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Started the game with Abyss league and loved it. Tried several builds and only discovered this GC miner build very late into the league with which I fell in love with. Thanks for all the fun for Windz and every other contributer through the many pages of the thread. Now that the patch notes are out and no nerfs to GC, I intend to make this my league starter for the beastiary.
I would like to hear your opinions about how it feels to level this as a fresh league starter without any leveling items. My experience is skewed because I was already decked out with jewels and other uniques when I leveled my character in abyss. My plan is to play a bit tomorrow to make a solid plan.
My main concern is the starting levels 1-28 before getting GC gem
- I used freezing pulse 1-12, but it felt extremely slow and inefficient
- After 12, I switched to lightning trap and fire nova mine, but I had Tabula and both of them were fully supported, so I am thinking I was obviously way stronger than a fresh league start.
- After 28, an +1 cold gems dagger provided enough damage for everything, up to lvl 45. Then I started using a 5-link tremor rod (6 with the staff remote mine mod).
- I am thinking the tremor rod itself is not that good, as it prevents you from using a proper movement skill, but it still carried me upto t6 maps, and level 70.
- Then I did some shopping, including a 6-link carcass jack, insanity gloves, a non-shaper spell dagger and some other decent items, which instantly carried me to t13-14 maps.
- With luck, crafted a dual extra element/multi-mod spell dagger and did shaper at lvl83-84, easiest kill of my short PoE life :)
- Got boosted for all 4 labs, at around 50-55 by a friend, so I dont know how Lab feels at their respective levels.
Questions:
1) Any alternatives for leveling 1-12 and 12-28? I will be leveling with a party of 4, so probably gonna end up being carried.
2) Anyone tried out how a 3-link +1 cold gem dagger works for finishing the story and early mapping t1-6?
3) Do you think tremor rod is worth it for a) leveling b) early mapping?
- I am thinking yes for leveling as movement is mostly done through multiple quicksilvers and no for mapping.
This post has been much longer than I anticipated, would love to see some leveling discussion carried out for the new league.

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If you start new league as I do(from the first minute and up for 14 hours) then tremor rod would cost around 1ex at the time you can equip it. I might try a 1h scepter with 6 supports(bitterdream i think) someone here wrote as uber budget.
BTW what do you think about reworked HoA? it now trigger overkill from spells. Though can't say that this build needs more aoe dmg than it has now

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20% cap on life regen total or 20% separate caps for mines and traps? Latter seems a bit op so I was assuming the former.

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Hello Guys,
I am playing this Build and having a lot of Fun and Finger Cramps ;)
To all you who seek a weapon to start with I can recommend:
Its cheap and a good statstick with high Attack Speed so you can Shield Charge/ Whirling Blades Faster through the game.
I am farming UberLab with it and have not had Probs in Maps (mid tier atm).
Awesome Build.
cya

You should respec those ele nodes at shadow start for phys ones - phys ones are better for GC dmg scaling

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Now the Final Part, we put our Golem in this Setup aswell to Throw 5 Geodude Traps!
(The interaction of Golem+Trap Support is not new, been around 2016 for Golemmancer)
This is Faster than Selfcasting, gives us more Lifereg and improves our Defense alot.
Plus it buffs our Golems DMG since he is now a Trap and get Traps DMG bonus from Tree and Gear xD
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Hey,
is that just me, or are we dropping more mines with this build and minefield, than can be detonated or is it just me?
i usually detonate my mines with the totem. ive noticed that if i run into a pack, place my totem, keep dropping mines, the active mine counter is slowly increasing to 10 (my current maximum).
that would mean a loss of dps if i keep spamming, because some of the new mines will replace old ones before they detonate. or am i doing a mistake?

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Hey,
is that just me, or are we dropping more mines with this build and minefield, than can be detonated or is it just me?
i usually detonate my mines with the totem. ive noticed that if i run into a pack, place my totem, keep dropping mines, the active mine counter is slowly increasing to 10 (my current maximum).
that would mean a loss of dps if i keep spamming, because some of the new mines will replace old ones before they detonate. or am i doing a mistake?

You didn't take the DS right?

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I'm just a miner DPS whore :D
40k hideout gg

How are you getting 40k gc in hideout? i had all lvl 20 gems (just 20qd all by GC as i didnt want to relvl gc so i just gcped it fully :D) and another aura on and only get like 16k a couple crit nodes wont make that go to 40k (or even prob 20k) unless your counting damage as a crit?
I dont see how you can do shaper with this as the damage is just to low vs how easy you are to die if you get hit... i did yellow tier guardians and died to them and all i was doing was charging all over the place while laying 1/2 casts of mines down but i did kill them (didnt try yellow elder)

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I must say The Princess is insane as a starting weapon for this build, easily 25% damage bump over Brightbeak, and its still fast (1.79 as) which is almost the same when using shiled charge for traveling.
Great stuff for 1 alch or fus.