[3.16 - RETIRING BUILD] VD Brands: S-Tier Bosser, A-Tier Map! -- MURDERED BY GGG_INTERN SOMEWHERE--

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SoulGambit wrote:

Gaave up on the high mana version of this build. It's squishier and the damage isn't more impressive. I've respecced to something more in line with what you have, which was thankfully cheap.

Are you currently running anything on your left click?

If not, you can run Enduring Composure small Cluster Jewel for Endurance charges and put Immortal Call there. Possibly even Anomelous Immortal Call + Enhance + Increased Duration. It may boost survivability even more, and let you put something else on CwDT, like Sigil of Power or something.

You could swap one of your Brand Cluster Jewels with a Curse Cluster Jewel that Unnerves enemies cursed by you and gives you Culling Strike against cursed enemies. That should be more effective damage.

If you go for two groups of Clusters, nabbing a Crit Chance cluster that gives critical strikes a 5% chance for Double Damage may be worthwhile. It lets you get a Fire Damage + Crit Multi + Cast Speed Cane while letting you got off those Double Damages to apply Ailments.

Legacy of Fury boots should do some pretty spectacular things for Clear. Honestly, give how big your hits are Herald of Ash may be a good idea as well. This may be able to replace an explodey chest, or supplement it.

Alternatively, Fortify Boots can free up a 6 slot item, and Gem Slots are precious to this build.

Can the build be tanky enough to go Low Life? Probably with Petrified Blood. DoT, especially Chaos DoT may be an issue.

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SoulGambit wrote:

On paper you can remove the need for Mana Regen, etc. You just need to craft very specific rings.

Two rings each with -10 Mana Cost, life Gain on Spell Hit, Mana Gain on Spell hit means that with a 6L Helmet (skip Area) you can net some mana per cast. 7L Helmet is harder. You probably want to snag the mana cost reduction ring and I beliebe the large loop on the left of the tree lets you snag one or two life nodes that also give 3% reduced cost. Napkin math says (27×1.3×1.3×1.4×1.4×1.3
×0.78)−10−10−6×12 = -1.3 Mana in the worst circumstances (a boss who somehow dodges all corpse explosion with no adds). If we assume some of the corpses hit then we dont need the reduced cast thing. Phantasmal Sigil of Power also helps with -10% Mana Cost.

This doesnt count Nexus Gloves.

Tl;dr. It should be possible, but takes heavy investment. I would probably skip the non-life passives, since thats 3-4 points that are precious. Because you recover based on hits you will want like 400 Mana in the bank.

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Miggaletoe wrote:

Hi, just rolling this build now. Is there an updated gearing section somewhere?

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SoulGambit wrote:

The key items for the build on a budget are:

Leadership's Price with no more than -1% to maximum resist for each category.

Two rings, each with Life gain on spell hit and Mana gain on spell hit. Otherwise, life and resists.

Put Aspect of the Spider on something. Get someone to craft it for you, should run you 20C.

Use Fenumus' Spinnerets until you can afford a Watcher's Eye jewel that grants ES on hit.

Your weapon should be a Duskdawn of a Cane of Kulumak

Gloves should be Mexis Gloves. Life/Resists/Attributes

Make your own 30% More Elemental helmet with Concentrated Effect

Chest can be an exploding stat stick or an impulsa.

Belt is for Life/Resists/Stats

Use Catalysts to fine tune your stats to make them match.

Should be ~1 Ex to get running at this point. It's not a good league start though because it *needs* Leadership's Price, which is expensive at league start.