Using abyssus.

I'm in the process of playing a crit ground slam build and was wondering how I can use abyssus correctly?
(As in not get screwed by the extra phys taken)

Here is the pob of what I hope my build will amount to. I know that level 100 will he a tuff goal but I already know I can make it to level 90 so I went ahead and planned for 100 just because.

Https:/pastebin.com/vJde9SEw

I should also mention that I have a better belt then the one on this pob. It has a tad bit less health but gives me 300 armour. And I have a slightly better steel ring.

You can counter the negative effect by using an extra physical mitigation (or general damage mitigation).


End charges, pantheon, Soul of steel, high armour, fortify (+ fortify cluster), ToH etc ...

%# of physical damage taken as x element could also help.

The way I have my tree now I would need to keep a flask up to get to %90 phys reduction (which isn't bad as long as I keep it up lol) and I use fortify on my main skill so it's always up. That with the slayers life leech would that be good enoug? I guess I can always try it out and experiment with it. But I'm not sure when I should use it since I'm not going crit until my last 20 levels or so

Tooltip just shows physical mitigation vs trash mobs.

You can read more about Armour on the wiki.
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Armour

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/3.7.3/AAAABAQBAQHcAecFLQixCZYNjRQgFE0V7BiRGS4aOBrkG_og6iE0I9Ml3ycvJ58n7So4LlM1kjboOQ464TruOzs8Tj0-Pfw__EE_QzFDo0d-Sn1M_03jTipQR1HmVw1YY1ivWfNbr15bXz9lTWqlbztxanKpdO12rHdTd-N4DXloeu-CB4TZhO-FUoWnhrSHaod2iI-KbIrwjM-PYJBVkGySfZMPlwiXeZpqnsWkGaU1plepJ6luqZSsqq2NsoC0L7XyuR28n702vqfAGsEExILKkM9-0iHTb9i92WHZfNnc2sHkUeXP6GbpRuoY6wnvDu_R8MTyQfJF9WH2SPcy_Ev9MP4K_o8=


I think getting lust for carnage and vitality void is a bit overkill, if you drop lust you can tidy up a lot of points like this. Id also avoid taking the 2 small 14% phys nodes in the duelist start when u can take the 14% + aoe nodes in the mace wheel on the side and then grab the notable.


I feel like ull need to save those points too cause lvl90 is probably about 1/10 of the way to lvl100.


Im terms of dealing with the downside of abyssus, this is pretty far from making that downside invisible, youre gonna be taking a lot of damage still.