[2.2] Fistan's Tanky Mjölner/Aegis Discharge (30k+ Arm 75/71 Block 12K Disc) Atziri/Budget build

Idea came to me when i wanted to make a build that can live through any sort of physical damage and still do decent damage while being cheap. So i decided to combine aegis for the survivability it offers and discharge mjölner for damage because it's just amazing dps for just under an exalt these days.

This build is what i consider an end-game viable budget build, entire build just requires you to have about 7-9 exalts including enlighten3 gem. Lets start with what we need, and i'll write down how much each piece cost me



As you can see entire build costs half of a Voll's Devotion. Thats what i call budget.









This tree is what makes the build work, berserker is extremely good for this build because it allows us to drop life leech gem for mjölner and still leech reliably. But more importantly we get Path of the marauder because it saves us so many points that previously impossible build is now possible. We only gain about 1400 armor from gear yet because we stack grace and determination with iron reflexes, we end up with 29k+ unbuffed and 45K armor with rumi. Which means 600-900 ES per block from regular aegis! For 75% it means monsters need to do above 675 damage per hit to break even, which is hard with that much armor. Put leech on top and you got yourself one tanky scion.

I will say this much however, this build requires a LOT of levels, to perform at peak you need at least lvl82(by now we need a stats so cant use lazhwar yet) and by lvl90 it just gets ripe. Also we are a bit tight in terms of stat management so Atziri's foible is highly recommended until we get the stats.


Now to general performance. I can do pretty much any map mod except blood magic and no leech. Elemental reflect is easy enough if we replace iron will with life leech gem, however i dont recommend facetanking hard-hitting bosses with this mod. I'm rather starved in terms of good maps, despite my best efforts (ie%100 quantity runs) game refuses to drop anything above t11. So i cant give you detailed information there. However anything t11 or below is just a breeze, almost nothing can touch me, and i can even face-tank crematorium boss without the need of vaal discipline (which i forget to use all the time anyway) with stone of lazhwar equipped. I did try face-tanking Voll's in 6 man group with 2 damage mods on him + i think we had -max res , and as assumed he hits like freight train, but was unable to kill me in one hit while dropping level100s in my group like flies. I'm sure i can tank him reliably solo, without damage mods.

We do have however 2 weaknesses. Dot damage or extreme single target damage(not dps, damage). Dot is bad because it completely ignores block, and since we dont have very high ES pool, we can still get one-shotted by very high amounts of one-hit damage. For spells it means doom because we normally dont use saffel's + purities, and physical it's bad because even 45k armor means little against something that hits for 10k+.






I will try to update this build's capabilities in the future, my intention is to level up to 100 with this or at least 95. Although i'm prone to making new builds and not playing those i deem complete, i will most likely achieve my objective because this character is just too much fun.

updated on atziri kill

updated on wasteland

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I'm thinking about trying this build out, how's it going? Are you still playing it?

yep, but not as often as i used to. I'm making 2 other builds and leveling up is a slow process for me. Currently im trying to get my high level map pool with another character, once i have 20+ t12+ i'll start doing them and write down all my experiences with them. If you have any questions about the build btw just ask.

would you use volls if you had one?

I have recently used a respect you try this build. For my gear i have all thew same unique items and my ring is better. i dont have as good of gloves though but their decent. This is where things begin to get off a bit. as it stands right now as a lvl 84. and using your lvl 82 skill tree i have:

HP 1882
ES 3550 (Buffed)
Armor 17.9k (2x Buffed)
block 47%

how is it that i have literally half the stats you do when my gear is almost identical? Hell, i even have a 6L shav's.

secondly, How do you manage to run all those aura's i can only seem to get 3 of the 5 to function at an given time and that with 2 lvl 3 enlightens?

any help would be greatly appreciated. as it stand right now boss like the izaro literally 1 shot me.

you should have at least 5K ES with the lvl82 build i linked if u have discipline. I tried to see what it'd be without mygloves so i just removed them entirely even without it i have 5.1k ES. In order to run Grace, determination + discipline on mana, you need to get ALL the mana reservation nodes in my build, this means ones near iron reflexes, ones near vaal pact, ones near conduit and the ones near CI. With all that we gain -24 mana reservation + enlighten 3 on shavs will let you run grace/determination/discipline auras on mana. Then only wrath+bloodmagic is left on life. Arctic armor is a luxury btw you can only run it if you have +1 rainbowstrides, an extra enlighten3 and l20 bloodmagic.

Your armor should be at least 26k with grace+determination. Block rate is right, you'll be 75 block constantly with +3 from tempest+cwdt and 25block rumi.

From what i understand i think you forget to get one of the aura nodes, only explaination to those stats.

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feuerbach wrote:

would you use volls if you had one?

If i had voll's then i'd do a different build. Voll's endurance charge generation is extremely good for survival when you couple them with cwdt+immortal call. Also makes you nigh-immortal with Kingsguard with almost no investment from tree. Or just do a fakener with voll armor. This is just cheaper option, entire build is almost half the value of a volls.