3.17 (COMPLETELY NERFED) | Immortal strength of blood Galvanic arrow Slayer

Greetings!

NOT VIABLE SINCE 3.17 - COMPLETELY NERFED

For your discussion I'd like to introduce an immortal leech build featuring Strength of blood keystone and Doryani's prototype gear setup using Galvanic arrow/Ligntning arrow fore clearing (no gemswap)
18mln single target DPS.

HUGE UPDATE 3.16.2 (22.12.21)
Now slayer is the only option for the build and brutal fervour is a must, because negative leech was bugged, as I've said.
Now we cannot facetank memory game and etc., because our instances of leech will last only 5 seconds. But while leeching we are still immortal.
We do not need offering to the serpent anymore, but WE SHOULD ALLOCATE BRUTAL FERVOUR (INSTEAD OF IMPACT)
UPDATED THE PoB

--> With all changes Maven and Sirus fights are a disaster now (unless you are great at dodging things while not leeching:D), all other content is comfortable.

Also an an option - we can use self-curse temp chains for the gloves (shackles of the wretched to make our leech instances last longer), but do we need it?
It will cut our speed and DPS.

15 ex investment in my current setup (can be assembled far cheaper)

How it works?

Can do all content except cannot leech modifier.
Afraid only of some mobs in simulacrum, that lower our life recovery rate.
(very rare and can be killed from far away as we are ranged)

Strength of blood (lethal pride under kaom) provides us less damage taken per 2% life recovery per second from life leech.
We need to get 200%
The base value with vaal pact is 20% - 10 instances with 2% of maximum life(base character stats)*2 (double from vaal pact)=40%
The goal is to increase it to 200%

Somehow life recovery rate (maybe it will be fixed in 3.17) affects this portion of leech mechanic.

It didn't work that way before 3.16, because I've tried to do that when berserker had "50% increased maximum total life recovery per second from leech" without "Defiance" and life recovery rate didn't affect that.

We boost our "increased maximum total life recovery per second from leech" and our "life recovery rate" stats to get 200% via the following formula:

40% * (1+(increased maximum total life recovery per second from leech/100)) * (1+(life recovery rate/100))

In my version we have about 201% which is enough.
It doesn't matter, what options we use to achieve that (how many jewels, gear, etc.)


Sources for increased maximum total life recovery per second from leech:

*Adrenaline form small clusters (easy craft with alteration spam)
*Passive tree - leech mastery (20%); Hematophagy cluster; vitality void cluster; taste for blood cluster (or annointing it as I did)
*Offering to the serpent implicit (10%) - doesn't worth that, as it costs 50ex.
*Crusader's amulet (up to 30% with fertile catalysts)
*Replica soul strike

Sources for life recovery rate:

*Torrent's reclamation (flow untethered) (18% with fertile catalysts)
*watcher's eye vitality
*watcher's eye malevolence
*transcendent flesh

In my setup we have the following calculation:

40%* 2.93 (193% increased maximum total recovery) * 1.72 (72% increased life recovery) = 201,58

For damage setup I use doryani's prototype as we do not need any defences and lower our lightning res till cap.
Chin sol (even not that good as I have) - is far better than any mirror bow.
Other stuff is up to you.

You can use any gear, except crucial leech uniques and make your own gear/gem combinations.

In 3.17 As I think, that scourge won't go core or it will go, but the implicits will be strictly fixed the damage profile won't be so strong, because we won't be able to get -ligntning res from implicits.

P.S. this will probably be fixed in 3.17 and there are multiple variants of fixing this, so, depending on the fixes, I have at least 3 solutions for them. We'll see :)

The worst thing (GGG do not read this line) - is if life recovery won't affect leech instances any more - this will completely ruin the setup.

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Gameplay video and videoguide: https://youtu.be/J1B46hhGKwU


PoB (community fork): https://pastebin.com/ymRhF5m5


How it works?

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1) Pros


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2) Cons


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3) Levelling


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4) Ascendancy/Skill tree/Links/Pantheon



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5) Current gear and gem setups



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6) JEWELS




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7) Possible improvements




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Thank you and good luck!

For more videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNS4rl2Uif6bpaRF7MiSHuA

Does this build still work (or as effectively) in 3.17 if Scourge does not go core? Also what is the level of investment based on your current gear?

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strTrader wrote:

Does this build still work (or as effectively) in 3.17 if Scourge does not go core? Also what is the level of investment based on your current gear?

It depends on what changes will be made to strength of blood mechanics.
We'll know in 2 weeks :)

If scourge do not go core, we'll lose some damage, because implicits with -lightning res won't be available, I think, instead of 9 mln single target we'll have about 6.

Items that provide a big chunk of "increased maximum total life recovery per second" are expensive now :<

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Beastosh wrote:

Items that provide a big chunk of "increased maximum total life recovery per second" are expensive now :<

We only need 1, that we cannot craft ourselves - replica soul strike - around 5ex now... far more expensive, than when I bought it.
But it's the only expensive item with this stat

jewels can be crafted buy yourself with just alteration spamming (I spent 400 on 5 jewels)

Amulet with t1 stat is 5chaos - if it's not 25% just some divines on it - it's not that expensive as it seems to be.

due to 3.16.2 changes updated the pob and information in the description.

Hi.

Leech for 6 sec. 5*(100+100-80)/100.

One more cons - less\reduce life recovery rate mods (maps,simu etc) ruin immortal.

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Wasfill wrote:

Hi.

Leech for 6 sec. 5*(100+100-80)/100.

One more cons - less\reduce life recovery rate mods (maps,simu etc) ruin immortal.

Yes, you are right, forgot to mention this.
Added to "cons" paragraph.