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smplx wrote:

I think it's worth mentioning for those who are swapping to the new setup that it really requires corrupted soul granted by the glorious vanity jewel to work. Otherwise the sustain will suffer. It takes over the functionality of soul tether but in a different way - soul tether is rendered useless if we have zero life leech. Glorious vanity with Doryani now costs 80 chaos so just keep that in mind. More details if you expand spoiler below.

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Hybrid eHP pool without anything = your ES leech will try hard to regen against all incoming damage but will fail miserably. It is just too week. Your upper 1/3 of your health pool will replenisg like a slug. Only other option here without gear upgrade is to convert the life regen gained from passives and stone golem to ES regen through Zealoth Oath and use life flask to replenish life when life pool is hit. Otherwise your life regen will only be active when you have 0 ES which is - in most cases - too little too late considering we have 4-5K life which is an easy 1 tap for this content.

Hybrid eHP pool with soul tether + life leech = your life leech and and ES leech will be active all the time when hit, sustaining the full capacity of your eHP pool with full effectiveness, which is considerably stronger. That is why equiping soul tether felt so good for survivability.

Hybrid eHP pool with corrupted soul = incoming damage is split equally between HP and ES. As a result everytime you take a hit ES leech, life regen, life flask (and potentially life leech if you can get it from gear or corrupted nodes) will start regening against damage immediately with full effect. And that is WAY stronger than ES leech alone. As a side note if you can get some % lightning damage leeched as life it might be worth speccing into Zealoth Oath to boost ES sustain with the converted life regen but one needs to test how that feels in action.

3rd option seems to be the strongest. And I think that glorious vanity is a huge defensive boost and solves sustain problems. It's somewhat annoying to implement into the build with all the randomness going on with the passives but still... And either way it is paramount to stack serious amounts of chaos resist otherwise you will die anyways since chaos damage bypasses ES.

In comparison based on my character:
-without glorious vanity: max 186 ES leech in the upper third and then 184 max ES leech + 648 life regen + 624 from flask = 1458 when on dangerously low eHP. ~6500 combined life pool
-with glorious vanity: 324 max ES leech + 648 life regen + 624 from flask = 1596 - which active all the time. ~8000 combined life pool

If you can get glorious vanity then the new setup is great, more survivability and more damage, smoother movement. If you can't get the jewel maybe try zealoth oath + life flask combo or stick to life leech from the ascendency + soul tether.

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Thefucker wrote:

Hi, First of all thank you for an amazing build. I'm quite new to the game, one question i want to ask is how are you using both herald of thunder and ice with zealotry since that reserves your mana above 100%. Again I'm sorry if the answer is obvious I'm pretty much a total noob in this game so yea, cheers =D