[3.10] Volatile Dead Tankomancer | Facetank with eyes closed | Farm t16 while eating pizza*

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Eag1e wrote:

so leave my boots with the set up, but get another pair but with 3L & 4 sockets. Put Molten shell on to the single socket & put tempest shield, bone offering & CWDT in other sockets correct?

Either that or finding free socket somewhere else should be optimal, yeah.
It's a bit of work to re-equip boots before Sirus but it's not like you kill him 10 times a day anyway..

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Eag1e wrote:

so leave my boots with the set up, but get another pair but with 3L & 4 sockets. Put Molten shell on to the single socket & put tempest shield, bone offering & CWDT in other sockets correct?

Check out my characters for how I have my gems set up. I'm using a 5-link chest with the sixth socket being for Molten Shell.

My boots are really only a 3 link. The warcry won't trigger but can be manually cast.

Ignore the Clarity gem, that's just there to help with my Watcher's Eye jewel. It's not needed or recommended if you follow the OPs guide about rings.



Alternate shield (a lot easier to colour 1G and 2B):

Hey there, I wanna ask, is there anything I can use to replace raise spectre? I realize I barely use the skill so I feel like its a waste of s gem slot for me

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SpiroX7 wrote:

Hey there, I wanna ask, is there anything I can use to replace raise spectre? I realize I barely use the skill so I feel like its a waste of s gem slot for me

It's a placeholder really. You can and should replace it with.. anything you like. Like warcry or smth.

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TwiceBorned wrote:

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SpiroX7 wrote:

Hey there, I wanna ask, is there anything I can use to replace raise spectre? I realize I barely use the skill so I feel like its a waste of s gem slot for me

It's a placeholder really. You can and should replace it with.. anything you like. Like warcry or smth.

Nice, thanks for the recommendation. Great build guide btw! I finally progressed to higher tier maps and killed Sirus. I was frustrated after playing glass cannons the whole league and kept dying. This build finally carried me towards the end!

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SpiroX7 wrote:

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TwiceBorned wrote:

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SpiroX7 wrote:

Hey there, I wanna ask, is there anything I can use to replace raise spectre? I realize I barely use the skill so I feel like its a waste of s gem slot for me

It's a placeholder really. You can and should replace it with.. anything you like. Like warcry or smth.

Nice, thanks for the recommendation. Great build guide btw! I finally progressed to higher tier maps and killed Sirus. I was frustrated after playing glass cannons the whole league and kept dying. This build finally carried me towards the end!

Nice to read. Hope it'll be like that for me too, died way too much in this league....

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Aldora_the_Summoner wrote:

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Eag1e wrote:

so leave my boots with the set up, but get another pair but with 3L & 4 sockets. Put Molten shell on to the single socket & put tempest shield, bone offering & CWDT in other sockets correct?

Check out my characters for how I have my gems set up. I'm using a 5-link chest with the sixth socket being for Molten Shell.

My boots are really only a 3 link. The warcry won't trigger but can be manually cast.

Ignore the Clarity gem, that's just there to help with my Watcher's Eye jewel. It's not needed or recommended if you follow the OPs guide about rings.

Alternate shield (a lot easier to colour 1G and 2B):

This is my final set up ( but always looking for improvements.

The watcher's eye i got for 12ex as the guy wanted currency fast

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Eag1e wrote:

Isn't Cremator a really bad node for VD? I mean we ignite only with Barrage but still you destroy corpses that potentially can be consumed by VD.

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Michu7 wrote:

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Eag1e wrote:

Isn't Cremator a really bad node for VD? I mean we ignite only with Barrage but still you destroy corpses that potentially can be consumed by VD.

I still don't think that using fire damage over time jewels is a good idea at all, if you ask me(you still waste one node for useless fire DOT multi). And if you ARE using them, then one of nodes should be Cooked Alive, IMO.

Decided to try this build since it was end-ish of league and I had a little currency to burn... For less than 8 ex this build is amazing (3ex on an unnecessary 6 link armor, 1 ex for watchers eye, 2 ex for a crappy belt but I just needed the chaos res, 2 ex in chaos for miscellaneous stuff -- my build is FAR from optimized, which was kinda the goal here to see how cheap I could go). The damage is meh, but the sheer tankiness of the build is the best I've ever played. I killed AL8 and while the fight was slow I could very easily facetank all of his DIE beams, could stand in the middle of the black-hole storms for 4-5 seconds before it got me to 1/2 life (not that there's any reason to do that, just wanted to see). Slowest AL8 kill I've ever had, but also the absolute easiest. The only times I bothered to move were when Sirus was making a black hole after being phased, getting out of the CENTER of the meteor corridor in phase 4, and obviously avoiding black ground degen. VD tracking Sirus makes the fight pretty easy.. Just don't stand in the middle of the meteor corridor and put molten shell up and even if you're in the second or third "lane" you'll still live.

Overall I'd say this build is exactly as advertised. A very cheap tank capable of AL8. I'm sure if people wanted to go big brain you could probably make a spell slinger 6-link armor for more damage, but as for now this is a very budget friendly build capable of facetanking the entire game and would be my top contender for grinding to 100.

Things I've done with the build:
- Tanked Minotaur on t16 without my life dropping below 3/4ths
- Tanked AL8 die beam without life dropping below 1/2
- Killed all conquerors AL8 lvl 83 without life dropping below 3/4ths
- Fully deliriumed T16 map
- Elder
- Shaper

The two things I wouldn't recommend this build for are a) If you want a really fast mapper and b) doing blighted maps

With this build, mapping isn't "slow" by any means, but it isn't fast either.

All of these were done very slowly and lazily. Very hands off build. I'm sure it could be better with a rare want w/ crafted "trigger socketed spells on attack" as well as a rare crafted shield, but again, I was purely seeing how budget friendly this build could be. 6 link not required (in face putting manual cast molten shell in the remaining socket of a 5-linked body armor might be better).

Overall a solid build. Not fast. Not zoom zoom. But tanky AF and the damage is there to slowly grind out end game bosses while you chill. Also, don't need to get crazy high levelling for the build to work, after level 90 or so all you're really getting is a little more life each level, but the build already has tons of defense so IDK if it's really necessary to have 8k life. 7.4k life is doing just fine for me.