[2.3] Janus' Lowlife Barrage CoC Physical 'Flaskfinder': Sick damage, high defenses, fast clearspeed

Note: I don't run through maps like on crack, and I don't claim to be a very good player ;-) The point of the mapruns is to show you the strengths and weaknesses of the build, which I think they do. Bosses are always at the end of the vids.

Pros
+ Insanely fun
+ Very fast move speed and very high DPS resulting in very good clear speed
+ Ranged build with high defenses
+ Flasks are up permanently
+ Can run all maps and mods except Blood Magic
+ Firing wands like a machinegun
+ Can run 2-3 curses
+ Easy uses against Atziri (not tested vs uber Atziri yet)


Cons
- Not cheap (budget version requires 6L Shavs and good ES gear)
- Requires flask management (I use 1234Space for example)
- Vulnerable to physical reflect if you don't have your flask up
- Not tested against Uber Atziri (but similar builds can do it so it should be np)
- CoC might be an issue for very slow and old PCs, but by far not as bad as Discharge
- Cannnot run Blood Magic Maps

- 12-14 Barrage projectiles at 2.4 APS, crit capped with power charges
- Triggers 3 spells: Bladefall (18K DPS), Ethereal Knives (27K), Glacial Cascade (10.6K, replacable by Blade Vortex with 5.1K damage and max 20 stacks)
- Additional damage by Vulnerability (1st curse), Poison (thanks to Pathfinder's Master Herbalist ascendancy) and Veteran Bowyer not factored in

- 8K+ ES
- Almost 6K armor plus a Basalt flask resulting in 66% Damage reduction
- 7K+ Evasion rating resulting in 39% Evasion
- Very unlikely to get stunned thanks to Skyforth and 1200+ Mana
- 75/28 Block/Spell Block
- 75/84/85 Resists (84/84/85 with a Ruby Flask)
- Taste of Hate makes us take 45% of Physical Damage taken as Cold Damage (30% with nonlegacy ToH), of which 84% are negated with our cold resist
- 65% Movement Speed or more (I have 110% thanks to a 30% move speed Diamond Flask)
- Insanely high instant leech
- Enfeeble Aura (2nd curse)
- Defenses are up all the time

Our strength comes from flasks. Therefore we pick the Pathfinder Ascendancy which gives all our flasks the ability to gain a flask charge on a critical strike.
We crit so much that we have 100% flask uptime.
Thanks to Volley Fire Jewels we fire 8 additional Barrage Projectiles, with a +2 Barrage Projectile helmet an additional two for 12-14 projectiles.
We also have 50% increased flask effects (very nice for the damage conversion of Taste of Hate, Rumi's Block, Max resists, etc.), 28% increased flask duration and remove Bleeding when using a flask.

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6-Link attack:

4-Link Aura:

4-Link Aura:

4-Link Utility:

3-Link Curse:

3-Link Movement:

- Helmet: a high ES Hubris Circlet; difference to top gear: 'Just' 12 instead of 14 Barrage projectiles, meaning 29 per second instead of 35.

- Chest: 6-linked Shavronne's Wrappings - 4G 2B (5G 1B if you run Blade Vortex over Glacial Cascade) <- no other choice

- Wand: a wand with high crit and APS. If possible also craft spell damage on it.

- Shield: a high ES shield with resists, possibly also Prism Guardian can work if you have enough ES on boots and gloves and a bit more ES nodes on tree.

- Gloves: Shadows and Dust or ES gloves.

- Boots: High ES boots with some resists.

- Belt: A Heavy Belt with resists and ES. Flask mods can be nice but are not necessary. Move speed crafting can be nice.

- Amulet: Eye of Chayula. +1 curse saves you 4 passive points.

- Rings: on both rings high accuracy along with ES and resists

- Flasks: Vessel of Vinktar with Physical to Lightning Conversion, Rumi's Concoction and Taste of Hate are mandatory. You can run nonlegacy versions and take Vaal Pact.

- Jewels: We run two Volley Fire jewels in the area left above the Ranger starting area and right of the Shadow starting area. On the other jewels, look for attack speed, ES, spell crit, crit multi, spell damage. Running Energy from Within is also an option if you take the hybrid life/ES nodes at the Melding cluster.

- Tree changes: You have to take Vaal Pact possibly due to no instant leech, and without the +1 curse ammy you have to take Whispers of Doom for the second curse. You also have to take the reduced mana nodes at the Leadership cluster.

- Gem changes: Due to not having the Power Charges from Skyforth, you have to run Assassin's Mark. I would consider dropping Herald of Ash for Herald of Ice to get the curse going. You can also link Enfeeble to it and save some reserved mana. Alternatively, get some gloves that have "Grants Level 10 Assassin's Mark" or so and link Herald of Ice, Herald of Thunder, Curse on Hit, Enfeeble or Vulnerability plus the Assassin's Mark from gloves.

- For mapping, Arc instead of Glacial Cascade might give you more clear speed.
- For Atziri/uber Atziri I would probably swap GC for Blade Vortex if you have a 5 off Shavs, otherwise swapping GC for Conc Effect and EK for BV is also an option.

- Legacy Taste of Hate means 45% physical damage taken as cold, nonlegacy 30% (50% increases from ascendancy flask nodes). Legacy Vessel of Vinktar means instant leech, nonlegacy means you need to take Vaal Pact.
- In my current setup I use two curses, one base plus one from my Amulet. You can also get two curses by taking Whispers of Doom in the tree, it just costs 4 points. Or run three curses with a higher level character and a +1 curse amulet.
- A helmet with +2 Barrage projectiles helps quite a lot. If you want to mirror mine, I can replace the strength with a resist or INT.
- With some more passive points I might consider running two 50% auras on life, but most likely will rather get more ES.

- Reflect: Unless you run a Warlords Mark curse as third curse, Reflect is a problem. You will shoot yourself against Physical Reflect if firing multiple volleys, and badly damage yourself against Elemental Reflect if you have no Vinktar flask up in map. If you have Vinktars up, it's absolutely no problem. However I would avoid Reflect Maps for this reason, they are hard and annoying to play.
- Chaos Damage: Most likely you have -60% Chaos Resist. Beware of high chaos damage enemies. Your leech will help but you cannot ignore these enemies.
- Map Mods to avoid: Physical Reflect (elemental is doable if you replace Hatred by another aura) and Blood Magic are impossible to run. Hexproof is a bit annoying but no problem.

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