[2.1] Dimio's Defensive Support Low Life Chaos Build (shavs not required)

Kill all for x3 skill points (helping Alira on cruel for cast speed is fine)

Note again most of these are upgrades to aim for and not required gear.


Gives +1 to your curses, ES, evasion and chaos res, just a value upgrade.


Getting chain stunned by big hits is a possible way to die for any ES build and this is what we use to counter it. Getting this with +1 curse is second biggest upgrade (after shavs) since it allows you to drop windscream and get some boots that actually have ES and movespeed. Getting destroyed by the crematorium boss stunlocking me with a single firestorm was when i finally swapped to using this permanently.


A cheap ring that gives you 20 all res and 25 chaos res with some move speed (which is nice since windsream is only 10% MS) and the funky unlucky hit thing i still don't know if actually is good (i am guessing it is good for lightning hits because of the variance). But this can easily be replaced by a better rare. It does make your hand shiny though and we gotta get those style points.


Prism Guardian became one of my favourite uniques playing this build because of the sheer bullshit it allows you to pull off. This is also the only required unique that has no alternative for this build.


The big money item which became MUCH more accessible with the drop change to T1 uniques. This is the biggest upgrade from the required uniques you can get for two reasons, the stats are not terrible(unlike solaris) and possibly more important you can actually get the right socket colors without investing a mirror in chromes(unlike solaris).


Boots with +1 curse, not much else to say. I picked this over Doedre's Damning because that ring has literally no other relavant stats than the +1 curse (and 5% all res i guess), and 10% MS + 14 all res is not too bad.

I will link these here when it stops linking to an external skill tree..

Conqueror's Efficiency

Conqueror's Potency (silence immune)

Energy From Within (placed next to the melding nodes on the tree, right next to pain attunement)

3 rare ES + spell damage jewels

Damage dot - Essence drain, Void manipulation, Controlled destruction, Rapid decay, Empower, Slower proj
(Ordered by importance)

Curses - Blasphemy, Tempchains, Enfeeble, Vouln
(Vouln is you "flex" curse and can be swapped for whatever blue curse your party needs)

Auras - Grace, Haste, Discipline
(must be in Prism guardian)

Dot amp - Wither, Spell totem, Faster casting

Spread dot and movement - Contagion, Flamedash, Inc aoe, Faster casting

Vaal gems and clarity - Inc duration, Vaal discipline, Vaal grace, clarity lvl 1
(this setup is the flexible part and you can change it to whatever you prefer)

Chaos golem
(running this in my 5l, cut it if you have a 6l)


When you get Blasphemy, Wither, Contagion and Flamedash lvl 20 use the GCP recipe to get them q20 and just use them (remember to keep flamdash at lvl 1 after q20).

Your two main spells are Essence Drain and Contagion. You run up to a pack cast Contagion then Essence Drain, order sometimes matter since ED can kill some white mobs before you even get Contagion off. As of lvl 90 with a 20 Essence Drain the dot does 13575 chaos damage (not including vouln).
Contagion exists only to spread Essence Drain but if the mobs clump up just a tiny bit you will lay waste to everything in sight with only two spells cast. I guess this is how the prenerf fire prolif felt, watching rooms just lay over.
On blues, rares and uniques you throw down the Wither totem for the damage amp.
Flame Dash for mobility and try to keep your golem up.
If shit actually hits the fan you have two vaal skills to save you, Vaal Discipline and Vaal Grace which both last forever because of all the inc duration in the build.

While doing this running around with the laugher of a maniac while watching the world burn around you is required.


Now, how does a character with ~2k ES and no health not get instantly killed when you start mapping?
Yes, that is how much ES i had after converting from life to low life when i started mapping and i can count the amount of times i went below 50% health on one hand.

Dodge like evasion, mitigate like armour and hit like a strangulating truck.
All done with the power of curses and auras.
With grace and enfeeble the mobs have to get though 50% chance to evade and 50% chance to miss and when they finally get though they now get mitigated by enfeeble which is up to 45% less damage.
And this just gets amplified by the fact that tempchains makes everything move like a snail while also contributing to keeping your and your parties debuff effects up.
Discipline gives you and your allies a ton of ES and will early be the biggest contributor to your ES pool.
Haste makes 10% MS boots a bit less of a pain and also allows you to not needing faster casting in your main skill which means more deeps, and let's be honest who does not like to have a haste aura around.
For solo and parties with high phys/degen you run vouln but if needed you can swap into ele weakness or even assassins mark(i recommend leveling both on the side just to have them available)

The best part though and the reason this is a support build is that all this does not just work on you, everyone close to you will get the full benefit of your almost immortal granting power.
For a long time my friend who i am playing with was running a windripper build and he was able to go full magic find if he wanted and still do very deadly maps because all the defences he would need, i gave to him. This was also how we made the money for said windripper and my shavs, you can get some disgusting magic find builds into maps when they are near immortal.

I will also note that in parties this build basically goes full support since you can't compete with the builds going full damage.