[3.24] Easy Tank Freezy Spank! Asianskater2004's Endgame Hexblast Lifestacker Build Guide

The crafting bench can force 6 sockets on any staff for 350 jewellers if you or a friend have the recipe.
Spam Chromatic Orbs until you get 6 red sockets.
Mine is 6-linked, but yours doesn't need to be.

A setup for the backbar could be these two items for when you really need more life and a quick escape (optional).

Unless you have an aurabot, the armour items should be an armour and/or evasion base, and armour modifiers are very important. These items should have eldritch implicits from ichors and embers as shown. These items should have about 4 white sockets amongst them to get some elemental resistances from the amulet. The other sockets should be red to get some life from the amulet.

The Body armour is a defensive Lightning Coil. The sockets should be 4 blue and 2 green, 6-linked.

Helmet should have as much life as you can manage and chaos resistance. The Eater of Worlds implicit should be either cold, lightning, or fire. The links don't matter.

Gloves should have as much life as you can manage and chaos resistance. The links don't matter.

Boots should have as much life as you can manage and whichever resistances you are lacking. Add movement speed as well. The links don't matter.

The Amulet gives you benefits based on how many empty sockets you have and their colours. We like red and white sockets in this build. Anoint with Teal, Opalescent, and Silver Oils. Alternatively, use Violet, Silver, and Silver Oils.

Ring 1 contains Summon Skitterbots (blue).

Ring 2 contains Despair (blue) for your Shocking Skitterbot to apply Despair and you Chilling Skitterbot will keep on chilling.

The Belt will be an Elder or Hunter influence Stygian Vise or Leather Belt with two good life prefixes. You can make one by using Chaos Orbs on an ilvl 84+ Stygian Vise or Leather Belt until you get tier 1 life in the prefix as well as an open prefix and an open suffix. Then, fill suffixes temporarily on the Crafting Bench and use a Hunter's Exalted Orb to get a chance at getting the second life prefix. Once you get that, lock prefixes on the Crafting Bench and reroll on the Horticrafting Bench to include a Chaos modifier, hoping to get Chaos resistance. Finish it on the Crafting Bench with additional Chaos Resistance mixed with the elemental resistance of your choice from a Betrayal recipe.

Dissolution of the Flesh drops from Searing Exarch and is key to raising your life pool. You want a 29% or 30% roll.

Rare jewel should have 7% increased maximum life and either resistances or strength. I chose to have dexterity instead, useful for high-level Hypothermia support.

Prefix modifiers on the flasks should improve the uptime of the flask. Suffix modifiers on the flasks are somewhat interchangeable. You want any mods that include "less duration" to be on your flasks with the most uptime, such as a Bismuth Flask. This build especially hates damage over time (DOTs), so 3 flask suffixes make you immune to 4 types of DOTs. Reduced effect of curses and increased armour are also good suffixes.

Quartz Flask is used for those moments when you get surrounded or have no escape route. It gives you phasing and a little defense.

Amethyst Flask is for chaos resistance. A better choice is the more expensive Progenesis.

If you are wearing the Lightning Coil chest, use a Topaz Flask.

Taste of Hate Sapphire Flask raises your physical and cold damage mitigation.

Ruby Flask increases your fire damage mitigation.