Gear & Crafting

Explosive Trap Saboteur Endgame Guide Gear & Crafting.

Core Items

Main Hand

Item: Golden Kris

Prefixes

• +1 to Level of all Spell Skill Gems (Fractured) - picking up a fractured wand base with this mod is the best way to start crafting the item
• +1 to Level of all Fire / Physical Spell Skill Gems
• 72% increased Spell Damage (Crafted)

Suffixes

• Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers (Crafted) - allows 2 Crafted Modifiers on your Weapon
• 15% chance to deal Double Damage while Focused (Crafted) - pairs well with the Shield modifier to provide massive damage increases

Crafting Guide:

Link for Crafting Guide HERE

Off-Hand

Item: Blood Guard

Base Item: Shield with Spell Damage Implicit.

Prefixes

• 85% increased Spell Damage - tolled while crafting
• +113 to maximum Life (Deafening Essence of Greed)
• +1 to Level of all Fire OR Physical Spell Skill Gems - this is the modifier you're looking to roll while using essences.

Suffixes

• Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers (Crafted) - allows 2 Crafted Modifiers on your Weapon
• +10% chance to Suppress Spell Damage (Crafted) - caps the Suppression chance at 100% to ensure great Spell mitigation
• 15% chance to deal Double Damage while Focused (Crafted) - pairs well with the Wand modifier to provide massive damage increases

Crafting Guide:

Link for Crafting Guide HERE

Helmet

Item: The Devouring Diadem

Enchant: Explosive Trap causes 2 additional smaller explosions.

It is required to put your Auras into this Helmet to take advantage of the reduced Reservation. This Helmet also provides Eldritch Battery which solves all Mana Cost issues and allows the use of Divine Blessing Support + Zealotry. Obtain an Stat unveil to help ensure your top two Attributes are balanced for Leadership's Price.

Body Armour

Item: Skin of the Lords

This Body Armour provides lots of damage and a bit of survival from the +2 to Level of Socketed Gems and 100% increased Global Defences modifiers. There are 2 important things to note about this Body Armour.

1. You MUST socket Corrupted Gems in this, so make sure to purchase all Gems corrupted or Corrupt them yourself.
2. There are Keystones that will brick your build or destroy your defences, it is up to you to learn and think about which Keystones have no or little effect or which will hinder the build entirely.

Gloves

Item: Dread Grasp

Eldritch Implicits:

1. 25% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage (Lesser Eldritch Ember)
2. 15% chance to Unnerve Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit (Lesser Eldritch Ichor)

Prefixes

• +85 to maximum Life - can be obtained after Suffixes are complete with Eldritch Chaos Orb, Eldritch Exalted Orb and Eldritch Orb of Annulment.
• 25% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage (crafted) - make sure to craft until you reach 25%.

Suffixes

• +39% to Lightning Resistance (Screaming Essence) - roll with Screaming Essence of Wrath (can roll any Elemental Resistance and swap with harvest)
• +11% chance to Suppress Spell Damage (Fractured) - caps the Suppression chance at 100% to ensure great Spell mitigation
• +46% to Cold Resistance - roll any T1 Elemental Resistances and swap with harvest

Boots

Item: Torment Goad

Eldritch Implicits:

1. 4% increased Action Speed (Lesser Eldritch Ember)
2. Gain 5% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage (Lesser Eldritch Ichor)

Prefixes

• +85 to maximum Life - can be obtained after Suffixes are complete with Eldritch Chaos Orb, Eldritch Exalted Orb and Eldritch Orb of Annulment.
• 20% increased Movement Speed + 100% chance to Avoid being Chilled (crafted) - make sure to craft until you reach 20%.

Suffixes

• +45% to Lightning Resistance (Shrieking Essence) - roll with Shrieking Essence of Wrath (can roll any Elemental Resistance and swap with harvest)
• +11% chance to Suppress Spell Damage (Fractured) - caps the Suppression chance at 100% to ensure great Spell mitigation
• +46% to Cold Resistance - roll any T1 Elemental Resistances and swap with harvest

Amulet

Item: Leadership's Price

It is extremely important that you understand how this item works. Make sure to have your top 2 attributes the exact same or this build will not do any damage! (Example: 220 Strength, 220 Intelligence, and 180 Dexterity). This Amulet also gives or takes up to 3% of your Maximum Resistances. Make sure to obtain an Amulet that either doesn't change, or increases your Maximum Resistances.

Ring 1

Item: Circle of Anguish

Obtain the #% increased Fire Damage while affected by Herald of Ash and Herald of Ash has #% increased Buff Effect modifiers to massively increase your damage. The Implicit on this ring can assist you in obtaining enough Attributes to balance, or enough Resistance to cap.

Ring 2

Item: Onslaught Finger

Prefixes

• +56 to maximum Life - can be obtained after Suffixes are complete with Veiled Chaos Orb.
• Non-Channelling Skills have -7 to Total Mana Cost (crafted) - make sure to craft until you reach -7.

Suffixes

• +42 to Strength (Shrieking Essence) - roll with Shrieking Essence of Rage.
• +9% to all Elemental Resistances - roll a T3+ modifier or any other Elemental Resistance you need to cap.
• +38% to Fire Resistance - roll any T3+ Elemental Resistances and swap with harvest

Crafting Guide:

Link for Crafting Guide HERE

Belt

Item: Domination Buckle

Prefixes

• +99 to maximum Life (Fractured) - purchase the base with this modifier Fractured

Suffixes

• +35% to Chaos Resistance (Shrieking Essence of Envy) - Increases damage through additional Traps being thrown per second
• +42% to Lightning Resistance - roll any T3+ Elemental Resistances and swap with harvest based on your needs.
• +38% to Cold Resistance - roll any T3+ Elemental Resistances and swap with harvest based on your needs.

Crafting Guide:

Flasks

Flasks provide a massive amount of defense and damage. Roll, use and enchant all your flasks following these combinations:

• Opaque Divine Life Flask of Assuaging
• Jade Flask
• Granite Flask
• Quicksilver Flask
• Bottled Faith

Enchant your flasks with Instilling Orbs and Enkindling Orb:

• Used when Charges Reach Full
• 69% increased Effect

Ensure your flasks have 1 of these prefixes:

• 45%+ increased Charge Recovery
• Gain 3 Charges when you are Hit by an Enemy

Have 1 of each of these suffixes:

• % increased Movement Speed during Flask effect
• % increased Armour during Effect
• % increased Evasion Rating during Flask effect
• % increased Critical Strike Chance during Flask Effect

Have these modifiers on your Life Flask:

• Grants Immunity to Bleeding for 17 seconds if used while Bleeding
• 55% reduced Amount Recovered + 50% of Recovery applied Instantly

Jewels

Watcher's Eye

Item: Watcher's Eye

The Watcher's Eye can grant a boost to both your defences and offences. Since this build utilizes 2 defensive Auras there is a wide range of mods we can look for on it. It is recommended to look for at least 1 stat listed below in addition to the +8% chance to Evade Attack Hits while affected by Grace modifier.

• % additional Physical Damage Reduction while affected by Determination
• +# to Armour while affected by Determination
• You take (60-40)% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes while affected by Determination
• Unaffected by Vulnerability while affected by Determination
• Consecrated Ground you create while affected by Zealotry causes enemies to take (8-10)% increased Damage
• Critical Strikes Penetrate (8-10)% of Enemy Elemental Resistances while affected by Zealotry

Cluster Jewels

Large Cluster

The Large Cluster Jewel grants utility and damage as well as an extra jewel socket to place your Rare Jewels. Cluster Jewels are also an easy place to obtain Attributes and Resistances so keep your eyes out! Obtain an 8 Passive, 12% increased Physical Damage Large Cluster with 2 of the following Prefixes and 1 of the following Suffixes:

Prefix:

• Iron Breaker
• Master the Fundamentals
• Battle-Hardened

Suffix:

• Force Multiplier

• Furious Assault

Medium Cluster

Purchase 2 Medium Cluster Jewels with the following modifiers:

Prefix:

• Surprise Sabotage
• Guerilla Tactics
• Arcane Pyrotechnics (only one of these)

Lethal Pride

The Lethal Pride is slotted at the Shadow jewel socket next to the Frenzy Charge and provides a massive amount of Strength to balance Attributes. Obtain any of the following modifiers on your Jewel by following our Timeless Jewel article here:

• 5% chance to deal Double Damage.
• +20 to Strength.
• Gain 5% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage.

Rare Jewels

Obtain any of the following modifiers to gain more damage or balance Resistances/Attributes:

• +14% to Critical Strike Multiplier for Spell Damage
• +14% to Critical Strike Multiplier with Elemental Skills
• +14% to Critical Strike Multiplier for Spell Damage
• +18% to Critical Strike Multiplier with Fire Skills
• 8% increased Trap Throwing Speed
• 16% increased Trap Damage
• 6% increased maximum Life
• +14% to Cold/Fire/Lightning Resistance
• +11% to Fire/Cold/Lightning and Fire/Cold/Lightning Resistances
• +10% to all Elemental Resistances