[3.12] "Toe Nail Clipping Machinegun" Hand of Wisdom and Action Cobra Lash Deadeye CI/Videos/7m+ DPS

3.11: The only change is the rarity of the cluster jewel rolls. The ones we used were not too extreme so it's not gonna be much more pricy after the league settles down.
3.12: Alternate Quality 2 ''Projectiles deal 15% increased Damage for each remaining Chain''. This should add another 1m dps to the build. It's not a must get but it beats out the regular quality you get on Cobra Lash which is 30% crit chance.

https://gfycat.com/oldfashionedbelovedhogget - Eating through T16 Drox's health even if he's got his damage reduction up.
https://gfycat.com/faintlawfulkrill - A 83% increase life T15 Elder gaurdian being chunked.

Map clearing, pardon the drops in frames, still figuring out OBS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW_mlJYTJJA&feature=youtu.be

More to come. Was having issues with stuttering so had to reduce my resolution while recording.

This build is based on the Hand of Wisdom and Action:


With this build we have to stack a lot of intelligence to get ourselves high damage. Currently I am at 1200 intelligence and getting 120 to 1200 flat damage. With an attack speed of 1.6 this is giving me 1056 elemental DPS. The calculation: (120+1200)/2*1.6.
However, after reaching about ~1200 intelligence we start seeing extremely high diminishing returns from getting more intelligence. That's where crit comes in. Since not only is HOWA both a claw it has 6% base crit making crit very attainable with low investment.

Our main skill is:


Using the synergy with Deadeye's Ricochet and the helmet enchantment Cobra Lash becomes a shredder for bosses.

But even with those synergies the damage would reach up to ~3 million and getting it any higher would take a lot of investment. That is where the new cluster jewels come in handy.

Cluster jewels used:


A single Follow-Through jewel gives us 135% increased damage.
I end up stacaking 3 of these for a grand total of 405% increased damage. You don't NEED repeater, just get a jewel socket, but if you want better results go for Repeater.

The Large Cluster jewel is great utility, Wind Up is great for sustaining power charges during clear and during bossing. Fan of blades is also great because it gives us an extra projectile so we don't have to get Endless Munitions to make our build feel good at clearing giving us more damage without any loss of clear. Originally I used both endless munitions and the cluster jewel but I found it unnecessary.

For both of the jewels you want to get as few added small passives as possible, 4 for the medium and 8 for the large. And you want a jewel socket on them.

Another wonderful item I have in my build is Mind of the Council which had a great buff. However, since the build is so reliant on the +2/+3 chains on the helmet enchant I don't think it's worth going for. If you ended up getting a +2/+3 Mind of the Council, it's best in slot and you'll just have to craft on - mana cost on rings.

The way that Incandescent Heart works with CI is that it effectively reduces all elemental damage taken by 25%. 25% of elemental damage taken is converted chaos, since we have 100% chaos resistance from CI we just take no damage from that.

I took on all content pretty comforably. Once I pushed my damage to about 6 mil every boss fight became a pushover. I could phase Awakener level 8 Sirus in 5 seconds. The damage I did was good enough for Simulacrums.

If you end up going for a Mind of the Council, which you should not do without a +2 chain helmet enchant, to sustain mana you'll end up needing -mana cost rings. The damage is absolutely worth losing the minimum frenzy charges for.



If you have the money you can go ahead and grab a 2 abyss socket Tombfist and get some jewels with accuracy. Since we get Fast and Deadly all accuracy is 50% more efficient. It is a better option for damage since we can get Intimidate which boosts our damage by a lot on top of getting more Crit Multi from those jewels.

Stat priority for rare gear:
Helmet:
+2/+3 chain enchant for Cobra Lash
Intelligence
Energy shield
% Energy shield
Resistances

Shield:
Intelligence
Energy shield
% Energy shield
Resistances
Open prefix for % lightning damage as extra chaoos

Assassin's Mark Ring:
Assassin's Mark on hit
Intelligence
Open Suffix for minimum Frenzy charges

Second ring:
Resistances
Energy shield
Elemental damage with attack skills

Boots:
Energy shield
% Energy shield
Resistances
Movement Speed

Regular Jewels:
Attack Speed With Claws
Critical Strike Multi with One Handed Weapons
Fill in Resistances if you need to
Global Critical Strike Multi

I Highly recommend installing the PoB community fork: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/deon82/localidentitys_path_of_building_v141514_fork/
POB: https://pastebin.com/a6sgQYE3
The shock is unticked in case people are not using the fork but you should expect about a 10% shock against Shaper type targets. Adds about another 500k DPS.

Chest:
If you can't get your hands on a 6l just yet still go with Incandescent Heart, the defence and damage bonuses it provides is too good to pass up. If you have a 5l just drop Energy Leech for the time being.
We keep Energy Leech Support always at the ''Are you leeching'' condition by using Blood Rage which ticks down our ES. The leech is good enough to outweigh the ES lost easily.

Any 4 link:




Any other 4 link:

For bossing and safety:


For clear:


Herald of Ice works very well with our Wind-Up gem because it does not crit and the jewel node applies to any damage you do as long as you're holding a claw or dagger.

Vaal Discipline is our panic button. It regens about 1.5k ES per second. Not an instant heal but pretty good for those sticky situations.

Any 3 link:


Any other 3 link:


Any 2 link:

Alira. Even if you're not going for the Mind of the Council the mana sustain is very nice. Same with the Crit Multi and Resistances

If you can not afford a Lightning Pen Wrath eye, about 4ex, you can get yourself Critical Strike Chance Wrath or Attack Speed Precision.

Claws of the Pride provide 15% increased attack speed if you've used a movement skill recently. That's a massive damage boost on top of the 25% increased damage with claws.

At level 20 you can get yourself an Astramentis and at level 22 you can get Hand of Thought and Motion, the unupgraded version of Hand of Wisdom and Action. It should keep you going just fine while leveling. It scales pretty well.

We are getting tons of damage and defence off of these. With the Cyclopean Coil immunity to shocks we are immune to all ailments and can do curse maps with no issues.

Since we're a CI build we have issues with stun. Tsaogoth's major pantheon is a godsend. Pun not intended. It prevents us from being stunlocked.
Choose your small pantheons as you go.

59 points:
https://pastebin.com/6t4XxrLL

84 points:
https://pastebin.com/itF65rZP

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