[3.9] HoWAbout Occultist - top 1 Molten Strike dps across Metamorph

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Sorzki wrote:

perfect :D i wasnt sure if skill switching needs some major talent respec as well making em work.
frost blade is a great idea. i will also buy some chest with 1 white socket at least.
that solved my problem cause i can stick with the molten strike tree and profit from the point blank with frostblades.
i dont need the fastest clear but lets say molten isnt that enjoyable for farming^^

i am unexperienced with crafting how do i get at least 2r 3b and 1white socket
for chest?

what ever i will buy one^^

You can get 1-3 white sockets from Vorici's safehouse/Betrayal mechanic, there are also Some chests already crafted with even 5 white sockets, I think this is done through fossil crafting but I'm not 100% sure.

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Jenova798 wrote:

How is the clear speed?

It's ok, but I'm gonna be honest - it isn't a Wander, Bane-pop, CoC or a Bow build clearspeed. Profane Bloom helps but main focus is still on bossing.

Had to change a few things guys. Here's added note to the gem section.

I used to recommend Energy Leech gem but I realized there were 2 problems with it. If you take Zealot's Oath for extra regen with Bottled Faith (or even with normal Sulphur, although it's not as good), you will no longer be considered "leeching" your ES with Blood Rage active if you are standing on Consecrated Ground, since your regen is going to be higher than degen and a lot of the time you might be on "full" energy shield instead of "leeching". In this case your Energy Leech gem will stop being a +39% more, but instead, only 24%.
The same thing will happen with your regen from Vile Bastion when you map. Long story short, if you take Zealot's Oath and are on Consecrated ground, or if you killed 4 or more enemies within 4 seconds and you are on full ES, you will not be getting 39% more damage from this gem, but 24% with occasional spikes to 39% whenever you get hit. For this reason, I recommend swapping Energy Leech gem for either:
- Lightning Penetration
- Inspiration
- Multistrike
If you pick Inspiration, you might want to have Assassin's Mark as one of your curses to make Power Charge sustain a bit easier. Inspiration reduces the cost of your skills, making it tiny bit harder to spend 200 mana for the Power Charge generation.


Also, I change my recommendation from Shield Charge to Whirling Blades. It's simply a lot faster.

Love the build! HoWA and Molten Strike are a couple of my favorite things in the game in terms of the idea behind them, as well as the gameplay.

I'm really new to the game still and am wondering how you would go about leveling something like this at league start. Would it be something that you would completely respec into after you have the currency, or is it something that's possible to aim straight for?

Hey man. Do you know how beneficial Void Beacon's "nearby enemies have 100% reduced life regeneration rate" is as opposed to just grabbing another minor ascendancy nodes for the extra % increased maximum energy shield?

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Simplexiity wrote:

Love the build! HoWA and Molten Strike are a couple of my favorite things in the game in terms of the idea behind them, as well as the gameplay.

I'm really new to the game still and am wondering how you would go about leveling something like this at league start. Would it be something that you would completely respec into after you have the currency, or is it something that's possible to aim straight for?

Nowadays it is definitely not something you want to be starting out as, there's not a lot of HoWAs available within first 12h of the league. But you can respec to it after a few days, maybe day 2-3 if you had some good drops, the biggest expense apart from chest is decent amulet and belt. Astramentis being bought by summoners and Cyclopean Coil less accessible.

I think I built my character on day 4 or 5. I could build it sooner but I was putting early currency into my wander.

Btw if you want to know how I'd level it with MS/Hands of Thought and Motion, it would go like this:
- lvl with spells till you can get HoTM, grab Elemental Overload,
- grab the socket for Wildfire when you are close to act 4, where you get it as a reward
- go towards right hand side, grab claw leech nodes, fill up rest of the dmg/life/es nodes/sockets
- around lvl 60 start pathing towards Point Blank.

- alternatively, level with Frost Blades / any other melee skill you like

- what I personally done this league, is linking Storm Brand, Lesser Poison, Faster Casting, had another setup like this but with Blade Vortex and Poison, finally ran Herald of Agony + Minion Damage + Minion Speed in this shield:

Was throwing SBrand which would poison enemies, spawning Herald that would clean up, and I used BVortex to keep up poison stacks vs bosses. I fully respeced out of some life and minion nodes at level 69 where I equipped most of the gear.

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4YourEyezOnly wrote:

Hey man. Do you know how beneficial Void Beacon's "nearby enemies have 100% reduced life regeneration rate" is as opposed to just grabbing another minor ascendancy nodes for the extra % increased maximum energy shield?

We still get some chaos damage from Malediction, so that node ends up as around 3-5% more damage. But when it comes to minus regen itself, it is also really beneficial against Metamorphs before you have enough dps to just evaporate them. It also boosts the chaos explosions by a small amount. Other minor node is like, 80-100 ES? Not really worth it in my opinion, I'd take those other bonuses instead.

Lets go

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Jenova798 wrote:

Spoiler

Lets go

Looking glam, I had a look at your character and only thing that stuck out to me is jewels. Fortunately for you, I've just added my own search links on poe.trade, lots of good quality merchandise :) Check the main thread.
Edit: also boots could use an upgrade, but I guess you didn't shop for any decent yet

Everyone, links for rings are also available, budget options included! check them out.

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Bristoling wrote:

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Jenova798 wrote:

Spoiler

Lets go

Looking glam, I had a look at your character and only thing that stuck out to me is jewels. Fortunately for you, I've just added my own search links on poe.trade, lots of good quality merchandise :) Check the main thread.
Edit: also boots could use an upgrade, but I guess you didn't shop for any decent yet

Everyone, links for rings are also available, budget options included! check them out.

Wrong link for crit-jewels mate, and yeah I need to upgrade boots but didnt have enough currency left after getting all other pieces hehe

wandcultist when? :p

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pRaZz1n wrote:

wandcultist when? :p

Posted but got buried, it needs a few tweeks but I'll edit the thread tomorrow.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2730863

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Jenova798 wrote:

Wrong link for crit-jewels mate, and yeah I need to upgrade boots but didnt have enough currency left after getting all other pieces hehe

Jewels links were updated not long after your post, forgot to reply.