Occultist CI Toxic Rain - Tri-Curse / Fast Tanky Clear / Uber Elder / Deep Delver

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divinity wrote:

Hey! I made this build to try before betrayal, you say it's great single target, but for me it's TERRIBAD. Really bad, T15 boss takes like a minute. What am I doing wrong?

Not sure what youre doing wrong, but youre doing something wrong.
The build worked well for me, trying it late in delve. I didnt get to T15 maps, but I kill bosses in seconds on yellow maps, with a 5 link. Just drop a Wither totem and then spam Toxic rain as fast as possible on the boss and it dies very fast.

yeah, that's what I do. Also have mana issues, we can't have mana leech, can we?

I'm thinking of starting the new league with this build and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the most efficient skill set up to start with that would respec into this with as few regrets as possible.

I just did a test run where I basically followed the tree but picked up a few life nodes along the way. Frost bomb + freezing pulse/glacial cascade carried me through act 4. I rushed to aoe damage nodes and then to spiritual aid for that generic damage.

Act 5 starting to feel rough with super low hp, but it could just be that I'm testing a league start and my gear is trashy.

What would be your skill/tree setup if you were going to league start with this?

I pathed to the right for Melding and Written in Blood for toughness. I picked up Atrophy + Growth and Decay + Entropy for damage and leveled as ED/Contagion.
I then pathed across the top through Corruption towards Spiritual
Aid and filled out from there. This made for super smooth leveling and requires only 4 respec points to get out of Growth and Decay if you are following this tree exactly.

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TRBOPWR11 wrote:

I pathed to the right for Melding and Written in Blood for toughness. I picked up Atrophy + Growth and Decay + Entropy for damage and leveled as ED/Contagion.
I then pathed across the top through Corruption towards Spiritual
Aid and filled out from there. This made for super smooth leveling and requires only 4 respec points to get out of Growth and Decay if you are following this tree exactly.

But you should keep Growth and Decay. Its great DPS + so much energy shield regen with Zealot's Oath. (1.4%, while picking up four good dps nodes!)

The linked build is inefficient and strictly inferior to what you can do if you go up the left side from the scion it saves you from placing a couple of basic stat nodes, like this:

https://pastebin.com/tEQSqLGp

This path allocated two less points to just getting 10 stats, in pathing on the left side of the tree. It also doesnt force you to spend a point on 10% area damage, and 5% ES 8% Armor, which are less efficient points than what you can get elsewhere in the tree.


Thats my build for level 71. Then you continue to fill it out with your choice of more of:

* Energy shield (various places). (Definitely put an Energy from Within jewel next to Melding. Or if desperate for mana in the early endgame, a Healthy Mind, which is cheap).
* DPS (Atrophy and/or Gravepack nodes), maybe even others.
* Reduced mana reservation/aura buffing - Sovereignty and Influence (if you want curse auras instead of the Asenath's chant helm),
* Increased curse effect (get the jewel socket left of Hex Master, then socket an Intuitive Leap and pick up Hex Master and Essence Surge. And/Or go for Skittering Runes).
* Jewels! I especially like the one left of Scion that you go through two % life regen nodes to get to, since thats more ES regen with Zealot's Oath. Also going through Harrier to get the Scion gem next to Attack speed.

You might need to fill in a couple points for Dex or Str, and or some more Mana/regen, depending on gear. My mana solution is to run clarity with the aura buff and mana reservation reduce nodes (which also buff ES from discipline, and therefore act similar to ES nodes).


Zealot's Oath is very strong imo, and I saw that most of the top Toxic Rain Occultist players on poe.ninja were using it. I'm even considering speccing 4 points to go down to Sanctity for more liferegen (which also gives some AS, MS, and ES).

That looks like a great change!

According to PoB if I changed my level 90 tree to follow your pathing and pick up Growth and Decay I would lose ~2% total ES while gaining ~4% DOT damage and 7% ES regen. Seems like a pretty good trade.

Agreed on Zealot's Oath. I thought that it made a pretty huge difference in survivability.

Well they murdered quill rain.

Lategame will be fine because you get a +3 bow eventually anyway, but how will we cope early on?

I'm pretty sure the answer will be Storm Cloud, or at least a good rolled Storm Cloud. Won't be as pretty but I think it should be OK for leveling.

what are some quick tips for a league starter, id like to use this build to start Betrayal.

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llamaegg wrote:

I'm pretty sure the answer will be Storm Cloud, or at least a good rolled Storm Cloud. Won't be as pretty but I think it should be OK for leveling.

So much worse though, and no mana given.

Maybe Silverbough for leveling because it gives 2 gem levels. But you need to wait for lv36 to get it.