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

Okkk cool. Im new in game it's my first league. Soo the int give me more energy shield? And i dont need to have more res than 75%? Cuz someone tell me more res more survi soo i get about 140%+ on all. And yeah i miss Whispers of Doom cuz i think it's not soo important but now i know and will add this as soon as possible. And about my shield and helmet i guess it's got rly good rolls cuz only a 10 more flat in it cost about 2-3 ex and it's a lot of money and i dont have that budget.

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Scarletsword wrote:

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MisFilemon wrote:

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Ohhh i need some answers :D
For now my tree is feel up and i dont see more options for more ES and i got 5.3k ES only maybe not full lvl gems but like i see its can boost me max to 6k. My items are good maybe not perfect but good and i dont see how i can get this 9k ES and i start think i do smth wrong. Here u have my items now( i know belt can be better like + 40 ES but it's not change much):

You're missing around 200-300 flatES from boots, helmet and shield and another 20-60 flatES from your belt. Your Ventor's Gamble is completely useless because it's missing quantity and quantity is the only reason for a Ventor's. Not a single rare item has int on it. Even your Death's Oath has a low attributes roll. You're overcapped on all ele res by 80% and are still not using a Moonstone Ring base for 25 flatES. All your flasks are missing quality and your Quicksilver Flask doesn't have prefix. And for some reason you decided to use a Wise Oak on a pure chaos build.

But after all of that you're just running 2 auras on an aura build. Your second curse doesn't get applied because you're missing Whispers of Doom.

Okkk cool. Im new in game it's my first league. Soo the int give me more energy shield? And i dont need to have more res than 75%? Cuz someone tell me more res more survi soo i get about 140%+ on all. And yeah i miss Whispers of Doom cuz i think it's not soo important but now i know and will add this as soon as possible. And about my shield and helmet i guess it's got rly good rolls cuz only a 10 more flat in it cost about 2-3 ex and it's a lot of money and i dont have that budget.

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MisFilemon wrote:

Okkk cool. Im new in game it's my first league. Soo the int give me more energy shield? And i dont need to have more res than 75%? Cuz someone tell me more res more survi soo i get about 140%+ on all. And yeah i miss Whispers of Doom cuz i think it's not soo important but now i know and will add this as soon as possible. And about my shield and helmet i guess it's got rly good rolls cuz only a 10 more flat in it cost about 2-3 ex and it's a lot of money and i dont have that budget.

Open your character sheet ingame by pressing "C" and mouseover int, this will tell you exactly what int does.

The only reason to get more than 75% to elemental res is to cap for being cursed with elemental curses. You can avoid this by rolling curse immunity on a flask. That being said, you should always cap your res.

Whispers of Doom isn't that important but you have a second curse socketed which won't be applied to your enemies. You're only using 50% of your mana for auras even tho you could use way more. You have a lot of options but you just aren't using them.

The gear you're trying to look for is expensive because you want way more res than you actually need. You can save a lot by master crafting or using essences.

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Scarletsword wrote:

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MisFilemon wrote:

Okkk cool. Im new in game it's my first league. Soo the int give me more energy shield? And i dont need to have more res than 75%? Cuz someone tell me more res more survi soo i get about 140%+ on all. And yeah i miss Whispers of Doom cuz i think it's not soo important but now i know and will add this as soon as possible. And about my shield and helmet i guess it's got rly good rolls cuz only a 10 more flat in it cost about 2-3 ex and it's a lot of money and i dont have that budget.

Open your character sheet ingame by pressing "C" and mouseover int, this will tell you exactly what int does.

The only reason to get more than 75% to elemental res is to cap for being cursed with elemental curses. You can avoid this by rolling curse immunity on a flask. That being said, you should always cap your res.

Whispers of Doom isn't that important but you have a second curse socketed which won't be applied to your enemies. You're only using 50% of your mana for auras even tho you could use way more. You have a lot of options but you just aren't using them.

The gear you're trying to look for is expensive because you want way more res than you actually need. You can save a lot by master crafting or using essences.

Ok now my eq look's much better but still i got only 6 756 ES ant try to look for more but see only about 100 Es missing in my items : + Jawell inside belt + 44 max ES

Dmg is cool i ez run map's t 10-12 without problems but i still cant run Hall of the grandmasters.

And btw can u see similar helmet i got with this enchant ?? Cuz i cant even see this enchant on poe wiki or poe trade and thats mean im rich ?:D

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MisFilemon wrote:

Ok now my eq look's much better but still i got only 6 756 ES ant try to look for more but see only about 100 Es missing in my items :

+ Jawell inside belt + 44 max ES

Dmg is cool i ez run map's t 10-12 without problems but i still cant run Hall of the grandmasters.

And btw can u see similar helmet i got with this enchant ?? Cuz i cant even see this enchant on poe wiki or poe trade and thats mean im rich ?:D

You could get more ES on your shield and helmet and they're missing int. Your amulet is just here for stats. It doesn't have flatES or %ES roll. You're missing 9 int from your body armour. Use Blessed Orbs on your Moonstone Ring to change the implicit to 25 ES. Your rings aren't master crafted either. Add some faster energy shield recovery to rings and replace fire res on your shield with int.

You're still missing some aura nodes for discipline. Please, respec curse cast speed near Whispers of Doom. You're not casting your curses.

Why are you using a Rotgut Quicksilver Flask? You don't generate frenzy charges and you can't crit with most of your spells, it's just a worse Quicksilver Flask. Your flasks are still missing quality.

The Despair enchantment is quite nice. There aren't many on poe.trade since it was added about 5 or 6 weeks into the league and the item search wasn't updated for it. The troubles with HotG will end, when you understand how to gear the build.

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alester237 wrote:

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Kade_wolf wrote:

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).

I was wondering why things you were saying about this build didn't make sense to me and I just saw you are playing it on scion. Were you trying to play it as ES on scion at first also? That would explain why you had a problem with stun. On occultist with brine king pantheon + vile bastion, stun isn't an issue at all. Hard hits aren't a problem either with the high ES pool and all the other defensive mechanisms on the build. In the main video I posted for the build I took a burrow from Mino and slam from shaper and still had at least 1k ES left if I remember correctly (which then recharges back up to full in like 2 seconds, whereas a life based version I'm guessing only regens back to maybe halfway and then gets hit by a second semi-hard hit that kills it or maybe doesn't even have a high enough life pool to take a burrow in the first place).

Scion seems like it could be interesting for mapping, but I can definitely see why it wouldn't be as good for bosses.

Just getting back to the comp.
My build is life based. I designed my build after having stun issues with an ES based build.
My current league design of the build is even stronger.

i'm running a variant on this. It's been my slowest levelling ever though, hardly been playing recently so just made the switch over to CI and equipped death's oath. My ES is a bit lacking at the moment though so i'm running blood aqueduct for a bit, even before tackling kitava. Running aqueducts is super fun though - I've even been taking out conc effect as it isn't needed.

Current gear


Belt and ring both need replacing, just need to work out what with. Need a chunk of strength from somewhere. Unique belt options are really nice, either bated breath (Faster shield recharge, with all the faster start is nice) or ascent from flesh for phasing, es and a bit of res. Or a decent stygian vise. If I could get 2 really good jewels, even the unique abyss belt. No strength puts a bit of pressure on a really good ring though.

I'm running a watchers eye with 39% faster ES recharge with discipline and extra evasion (Bottom roll but don't want to mess the 39% es recharge up) with grace. With another leo crafted ring that will be a super quick es recharge rate - as good as a soul strike build without the downsides.


Shield is pretty nice, though not sure how useful the on block mechanics are - I'll probably run a Rumi's though. With flask nodes and a decent roll thats 50% block. Helm is decent too with the despair enchant - does nothing for bosses really but will help on clear. Wish they had a bit more resists to help gearing. I need to slam the shield (and helm) really. Neither has super high ES rolls either so I'm going to have to try and get some GG jewels, and maybe take some extra points for ES to get a decent total.

Wondering if worth dropping the impresence for a flat es + % es amulet. Maybe essence crafted for some more %chaos. Should be doable with the reservation nodes, enlighten and my shield.


Will update once I'm geared up and mapping - I've never played a walking around build before, should be interesting.

I am playing this character and have spent a huge amount of jewelers orbs trying to use the Vorici trick to get the proper off colored sockets. I am currently playing with 4 Blue and 1 Green socket; Arcane Surge, Efficacy Support, Concentrated Effect, Increased Area of Effect, and Void Manipulation. Should I go back and try to get a green colored socket instead of 1 of the blue ones? Or can I play without Swift Affliction and just get whatever colored socket I get for my sixth one (probably Red) and put in the Less Duration Support there and play?

Thanks

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Carlovski wrote:

Wondering if worth dropping the impresence for a flat es + % es amulet. Maybe essence crafted for some more %chaos. Should be doable with the reservation nodes, enlighten and my shield.

As long as you get at least 8k ES, your attributes are fine, and you get your resistances over-capped at 109, use whatever else you want. I lose around 700 or so ES switching from a decent ES/Str ammy to impresence, but then with impresence you can run 2 curses + discipline, grace, and arctic armor (with one lvl 3 enlighten). Impresence gives me about 800 more tooltip dps on death aura plus maddening presence is kinda nice, for mapping anyway. Either way is fine really. The ES/Str ammy is cheaper of course and makes gearing a bit easier though.

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WolfeDude wrote:

I am playing this character and have spent a huge amount of jewelers orbs trying to use the Vorici trick to get the proper off colored sockets. I am currently playing with 4 Blue and 1 Green socket; Arcane Surge, Efficacy Support, Concentrated Effect, Increased Area of Effect, and Void Manipulation. Should I go back and try to get a green colored socket instead of 1 of the blue ones? Or can I play without Swift Affliction and just get whatever colored socket I get for my sixth one (probably Red) and put in the Less Duration Support there and play?

Thanks

The 4th blue is kind of useless unless you want to put item rarity in there.
If your 5th socket is blue, make it 4 soc and 5 soc again and the 5th should come up red (or green if you're lucky) and then you can at least add less duration. Swift affliction adds a little more damage than void manipulation too btw.