(3.5) [Survived] The Intoxicated Pathfinder | Poison BV 2M+ Shaper DPS | Labrunner and Bosskiller |

Right, so. resistances on this build is in high demand, whilst there is a limited supply of rares to fill said resistances.
What i've done is, made sure that some of the uniques used, all provide some form of resists to make the rare hunting abit easier i.e:
+ Queen of The Forest / Dendrobate both provide a decent amount of resists.
+ The Tactician / The Magnate, also provides a good bunch of All Resists, as long as you have at least 200 strength. (This can be tricky however, and i would expect you to take a +30 strength node instead of a dps node if it was the deciding factor on capping your resistances.
I have however been hard at work improving my build, and i've made some changes, since i found out about delve crafting potential.
but a short tldr untill i share that would be:
Switch out Magnate / Tactician for a good rare belt with resists (Preferably a stygian vise, since a single abyss jewel can provide amazing damage)
Switch out Starkonjas for a good rare delve helmet with -9% chaos resistance.

This has been an issue of mine since Incursion, but alas, Delve crafts came to the rescue yet again, but first let me link the staff one more time:

(...) 0.2% of damage leeched as Life per siphoning charge.
This staff provides an inherited leech just for using it, there is a caveat though, the amount of leech is malleable at best unless you invest into atleast 5 elder / shaper items, but it adds up.

Secondly there is the boot enchant:

This is also very noticable.

Thirdly, we have a cheap delve ring:


These items together should provide enough leech to counteract the degen from 2-3 elder / shaper items in any given fight, granted this requires you to be able to attack the monster and in fights with phases this becomes an issue and you rely on flask management.

I've also heavily invested in both life and mana recovery and correspondingly from flasks aswell to make the one hybrid flask we have, extremely powerful.

Alongside this, i focus on life regen, and to further help this, i've added Enduring Cry.
Personally im using 5 elder / shaper items atm, and have a degen of 813/s, but im actually only degenning 40 life per second, i would prefer to get this number onto the +side, which i will once my Enduring Cry hits level 20, but to do that, i need more strength. welp.
I could just ditch 2 of my elder / shaper items and problem solved, but as said in the guide, i'm testing this build to its limits.

This depends on the armor used. but links would be as follows (listed in priority of importance):
+ Queen of The Forest:
- Blade Vortex - Poison - Unbound Ailments - Deadly Ailments - Vile Toxins - Void Manipulation

And for the Dendrobate armor, simply switch out the "Poison" gem, with "Swift Affliction".

To quote both Chris AND Jay wilson.
... And then we doubled it.

Simply put, it's (nearly) twice as much damage. it's stupidly powerful for physical based spells.

But if you feel more safe running without the staff, feel free to do so, but i do recommend trying it out.
It's perfectly fine to grind Delves with Obliteration wands on weapon swop, i find my self doing this more and more actually, its abit more relaxing and helps farming darkness easier.
I've recorded a few other videos after getting my 6link and to show i have a nasty modded Carcass boss down in 1 phase, ill be uploading more videos soon.

You totally should! the tree's are very similar and wont cost an awful lot of regrets to make it work.
I've added the Toxic Rain variant in the POB section.

For low tier maps, the amulet is easily replacable, and im pretty sure you could make a MF variant work (ive even tried toying with the idea myself abit)
If you can make your resists capped whilst wearing the MF gear, then for sure, the damage will still be there.
And for later, if you can get your hands on a "Despair on Hit" glove corruption, i'd actually advice against using Impresence.
I dropped this amulet after finishing uber elder
Currently using this.

Heck i think its even more powerful than you would assume, TR is OP right now.
However i would advice to keep using Thiefs Torment, as it gives the leech on hit necessary to make it feel good, also with a MoM build, you get double the benefit since theres both life AND mana on hit rate. + it gives increased quantity..

Tbh, you would need 2x 7%+ ventors to compete with a 14% quant thiefs torment.. thats far more expensive.

Both builds would be "fast" for low tier maps. and would have similar clearspeed.
Toxic Rain lacks in the sense that the pods have to:
Land, Deal Dot Damage, Explode to make full use of the skill.

Blade vortex lacks in the sense that:
You have to ramp up blade vortex stacks, throw a smoke mine, pop smoke mine, press phaserun.

So in terms of clearspeed, as i said, it would be pretty similar.

1.
Simply put, yes easily. I ran this build as the labrunner variant in Incursion and farmed lab in all layouts for full keys most of the time.
You don't really die, except for the odd "damn he actually managed to hit AND crit me with his charge through my entire defense system xD)

2.
Can carry full parties, albeit perhaps not untill a certain gear threshold is obtained, and with that i mean, boosting a couple of people with Dual Obliteration wands is perfectly fine, but once Izaro has full party HP, you do want to focus on getting the Disintegrator staff.

3 + 4.
As depicted in my Labrunner Variant in the POB section, the equipped enchants are BIS for labrunning. This includes the helm enchant (Smoke mine movement speed)
And the glove enchant: Commandment of Blades on hit.
I was adviced this enchant by Jelbishi himself, this enchant will throw out projectiles as you hit enemies.
The projectile is a physical damaging SPELL and thus will aswell apply poisons.
As this build scales alot of raw physical damage and with added chaos + physical dmg to SPELLS, this makes the enchant extremely powerful, and in practicality it means that you just have to pop 1 blade vortex in each zone, and as you zoom through monsters, the glove enchant will proc, and thus feed you flask charges for the entire zone AND will give you the onkill effect from the 2x Gryphons on weapon swop.

The bandit should be Alira, also depicted in the POB link under the POB section.

I am currently in the works of recording a bunch of videos, but my sony vegas acted up and i have some driver issues, im not able to edit the videos and upload them at given state, but i have a bunch ready.

However, a dedicated lab variant run, from a 3.4 perspective wont be any time soon, as ive been focusing on delving and bosskilling moreso than running lab this league.
This build has amazing damage potential, im not even close to my endgame goals and im already sitting on almost 3m shaper dps. on my current delve character.

I have a couple of gear sections, please be sure to watch the uppermost part of the guide for delve updates, i post gear upgrades there aswell.
As for "end game goal" gear section, i find it hard to link to this as i do not know how to link to items i've yet to obtain in game.

But looking at the POB links should get you close to your needs.

Ill make a POB link with as close to the 5M mark, when i sort some quirks out in the POB, it's come to my attention that there are several ways to get close to this, but i have to settle on THE ONE way to do it.

Currently, the best idea i can get is to get Farruls Fur with Farruls Bite, 21/20 gems etc, all of it.
This enables the build to utilize frenzy and power charges and will seriously increase damage potential.