[3.25] Holy Flicker Strike Necro [League start > All content] All content is done. PoB updated

As the league goes, the build shows itself as solid. I'm still lacking some impactful items, but even so, managed to kill Maven, Shaper Elder, Guardians, Breach lords, Uber Atziri (even though it was a pain in the ass) and The Trialmaster.

As of ultimatum itself, at this point I can pretty much afk tank the waves up to the end, just popping flasks and let relics kill everything when I hit on block.

Most ultimatum mods are trivial for this build.
Here is a little list

Choking Miasma - we are chaos res capped. It doesn't even stop the natural regeneration.

Stormcaller Runes - lightning just gets blocked, or even more so, feeds into life/energy shield recovered on block. Although I do not recommend taking it if you can, because it kills your golem and might sometimes stagger your character movement.

Raging Dead - gets blocked and does not stagger you. Safe pick.

Blistering Cold - gets blocked, can chill and freeze. Not a big deal, you don't care if you are frozen, and have a bunch of chill effect reduction from the passive tree and pantheon.

Restless Ground - actually beneficial, as extra enemies mean extra explosions. I avoid taking level 3 because of ruin, but this ghosts instantly die, and even if not, you have 75% chance to just block the ruin attack. Try getting jewel with "cannot be hindered" corruption to nullify the slow.

Stalking Ruin - same thing. You can block and just run from it, but its a bit annoying, I'm trying not to take it.

Razor Dance - get jewel with corrupted blood immunity and this mod does nothing at all.

Totem of Costly Might - kills your golem and stops ES regen, but buffs your relics. Its whatever. I hate that I can't restore ES other then from block, so I don't pick it.

Totem of Costly Potency - same as above but with no benefits. I don't take it.

Limited Arena - a benefit. Less area means more cover for relics and explosions.

Ruin - dangerous mod. With so many enemies, at lvl 3 it stacks up pretty fast. Avoid it.

Reduced Recovery - doesn't do anything in particular, but combined with map mods can turn you into 'no regen'. Be careful about that OR get 'damage taken recouped as mana' on a ring.

Lessened Reach - does nothing. We don't have anything related to AOE. Safe pick.

Buffs Expire Faster - we don't really have buffs. Offering is not a buff, flask are not buffs. Static strike (surprisingly) is also not a buff. The only thing that expires faster is Tempest shield, but it renews itself on block and you can just manually cast it.

Less Cooldown recovery - annoying one. I'd rather have my flame dash up all the time than not. Best to avoid.

Escalating Damage Taken - reduces your HP by 50%. Avoid.

Escalating Monster Speed - beneficial. Monsters run faster towards their death.

Bonus Chaos Damage - safe pick. Does nothing since we are chaos res capped.

Unlucky Criticals - safe pick. We don't crit anyway.

Hindering Flasks - safe pick. Get "cannot be hindered" jewel.

Limited Flasks - dangerous. Avoid at all costs.

Ailment and Curse Reflection - safe pick. You will reflect Temporal Chains on yourself and wither suffer through it because you don't really care, or remove it with flask.

Lightning Damage from Mana Costs - stops energy shield from recharging as it counts as taking damage. You still recharge ES from blocking, but its annoying. I don't pick it if I can.

Random Projectiles - does nothing to us. Safe pick.

Treacherous Auras - safe pick. Most of our auras are not buffs but debuffs. The only thing you give to enemy is spell damager from Zealotry. Its not big of a deal.

Occasional Impotence - its not that dangerous, but annoying. And it slows down clear so I don't take it.

Siphoned Charges - removes your endurance charges, slows your clear. Not too dangerous but I'd rather be tanky.

1) Weapon with trigger craft. THE most important thing. It doesn't matter what mods it has, as long as you can equip it in one hand and its not too slow with attack speed.

Got it day one for about 15c. Replaced it later with a better one for 2c.

2) 6 Link. In my case - Tabula. 5 Link will do just as fine up to yellow maps. The price of early tabula you can imagine. Or you can just farm it with cards yourself.

3) The Bishop's Legacy somehow got it for 5c day 2. Its not often people need it. So make sure to check if someone selling.

You will also need a red map to activate it. Means you gonna have to kill a red map boss. There is no rush getting it done, but its one of the first things you need to do.

In my case I just bought a map for 15c and did it unmodded.

4) Opalescent oil. Very expensive. Got it for 30 c. But like I said, it pretty much makes you invulnerable. So well worth it.

Once you get all above, time to work on some damage. Reaching red maps you start to struggle with DPS a bit.

5) +1 to socketed gems Tabula, Skin of the Loyal, or red sockets Dialla's Malefaction. The biggest DPS boost comes from your chest. I bought Tabula. Costed me 1 ex, Day 2. Replaced it with Skin after a while.

6) Empower lvl 2-3. If you can't afford lvl 3, get lvl 2. I was wondering why I do so little damage, before I replaced lvl 2 one.

7) Level 21 Holy Relic gem. Try to level few of those in weapon swap and corrupt them yourself. I usually buy one. They are very cheap. Got mine for 30c.

8) After you get Skin of the Loyal, you can grab Timeless Jewel. Was about 2.5 ex by the time I felt like I need one.

9) Thread of Hope with Large radius and Cluster jewels. Getting Thhread means it time to reshape the tree and get ready for clusters. A big step and not a cheap one.

See the guide on what clusters you need. Get those, then get Thread. The result will be a decent damage boost, some utility and few extra points you can spend in HP.

At this poins you should be able to handle t16, guardians, conquerors, sirus, maybe even shaper.

And finally the top end of the gear.

10) Empower 4.
11) Skin of the loyal with +1 gems corruption. (Got mine for 15ex)
12) Weapon with Alva mod and +1 spell gems. (Still don't have one, the only one on the market I saw was 25 ex)

It turns out, Feared is not that hard if you make some preparations. In my case those were

2 reflect rings to nullify Atziri reflect


And a set of harvest enchanted flasks with extra charges. You don't need a full set, just healing flask would be enough, so you can use it more than 2 times during the fight. Feared has no add phase to refill flasks.



And a few tips. Don't try to tank Chayula when he spins. Just move away from him. He will kill you through block and capped chaos resist.


DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT kill first two bosses at once. Kill one boss ( the most dangerous one), then get BOTH bosses that is present low to kill them both at the same time.

Doing so ensures that you will be only dealing with 2 bosses at any given time.

If you mess up and spawn 3 bosses at once, you will die. A lot.

Try to keep Chayula as your last target if possible as he is most harmless.

Try killing the most dangerous bosses first - in order - Atziri, Synthesis, Shaper

Boss killer gloves for swapping