[2.2] [Updated, Uber down again] Heavy Armour Mjolner v2.0 (Build + Uber Guide)

Earlier today I got a hope drop, and I was going to do a casual uber run before I sleep. Few waves of trash in I realized I was actually wearing my newly acquired Headhunter instead of my usual magnate, but since I was already inside I wanted to ride it out and see how far I could make it.

The vaal fights went fine as usual, and the trio actually went a lot smoother than I expected. I ran out of flask charges twice when only the dual striker was alive, but all I had to do was kite him for a bit and lightning strike the trash a few times to get more charges.

The uber fight got pretty close a couple of times due to not having granite flask up 100% of the time, and I did get lucky with her spell rotations. I had to be smarter about my flask usage and especially tried have at least one use of ruby, topaz, and granite before she splits.

I died after killing the 3rd split, from the lingering storm calls. I thought my topaz duration was longer, so I didn't refresh it to save flask charges. I died with full flasks....(LOL). Then I swapped my magnate in and finished her off.

Overall I thought uber was very manageable with only 66% of the flask charges I normally generate. Now we will attempt to calculate how much flask charge a non-leg mjolner actually generates compared to a legacy mjolner:

MATH



Using a non-legacy mjolner, you generate between 71.9% to 75.0% of flask charges you would otherwise get with a legacy mjolner and magnate belt. You will generate enough flask charges for everything in uber, although you may have to kite the dualstriker or double vaal for a bit if/when flasks run out.

That being said, I strongly recommend investing heavily into attack speed when using non-leg mjolner. It'll be a tremendous boost to your damage, life regen capabilities, and flask generation. I now think that uber is very doable with a non-legacy mjolner - even deathless with sufficient practice.

Witch, Marauder, Templar Tree

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Scion Tree

https://goo.gl/IXd2m0

We have a new scion tree! This tree was done by Xionista aka friend who actually came up with a better scion tree than me and my 200 regret orbs, without trying.

Normal = 40 life (Oak)

Cruel = 8% Attack Speed (Kraityn)

Merciless = 1 Power Charge (Alira)

You can also get endurance charge for merciless reward if you're tweaking the tree or is a scion. In the end you want around 5 power charges and 7 endurance charges.

For a more detailed explanation of my gear, see the archived v1.0 build below. I swapped Alpha's Howl for Devoto's Devotion for dex, movement speed, and attack speed.

Mjolner R-B-B / Iron Will - Discharge - Arc

Chest (Kingsuard) R-R-R-G-G-(R/G) / Molten Strike - Multistrike - Fortify - Faster Attack - GMP - Lightning Strike or LMP

4-Link #1 R-G-B-B / Purity of Fire - Grace - Purity of Lightning - Enlighten

4-Link #2 R-R-R-B / CWDT - Immortal Call - Increased Duration - Righteous Fire

4-Link #3 R-B-B-B / Blood Magic - Faster Casting - Flame Dash - Elemental Weakness

Shield R-G / CWDT (high level) - Blood Rage (high level)

I put blood rage in the shield with CWDT because I want blood rage to be up when I'm fighting uber, and I want to be able to turn it off with weapon swap.

The last link in shield can be anything: Vengeance, Vaal Molten Shell, Molten Shell (linked to CWDT). I personally use Portal.

For mapping



You can find my uber flask setups in my uber guide below.

In this version of the build, we need 2 viridian jewels with 2 mana gained on hit to sustain molten strike and lightning strike.

If you have more jewel slots, prioritize attack speed and crit chance, since we don't really need more armour or hp and our survivability in endgame contents are solely dependent on flask use.

Uber is much harder in 2.0, but I'm both happy and sad to tell you that this build had trivialized the necessary player skills to beat uber, and turned it back into facetanking and flask spamming. :) :(

Trash Flask Setup



Activate both jade and granite before every pack, you should never die to trash here due to having an extremely high amount of physical mitigation. Normal blue trash hit me for 500-800,a power crit rare can only crit me for ~3000 hp.

Save a magic/ranged pack before you go into double vaal, swap into the following flask setup and recharge flask on saved pack.

Vaal Flask Setup



The double vaal fight is no different from pre 2.0, you activate RF, atziri flask and go ham. Pop Topaz for lazer and ball lightning. I usually stand a bit away when the vaals re-emerge from the ground and move in only after they use a skill so I don't die to ice storm + smash combo.

After killing vaal, swap to trash flasks and continue clearing. Before trio swap to:

Trio Flask Setup



IMO the trio is now the hardest fight of the entire map since you can no longer self cast ~18 second IC. Here's the uber tactic:

Go around the room hugging wall from the right side as you enter, until you are at the top right corner of the room and you can see the cycloner. Pop RF, granite and jade flask and kill the cycloner where he stands. This is to prevent him from cycloning.

After the cycloner dies, kite the dual striker for a bit until the miscreation moves away from the degen ground cycloner left. Curse ONLY the miscreation and move in for the kill. Keep up your jade and granite flask and you should be able to facetank both remaining bosses with no problem. It is important to kill the miscreation 2nd since it's very hard to recover from death if you leave her for last.

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skieZ wrote:

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Glaciez wrote:

How are you able to face tank the dual striker? When he's flamed on I just get like 2-3 shot instantly do I need to use life leech in my mjolner or something?

"The buff increases fire damage and reflects % damage dealt to him back to the player as a fire elemental damage. As a final boss, enrage significantly boosts fire damage and reflects a very high amount of damage as fire. The reflect increases in magnitude as it is closer to death."

People should know the mechanics before they approach a fight.
Ergo you need to pop a rubyflask if he goes enrage.

YOU NEED TO TANK THE DUAL STRIKER WITH RUBY FLASK.

After the miscreation dies, move away from the degen ground and facetank the dual striker with ruby, jade, and granite flasks and you'll never drop below 75% hp. Easy.

If s*** hits the fan and the dual striker dies first and you die from enraged miscreation. Come back with the following setup to kill the miscreation.

"I f*cked up the trio fight" Re-entrance Flask Setup



Continue to clear until uber, then swap in our uber flask setup.

Atziri Flask Setup



The tactic here is simple and very similar to 1.3 uber fight, except now you must sustain your granite flask since her spears can and will one shot you. I've died her critting me with a single spear, and her spear spray which might have shotgunned for some reason. Pop ruby when she flameblasts, topaz when she storm calls, and run away for vaal flameblasts.

In split phase, pick one split and keep up all 3 flasks. You can use a life flask here to sustain your RF in between phases, or use an atziri flask for more damage.

Uber is easy again.

I've tried lightning coil in the very beginning. On paper it's really good against physical damage - when skieZ and I started talking about our builds we even jokingly came up with a coil, acuity, taste of hate, legacy aegis, block mjolner build..

But here's the problem: For coil based builds it's very hard to balance defense and offense on your passive tree. This was not a problem in 1.3 since you could go all in on the spell dmg nodes and do just fine with 4k hp,a lightning coil, and literally no other defenses, but that's not the case anymore. In 2.0, you need witch flask nodes, you need life, and you need Iron Reflexes - since you can't get to 50k+ armour without IR (I tried), let alone 95k armour which I run against uber trash, you simply don't have more passive points to spec into damage. Since you're going to lose 120% spell damage from Iron Will on top of that, this means you either


1) end up with an ultra tanky build with very little spell damage scaling, which in return hurts your leech and your facetanking abilities, esp with acuities since you only insta leech on crit. You can't even facetank a rare with ele resist and damage mods in a 82 map with that setup, let alone uber.

Besides, you really don't need that much physical mitigation unless you're planning on facetanking village ruin bosses with damage mods (GGG pls fix)

or

2) end up getting ~170% spell damage in tree so you have around the same damage output as a kingsguard build, but what are you not taking instead? Armour nodes? Life nodes? IR? Witch flask nodes? And you'll still run into leech problems against certain setups.

Also, you'll run into gearing problems with coil + acuities since you have to make up for the -60% light res on coil without getting any help from the glove slot, and there are simply not enough suffixes to go around. You'll probably end up taking more stat points in tree, using conversion jewels, dropping magnate, etc.. Which doesn't seem like the most effective solution to

The point of using kingsguard is not to achieve the most physical mitigation possible, but to free up the rest of your build so you can do whatever the hell you want it, since you'll always insta leech to full and do enough damage with Iron Will. I just chose to build a lot of armour and hp and it just happened to work.

That's my $0.02 on kingsguard vs coil + acuity.

TLDR: Kingsguard gives you offensive (Iron Will) and defense (Instant "Leech"), and frees up your passive tree & gears for you to build whatever you want, it's a more efficient and effective solution than coil + acuity.

I only did some rough mental math on this before, but we can lay it out in simple math: IW bumps my spell damage up by about 58%, but I'm gonna say it's 50% because I want to ignore the 10% lightning damage from lightning pen quality for comparison sake.

lightning pen would give a 35% boost to lightning damage against non-resist mobs, and 140% boost to lightning damage against a resist capped player (75% all res).

Assume I do equal parts fire and lightning damage. Let's say I do 1 fire damage and 1 lightning damage per arbitrary unit time

Against non resist mobs

with IW, we do 1.5(1+1)=3 damage

with lightning pen, we do 1*1.35+1=2.35 damage

Against 75% resist mobs

with IW, we do 3(1-0.75)=0.75 damage

with lightning pen, we do 1(1-0.75)+1(1-0.75+0.35)=0.85 damage

but this is not it, consider the effect of 20/20 elemental weakness on a map boss. 44% penetration at 40% effectiveness is 17.6%

Against 75% resist, cursed map boss

IW: 3(1-0.75+0.176)=1.278 damage

lightning pen: 1(1-0.75+0.176)+1(1-0.75+0.176+0.35)=1.202 damage.

So, IW is better in every scenario as long as you don't forget to curse.

This was what I kind of guessed in the beginning: We lack spell damage scaling from tree & gears, and we already have ele weakness as a method of resist penetration. Therefore it's better to get a lot of base spell damage from Iron Will so that it can be amplified via ele weakness, rather than trying to further amplify a smaller base damage with lightning pen.

Mathematically, it's like if you set the sum of two numbers to be a constant, the product of these two numbers are maximized when they are the closest in magnitude. It's better to have a balance of base spell damage and amplification (resist pen), than a poor base damage and a lot of amplification.

Hello friends,

I want to share with you my original 2.0 crit life mjolner build that is capable of doing uber Atziri and most endgame (81-82) maps without substantial risk or dependence on RNG. This is NOT a beginner-friendly build nor is it cheap.

Pros of this build
-Extremely tanky for all types of damage (including chaos if you itemize for it)
-Good clearing speed
-Able to reliably farm Uber Atziri
-Decent damage

Cons of this build
-Expensive
-Lacks damage compared to a damage oriented Mjolner build, or a CoC discharge build
-Ugly, you need skin transfers or cosmetics

In summary, this build achieves extremely high armour through Iron Reflex, 100% uptime Surgeon Flasks, which allows us to facetank most of the physical damage mobs and bosses in the game including Uber Atziri trash mobs, Uber Trio, and Uber herself

This build is not just capable of uber. It's a foolproof way of doing uber with no dependence on RnG or MLG level player skill by simply facetanking everything.






Here's the tree I'm using. Please feel free to give me feedback, I'm always looking to improve my build.

This build can work for Witch, Marauder, and Templar which I personally run, but functions best as witch.





The main idea of the build is to get Unwavering Stance to prevent stunlocks, Iron Reflex to give MASSIVE armour coupled with level 23 or 24 Grace, witch flask nodes to get near 100% fire and lightning resist. Then, we get as much armour and hp as we can efficiently, all while still being able to satisfy the stat requirements for mjolner.

This build lacks damage in tree but is made up with Iron Will in mjolner.

This build also makes use of the new unique



This chest eliminates the need for leech since you'll be discharging enough endurance charges to instantly regain lost hit points. Personally, I couldn't tell the difference between using this armour and using vaal pact in 1.3, with the exception that I can now gain hp during Atziri's add phase by whacking her.

This build runs molten strike and lightning strike on mana, which is supported by mana regen, mana gained on hit jewels, and/or revelry.
















The most important reason why I made this guide is to bring armour back in the community's attention. In 2.0, armour is now a much better way to mitigate physical damage.

You may not have a mjolner, you may not even have 5 exalts, but if you put some investment into armour, it will definitely pay off.

Armour is love, armour is meta.


You can reach me in game via my IGN: Dogeswow

Please contact me if you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions, especially if you have any formatting feedback or suggestions on how I can make the guide better.

:)