[0.3][build of the week] - Accept the gift of Immortality! - tank everything/one button clear
Are you tired of dying? Or may be skill combos are too much headache? Your spacebar is broken and you can't dodge roll? You want to play with one hand cause you want to pet your cat with other one?
If answer is mostly "yes" then this build is for you! If you want to play interractive combo gameplay.. then probably not. So what can this build offer? In few words and a bit more numbers ~13k ES ~7k ES recharge per second with 100% uptime ~300k ranged AOE DPS 27% less damage taken on top of resists etc bleed/poison immunity ability to reduce your survivability and increase damage at any moment on the fly Looks cool, right? Sadly build have downsides, would be unfair not to mention them Being ES build it's vulnerable to chaos damage, taking double damage is sad. Effects that outright stop ES recovery are pain - need to pay some attention and walk out of those. Usually you will have time to do so tho, since build is tanky. ~300k DPS. Yeah, I know, it's kinda bad. Yeah, you can increase it, but this will cost you some max hit taken and/or recovery No block/avoidance. 50% block would be so good to have. Gameplay consist of holding one button while tankin 99% of everything going your way. There is always a danger of falling asleep IRL. Could need good anime or smth on second screen to keep yourself awake. So, I hope that was enough introduction and empty words. Onward to the build mechanics!
Survivability
Base idea is simple We use Prayers for Rain unique body armour, that have mod Energy Shield Recharge is not interrupted by Damage if Recharge began Recently Then we force recharge via Reformed Barrier node that force-start ES recharge when your minion is reformed. Now we have two things left - how to kill your minion and how to reform it quickly. First part is easy to setup - Infernal Legion III + Feeding Frenzy I + Minion Instability + spectre with fire weakness. There are bunch of those, I used Bloodthief Wasp from act 3 first location. Second part is.. well.. you stack every minion revive node out there and add Heart of the Well with minion revive faster mod. That give us revive timer of 4.3 seconds and that timer is almost perfect, because.. Because volatility explode after 4 seconds of gaining it. Why it's that important? Because you can't start a recharge that was already active, at least it didn't work for me. So we need to stop it by taking damage just before miniom revive.. And so we use Unstable Bond node that give 3 volatility every time minion die. After 4 second they explode, dealing 300 damage and interrupting ES recharge. 0.3 second later minion revive and recharge kicks back in. It's immortality built on eternal death/rebirth cycle of suffering of your poor spectre minion. If that isn't Witch Way, then what is? Also wow, volatility is finally useful for something! On top of that Eternal Life let us turn every %of damage taken bypass energy shield into basically less damage modifier. And, as cherry on top, give effective bleed and poison immunity. After that it's just a simple job of taking every Maximum Energy Shield node in tree there is. Recharge rate nodes are, in general, useless, since recharge rate can be boosted by other ways, will go bak to it later
Damage
For damage I used Doedre's Undoing support with Despair curse. Why? Mostly because it's damage is independent of gem level, so I can go sceptre for spirit and foci for extra ES together. Damage scales with int, so to do big damage you just have to be smart about it. Nothing really innovative there, except good from nothing placement and in general efficient tree. Oh, and volatility have a side benefit of giving a bit of damage on top of it's main self-hitting use! If you really want to put something on middle mouse button you can use circle of power on weapon swap. I won't judge.
Finishing_Touches
1)Boosting recharge rate - two main ways are 50% recharge rate runes in chest armour and.. Umbral Well. For those who doesn't know it's ascendancy node of the new kinda secret abyssal lich ascendancy, that transform skeleton minions into passive buffs. And skeletal cleric grants you 30% increased recharge rate. For just 20 spirit per cleric! Just stack away as much as you want, just don't go overboard because.. 2)Boosting max hit and/or DPS. Umbrall Well is multipurpose. Each storm mage will give you 25% increased spell damage, while each frost mage - 35% increased maximum energy shield. That way you can balance your recovery/max hit/DPS on the fly basically, re-adjusting between every encounter. Or even during one. Build is tanky enough to take some time reallocating your spirit while wither keep stacking 3)Low Life - there are several bonuses you can get on low life and with "your life can not be changed" lich passive maintaining it would be trivial. Setting it up tho.. yeah, you will need to refund that passive, cast lifetap-supported spell enough times to get low and allocate point again. Good thing you need to do it only after death, so rather not often. 4)Shrine scepter is "free" ~40% one res, that really helps, since we want int on every gear piece and that takes suffix space. But don't go fire res one, since that will slow down your minion self-immolation.
Videos
No skill run ultimatum, tested for fun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EDrb_EO4uQ 150 splinters Xesht - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ubfx28gzg t15 map showcase - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrvUqL4u12Y Last edited by TwiceBorned#6498 on Sep 13, 2025, 9:11:39 AM Last bumped on Sep 8, 2025, 6:39:04 PM
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Sounds pretty cool, waiting for showcases. Can you show new abyss boss please
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probably the most safe build ive ever played lol and yea damage could be better
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This is hilarious! Something like this had occured to me... It all started when I dropped the Kurgal's Leash Lineage support gem, so I decided to use a Reaver with Infernal Legion III to give me constant up-time of Unholy Might, allowing me to run Incessant Carcophany (for my triple curse EDC build). But this is something else lol
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" First three showcases are uploaded. Will make more later. Sorry for bad quality, my PC is far from good. Last edited by TwiceBorned#6498 on Sep 8, 2025, 7:22:11 PM
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