[3.1] The Adderall Admiral - Ethereal Knives Occultist - 700k+ dps (Laggy Videos up)

Character name: Adderall_Admiral
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/DiscoveryChannel/characters



Skill Tree:

PoB (lvl 94 | 744k dps):

Video (T13 Caldera - Sry for quality):
Video (T8 Mud Geyser):
Video (T15 Sunken City boss fight):
Bandit choice: Alira
Pantheon: Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Shakira
Ascendancy nodes: Forbidden Power, Malediction, Void Beacon

Hello everyone,

I have been wanting to roll another Occultist for a while now, but it seemed that with the nerfs to curses and energy shield it pretty much lost its value except for pure chaos DoT builds like Essence Drain or Blight. However, with introduction of the new shaped and elder items, I managed to craft a viable spell crit build, that can farm red maps easily. I am currently running T12-T14 most of the time. T15 bosses are no problem once you have enough dps to finish phases whithin 1 flask usage.
The strength of Occultist lies in the +1 curse, allowing the use of Projectile Weakness instead of Pierce Support, free power charge generation, and in the start being close to the ranger side of the passive tree (projectile speed nodes).
Also, Profane Bloom sounds awesome.

Budget for this build is 12-20 exalts (depending on how much gear you craft yourself and how lucky you are doing so)

General tip for phased boss fights: Use flasks and push the boss through his first phase. Once he goes invulnerable activate vaal breach from a corner of the arena, this will keep ur flasks full for the next 2 phases and your warlords mark leech up while you cant leech from the boss. You can either pop Vaal Clarity right at the beginning of the fight or save it for a rainy day.

update: Just managed to kill hasted Hydra Guardian with this exact setup. Took me 4 portals. Limited Hardcore viability.


Gem Setup explanation:

Chest: Ethereal Knives - Spell Echo - Controlled Destruction - Increased Critical Strikes - Empower - Faster Projectiles
(There is no need to swap gems for map bosses with the damage we have)
Get a 21/20 EK as early as possible, It is worth it. Empower 3 is totally fine if you cannot get level 4.

Gloves: Shield Charge - Faster Attacks - Fortify - Culling Strike
I use Leap Slam in place of Culling Strike because I like to run bad maps from time to time.

Boots: Projectile Weakness - Blasphemy - Enlighten - Vaal Breach

Shield: Lightning Golem - Hatred - Enlighten

Weapon: Vaal Haste - Vaal Clarity - Increased Duration
Vaal Clarity to spam without going out of mana against map bosses. Makes it possible to run no regen maps. Vaal Haste for more speed.

Helmet: Immortal Call - Cast When Damage Taken
If you have only 1 Abyssal socket add Increased Duration


Gear explanation (do it yourself):

Chest:
Pretty simple. Lots of Life.

Helmet:
Turns out this item is pretty good. The life recovery is amazing while mapping and the projectiles clear quite far. 1 abyssal socket is fine, too.

Gloves:
Insanity crafted gloves feel great for our shield charge. If you can't get any, try to craft some elder gloves with increased projectile speed and attack speed. Essences help!

Boots:
Just some random boots with 30%+ movement speed, life and resists. The enchant is really nice to have. Better grind it with another character though.

Weapon:
Crafted this myself with about 400 alterations. You can buy decent ones for around 1 exalt.
If you want to craft yourself, don't buy the 212 dexterity bases. Use alterations until you hit added damage as cold/fire >= 36%, augment, regal. I personally would value attack speed over a second extra damage roll.

Shield:
Okay, I tried to be cute here and get enough spare mana to run Increased AoE in my Blasphemy setup. It is not worth it, just get a decent spell shield with more life on it.

Amulet:
Has a lot of positives. Projectile Speed, Movement Speed, Attack Speed, Damage and some stats. Pretty cheap too (10c), the prophecy (Karui Rebellion) costs 3c.

Rings:
Warlord's mark on hit, to make use of the second curse Occultist gets. the mod is kind of hard to roll, so if you don't want to chaos spam, use alterations, instant regal and multimod. If you don't have Elreon level 8 feel free to message me ingame.
The second ring slot if up to you, I use a Ventor's Gamble because why not.

Belt:
Cheap item and a lot of fun. It's by no means mandatory but I would suggest to give it a try. Rampage blowing up everything around you is simply too cool. If you want more life use something like this:

(adds 400 life)

Flasks:
This is where a lot of our damage comes from.

This is where a lot of our clear speed comes from.

More crits :)

Jewels:

Some life, some multi, some attack speed, some damage. Basically whatever you can find in the depths of your stash. Green Dream works well, too. You can place it near the witch start for 15% chance to gain a frenzy charge on kill.


Pros:
- High clear speed
- High projectile speed (AoE)
- Profane Bloom
- Decent Boss damage with EK
- Really fun to play :)

Cons:
- Still not a boss killer, can't do Guardians, Shaper etc. without hating yourself
- Somewhat level and gear dependant
- Phased Bosses like Lava Lake Kitava suck, cause they take longer than Vaal Breach and Vaal Clarity


Map mods to avoid:
- Cannot leech life/mana (bad for sustain)
- Monsters are Hexproof (bad for clearspeed)
- Monsters reflect #% of any damage (bad for you)
- Area has patches of burning ground (bad for your pc)

If you have questions or suggestions feel free to contact me in this thread or ingame.

That's it for now

faithfully yours,
DiscoveryChannel

Hi,
I really like this build and have a question. How are you sustaining Mana? Are you relying on regen or do you have some sort of leech?

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nagroc wrote:

Hi,
I really like this build and have a question. How are you sustaining Mana? Are you relying on regen or do you have some sort of leech?

I use two sources of leech, Warlord's Mark on a ring and the boots enchant from lab. For bosses or no regen maps I have a Vaal Clarity linked to Inreased Duration.

hey, neato

ek is cool :)

Are u able to run shaped vaults while sustaining the currency (Sextant blocked, zana breach) and running 1 bisco - 1 ventor - Headhunter. And maybe a Goldwyrm boots with a good ench?

If u can do this deathless and sustain i think im gonna do this.

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JenTan wrote:

Are u able to run shaped vaults while sustaining the currency (Sextant blocked, zana breach) and running 1 bisco - 1 ventor - Headhunter. And maybe a Goldwyrm boots with a good ench?

If u can do this deathless and sustain i think im gonna do this.

I did a couple Shaped Vaults, don't think I died once. Boss is no problem with Vaal Breach.
Don't know about the currency sustaining part, since I got all T14 maps and don't sextant my Vaults.

The times I died mapping is either getting blown up next to an abyss hole by something I didn't see, or against bosses like Dig or Carcass where leech can be really bad because of the phases.

been trying to use the build on Bestiary

I guess I'm using the build at the wrong time at wrong place
new to the game so I don't really know about vaal breach aquisition back then
poorly timed league no vaal breach at zanamap so its pretty expensive


tho I still enjoy the build without doing bosses + skipping regen red beast
using bisco collar, ventor's , goldwyrm, biscoleash +++ switch empower for item rarity support
still managed to farm t14 w/ 2-4 EK hits on mobs
tho I'm still having hard time looking for warlord's ring use 900alts never seen one
got poacher's instead

but 1 question why did you use shaped sword?

I tried Scepter on POB it gives huge damage boost and better roll table
can get crit chance for spell incase we didn't got 2 extra there's also extra chaos

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Clarzk wrote:

but 1 question why did you use shaped sword?

I tried Scepter on POB it gives huge damage boost and better roll table
can get crit chance for spell incase we didn't got 2 extra there's also extra chaos

Crafting Warlord's Mark ring can be a pain in the ass, but alterations are usually quite cheap. Make sure the item level is high enough so it can actually roll 2 tiers(80+).

I crafted a foil because it has higher attack speed and allows me to shield charge faster, since I oneshot every pack anyways. Also less possible rolls so pretty easy to craft. For damage scepters can roll much better, that is correct.

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DiscoveryChannel wrote:

Crafting Warlord's Mark ring can be a pain in the ass, but alterations are usually quite cheap. Make sure the item level is high enough so it can actually roll 2 tiers(80+).

I crafted a foil because it has higher attack speed and allows me to shield charge faster, since I oneshot every pack anyways. Also less possible rolls so pretty easy to craft. For damage scepters can roll much better, that is correct.

hmm make sense and tru... was testing shieldcharge w/ brightbeak's aspd yeah its definitely gave us mobility advantages... no wonder I often got caught, jumped by stupid beasts. I was curious back then and kept sayin why the hell this guy invested so many on aspd while EK affected by fastercast

last 2 question.
btw I saw your current POB stat which actually can wear a 212 DEX foil why'd you kept suggesting us not to use the 212 dex based it gave more +10 Cmulti isn't?

and about your gloves just curious about "socketed gems are sup lv18 faster projectile" is that just unwanted roll or it actually affect the EK? same goes to maim on foil, aren't they only affect socketed gems while our EK is on Body

yea about that W's Mark i'm using 85 elder gold ring maybe I'm just really out of luck
poacher's mark will do tho I saw your leeches actually came a lot from boots enchantment
currently I just kept focusing farming volatile power divination card hoping for vaal breach masochist at current league I guess :D

anw Thanks a lot for sharing the great build keep up the good work!

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Clarzk wrote:

last 2 question.
btw I saw your current POB stat which actually can wear a 212 DEX foil why'd you kept suggesting us not to use the 212 dex based it gave more +10 Cmulti isn't?

-The 214 Dex are without Bisco's, also I picked up a couple of +10 Dex nodes past level 90. Also the foil base has higher base APS then the ones with higher multi.

and about your gloves just curious about "socketed gems are sup lv18 faster projectile" is that just unwanted roll or it actually affect the EK? same goes to maim on foil, aren't they only affect socketed gems while our EK is on Body

-That was an unwanted roll on the gloves, but it's hybrid with increased projectile speed so it's really welcome. Maim on foil was a bad exalt after I crafted attack speed and added elemental on it.

yea about that W's Mark i'm using 85 elder gold ring maybe I'm just really out of luck
poacher's mark will do tho I saw your leeches actually came a lot from boots enchantment
currently I just kept focusing farming volatile power divination card hoping for vaal breach masochist at current league I guess :D

-Boot enchant is nice while mapping, but it is a bit unreliable at times, that's why I think Warlord's Mark is pretty important. Also the Endurance charges make you so much more durable and prolong your Immortal call.

anw Thanks a lot for sharing the great build keep up the good work!

-Thank you, kind sir.