Alchemist/Poison Dancer (S10 Starter)

Welcome to the best Rogue Season 10 starter build!

The Alchemist/Poison Dancer is perfect for Leveling, as well as for Midgame and speedfarming Endgame content. Once you reach the Torment tiers, you can either switch over to another build (like Flurry) or focus on the endgame variants of this build.

Once again, the main damage does not come from DoK itself, but from LHC flat damage sources and later Poison Trap. We try to stack as many Core Skill ranks & Lucky Hit chance as possible to proc Poison Traps with the Bursting Venoms aspect.

Key items & Requirements: (for Poison variant)

• Aspect of Bursting Venoms
• Aspect of Contamination
• Aspect of Star Shards
• Scoundrels Leathers (Normal or Chaos)
• Fists of Fate with GA on LHC (Normal or Chaos)

How to Spin 2 Win

• Use Dark Shroud at the start of each Dungeon or if you lost all your shrouds
• Make sure Shadow/Poison Imbuement is always active!
• Shadow Clone & Health Potion every 10 seconds OR when engaging Elites
• Caltrops/Smoke Grenade for more damage if needed (replace Dash)

In the Poison variant, we replace casting Shadow Clone with Poison Trap every 10 seconds or when engaging Elites, but NOT more often than that! We do that to get a Damage buff & cast a free Death Trap with Scoundrel's Leathers (keep in mind that you auto-cast Poison Traps with Busting Venoms aspect).

How to make enemies vulnerable?

In the early game: Shadow Imbuement
In the Endgame: Fist of Fate & Thul rune

How do we apply freeze?

Icy Alchemist Aspect (Early-Midgame) OR Thul Rune (Endgame)

Why no Double Damage DoK tempers?

Because we scale our damage with Poison Traps in this build

How to cap out Armor & Resistances?

You can use Incenses such as Song of the Mountain and Soothing Spices if you lack either of those

How do I activate Barrier?

Ahu/Qax rune combination while casting Poison Traps gives you permanent Barrier