EK Maurauder + Auras + Iron Will No Eldritch 353% Life. Faceroll! [tested + updated]

I'm actually running one atm. level 57 and facerolled my way past piety in roughly 1 minute without my health dropping below 2/3 a bar.



A few notes, i looked through your build and your math on your 353% life has to be with items added in, node wise you actually only have 269% increase, i know this because mine has 1 8% node more than yours at the equivalent level and I only get +277% increase to health. Your build will have more armor but mine will have a higher block rate so mitigation wise i'll take heavier blows vs you taking them more often.

Chain in your EK, i think this is a bad idea without a heavy increase to your projectile speed, you're relying purely off of 2 wands tops which will give you a 70% increase to projectile speed, unless you're hitting them in your face your projectiles won't have a long enough duration to bounce around the full number of times, I'd suggest working in a faster projectile support into your tree if you really want to run chain, otherwise you're mostly taking a 50% penalty to damage for nothing. In my honest opinion though chain is overkill in EK anyways, for a slightly less penalty if you ran fork you'd be able to smash huge packs just as well if not better for less cost to your character and higher damage per hit.

Lifeleech is great in theory but you'll rarely put it to use as your health bar won't be dropping very often with all of the regeneration you'll have, health flasks will do the job when your bar starts to fall in nearly every situation, the exception being large packs with physical reflect which with this build you're liable to kill yourself if you crit with EK and have all those knives bouncing around between mobs who're reflecting the damage back to you before your regeneration kicks in well enough, another reason I personally won't be running chain. You will want to have the lifeleech around and leveled if you intend on ever running physical reflect maps though so definitely level it up, it just won't be necessary the vast majority of your play through.

my current links are set at (keep in mind this will be changing)
4L - EK, Iron Will, BM, Faster projectiles (5L I'll add in added fire damage swapping with Life Leech as needed, 6L Faster Cast Rate)
4L - Bear trap, bear trap, added fire, BM
4L - Determination, Vitality, Hatred, Reduced mana
miscellaneously thrown on vulnerability and tempest shield as well as a few support gems i've leveling up, plan to link Tempest shield with Purity and reduced mana to squeeze in that little bit extra, though likely not until extreme late game when i can take the second 10% reduced reserved mana. linking blood magic to vulnerability so that i can actually cast it again (running my 3 auras+TS reserves exactly my entire mana pool currently) beyond that i'm still debating on what I want, might use vulnerability with increased AoE to make sure i can curse an entire giant pack with 1 cast.


Kalysto if you're still reading, yes it does cost a lot but leveling up blood magic helps and you regenerate far more life then you're using with casting at higher levels of blood magic since it loses 3% increase per level and the bigger the pool the faster you regen, with 2850 life i regenerate over 120 hp/s currently, by the time i'm 80 i should have over 5k health and will be regenerating nearly 450 hp/s, far faster than any of my casting will be able to consume my health. 7k hp? 625+ hp/s.. it just keeps getting better and better the longer you go on, blood magic supports don't even scratch you with a build like this.

i counted and its actually 361%.

i looked over it again and changed a couple of Strength+armour notes



i intent to run projectile weakness so chain would weaken the effect immensly. also why arent you running grace? grace is like 3k armour for free. shield block% wont help you vs reflect mobs. lot of wasted points there

I'm not sure what you mean by chain would weaken the effect immensely, also keep in mind that with 120 points spent you'll be level 99+ now, this build would take several months of continuous play to reach that many points spent in your passives.

Also, i'm not sure you've ever used EK before, EK has an extremely short range naturally, projectile speed does increase it but for chain to work effectively you'd need at least 120% projectile speed to even consider it, preferably 150%+, otherwise your knives are going to be disappearing before they ever hit more than 1-2 targets.

Running similar build on HC. I took block nodes / endu charges / inner force.

Planning to get qual added light dmg and static blows for some more dps.

Inner force + granite = bb reflect phys

Endu charges help with sipke dmg and give 1,2% hp reg and 30% res (helps with overstacking res on some maps).

I thnik geting crits is bad idea if you like me play hardcore and you need more control of what is going on.

Best thing about this build is that i only stack life chaos res, some res, armor and ... item rarity and quant. THATS RITE! I even run EK/FP/I Rarity/I Quant/ADL/BM in some crappy armor to run some low content.

Imo this is decent build for "mf" char.

Still i thnik FP kripp build is kinda better balanced dps/surv wise.

kripps freeze pulse also requires you to get alot of 15% quality gems and be melee all the time. i dont think you realize how insane his gear is.


Like i said in my original post i was thinking about added lightning but im not even sure its gonna be more damage than added fire. maybe with a chain and conductivity. but that also means way less life leech

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Zanzu203 wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean by chain would weaken the effect immensely, also keep in mind that with 120 points spent you'll be level 99+ now, this build would take several months of continuous play to reach that many points spent in your passives.

Also, i'm not sure you've ever used EK before, EK has an extremely short range naturally, projectile speed does increase it but for chain to work effectively you'd need at least 120% projectile speed to even consider it, preferably 150%+, otherwise your knives are going to be disappearing before they ever hit more than 1-2 targets.

im not sure you know the game mechanics. look up pierce fork chain behavior. i also said im not intending to run chain in the first place.
lets be honest if you dont run added lighning static blows - chain is kind of usless.


also if you look up my 80 tree what is quite achievable in 1-2 weeks. its only missing 58% life

What weapons do you guys use?

Kind of seems like you wouldn't have the Int to support wands...

Mace/shield?

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HylianSage wrote:

What weapons do you guys use?

Kind of seems like you wouldn't have the Int to support wands...

Mace/shield?

hey dagger or wand if you have the int to support it

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