Pwnface's absurd Self-Fisting ThunderPuke build

WORK IN PROGRESS WILL COMPLETE LATER.

Intro
This is my first build guide, forgive me if it's terrible.

I started off trying to figure out a viable Doryani's Fist build as the research I've done hasn't really shown any great builds using this unique. I've somehow wandered into abusing multiple obscure POE mechanics into this wonderland of death.

Required Uniques

Doryani's Fist, Rise of the Phoenix, Scold's Bridle, Lightning Coil.



Concept

Doryani's Fist adds flat lightning damage to both attacks and spells.
Using Doryani's Fist requires you need to be unarmed which means you can't use a wand or dagger to get spell damage modifiers.
Without a wand/dagger self-casting lightning spells is going to be pretty ineffective.

Instead we will use
to damage ourselves to trigger multiple CWDT setups to cast spells. Now I know what you are thinking, using low level CWDTs gives a huge negative LESS modifier for spell damage. Good thing we aren't going to use low level CWDTs! We are going to shoot for high level 19-20 CWDT setups!

Wait a minute though, a level 20 CWDT has a damage threshold of 3272 damage before it can proc. This provides us with 2 new problems to solve:

1) How are we going to do enough damage to ourselves to proc high level CWDT spells frequently to be effective?
2) How are we going to survive doing thousands of damage to ourselves per second?

We solve the first problem by running our main attack ability Cyclone with the following links:
Cyclone - Blood Magic (level 1) - Elemental Focus - Lightning Penetration - Increased Area of Effect - Life Gain on Hit

At first this looks like a normal setup for doing a lightning based cyclone build. However, these gems are selected both for usefulness in buffing our cyclone damage and for increasing the mana multiplier drastically. All of these support gems have higher than average mana multipliers and it is crucial we keep our Blood Magic gem at level 1 in order to maximize the mana cost. We'll also be trying to stack [link]Fevered Mind Jewels[link] to further boost our mana consumption and increase the proc rate of our CWDT spells!

So... were doing thousands of damage per second to ourselves AND were going to run our main attack ability on BLOOD MAGIC and INTENTIONALLY increase the mana cost? Are you fucking nuts?

Well... fortunately, this leads directly to solving the second problem.



This beautiful baby is going to keep us alive no matter how much damage we dish out on ourselves.

Hold on though, Zerphi's Last Breath is a mana flask and the duration of it's life giving effects ONLY lasts as long as it's refilling mana. Were using blood magic to use our cyclone attack so how the hell are we going to deplete our mana so that our fountain of life Zerphi's Last Breath can actually heal us? Damn! Another problem to solve, there seems to be some kind of pattern with this ridiculous build.

Not to worry, Mind Over Matter to the rescue!

So normally BM and MoM don't interact together since MoM only absorbs damage to mana on hits, but alas we are using [link]Scold's Bridle[link] which will constantly be hitting ourselves as we cast Cyclone!

As long as we are spinning with our Cyclone, Scold's Bridle will keep our mana pool low, as long as our mana pool doesn't get topped off Zerphi's last breath will keep us alive no matter how much damage we deal ourselves!

Shit okay that was pretty complicated so far but guess what, we aren't done yet!

Buffs
In order to boost the damage of all the spells we will be spamming were going to run Righteous Fire for a juicy 59% MORE spell damage!

In order to sustain Righteous Fire we'll need Rise of the Phoenix and Purity of Fire. For our other buffs we'll be running Purity of Lightning and Herald of Thunder.

Purity of Lightning and Fire will help overcap our resistances which will allow us to sustain Righteous Fire and also help mitigate physical damage that is converted to lightning through our [link]Lightning Coil[link].

So why Herald of Thunder instead of Wrath?
Wrath would surely increase our damage more than Herald of Thunder right?
Yep, Wrath gives a higher damage increase unfortunately the tree can't get enough mana reservation nodes to run Wrath instead of Herald of Thunder. The only way to run Wrath would be to drop Purity of Fire and Righteous Fire gives us a bigger damage increase than Wrath would.

Note: For maps with minus max resistance or less/no regen we can easily swap out PoF and RF for Wrath for a DPS loss but increased survivability.

Skill Tree

www.poeurl.com/BSv

Ascendancy

WORK IN PROGRESS. WILL COMPLETE LATER