[2.2] Crit Freezing Pulser Elementalist - Perandus HC / 83k GMP Pulse

So, why Elementalist ?

Main thing that caught my attention before the expansion was out, was the Elemental Conflux, which makes all damage types you do, is it cold or whatever, all that will cause Shock, Burn and Chill and we already freeze things 24/7, with the exception of some map bosses. And then behind that node is the Beacon of Ruin, which will cause all these effects we get for free pretty much, to proliferate, sounds good enough ? Just bear in mind that Elemental Reflect will cause some trouble if not careful enough, the 50% more damage from shocking the enemies does hurt.

Just yesterday I got the Merciless Labyrinth done and the remaining options to place the points are not really that great, I took the Pendulum of Destruction, just because, why not ? Other would be the golem giving double boost and 40% increased damage of matching element.

Something worth trying could be to take off the Beacon of Ruin and taking that Golem node instead, but I'm seriously not into minmaxing at the moment so maybe somebody else wants to try that out. Might be the proliferation node's aoe isn't that great, like the gem is nowdays and maybe I'm just imagining it's good or something.
To be honest, I haven't even kept eye one single time how it proliferates the elemental statuses to monsters. And in fact, with GMP, the entire screen should have the elemental status effects even without anything proliferating those.

First I was looking to go as Inquisitor Templar this league, with the crits penetrating entire resists of monster, but that's not very good if you're critting on almost every hit, while the reflect hurts quite a bit with just cold penetration gem. You do so much more damage when the enemy has no resists to a given element, that the amount of reflected damage gets so huge, it wouldn't be good for HC atleast. Keep in mind, that the flasks are aswell just 6% max resist currently.

Why Heretic's Veil helmet ? I found it while leveling and I'm way too lazy to minmax this build this league. Everything is identical to 2.1 version, we just gained ascendancy classes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_9y4NQtPw Springs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HukP6ky5Y6g UGR

Lovely new flasks and new mods on them, so nice. Sulphur flask specifically is extremely nice, 40% damage and has 3 uses without any mods? Give me one of those.

Life: 4677
ES: 1889
Armor: 315 (lol)
Evasion: 2662
Crit Chance: 6 PC 91.32%
Crit Multiplier:300-350%+
Damage in town: 46 000 6L GMP (gems not all max level / quality)
Damage in Hideout, Pendulum of Destruction buff on: 54 700 6L GMP
Damage with Ice Golem, Herald of Ice: 56 200
Damage with Ice Golem, Herald of Ice - Pendulum of Destruction buff on: 66 000
Damage with Ice Golem, Herald of Ice, 6 Power Charges: 71 500
Damage with Ice Golem, Herald of Ice, 6 Power Charges - Pendulum of Destruction buff on: 83 400


Damage will get higher and higher, with more jewel slots, I still have only 3 jewels equipped at the moment and some gems are with 0% quality. I wouldn't be surprised of 85-90k dps 6 Power Charge dps.

For this to work, you need a shield like this, or not exactly like that, but 1500+ armor is prefered, I'm just linking this from standard, as I do not currently have anykind of high armor shield in Perandus HC league. Evasion helmet, evasion+es chest and armor/evasion or pure of either one boots. That will give you decent amount of Evade and from the shield alone you will get 4k+ armor. http://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMCAd-wghCPpkSrVa4snBEtfIPr7prgRZ1TUjLRRUfAZgSzogDwH2jyfEuWdOFzmjuCm-081absODrYJy-QVRo4hXtmVHy7PQ8GOfuq8wZRYHwOp1VboEPI34rpAv6zVyu9gm0ZCPTAVGpDvOoi9GwLkyd_xhGWBx6VLvDVSVGP-uv1ZJ3yHdDQRwbb5_LhY0NsCPGKtMVirGyMnarC7Dqtb4QRLysKAx5d8h9BKgtwUonTjDZVS2HiJpUWv_8cBUJBltD1rrNMsyBuUDDbXtAf7-sEB4PbVcY6WL6KoS8c3I8ahTJresi_kPrfbdQH3I0OSA==

Take jewel slots as soon as you need them, a jewel slot is ALWAYS worth when it takes only 2 points to get it, maybe even 3.