[3.21] Aegis Incinerate Elementalist - Tank with over 10mil Shaper DPS!

With Physium's comment I look a look at the image and I see you are playing skellie mages. It's weird in that I actually like totem playstyle but could never get into minions, even though mage skellies are really just like mobile totems. Did you follow a guide?

Was thinking about how to make shape, Uber and the feared easier. Anyone tried frost wall before? Does it stops shaper projectiles? Trying out now likely will take 1-2 weeks before I can review it but if anyone experience it before it would be great.

Somehow I feel frost wall may enable incinerate to challenge tougher contents

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Chubbypuppy wrote:

With Physium's comment I look a look at the image and I see you are playing skellie mages. It's weird in that I actually like totem playstyle but could never get into minions, even though mage skellies are really just like mobile totems. Did you follow a guide?

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Physium wrote:

Is this your own self made built?

This is Skele Mages and it is not my own build. I followed a guide (GhazzyTV) but I also made quite a few changes to suit my play style and it has worked nicely for me.

Here is the baseline guide I used. If you have any questions, please let me know (or ask in that thread and either I or GhazzyTV will answer them).

https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/mage-skeleton-necromancer-build-guide

I just broke through 24m DPS (singe target) and I am only a couple of exalts away from buying a 20+ex GG weapon that should put me over 28m DPS (single target).

Lots of fun! Clearly with this much damage it is not a tank but as you can see from the previous picture since you never have to be in the action so you can stay alive even DEEP into Scourge.

Here is my POB with my changes from the baseline build:
https://pastebin.com/WPtQyVsM

You are correct in that the Skele Mages are as close to totem game play as you can get.

Got a new glove "Hands of high templar" which I thought was pretty good. Still missing quite a lot of good stats (lacking max energy with +1/2 skill gems) and more baseline armour/shield so actually can scale better. Gave me higher dps, higher crit chance (impt for CD) and higher hp/energy. I'm hitting 9200 total life+ energy now (3835 life), with 3.6% crit (can go up to 4% depending on pots). My resist is still a bit too high though, at about 110+ for everything.

https://pastebin.com/nKJzPXrW

Edit: I also been trying out frost wall, so far so good. I love how it's blocking all the difficult projectiles. Just don't really want to fight difficult bosses for time being until I hit lv 100.

@Andy - Looking at your post I'm like "hmm I think I picked up a dead reckoning jewel a while back, lemme check my unique stash tab"...

"oh what's this, it has unaffected by corrupted blood mod, dont remember how I got that, did I corrupt this"...

(check awakened POE) HOLY CRAP CHEAPEST ONE IS 2.8X

Just sold mine for 2.6X

Like finding a diamond in the sofa cushions, haha, thanks!

@Physium - that indeed is a nice glove but besides the cast speed, it seems like a BIS glove would be something with culling strike and unnerve on hit

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Chubbypuppy wrote:

@Andy - Looking at your post I'm like "hmm I think I picked up a dead reckoning jewel a while back, lemme check my unique stash tab"...

"oh what's this, it has unaffected by corrupted blood mod, dont remember how I got that, did I corrupt this"...

(check awakened POE) HOLY CRAP CHEAPEST ONE IS 2.8X

Just sold mine for 2.6X

Like finding a diamond in the sofa cushions, haha, thanks!

@Physium - that indeed is a nice glove but besides the cast speed, it seems like a BIS glove would be something with culling strike and unnerve on hit

Awesome! That is the very next thing on my shopping list to get.

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Chubbypuppy wrote:

@Physium - that indeed is a nice glove but besides the cast speed, it seems like a BIS glove would be something with culling strike and unnerve on hit

I decided to drop concentrated effect and take controlled destruction actually, and the glove helps in finding alternatives to increasing crit chance. With bottled faith I should be able to hit 5% crit chance which gives almost full time uptime for EO. Culling Strike is really interesting though, but I would need to find a glove with both crit chance and culling strike, will try that.

Reason really because after numerous testing, in terms of mapping speed and fighting bosses, the bigger AOE helps a lot, and CD scales much higher. I'm targeting AOE size of 55-56.

I do think deep breaths will help mapping even faster though, but didn't go that route haha.

Culling strike and unnerve gloves were fairly expensive so I didn't bother with them, since I only use 1 curse and had culling strike on reckoning.

I also been using arcane surge in my main link instead of concentrated effect. Even though it's a loss of like 7%, like you said the AOE is nice and I've just been doing basic maps and delving because I was bored.

Can it cause fortify by battlemage cry?