[3.20] Gryph's Burning Witch - CoC Volatile Dead Necromancer - Burn Yourself Through the Atlas!

I get 10M DPS at Sirus with this build.

My gear:



I had a big problem with a lot of monsters and suicide. I resolved this by purchasing a "# life for every enemy hit by your spells" ring.

I would also advise you to get Tailwind boots, cuz it gives you a good boost. Elusive can be ignored. It's just a pretty bonus.

"Offering effect" it's a low bonus at body armor; you need "spell critical strike chance" and "attack have # to critical strike chance" (with "you can apply an additional curse")

Also, in the tree, I took "Corpse life" x2 and used Stoneskin flayers and Lithomancer specters.

Anomalous volatile dead > Volatile dead

PoB https://pastebin.com/cM9YG95s

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TheBugurtov wrote:

I get 10M DPS at Sirus with this build.

My gear:

I had a big problem with a lot of monsters and suicide. I resolved this by purchasing a "# life for every enemy hit by your spells" ring.

I would also advise you to get Tailwind boots, cuz it gives you a good boost. Elusive can be ignored. It's just a pretty bonus.

"Offering effect" it's a low bonus at body armor; you need "spell critical strike chance" and "attack have # to critical strike chance" (with "you can apply an additional curse")

Also, in the tree, I took "Corpse life" x2 and used Stoneskin flayers and Lithomancer specters.

Anomalous volatile dead > Volatile dead

PoB https://pastebin.com/cM9YG95s

I would rather use Ngamahu's Sign over a LGOH ring. But it depends on content.

Tailwind is good. Elusive is just so easy to add to boots. Heh.

Going through the 2x 15% corpse life nodes when using Volatile Dead as main skill is not worth the extra point. VD corpse explosions are relatively weak compared to Detonate Dead (3% vs 6%l AND have a small aoe (they do not overlap very much). Even with the Spectres it's not a big difference in damage at all for VD. Not worth the extra point. (Spectres are still worth using of course)

As for chest....offering effect is not small...at all. It's just purely defensive. 25% increased offering effect equates to:
9% chance to block attacks
9% chance to block spells
+150-ish life recovered on block.
Do you NEED it? No. Of course not. It's defense. Can you add spell crit to a chest with T1 Ataack Crit, Offering Effect, and an open suffix for 2ex...the add an additional curse for another 2ex? Yes.

I like Anomalous VD...but you know what's better than a 20/20 Anomalous VD? A level 21 vanilla VD. :P
An argument can be made for Divergent VD for faster balls as well.

I can't look at POB at the moment as I am responding via mobile (PC not set up yet. Hehe)

Regarding tailwind boots, if you want to get max damage out of that slot I would slap it together with elevated increased effect of non damaging ailments as we shock everything (and chill).

Anyways, hope that helps!

Hi there, this league I saw jungroan's video and try to play with this build and here is my PoB
https://pastebin.com/q5B10Agd
I struggled in doing the bosses, I was so often one shotted and even if not one shotted, the life and ES cant regen, especially in Sirus.
I am wondering whether I am not dodging the skill very well or there is some problem in my build. I have already invested a lot and feel a bit frustrated to that.

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Hi there, this league I saw jungroan's video and try to play with this build and here is my PoB
https://pastebin.com/q5B10Agd
I struggled in doing the bosses, I was so often one shotted and even if not one shotted, the life and ES cant regen, especially in Sirus.
I am wondering whether I am not dodging the skill very well or there is some problem in my build. I have already invested a lot and feel a bit frustrated to that.

you have a very low effective health pool. so you are getting 1 shot very easily.

Check images
https://imgur.com/a/172SDGv

vs mine
https://imgur.com/a/l8LgAwT

My POB for reference: https://pastebin.com/fhveQgqy

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Hi there, this league I saw jungroan's video and try to play with this build and here is my PoB
https://pastebin.com/q5B10Agd
I struggled in doing the bosses, I was so often one shotted and even if not one shotted, the life and ES cant regen, especially in Sirus.
I am wondering whether I am not dodging the skill very well or there is some problem in my build. I have already invested a lot and feel a bit frustrated to that.

you have a very low effective health pool. so you are getting 1 shot very easily.

Check images
https://imgur.com/a/172SDGv

vs mine
https://imgur.com/a/l8LgAwT

My POB for reference: https://pastebin.com/fhveQgqy

Thanks a lot, I may take your PoB as reference, It seems similar to gryph ones
I need some more currency to change then

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Gryphenprey wrote:

Guide has been updated/cleaned up for 3.15

Removed leveling section and lowlife section as they aren't really relevant anymore.

Will replace the leveling POB tree soon.

This was one of, if not my favorite builds this league.

Is it league start viable? What do people start as usually before transitioning? Are people still doing Spellslinger VD to level?

Martyr and Eye of Innocence seem to be ~50c/ea on day 1 of the league.

Where I ended up this league:

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Hi there, this league I saw jungroan's video and try to play with this build and here is my PoB
https://pastebin.com/q5B10Agd
I struggled in doing the bosses, I was so often one shotted and even if not one shotted, the life and ES cant regen, especially in Sirus.
I am wondering whether I am not dodging the skill very well or there is some problem in my build. I have already invested a lot and feel a bit frustrated to that.

Your health pool is kinda low but it should be fine for most content.

The real problem is you don't have ES on Hit Discipline Watchers Eye, the build isn't very playable without it. He even mentions in his video that it's pretty much required.

You can use Fenumus Boots in the meantime if it's not in your budget.

Looks like it's 6ex atm: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Expedition/8yGWGuV

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Siza1337 wrote:

I was wondering why almost nobody is running Hands of the High Templar with a +1 curse chest. Even Jungroan doesn't mention this in his video. He uses gloves with the temple crit mod, but you can get crit corruptions on these gloves too.

Currently running this setup:

Need to divine the chest piece a bit more :)

Pretty sure I remember him mentioning he wanted to use HOTHT in his video?

I think most aren't using them because it's such a valuable slot for Accuracy/Dex/Etc, and temple mod gloves are good. I'm pretty happy with the pair I used this league.

Seems like something is very wrong here for me. Nothing is dying quickly and VD isnt casting?

Need some guidance here. I really want this to work.



EDIT: I think this is due to low crit chance and being low level.

Confirm?

EDIT EDIT: I do have BARELY any mana not reserved with all the auras (not sure how to fix this). Perhaps that is hindering the CoC?

Again, advice needed.

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DeerFart wrote:

Seems like something is very wrong here for me. Nothing is dying quickly and VD isnt casting?

Need some guidance here. I really want this to work.

EDIT: I think this is due to low crit chance and being low level.

Confirm?

EDIT EDIT: I do have BARELY any mana not reserved with all the auras (not sure how to fix this). Perhaps that is hindering the CoC?

Again, advice needed.

hey, just at a glance regarding mana: you need around 150-200 unreserved mana available in your mana pool or you will not be able to cast your spells and maintain leech+recoup. That is most likely the issue.