TbXie's Poison Blade Vortex Assassin Pantheons, Ascendancy & Bandits (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)

Ascendancy

Optimal Ascension Points – Shadow’s Assassin

While the Eternal Labyrinth provides you with incredible boosts of power, on some builds more so than on others, it also comes with a dangerous road to a sometimes more dangerous boss. Whilst veteran players generally progress the Labyrinth faster, I advise newer players to try and progress lab at the following milestones.

Normal Labyrinth

I would advise staying out of normal Labyrinth before level 38. Ideally, you want to make sure you have a 4-linked Damage Skill and to feel very safe I recommend a combination of 1000 Life & Energy Shield.

Cruel Labyrinth

Generally, I think levels are just a tad less important here. However, a good threshold is to check if your gems are going to be leveling up soon. In that case, you could be waiting just a bit longer to squeeze out that extra Gem or Character level up. Usually, I’d say, level 59 and aiming for around 2000 combined Life & Energy Shield.

Merciless Labyrinth

This Labyrinth is usually done before killing Kitava, because then you can fight Izaro without losing Resistances. However, if you are sub-3000 Life, you probably should delay it for a bit unless you’re confident in your Izaro-Fighting-Skills. Make sure to be Resistance Capped & to make sure you don’t take unnecessary damage of him.

Uber Labyrinth

Uber Labyrinth is very hard to recommend. It widely depends on gear, character power, generic power in the skill and so on. Therefore, I think you should be comfortable in higher red maps before going into the Izaro fight.

Order of Ascension

Pantheons

Enabling Pantheons

Pantheons get introduced into the game after you kill the Brine King in Act VI. As soon as you’ve killed the Brine King, you should allocate it (Press Y to open the Pantheon page). Whenever you kill Pantheon bosses during the Campaign, you can allocate its benefits.

Late Game Pantheons

Recommended early Pantheons for this build are Soul of the Brine King and Soul of Abberath. Once you’ve acquired Freeze Immunity on boots, you can swap the Soul of the Brine King for Soul of Lunaris

Upgrading Pantheons

Upgrading Pantheons is incredibly important for Character Power. Upgrading Pantheons is done by putting a Divine Vessel into the Map Device with the map which holds the Map Boss needed to upgrade. You can find which map bosses to upgrade by looking at the Atlas ingame.

Bandits

Where to find

The Bandit quest unfolds in Act III which is where you’ll make the first important decision for your character. There’s 4 options to complete this quest. You can help either one of them, by killing the other 2 and turning in their Amulets to the third, in which case they will grant you their bonus. Should you decide to kill all three of them, Eramir will be giving you an extra skill point.

• Alira : 15% Elemental Resistances
• Oak : +40 Maximum Life
• Kraityn: +8% Movement Speed

You can change your Bandit Quest reward by trading in 20 Regrets and the correct type of amulet to a vendor.

Which one to use

This build generally has a harder time finding Resistances so helping Alira is the pick here.