Anu's Piscator's KB PS VP Wander (huh huh he said anus)

The Templar is so far behind now I just wouldn't recommend him. It's not that he can't be good, he can...



... it's just that it is so tight that pre 100 he falls off, hard.

>5.5k life, >40k GMP KB, >100k PS, (77k GMP KB, 148k PS, see alternative lvl 100) Vaal Pact, Arctic Armour, CwDT.

Level 100 Acuity tree.




Reached lvl 100. The build did 99 to 100 without a single death, solo, with no escape logs.
Build at 100
Bandits
Help OAK in Normal
Help KRAITYN in Cruel
Help ALIRA in Merciless










Levelling
This is a high point build, it really comes into its own in the high 80's and then exponentially scales with every level thereafter. It's a perfect build to respec a character into.

The build can be played on a fresh character but it needs to path differently until late game.
Path up through Templar, through Witch, into Shadow. Doing this will get an extra PC early, early access to the Witch wand ring and EB. For example you would have something like this around level 60.

Your damage is coming from auras and heralds, swap out which you run as and when you can for best damage and manageable mana, you may do this many times with different permutations until you finally run Wrath, Anger and Clarity in your Alpha's and Empowered HoT and HoI in another 4 link. Use a RRBG Alphas if you don't have a RRBB, just swap Clarity with HoI, but make the RRBB your ultimate goal, Heralds LOVE empower.

Cary on filling out the offshoots of the build, referencing the end game trees in this guide.
You might have something like this around level 80.
Use Life Leech gem.
When reflect begins to become a problem you can swap to Life Gain on Hit gem. But you will soon need to reroute down to VP and go back to Life Leech gem. The reroute can be done with ~25 regrets. Undo the offshoots you are going to lose and also a few that you are wanting to keep in order to get the 13 points necessary to link through the bottom path while still linked through the top. Once linked through, undo the top path, replace the offshoots you were keeping, grab Vaal Pact and Inner Force (if not now, next).

Aim to use a 6 linked Belly, we are % life starved on the tree, Belly fixes this.
Before you have a 6 linked Belly use any old 6 link with a life roll, failing that use a Tabula, failing that use a 5 link.

Build can be played as Templar, Scion or Shadow, to a lesser degree Witch and Ranger.
Scion Thread

Scion and Shadow would require more mana regen on gear but get away without needing to reroute late game.
For Scion path right through attack speed and left through mana, drop the ES link above Scion. For shadow path out through elemental damage.

With reference to vaaled gems and legacy gear.
I did a test on stream where I replaced any legacy gear with current available gear (self found) and replaced all vaaled gems with non-vaaled.
No legacy crit multi ammy.
No legacy Mali's.
No lvl 21 gems (some even lvl 19 and no quality).
Only lvl 3 Empower.
And the shittiest rolled Piscator's I had.

My GMP was still over 30k.
My PS was over 75k.












Pierce
Y U No Pierce? Pierce is a great support for KB in many builds, probably too great, I expect a nerf or a 'change to interaction with KB' soon. However, I'm not using pierce. To use Pierce I'd need to lose another gem, while pierce is great, it does not deserve to replace any of the 5 supports I use for this KB build.

Arctic Armour
Arctic Armour is primarily used for move speed and chill, which are gotten from a lvl 1 20q gem. Level it up to the point you can run for additional physical and fire mitigation. It's a good idea to have another Arctic Armour gem at lvl 1 and 20q for half recovery maps and as part of the gem swaps that are required for elemental reflect maps when our damage gets really high.

CwDT
The CwDT 4 link is just awesome in conjunction with Arctic Armour. Devos?
You may prefer to replace either Enduring Cry or Increased Duration with Warlord's Mark. Or just go with a 3 link set up to allow a 4 link Power Siphon.

Power Siphon
Hanging on to the past? Maybe. It remains, however, an awesome single target skill even as a 3 link. Go 4 link if you want to by reducing CwDT to a 3 link. Increased Critical Damage would be the 4th gem. Be careful not to send any stray attacks into a reflect mob and really, in a reflect map, take it off your bar.

Elemental Reflect
Monster aura reflect is a non issue as long as you don't fire a PS at them. For reflect maps there are several ways you can mitigate. Rotating flasks will work fine at early damage levels, you won't instantly 1 shot yourself with no flasks up but the slight possibility with the aligning of the planets is there.
Alternatively you could replace an aura with PoL.
Alternatively you could replace WED with LGoH.
You could use all 3.

I personally just went with the first method for a long time but later when GMP damage scales really high, multiple steps are best, these are detailed in update 5 onwards. And please, take PS off your bar for ele reflect maps.

Make sure to ward elemental curses if you are not overcapped enough (but you should be).
For elemental weakness elemental reflect maps, assuming you are overcapped, make sure to ward individual elemental curses as they will stack on top of EW map mod.
Map EW = -34
Monster EW/Flammability/Conductivity/Frostbite = -40
Monster Flammability/Conductivity/Frostbite + Map EW = -74

WARNING!! Testing ele reflect with different scenarios, I overlooked just how much we scale Lightning Warp when using empowered heralds with all the buff scaling on the tree. LMFAO
I now support LW with Life Leech.