[2.4] low life Mjolner supertank done right by Rico

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Changelog:
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2016.10.26: Added some Guardians videos using Alpha's setup by Redix.
2016.10.11: Added Alphas Howl setup as many build followers are using it.
2016.10.01: Added Deathless T15 Core vid by redix27.
2016.09.28: Changed main pic (taken from redix27's T15 Core fight).
2016.09.27: Added T15 Dark Forest full clear video.
2016.09.27: Added T13 The Goddes with extra cold dmg video by redix27 (thx!).
2016.09.23: Added T16 Minotaur Guardian fight video.
2016.09.22: Guide created.



Low life Mjolner supertank done right (tm)
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T15 Core Malachai tanked with just Ruby + Basalt up.



Build highlights @ lvl92 with optimal gear:
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+ 7k+ ES
+ 25k+ armor unflasked without single endurance charge (70% physical dmg reduction)
+ 44k+ armor flasked with granite without single endurance charge (80% physical dmg reduction)
+ perma “free” Fortify
+ Arctic Armor
+ 83/83/84 max resistances unfasked and 89/83/90 fasked
+ 40%+ chaos resistance (positive chaos resistance flasked)
+ bleed immunity
+ very strong freeze reduction unflasked (freeze immunity flasked)
+ good mobility
+ very good clear speed
+ using LS for packs, and MS for bosses
+ 5/5 charges
+ 10k tooltip per Discharge with 44% elemental reduction (so it feels like 14.5k per Discharge)
+ 4.3 to 5 aps with Molten (depending on jewels)
+ 100k+ real DPS vs 40% resistance Boss (160k+ vs 0% resistance)
+ 2k+ ES leech/s vs 40% resistance Boss
+ can buff itself with VoV for 160k real DPS vs 40% resistance Boss (250k+ vs 0% resistance) while providing insta-healing
+ RT (allways hits)
+ able to run 9 auras at 162% effectiveness
+ only 5 link required
+ can do all map mods safely except “no leech” and “elemental reflect”
+ Uber Lab viable (faceroll)
+ Uber Atziri viable
+ Hardcore viable



Guardians vids with Alpha's setup by Redix:

T16 Minotaur attack speed, enfeeble, with RF up:

https://youtu.be/WC3GIXmm2xQ


T16 Pit of Chimera, enfeeble, 30% inc. dmg, with RF up:

https://youtu.be/jynxKDipkOE



T15 Dark Forest with -max, monster dmg, full deathless clear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-JzQ5xVKw

Rigwald fight was done without touching a single flask...

So yeah this is by far my favourite build in 2.4.


Deathless Core by redix27 (with crit mod):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9U3Q7ALlAQ



Video of build vs various end-game Bosses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmp2POpUik


Twinned T14 Maze full clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr4oNtKerZs


build vs T13 The Goddes with 94% extra dmg as cold by redix27
https://youtu.be/-OE7qEy1jtc


build vs T16 Minotaur Guardian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRCVuCKtJU



Required items:
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+ one Intuitive Leap and +2 life gained on hit jewel also:

ES shield with at leat 380 ES and 15% spell dmg, 450+ ES with 35%+ spell dmg HIGHLY recommended.



Passive skill tree & lvling trees:
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final tree @lvl 95

tree @lvl 92

tree @lvl 88

tree @lvl 86

Lvl 84 is similar to lvl 86, just drop power and endurance charge.

tree @lvl 81

tree @lvl 76


Note: Lvl 76 is minimal requirments to start playing as low life Mjolner. Trees are shown with lower lvl because of not included Intuitive Leap points.



Key jewels placement:
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Intuitive Leap:



Energy from Within:




Bandits:
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Kill them all. In all difficulty.


Ascendancy class choice: Champion
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Ascendancy passive skill nodes progression: First to Strike Last to Fall, Fortitude, Inspirational



Gem setup:
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lvl 4 Enlighten setup:

1) 4L The Vertex: Molten Strike – 20/20 Faster Attack – x/20 GMP – lvl 20 Multistrike
2) 3L Mjolner: 20/20 Arc – 20/20 Discharge – Life leech
3) 3L ES Shield: 20/0 Lightning Strike – 20/20 Faster Attack - lvl 20 Multistrike
4) 5L +1L Shavs: lvl 4 Enl – lvl 20 Wrath – lvl 20 Grace – lvl 20 AA – lvl 20 Discipline, Flamedash
5) 4L Repentance: lvl 3 Empower – lvl 21 Purity of Fire – lvl 21 Purity of Ice – lvl 21 Purity of Lightning
6) 2L + 2L Death’s Door: lvl 20 Blasphemy – 20/20 Elemental Weakness, CWDT - IC


lvl 3 Enlighten setup:

1) 4L The Vertex: Molten Strike – 20/20 Faster Attack – x/20 GMP – lvl 20 Multistrike
2) 3L Mjolner: 20/20 Arc – 20/20 Discharge – Life leech
3) 3L ES Shield: 20/0 Lightning Strike – 20/20 Faster Attack - lvl 20 Multistrike
4) 5L +1L Shavs: lvl 3 Enl – lvl 20 Wrath – lvl 20 Grace – lvl 20 Purity of Ice – lvl 20 Discipline, Flamedash
5) 3L + 1L Repentance: lvl 3 Empower – lvl 21 Purity of Fire – lvl 21 Purity of Lightning, lvl 20 AA
6) 2L + 2L Death’s Door: lvl 20 Blasphemy – 20/20 Elemental Weakness, CWDT – IC



Note: You need at least 60 life left after all the aura reservation to run your skills. Molten Strike setup must be placed in the Vertex beacues of "mana" requirements.


Alternative Alphas Howl gear & gems setup:
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If you dont have corrupted +1 endu charge belt you can use 60+ ES crystal belt with resistances.


What you gain here is freeze immunity (cannot be frozen), a bit easier gearing in terms of res capping and a room for one 50% aura or 2x 25% aura at a cost of 500-700 less ES depending on gear and gems lvls. Some people use Haste here, I use HoT as its working better for me. This way I can live with "just" lvl 3 Enlighten and have enough life pool to spam skills. Haste adds a bit attack speed, so from 4.3 to like 4.8 and movement speed. While HoT adds about 7-8% MORE DPS to both Arc and Discharge, destroys boxes, urns and stashes for you, but most important - its another source of power charge generation, helping you to sustain 5/5 charges vs single target.

NOTE: Shield here is crap. You need 490+ ES Shield with spell dmg and chaos res.



Defence:
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Build utilizes various defence mechanics to provide a player with set of tools to counter every nasty situation that might happen in-game. However its not immortal. It can still die when stars align in that specific order… once per galactic cycle…


1) vs hard hitting physical dmg build has:
+ 7k ES with
+ 40k+ armor fasked with granite
+ Fortify
+ Arctic Armor for additional 13% incoming phys dmg reduction
+ Endurance charges (you can safely assume that at least 2 are allways active when facetanking)
+ Basalt flask for additional 20% incoming physical dmg reduction
+ Immortal Call via CWDT
+ Bleed immunity

Build can facetank T10 Malformation Piety beam, T14 Palace Dominus “Touch of God”, T15 Core Malachai “slam”, T14 Maze Vaal Oversoul “slam”, T16 Minotaur, T13 Lair and T15 Dark Forest Rigwald. Assuming no crazy mod combinations like i.e: crit chance, crit multi, -max, boss dmg or –max, ele weakness, 100%+ extra dmg as X.

2) vs very hard hitting fire dmg build has:
+ 7k ES with
+ 83% max fire resistance unflasked
+ 89% flasked
+ Fortify
+ Arctic Armor for additional 12% less fire dmg taken

Build can facetank T12 Crematorium boss, T13 Plaza The Goddes fire beam, Atziri’s flameblast and double vaal flameblast. Build can also face tank Uber Atziri’s flameblast but not double vaal flameblast.

3) vs very hard hitting cold dmg build has:
+ 7k ES with
+ 83% max cold resistance unflasked
+ Fortify
+ Auxium belt to reduce freeze durations to minimum
+ or cannot be frozen if Alphas Howl setup is used

Build can facetank T13 Mutewind’s Yorishi and Otesha with dmg mods and T14 Mineral Pools Mervill first stage without too crazy dmg mods.


3) vs very hard hitting lightning dmg build has:

+ 7k ES with
+ 84% max lightning resistance unflasked
+ 90% flasked
+ Fortify

Build can facetank Atziri's storm calls end empowered yellow storm calls, Uber Atziri's storm calls but not empowered yellow ones.


4) vs lots of chaos dmg degen over time build has:

+ 7k ES with
+ 40%+ chaos resistance unflasked
+ positive chaos resistance flasked
+ Fortify

Build can facetank T13 Plaza The Goddes while standing in her chaos degen but only with proper gear lvl.


Common problems with ES based characters has been completely eliminated with this build. Build has:

+ Bleeding / corrupting blood immunity
+ Freeze durations being extremely short
+ Stun immunity
+ highest Physical dmg mitigation

Build utilizes armor values known before only from some very tanky life builds (22k+ armor unflasked, unbuffed, over 40k buffed).


Wait, what? 22k+ amor with pure ES gear unflasked, unbuffed? How is this possible!?
Build uses some hybrid eva/es and armor/es gear. It uses Iron Reflexes and runs Grace aura at 162% aura effectiveness. This together with powerfull Ascendancy Champion passive skill node “First to Strike Last to Fal” that grants whooping 200% armor increase when on low life (which is allways with this build) provides 22k+ armor unflasked and unbuffed with anything else.


TL;DR: Build is super tanky.


Offence:
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With all that tankiness offensive side of thing usually goes weak. Not here.

Build uses Iron Will from Repentance gloves, Clear Mind unique jewel, ES shield with spell dmg, spell/ele dmg jewels, Inspiritional aura form Champion (yes its an aura, so it benefits from 162% aura effectiveness) for a total of 250%+ Discharge dmg increase.

Build also uses 30% global MORE multiplier being low life with Pain Attunement passive skill node.

Build uses Wrath with 162% aura effectiveness for a total of 34% MORE multiplier to lightning damage.

Build uses 5/5 charges.

Finally build uses quality 20/20 Elemental Weakness curse as aura via Blasphemy, which provides -44% elemental resistance reduction to enemies (26% for Bosses) and works on entire screen due to the many +increase area of effect nodes for auras.

But theres more.

Build can buff itself with Vessel of Vinktar flask for another 50% global MORE multiplier because Vinktar flask allways shocks nearby enemies. Not mentioning its crazy 20% lightning dmg leeched as life during flask effect.


DPS wise build is somewhere inbetween Rainbownuke and my life Berserker version.


TL;DR: Build has very good DPS, both for packs and single target.



My gear & gems:
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Note: This lvl of gear is a bare minimum for this build to work as intended in end-game content. I'm still missing shield with 470+ es to reach 7k+ es, I still need lvl 4 Enlighten with lvl 21 Purity of Ice.



Flask setup:
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On switch:





Dealing with specific bosses:
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Global rules:

For physical hard hitters (Dominus, Malachai, Rigwald, Minotaur, Vaal Oversoul, all bosses at Atziri and Uber Atziri) you must utilize Granite flask of iron skin or even better: Basalt flask vs most deadly attacks (slams).


For chaos hard hitting bosses (The Goddes, Chimera) you must bring in Atziri’s Promise flask. This way you will gain positive chaos resitance while supporting your leeching abilities.


For hard cold hitters (Yorishi, Otesha, Mervill) you must have one unfreeze flask with at least 2 uses just “in case” short freeze will occur in the most inappropriate time.


For fire hitters that inflict burning you should use one “remove burning” flask with at least 2 uses. Burning isn’t much of a problem tbh but… in that brief moment… when stars align in the certain way… once per galactic cycle…


Bosses that will cause trouble to the build:

T13 Plaza The Goddes especially with a combination of enfeeble + boss dmg or 80% resistance + enfeeble or 80% resistance + boss dmg. In this kind of scenario build will have troubles outleeching dmg while standing in chaos degen with VoV down. Atziri flask up is a must with this.

T13 Scriptorium Shavrone: simply because when facetanking her it is hard to see the elemental dmg reflection aura that she's turning on from time to time. So whenever you see your shield going down fast - kite her abit untill her aura goes off.

T14 Mineral Pools Mervill first phase: but only with a combination of enfeeble + boss dmg or 80% resistance + enfeeble or 80% resistance + boss dmg. To outleech her in this scenario with VoV flask down you'll have to not stand in Ice Storm area of effect.

T15 Core Malachai with dmg mods.

Ubers.




Video section:
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T15 Dark Forest with -max, monster dmg, full deathless clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-JzQ5xVKw


Build vs various end-game Bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmp2POpUik


Twinned T14 Maze full clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr4oNtKerZs


low life supertank vs T16 Minotaur Guardian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRCVuCKtJU



Stats screenshots:
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Note: Taken @lvl 91 character with minimal gear.


Defensive stats:



Offensive stats:

Reserved.

Thx Rico. It´s a op build, i just run crazy mods with Rico(with my lv92 Berserek) and sometimes my life went down about 55%-60% and he´s never down 10%...Time for science and leveling a Duelist.

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redix27 wrote:

Thx Rico. It´s a op build, i just run crazy mods with Rico(with my lv92 Berserek) and sometimes my life went down about 55%-60% and he´s never down 10%...Time for science and leveling a Duelist.

Yep.

Was wondering what to change about my inquisitor mjolner...

*Edit

Any suggestion to replace boots until I can get a pair?

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Urbnopr8r wrote:

Was wondering what to change about my inquisitor mjolner...

*Edit

Any suggestion to replace boots until I can get a pair?

Rainbowstride. However do not attempt Rigwald or Uber lab with those.

EDIT: Just dropped T16 Minotaur with the build. Facetanked him all the way, with his rocks and stuff. Easy. And I got this:




I will upload video of the fight soon.


EDIT: video of T16 Minotaur fight is up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRCVuCKtJU

Hi there,

Best linked jewel if you have a 6L Shavs:

A) Not required Lv21 auras:-) + 180ES empowered Discipline



B) Required lv21 auras



WIP @84, I need 60 regrets (Deal of Bandits)

Btw, what about to get 6/6 ? (1PC for bandits, 2 nodes from the tree), you can remove +1 jewel and get EXTRA DPU power.

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redix27 wrote:

Btw, what about to get 6/6 ? (1PC for bandits, 2 nodes from the tree), you can remove +1 jewel and get EXTRA DPU power.

Not needed. 5/5 is optimal. Vs single target 4/4 is 80% of the time, while 5/5 20% of the time.

Poorjoy's Asylum @87 level and w/o First to Strike, Last to Fall

Vid



Facetanking Argus on Chateau Map @87

Vid

Awesome build, I change The Vertex to rare helmet to cap the resis now i can facetank almost every boss that life berserker can't do