3.2 - Hungry Loop Decay Death Aura build - Great Uber Lab runner - T16 Maps/Guardians

***DISCLAIMER***

Why didn't I go CI? Because without legacy items and by sacrificing a weapon for a shield, you end up with low phys mitigation, no healing from flask and a fairly poor ES pool. All so you can just avoid the degen which is quite easy to sustain with chaos res and some life regen. Life based death's oath allows you to dual wield for faster clear speed and boss kills than the CI version.

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Hey!

So after gaining some attention for this build, it seems people want a guide. Well here it is.

Let's get right into the Pros and Cons;

Pros:
- Fast Uber Lab
- Effortless high tier mapping
- Extremely Safe (good mitigation and super buffed Temp Chains)
- Crazy satisfying Breach farming
- Can farm red tier Elder Guardians

Cons:
- Not the greatest for farming Shaper's guardians or Shaper himself
- Difficult to color the chest piece (5 or 6 off colors depending on the link setup you choose)

-----Videos-----

Speed clearing a Shaped Arachnid Tomb (T15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Jb9YNDl1k

Uber Lab Run (1 Golden key)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ciPdqzqSE

Red tier Elder Guardians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5HmmWS1TY

----- Gear -----



Offhand swap for Uber Lab


Flasks


As you can see, the required uniques are:
- 2x Breath of the Council
- Allelopathy
- Death's Oath (not 6 linked!)
- Hungry Loop
- Impresense

The rares will be used to cap out your resistances. Try to get as much chaos resist as you can to counter Death's Oath degen. If you get really lucky, you can get an essenced chaos damage ring or make yourself a fancy shaper ring!

----- Links -----

Decay Setup
Blade Vortex -­> Efficacy -> Void Manipulation -> Decay -> Swift Affliction
This is for your Hungry Loop.

Essence Drain Setup
Essence Drain -> Efficacy -> Swift Affliction -> Void Manipulation
There are other combinations of gems that yield similar damage if you have a hard time coloring your item. Controlled Destruction, Empower, etc.

Blight Setup
Blight -> Void Manipulation -> Swift Affliction -> Efficacy -> Controlled Destruction
This is for your Allelopathy.

Death Aura Setup
5 off color setup (more damage, less area):
Efficacy -> Arcane Surge -> Swift Affliction -> Conc Effect -> Less Duration -> Void Manipulation

6 off color setup(slight less damage, more area):
Efficacy -> Arcane Surge -> Swift Affliction -> Conc Effect -> Inc. AoE -> Void Manipulation

Curse Setups
Temporal Chains -> Despair -> Blasphemy -> Enhance
This is preferably used in a +1 gems item for maximum effectiveness. Enhance dramatically improves the slow fro Temp Chains and the chaos damage taken (more multiplier) from Despair.

Blasphemy -> Enfeeble -> Abyssal Cry
Abyssal Cry is a great quality of life for large packs of monster. Satisfying chain reaction of explosions.

Wither Setup
Wither -> Spell Totem -> Increased Duration

----- Tree/PoB -----

PoB Info
Account Name: Simplesim45
Character Name: PEANUTBUTTERANDAIDSS
Feel free to play around with the configs. To know your single target DPS, just max out wither stacks and add up decay, blight stacks, ED and death aura.

You'll notice the tree is designed to help all of the skills we use rather than just Death Aura. If you JUST want more Death Aura damage, the tree would be quite a bit different, but you'd be lacking single target damage.

Bandits:
Kill All

Pantheons:
Major God; Soul of Arakaali + Arachnoxia & Armala, The Widow.
Minor God; Soul of Garukhan + Stalker of the Endless Dunes.

----- Map Mods -----

The only mods you need to avoid are:
- Monsters cannot be slowed
- No regen
- Reduced curse effect

Everything else is fine. Temp chains does so much work, you'll barely ever get hit while mapping.


----- Conclusion -----

I posted the guide a bit hastily because people wanted it, but I'll try to add more stuff. If there's anything you'd like to see added, just post!

You say the death's oath doesn't need to be 6 linked. Could it be 0 linked?

Also, thank you for posting this!

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Injuredviking wrote:

You say the death's oath doesn't need to be 6 linked. Could it be 0 linked?

Also, thank you for posting this!

Yes! It only needs 6 sockets. Links don't do anything.

how did you color that chest the color cal says it would take 87k chroms and over 800 attempts thats fucking insane

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Dahmi99 wrote:

how did you color that chest the color cal says it would take 87k chroms and over 800 attempts thats fucking insane

With the jeweller's method.

Still takes quite a lot tho. That's why I put a 5 off color setup.

Bump

Hi,

I had a question about the death aura setup.
Since it is just there and we are not casting it. Doesn't that make the arcane surge as a support useless? Since we are not procing it ourselves?

arcane surge causes the death aura to inherit the 'duration' tag (without actually acquiring a duration), enabling swift affliction and less duration to be able to support it. Works with RF too.

If there are other videos you guys want to see let me know.

Build is really smooth to level with.

how do u sustain? just life regen?