[2.3][Prophecy][lvl 96, R28] Mjolner Voll's Juggernaut 6.9k hp, high damage+clear speed, high budget

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Dimensi0n wrote:

Don’t let the 7k HP fool you. Life pool is only a small fraction of how tanky a build is. To make this easier I’m going to go through the statistics one by one.

1) Thundercane has a slightly higher attack speed (6.0 vs 5.7). Just gives us a slightly higher DPS modifier.

2) Thundercane has a ridiculously higher amount of armor (25k), allowing you to facetank end game bosses. 5k armor mitigates almost nothing with the high end phys hitters. This is one of the major factors that makes doing Uber Atziri easy and deathless.

3) Thundercane has a substantially higher maximum resistance for all elements. (We have 88/87/80 vs the other 84/79/79). Now this may not seem like a lot, but it truly is. If he takes 10000 lightning damage, he only feels 2100 lightning damage, but we only feel 1300 lightning damage. This means that he takes 60% MORE damage than we do. Now when elemental damage is very huge and lethal (Uber Atziri and regular Atziri), it is important to keep these high resists.

A few general build differences:

Thundercane doesn’t use Repetance gloves. The damage is compensated with Controlled Destruction, Fire Penetration, and Elemental Weakness (all 3 apply multiplicatively MORE damage). This yields a lot more damage than the 80% increased spell damage that the gloves provide. You also get to use rare gloves which lets you add more life, attack speed, and resistances.

Thundercane uses Alpha’s Howl instead of Devoto’s Devotion for the Aura boost. The immunity to freeze is also nice. If you want that movement speed and attack speed from Devoto’s, that’s fine. That’s all they’re really good for.

He uses two discharges which doesn’t actually do what you would expect. There are threads on reddit and POE why double discharge in Mjolner doesn’t work. In short: the second discharge either has no charges left or only a power charge so it’s pretty much useless. Even the Rainbownuke build explains why two discharges don’t work.

He wastes a 4L on just Shield Charge. Don’t do that…

His boots are actually ideal. I’ll be switching to Death’s Door once Prophecy ends.

Thundercane has a free 3L to put whatever you want in it. (I used CWDT - Tempest Shield - Flame Golem).

Thundercane uses Lightning Strike and Molten Strike in the same 6L for ease of clearing and bossing at the fastest speed.

TLDR: Thundercane is more efficient in the skill tree and gear is oriented more towards tankiness other than damage. This build is certainly safer when it comes to endgame, but it also yields more damage when bossing (map clears don't matter because all Mjolner builds 1 shot packs anyway).