This will be a step by step guide with trade links for how to manage your gear throughout the entire leveling process - YOU SHOULD PREBUY ALL OF THESE ITEMS FOR MAX EFFICIENCY.
While using the trade links, when in doubt just sort by the sum amount at the bottom middle of the item descriptions. This will ensure that you are seeing some of the best options within the max price range.
COMBINED PRICE OF ALL ITEMS WILL BE A FEW HUNDRED EXALTED ORBS AT LEAST, FEEL FREE TO INCREASE OR LOWER THIS BASED ON HOW MUCH CURRENCY YOU WANT TO SPEND/HOW FAST YOU WANT TO LEVEL.
Level 1 -
Equip - (Ideally 3 sockets, Sort by the Quiver bonus roll within your budget) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/Q6Xmm0Otw
Equip
Asphyxia's Wrath - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/9llZX5zuK
Equip
Tabula Rasa or
Foxshade (Cheaper but much less effective alternative) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/R4nBnwOF7
Equip Jewels For
Tabula Rasa - Jewel Link (Sort by the big sum number at the bottom middle of the items. The total attack speed on the jewels is by far the most important because this will allow us to use
Whirling Slash as a movement skill and ZOOM through the campaign super fast - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/PPv3X0lDFL
Equip
Blackheart x2 - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/DE0EeZwi5
Equip
Northpaw - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/M7W5B06uJ
Equip
Meginord's Girdle - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/8rOl7DXnUV
Equip
Luminous Pace - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/DEea5wwU5
Level 8-15ish
Equip
Goldrim (Ideally 2 sockets) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/qygQqddUg
Equip
Jarngreipr - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/RJrKOLyOh7
Equip
Lapis Amulet (Basetype doesnt really matter) - Ideally youd want this to have +level of proj skills but there arent many on the market so just aim for attributes, resistances, etc. (sort by sum and youll find something good) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/RJrK0yVrs7
Level 16 (Spear Swap For Twister)
Equip
Skysliver (mo attack speed mo betta BUT my endgame setup in specific wont actually continue to use this, so if you want to follow my build guide in the future then I wouldnt throw the bank at this. There are setups that will use this forever though, if you want to follow one of those then throw the bank at it. For a cheap but good one, either just sort by the attack speed roll on the item and then add
Soul Core of Quipolatl, you can also look for 2 socket ones for decently cheap as well. MAKE SURE IF ITS CORRUPTED THAT IT HAS A SOCKET ALREADY.) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/28YkPvesk
Equip
Wake of Destruction (Sort by the Lightning damage roll. This gives us shocked ground permanently to pick up with
Whirling Slash and then to get consumed by our
Twister for big damage, in endgame we wont need these boots to create ground effects anymore.) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/wVqYj0BFb
Level 20-30ish - During this time youll be replacing both
Blackheart rings (You should also probably pay for an ascendancy carry for 1 divine from the TFT discord so you get your third ring slot + all the other ascendancy goodies)
Equip either a
Controlled Metamorphosis or regular
Emerald for your first passive tree jewel socket - We will be using this
Controlled Metamorphosis forever, even into deep endgame, its also insanely strong while leveling, and its really cheap so I highly recommend picking it up now. It needs to be a massive ring size and we dont care about the chaos res part just the ele res part because were going
Chaos Inoculation anyways. The Trade link has you covered for the massive ring part so just sort by elemental resistance.
Controlled Metamorphosis - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/kyWzoyons5
Emerald - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/PPv3X0lDFL
Level 20-30ish Equip
Ring - (Base Type Doesnt Really Matter but resistance bases are always a good choice at this point) - (We specifically want this ring to have flat damage rolls, beyond that +attributes, resistances, life, etc. are all good stats to look for.) - SORT BY SUM https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/Klya4dDRU5
Level 26 Equip
Death Rush - (This gives us onslaught on kill which is 10% movespeed and a bunch of skill speed as well) https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/2Kenwv20Tk
(IF YOU PAY FOR ASCENDANCY CARRY) Level 20-30ish Equip another
Ring - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/Klya4dDRU5
Level 35-45ish
Equip
Broad Spear FOR WEAPON SET 2 TWISTER WEAPON SWAP, REFERENCE YOUTUBE VIDEO GUIDE FOR MORE INFO ON HOW THIS WORKS (Sort By Sum, specific base type doesnt matter but the highest level ones for more damage help) - Attack speed doesnt matter for our
Twister spear and also at this point we dont really care about crit chance so all that matters is basically just as much dps as possible and ideally +level of proj skills as well. - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/9zao2O70tK
Equip
Heart of the Well or a regular
Emerald - similarly to the controlled metamorphosis if you can go ahead and pick up a heart of the well with double gain damage (one needs to be chaos if you want to do infinite herald chain) and some other good stats then that would be a good idea because well be using it forever (Filter has you covered but mana on kill is pretty mandatory unless you want to run a mana leech ring which isnt ideal) - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/vey7aD09tE
Level 55-75ish (None of this is mandatory for the campaign but it can help you start bridging into the early endgame once youre there.)
Equip
Headhunter or
Shavronne's Satchel or a regular Rare Belt TIP - We only need 1 charm slot on belt since were ritualist, we get +1 from campaign and +1 from ascendancy.
Headhunter link - (Ideally with Energy shield enchant)
Shavronne's Link - (Ideally with Energy shield enchant)
Rare Belt Link - Resistances is all you really care about on a rare belt but capping res is so easy on ritualist which is why this is the least ideal option.
Helmet Upgrade Link - Sort by Sum and Total ES together (Just care about High ES, resistances, rarity, and crit chance if youre already working towards the crit swap)
Amulet Upgrade Link - This is basically an endgame amulet trade link so if you cant afford this then just look for something with +3 proj skills priority and then just some resistances/rarity/crit/defensive prefixes etc.
Ring Upgrade Link - Same as amulet, this is basically an endgame ring trade link but just a cheap version of it (Ideally in this setup we want to have around 250%+ character rarity and this becomes really easy if you have 3 rings with 45%+ rarity of items (ideally gold rings for even more) because the ring stats get boosted by our ascendancy). In addition to rarity, we just want 2 resistance suffixes and 2 flat damage prefixes (Need one of those to be cold damage). If you can afford to spend like 15 div per ring or more then you can adjust the trade link for higher rarity of items found, higher weighted sums etc. - also dont forget about potentially using a
Kalandra's Touch.