Nisse's Immortal Soultaker/Aegis cyclone build. including vidio's of 77maps, updated 18/9

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Castablanca wrote:

The damage from Ming's Heart is better than damage from most physical damage rings and even perfect Le Heup's (which doesn't make sense because Le Heup is unbiased % damage increase).
To give you comparison, I directly compared the dps output of these rings:

and, Ming's Heart came out on top by at least 200 tooltip dps (cyclone).
The downside to Ming's Heart is the penalty on max life and ES.

Regarding my low life.
I used to stack life, max armor, and max resists with a Kaom's build

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But, with this build, 99% of the time, nothing penetrates my ES. And that's because as soon as I take hits, my ES regenerates instantly. The only thing fluctuating is my ES (27k armor without granite means that 4% of 27k = 1080 ES regenerated PER BLOCK).

The only things that have been killing me are the following:
- insane spike damage (Level 78 map Dominus corpse explosions)
- damage over time degeneration (chaos such as viper strike or death's oath) and burning damage (righteous fire). The reason is that DoT does not trigger the Aegis Aurora. I actually need to be hit to stay alive.

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Castablanca wrote:

Here is my variant of Nisse's amazing build.
I call it:
The Double Cyclone Glass Cannon Tanker.

Current skill tree (only level 86).

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAdwB5wSzFE0XLxkuGjIaOBv6HRQe3yXfJ-0oxSmlMgk26DrYQ2NGaUrITDVN2E4qT1ZQUFFgU99USVXWVw1YY1ivWNtY9VnzXz9k52aeapNsRm5pbqpwfXFNcmxyqXgNfNmApIFvguSDOITZhymKr4x2jM-QEZBVms-bg53EnjyezaC0pBmnMKeEqW6playqrK-zP7XytkG3Mbndvoq-p768wA_AGsOGxBXE9sbY0TbSIdJN1I_V7dlh51Lnkew47w7vfPIv8wbzvvZI97760vuq

Here's the level 100 tree.

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBAdwB5wJxBLMUIBRNFy8YkRkuGjIaOBv6HRQe3yXfJ-0oxSmlMgk26DrYQ2NGaUrITDVN2E4qT1ZQR1BQUWBT31RJVdZXDVhjWK9Y21j1WfNZ_l85Xz9k52aeapNsRm5pbqpwfXFNcmxyqXgNfNmApIFvguSDOITZhymKr4x2jM-QEZBVmSuaz5uDncSePJ7NoLSiAKQZpzCnhKluqZWsqqyvsz-0-bXytkG3MbndvYG-ir6nvrzAD8Aaw4bEFcT2xtjKkNE20iHSTdSP1e3ZYd3j4mHnUueR7DjvDu988B_yL_MG877z3fZI97760vuq

My gear (hint: it's very good):

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Pro's and Con's of my build:
Pro's:
+ very high energy shield (1.4k) and armor (27k) to take advantage of Aegis mechanic.
+ very high damage (9.8k tooltip cyclone = almost 20k dps)
+ maxed Chaos resistance from only 3 pieces (Devoto's + 2 ming's)
+ maxed block/spell block: 75/65
Con's:
- very low life (1.8k hp)
- very weak against degen (e.g. burning, explosive arrows, righteous fire)

Interesting concepts:
Double Cyclone:
I use 2 cyclones. A 6 link just like Nisse's. But also, a 4 link for Life Gain on Hit and Blind (since I use Carcass Jack instead of BoR).

Double CODT:
I also use double trigger gems (2x cast when damage taken) to autocast Enfeeble, Enduring Cry, Molten Shell, and Ethereal Knives. The benefit of CODT is that there is no mana cost, and therefore, no need for linking Blood Magic to these spells, which also helps to maintain max life to keep Melee Damage on Full Life running.

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Nisseonbeer wrote:

depends what u need ehp against, we got 3 dmg types.
physical, Chaos and elemental.
increasing ur hp Work vs em all, and increase the seperate defence, like resist and armour

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Nisseonbeer wrote:

Mings not really needed for Chaos if u get Chaos on all items like me. but i gues its a cheap solution.

Vs dmg over time in pvp, not much u can do, i would proberly not go cycloen there, since u move so slow while killing. u could use a double strike gem instead for pvp.

But yea, not much u can do vs burn dmg in pvp. more fire resist. ruby flask and maybe swap shield to phoenix?

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Castablanca wrote:

My new variant of your build relies on Chaos Inoculation, max Energy Shield, and Zealot's Oath + Ghost Reaver to counter damage over time. The Shav's ring (4% ES regen) helps a lot too.
Currently, I have overcapped resists (enough to stay max after double curse - flammability+ele weakness), as well as 18k armor (enough to tank physical). CI = chaos immunity.
Now, I can purely rely on Dousing Fire flasks and absolutely wreck Fire burners.
gear:

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