[3.2] Firestorm CI Indigon Hierophant

Greetings exiles, this is not so much a build guide as much as a build idea for anyone bored/rich enough to mess around with it. While playing around in PoB, I came up with a build that I just don't have the budget to create, but was interesting enough that I wanted to share with you all in case someone is crazy enough. So, I present you the Firestorm Chaos Inoculation Indigon Hierophant!


Link to PoB Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Yf3nLck5
PoB build code
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QUICK PROS AND CONS SECTION BECAUSE EVERY POST HAS ONE THESE DAYS

Pros:
- 12.7k mana
- 9k es
- Potentially pretty tanky
- Probably good DPS? (Firestorm is too hard for me to calculate and lol indigon)
- Decent clear, Firestorms each last almost 6 seconds so just run around casting it everywhere there are mobs
- Has leech and immunity to elemental ailments
- A whopping 2 effective life pool thanks to 50% Mind Over Matter
- You'll be the only one playing this build

Cons:
- Prohibitively expensive
- Uses a staff and skill duration nodes so Lightning Warp is out, you'll probably need to weapon swap to a shield charge setup for movement
- Could probably play a more effective build with the same currency investment
- You'll be the only one playing this build


The premise is pretty simple, you're just stacking mana. Focusing only on stacking mana has 2 benefits: Mana fuels Indigon, which is super awesome and gives you a lot of spell damage, allowing you to forego offensive nodes on the tree altogether. The other benefit is that instead of going for life nodes and utilizing MoM, you can rely on the Hierophant's mana added as ES ascendancy node plus a Mana as Extra Maximum Energy Shield while affected by Clarity Watcher's Eye jewel. If you are super super super rich, get one with "Energy Shield gained for each Enemy Hit while affected by Discipline" as a second mod for survivability. Let's not even think about 3 mod jewels (mana recovery rate hello). The Clarity mod will give you about ~9k ES at lvl 95.

The only real non-mana nodes the build grabs are:

* Elemental Overload, for more free damage!

* Skill Effect Duration to increase Firestorm's duration. Great with Indigon as the ramped up damage will apply to previously cast firestorms that are still active.

* 7 Jewel sockets because we need 3 Grand Spectrums, 2 Fevered Minds, a Pure Talent, and Watcher's Eye

* Chaos Inoculation to prevent us from dying to Chaos Damage.


So, what makes it so expensive that I don't want to bother with it? Well, the Watcher's Eye with only the Clarity mod is 10 exalt in Bestiary, and the cheapest one with both the Clarity and Discipline mods is being sold for 50 exalt. The build also uses Skyforth, which is always expensive. Indigon and Fevered Mind are also quite expensive, though not as bad.

I'm also pretty sure the build would feel like ass to play because of the lack of good movement skills for staves, so Shield Charge on a weapon swap with a Brightbeak might be mandatory.

Even if nobody does anything with this, I just wanted to put it out there as I typically play all of the builds I come up with, but this one is a bit out of my reach. If you are crazy enough to give it a try, feel free to let me know in the replies.

Have a good day!

p.s. if you're looking for where I hid the Indigon's estimated 4000% spell damage, it's on the Pure Talent jewel
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Last edited by Danny on May 17, 2018, 11:36:01 PM
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