[3.10] Hierophant storm brand ultra tanky | ailments immunity | memory vault/aegis aurora

- brand recall is dead : https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2869604 (no more refresh duration of brands)
- brand duration as been lowered, no more auto chain

The nerf hammer has spoken : the build is dead.

I don't think that the new item (doryani's prototype) or the new glancing glow in tree can't change that. Maybe the build defense base can be exploited with another spell, but for brand, it's dead.

lvl 100 goal with very high budget : https://pastebin.com/7r2AR0wr

min/max version lvl 91 "realistic" without godlike watcher'eye : https://pastebin.com/Ec9hHrWe

budget version lvl 83: https://pastebin.com/HpVsKzf7 arround 3ex with 5 link (half without lethal pride but less block = less recover on aegis)

Pro :
- extremely tanky : 90% reduc physical damage, block cap (attack & spell), recover 1k ES when blocked
- immune to all ailments
- nice clear speed with storm brand
- can be played on budget with somes changes

Con:
- not cheap to min/max
- bosses can take a long time to kill (to compare to some others endgame build)

Total resistances with flask : :
8k5+ ES, 52K armour, 90% physical reductions, 75 fire, 80 cold (aegis), 75 light, chaos between 0 and 40%.

Without flask : 21k armour and 88% physical reduction (80% without watcher mod).

Mana vault : convert reserved mana to armour
Aegis aurora : recover 2% ES regen on block

We max block (75 attack and spell, doubed with Glancing Blows), we run a lot of aura to boost it, with some flask on top of it, we can achieve to recover 1000+ ES on block (2% of 52k armour). This make us pretty immune to most damage from basics monsters.

With Arcane blessing + Death's door + pantheon with are immune to all ailments. No more freeze, bleeding and others stuffs that can slow/kill us if we don't pay attention.

We run shield charge to get fortify, enduring cry to get your endurances charges (4), cast on damage taken with molten shell (nice scale with a lot of armoru).

With awaken gems : 700k DPS per brand
Without awaken gems : 520k DPS per brand

PS : The supercharge node is not calculed in path of building, so add +20% DPS on top of this numbers.

We get the supercharge node from cluster jewel (Lightning Damage with Non-Critical Strikes is Lucky = +/- 20% damage), elemental overload, and some boost that scale on % block (arcane swiftness, confident combatant).

The others stuff are pretty common : curse with conductivity, wave of conviction, innervate, ...

Storm brand on chest :

Cast on damage taken on gloves/helmet/boots

Linked with wave of conviction to lower lightning resistances, innvervate to add some damage, molten shell to tank a bit more.

Shield charge :
Linked with faster attack and fortify to get 20% damage reduction

Conductivity :
With tempest shield, that will be 100% on with a lot of block (help to max block at start also). If you see a better option to get this curse on, tell me.

Aura :
- wrath
- determination
- discipline (with vaal)
- herald of thunder

Get one with 50% reservation with blood magic lvl 20 to get le most life reserved (Low life enabler). To run the others, it will be needed to have to somes skils points in aura nodes.

My setup :

We can run zealtory with enligten lvl 4 and charisma in anoitment, and some enchant for reduction of mana reserved on helmet.

Brand recall where you want. Can be played with second wind if you have some free space (with conductivity on a ring for exemple)

Last : enduring cry where you want to get our endurance charges.

1 - Illuminated devotion
2 - Arcane blessing
3 - Divine guidance
4 - Sanctuary of thought

I choose to not take Sign or purpose. It add some nice bonus to brand, but we can get another brand in tree, and immunity to ailments is better in term of QoL (and avoid death on freeze is good).

Soul of solaris : reduction of critical damage and elemental damage
Shakari : poison immunity, to complete the ailment immunity

Get freeze pusle, then orb of the storm. Once you get storm brand ruch the Runebinder nodes to double damage, and explosives runes to one more brand.

Get most life nodes, elemental overload.

After the campaign start to build arround ES. Before that get as much as life/resistances as you can.

Once you have the core : memory vault/aegis/cerberus with CI and incandescent heart :

1 - get Lethal pride with kiloava to double your block chance
2 - get Blue nightmare to get 28% block spell chance (14x2)
3 - get Shavronne's Wrappings + chaluya, get more auras with blood magic
4 - get your 6 link
5 - get a watcher eye with block chance + some determination mods (or wait for it to get better mods, with more block spell chance in passive tree)
6 - get the dual circle of regret
7 : get Death's door boots for bleed immunity
8 - get a nice pair of gloves
9 - get a nice crystal belt

Then try to get nice corrupts, a nice watcher'eye, your enlighten lvl 4 to run zealtory, awaken gems, etc.

I have done :
- all guadians except hydra
- simulacrum (3 deaths on boss and some chaos modifiers), deathless now, pretty simple
- all conquerors, sirus (3 death last time)
- i run most map in t16 with delirium and i can pretty much afk in it.

I will add somes videos of content if i have the time.