[3.4] TOUCH OF GOD Auto Summoner

In concept the auto summoner wears Heartbound Loop and summons minions which are killed as soon as possible to enable the self-damaging effects. This self-damage will then trigger Cast when Damage Taken gems that summon more minions thereby creating a loop.



CWDT requires at minimum 528 damage to activate. Since Heartbound Loop only does 350 per minion we have to either wear another Heartbound or increase the amount of minions we summon. I chose the latter.




Bone Sculptor will summon 3 skeletons meaning we take a total of 1050 damage a loop. Because it is 3 separate hits of 350 damage it can easily be mitigated with armor to bring the total damage down to around 528 or 49%. Fority and Endurance charges would be nice to use instead of armor but their sources without ascendancy passives are too inconsistent to use.




In order to not die from taking 528 damage a loop we use Mistress of Sacrifice which allow half of the bonuses from an offering to affect you. Spirit offering provides an HP>ES conversion which, if your HP and ES% is high enough, will allow you to actually "regen" ES during a loop.

The formula for the ES bonus is:

base flat life * 0.09 * (1 + %life increases + %es increases) = bonus es

In my build it would be:

1725 * 0.09 (1 + 1.55 + 2.82) = 833.7 ES

Meaning the "regen" would be around 833 subtracted by 528 from Heartbound for a net gain of 305 ES.




Now that we have a self-sustaining loop we can work on making it faster. The base cooldown for CWDT is .25 seconds. By wearing Cooldown Recovery gear with a minimum of 9% total you can achieve .231 seconds (see bugs: server delay).



In order to get skeletons down to .231 seconds as well we will have to get a total of -129% duration on skeletons (-128% with less duration). To Dust jewels give -10~20% duration of skeletons. Swift Affliction gives -15% but you'd use that or Less Duration, not both. Perfect duration jewels aren't required but they will have to have higher rolls in order to wear only 6 of them.



Because Mistress of Sacrifice provides 2% attack/cast speed per corpse consumed recently and Spirit Offering provides additional ES conversion per corpse up to 9 we want to get as many corpses as possible. Per loop Unearth will summon 9 corpses and give 9% ES conversion and 18% attack/cast speed. Because we loop every .2 seconds or 5 times per second we can consume a total of 180 corpses recently. This, in concept, should provide 360% increased attack/cast speed but in reality provides a bit less than that (see bugs:server delay).

Because we are hit 5 times a second we can take full advantage of any when hit effects. Some of these provide very powerful and key bonuses to the build.



The Delve mod gain a Frenzy Charge when hit means that we always have Frenzy Charges. It's not necessary but provides a bit of extra damage.



The Watcher's Eye mod Damage taken gained as Mana over 4 seconds means that we can sustain the huge mana costs of the Touch of God. Because we take 528*5 damage a second 16% of this should be 422 mana/s from this mod alone (see bugs).



The Uber Lab enchantment 45 to 68 (56.5 avg) cold damage if hit recently means we always have this up. It's comparable to damage from a lv22 Herald of Ice.

And of course you can have additional CWDT setups to auto-cast spells.

Mistress of Sacrifice Attack/Cast Speed

As stated earlier there should be 180 corpses consumed recently. In-game it fluctuates between 153 and 162 corpses. I'm unsure if its because of some issue with the loop duration or something to do with the travel time of unearth.


Mana Gained When Hit

I have a 162 unreserved mana pool and Touch of God costs 118 mana. As stated above I should receive around 422 mana/s. During looping I attack 7.04 to 7.33 times a second with multistrike. Therefore mana usage should be around 288/s. However when using Touch of God there would be around a frame where I'm unable to use it because of mana.


Server Delay

Thanks to Gaardean who explained how server delay affects the two above issues I now know that the true duration of the loops are only .231s.

I wouldn't recommend it for a Touch of God build as you'd have to corrupt +2 duration gems on a piece of your gear. With -128% skeleton duration, lv23 less duration gem, and 27% or more cooldown recovery it is possible to bring the loop down to .198s. Whilst this does solve the attack/cast speed issue it does not solve the mana problem which I suspect may be because of the small size of my mana pool.


Monsters Remaining Counter

For some reason the monsters remaining counter does not update sometimes. This can be fixed by typing /remaining to force it to check.


Movement

When moving I "degen" from not consuming the full 9 corpses. It probably has something to do with the travel time of unearth or spirit offering not having enough range to target them. It's most noticeable when I use leap slam but is also present when simply walking.


Tight Spaces

Unearth will not spawn corpses if it encounters a wall.


Loop Stopping

Because of the very short life span of the skeletons they can't be targeted. However because the maximum level of the skeleton gem can only be lv8 with a lv1 CWDT they will pretty much die instantly from anything that will hit them. If they manage to be killed during the .2s cooldown of CWDT the loop will stop. You will either have to be hit again to trigger CWDT or start it yourself by summoning.

This becomes extremely problematic in the end-game where all bosses have AoE or projectiles. Looping will constantly stop and have to be restarted hurting the your speed buffs in the process. This is the biggest issue with the build that can't be fixed because of how the mechanics of looping work.

Long Fights

As far as I can tell the giblets created by corpse detonations never despawn. This means that fights with multi-phase bosses will lower your framerate and eventually crash/disconnect you.