[2.4] COLB (Cast On Last Breath) tanky, high dps, can use any spells you want

this build is back in the game!!! you can get items from perandus maps!
atm im building a berserker char in essence, but this elementalist still work like a charm

in order to activate this.. we need just 2 uniques:



notice the synergy here.... scold's "your skills deal you 400% of mana cost as phys...", and zerphi's "grant 800% of mana cost as life".
the combination of both... make you take 400% of mana cost as life, but also heal you for 800%, that is equal to 400% healing of mana cost!
so you need to have high mana cost in order to get hit by scolds, and activate cwdt, and that will actually heal you!

ok.. so first of all we want high mana cost:
if you have some of these (i use 4 of them), you can easily increase your mana cost, and than increase your damage taken and the instant heal you take.
* another nice options to make your mana cost higher will be voidbringer gloves (80% mana cost) and apepe's wand (40% each).

ok, here is the tricky part:
you want your zerphi's flask to be up all the time, but he is a mana flask, so if your mana will be full, it's effect will end.
in order to achive that, we need to have no mana regen/leech, so the flask will have its time up for all its duration.



that's where my rally brilliant idea came: use MOM (mind over metter) keystone, and lvl 1 bloodmagic (245%)! ( have lvl 1 on gear)
this way, we can use any weapon we want (2h/ 1h / bow) and it will still drain our mana, and let zerphi's flask for it full time (10s).
we use skill with bloodmagic -> some of the damage goes to mana (if we have any left) -> getting hit by scold's effect -> activating cwdt -> and zerphi's flask heal us for more than the mana cost + damage taken.
1 skill used, activate cwdt and heal us at the same time!

this is the main and uniqe idea here

here are some maths for the calculation of mana cost and damage taken / healed life.

i use it with : Leap slam (15 mana cost) + bloodmagic (245%) + faster attack speed (115%)
this sceptre have this in him:
hypotermia (120%) + ice bite (110%) + cold pen (140%) + added cold dmg (130%) + mana leech (100%) + reduced mana (75%)
and its corrupted with WED (150%)
i have 4 fevered mind jewels (100% mana cost each) so that is in total = 669 mana cost.
now with that 669 mana cost, every time i use cyclone i take 655*4 = 2676 damage (some migation from armour) but that is enough to trigger lvl 16 cwdt every time!
and ofcourse, i heal for 669 *3 (should be *8 - the scold damage(*4) and mana cost) = 2007, every time i use a skill.
im using leap slam 3 times a sec , so that is insane 6000~ life regen per sec.

now here calculations for the leap slam speed:

leap slam have base duration of 1.4 sec to each leap, and that can only be increased by faster attack speed.
so we need to stack alot of attack speed to lower it to ~0.33 sec per leap slam (if you really try you can get to 0.25 sec per leap slam but that will be alot of investment.

20/20 faster attack gem - 55%
brightbick in main hand - 50%
dual wielding - 10%
can get 16% on gloves
17/20 bloodrage - 17%
4 frenzy from the bloodrage - 16%
onslaught (from flask) - 20%
with this Skill Tree(lvl 88) i get 30% increased attack speed.

so i have 239% increase attack speed, 1.4/ 3.39 =~0.4 sec per leap slam :) (tool tip show 0.38 at best situation)

you can also link haste / vaal haste or get more attack speed on tree (not needed).

basicly everything stay the same, except few small things:



those ring, combined with elemntalist nodes:
Shaper of Desolation - 20% Chance to gain Elemental Conflux for 4 seconds when you Kill an Enemy
Beacon of Ruin - Elemental Status Effects caused by your Skills spread to other nearby Enemies

make your dps increased dramasticly once you killed someone (and you kill everything really fast).
because you shoot so many spells, the enemies (that dont die) effected by alot of spells on them (and prolif from others), and make them take MUCH higher increased dmg

those are very nice flasks to use:



the rest of the gear can practicly be the same, this is what im using:




- notice its only 5L i use the 6th for my aura :) so 5L is more than enough

Elementalist Skill Tree(lvl 88)

Elementalist Skill Tree(lvl 100)

Ascendant lvl 88

Ascendant lvl 100

at first, i chose ascendent, and went with deadeye + berserker, and that worked really great.
but than i decided to go with Elementalist - free elemental prolif and elemental conflix.
together with taming and emberwake i just kill everything really fast.

there are some other cool options:

necromencer - make offering effect you constantly, and become pretty much immortal.

Assasin - high crit for spells etc..

berserker - can be insane here!, have 2 options, or take Aspect of carnage for higer dmg taken to trigeer lvl 17 cwdt, and get more multi for skills, or go for Cloaked in savagery, this will gie you 100% leech 100% of the time! (you will always take savage hit from scolds effet!)

Pathfinder - make sure youll never run out of flasks (not happen alot anyway), and poison all the time with phys spells (might be OP)

deadeye - proj speed, additional proj, pierce

ofcourse going ascendent and take any of those combos will be also great!

+ unique mechanic and fun
+ relatively cheap (only scold's cost here anything)
+ versitle - can choose alot of skills to play with this concept, in alot of ways.
+ can work with alot of different ascendency classes
+ great dps
+ very good clear speed
+ good for most map mods (and vs corrupted blood, just keep on spinining)

- not HC vailable, you cant get to low life, if you do, the damage you take will instant kill you (but if you have high life that really not happening alot, only bad luck/ lag).
- can be laggy
- can't do elemental reflect map (unless you change all your spells to phys spells)
- can't do blooad magic map

Normal - oak (40 life)
Cruel - Skill point
Merciless - Skill pont / Frenzy charge (if using blood rage)

notice how my damage vs bosses improved in this version (if they have any minion near them ofcourse)

Gorge (1:40) can probably do much better (might even be able to break the record)

Conservatory - didnt manage well my potions vs boss

CountryYard

Excavation

WasteLand

overgrawn ruin

ShipYard

Village Ruin

chateau

double resident boss kill in 5 sec

volcano

Arid lake

precinct

Question: why not using VMS with this?
Answer:
1. first of all, this is possible, but vaal molten shell isnt always up, and it need gem slots, which means that it will take at least 2 defferent spells (that work through all the map + the boss), and i dont think its worth it DPS wise or mechanecly wise.
2. VMS add 1000 base armour, which will probably effect in a way that the other proc of spells wont be activated every time, so that actually half the DPS of all other spells together, IMO not worth it.
3. im not using this with incenerate, because that will take even extra gem slot.
4. i dont have AOE on tree/gear, and that mean to get close and personal with the bosses, instead of just jumping for a few sec around them and they die

again this is possible and might be better to end bosses, but i dont like it mechanicly and it need to be compared to all other spells combined /2