[2.3] Mjölner goes phone compatible - AFK bosses up to T15 || VIDEO GUIDE

--- Mjölner Goes Phone Compatible – AFK Bosses up to T15 ---



--- 2.4 NEW AFK BUILD IS UP - AFK GONE CHEAP ---
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1757893

Watch the montage video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzpfUNDFgQ

Watch the VIDEO GUIDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSW_YFHvkwI

Link to reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/4sdgub/afk_up_to_t12_bosses/

Are you tired of not being able to leave the computer right away when someone calls because you are in the middle of a poe fight?
Thankfully this build goes phone compatible, you can answer the call in the middle of the fight and don’t have to worry about it!

Also this build helps if you are tired of getting unexpected deaths due to:
• Latency Spikes
• Unexpected disconnect
• You fell asleep on the keyboard
• Power Outage
• Too much wine
• Obligation of doing 50 pull ups every 10 minutes
• Lack of self-preservation
• You name it…

It essentially can AFK about any boss, no matter the tier, if done right. I myself have put all my focus on damage nodes, which means I’m just offensively invested. If someone would invest in block heavily, this build could go insane! I will also give an example in the end of the guide, how you could fit this build into other peoples mjölner builds.

Short summary of what to get

My gear



Jewels



Gem setup and variations



Skill tree



Offensive and defensive stats



How to level a maruader



Build cost?


|*|-- The Guide --|*|

Essentially what this build does is overusing the fact that kingsguard chest plate heals you 100 life for every endurance charge you use and then let your trigger gems use a lot of endurance charges!

To get the max out of this, there are some things that need to be combined:

1. Choose Maruader class and ascend to Juggernaut subclass by doing labyrinth. Then level it up to endgame level (at least 70 ish). Juggernaut subclass is chosen mainly for two reasons:

a.You get +1 endurance charge, the more endurance charges we have, the more we spend

b.Unrelenting, which says “if you would gain Endurance Charges, you instead gain up to your maximum number of Endurance Charges”. This means that as soon as we get 1 endurance charge or more, we will hit max endurance charges

2. Get +3 endurance charges from passive tree, and a reasonable amount of life (preferably 200%+). More endurance charges, will mean that we spend more endurance charges, and get healed more, every one gives 100 life extra heal. More life means better protection against spike damage.

THe skill tree's again


3. Save oak bandit merciless to gain another +1 endurance charge, the last endurance charge comes from corrupted belt, which gives a total of 9 endurance charges!

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5. Now get triggergems, the things that make us actually AFK:

a. First you use a setup of cast when damage taken. In a 4 link item you link CWDT (lvl1) to three gems in the following order: immortal call – blade vortex – discharge. I keep my gems at lvl 1, for maximal triggering. Immortal call can however get to max lvl 3. The CWDT can be in any spot, as before the three gems, in between them or after, but the order between the three gems have to be as I’ve put here. So the colours can be: RRGB, RGRB, RGBR


Now you might ask why!

The reason is in the spoiler.


b. Second setup uses the fact that there are melee triggers as well. Get all three, vengeance, riposte and reckoning. These do not need to be linked to anything or in any particular order, just get them.





6. The block

As two of the melee triggers activate on block, the better block we have, the more we activate the triggers. In my build, I put all my passives on offensive damage, so I made all my blocking by gear. Therefore I could only focus on spell block.

More info


Now there are several things that can increase the AFK capability even more!


Vaal lightning strike

By linking: Vaal lightning strike – multistrike – increased duration, you activate an attack in under 1 second, which will hit the monster (or monsters up to two, as your mjölner chains once) constantly for 14.4 seconds. An active skill could never been more AFK!

Some theory


Vaal cyclone
By linking: Vaal cyclone – increased duration – faster attacks you suck in all monsters with bosses for 8 seconds into your cyclone. Every single proc from the small mobs will damage the bosses because they are within range, which gives huge impact damage. Vaal lightning strike however is more safe and has much much longer duration with its total of 43 seconds. I don’t really recommend thisone.

Resolute technique
Resolute technique gives the important 0% chance to crit which makes it impossible to lose power charges on crit (the downside of the unique ring romira’s banquet.) This essentially makes sure you will never ever run out of powercharges, and therefore never run out of endurance charges and immortal call will always trigger when supposed to!

More info:


Add more CWDT gems, as Tempest shield or Enfeeble


THE OFFENCE


Righteous fire
60% more spell damage and can be sustained with the usage of 1 life flask.

Shield charge
A fast movement skill that triggers discharge pretty good, usually one shots pack including rare. You can have it in your chest setup or in a 2-3l in eg. Boots.

Cyclone
A skill that can be used to clear the remainings after a shield charge. Unlike molten strike there is no delay before proc when using cyclone. Can be used in all the way from 1L to 5L setup.

Molten strike
Mega laggy boss take downer. Takes a second before the shells hit, but can achieve over a million DPS with fire pen. Insanely good for tanky bosses, but in difference to cyclone you have to stand still and tank, which can be dangerous on bosses that can oneshot you, on nasty map mods or eg. Flame bearers. Fortify here makes it a bit more safe. Use with cation, especially on weak computers.

Why blood magic?
By using blood magic, I make sure I will use no auras, and therefore free up a lot of gem spots, which I need for utility gems, trigger gems etc. Essentially quality of life! The trigger gems alone use up 7-10 gem slots, which is essentially 2-3 items. Also I won’t have any mana problems to solve and the nodes after BM gives 35% increased life!!!.

Also allows me to use life flask with high effectiveness. You can use life flasks with the mod "Sapping". It doesn't remove mana when activated as there is no mana to draw from (but you still get the fabulous life increase). Makes using righteous fire possible!



Uber Atziri?

Sure can!



Ele reflect maps?

Sure can!



Note: Single target is never a problem, only big packs!!! This means that rare reflect mobs in non reflect maps, are a non problem.


Can you force fit your CWDT and melee trigger setup to other mjölner builds?

Sure can!

Hey thanks so much for this. Just wanted to ask you said you put Resolute Technique in the build but it's not in your tree. Is that a mistake or am I not seeing it right?

Thanks again!!

Why do you opt to use two or even three Discharges? Is the increase in proc chance/rate that important?

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usmankhan95 wrote:

Hey thanks so much for this. Just wanted to ask you said you put Resolute Technique in the build but it's not in your tree. Is that a mistake or am I not seeing it right?

Thanks again!!

Thank you for a very good question!

I realised reading through that I was a bit unclear. I myself am 95% offensively invested because I like to play agressively, which means I don't utilize all its AFK potential. So I've chosen to go not resolute technique for the extra 40% more damage.

For a resolute technique tree I would go this way:
http://poeplanner.com/AAIAAVBBQUlCQVFBQWVnR1JBZWNFc3dVdEJnNEpxZ24yQzJFTVh3NDhFdUVVSUJSTkZIRVlrUm80R2xVY3B4emNKYnduTHlmdExkSXVVekxSTnVnNlVqcllQQVU4TFQzOFJVZEZuVVpwVUVkVFVsT2xWa2hZWTE4X1lTRm1WR2ViYUdWbzhuVHRldTk5OVlLYmcxLUU3NFY3aHltTGpJelBqeHFRVlpIT21qdWE0Sl9mb2dDaTZxY0lyajZ2Ykx2dHZKX0Fac0NheEJYRVdNVDJ4cTdHMk05LTFIelZwdGdrMmZ6YXdkdFAzN19ndy1SUjYtN3NPTzA4N3c3dmZQQWY5a2o0Nl9uZF9FdUR6TGMtX2dyWXZmSkZmSU1STFN5Y0VGaUhaVHJocGxkMnJOTnY2aGozTW5LcDg5MTgyUWJHWGFUQUFkM1Y4NDMwZ19lNUZycz0AEEFBQUNBQWZRQVFIMEFRQUEAAA==

It basicly saves you one node, so tree wize its an upgrade :). I am also adding this to the guide as I write this!

If there are more questions don't hesitate!, write and I will answer :)

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Natharias wrote:

Why do you opt to use two or even three Discharges? Is the increase in proc chance/rate that important?

Short answer is yes! But it all comes down to what is important for you :), but I will start off by explaining the proc mechanism.

When putting gems on mjölner, unlike cast on crit, every single gem in it has its own proc chance without a cooldown. So every discharge you put in it will have its own proc chance. So if you have 3 discharges in a non leagacy mjölner with 30% proc chance, you will on avarage have 0.9 discharges per enemy you hit, instead of having 0.3 discharges per enemy hit on avarage, that is a 3 fold increase!

So your vengeance, riposte or reckoning, you will hit with 3x the discharges and therefore heal three times as much compared to if you would have only have 1 discharge in it. Also it makes 3x the damage and I like being offensive :D

If "AFKability" is your main consern and you go for my skill tree, riposte, reckoning and vengeance only really help on spell monsters and big packs. If you go with other block mjölner builds, you will have even more use of this.

The downside is more discharges means more lag. I find 2 discharge on a leagacy mjölner with 50% proc chance highly playable (which gives more procs than 3 discharges in non leagacy). It's all about balance!

Huh, much text. Hope it is some what readable. Thanks for the question!

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ChrispieD wrote:

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Natharias wrote:

Why do you opt to use two or even three Discharges? Is the increase in proc chance/rate that important?

Short answer is yes! But it all comes down to what is important for you :), but I will start off by explaining the proc mechanism.

When putting gems on mjölner, unlike cast on crit, every single gem in it has its own proc chance without a cooldown. So every discharge you put in it will have its own proc chance. So if you have 3 discharges in a non leagacy mjölner with 30% proc chance, you will on avarage have 0.9 discharges per enemy you hit, instead of having 0.3 discharges per enemy hit on avarage, that is a 3 fold increase!

So your vengeance, riposte or reckoning, you will hit with 3x the discharges and therefore heal three times as much compared to if you would have only have 1 discharge in it. Also it makes 3x the damage and I like being offensive :D

If "AFKability" is your main consern and you go for my skill tree, riposte, reckoning and vengeance only really help on spell monsters and big packs. If you go with other block mjölner builds, you will have even more use of this.

The downside is more discharges means more lag. I find 2 discharge on a leagacy mjölner with 50% proc chance highly playable (which gives more procs than 3 discharges in non leagacy). It's all about balance!

Huh, much text. Hope it is some what readable. Thanks for the question!

My main concern is that the second and third discharges won't have as many charges to expend, if any, if the first one discharges. It all depends on how the charge generation works.

If you can get maximum e-charges from your first discharge, then I don't see why you would do anything other than three discharges in your Mjolner. But if you can't get charges after a discharge, I don't see any reason to put more than one in there. It's a confirmation I've been meaning to look into.

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Why do you opt to use two or even three Discharges? Is the increase in proc chance/rate that important?

My main concern is that the second and third discharges won't have as many charges to expend, if any, if the first one discharges. It all depends on how the charge generation works.

If you can get maximum e-charges from your first discharge, then I don't see why you would do anything other than three discharges in your Mjolner. But if you can't get charges after a discharge, I don't see any reason to put more than one in there. It's a confirmation I've been meaning to look into.

Ahh, now I understand your concern!

This is how it works, and I just double checked ingame to confirm!

If you dont have resolute teqnique, every power charge you consume, generates another 9 endurance charges as long as you dont crit. If one of your discharges crit, the discharge after the next will have 0 endurahce charges. My crit chance is very low, so this doesnt happen often at all. This is not worsened by the fact of adding more discharges, the probability of this happening is still the same!

So I tested in game by removing everything that can trigger and using default attack and check the healing amout from one hit. With one discharge in Mjölner I healed 900 hp per discharge. With 2 discharges in Mjölner, I healed a maximum of 1800 hp. So everything I wrote in theory in the answer before this one is correct in game as well , the thing that matters :)

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Natharias wrote:

If you can get maximum e-charges from your first discharge, then I don't see why you would do anything other than three discharges in your Mjolner.

Boring math follows.

Adding 3rd discharge is 50% more damage.

Fire penetration cuts off 37% fire resistance. For mob with 75% fire resistance adding fire penetration is 148% more damage. For mob with 63% fire resistance adding fire penetration is 100% more damage. For mob with 26% fire resistance adding fire penetration is 50% more damage. All below 3rd discharge is better, but you get the point. There are map mods with resistances, endurance charges, elemental equilibrium...

So 2x discharge + fire penetration looks better.

Of course I'm not counting here that 3rd discharge would give also 50% more healing.

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As for RT, not having it opens an option that you crit, don't get powercharge, second discharge consumes all endurance charges leaving you uncharged and boom! immortal call procs for miserable 400ms and you're dead. Don't know for sure how frequent this awkward scenario can be.

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As for Mjolner mechanics, chances for proccing several spells are not indepenent. It's all or nothing: when your 30% proc, all lightning spells from it proc.

This is some cool stuff! Thanks for the post.

Did some respeccing into this defence mechanic, and it's immensely fun. Actually had a cool AFK battle in Sarn Arena with 2 other dudes. They were max block with counter skills. All attacks kept on going forever with all 3 of us just AFKing. Was a cool sight.

One question though. How do you get a 39k tooltip?
I'm using 20/20 discharge + RF + EO + 11 end charges, and that brings me to around 25k. Am I missing something? Are you using other stuff to get that tooltip?

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donalgraeme wrote:

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Natharias wrote:

If you can get maximum e-charges from your first discharge, then I don't see why you would do anything other than three discharges in your Mjolner.

Boring math follows.

Adding 3rd discharge is 50% more damage.

Fire penetration cuts off 37% fire resistance. For mob with 75% fire resistance adding fire penetration is 148% more damage. For mob with 63% fire resistance adding fire penetration is 100% more damage. For mob with 26% fire resistance adding fire penetration is 50% more damage. All below 3rd discharge is better, but you get the point. There are map mods with resistances, endurance charges, elemental equilibrium...

So 2x discharge + fire penetration looks better.

Of course I'm not counting here that 3rd discharge would give also 50% more healing.

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As for RT, not having it opens an option that you crit, don't get powercharge, second discharge consumes all endurance charges leaving you uncharged and boom! immortal call procs for miserable 400ms and you're dead. Don't know for sure how frequent this awkward scenario can be.

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As for Mjolner mechanics, chances for proccing several spells are not indepenent. It's all or nothing: when your 30% proc, all lightning spells from it proc.

That's what you're looking at, the healing. You're getting 900 x 3 healing instead of 900 x 2 healing, but also getting a 50% increase in damage output as opposed to two discharges.

I know I'll be using three discharges once I get my hands on a Voll's Devotion amulet. But for now I'm using Discharge + Discharge + Lightning Penetration.