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If you are trying create a new Shadow character in Path of Exile 3.7, but still are struggling in making a strong Shadow build. Welcome to check out our POE 3.7 Shadow Build Guide, here we share you the useful building tips and best Path of Exile 3.7 Legion Shadow Builds.
The thug is a secretive killer that relies on various tricks and skills. A hybrid of the archetypes of Magician (The Witch) and Dodge (the Ranger). It has two main attributes, intelligence and dexterity. Most often, the Shadow can be seen as a master of traps, a magician, which is based on Chaos / Poison Damage and any other Damage Over Time, and sometimes, much less often, as a melee character. Only the Shadow has a single Ascension ascendancy class associated with traps; here the situation is similar to the Necromancer class, unique to minions, whose role can hardly be replaced by some other Ascension class.
Shadow Main Weapons: Claw, Dagger
Shadow have nine additional weapons they can use effectively: Bow, Thrusting one-handed sword, Wand, Staff, Sceptre, One-handed axe, Two-handed axe, One-handed sword, Two-handed sword
Shadow’s specialized weapons are daggers and claws, both of which are ideal for close-in fighting. Choosing one of these and pairing it with a bow gives the Shadow both short and long range combat options.
Once you have an idea about the weapon you want to use, find the nodes in the Passive Skill Tree that confer advantages for that weapon.
His initial talent mainly contains various elemental damage, trap and mine damage, chaos and poison. The overall skill point is located at the top left of the passive skill tree. The list of the main groups of skills according to the category of reinforcements that you can find in the Bandit sector on the skill tree:
- Physical Damage in Melee;
- Damage Over Time;
- Traps and Mines;
- A mixture of Attack Speed and Cast Speed;
- A mixture of Damage Attack and Damage Spell;
- Power Charge;
- Frenzy Charge;
- Chaos Damage;
- Poison Damage;
- Strengthening Claws;
- Strengthening Daggers;
- Skills for Critical Strikes;
- Mediocre number of Skills for Life.
Utterly proficient with fast-hitting weapons, the Shadow is a lethal character that combines equal parts of dexterity and intelligence. Using blades with surgical precision, he is swift on his feet and can outmaneuver even the agilest of beasts.
Assassin:
The Assassin is a offense-oriented class centered around critical strikes. The class offers enhanced crits on full or low life enemies and enhancing their power charges. The Assassin can also incorporate poison with added synergy with critical strikes or give themselves an upper hand against solo enemies. Talents are focused on:
Critical Strike;
Poisons;
Power Charge.
Trickster:
The Trickster is a versatile hybrid class that mixes high speed, maneuverability, and slippery defenses. A class that focuses on various twists, specials. Techniques and less direct in style of killing skills. Talents are focused on:
Damage Over Time;
Chaos Damage;
Frenzy Charges + Power Charges;
Energy Shield + Evasion.
Saboteur:
The Saboteur focuses on improving his traps and mines with utility bonuses and additional traps and mines. The class also possesses other utility bonuses like blind synergy, area of effect bonuses, regeneration and ailment immunities. Talents are focused on:
Mines;
Traps;
Blind Enemies.
Through the arounding skill point, you can roughly locate this class for elemental spell build, elemental melee build, and poison build. Although the game allows you to do anything with any class, to carry any items, to use any skill, but this does not mean that there is no optimal way to do a certain business, which means we will describe below what roles the Bandit basically perfectly fits, and which of them none of the other classes could cope with:
Any trapper (character using traps) and a miner (using mines) - In this direction, the Shadow occupies the only place on the pedestal, having a magnificent branch of Diversant's talents, plus talents on its segment of the common tree. Talents to increase damage, increase the area of damage, the simultaneous operation of all traps, the ability to put more than one mine at a time, and so on. Extremely strong specialty for this lesson.
Magician with Damage Over Time - If in something related to arson, the Witch's Elemental Magician can still argue, then gradual damage associated with chaos damage, like in Infection or Essence Abduction, is clearly the territory of the Dodger. Also one of the famous builds through this Ascension class is a build through the Scorching Ray. The dodger has a solid amount of protective mechanics, as well as talents associated with charges of rage and energy, all this utility can not go unnoticed, because this class is also quite popular among those who use DoT magic.
All Poison Damage-based Builds - If you decided to make a character poisoning your enemies, you want the poison to be applied through some specific skill and kill the enemies in a matter of seconds - then a Killer is required. Up to the nerf of poisoning, various poison builds were extremely popular, but then this popularity began to subside and now these builds can be seen quite rarely. But the Killer is good not only for poisons. He also has a huge amount of boosts for critical hits, he is strong against bosses and also greatly enhances energy charges, drawing an extra chance and multiplier there to the crites, as well as increasing the maximum supply of these charges by one.
If you are interested in some type of character that uses the power of the Shadow, however you would like to see examples, here are our recommended best POE 3.7 builds for this class, perhaps by someone’s example you will be able to create something of your own, especially for the first time.
Path of Exile 3.7 Assassin Shadow Critical Blade Vortex Build
Blade Vortex is a special and interesting skill in Path of Exile, and as a result, this build is a little special. Blade Vortex builds up multiple stacks as it rotates, scaling up in terms of damage as time passes. You cast spinning blades which orbit around you and stack up to 10 times. The more times you cast it – the more frequently it hits the enemy and the more damage it deals. The main source of damage for this skill is Physical Damage, often paired with 100% Critical Strike chance.
Pros
+ Good fast clear speed
+ Great DPS
+ Great League Starter
+ Easy to level up
+ Budget-viable in terms of gear
Cons
- Single Target damage isn’t the best
- Weaker defensively than really tanky builds
- Lab is a bit difficult
- Not that durable as some other builds
Click HERE To Get Detailed POE 3.7 Assassin Shadow Critical Blade Vortex Build Guide
Path of Exile 3.7 Trickster Shadow Essence Drain & Contagion Build
Essence Drain and Contagion have long formed a powerful tag team, presenting the player with near unparalleled clear speeds and experience per hour. If you are looking for a build with insanely high exp/h gain, this build could be your best choice, which allows you to level as itself without any external abilities required. The build can start with a very low budget with possible upgrades with more Path of Exile currency, it works wonders in low budget to accumulate enough currency fast for the higher budget version(s).
Pros
+ Exceptional clear speed and experience per hour rates
+ Essence Drain Essence Drain + Contagion is the absolute best way to deal with the Legion league mechanic
+ Extremely safe build — great defenses, mobility, immune to all reflect and map mods, and able to off-screen with DoT damage
+ Viable for Hardcore and Solo Self-Found
+ Great league starter
+ All damage penetrates proximity shields
+ Gearing path is very flexible
+ Cheap
Cons
- Single target damage does not scale as well as top tier bossing builds
- Allies Cannot Die aura is a pain to deal with
- Does not deal burst damage
Click HERE To Get Detailed POE 3.7 Trickster Shadow Essence Drain Contagion Build Guide
Path of Exile 3.7 Saboteur Shadow Arc Trap Build
With Trap Support, you can throw 15 Traps instead of 3 (in the end-game you can have around 23 traps at a time on the ground). This is buff, so now it's all about your Throwing Speed + cooldown for lengthy 8 second Traps. Arc is a lightning, chaining spell with highest amount of chains in the game. Chain means it will "zap" between enemies. In 3.3 Arc does 15% MORE damage per remaining chain. If 1 enemy is on screen it will be 105% more damage, which is DOUBLE the damage. Use Arc+Trap in a shaper 5L gloves for clearing maps and 8 second fat Lightning Spire Trap in a 6L for bosses.
Pros
+ Great map clear speed
+ Serious firepower with very low investment
+ End-game viable (need very good reflexes for end-game though!)
+ Massive life regen (up to 20% per second and even more with Tinkerskin)
Cons
- Squishy as low Life pool (hard to go over 5k)
- Pretty slow with a wand and Flame Dash
- Sketchy for HC
Click HERE To Get Detailed POE 3.7 Saboteur Shadow Arc/Lighting Spire Trap Build Guide
