[2.3][SC][HC(?)] The Pantless Samurai – 2H Sword Elemental Crit Inquisitor

This sexy sword is bought with 20c.
- PERFECT attack speed
- PERFECT Crit Chance
- PERFECT Crafted Crit Multi
- HIGH tri ele rolls
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I saw this on the market and no one, literally no one wants to play a cool samurai crit 2h sword build. Even more, an elemental one. I decided to turn the tables around with this.

Thanks to “Alcoy_Wander” for selling this to me at such a low price :P

- We do Tri-elemental damage : Cold, Fire, Lightning
- We want to crit A LOT coz of the high crit multiplier of the 2H exquisite blade.
- We go Inquistor – We get to “ignore enemies elemental resistances”, which lets us do our elemental damage unmitigated to mobs or “True Damage” in League of Legends terms.
- We grab all the crit nodes we can ever possibly get on the tree, while maintaining a decent pool of life, since we are after all a melee fighter.
- We use Lacerate for slashing.
- We use Herald of Ice for Ice explosion chaining since we freeze all the time.

While skills like Lightning Strike, Ice Crash, Static Strike, Cleave, etc all works,
I use Lacerate to best fulfill the fantasy of a SLASHING SAMURAI .
*** I particularly despise “Ice Crash with Swords”, you don't use a fucking sword to hit the ground >.>
That is especially retarded on a samurai character.

A samurai slashes, not slam the ground.

- We stay mid-ranged for best Lacerate AOE coverage.
- We jump around using Leap Slam
- We use Ancestral Protector when facing bosses and slash from afar
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IGN: PantlessSamurai
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/tenjou00/characters

- Bandits: Oak, Kraityn, Kill-All
- We need life, attack speed but we don't need power charges coz we don't generate them. Maybe you can get the Endurance Charge by helping Oak if you feel like it.
- Ascendancy: Take “Inevitable Judgement”, then pick what you want.
For the passive tree, we want to pick up as many crit nodes on the tree along with some elemental damage nodes and life nodes. We are mainly evasion + dodge based.

Passive Tree @LVL85:
https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABAUBAQKWBLMFtQYgBqILYQxSD6sWvxfcGjgi4iP2JIsk_SaVJy8qTTBxMHwyiTWSNj06QjrYPAU8LT8nR-JKmErIS1dLeE2SUUdRTFVLVvpfsGHiYqxmVGjybIxtbG6qb55wUnKpdKB3B3fXd-V9W38rgpuDX4PMhMWFe4cTidOLjIwLjDaNfY2_kFWSbpJ9lFyYb5o7m7WcpJ2qn9-iAKQ5qLmsR69stMW18rc-uXy8VsBmwOPC7MM6xPbGrsjcykrMZtJ81CPYvdwj3ajlz-dU7DjssO988B_xs_cy-d3-Cv_e

We use minimum of 5L.
For 6L you can use whatever you want but I use Life Leech coz we don't have life leech sustain on the passive tree.
Life leech makes for QoL in this build, at least for me.
We also use an Ancestral Protector in 3 Links for kitting purposes or dealing with troublesome mobs we don't want to be close to. Believe me, 3 Links is enough to take down some of the nastiest mobs in the game.

Main Gem Links:
1) Lacerate + Multistrike + Weapon Elemental Damage + Increased Critical Strikes + Increased AOE + <insert your preferred support gem here>
- Main attack link
2) Ancestral Protector + Added Lightning Damage + Added Cold Damage
- Kitting purposes and additional dps
3) Herald of Ice + Increased AOE + Ice Bite + Frost Bomb
- Chain Ice Explosions while gaining occasional Frenzy Charges
4) Leap Slam + Faster Attacks + Fortify
- Procs Fortify buffs while repositioning
5) Immortal Call + Cast when Damage Taken
- Our burst damage defense, basically run like hell if it procs.
6) Enduring Cry
- Endurance Charges generation.
7) Summon Ice Golem
- Our little partner giving us more crit chance and more accuracy
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Others are just fillers. I am constantly trying out stuff with this character.

Stats to prioritize on items:
Life, Accuracy, Weapons Elemental Damage.
***We lack accuracy stats on passive tree hence we need a ton of it on our gears.

This helm has attack speed, crit chance and high life. A good choice. If you want to forgo the life and get Rat’s Nest, sure go ahead. But I want to live and don't die ☺

We use Hinekora’s Sight coz it gives us crap ton of accuracy while giving us dodge and spell dodge and the immune to blind. Don't underestimate the immune to blind. Shrouded Rare with blind will really make you deal little to no damage and in certain situations when you are surrounded by mobs will make your deaths certain or annoying.

Nothing special, we want res and weapon elemental damage here.


The chest slot can be changed to the new (2.3) Kintsugi Exquisite Leather armour for a more evasion melee feel or whatever you like as long as you can get the links and cap your resistances. I opted for this coz of the 6 links ☺

Just some more accuracy and attack speed and some resistances.

Resistances, resistances

We want 30% movespeed on our boots for maximum speed and carnage.

We use 2 life flasks and 3 utility flasks.

This flask gives us decent but fairly fast sustain during fight. Especially in labyrinth runs.

This flask is for dangerous situations. Pop it when you life goes down suddenly and run the hell away and reposition. You are evasion dodge fighter, not armour endurance block tank fighter.

This flask is our defense if we decided to tank a little during mob fights or facing bosses dealing physical damage. Use this combined with 3 endurance charges and you will be fine most of the time vs regular mobs. The bleed immunity allows us to tank or run away at will during the flask duration.

This flask is for running through maps or allows quick reposition, the reduced charges used mods allows for 3 uses which is nice and allows for more tactical playstyle. The poison immunity is good, since there are dangerous poison mobs now eg: valley jungle spider bullshit

Finally this flask is our burst damage flask. As an Inquisitor, we want to crit as many times as we can to proc the “Ignore elemental resistances on critical strikes” effect when we fight and is especially true when facing bosses or mobs with high elemental resistances. This allows us to quickly burst down bosses and mobs without trouble. The freeze and chill immunity makes sure we deal our maximum dps in the 5.5 sec timeframe without interruption (under the assumption that we are not stunned during that duration)

A small demonstration of my build. Not optimal but a good feel of what my build is.

Dried Lake : https://youtu.be/MIQnxU8qxLg
Gorge Map: https://youtu.be/mMwFP4PokQQ
Dry Peninsula Map: Coming Soon