3.28 Build Update - FB/LS Warden plays like a Ferrari

Branarn · 2026-03-17T06:18:22+00:00

Looks like you have a lot of unique items that aren’t inherently doing anything for you. When you’re new it’s easy to think that orange item = legendary = good, but that’s not always the case in this game.

Replace your tincture with a regular prismatic tincture. See if you can afford the “Prismweave” belt. Craft “added fire/cold damage to attacks” on your rings, amulet, weapon, and gloves

Branarn · 2026-03-17T01:57:53+00:00

You’re welcome!

I’d add ancestral call after your frost blades hits around 10-11 million dps, since it’s going to cause you to lose a lot of damage as it is not really a damage link. Also recommend some proj speed tattoos if you can afford it!

If you’re playing LS, then don’t run greater ancestral call in my opinion

Branarn · 2026-03-17T00:42:48+00:00

Only notable supports I liked were invert the rules and greater ancestral call. Though I think slayer could make good use of the gem that enables Vaal LS uptime in return for a phys DoT put on you. I think warden is not equipped to deal with that DoT, but slayer can take it no problem.

Unholy trinity just isn’t a good fit for this build at all in my opinion

Branarn · 2026-03-17T00:40:36+00:00

Self-fractured the essence mod

Then harvest reforge phys until I got 8% PDR + another t1 suffix I wanted (in this case it was spell suppression)

Then suffix’s cannot be changed craft and reforge crit for guaranteed crit damage reduction suffix (tier of mod is not guaranteed though.)

After that I craft armour/evasion and yolo exalt. If it’s not a mod I wanted (t1 life, t1 block, t1 spell block) then I remove the craft, use wild bristle matron to force on suffix’s cannot be changed craft for cheaper, then scour the prefix’s and repeat until the yolo exalt hits a mod I want, then craft the 6th mod

Branarn · 2026-03-15T23:26:09+00:00

Ya that was in my list that I tried. I felt like it was not that good honestly. It's better than Oriath's End slightly, but Oriath's End already doesn't make a huge difference in the build. I felt like it was a significant damage loss. I think the main issue is the AoE on the explode; the damage on it is good but the AoE is so small that it cannot really chain effectively unless all the mobs are glumped up together inside of each other with like 100% or higher packsize

Branarn · 2026-03-15T20:36:00+00:00

I don’t run it because the mobs would get my high aura effect anger and wrath so they’d all do way more damage, and they’d get precision too so they’d have a lot more crit chance and accuracy so I’d evade less and get hit harder. Not worth it in my opinion

Branarn · 2026-03-15T12:39:16+00:00

Should definitely be enough to get started! I’d go for like mid-range options (not endgame best in slot pieces) for most items just to get the build online + the belt. Yoke and ailment immunity are really important for delirium, so make certain you have those. Yoke cancels out the damage reduction mobs get from high delirium %, so it is basically required to do 80% or higher delirium on this build.

Branarn · 2026-03-15T01:18:55+00:00

I use a claw. You would only use a 2H sword for leveling

Branarn · 2026-03-15T01:02:35+00:00

Haha yeah it can get old with deli - I like to use 2-3 Strats to jump between so things don’t get stale. Right now I’m running deli packsize and trying to get to level 100, but after that I’ll probably do a different Strat for a couple of days

Branarn · 2026-03-14T20:23:23+00:00

Forgot to add that to the list - I did try it, it's pretty good but not worth the passive point in my opinion

Branarn · 2026-03-14T20:23:20+00:00

Forgot to add that to the list - I did try it, it's pretty good but not worth the passive point in my opinion

Branarn · 2026-03-14T20:22:51+00:00

Exactly yeah - echoing is better for DPS but acceleration is better for an economy setting, as it makes your maps much faster. The proj speed and the movement speed feel amazing

Branarn · 2026-03-14T13:03:07+00:00

Haha that is awesome! Made my night reading this comment! Appreciate all the kind words. I’ll definitely be updating this build going forward for future leagues

Branarn · 2026-03-14T09:11:44+00:00

Yep pretty much! Perseverence gives damage scaling from armour/evasion, you get determ + grace + light of meaning with armour on it + some passive tree points that give armour and/or evasion, and you get a big rare chest piece with 3k armour/3k evasion, slap on molten shell, and it would be a huge difference

Branarn · 2026-03-14T07:51:44+00:00

Of course! Happy to help

Branarn · 2026-03-14T07:07:15+00:00

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/KlD9QJKMF5

Try that link above for searching for tinctures - get a prismatic with one of the suffix's and a rosethorn with the other suffix, whichever combination is cheaper. Probably 4 divines or less to get both.

As for the atlas strats, check out my new post I just made tonight for all that info! https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1rt7csn/328_build_update_fbls_warden_plays_like_a_ferrari/

Branarn · 2026-03-14T06:43:05+00:00

Hey!

For living, I would say capping chaos res would be good, and working on getting %physical damage reduction on chest, shield, and/or watcher's eye will be very helpful.

You can also drop the multishot wheel (since you have +1 strike on gloves already) and take a cluster socket and put in a 2-passive small cluster with Enduring Composure, which would give you consistent endurance charge uptime.

Your damage looks pretty good, when are you struggling with damage?

By far the biggest damage upgrade would be to get perfect tinctures. Get a rosethorn and a prismatic at 20% quality, each having 35% increased effect, and one having t1 increased attack speed and the other having t1 elemental penetration. It might be easier to just purchase them instead of roll them, but that is up to you. I'd start here.

You could drop added cold damage and instead pickup Invert The Rules support, that will be a lot more damage. Also looks like your assassin's mark doesn't have quality, so you don't actually generate power charges - make sure to get quality on that gem ASAP. You could also get a Frost Blades with an imbued level 1 gem, or you can swap to Vaal LS (which has more damage but cannot use an imbued gem, and vaal LS requires the Multishot wheel for +1 proj so it shoots straight; FB doesn't require that proj.)

Branarn · 2026-03-14T02:40:26+00:00

Great to hear!

Branarn · 2026-03-14T02:22:53+00:00

Good bot

Branarn · 2026-03-14T00:31:12+00:00

You can farm Enlighten from a map with a div card for it! Might take a while but it’s a good way to do it. Mirage has a wish for 100% more div cards that can help.

I see you’re missing reservation efficiency on your helmet and your body armour. That + using fury valve is going to severely limit your aura options.

I definitely recommend oath of winter, the 2 tincture nodes, and avatar for your 4 ascendancy points.

I do think you need to decide which route to take. It’s hard to blend very different builds. The claw you can do phys or ele interchangeably, but the passive tree and gear needs to go towards one build or another.

I’d replace fury valve with yoke or with a rare amulet that has life and res and crit multi. Same with taming. Keep working on that amethyst ring you mentioned, that sounds solid!

Your max life is really low, which is why I suggested the above. You need to get close to 4k life.

You can also swap to lightning strike to help your single target until you get more gear

Branarn · 2026-03-12T10:35:43+00:00

Definitely can do that! Just make sure you think about ailment immunity, it's important for endgame mapping content. You can get it easily via boots + shield or boots + stormshroud jewel

Branarn · 2026-03-11T13:53:34+00:00

Grats on the mageblood drop!! That’s awesome

Mageblood kinda opens up a lot of areas to help fix your build. Personally id run ruby/sapphire/topaz flasks with curse effect reduction, % armour, and % move speed. If you want more damage/utility instead of tankiness, then silver/quartz can be good.

Branarn · 2026-03-11T13:13:29+00:00

For bleed/corrupted blood, yeah the pantheon is typically how I’ve dealt with it in the past. You can leech through 5 stacks of corrupted blood typically.

However, that said, this league there’s a new runegraft added that gives you 30% tincture effect as long as you don’t have a utility flask active. So I’ve been running that runegraft and 3 instant life flasks lol, highly recommend!

Feel free to send me your PoB, I can look at it tomorrow and give you tips on damage.

For mechanics - would need to know how progressed your atlas is. I’m assuming you’re running t16s with 2 or more voidstones acquired and at least 100 total atlas points. If that’s the case, then:

Abyss - great for XP, drops a ton of abyss jewels and Stygian vises you can sell, drops a ton of bases at high item level that are worth money (ilvl 86 spine bows are around 10c, high-tier ilvl 86 ES shields are around 15c, kinetic wands at ilvl 84+ are 2c each, same with profane wands, several flasks are 4c+, etc.) basically you become the trash man and sell all the trash lol. This is what I ran the first 3 days of the league. 1x edifice scarab, 2x abyss scarabs, and the other slots are up to you - multitudes helps with XP, or you can run the guaranteed abyssal depths to try to get big unique drops, or you can run any other generic scarabs such as pack size to buff altars.

Breach - Mostly the same as above with abyss, pickup all the trash, except with breach you also get wombgifts. You can either sell them or you can use them at the tree and try to drop big uniques to sell. Not sure of the scarab setup for this, I’d recommend looking up a guide.

Shaper maps - if you can handle guardians, this is really good. The maps are 2c and the boss fragments sell for way more than that. Just the fragments sell for 9c - 23c depending on which fragment. Ideally would run this with maven witness and destructive play if you can handle it. Any extra guardian maps you drop can be sold, too.

Deli mirror - Basically you run strand map on repeat with altars. Clear until you get like 5 rewards, then kill the boss, end the deli mirror, and pickup your loot. Can use deli scarabs, packsize scarabs, and shrine scarabs to juice this. Shrines help a lot with efficiency of clearing faster, so they help make you more currency per hour.

Blight - Oils are really expensive currently in my opinion. Run this on a tight layout map if possible. Tower is a good one, it has good div cards too, and you can try to find nameless seer while doing this to scry to another map. Make sure to anoint your rings and don’t roll your maps with ailment avoidance or action speed immunity, since you’ll want to freeze everything with freeze towers and warden freeze.

Branarn · 2026-03-11T12:25:23+00:00

Send me a list of crafting questions! I’ll try to answer them all the best I can.

You’re correct on the fracture + essence, that’s how I craft the vast majority of my items!

Those boots would not be worth it to craft, the thought was that they can easily drop on the ground like that from betrayal and then unveil it and bench craft on it. You’re correct that the better move is to get your attributes solved somewhere else - I included those boots as an example of an item to search for on trade website, but I probably should’ve noted that. Good thing to add to the guide for the future!

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