Explosive Trap Saboteur Endgame Build Info & Playstyle.
Build Info
Leadership Price
Leadership's Price gives you Scorching, Brittle and Sapping Conflux while your two highest Attributes are equal. It is VERY important to make sure you pay attention to your stats! This is the tricky part with gearing, you need to be a problem solver and find where you can change/balance your attributes to obtain this very powerful buff.
This is important because Conflux makes ALL damage apply those Ailments as if it was the correct base elemental damage. Brittle is normally only applied through cold damage, which you deal none of, but with this Amulet that's OK as long as you balance your two highest Attributes.
Brittle gives Base Critical Strike Chance up to 6% which allows you to easily cap Critical Strike Chance. Sapped makes enemies deal Less Damage, and Scorched shreds enemy Resistances. These are all "alternate ailments" and this Amulet prevents you from applying the default Ailments, but using Summon Skitterbots linked with Infernal Legion Support allows our "Minion" to apply them all anyways to take full advantage of Explosives Expert.
Spell Suppression
100% Spell Suppression is obtained by having the correct Passive Tree nodes and obtaining 10% crafted on your Shield, alongside 11% and 10% on your Gloves and Boots.
Recovery
The Majority of Recovery on this Build is obtained through the Saboteur Ascendency node Pyromaniac by throwing Traps and having them Trigger.
How much Omniscience you get from some mods can be deceptive, for example: +25 to Dexterity and Intelligence only grants 25 Omniscience and +12 to All Attributes grants 12 Omniscience.
Crystallised Omniscience provides a massive amount of Resistances and generic Elemental Penetration. The optimal amount of Omniscience is 1500, this almost caps our Resistances from Attribute stacking alone.
Life Leech
Life Gained on Hit
Ailment Immunity
This build obtains Default Ailment immunity by obtaining Pyromaniac, the 100% chance to Avoid being Chilled Boot Craft and through the upgraded Brine King Pantheon
Pantheon & Bandits
| Bandits: Kill all |
For information about acquisition, alternatives and upgrading check out our Pantheon Guide!
Brine King is our Major Pantheon of choice. It provides Freeze Immunity and prevents being chained stun.
Tukohama is our choice of Minor Pantheon, fully upgraded it offers substantial physical defence and life regeneration.
Mapping
While mapping ensure all your Aura's are active clear the map with Explosive Trap. When encountering Tanky enemies place down your Cursed Ground Support and activate your Zealotry.
Map Modifiers to Avoid
The following modifiers are to be avoided if possible:
- Players have #% reduced effect of Non-Curse Auras from Skills
- Players have #% less Armour
- Players cannot Regenerate Life, Mana or Energy Shield
- -#% maximum Player Resistances
Bossing
For bosses there is a specific pre-load you need to do to maximize your damage. The following steps should be preformed before you activate the boss:
- Lay down the maximum number of Traps under the un-activated boss
- Lay down your Cursed Ground Support and Bear Trap
- Activate your Zealotry
- Activate the boss and spam more Traps right before the spawn (not too many though or you'll delete your Bear Trap)
Farming Strategies
As a Bossing focused character you should focus on the bosses or mapping content listed below depending on what level of content your character is currently capable of completing. Clicking the League Mechanics below takes you to either a full Explanation Guide or a detailed Currency Farming Guide based around maximizing your profits from that mechanic or content.
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