[3.17] Ice Trap Saboteur | Full Guide (2024)

• Really cheap to start - perfect as a league starter
• Can forget about reflect as a trapper
• Good survivability with decent life + energy shield pool, recovery from Tinkerskin
• Great clearspeed
• With more currency invested, can take down any boss

• Top tier items can get expensive really fast

Helmet

Rare Helmet

Look for rare helmet with at least 80 to maximum life and as high resistances as possible.

Good endgame helmet would also have “nearby enemies have -x% to cold resistance” mod.

Body Armour

Tinkerskin

One of the best items in the game for trappers. It gives us life, energy shield and frenzy charge generation.

It also has great defensive capabilities in the form of phasing and life & energy shield recovery on trap triggers.

Gloves

Slavedriver's Hand

Great gloves for trappers. They give a great increase to trap throwing speed by utilizing cast speed.

They also have other modifiers that are desirable for trappers, for example charge generation and spending life instead of mana for trap throwing.

Until you can get these gloves, use rare ones with high life and resistances.

Boots

Rare Boots

Look for rare boots with 80+ to maximum life, 30% increased movement speed and some resistances.

Left Ring

Rare Ring

Look for rare ring with “Curse enemies level x frostbite on hit” mod and some life.

Right Ring

Malachai's Artifice

We use Malachai’s Artifice and socket Armageddon Brand in it to apply Elemental Equilibrium as well as frostbite on hit from other ring’s mod.

Amulet

Rare Amulet

Our ideal amulet would have at least 70 maximum life, global critical strike multiplier and +1 to level of all cold skill gems.

Belt

Rare Stygian Vise

Look for rare Stygian Vise with high life and resistances.

1Hand Weapon

Rare Sceptre

Look for rare sceptre with at least 60% increased spell damage, +1 to level of all spell skill gems and some cast speed. You can bench craft critical strike for spells on it later.

We use sceptre so we can use shield charge, which cannot be used with wands.

Offhand

Rare shield

Look for rare shield with %increased spell damage, +1 to level of all cold spell skill gems and if you can afford it, critical strike chance for spells on top of that. Cast speed is a great mod to bench craft afterwards.

Jewel

Jewel Setup

Build uses 3 rare jewels. Look for following mods on them:

1) Increased maximum life
2) Global critical strike multiplier / critical strike multiplier with cold or elemental skills
3) Spell damage while holding a shield mod
4) Any resistance or attribute mods if you are lacking

A good endgame option would be Watcher’s Eye with any beneficial Zealotry mods you can get, like increased cast speed or elemental penetration.

Flask

Flask Setup

Build uses following flasks:

1) Life flask with instant recovery and bleed removal
2) Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline
3) Bottled Faith (Cheap and good alternative would be Atziri’s Promise)
4) Diamond Flask with freeze removal
5) Quartz Flask with curse removal