[Build in Progress] [HC] Heartbound Loop CWDT

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dweeblebum wrote:

For science, I thank you. :)

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Buology wrote:

i am 99% certain that gluttony _ rf+ zealots will heal your es. I know lens heals es i had a friend using zealots stand with me during my loop to see if it could sustain his rf by lens alone.

I'm pretty sure, Lens should not be able to heal ES. Lens recovers life, which is the same mechanic as flasks, thus cannot be converted to ES. Only regeneration is converted by Zealot's Oath.

Here it is said, you can have as low resistances as possible, no cap:
reddit thread

But this sounds like theory, not as anybody has tried to reach such a cap.

So here is a first overview for the Gluttony of Heartbound Loop build:

Must have:
Blood of Corruption amulet
Lightning Coil / Cloak of Flames
Heartbound Loop

Romira's Banquet (if you want Discharge)

Nice:
Voidbringer (if ES) / Doedre's Tenure / Shackles of the Wretched (self-cast temporal chains) / Repentance (well not built in currently :D)
Maligaro's Restraint / Perandus Blazon (not with Cloak of Flames) / High ES or Life belt, no res
if no Romira's: Andvarius or bad res rolled Ventor's Gamble
Nomic's Storm (if ES) / Steppan Eard (if ES) / Atziri's Step / rare with movement speed, life
Heatshiver or Crown of Eyes (with cloak of Flames) / Malachai's Simula / Scold's Bridle / Mind Spiral / High ES rare
Weapon, whatever gives you as much spell damage, flat and %-based is fine. Maybe Sire of Shards for the lulz. Second slot, 2 Aurumvorax. Chober Chaber if duration of Gluttony is not long enough, but this only brings a bit less than 1 more second.

Jewels of course the Atziri's you already have, for as long Gluttony duration as possible.

Skill gems:
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 1 - Summon Skeleton - Summon Raging Spirit <- goes into weapon, so you can stop it with X
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 1 - Firestorm - Ice Nova (weapon as well)
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 20 - Arc - Elemental Weakness - Glacial Cascade
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 20 - Discharge - Increased AoE - Lightning Penetration
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 20 - Discharge - Increased AoE - Lightning Penetration
and your favorite self-cast setup in your armor, Arc - Spell Echo - Faster Casting - Added Lightning - Iron Will, whatever works best killing from afar.

The level 1 CWDTs are for the loop on the one hand and for charging up through Romira's on the other hand. Also if you have 6s Armor with 5L or even 4L, then here goes the movement skill.

Though the technicality with shackles of the wretched is a bit inconvenient, i wonder if temp chains + blasphemy will work in shackles? corrupted shackles into temp chains on hit does not affect you. nor does spell totem temp chains which i am surprised by.

edit: my main is a low life summoner with shav's and zealots oath. we can make a party and stand in a hideout and i will use rf and you loop + lens to verify if it heals es

unfortunately you are on softcore and I'm on hc, but I should have a dead char, who I can respec into this testing setup :D

Of course I can just guess about the shackles, but I don't think this will work. Since it is a reflect, there needs to be a "hit" or in this case an instance of applying, which is reflected. The totem does not surprise me too much, since the totem is the caster and not you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9Go97RWtY&feature=youtu.be

gluttony + rf + zealots doesnt not heal but stops the degen at least.

This new information + "negative resistance below -100% is possible", kind of narrows the possibilities down:

Blood of Corruption amulet
Heartbound Loop
Romira's Banquet
Lightning Coil

Doedre's Tenure / Gloves with chaos resist and life
Maligaro's Restraint
Atziri's Step / rare with movement speed, life, chaos resist
Malachai's Simula / Scold's Bridle / Broken Crown / Helmet with chaos resist and life
Rare Wand with spell dmg, lightning damage, flat spell dmg / Apep's Rage / Doryani's Catalyst / Void Battery

Atziri's Reign as many as possible

Cast When Damage Taken lvl 1 - Summon Skeleton - Summon Raging Spirit <- goes into weapon, so you can stop it with X
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 1 - Firestorm - Ice Nova (weapon as well)
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 20 - Arc - Elemental Weakness - Glacial Cascade
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 20 - Discharge - Increased AoE - Lightning Penetration
Cast When Damage Taken lvl 20 - Discharge - Increased AoE - Lightning Penetration
and your favorite self-cast setup in your armor, Arc - Spell Echo - Faster Casting - Added Lightning - Iron Will, whatever works best killing from afar.

Wrath Aura might be nice, play around, also you need a good GPU, since several spells every second pop out ^^

Ok, now I have a question. Why none of you tried with TWO heartbound loops?

There is not much to try out. If you have 2 Heartbound Loops this is equal to having 1 with half the % of physical damage reduction. So for building a loop it does not matter if you have 30% phys dmg reduction and 1 ring heartbound loop or 2 rings and 60% phys dmg reduction. The hard thing about the loop is, to heal out the damage, there 2 HBLs don't make it easier.

On my templar damage is almost completely outhealed by regeneration, rest can be covered by life regen flask or leech easily.

Then please go ahead and post a video. Or at least an in-depth description of your build.