[2.4] CI CoC Discharge by Rico (barely reanimated)

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As far as the mechanics go, it works per enemy hit (like Voll's Protector, not like Romira's).

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As far as single target goes, I couldn't say for certain. I mostly tried it out on Dried Lake and low tier maps.

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RicoKGB wrote:

You mean no Volls Devo and 5l Volls Protector + lvl 20s puritys? Hm hm, dunno. Considering you've taken all the Occultist nodes, have Vagans dagger with at least 55% chance to crit before charges, have 6 power charges and 7k+ es, elemental equilibrium chain up & running, aura setup mentioned in the guide (for that max res with lvl 20 puritys) it should be valid till T12 maps. You might support yourself with additional flasks like Rumis and additional Vaal Disciplines for that oh shit moments. I would skip some dungerous map mods when doing this and approach the map boss just after blowing his adds to have that es regen stacks going when I deal with him/her.

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Will it work though without the vertex/enlighten meaning no purities (at least at 1-5 tier maps?), or will I die by reflect for example? (I play on HC too). As I understand the vertex is a must for all these auras, right? It's not even on poe.trade atm and I gather it should cost over a few ex. Until RNG favors me though, do you think I can push through the first map tiers without these?

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RicoKGB wrote:

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Will it work though without the vertex/enlighten meaning no purities (at least at 1-5 tier maps?), or will I die by reflect for example? (I play on HC too). As I understand the vertex is a must for all these auras, right? It's not even on poe.trade atm and I gather it should cost over a few ex. Until RNG favors me though, do you think I can push through the first map tiers without these?

Assuming no Volls Devotion you only need Purity of Lightning. Than Discpline and Herald of Ice. Plus Assasins Mark via Blasphemy to compensate for Increase Crit Strikes gem with your 5l Volls Protector. Assasins Mark is also nice dmg boost.

So we have 2 aura setups that would be best to split this way:

1) HoI + Discipline + PoL
2) Assasins Mark via Blasphemy

Now number 1 needs at least lvl 2 Enlighten. Rest is done via passive skill tree. In terms of running all auras without the Vertex or lvl 3 Enlighten you need to grab additional 4% mana reserved reduction. In order to support your leech and deal with reflect you need to grab Whisper of Doom for that additional curse on enemies and use CWDT Warlords Mark alongside Enfeeble. All of this is done at the cost of slightly less overall dmg (28% dmg increase, 30% crit multi) BUT can be easilly balanced out with Assasins Mark running and with nice spell dmg + crit multi amulet. So your "poor man's" tree might look like:

http://tinyurl.com/ha9z9fv

Not having lvl 21 purities empowered or "vertexed" to lvl 23 you loose 2% max resitance. Instead of 89% light res when flasked you will end up having 87%. But you will have 4% leech insteed of 2% so you should be fine. What you must avoid are ele reflect maps with curse immunity and be extremely careful on ele reflects maps as there are possibilities of blue packs with curse immunity mods.

This way you should be fine until the very end-game, which I consider Uber Atziri, some T12+ Bosses (vilage ruin, excavation, core, etc - you get the point). Rest will be pretty much doable with little to no effort.

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RicoKGB wrote:

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As far as the mechanics go, it works per enemy hit (like Voll's Protector, not like Romira's).

Good to know.

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As far as single target goes, I couldn't say for certain. I mostly tried it out on Dried Lake and low tier maps.

If you could share some info in the future on how it worked out against harder stuff like Malformation Piety, Excavation, Village Ruin, Apex of Sacrifcie maybe? - that would be much appreciated.

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Perhaps it would be possible to make a very defensive version with Malachai's Loop, but it doesn't seem very effective at the moment.

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SamanthaMunro wrote:

Hello, is CI version of CoC discharge a reliable uber farming build or does it have disadvantages compared to hybrid one?