[1.2.4] Jddogg's Sith Lord (Lightning Tendril noncrit, max spellblock)

Thanks for the kind words it seems ALOT of people are enjoying this build on the new race and having decent success with it.

As for buying a perandus shield early on, this is DEFINATELY your best bet, likely until you get a rathpith even.
Once all the puzzle pieces start falling into play around when you start mapping it becomes so much fun and very survivable. Hope to see others getting far with it in the 1 week as i'm too busy too currently myself.

So I ripped at lvl53 Merciless ... 2k HP just wasn't enough I guess. This char was raping everything. Light Tendrils/light pene/spell echo Life gain on hit + lifeleech -5l

Yeah I was playing safer. 3.5k dps. Not that high but only lvl 53 and playing hardcore with crap stuff.Plus everything was dying in 1 single right click. I got owned by.....a fucking ICE NOVA chest. Im not quite sure how it managed to kill me. Could have been a kind of delayed detonate dead+ice nova combo...all I know is I cleared the box and then I went to it and BOOM . You are dead. Kill hailrake no problem right before.


So it was a really fun ride. Will be playing it again further in the next 1 week race since I cant be bothered playing for 2days. Maybe ill try to put my own personal touch into it to make it more HC viable.

So for anyone willing to give this a shot...try to get more then 2k life at merciless. Also,i think that my cold resist was only 37% so idk,maybe that was enough for a single ice nova to 1 hit me.




EDIT: also..i was wondering why the Cybil paw? With all the block node it seems like its not getting that much + dps with it. Maybe rathpith makes the difference but for someone using crest of perandus I don't think Cybil paw is the right thing to use for more dps.

Cybil's is used for the survivability it provides, not damage. It is the only item in the game (as far as I know) that gives you +life on SPELL hit, which can give you very good life regen when combined with a lot of cast speed and a spell that hits multiple targets (i.e. incinerate builds).

@Deadbringer, the Life Gain on Hit gem you have linked to Lightning Tendrils in your build is not doing anything unfortunately. Notice when you mouse over the gem it says +life gained for enemies hit by supported ATTACK. It works only with ATTACK skills, whereas LT is a spell (not classified as an attack). You can use Life Leech with your LT gem and it will work, but LGoH will not do anything for you. In any case, neither one would have saved you from an Ice Nova strongbox... gotta watch out for those in higher level areas!

Going to be trying out a modified version of this build for the new HC league - was originally set on doing a crit build but decided its necessary to sacrifice crit for survivability when using LT in HC. I tested the skill a bit and like the playstyle... if I remember I will report back on how it goes!

Thanks Jddogg!

*Big Sigh*

I ripped at level 59 at Dominus 2nd phase with perhaps 10%health left :(((

My rip, however, was due to some bad choices before and during the fight. This build, itself, works just fine. Ya I'm a bit upset about my performance, and I doubt I will attempt this 1 week race again. However, I did have fun with this build in an HC league, and I will attempt this again in the next challenge HC league!





I chose to wait until sometime in Merciless to take EB. I found that having 421 ES, along with ~2200 hp to be helpful as a buffer. Wrong choice??? I don't know.

The past four days, I depended A LOT on always moving around, never standing still for more than 2 casts of LT. That helped tremendously to not take very much damage.

What killed me was the fact that in 2nd phase Dominus.....you cant move around much; I didn't plan for that :((( I took 2 HP pots, 1 each topaz, granite and quicksilver. Guess which 3 potions I never touched, even in pre phase and 1st phase. If I had 1 more HP pot, I wouldn't be writing this post, hehehe.

Another poor choice pre-fight, was that I decided to go with clarity and PoL as my auras, instead of my standard clarity, HoT, TS auras; costing me about 300 dps. I avoided 95% of his lightning and 100% of his "Touches", by keeping mobile.

Ah well, RIP and learn.

Edit: The one good choice I made was in stripping all gems/inventory not being used for this fight.

This will be my build for the next league. Thanks for that.

Do you think this tree will work or will i become a complete glasscannon? I guess the damage got really buffed so it is no problem to skill some more life.

https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgMA37CCEAelAuNJsiycEFh2EeTsMjQEBx8CTLNCS4XF376XlVJTPV-X9G0ZCPTAVGpDg9tVxjpYrJgRD36vjRngEtlf3YxMLRSwgh7bC8HzoqN-WX_GL50W8yY8EZYHHpUu8NVJUQ5IXfJ-M6SRE56MNnOzVUth4iaVFr_jhDY9napsjGKstMU6rW-E_xw2xdgkpwja3d-K5YudrhvxfscabOQi1aZXlOw4Jy-QVRo4cYXAGsy31XWxQjrYfLskiwY5-6rzBlFg7TyaO4Kb73w8BZ_fwGbwaxXn4XOiAA==

Just use a 5l without empower, an uncorrupted cybil and level 20 gems?

There are no budgetbuilds if you use 21/20 gems in every slot.

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Deadbringer wrote:

my dps is like 2.7k ..on a 4l lightning pen+ lightning tendrils+lifegain on hit +spell echo.

LGOH only works on attacks. It's wasted when supporting a spell because it has no effect.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Life_Gain_on_Hit_(support_gem)

looks like this one is rip in 1.3? too bad =( was checking it out for the upcoming 3month

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grawobi wrote:

looks like this one is rip in 1.3? too bad =( was checking it out for the upcoming 3month

I dunno 'bout that. Ya there'll be less block/spell block, but still usable. Looks like there's be more damage potential.

I will give this a go in the new 3 month, seeing as how it isn't too hard to stack some mf on it while maintaining reasonable survivability/damage potential.

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Bjorn_Angannon wrote:

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grawobi wrote:

looks like this one is rip in 1.3? too bad =( was checking it out for the upcoming 3month

I dunno 'bout that. Ya there'll be less block/spell block, but still usable. Looks like there's be more damage potential.

I will give this a go in the new 3 month, seeing as how it isn't too hard to stack some mf on it while maintaining reasonable survivability/damage potential.

yea I was looking at this from a 3month perspective / emtpy stash as well.
Still gonna give it a go and see how it goes I guess. Maybe not full block but yea