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WhaleRum wrote:

What order ascendancy did you take for the Occulist? Nice build by the way!

I personally took the Wicked Ward->Vile Bastion->Profane Bloom->Malediction since you swap to ES when you get Shavs at lvl 62 or as soon as you can so those first two you get lot of ES and ES regen.
And i took Ghost Reaver node after my uber and 5 link Shavs for the leech from Warlords Mark, i runned on 4 link with flammability to level 70 and i did uber for +1 curse then you get leech to our ES because i don't like Blood Rage interaction with ES but recoloring Shavs to 1R-2G-2B can be annoying if you dont get 6 link.

Thank you for the reply :)

Hi man! I'm thinking to make your build as my second char in the league, but I want your opinion, please, be as extensive as you want with your answer.

I can't decide between which ascendancy should I play.
Inquisitor is a no no because I don't want to invest all the freaking points in crit. So, I'm between Ascendant and Occultist. Occultist seems great for defense, but I don't know if the damage would be as optimal as the Ascendant. And Ascendant, it's an all arounder, the elementalist, assassin, occultist and slayer seem to be all very good options.

So, what would you recommend for a "master of none, second of all" build?

Thanks in advance bro, great guide!

Loving this build! Went Ass/Inq and so far so good! Shaper will die this league on this build for me.

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Ebengrad wrote:

So, how to run 2 purities and HoA by blood magic? It's impossible

Yes you can't do but in the guide there is everything explained, situations when to change auras and such, blood magic multiplies your reduced mana so only someone like supports(havent played support just guessing) that runs reduced mana reserved on gear and all nodes on tree can do more auras for blood magic i think you can only use 25% reservation with 35% reservation for blood magic plus something like clarity(atleast on guardian) but its not that needed for this build.
Also someone posted good site for calculating reserved mana and life here so you can check that and don't need to try it yourself.

Is it worth to take more frenzy and/or power charges?

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Popoote wrote:

Hi man! I'm thinking to make your build as my second char in the league, but I want your opinion, please, be as extensive as you want with your answer.

I can't decide between which ascendancy should I play.
Inquisitor is a no no because I don't want to invest all the freaking points in crit. So, I'm between Ascendant and Occultist. Occultist seems great for defense, but I don't know if the damage would be as optimal as the Ascendant. And Ascendant, it's an all arounder, the elementalist, assassin, occultist and slayer seem to be all very good options.

So, what would you recommend for a "master of none, second of all" build?

Thanks in advance bro, great guide!

I have the same question, i want to try out Occultist but want to know more details. Some friendly help please? And if you could make a guide for Occultist as well it will be really nice, thanks!

Tried out ascendent and liked occultist/inquisitor the most after trying ass/inq and ass/occ. But I swapped to pure occultist for more es and triple curses once I get a 6L. Have no problems killing shaper and elder so far.

I just got this belt:



Open Prefix(Energy Shield) and Open Suffix(Ressistance)

I think I might sell it to get better items.

How much do you think I should sell it?

If anyone is interested then pm me in game.

IGN: Yazun_Beast

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tipicozzy wrote:

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Popoote wrote:

Hi man! I'm thinking to make your build as my second char in the league, but I want your opinion, please, be as extensive as you want with your answer.

I can't decide between which ascendancy should I play.
Inquisitor is a no no because I don't want to invest all the freaking points in crit. So, I'm between Ascendant and Occultist. Occultist seems great for defense, but I don't know if the damage would be as optimal as the Ascendant. And Ascendant, it's an all arounder, the elementalist, assassin, occultist and slayer seem to be all very good options.

So, what would you recommend for a "master of none, second of all" build?

Thanks in advance bro, great guide!

I have the same question, i want to try out Occultist but want to know more details. Some friendly help please? And if you could make a guide for Occultist as well it will be really nice, thanks!

I'm still levelling my Occultist and tweaking her gear, but I can tell you that it's been extremely fun so far. In case you're not sure what changes were brought to the Occultist, refer to: https://i.imgur.com/b9VOo3Z.jpg

You have a free +250 ES now instead of 100, 30% shield regen per second, you bypass HEXPROOF, you can't get stunned while you have ES, you get a nice Malediction debuff and more chaos damage. Naturally, Occultist is really tanky (10k~ ES with Watcher's Eye and good gear), but now with the buffs, you can invest even further less currency than Ascendants or Inquisitors in gear to reach the 7-8k ES range, or whichever amount makes you happy (I'll reach 8k without either either Watcher's Eye and Presence of Chayula). Bypassing hexproof means that you can now run Elemental Weakness + Warlord's Mark and not worry about leech ever. If you do get leech with Watcher's Eye, then you run Ele Weak + Flammability for big boy damage.

(My planned tree, 20/20 gems + current gear: https://pastebin.com/VBqu5hVh)

Now I don't know about Inquisitor or Ascendant DPS, but referring to the author's Ideal Endgame and Perfect Gear setups for Ascendant, I am sitting between the two right now with far from perfect gear (77.2k average hit on Volatile dead). I'm currently using Warlord's Mark + Elemental Weakness as my curses, since I don't have a leech Watcher's eye, but if I had a ring with Warlord's Mark on hit, or just anything for leech, and slapped a nutty Watcher's eye with Anger/Penetration as well as equip Flammability as my second curse, I can hit REAL CLOSE to the Perfect Gear setup DPS (94k average hit), which is 100k average hit.

Now Occultist is slow, because she's being weighted down by her teen angst and pure edge, so to remedy that, I threw CWDT and Golem aside and replaced it with Lightning Warp + Faster Casting + Swift Affliction + Less Duration, so now I feel like I'm playing with Body Swap even though I'm not using it. It's not Pathfinder, but it's still pretty goddamn fast. Without Ice Golem, I still have 64.5% effective crit chance and I haven't encountered any boss and thought to myself "Boy I wish I had that 1.45 seconds of phys immunity" including Uber Izaro and whatnot. If you do have Watcher's Eye with Clarity/ES, then just right-click delete Swift Affliction (15% less duration).

So all and all, Profane Bloom makes your mapping feelsgoodman, Malediction's double curse and chaos damage is too much dmg/utility, Wicked Ward + Bastion tells Eye/Presence of Chayula to take a hike and gives you 250ES and nice shield regen. Just make sure that you're getting your stats wherever you can, as Occultist has the hardest time getting to 111 STR and 111 DEX (I think).