[3.5] Cyclone - Cast on Crit - Dark Pact - Occultist [3 mil DPS] [7k MoM]
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INTRODUCTION
Dark Pact in 2019 is this a meme build? NO! This build of dark pact has both incredible damage, survivability and clearspeed. This build uses cyclone with cast on crit to trigger our dark pact casts. For clearing, we trigger it on ourselves and has enough damage to clear mobs in t16. For bosses we cast skeletons and dark pact is triggered against them to deal huge amounts of damage. Darkpact sacrifices 6% of your life (your skeletons's life if there are any) to add to the base damage of the spell. We therefore scale minion life on gear and tree in order to boost our single target damage. Currently my skeletons have ~11k life which means an additional 660 base chaos damage! Additionally when dark pact is cast on skeletons they chain 2 additional times which means we deal triple damage with each cast.  Other awesome builds: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2277479 VIDEO UP T15 Tower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU9svb82vjY POB https://pastebin.com/P7dH5XYQ PROS -Clears entire packs with a single tap -Incredible single target damage CONS -requires lots of gem slots -needs some micro to summon totem/skeleton for single target GEAR
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GEAR BREAKDOWN
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WEAPON/SHIELD A rare claw with minimum: -high attack speed -high crit chance -hits can't be evaded craft (3EX) A rare shield with: -spell damage -crit chance with spells -life Budget Version Wasp Nest provides atk speed and crit Lycosidae provides hits can't be evaded HELM rare helm with minimum: +3 minion gems -life -resists CHEST Cherrubim's is a 1c unique and the centerpiece of our build Increased life leech per second allows us to instantly leech back out life lost from dark pact when clearing. Without this we will simply kill ourselves with dark pact. It also has some juicy chaos damage and life. GLOVES rares with: -life -minion life -resists BOOTS rares with: -life -movespeed -resists BELT rares with: -life -minion life -resists AMULET rares with: -crit multi -life RINGS elder ring with: -life -resists provides us with much needed spell damage alternatively use a opal ring with life/resists/crit JEWELS To Dust Allows us to summon 3 skeletons at once (6 with spell echo) Rares with crit multi/minion life Other useful mods - life/spell damage/chaos damage/mana Watcher's eye Clarity - damage taken gained as mana Very cheap watchers eye that refills our mana if we take our massive hit. This fixes a common problem of MoM characters have when they lose all their mana in 1 shot. GEMS
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Main CoC setup
Cyclone - Cast on Critical Strike - Dark Pact - Void Manipulation- Increased Critical Strikes - Increased Area (Conc effect) Order of importance 1) Cyclone - Cast on Critical Strike - Dark Pact - Increased Critical Strikes 2) Void Manipulation 3) Increased Area Swap out Increased Area for conc effect for bosses Auras Blasphemy - Warlord's Mark Clarity (lvl 1) for use with watcher's eye (damage taken gained as mana) Our second curse (Despair) is activated by our flask Movement Whirling Blades - Faster Attacks - Fortify Skeletons summon skeleton - empower - minion life(unless your helm already has it) - spell echo - withering touch(optional) Totem Spell totem - wither - multiple totems Cast when Damage Taken CWDT - Immortal Call Others Vaal Righteous Fire Vaal Blight (provides hinder with slows and a -20% chaos res debuff) SKILL TREE PLAYSTYLE (IMPORTANT)
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For bosses/syndicate encounters -cast wither totems -summon skeletons on enemy -pop vaal blight -spin 2 win! BANDITS Kill All ASCENDANCY PATH Profane Bloom -> Forbidden Power -> Malediction -> Void Beacon PANTHEONS Depends on preference but I chose Soul of Lunaris Soul of Shakari LEVELLING
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Level with spells (dual wield axiom sceptre)
start with freeze pulse -> frostbomb -> arc -> armageddon brand Gem setup armageddon brand - controlled destruction - ele focus - increased area - fire pen Upon reaching blood aqueducts is a good time to transition into cast on crit gem setup and level the gems. 19 points www.poeurl.com/ce6G 38 points www.poeurl.com/ce6I 60 points www.poeurl.com/ce6J 83 points www.poeurl.com/ce6K 116 points (lvl 91) www.poeurl.com/ce6L Last edited by Leysonic#3141 on Jan 8, 2019, 6:17:27 AM Last bumped on May 23, 2023, 11:42:54 AM
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Love cyclone, chaos damage and CoC. DEFINITELY MY BUILD! TY BOY!
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Added video + gif, updated gear
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How do you recover the life lost from dp?
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life leech from warlords mark + my body armour which gives 100% increased leech
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Hi. I was thinking build like yours and accidentaly found yours while planning it. I am curious why you go occultist over scion ( slayer+assasin )? Made claw for my build Still thinking if going for flat cold or lightning for spells.
Last edited by Zizzuz#4814 on Jan 9, 2019, 8:33:49 PM
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" Slayer+assassin is very cookie cutter and can do well in a lot of builds however occultist for this build in particular is undoubtly the best choice. Profane bloom is incredible especially since we are a chaos build and scale chaos damage. If you watch the video you will see that a single proc of dark pact makes the whole screen explode. Forbidden power is almost like assassin in that it allows us power charge generation but it also gives us extra spell damage and area which works both with DP and profane bloom. Void beacon is one of very few ways to lower chaos resistance and is VERY powerful since monsters have much lower chaos res. Malediction is effectively 10% less damage taken and 10% more damage dealt to cursed enemies. It almost makes us able to do hexproof maps/bosses and +1 curse. There's just too much occultist does for us. |
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Would it be possible to run this as an Energy Shield Character?
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" Possible? sure you can. Will it be good? probably not You can go low life or CI but either way your life pool is going to be tiny and dark pact on yourself is going to do about half damage of life version. It's also gonna cost you buckets of currency to get good es rolls and minion life on all the gear, especially a helm with +3 minion and minion life. Our body armor is only 1c but you will have to replace it with a good es armor which can also be very costly. If you have load of currency you can go for it i guess. |
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