaruntees we crit against low life targets as well as culling strike with crits.
 

 

PoE 3.1 Shadow Build – Blast Mines MoM Saboteur

 
Pros & Cons of This Build
*Ultrafast for all mapping tasks
*Safety Guarantee – 10k EHP at Lv.96, shatters, offscreen clear abilities
*Suitable for all maps
*Teamwork friendly
*Weak in Solo
*Gears demanding (Buy Cheap PoE Currency & Orbs)
*Slow pace blocks further improvement
 
Recommend Ascending Skills: Bomb Specialist, Demolition Specialist, Explosives Expert, Blinding Assault. Mana reg is good for leveling with MoM, 15% resists allow for flexible gearing and 20% crit plus ~5% damage.
 
Leveling Strategy for Skills:
1-12 Fire trap plus Freezing Pulse
12-28 Fire nova Mines
28-70 Glacial cascade - Remote Mine - Minefield - Physical to Lightning
You can start with KB once you level up to 75 and gain a decent wand and the required unique items. Getting chaos resistance and MP & regeneration where you can fit makes a decent difference against constructs and desecrated ground. If you can manage the resists or are playing with aurabots, get an opal with EDWA or lightning damage.

 

PoE 3.1 Shadow Build – Spirit Burst Trickster
 
Key point gear: Death's Oath
 
Death’s Oath is an unique plate type gear that provides “Death’s Aura” for owner, damaging nearby enemies by “Chaos Damage” over time.
 
Level using either blight or essence drain depending on your preferences. Use contagion,
increased area of effect, controlled destruction, and faster casting for either setup (yes contagion works nicely with blight).
 
Make sure you're leveling up an extra set of support gems to use later with death's oath (less duration, concentrated effect, swift affliction, and void manipulation, arcane surge can stay at level 1 so don't bother with it until level 62 when you can equip death's oath. The Spirit Burst skill granted by Lightpoacher deals physical damage. Death's Aura deals chaos damage, so this transition to make a build that doesn't really scale much physical or spell damage into one that can bring out Spirit Burst's potential can be weird to deal with.
 

Recommend Ascending Skills: Swift Killer, Patient reaper, Walk the Aether, Weave the Arcane.
 
You can revise this guide according to your current build situation, for example, you can replace Weave the Arcane passive with Ghost Dance if you can manage under 100 mana unreserved. All depends on your own, maybe you can create a new powerful shadow.
 
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