[2.0] HerCoCules | A HC CoC wand build of Herculean proportions

It's a super cheap build and it is fully functional in the 50's! I started crafting this build in Tempest league so I was working with next to nothing in terms of cash money.

You need a wand with 10-11% crit and 1.5-1.7aps with some spell damage. They run around 2 Chaos. The only other thing you need for this to be functional is a Tabula Rasa

The rest of my gear is self found, but if you want go ahead and drop a few alts on upgrades. I found the most efficient times to upgrade gear was the Dried lake in A4. You're past the A3 gear threshold and you now can equip the better A4 gear which in turn makes you a bit formidable against what A4 has to offer.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Start Flame trap/Ice Nova, then switch to Searing Bond/Flameblast after you buy a +1 to fire gems 1h Mace (Saw this leveling technique from Ziggy...maybe?) They run around 1-5 Alterations, maybe a Chaos if it has good spell damage.

Then ride that to the 50's, it's pretty simple. This build will make you incredibly tanky while leveling. I usually had blues with hp, and a couple rares with resistance and I was fine.

I miss my Rainbownuke Mjolner build in standard, but I don't miss standard.
I wanted to make a fun build that has lots of pretty colors, flashing lights, loads of deeps, and most of all tanky.
This is what I have so far:

Defense
Essentially. Loads of HP and Armor. Good HP regen, coupled with the ability to wear nice armor pieces and shields will make you a pretty decent meatshield
Offense:
The obvious crit nodes, multis, power charges, and a bit of accuracy here and there. Pretty standard.
Future levels
More spellcrit, flask passives, more crit, hp, armor, frenzy charge, jewels.
Something more like this:

Prioritize hp until around lvl 35-40. Flameblast does enough damage, focus on surviving while you're alt tabbed into Reddit.
1-20

20-40

40-55ish

Bandits

The point of this leveling path is to maximize hp and survivability while you level to the 50's. Once you finish the Assassination passive nodes you should be good to go to start using CoC!

I've been really surprised as far as DPS goes. Maps are blown through with ease. Elemental reflect isn't bad as long as you don't go in blind. I don't really know how to calculate CoC DPS. If someone could shed some light on calculating the CoC mechanic of deeps I would be grateful ^_^

Got PK'd, level grind again. RNGesus was kind to me and 6L'd a Voll's in less than 20 fuses so there's that. This is my current gear. (Needs improvement, subpar. Don't mind the gems)

Wand was 15 Chaos, chest was 3 Chaos +18 Fuses. The rest was crafted or found.
For a wand you want good crit, attacks per second, and spell damage. (Crit multi if you can afford)

CoC: Barrage -> GMP -> CoC -> Iron Will -> Freezing Pulse -> Arctic Breath (Power charge on Crit is fine if you don't have Voll's.)
Keep Barrage low level so it costs a negligible amount of mana. I've really enjoyed the clear this provides, and Arctic breath gives a nice amount of CC combined with Ice bite. I recently changed to Freezing Pulse because I finally got it to 20Q, if you dont have a high quality FP Gem use Arc. Terrain is this builds biggest opponent, good positioning really is important for best clear.
Single target: I switch GMP with Concentrated Effect, and Glacial cascade with Arc. (Tabula)
For Voll's I would switch GMP with Cold Penetration and Glacial Cascade with Arc.
CWDT: Lvl 1 CWDT -> Immortal Call -> Increased duration
Pretty standard.
Auras/Buffs/Filler: HoI -> HoT -> CoH -> Warlord's mark
Endurance charges for Immortal Call.
Blood Magic -> Ice Golem -> Blood Rage
Blood Magic just so you don't spend a lot of your mana on these spells since you'll be casting them before packs.
(Assassin's mark will be used a lot during the lower levels. Once you hit around 70 you'll be looking to pick up Warlord's Mark)
Mobility: Flame Dash -> Faster Casting
I had Lightning Warp, but too many close call from offscreening a warp into a pack made me stop using it. Flame dash is a great mobility tool in and out of combat. I've come to appreciate it more than Lightning warp.
Gem's I'm experimenting with: Empower -> Vaal Grace -> Vaal Haste
Vaal Gems are great for tougher rares and bosses. Improves clear speed and tankability.
My auras are currently Arctic Armor, HoI, HoT

Surgeon's everything! From the quantity of crits you produce, these flasks have 100% up time, spam them. Make sure you have a staunching, and a heat at least.

If you're new to CoC, this video will give a brief overview of the gear, gems, flasks, and a quick demonstration =)
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