[3.25] CWDT Ward Loop Scion

Storing this guide here for standard, the main post will focus on the league.

This guild will teach you how to craft and make the most amazing build in POE.

3.25 Change

The Olroth's flask got a double nerf.
Build is significantly weaker now. Still works for chill farming.

Use Corrupted Flask only for high budget builds.

Also don't forget to enchant your flask before you corrupt it


Videos

Index

  • PoB
  • Networking mode settings
  • Build Mechanics
  • How to level up
  • Level and Life Math
  • Bandits
  • Ascendancy
  • Flask
  • To Dust
  • Jewels
  • Clusters
  • Rings
  • Amulet
  • Body Armour
  • Weapon
  • Belt
  • Helmet
  • Gloves
  • Boots
  • Skeleton gems
  • Gem links
  • CWDT Gems
  • Flasks
  • Life And Chaos Resistance Calculator
  • Swap weapons
  • Pantheon
  • Start Stop Loop
  • Map mods
  • Loop not working
  • Upgrades


Discord server

https://discord.gg/jp9vQeHgWY

Calculator Required to balance life and chaos resistance at the end
https://returnx.github.io/cwdt/

Official Webpage
https://cwdt.info/

No Armour allowed. When you buy/craft items make sure they don't have Armour

PoB - Path of Building


3.25 PoB
https://pobb.in/N-Wba6M_Zk-N

Will update the guide later this week. The above is a budget pob.
Later we will try to make a high budget pob.


Backup POBs


PoBs from 3.24

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15 - 20 Divines PoB
https://pobb.in/u/Akshay/loopstarter

Level 70 POB
https://pobb.in/u/Akshay/level70tree

3 divines Early Game
https://pobb.in/u/Akshay/Day3Loop

---- High Budget PoBs Coming Soon ----

High Budget Spell Suppression Tanky build by @fettrecon
Deep Delve Rank 1 Scion

https://pobb.in/WEbsEyrlGv6j

https://poe.ninja/builds/necropolis/character/branfett/icetanknecro?i=1&search=type%3Ddepthsolo%26class%3DAscendant


For 100 Divines budget, copy the above PoB and user cheaper items. No Sublime Vision and no Progenesis.
See Discord on necro crafting guide.

PoBs from 3.23

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100 - 200 Divines
30 Million DPS Tanky Uber Farmer
https://pobb.in/mWqncynGA5G6

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500-1000 divines
100 Million DPS Tanky Uber Farmer Endgame PoB

https://pobb.in/Dfw8jaG13Zc5

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500 Divines Omni
80 Million DPS Tanky Uber Farmer Endgame PoB

https://pobb.in/oBjx9WE-j_st


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3.22 PoB below, you can copy them and apply tattoos!

Min Maxed Pandamonious PoB - https://pobb.in/Gz2CHsFkBHIG
Min Maxed Rare Amulet / Ashes PoB - https://pobb.in/iaM5jdPVCrZ1

Tanky Suppression Versions with Tattoos

70 Divines - https://pobb.in/ZWVq4919FZu5
100 Divines - https://pobb.in/rh3-cD70d0tT
700 Divines - https://pobb.in/N3iH6G6qlg79

2000 Divines Omni - https://pobb.in/IFjlx0BRruET

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3.20 Budget Spell Suppression Version
https://pobb.in/PM03sKcQ0mzE

3.20 - 100 Divines - 50 million dps
https://pobb.in/KKcPz5Cci2RD

3.20 Omni - 300 Divines - 110 million dps
https://pobb.in/ZZhh_tZyXW11

3.20 Mirror Version 300 million DPS
https://pobb.in/0PdKveoEZP1_

10 divines 10 million POB
https://poe.ninja/pob/Eq6

500c starter build
I was running this on day 4 of league start
https://poe.ninja/pob/Ew6
The above pob has notes for ultra budget - 300-500c

Level 70 POB
https://poe.ninja/pob/FAG
This requires 420 heartbound loop rings and more than 1700 life

75 divines pob - 32 million dps
https://poe.ninja/pob/Gkx

Tanky Evade + Spell Suppression Version - Level to 100
https://poe.ninja/pob/HKw

More Pobs, they still work

25 ex budget

https://poe.ninja/pob/92q

Medium budget, 40 ex
Example 1 - Rare ring, 9% CDR
https://poe.ninja/pob/935

Medium Budget, 60 ex
Example 2 - Rare ring, 27% CDR
https://poe.ninja/pob/8QA

Medium Budget, 50 ex
Example 3 - Polaric devastation ring edition
https://poe.ninja/pob/9q7

Occultist/Witch pob
https://poe.ninja/pob/8eM



Omni pobs - They all still work


Level 76 POB for Omni
https://pastebin.com/wsDbCy4t

Excluding the cost of Omni

30 ex omni pob
https://poe.ninja/pob/9hC

100 ex Omni Pob
https://poe.ninja/pob/9hA

160ex - 100 million DPS pob, high budget
https://poe.ninja/pob/8rX

500ex - 250 million dps
https://poe.ninja/pob/9Gj

5000ex - 1.5 billion dps
https://pastebin.com/t3DZcWbk



Network Mode Lockstep

Change this option to Lockstep
Go to main menu and change this, this is very important
Without this option, the loop will miss casts and slow down, less dps


How The Build Works


When you take 3272 damage, Level 20 CWDT gem will cast all the spell gems linked to it.
Our goal is to take 3272 damage every 0.2 seconds and not die.


Expedition items have Ward. Ward will absorb the damage done to you

If you have 1500 ward, and a monster hits you for 2000, only 500 damage will go to life and your ward will disappear, it breaks. Ward will be recharged after 5 seconds

Olroth's flask



When this flask is on, your ward will not break/disappear
The goal is to permanently have Olroth's flask effect

Permanent Olroth's flask effect

So we want to have Olroth's permanently on, to do this we use Brutal Restraint The Traitor

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Traitor_(keystone_passive)

Using the traitor keystone and 1 cluster jewels which give us high flask duration, we can get permanent Olroth's effect

The traitor keystone works when you have 2 empty flask slots, means you can only use 3 flasks.
You can use 4 flasks at high budget, but we need at least 1 empty flask slot

Heartbound loop ring explained



We Summon Skeletons, and when a skeleton dies, the ring will do 420 damage to you.
This damage will be absorbed by Ward


Forbidden Rite is a skill that will deal damage to you on cast
If you cast Forbidden Rite 4 times, you will die by suicide, it does a lot of damage

But as long as your ward is more than Forbidden Rite self-damage, you will take no hit to life pool. Ward will absorb the damage.

To Dust Jewel + Reduced Skill Duration Effect


Summoned Skeletons last for 20 seconds, this is not useful.
We will use To Dust and Reduced Skill Duration on passive tree to make Skeletons last only 0.2 seconds

Skeletons die every 0.2 seconds and deal damage to you because of Heartbound Ring and then trigger CWDT gem.

We cast spells every 0.2 seconds! This is about 5 casts per second. This is crazy high cast speed.


Leveling Guide
Hollow Palm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trV1NWfCx_4

Totem Build
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3146104

You can follow any Scion build to level up.
See the Scion forums.


Level and Life
Required level

This build will work from level 72, you need 1700 life minimum.

Pathfinder Ascendancy is required. Complete at least Merciless Labyrinth before you Switch to Wardloop

Bandits
Kill All

Ascendancy
Pathfinder and Elementalist



Olroth's Resolve Flask
Olroth's Resolve




Buy a flask and make it 20% quality. No need to corrupt it for low budget builds.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Necropolis/kGQddJKT5


Its extremely important to use Herbalist Tattoo.
Check PoB on where to apply the tattoo, its below Scion Area, near Ranger area.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Necropolis/P98GPJJFL

Check flask uptime using the calculator

https://returnx.github.io/cwdt/

The best Olroth's Roll is 42 or less increased flask charges used.
It will say at the top 56 charges consumed on use. This is the best.
Get the best roll if you a high budget. Otherwise you stick to something with 47% or less. However the calculator should help with any roll.



To Dust Jewel




Filtered for 14 and above, remove filter if you want something different.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/Q2gVZKOHw

We will buy 4 To Dust

The total "Reduced Skeleton Duration" should added up to 74% exact, no more, no less.
Please see the screenshot below.

Exactly 74% Reduced Skeleton Duration

Get any combination of the below.

14,20,20,20
15,19,20,20
16,18,20,20
16,19,19,20
17,17,20,20
17,18,19,20
17,19,19,19
18,18,18,20
18,18,19,19





More Jewels
Brutal restraint


The number does not matter for now, its a future upgrade. It must be Balbala.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sanctum/ypmdYKWiR

Buy this and put it in your tree and check all affected notables.
Make sure your Jewel does not grant you Alchemist's Genius buff, this buff will reduce your ward and stop the loop.
Its pretty rare, if you have it, simply buy a new one.

Flask effect duration jewel
In 3.20 Flask mastery got removed, so we will need at least one jewel with increased flask effect duration modifier

If your Olroth's flask is not always on, then use two of these jewels.



Jewels, Resistance


This will help you cap resistance, you can get % life and also cold damage or ele damage.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/GerDvOTb

With life %

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/4e08MS9

Jewels, damage
If you are res capped, you can use these


https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/9VEgDPySK

Cluster Jewels




Large cluster - cold damage or spell damage

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/OEVKeQlHE

Blanketed snow and Stormrider are good notables

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/dVqeewRUJ

Minion cluster
Buy a 4 passive minion life cluster.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/B9BJneki8

Craft - Spam alterations till you get Blessed Rebirth.

Flask clusters

We need 1 of these clusters, both of them are correct, you can buy any of these examples

25 effect and Distilled Perfection both are equal.

Fasting + 25 effect
Fasting + Distilled perfection



Crafting - Buy the following base, level 50+, 6 passives.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Crucible/3e9rZ20u5

Once you buy it, just use chaos orbs.
Getting (fasting + distilled) or (fasting + 25) is very easy.

Trade buyout URL
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/Ebo63ZyC5


Rings



https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/3rnv6Rdi5

Buy 2 heartbound loop rings with 420 physical damage



You can buy a not corrupted 350 ring and use noxious catalyst on it.






Amulet

Rare Amulet like this


https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Crucible/gDpE37KiQ

if they are expensive, buy the following.

The Pandemonius



https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Pandemonius

Craft it by using Blessing of Tul on The Halcyon amulet

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/gZoPhQ
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/6jBM0cG

Anoint

Divine Judgement
Replenishing remedies if your olroth's flask is not permanent

Catalyst - Turbulent Catalyst


Body Armour


Budget Option

Skin of the Loyal

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Crucible/vX6qXBfE

CWDT gem in Skin of the Loyal will be Level 19/20.


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Skin of Lords - MORE DPS

You can only insert corrupted gems in Skin of the lords
And Cast When Damage taken should be level 18/20 corrupted

Use the below link to buy, I have filtered out the keystones that break the build
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/3GKRoPJi5


2R-2G-2B is best for budget
2R-1G-3B is good for endgame Crit capped.
1R-1B-4G also great
1R-2B-3G also great



Weapon

The best choice is The Annihilating staff

The Annihilating staff



Buy a 5-link if you cannot afford 6-link

Other options available, not recommended, unless you are very low on budget and cannot cap your resistances. This staff penalizes your resistances heavily.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sanctum/kJpPDpWc5

Duskdawn

This item can be crafted for 15c vendor recipe, see the wiki on how to craft it
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Duskdawn



Cane of kulemak

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/zv9dJXqs4
Rare staff 6-link with essence



Belt




Use the link to get a cheap belt

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ancestor/wwm57mBFb


Bench Craft 9-12% Increased Cooldown recovery rate suffix
You can buy the craft in TFT or ask a friend
You can also request in my discord, if am online, I can give

Crafting CDR - Costs 1 Exalted Orb



Crafting Ward Items
Crafting guide for helm/gloves/boots

Just spam dense fossil and craft suffix using eldtrich currency

On helm/gloves you can block accuracy with bench
You can watch LOLCOHOL video on how to craft, its the same for helm/gloves

Repeat this video for both gloves & helm

https://youtu.be/9hjDoiOGDHc?t=224

Its Cheaper to Craft than to buy from trade

Crafting this is very easy, trust me, I have made 1000 ex profit form this.


Helmet


Budget Craft Steps

1. Buy 20 dense fossils, 20 primitive chaotic resonator
2. And buy level 85 Runic Crown using Base URL
3. Make it 20% quality
4. Spam dense fossils

Base URL
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/L238MOGSn

Buy URL
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/75lM89lS5

Crafting Guide Full
How To Craft Runic Crown for End Game

Phase 1

Perfect fossil to get 27-30% quality

Spam dense fossils till you get more than 650 ward, ideally 700 ward
Then Apply One Greater Eldritch Ichor

Phase 2
Now use Eldritch chaos orb to reroll suffixes

Annul the bad suffixes, its RNG now
Bench craft accuracy
Slam eldritch exalt

If you don't get anything good
Remove accuracy Benchcraft
Annul suffix

Craft Accuracy again using Bench
Slam eldritch exalt

Repeat above process till you get good suffixes
You can also use eldritch chaos orb when both suffixes are bad

In the final open suffix, you can bench craft resistances or attributes
On gloves you can craft Shock reduction or elemental damage or resistance/attributes


Target Runic Crown

Budget - 550 ward, only benchcraft suffix
Endgame - 680 ward, eldritch craft 2 suffix, benchcraft final suffix

Budget - 100c
Endgame - 25 divines

Budget - 100c
Endgame - 25 divines


Gloves


Budget craft guide

1. Buy 20 dense fossils, 20 primitive chaotic resonator
2. And buy level 85 Runic Gauntlets using Base URL
3. Make it 20% quality
4. Dense fossil the gauntlets

Base URL
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/2rQe0ypck

Buy URL
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/vPL0KnLHE
Crafting Guide Full
How To Craft Runic Gauntlets Endgame

Phase 1

Perfect fossil to get 27-30% quality

Spam dense fossils till you get more than 400 ward, ideally 450 ward
Then Apply One Greater Eldritch Ichor

Phase 2
Now use Eldritch chaos orb to reroll suffixes

Annul the bad suffixes, its RNG now
Bench craft accuracy
Slam eldritch exalt

If you don't get anything good
Remove accuracy Benchcraft
Annul suffix

Craft Accuracy again using Bench
Slam eldritch exalt

Repeat above process till you get good suffixes
You can also use eldritch chaos orb when both suffixes are bad

In the final open suffix, you can bench craft resistances or attributes
On gloves you can craft Shock reduction or elemental damage or resistance/attributes

Target Runic Gauntlets

Budget - 350 ward, only benchcraft suffix
Endgame - 450 ward, eldritch craft 2 suffix, benchcraft final suffix

Budget - 100c
Endgame - 25 divines


Boots




Easy craft guide
Boots are the same for all builds, only resistances
Same as helm and gloves.

Base URL
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/2Pgmb55hk

If you are extreme budget stop after you get 350 plus ward, just craft resistance in suffix

Endgame boots

Phase 1 - Prefix

Dense fossil till you have more than 400 ward, some times more than 430 ward
Check if you have have a high movement speed mod, if yes, then your phase 1 is complete

If you don't have movement, annul a prefix and then make sure ward is more than 370

Repeat above still till you get open prefix or 30% movement speed prefix with more than 370 ward

Craft Movement speed from the bench

Phase 2 - Suffix

Now apply a lesser eldritch ember and a greater eldritch ichor
Now slam with eldritch exalts
If you get low tier mods, eldritch annul them

If all three suffixes are horrible, then use Eldritch chaos

Repeat the process till you got good resistance rolls in the suffix


Buy URL, these are extremely basic boots. Get more resistance if you can afford.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sanctum/WYMMO9ZFm


Skeleton Gems

These are gem links when using 2 heartbound loop rings



Summon Skeleton
It should be level 11
You can vendor the gem with Scouring orb to reduce level

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/BJLZOqjS8

Don't Level Up Gems in helm, keep them fixed at the same level

CWDT level 5
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/V5rvnDrup

Summon skeleton level 11 - Forbidden rite 1 - Cast When Damage taken 5



The levels of these gems should be fixed, do not level it up

CWDT must be 5, skeleton must be fixed at 11

Don't change these in the helm, or else you need to do math



Gem links


3.23 Updated Gem CWDT Levels

If you are using Skin of the loyal, CWDT in body armor will be level 19.
If you are using Skin of the lords, CWDT in body armor will be level 18.

Gem links are flexible

Mandatory - Ice Spear + GMP + CWDT

Other Gems -

Red

Inspiration
Cruelty
Empower


Green
Cold Penetration
Added Cold Damage
Hypothermia

Blue
Creeping Frost
Increased Crit Damage







Awakened Elemental focus is not recommend, it will disable freeze from Ice Spear.

You can use any gem link that you can get your hands on.

Hypothermia, Awakened Cold Penetration, Awakened Added Cold Damage, Empower, Increased Critical Hit Damage.


CWDT Gems


Cast When Damage Taken - Body Armor

It should be 19/20 for Skin of the Loyal
It should be 18/20 for Skin of the Lords

Reason is Skin of the lords has +2

CWDT should never go above level 20, if you make CWDT level 21, build will fail.

Also don't link CWDT gem to Righteous fire, flame dash or phase run
Make gloves 3-link and use Righteous fire in gloves
Or use RF 21 in gloves, that way CWDT 20 won't tirgger RF

Helm and glove Implicits
See POB please, just spam greater ichor and lesser ember till you get it



Gloves - Cold exposure with Greater ichor, and lesser ember for unnerve
Helmet - Spell damage with ichor and ember for lightning damage.

Blue Ichors - Shock Reduction is great on helm. Along with Small Pantheon Garukhan you can be shock immune. Use

Red Embers - Also some builds use Phys Damage Taken recouped as Mana.
Red Embers - You can go with Damage to cold spells or increased effect of frostbite curse in 500 divines version. Also lightning damage on helm implicit will help to shock enemies.


Life And Chaos Resistance Calculator

https://returnx.github.io/cwdt/

But most budget builds can get only 1150 ward, mid-tier 1250, top-tier 1350

Forbidden Rite does a lot of damage.

To reduce forbidden rite damage, we will crafting chaos resistance on items, or use tree/jewels.

Use this calculator to balance your life pool and chaos resistance.

The more life you have, the more chaos resistance you will need. Otherwise you kill yourself.
If you have 3k life and -60 chaos, you will die by suicide.

Play with the calculator for your build.

For the One Ring Upgrade, you will want more than 1250 ward, so watch out when crafting your items. And use the calculator.

Flasks

Very important - Use only 3 flasks with Brutal Restraint Traitor, 4 if you have high budget

If you have a problem with resistances, the use Bismuth flask and a quick silver flask with additional resistance suffix

Resistance and curse reduction flask

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/3X3Mn8kF5
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/v4k7JaDHE



In this build you can only use 3 flasks not use more than 3.
You will die if you use more than 3 flasks


Pantheon is very important

Pantheon

Soul of Brine King

Soul of Yugul - Curse reduction
Soul of Garukhan - Shock reduction

Other Pantheon options will brick the build

Second slot weapon swap

Buy 2 Wands from Act 1 Nessa
And use Essence of insanity


https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/exchange/Sanctum/ZKd7fQ
You can put cast when damage taken and portal in 2nd weapon


Start Stop Loop
Swap weapons to start, Press X

To stop remove belt and put it back on
Or you can remove helm for one second

Map mods

You can do reflect and no regen maps

Works

Elemental reflect - you are reflect immune
No Regen - We don't use regen, we use recoup


Warning

60% less Recovery Rate of Life and Energy Shield

For these maps, disable RF, blood rage
Try to get ignite immunity and corrupted blood immunity for these maps


CANNOT DO - RED ALERT

Reduced cooldown recovery rate
Reduced flask charges gained



Mana problem, two or more swaps to start loop

Mana problem

Mana issues -- you require multiple swaps to start loop

Zero,
Did you forget mana recoup nodes on your tree?

First,
If your ward is low and have Mind Over Matter allocated, then you will run out of Mana
Remove Mind Over Matter
You can use the calculator to check, Forbidden rite damage must be less than your ward with flask on

Second,
In your helmet, the first socket should be blue and put Summon skeleton is that socket

Third,

If you still have this problem, then put your skill gems in the last socket of weapon and body armour.
The skill gems should not be first gem in weapon and body, put support gems first!


Loop Speed


Skeletons and Ice Spear should refresh at same speed

"
Half Loop, Half DPS



"
Full loop, Full DPS



"
If you followed the guide correctly, you will have full dps
But in case its not, please use calculator to fix speed


https://returnx.github.io/cwdt/


Loop not working - Checklist
Please come to discord server and show what's wrong
https://discord.gg/2s5nSYZSS7

In group play,
Determination, Malevolence aura fail the loop
Physical damage reduction, endurance charges reduce your damage or stop loop

Reason for loop not working

1. Did you forget to craft Cooldown recovery rate on your belt?

2. Check your "To Dust" total skeleton duration reduction for 9% cdr
3 jewels should be 34% total with using Window of Opportunity in passive tree
4 jewels should be 59% total without Window of Opportunity in the tree.

For 27 CDR, total To Dust must be 34 and Window of Opportunity passive + less duration mastery

See your CDR in the MISC Tab in Character Sheet

3. Gem in Helmet
11 Anomalous Skeleton - Forbidden Rite 1 - CWDT 5

4. Use the calculator to balance your life pool and chaos resistance

5. Armor on your gear? Check Defense tab, remove armor from items

6. Make sure you have more than 2550 life for rare ring setup

7. Blank Space

8. Replica Pure Talent will break the build

9. Pantheon, should be Brine King/Arakaali and Yugul/Garukhan or loop won't work

10. Get Pathfinder Ascendancy

11. Does the keystone on your body armour break the build?

12. Network mode should be Lockstep in Game options

13. Make sure you are using Survival Secrets Jewel

14. Did you forget to craft your Swap weapon? Craft and use in second slot!


Dying in maps

Dying a lot in middle of map


1. Use the flask calculator to check your Olroth's flask works https://returnx.github.io/cwdt/

2. Check all points are allocated in two medium flask cluster, both must be 6 passive clusters

3. Compare your medium cluster with the ones in guide & POBs

4. Check your tree for Essence extraction is allocated, its near mind over matter.

5. Make sure you did not accidentally equip 4th flask or 5th flask

6. Make sure Traitor keystone is allocated in the passive tree with Balbala Timeless Jewel

7. Check if Pathfinder ascendancy is allocated

8. Olroth's flask enchant should be "Reused at end of flask effect"

Upgrades More


Priority List of upgrades

1. Gem Quality
Make gems 20% quality

2. Weapon Enchant
Get the harvest weapon enchant which gives 1% elemental damage per 2% quality
Make your weapon 20% quality or 30% quality using TFT Hillock Service or farm it yourself from Betrayal Jun Missions.

3. Awakened Gems
Awakened Cold Penetration
Awakened Added Cold damage

Level these gems to at least level 3-4 quickly. You can use the harvest beast Wild Brambleback to level them up.

4. Level 100
Get to level 100 using 5-way carry
This is the best upgrade you can do, more passive points is more damage

6. Amulet

Catalyst the Amulet if you haven't done already, Turbulent catalyst on The Pandmonious

Change anoint to Whispers of Doom and use Frostbite Curse

If you don't find Sigil of Power useful, just remove that.

You can go for a +2 Rare Amulet or Ashes of the Stars with Whispers of the Doom.
You will soon see that +1 to all skill gems is required when you switch to Rare Ring.



Skin of the Lords

Buy from here

Use Empower 3 / 4 in the second red socket

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/3GKRoPJi5



27 CDR


Easy Budget Option

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/wawaKnBCb

Buy a charm with 10% CDR
Craft 12% on the belt, try a few times on bench craft.
And get 5% on your boots implicit using Blue Eldritch Ichor Currency

12 + 10 + 5 = 27%

Now allocate 10% less duration mastery on tree

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High End Option

You can find the crafting guide in Discord CraftBook

Get a belt from here
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/8PLXEkbIV

Get some CDR on boots, using eldritch crafting



Also get CDR on abyss jewel
Total must be 27 or more.




4 flasks


In 3.23 you can consider buying Pathfinder Charms, this will greatly help in 4 flask setup.
Those charm cost 4 divines.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/4d69V3gt9

Use the below calculator to find out what works for you
https://returnx.github.io/cwdt/

One way to approach this is

Buy 2 of these clusters
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sanctum/3EP4eWGh5

Navigate to nearest cluster spot and add this.

The above clusters are easy to craft, grab 2000 alterations and a few augments and a few Regals
And buy level 84 clusters and start spamming, augment and regal till you get
Don't pay 10 divines, craft them yourself. It will take about 1-2 hrs.

And 10% flask charges gained on Timeless jewel. These are easy to come by
Use this tool to find a Balbala jewel

https://vilsol.github.io/timeless-jewels/

Also get the belt to 20% reduced flask charges used and

Olroth's should be 6.4 duration, 28% quality or more.
And also best a good roll Olroth flask. 56 charges used ( 40%,41%,42% increased charges used)

More than 43% is bad, its for budget builds







Also try to get 15% or more flask effect duration suffix on your belt.

The discord has a CraftBook for crafting such a belt

Plus you can get 10% on such rare jewels.
You can consider adding two of these jewels.




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Image of calculator for something that works.

Spoiler



Rare Ring


3.23 Requirements for Rare ring

Level 20 Summon Skeletons, two options
1. Using +1 to all skill amulet
2. Using Empower level 2 support
3. Buy Level 20 Summon Skeletons

Ward Recommended - 1270 or more

It will work with 1100 ward as well, but you will take damage to your life.

Budget Example
Gem links

Helm
Level 20 Summon Skeletons + CWDT 20/20 + Empower Support 2

Gloves/Boots
Forbidden rite 1 + Normal CWDT 12


High Budget
Amulet, +1 to all skill gems

Helm
Level 20 Summon Skeletons + Level 20 Cast When Damage Taken + Snipers Mark

Gloves/Boots
Forbidden rite 1 + Normal CWDT 12

Use the calculator to adjust life and chaos resistance.
You also want more than 1200 ward.

Examples, unset ring is the best




Dying Sun

Once you have high resistances using rare ring, time to buy Dying Sun


I want to stress an important point, for you to be able to use Dying Sun, you also need good suffixes on your helm/gloves/boots.

High resistance suffix, this way you can remove Bismuth flask and use Dying Sun.


Empower 4 and gems

Just buy Empower 4 support and upgrade all your gems if you haven't yet.

Awakened GMP

This is a lot of damage, buy this if you can


Watcher's Eye

Hatred critical - You can attempt to divine for more than +1.5

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/MQQLMTJ

Forbidden Flame and Flesh


Deadeye is the best, or you can buy pathfinder and use deadeye in the tree.

Inquisitor is a good option
Occultist if you can fit another curse.


Omniscience


Switch to Omni when you have more than 100 divines.
You will need to remake all your items and also change your tree and cluster.

Crystallised Omniscience



Buy Unnatural instinct as well with this ugprade

It goes here, make sure to change the tree pathing.



With the amulet updated, you need to change your helm and gloves to have attributes instead of resistances

Omni Helmet
Craft Dex on it in the suffix



https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/zv9Zkmvc4
Omni gloves dex/int

Crafted Int on it in suffix


https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sanctum/6392k50HG


That's all folks for now.
Last edited by Akshay on Aug 11, 2024, 2:24:14 AM
The idea behind this guide is to make it as easy and simple as possible.
So we stick to a very reliable setup.

I did around 35 cwdt builds for other people and in my experience this setup is as reliable it gets.

Once you grasp the build, then its open for upgrades.

This should help new players to take the leap of faith and try the build. This is the biggest hurdle.


For facetaking do occultist

I actually have an occutlist with 4k life and 1.9k ward and also 20% damage reduction from ascendancy and high block. Also -22 chaos resistance. Its much more tankier than scion.
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Akshay wrote:
The idea behind this guide is to make it as easy and simple as possible.
So we stick to a very reliable setup.

I did around 35 cwdt builds for other people and in my experience this setup is as reliable it gets.

Once you grasp the build, then its open for upgrades.

This should help new players to take the leap of faith and try the build. This is the biggest hurdle.


For facetaking do occultist

I actually have an occutlist with 4k life and 1.9k ward and also 20% damage reduction from ascendancy and high block. Also -22 chaos resistance. Its much more tankier than scion.


Could you elaborate on the differences in gear required if I were to do Occultist instead? I've been putting gear together on the side and have an already-leveled Occultist it would be nice to respec. I found your character and it's passive tree, but I assume the breakpoints/pantheon/etc. would be different.

Thanks for the help and the guide!
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sixlinkandrew wrote:

Could you elaborate on the differences in gear required if I were to do Occultist instead? I've been putting gear together on the side and have an already-leveled Occultist it would be nice to respec. I found your character and it's passive tree, but I assume the breakpoints/pantheon/etc. would be different.

Thanks for the help and the guide!


its the same

i just copy pasted the guide here

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3261683
nice job doing it all explained.

shame for me that's a lot to think and set it up...
Amazing build! I've being farming expedition in city square and then logbooks with close to 0 issues. But i can't seem to work how to sustain RF. Any tips?
hi there mate, i wonder if you can help me. I just came back from a hiatus and was amazed with this build. However, i only looked on poe ninja for the layout of skills and items and cant get mine to loop. Wonder if you can help me. DO i need to change/add something?

https://pastebin.com/6ttG2ncw
Thank you very much OP for the simple to follow guide. I've been meaning to try out CWDT Ward Loop but was holding off till next league, as I was already burnt out from this league. Your guide changed my mind and I'm happily blasting away so thanks.

Would be pretty good if you can add an upgrades section to discuss opportunities for defensive and offensive upgrades. Things that I briefly considered were how to get more ward and life, annihilating light for more dps, going for the 27% cdr breakpoint, using only 1 heartbound loop, forbidden flame/flesh options, etc.
Could you please post a lvl80 tree? Thanks!
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lolonnais wrote:
Amazing build! I've being farming expedition in city square and then logbooks with close to 0 issues. But i can't seem to work how to sustain RF. Any tips?


@lolonnais Need to allocate at least 2 life recoup nodes near the Intuitive loop
Am surprise the build even works for you.


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xDeimondevilx wrote:
hi there mate, i wonder if you can help me. I just came back from a hiatus and was amazed with this build. However, i only looked on poe ninja for the layout of skills and items and cant get mine to loop. Wonder if you can help me. DO i need to change/add something?

https://pastebin.com/6ttG2ncw


I saw the pob, lots of issues. I will guide you to 9% CDR, not high budget 27% cdr.
Look at my guide and use that to buy a belt. See the belt section.

To Dust Jewels should be, 20, 20, 19. The Skeleton duration, first mod in jewel.
Gems in helm must be Anomalous Skeleton Level 11 - Forbidden rite 1 - Minion speed anomalous quality 20 - CWDT 5

That's it, your build should work.



Last edited by Akshay on Apr 11, 2022, 1:22:00 AM

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