Play Low Life without Shav/Solaris, play as you want.

Testing a build similar to what Goatsebusters posted on 2nd page, just on a budget - less than 10ex gear cost or so.

Loris, 5L Infernal Mantle, Maligaro, rest rares

I went low-life BM Mortal Convbiction, running 2*60, 2*40 auras and 2 Heralds with 550 hp unreserved.
1% life regen from tree + Vitality covers the skillcost + BloodRage degen.

So far the build works just fine. Going BM means that you never get the penalty of mantle.

Blood Rage + BM + Enhance lvl 2 alone raise ASP by around 60% which is very nice.

Currently Running KB + CoC + Fireball, and its just beautiful - tons of procs, more than Barrage actually against groups of enemies, no desync which you get constantly with Barrage.
You don't have situations when you stand for several seconds trying to kill an enemy only realising after resync that you aren't even close to hitting it, which again happens all the time with Barrage.

Im testing a Infernal Mantle with 5k ES and a good life pool full crit (Acuity, with ES gloves = 6k ES). Blood Rage is free, good regen (Vitality)so chaos is not a problem. All elem res 75%. Pretty good damage and sustain.

This helmet opens new doors that Vertex cant because with TBC i need 3 items with Chaos damage + 1 full chaos res cluser and i dont need Ming's (great ES and life penalty) for reach the cap+

And im only 70.

Slowly, but people will accept TBC as a great helmet, an enabler helmet.

If CoD worked with traps it would be good for hc players as well.
NOW I CAN'T WORK WITH THIS GIMME SOMETHING ELSE

Thread uptated, now with sexy tips for enjoy this LL method.

I saw Mathil doing this and I must say that it's not really working that much. He is getting one shotted(350HP/7KES) down by poison snakes. Normal poison snakes.

I've been running a build that is low-life without Shav's/Solaris for a week now. It's definitely possible.

I'm not using The Broken Crown (using The Vertex but both would work).

Basically a Low-Life Crit Dagger build minus Shav's. I've run 77/78's and there are a few times that I've rip'd to chaos damage, but mostly it's because I'm not paying attention (ground chaos AoE effects I stood in).

Going to try Atziri later this week when i get some gems leveled up and have my set-up the way I want it.


GEAR:
Helm - Vertex/The Broken Crown
Neck - Eye of Chayula (Stun immunity)
Chest - Rare ES/EV (Mine is 600/600 with 2 resist)
Gloves - Maligaro's (for the DPS)
Boots - Rare ES/EV or ES (Mine only has 80ES)
Shield - Rare ES/EV (Mine is 450EV/350ES)
Ring - Ming's Heart
Ring - Rare (ES/Resists/etc.)
Weapon - Bino's Kitchen Knife

Links:
4L: Discipline + BM + RM + Blood Rage
3L: Hatred + Grace + RM
4L: HoT + CoH + AM + RM (auto-curse)
3L: Enduring Cry + Spell Echo + Whirling Blades (don't be a scrub, cast your shit)
4L: Immortal Call + Inc. Duration + Vaal Discpline + Vaal Haste
5L: Reave or Double Strike + Melee Physical + Multistrike + Inc. Crit. Dmg. + Accuracy + ??

DPS
Tooltip DPS on a 5L reave is around 40k buffed (4 FC/6PC + Atziri Flask)
DPS on Dual Strike in same 5L for single target is 60k buffed.

Defence
Currently I have a 50% evade chance + 32% chance to block with Ondar's Guile.

Running around with around 200 unreserved life (750ish total) and 6K ES.

Most of the chaos damage that is out there I find is from projectile's, so having Ondar's Guile makes it much easier to work around. Bino's may be an important reason that I don't have problems regularly with Chaos damage, as it is constantly topping off my health. Once I can afford a rare dagger with good crit/PDPS, I'll try to switch and see what happens, but Bino's is quite good; fits perfectly into the build.

Obviously no Vaal pact, also no Blood Magic.

I did die to a Ghost Poisoner like instantly. I also rip'd to Jungle Valley boss (without Ondar's). Every other boss has been fine (archers with Poison arrow etc / Beyond mobs that drop AoE chaos dmg / chaos zombies etc.) Obviously there are some issues with Chaos damage, but going to try to figure this build out.


Going to try to 6L my chest, level my gems to 20, do Atziri and I'll report back how things are going after that.

It's definitely working for me so far though, not sure what everyone else is doing. It's not HC viable, but it's cheaper than Shav's LL for softcore.

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rockmassif wrote:

I saw Mathil doing this and I must say that it's not really working that much. He is getting one shotted(350HP/7KES) down by poison snakes. Normal poison snakes.

Im standing in front of 5 snakes in 78 maps and i just need to use a mid life flask after 5-8 shots.

I dont know how Mathil does this method but as i said you need some life regen + vitality or you are done.

And if you are playing maps with chaos damage just dont use Blood Rage for more regen and less risk, but i ran a lot of maps with chaos and all fine.

I died with a poison strongbox (my bad because i was attacking and wasting life like a dumb w/o flasks) and i died some weeks ago in Jungle Valley boss (now i could survive with my new dmg).

I had not problem with jungle valley boss with my MF Arc. 0.4% regen 800 unreserved hp and 75% chaos res. I think below 600hp unreserved is a bit risky. 1 chaos ek from the spider did about 1/3 of my unreserved hp

Maybe we should just say this: this method works, and yes, JV boss is a real problem for us... and for a lot of builds, because this boss is a huge problem. In PoE wiki is rated as ''Extremely difficult boss'', i mean, this boss shouldnt be important for us, just skip it as i do, and skip the poison boxes as i do.

All the builds got pros and cons in some maps and mods, and this one too, but it doesnt means it cannot work. A lot of builds cant handle a 1v1 against Megaera, Temple's Piety or Torture Chambers' Marveil (dat laser) and we can do it with this method, why should we be worried for just a boss with TONS of chaos damage?, skip and all fine =D

Im playing with it right now


600hp is enough imo. Posion mobs can be tricky because of fps drops caused by poison

I mean if that exile shots GMP poison arrow i cant even move my poor witch because of low fps. As for the jugle valley boss i skip it in 99% of my characters anyways xd