3.25 Poison-Cremation build guide

Build guide:

Why cremation ?
Pros:
-version that lets you clear 3x teal ravaged maps costs as much as level 20 gems and all of them are off meta! Can't get cheaper than that
-scales dmg with 200% increased monsters health unique map mod on ravaged-blight maps
-should do do all mods with day 3 version except for monsters speed cannot be reduced under base value
-DPS is better than early version of poorman's cremation and I'd say it's less stressful :)

Cons:
-3.25 desecrate nerf reduced self-spawned corpse life to 30% value of 3.24's equivalent
-build has only single use - get rich with blight-ravaged maps early on
-not SSF friendly
-we have to cast life flask all the time
-we have to cast bane to apply curses all the time
-hex bloom with enough monsters on the map is not really supported with 3.24 game version so we need to cast curses more often than we should
-for this moment I have no reliable end game upgrade (<100div) to make us immortal and have very comfortable 2click clears

1. Leveling:
DD leveling guide: https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/detonate-dead-elementalist-league-starter-guide
imexile campaign rush ele DD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OBrBCok4h0
LHTHC POB: good notes for lvling https://pobb.in/Qi40H0bTE7gC

Two ways for leveling:

A) Occultist crema, probably slower campaign (if you aim to clear it under 6h), less rework when transitioning into ravaged map farming (level 85 recommended). We follow the same guide but after we finish campaign we don't swap to DD! We just continue playing crema + Armageddon brand to clear blighted maps until we have all the gems and items.

B) Elementalist Crema, we follow elementalist DD leveling guide and then just stay on crema to farm normal blighted maps to get required items and transition into poison cremation occultist.

2. Swap to poison Cremation(5 div)
So regardless of your leveling strat, your ravaged-blight build is ready at level 85, or earlier if you get more currency for 6L and stuff. That includes 4 points in caster wheel for auto chest opening, if you are fine with opening chests yourself or respec tree after every encounter, 81 should do.

This is the point of build power where it should be 100% win ratio unless you do something wrong, which is fine if you're just learning how to farm ravaged maps.

POB which includes two loadouts(new thing in pob, top right corner select default{1} and default{2}):
a) Day1/Day2(default{1}) - 5L + lvl 85
b) Day3(default{2}) - 6L + lvl 95

Later upgrades will come on my channel to include cluster jewels etc. Please make sure to join discord and subscribe my channel to get updates.


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1. Find cassia during campaign and clear ALL blight encounters during campaign to find some oils or even blighted map

2. If you can't afford blighted maps, run some regular maps and do unidentified chaos recipe (2c for set of all items). There are some tools to help you out with that

3. Ring anoints:
Teal + Violet (Scout tower Range)
Amber + Amber (Scout tower DMG)

For non-amber red blighted maps:
Indigo + Violet (Meteor tower burning grounds)
Opal + Silver (Chilling tower freeze)

For Ravaged maps:
Opal + Silver (Chilling towers freeze) AND
a) Verdant + Black (Empowering towers range) OR
b) Golden + Violet (imbuing towers increase dmg by 50%) OR - I think it's best against monsters speed cannot be reduced under base value because we can't build stunlock crossroads there and it's just DPS check
c) Opal + Opal (Smothering towers decrease movement speed by 20%) OR
d) Teal + Teal (Smothering towers increased effect by 25% ) - this is my personal preference

4. Early blighted maps:

Oils:
Amber+Amber+
1: Clear/Sephia - first maps only for extra safety
2. Azure - If you don't have crimsons/black
3. Crimson/Black - don't buy them, use what you dropped

First map suggested tiers:

No amber oils - t1-t2
2x amber oils - t3-t6


Map tiers:
Early on your goal is to build positive currency flow to be able to afford next runs. Not losing is more important than oils and map tier, so make sure you run maps you can clear so you don't waste time and chaos orbs.

Later farm yellow maps (according to your level)

5. Red Blighted maps:

Red blighted maps day1 strategy guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4g9TPgmKsQ

Oils:

It's worth to run red maps with 2x amber, but i'd rather farm t12 with non-amber oils rather than clearing t15 with 2x amber. Leveling up makes the content easier and lets you clear higher tiers without much eq changes. Successful map = deathless run  and completed encounter.

First red maps: Amber+Amber+Crimson/black

Profit focused: 3x crimson - focus on wealth building, good early as you sustain crimson oils with violet upgrades, replace with black/opal at will if you have them

XP Focused: 3x teal -  fast clears, cheap, fully sustainable, more XP. I'd recommend that if you want to rush ravaged maps as lvl > 85 is recommended

6. Blight-Ravaged maps:

1h Gameplay with lvl85: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JSbzoaLKwI

Playstyle:

Build crossroads of chilling (lvl3 frost), stun (lvl3) and empower (lvl3), glacial tower near the pump, smothering towers on crossroads and if there are leftover bosses (With no more monsters to use corpse explosion) try to build arc tower to apply shock, imbuing tower to boost your own DPS (requires anoint for 50% more dmg though)

Based on supply and economy few strategies are worth concerning:

1. Strong supply of oils / maps good economy - GSSSOOTTT
2. Low supply of oils / maps - GSSSOOOBB*
3. Low supply of oils but good supply of maps - CCCBBBTTT*

* - I have not measured and compared different starting strategies in league start economy condition so it's a preference and probably comes down to price/supply of expensive oils and price of the map. It's definitely not going to be as profitable as GSSSOOTTT if you could run 10 maps/hour so more like preference of TTT vs non teal.

Oils day3+:

There were a lot of changes in 3.25 which will affect the loot. This is according to my best knowledge before 3.25 league starts, again join discord and subscribe channel to get updates as the league goes. We assume prismatic oil has no map anoint function and meta stays the same.

GSSSOOTTT - When you have enough map/oil supply to run it. Teal makes it easier as you have always spot to build stunlock crossroad (freeze+stun+empower)

GGSSSOTTT - only if you can sustain oils, probably similar profits to single golden oil but you increase chances for big drops so if you can afford, why not.

Layouts:

While we can no longer drop expensive cards from divination chest, we can still get it from map-global loot pool! That means apo-hunting is still worth it (Except it wasn't in last league cuz apo was common unique).
Since 3.24 blight-ravaged maps also drop from blight encounters, which means we have now much better access to good layouts like Defiled Cathedral at normal price! Try to hunt for that. Unless everyone diverts their div card drop and favorite other layouts. Not sure whether we can also swap div cards drop to some other cheaper and more available layout. Stay tuned.