[3.18] Knaekbroed's Elemental Hit Elementalist | Fast, tanky and high dps | Uber boss viable

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Carmondai89 wrote:

Exemplary gear for easily mapping red maps:

There are many improvements that could be made to my gear, but it is already good enough to do the hardest content without significant issues.

1. Super fast, super tanky generally just super strong.
2. Can do fast mapping, and hard bosses / 100% delirius hardness with only a slightly different flask setup.
3. Reasonably easy to get started.
4. It is really comfortable to play in all content, except for AL8 where you need to know the fight well.

1. Not for SSF, not even if we pretend we are in Harvest.
2. It does need some key items: +2 Minion helmet, Primordial Chain amulet and paradoxica to get started. Preferrably also 2 jewels with Primordial Bond.
3. It is a strike build, which can sometimes be more difficult to play than e.g. a regular minion build where you dont need to target.
4. In some situations you need to resummon golems. E.g. in the T19 100% Delirius video, or when doing AL8.
5. You need to map with Ancestral Call unless you have +1 strike on gloves, and even if you do that, sometimes gem swapping is preferable.

Elemental hit (https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Elemental_Hit) deals either fire, cold or lightning damage, which means we will be applying 4 different ailments: ignite, chill, freeze and shock, each giving us 10% more damage, with shock giving us up to 50% more damage.

Elemental hit in some ways work like a spell, and so Paradoxica (https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Paradoxica) is super strong because it deals double damage.

Elemental hit switches damage type every time, guaranteeing that we do not get the same type twice in a row, which means we can use Elemental Equilibrium (https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Elemental_Equilibrium) to greatly reduce the monsters' resistance.

Golems give us near 100% hit chance, great attack speed and good critical strike chance, along with just damage from the fire golem.

We use Assassins mark for extra crit and harder crits, applying ailments more often and making them more effectful.

We have tailwind and increased effect of non damaging ailments giving a nice boost to damage also.

Primordial Bond scales both our damage, the life of the golems and phys reduction + hp regeneration.

Corrosive Elements enables us to apply exposure for all the elements that we are hitting with.

All our jewels focus on crit multiplier, and there are many possible crit multiplier variants, because we are using an elemental skill with many tags, e.g. Fire, Cold, Lightning etc.

There are many layers of defense in this build.

As a golemancer we get very good physical damage reduction from golems. To make sure they stay alive, we use an elder helmet with +3 minions and minion life, and link the golems with Meat Shield giving 5% flat phys reduction and 25 less damage taken.

The build has various sources of dodge, resulting in 40 attack dodge and ~45 spell dodge getting to around 60 with elusive. When popping Vaal Grace we get max attack and spell dodge. Furthermore we blind the enemies, giving 50% chance to evade.

We use Immortal Ambition from the timeless jewel to get overleech, which goes very well with a high damage reduction build like this.

The high flat phys reduction combined with high regen from golem means that life flask / antibleed is not necessary, as long as we have an anti corrupted blood jewel, giving room for an extra damage flask.

Because we are damaging with both Fire, Cold and Lightning, we are chilling and freezing enemies giving a significant boost to defenses.

Because of Paragon of Calamity we also get more reduced elemental damage taken and we get immunity to reflect.

We have stun immunity through flask + boot enchant, ailment immunity from golems and a decent HP pool of ~6k (7k is possible with better gear).

From a chest mod we also get endurance charges, which yields 16 flat phys reduction.

Having all resists equal means that The Wise Oak gives us a solid 10% reduced elemental damage taken.