[3.2] "Classical" Mjolner by Rico

Mjölner is the item, that this build is based around. All lightning spells socketed into Mjölner are triggered by the hits from attacks with this weapon. We always put the lightning spell Discharge into this item. We can support Discharge with 2 supports gems or one support and use second spell. The best second option is Arc. Mjölner provides an additional chain for all our projectiles and 100% increased dmg of socketed spells, making Arc and Discharge much more powerful.




The great benefit of Romira's Banquet is, that it grants a Power Charge whenever you deal a non-critical strike. Since this build has little melee critical strike chance we are dealing little to non melee critical strikes and therefore we are not loosing Power Charges by using our trigger skills. This way we always have at least one Power Charges whenever Discharge is activated. Due to the order of operations performed by Romira's ring even if we crit with our melee skill charges will be first gained and used for Discharge and than after that any remaining charges will be removed. You can read poe wiki on this.




Since Discharge expends all Power Charges, Voll's Devotion effectively doubles the total amount of charges available for each consecutive Discharge by generating an equal amount of Endurance Charges. As a side-effect we almost always have 1 Endurance Charge to be expended either by next Discharge or by Immortal Call to provide temporal immunity to physical dmg.




This build uses Arc as secound spell in Mjolner. This is on purpose. First of all Arc provides great clear speed vs packs as its autoshoting, autotargeting, chaining, shocking (if u want) and doing lots of dmg on its own. It also provides additional 60k DPS on top of Discharge vs Shaper/Guardian in final build. But it also has other task. Arc is yet another event that generates power / endurance charges in-between discharges. Due to how trigger mechanics work (each spell has its own cooldown and triggered spells are executed from top left to bottom right along socket lines) Discharge is socketed first, than Arc. This way each odd trigger event will cast Discharge while each even trigger event will cast Arc. Discharge, Arc, Discharge, Arc, and so on. So even when Discharge crits and looses power charges, next Arc cast with small critical chance can "resuply" us. Also when Arc crits (and it does it from time to time) all generated power charges will be turned into endurance charges via Volls Devotion to help our life sustain because this build uses also...




Kingsguard provides unique healing ability that is independent of leech. It heals by 100 life per expanded endurance charge instantly. Meaning that if we do 4-5 Discharges per second with 2-5 endurance charges per each we're gaining back 800 - 2500 life instantly each second.





Inya's boots provide us with the unique mechanics regarding power charges. Every event that generate power charge has now a 25% chance to grant us our maximum number of power charges. This translates into more DPS and more endurance charges to expand and heal from.




Because Mjolner requires lots of strength to wear we are taking benefit of Repentance gloves as they provide global Iron Will (a global spell dmg increase coming from strenght).




Finally Saffels Frame for bonus to max resitances that together with all Purities provides build with really high elemental dmg mitigation. 30% global spell dmg increase on top of that.


This build also uses:




Consecrated ground is created very often when hit and on kill. It not only provides global increased dmg but also high life regen.




This is basically Inquisitor's own aura that has good range. It provides 16% MORE DPS and 8% less elemental damage taken for yet another layer of defence vs incoming elemental damage. And to my knowledge it doesnt suffer aura/curse penalty vs Bosses.




This speaks for itself. As this build is heavilly spell-crit based. We also use

this basically allows for second critical chance roll if the first one turn out to be bad for us (rolled non-critical chance) and boost DPS by a great margin. I strongly suggest to use Diamond flask vs every boss and to craft one that provides 3 uses. This together provides an 75%+ effective chance to ignore enemy resistances.


Because this build doesnt need to use Vaal Pakt, it can achieve more than 650+ life regeneration. This combined with high maximum of fire resistance allows it to run Righteus Fire but I wont reccomend it as its rather overkill for allready good DPS. A RF gem provides global more spell dmg, global increased spell dmg. For those who wants to maximise DPS or play in group: use different aura setup that includes Vitality and invest into Watcher's Eye jewel with x% increased life recovery rate for insane life regen. This way RF becomes a viable option.


Cast when damage taken setup with Immortal Call is being used for long temporary physical dmg immunity

High life regeneration with up to 12% chaos resistance from passive tree and another 25%+ from Pantheon and items grants another layer of protection vs chaos dmg dots (poison).


Ot the top we have Fortify with 20% dmg reduction from all sources.




As this build is mostly stationary vs Bosses Arctic Armour can be used as additional physical dmg mitigation layer. Herald of Thunder must be dropped down then.


For those who seek moar DEEPS...

This build can use alternate item and tree setup (just few minor changes) with introduction of:




Supported by:



and:



This way when we plug Chance to Bleed support into our Molten Strike gem setup we reflect bleed we do to ourselfs and The Red Trails can start generating Frenzy Charges on hit. Which means every single hit, from initial attack, from each one of the falling molten strike balls, from Herald of Thunder etc. Every frenzy charge gains increased attack speed, more global DMG and more charges to fuel up each Discharge. Expect 200-250k Shaper DPS with Inya's boots setup and... 280-350k Shaper DPS with The Red Trails. Withour RF.

However in order to stay safer build needs some additional tweaks. Bleed that is reflected back to you is "meh". But dangerous bleeds comes from T13-T15 maps with heavy mods like crit chance + crit mulit + vulnerability + extra dmg as X. In those situation make sure you have good reflex to pop your Stauching flask as those DMG spikes that happens from time to time on those kind of maps can kill you with The Red Trails setup within 2-3 secounds.

Now in order to minimise the risk you must have all the ascendancy points with that much needed life regen while on concecrated ground + some minor gear tweaks like heave life Stygian vise + proper jewel like this one:



As best counter to bleed is armour + high life regen.


200k vs 300k at a cost of some survivability - the choice is yours!