[2.0] Cis's Immortal Mjölner build (W.I.P)

2.1 Romira's Banquet and Voll's Devotion
Discharge requires at least one Charge of any type to be cast (i.e. one of the following: Frenzy, Power or Endurance Charge). Different builds finds their own means in order to generate them. This build uses Romira's Banquet as a foundation of charge generation:

There're two things we need to know before we keep going:
1. Its unique properties, "Gain a Power Charge on non-Critical Strike" and "Lose all Power Charge on Critical Strike", works with all skills that the player cast or indirectly cast (i.e. self casted spells and spells that are cast from "Trigger Sources", e.g. Cast on Crit).
2. By Path of Exile terminology, "skills" is defined as both attacks and spells.

These two factors are relevent to to understand the absolute fundamentals of this build, because the Charge generation 2.1 Romira's Banquet provides can only grant one Power Charge per per sequence of skills. It means that it's not possible to receive more than one Power Charge from a skill that hit enemies more than once.

By this logic the main way to gain Charges for this build isn't from the "main trigger ability" - that's used to trigger Mjölner's on hit effect - it's from the triggered spells themselves. This means that a secondary skill within Mjölner is optimal in order to efficiently gain more charges to the . (The correct links are brought up in 2.7)

To further enhance the charge generation, the build utilizes the league specific unique Voll's Devotion:

Without this unique the build wouldn't be as broken as it is. Voll's Devotion allows the character to start an endless cycle of charge generation.

Every time the character Discharges, it's consuming its Power Charges


2.2 Why the build focuses around critical strikes
The main reason isn't damage, the most prominent reason are flasks.

Elemental flasks are required in order to gain 100% elemental resistance, this build gain an additional 13% elemental resistance from them. Normally elemental flasks only give 10% additional resistance to respective element but due to the Alchemist cluster the build gain 30% flask effectiveness, and thereby 3 extra elemental resistance from them.

As a side note it should be mention that flask effectiveness only enhances flask effects i.e. the durational buff that the flasks applies; all things that applies instantaneous from flasks does not get affected by these nodes since they're not giving the character a durational flask effect, a buff to the character. This works with all flask buffs that gets applied to the character, flasks like e.g. Taste of Hate or Divination Distillate gets substantial improvements: Taste of Hate's damage conversion goes from 30% to 39% and Divination Distillate provide additional large benefits for magic find characters.

The one reason this is relevant to this section have everything to do with the "Surgeon's" prefix that are craftable on regular flasks. Its functionality is that it refills the flask by one every time the character crits and due to the "cast" frequently of Mjölner this character crits alot. This allows for a almost permanent flask upkeep for flasks with this mod, this build utilizes five of them:


Not only does this mean that the character could be immune towards all form of elemental damage (that doesn't got any form of penetration associated with it) but it will always be immune to Bleeding, Curses and Shocking (the last one could be changed into either immunity towards chill and freeze depending on upcoming scenarios).

In order to reliably rely on this logic with a permanent upkeep on flasks the character can also utilizes the mod "x increased Flask Charges gained". The charges gained from this mod is stored in a fashion that doesn't require a certain threshold in order to actually receive the flask Charge. If a character got 50% increased Flask Charges gained the game will always store the extra charges, even if it isn't a complete digit. The Surgeon's prefix will there by always give 1.5 flask Charges to the character in this case, and as well as 50% more charges from the amount of respective rarity of monsters.

A potential way this character could gain this property is through The Magnate belt:


The belt itself is ideal since it got two guaranteed and higly prioritized mods, the flask mod and the strength mod. And since it's a unique that is catagorized as a very low tier unqiue, it means that one could accumulate it without big investments and then Vaal Orb'ed them in a rapid succesion until one of them changes its implicit into "+1 maximum Endurance Charge". This corruption provides a large damage and survivability boost, and is the most ideal implicit on the belt slot.

2.3 The usage of Eldritch Battery
In 2.0 they change the fundamental function of Eldritch Battery. Instead of converting energy shield to mana, its now causes Energy Shield to protect Mana instead of Life. This new change have opened a lot of possibilities for new builds since the energy shield becomes a resource that gets spend before the actual mana of the character (considering they're not a blood magic spec), and may thereby reserve all of its mana while still having resource to spend.

But why are we using it in this spec?

There are several reasons, the main being that it allows us to reserve 99% of our mana pool while we're still able to cast our abilites on the overlapped Energy Shield that Eldritch Battery provides.

The second largest benefit of using Eldritch Battery is that it will give us more damage and more survivability. This is due to the fact that we don't have to link the Blood Magic gem to our main ability - a gem that would require us to ether sacrifice damage or survivability in the form of replacing a gem, for the main ability, to Blood Magic. And not having to sacrifice either is a large benefit for this build.

It's also easy to sustain. This is due to the new Jewel system that also was introduced in 2.0.
The Jewel base Cobalt Jewel can craft an interesting suffix that makes our resource management limitless as long as we're attacking and hitting monsters. The suffixs is called "of focus" and its functionality provides a "+2-3 Energy Shield gained for each Enemy hit by your Attacks". This by itself is really ridiculous for builds that could abuse its property; there also exist similar, yet equally strong, mods for the other two Jewel bases. With the Crimson Jewel giving life on hit (Great for lowlife attack based builds), and Viridian Jewel giving mana on hit.

Here's an example jewel for the build:


2.4 Aura management and effectiveness



2.5 Gem setup










2.6 Molten Strike vs. Lightning Strike

2.7 The Mjölner setup
This is important!

Since Mjölner's trigger effect "cast" every gem that is socketed into it, its going to "cast" the spells in a similar way to Cast when Damage Taken. Meaning that the socketed gems will never be triggered simultaneously but will follow a sequential trigger pattern. The order that determines which gems that will be triggered revolves around the links of the item. Its starts the cycle by triggering the gem in the top left socket in the item, and then its following the links to each individual socket down the links, and triggering the socketed gem likewise.

So what does this mean for us?

Because Discharge requires at least one Charge to be cast, there's a high possibility that the secondary skill that is linked within Mjölner is going to interfere with the mechanics of Romira's Banquet (2.1). Meaning that if the secondary skill crit the character will lose all of its Power Charges, and thereby losing either a large portion of its damage or the functionality to even cast Discharge (if the character doesn't have any Charges it can't cast Discharge)

But this will only be the cast if the secondary skill is linked before Discharge in a fashion that is explained above.

For this build it means that ALWAYS link Arc AFTER Discharge in a clockwise patter inside the Mjölner

2.8 Golem

2.9 Physical Mitigation
While the build is immune to all form of elemental damage, it can still die to avast amount of physical damage. But this will only be the case if the player doesn't pay attention to the monsters.

The build is combating physical damage in five different ways:
The usage of Lightning Coil,
Arctic Armor,
permanent uptime on endurance charges - up to seven,
30k~ armour,
and in the worst case scenario a four second long Immortal call that triggers with a Cast when Damage Taken set up.

2.10 to Vaal Pact or not to Vaal Pact

2.11 Important attributes


2.12 Important stats

2.13 Resource Management

3.1 Gear


3.2 Core items


3.4 Passives



3.5 Bandits
Normal - Help Oak (40hp)
Cruel - Kill all (Skill Point)
Merciless - Help Oak (+1 maximum endurance charge)

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maybe with acro