[3.1] 9K ES CI Death Aura Occultist (updated for 3.1)

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Kade_wolf wrote:

How do you combat the stuns?
The reason I designed a life based version(both standard and Abyss) of this build is because I was tired of always getting stunned with the ES version.

Brine King pantheon, Vile Bastion ascendancy and a huge amount of dodge in my case. I've only had slight problems with stun against the Esh Breachstone boss and that's where I switch to Eye of Chayula.

What would you recommend for a 2r,2b,2g Deaths Oath as the second red gem?

Put this together....

Yes, it "can" have 9k es if you invest a lot of money. Considering you get 0 from chest that is a HUGE hit.

Yes, it can kill white map mobs and blues even pretty quick.

Boss damage is horrid. I deleted this character after attempting to give it some love in the 70's range but the boss killing and even abyss killing is SOOO BAD.

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ukab wrote:

What would you recommend for a 2r,2b,2g Deaths Oath as the second red gem?

Drop conc effect.

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PerfectXtreme wrote:

Put this together....

Yes, it "can" have 9k es if you invest a lot of money. Considering you get 0 from chest that is a HUGE hit.

Yes, it can kill white map mobs and blues even pretty quick.

Boss damage is horrid. I deleted this character after attempting to give it some love in the 70's range but the boss killing and even abyss killing is SOOO BAD.

Really? I mean it's not AW cheap, but I'd still say it's on the cheaper to normal side of build costs actually, mostly because you can make the chest with about 2 ex worth of jewellers and it doesn't even need to be linked. Gloves and belt cost almost nothing, rings and ammy you can find decent enough ones for 10-20c, same with the shield, boots, and helm too actually (if you know how to search for things on poetrade efficiently and craft your own). Of course, if you want to push it or just buy the first thing you see on poetrade, you could spend 1ex for a nice helm or shield, but the same is true with any build.

I'm curious what gear you had on your char for it to be that bad. All I can see from what is left of your char is that you are still missing half your ascendancy points and the -20 chaos one is pretty huge for your dps btw.

I wanna upgrade gems, but not sure which ones to upgrade. Can you tell me in order of importance which gems I should be upgrading first? Thanks

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Scarletsword wrote:

Brine King pantheon, Vile Bastion ascendancy and a huge amount of dodge in my case. I've only had slight problems with stun against the Esh Breachstone boss and that's where I switch to Eye of Chayula.

Check out my standard's tree/gear. Tell me what you think. I have killed Elder with it. It might do Guardians with more experience. I don't often go for boss builds.

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Kade_wolf wrote:

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Scarletsword wrote:

Brine King pantheon, Vile Bastion ascendancy and a huge amount of dodge in my case. I've only had slight problems with stun against the Esh Breachstone boss and that's where I switch to Eye of Chayula.

Check out my standard's tree/gear. Tell me what you think. I have killed Elder with it. It might do Guardians with more experience. I don't often go for boss builds.

This isn't a boss build and there is barely a reason to kill bosses with this build except maybe for breachstones.

Your damage should be fine for clearing most maps, but you're missing a Wither Totem for bosses and probably Abyssal Cry for way more aoeclear since you aren't Occultist and are missing Profane Bloom.

The second thing I'd add is Arctic Armour or another Purity instead of Purity of Elements. Your survivability seems quite low already and Purity of Elements doesn't add anything really.

The last thing I'd add is Vaal Grace. Together with blind from your Stibnite Flask and Enfeeble nothing will ever hit you.

I tried Inspired Learning because I thought it's fun, but haven't seen much use of it.. Most of the mods aren't really fitting this char. What are some good mods you'd like to copy?

Is it actually good or just a meme?

The build will clear maps faster than most.
The build's survival against harder hitting targets is when it becomes questionable.
It's not a boss build.
It really shines against maps.

My build on standard clears T16 maps without flinching.
Degen mods are the only one you can't do(if you're life based).