[2.4] PermaStun Crit EQ Juggernaut - 25c to 2ex <10 min full key Uber Lab, Atziri, T14/15

Let's start with what everybody always looks for first, the damages! Though I'm no mathematician, I once wrote boobies on a calculator through extreme perseverance and determination so I believe that qualifies me to explain this without numbers.

Our main attack is Earthquake because other Melee skills are just subpar at this point similar to my golf game.

Links: Earthquake - Increased Critical Strikes - Melee Physical Damage - Less Duration - Stun - Increased AoE/Conc Effect

The DPS shown on tooltip doesn't seem at all to be indicative of the damage we actually do, as is the case with most crit builds. What you really need to know is we have ~355% increased damage from the tree, and on top of that we perpetually have another 30% of all our damage gained as chaos damage which has a ~415-435% increased damage multiplier with the added bonus from Breath of the Council. On top of that we have a 45-55% chance to crit without using a diamond flask depending on how many power charges you have up, and a minimum of 225% increased critical strike multiplier.

Given that, here's the stat sheets: http://imgur.com/gallery/V7xTe

We also attack 2.67 times/second WITHOUT multistrike for a massive amount of critical strike occuring, with permastunning goodness and ton of damage being put out.

Now I honestly don't even want to attempt to calculate the damage we're doing here because I know I'll butcher it somewhere. What I can tell you is that it's enough to make short both forms of Palace Dominus very quickly while permastunning him. I'll try to do an actual DPS calculation at some point, but it's honestly probably not going to be 100% accurate. It will be at least 50% accurate if my marks in Calculus are any indicator.

You'll throw on concentrated effect during bosses due to the fact that I demand it. Assuming your tree and items are similar to mine, you will be throwing down damage similar to mine but not quite as good because my dad still works at GGG and gives me free dps. (He doesn't work at Neopets anymore, but Blizzard just brought him in for the Legion launch so if you send me your username and password I can get you free gold. And if you make fun of me he will ban your ip from the internet because he works at the internet too.)

Update: He no longer works for the internet. It turns out banning IPs for your child is not condoned.

Stat Sheets - Defenses on last image: http://imgur.com/gallery/V7xTe

This build uses Abyssus to great effect, and completely circumvents the downside by having Immortal Call up perpetually for 5.3 seconds at a time. We have 87% increased cast speed on it making it almost instantaneous so there's really no downtime. We are then immune to physical damage, have max res, 140% increased armor (that with the endurance charges up lets you just hop around lower level maps without worrying about immortal call).

Speaking of endurance charges, we are Juggernaut and have a total of 7 endurance charges from the tree and bandits. This gives us a bunch of damage as well as decent mitigation (though the real mitigation is through immortal call). You are also immune to almost all of the labyrinth traps as they are pretty much all physical except for the burning ground which you can just jump across with leap slam. The physical immunity is incredible for running lab and lets you do full key runs in under 10 minutes even with full charges and gargoyles!

We have 194% increased maximum life at level 90 which will give us about 5700-6000 depending on your gear. So we are pretty darn tanky!
We also have life leech from warlord's mark as well as the endurance charge generation for another chunk of defense.

Now we get into the most important mitigation this build has. Permastun. The absolute best defence I've ever found in this game is forcing all the enemies to headbang instead of attacking you. You will permastun everything including bosses except for full charge izaro (who is still a chump) and Core Malachai (who is not a chump and will leave your anus sore). You can't be killed by them if they can't attack you, and I promise you they won't be able to attack you.

We have 98% reduced enemy stun threshold which translated to about 87% after diminishing returns. This means the damage you would have to do to stun an enemy is instead based around only 13% of their life. Usually permastun builds have much more reduction as they don't do a hell of a lot of damage themselves, but we do such a ludicrous amount of damage on top of that threshold reduction that we can permastun anything anyways.
So yeah! It's pretty darn tanky. Definitely more tanky than my Chin Sol guys anyways.

Skill Tree

You're going to want to prioritize in no specific order: Life-Physical Damage-Crit/Crit Multi-Stun Threshold Reduction - Accuracy - Attack Speed - Armour

Prophecy Skill Tree (level 89): https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAEBAAAGAecEswUtBsYIsQ2NEdUS4RPMFCAUTRX2Fm8WuxiRGjgaVRpsJKonLygqKU8t0i5TNug26TrYOzs8BT38P_xBP0MxR35KfUz_TipP81BHUeZXl1hjWK9Z81uvXaRfP2BBYSFieWNwZU1p_nKpdO12rHdTeWh6731zgpuE74VSh3aLT4zPkFWSfZSHl3mYCphvmjubap7Fnz6fy5_fogCi6qcwqW6sqq0JrY22pLyfvTa-p8ABwGbBBMbYz37Tb9lh2sHcI93V3pbfsuNq45_kIuRR5c_oZuoY7Djsy-8O73zwH_ZI9zL3ufxL

Level 90 skill tree: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAEBAAAGAecEswUtBsYIsQ2NEdUS4RPMFCAUTRX2Fm8WuxiRGjgaVRpsJKonLygqKU8t0i5TNug26TrYOzs8BT38P_xBP0MxR35KfUz_TipP81BHUeZXl1hjWK9Z81uvXaRfP2BBYSFieWNwZU1noGn-cql07Xasd1N5aHrvfXOCm4TvhVKHdotPjM-QVZJ9lIeXeZgKmG-aO5tqnsWfPp_Ln9-iAKLqpzCpbqyqrQmtjbakvJ-9Nr6nwAHAZsEExtjPftNv2WHawdwj3dXelt-y42rjn-Qi5FHlz-hm6hjsOOzL7w7vfPAf9kj3Mve5_Es=

Level 100 skill tree: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAEBAAAGAecEswUtBsYIsQ2NEdUS4RPMFCAUTRX2Fm8WuxiRGjgaVRpsJKonLygqKU8t0i5TNug26TrYOzs8BT38P_xBP0MxR35KfUz_TipP81BHUeZXDVeXWGNYr1nzW69dpF8_YEFhIWJ5Y3BlTWZUZ6BoZWn-cql07Xasd1N5aHrvfXOCm4TZhO-FUoV7h3aLT4zPkFWRzpJ9lIeWbJd5mAqYb5o7m2qexZ8-n8uf36IAouqnMKlurKqtCa2NtqS77byfvTa-p8ABwGbBBMRYxtjPftNv2WHawdwj3dXelt-y42rjn-Qi5FHlz-hm6hjsOOzL7w7vfPAf85v2SPcy97n8Sw==

Bandits: Oak/None/Oak
Reasoning: Life duh, skill point because that one skill point at the marauder start is already better than 16% increased physical damage so screw that noise, and we already have a whole bunch of attack speed. Endurance charge because we're not stupid.

Leveling: I leveled in Prophecy EQ! It was pretty darn quick. I used The Gryphon (fated unique) once I could all the way until BoTC and Death's Hand. The movement speed is blessed. (Actually blessed, not like those dreadful blessed orbs).[/bold]

Ascendancy
Ascendancy wise we go with Juggernaut. Undeniable single handedly solves the accuracy problems that come with being in the bottom left corner of the skill tree for crit as well as giving us a ludicrous amount of attack speed. We then have a More multiplier on attack speed since we're dual wielding so it's even higher. We also grab Unrelenting because duh. It gives us damage as well as the ability to be immune to physical damage. Finally you have a choice between Unbreakable and Unstoppable.

You can go unbreakable as I did for most of the build if you're an idiot like I was, or you can go Unstoppable and get Unwavering Stance instead once you realize we don't need armor, don't evade, and Unwavering Stance is only one point away. Unstoppable makes us immune to chill, freeze, temp chains, snares, and gives us a bunch of movement speed too. It's a huge boost to defenses.

Before I explain everything, here are my current items:

Other than the uniques, what you want to prioritize on your items is:

Life/Resistances > Flat Physical Damage > Crit Multiplier > Critical Strike Chance > Accuracy/Attack Speed

Jewel wise I don't have too many yet, but I would grab multiplier/attack speed/phys damage/life. Any combination of those.

I did not spend more than 3c on any of the rare items (other than the 6l). The 6L you get doens't matter since we're immune to phys anyways so we don't care about a huge amount of armour. In fact I'm using a 6-L Ornate Ringmail that I picked up for 25c. I see a few on Poe.Trade right now for 20-25c as well. Grab one of those, roll some life and a res or two on it, and smash everything in sight.

Gems/Links
6-L: Earthquake - Increased Critical Strikes - Melee Physical Damage - Less Duration - Stun - Increased AoE/Conc Effect

4-Link: Blood Magic-Leap Slam-Faster Attacks-Fortify
4-link: Ancestral Warchief-Increased Critical Strikes-Bloodlust-Melee Physical Damage

3-link: Immortal Call (lvl 20) – Increased Duration - Faster Casting

2-link: Blasphemy - Warlord's Mark

Singles: Herald of Ash - Summon Ice Golem - Blood Rage - Vaal Haste - Enduring Cry

Now you don't need to use Herald of Ash, I just like the clear speed it brings. You could instead run a defensive/offensive aura instead. On top of that, there is room to run Arctic Armour for even more defensibility, but you'll need to make some mana regen up somewhere as you don't want to have to carry around an emergency mana flask (maybe you do, I dunno. I won't judge you a lot. Just a little). Arctic Armour will definitely be helpful.

Build Overview

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