12 Power charge arc occultist - 2 mil+ arc shaper dps with 9k Energy shield

For bandits I killed all, but killing Alira is fine too

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MrBubuX wrote:

1) What do you think of swapping Lightning Golem for Phase Run? We lose aprox 4% dmg but gain 50% movespeed with sweet Inc. Duration linked to it.

2) There's a small mistake on the PoB which shows Quicksilver Flask with Heat suffix instead of Adrenaline. This fix plus Phase Run brings movespeed from 71% to 151% which is very good!

3) Why not Ghost Reaver for ES leech? I know very little about ES builds but it seems that the leech is much better than a small and slow to start regen. Maybe i'm missing something.

1) I kinda like the idea the golem was kinda just a filler for some cast speed so ill try out the swap and see how it feels

3)Leach isnt really an issue because of how much es Regen we get from our occultist ascendency combined with the energy shield on hit i have on my watcher's eye. That being said it can feel a little rough on some bosses but generally i do enough damage to instant phase them

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MrBubuX wrote:

I see, yeah those are indeed 50ex. RIP

Ill edit the build a little from some experimenting i have determined that the lightning damage is probably the best mode to have maybe even over an extra power charge, for an example if you can get a ring with 3 rolls of 2-20 lightning damage it would be better then every other variant of the ring. So to start out the build i think a precursors emblem with the lightning damage and maybe something like crit multi or cast speed would be fine and those are about 1-5ex.

What Pantheon to use? I am momentally using fully upgradeed - Lunaris & Shakari.

Hi, when i try change ascendancy from occultist on assasin i got double damage, and down ES from 9600 to 7800.

what u think about it ?

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rvnstar777 wrote:

Hi, when i try change ascendancy from occultist on assasin i got double damage, and down ES from 9600 to 7800.

what u think about it ?

iv tried a couple id say assassin definitely has the best damage hands down, i ran a budget trickster variant of the build while i got the gear i needed to make my occultist work which was also really good, but what iv found is at a certain point does more damage actually matter compared to the quality of life you get from the occultist tree.

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Skel3ton wrote:

What Pantheon to use? I am momentally using fully upgradeed - Lunaris & Shakari.

Im currently using Arakaali and garukhan, but honestly i think any combination is fine, id say if you cant afford a presence of chayula then probably go for Soul of the brine king,

Budget 5L, 6 Power Charges PoB, garbage gear edition: https://pastebin.com/uANbKQhy

Just some ideas for starters and my experience so far.

386k shaper dps 5L vaal arc, 6.1K ES, lvl 86, no PoB shenanigans, gems mostly 19/0, no lvl 20 gem even. 23 hours played, mid-league crap gear. ~600k shaper dps w/ Lightning Spire Trap + 5L Arc. Most expensive piece of gear is 1ex 5L Shavs. Currently killed up to T13 Red Elder with it. Elder was deathless but his guardians not so much due to invulnerability phase plus my potato skills.

I'm using cheap elder ring with Warlords Mark on Hit for mana leech. It also gives 3 endurance charges while mapping and delving which is amazing for delve specially vaal cities. This ring allows you to postpone buying 2ex mana leech watchers eye. The one i'm using is garbage tier because I bought the base for 2c and spammed about 10 alterations until it got Warlords Mark on Hit.

Since I don't have Enlightenment Support gem to reduce mana reservation, I'm only using Discipline, (Enfeeble + Blasphemy) and (Wrath + Blood Magic) for now. With lvl4 Enlightenment I could add another curse on Blasphemy such as Temporal Chains or perhaps some aura like Herald of Lightning or Arctic Armour.

During league starts you probably wont find 5L Shavs for 1ex. Just get a normal 5L ES chest and temporarily spec into Chaos Inoculation. Skip Pain Attunement and Arcane Vision until you get shavs. No unique is mandatory up to T15 maps. Bosses with long invulnerility phases or very mobile can be annoying until you are properly geared with 6L Shavs, 8+ power charges and 9k+ ES. Specially if you're as bad as me mechanically. But stationary bosses gets decimated since they take full dmg from traps + arc.

The Void Battery unique wands are not really an upgrade from 10-30c wands until you have +3 Power Charges from tree. They really shine once you have 9+ Power Charges total which requires corruption on helm (currently costs 4-5ex). So until then, stick to rare wands because they might allow you to craft resists or stats for cheap which is important when leveling and gearing up.

Can't speak for HC but on SC this allowed me to reach maps on measly 1k life + 1.3k ES for a total of 2.3k eHP. Died to Kitava once which could be avoided if I bothered to open a portal before the fight began. I love Delving with this thing, most non boss encounters are done by standing next to cart while holding right click since arc auto-aims. What I don't like about this build is Spell Echo which makes you cast arc twice every time. Sure it provides a ton of dmg but it also keeps you in-place for a little longer just like multi-strike in melee builds. Can be rippy vs bosses.

For leveling I really recommend taking Spell Damage nodes instead of Energy Shield Nodes like this:


Then Swap back to ES nodes after reaching maps perhaps.

As for lab, we have more than enough damage for Izaro but the traps can be a real pain in the ass. I did the first 3 labs deathless but Uber Lab traps killed me 3 times, all for being impatient trying to rush traps. ES builds can't rush traps like life regen builds do. Izaro was easy, he's not the problem for us provided you respect him a bit in Uber Lab. Don't even try to use carry services unless you lack damage for Izaro. It's better to go solo and take your time with traps.



Yeah, the gear is really bad. Yet it works!