[3.4] Zerphi Poet VD - Easiest Uber Elder build - Twinned kill - 20000+ life recovery per sec

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ntien93 wrote:

I want to use the Arcane Chemistry and Primal Spirit to free some option on the belt and my mana regen just beat Blood rage degen so I have to use Righteous Fire to keep my mana at 0. But I feel very awkward with it while mapping or delving when I have to stop for loot or finish a node of delve the degen always put me in a dangerous situation. So how could you manage to use Righteous Fire in a comfortable way?

Yeah no other choice than having your divination and ruby flask up to regen a bit of life during rf. The scariest thing is to die to blood rage while having rf.

Just got into the build 15 minutes ago ... are we supose to have endurance charge/power charges ?



thx a lot ;)

I just killed uber elder face tanking with lightning and cold res balanced with no watcher's eye. Was happy playing this build elder melts.I'm going to try bodyswap though just to follow the shaper everytime he teleport i hate being stationary :)

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michaud808 wrote:

Just got into the build 15 minutes ago ... are we supose to have endurance charge/power charges ?



thx a lot ;)

You could have endurance charges if you used a warlord's mark on hit elder ring or Precursor's Emblem ruby ring but most of people don't run this.

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Chridian wrote:

I've never played this before but Im very interested in trying it out, this being the one and only league I actually have currency to blow.
It all seems somewhat complicated so Im just curious, is it hard to learn all about the attack speed and caps and what not?
I'll sit down later and read thoroughly the guide again.
I just glanced over it and it got overwhelming when reading about what APS you should have etc.

Just open POB and check what gem quality you'd need for frenzy or gmp and what level/quality you would need for bloodrage to match the attack speed. Don't forget to activate a flask and tick "you use frenzy charges" while doing that.

If you don't have any cooldown reduction on your gear your attack speed shouldn't be higher than 3.750. If you have cooldown only on your belt or boots your attack speed should be between 4.25 and 4.32. If you have cdr on both ( > 27%) your attack speed should be between 4.95 and 5.05.

This is simple to explain. You want your poet's pen to cast the socketed gems on every attack. If you attack faster than the cooldown, some of your attacks won't cast those skills and it will be desynced and you'll have "downtimes" so you'll pretty much lose dps.

Awesome! I understand the basics now, should make it easier to see for myself when I get to that point.
Regarding leveling, the skill tree is pretty much a no-brainer since we dont branch out, basically just follow a straight line, regarding the ascendancy nodes however, I was thinking, Nature's boon -> Master Alchemist -> veteran bowyer and for uber lab go nature's adrenaline, is that fine or?
edit: Also while leveling, when you get to that point that BM is actually taking quite some life from you, is it viable to just use Zerphis without having anything extra to drain HP or no

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Chridian wrote:

Awesome! I understand the basics now, should make it easier to see for myself when I get to that point.
Regarding leveling, the skill tree is pretty much a no-brainer since we dont branch out, basically just follow a straight line, regarding the ascendancy nodes however, I was thinking, Nature's boon -> Master Alchemist -> veteran bowyer and for uber lab go nature's adrenaline, is that fine or?
edit: Also while leveling, when you get to that point that BM is actually taking quite some life from you, is it viable to just use Zerphis without having anything extra to drain HP or no

Yeah you don't want to have 400-500 mana cost while leveling. I suggest to use the "full" build once you reach level 68 to all/most of your gear pieces ready. For levelling you can just use spells like arc in your poet's pens.
Also I didn't use the same passive tree as OP. (you can get more life and more resists, an extra jewel socket and about the same attack speed).
For ascendancy, yes you got the right pathing.

Would you mind sharing your tree with me?
Seeing as I'm a new player to this build I assume more life and resists would be a good thing for me, that is if you have a POB ready for it, if not I'll just use your character sheet if you dont mind?
I dont want to cause any extra work with my stupid questions
also im already using Unearth and VD in my wands, it seems to be going quite well now just right before first lab :D

https://pastebin.com/XKCA0pLR

The tree looks like this. Note that you don't have to take the mana reservation nodes unless you want to go triple purity. I started to delve only like a week a go but i'll try to push it deep and I think having 96/96/87 resists and 80% physical damage taken converted to elemental will help.
I use a +2 level to auras gem lightning coil because that was a cheap option to get my auras to level 23 (bought 6 linked) and getting +2 total extra resists thanks to the aura effect passive node. It also means I can get some damage on my rings (opal rings) or you can go for the combination of Mark of shaper + an elder ring if your resistances allow it.
Usually I think you want to run anger + purity of ice (vitality is a bit irrelevant) and use those aura reservation nodes into damage nodes (explosive impact etc) and use a purity of ice damage conversion + anger mod watcher's eye.

I also have to use enhance on my bloodrage to get my attack speed matching my cooldown reduction. For uber elder I just don't use blood rage and only use righteous fire for the mana degen and my attack speed is perfect for the cooldown (only belt) since you have to use Kaom's roots.

Edit: you also need to use immortal call on your cwdt setup if you only use blood rage for mana degen to proc the 50% life recovery from pantheon.

yeah I dont think that level of minmaxing is necessary for ME right now, I'm thinking Anger+ herald of ash or purity of ice like you said.
IF I end up loving this build and I want to push it further regarding content such as uber elder and further down the mine I'll revisit the whole tripple purity scenario and whatnot.
Thanks a bunch though!