[2.4] low life Mjolner supertank done right by Rico

Hey guys,

I've been playing your life based build on standard for the last few weeks and switched over to this low life not long ago. A lot of fun and trivializing most content.

I'm sure you guys have already looked into this and it's not as viable as what you're playing with, but I've been trying to make Alpha's Howl work to add in a couple more auras.

If you stick the purities + enlighten lvl 2 (3 does nothing apparently) into alphas, then enlighten lvl 4 and discipline/arctic armor/grace/wrath/haste into 6l shavs then you can fit in haste and an additional curse with blasphemy. This would of course require +1 curse to enemies and you'd have to give up vertex ES and your CWDT/IC. At lvl 95 you could have decent es though. Lots of different curses to choose from to supplement the build. The extra AS and move speed is nice for mapping and the extra curse could do any number of things depending on what you choose.

Then we could switch out Auxium for a higher es belt because of alpha's no freeze, as well as getting some other stats/resistances. Might help a little.

Just a thought, probably not viable and would need high level + very good gear to compensate for the changes.

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redix27 wrote:

T14 Shrine Deathless

- Elemental Weakness
- Cannot leech life from monsters
- Cannot Leech mana from monsters
- 97% Extra lightning damage

I dont know how you did this :P

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bakafly812 wrote:

Very interesting build, planing to make me one as soon as i get those boots.
Right now playing as mjolner life based from your builds. Like it very much also.

Just interesting, can you go with assasin sub-class for this one?

Could have a lot of ES and some other stuff.

What do you guys think ?

The whole concept of this build is around Champions "First to Strike, Last to Fall" and "Fortitude", not mentioning that "Inspirational" is an aura an benefits from 162% aura effectiveness for MOAR dmg.

So no, no other class will do it.



@Alturas

Intresting idea. However you'll loose chaos resistance and some serious ES. May work thou on higher lvls with gz gear with chaos res on shield and ring.

You could get chaos on belt as well now that no auxium is required, as well as higher ES than auxium. It would however lose potency on curse immune enemies compared to current build. I'm going to try to make it work when I level up a little and get some better items. I'll report back then on how it went.

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Alturas wrote:

You could get chaos on belt as well now that no auxium is required, as well as higher ES than auxium. It would however lose potency on curse immune enemies compared to current build. I'm going to try to make it work when I level up a little and get some better items. I'll report back then on how it went.

Yes it´s a good idea, and what about..using in 6L Shavs MS+Multistrike+FA+GMP+curse on hit+elemental weakness? (you save 1 curse!, "old mjölner build").

Here's my idea of build sub-version with Aegis Aurora:


Passive tree:
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lvl 92

Later on just add ES nodes in Witch area.



Gear:
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Same just switch belt with something like this:



or:



without +1 from belt respec bandits to take +1 endu charge.

Switch boots with:



And shield with:




Now you need 2x Reckless Defence jools for at least +7 to block. So Intuitive Leap is dropped and build works with 4/4 charges. With that build will have 48/38 block/spell block unflasked and capped block with Rumis up.

With Rumis up armor will be about 35k, so each block or spell block will grant ~700 ES.

Now remove life leech gem from Mjolner links, pop in either Controlled Destrucion or Lightning Penetration.

Than remove Ele Weakness from blasphemy setup and pop in Warlords Mark to have leech back.

Now you dont need Purity of Ice as Aegis Aurora provides +5 max cold resistance. This way some aura nodes can be skipped to save points.


Downsides:
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150 ES shield vs 450 ES shield for overall 6.1-6.5k ES vs 7k+.
1% less max fire/light resistances due to less aura eff nodes


Upsides:
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+ capped block/spell block with Rumis
+ up to 50/40 block/spell block unflasked
+ 700 es gained per block/spell block
+ still enough EHP to survive one-shots that will bypass block (I think :d)


What you guys think?

I did some aura calculations and here is what I came up with for running ALpha's Howl:

1. https://poe.mikelat.com/#PKLvxtn/tNrp.sJb/tNrp.CNh/uJxlb.cZb

Where Aura Group 1 is in AH, Aura Group 2 is in Shav's, and Aura Group 3 is in either boots or gloves. The last 4-Link gear piece would have: MS -> LS -> Multistrike -> Faster Attacks

2. https://poe.mikelat.com/#PKLvxtn/tNrp.sJb/tNrp.2/tNrp.mJj

Where Aura Group 1 is in AH, Aura Group 2 is in Gloves/Boots, and Aura Group 3 is in Gloves/Boots. This assumes Shav's will have MS -> LS -> Multistrike -> Faster Attacks -> CoH -> WLM/EW


Might be able to mess around with the Enlighten numbers a bit, but those seem to be the bases at the moment. It should be noted that with Alpha's Howl in these setups we can run Determination and get an additional multiplier on our Armour, which is rather nice. However, I am not a number cruncher with the Armour/Damage formula so I'm not sure how beneficial that would be. However, if Determination proves not to be too good, there is one other thing, and that is to swap it out for Purity of Elements. Why is this a good thing, you might ask?

By putting in PoE (see what I did there? :p ) this allows us to be less stringent for resists on the rest of our gear and allow us for easier gearing options. Since the build uses a lot of unique gear that lacks overall resists on it, this can definitely help out with us reaching the resist cap, and so things like the Boots, Belt, and our other Ring Slot are freed up for other things. Also, this frees up the Shield slot as well to go after more valuable stuff like ES, ES%, Spell Damage, and with your resists covered, you can potentially get just Chaos Resist, Block, and whatever else you want for the suffix like Dex, Strength, or Int.

It is certainly something to consider, and again, while I don't have any hard numbers, these things should give people some guidance on making other changes to the build and tweaking it.

**EDIT**

Also to note on those aura calculations above, you can put in Conqueror's Efficiency for a jewel socket if you want a more comfortable life total. The only real issue with running all these juicy auras is that it's hard to fit other gems in there for things like movement skills, or CWDT setups, etc, etc.

The CoH is an interesting idea, Ill have to redo the aura calculator with it. Tanakeah, those are similar results to what I got, however you only need enlighten lvl 2 in the alphas howl and in the armor with blasphemy and AA. According to the aura calculator I was using it does nothing to go higher than that.

I already dont use any movement skills becuase I use my 6l shavs to use all auras and dont have room for it, so the extra MS from haste is nice. I havent noticed CWDT/IC save my life yet, as you mentioned with this much armor, the physical hasnt been the issue.

The thing thats killed me the most is freeze. In fact my only three deaths so far have been due to freeze. They were nasty mods but I think I would have lived with alphas.

I kind of like the PoE idea too, if I had free reign to get items purely for non resists I would be able to drop at least 2 nodes on the tree and change my jewels to be more offensive. Determination was what I was planning to use, ill play with it and see if the extra armor is really noticed. With our lower ES it might be safer.

Also with the CoH setup you can drop some reservation nodes if youre not replacing that second blasphemy aura with something else (I dont think youd have room to anyway, only 9 slots available for auras in helm gloves and boots unless somehow an enlighten can be dropped inone of them for the tenth aura. This might save 1-2 aura reserve nodes to be used elsewhere. (Extra curse node?)

I really like the aegis change idea as well. Aegis is one of my favorite items so Im always looking for a way to incorporate it (currently only skin transfer :( ). That seems extremely strong though. If that 700 es is with the 2% aegis the 4% would be disgusting. That could be a very op build.

Sorry for the wall.

So now we need some volunteers to test both variations:

1) Alphas Howl setup with added haste and determination
2) Aegis Aurora setup with block and spell block and life leech out for dmg gem

I really like both ideas (one of those being mine :P). So, anyone? :)

Im going to be working toward the alphas version, Ive been trying to figure it out for a while. Ill reroll things today and see how it goes, I think I would really benefit by getting to 90 at least first though (almost 89). Ill see how long I can grind it out today.

Here my third variation Immunity to Freeze using....



1º - Change Auxium Belt for Belt with +45 Str (or 2x STR) and +25 Chaos res
2º - You need a Shield with open Suffix and roll 30 DEX
3º - Take nodes or jewel until you get STR and DEX requirements

Downsides:
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- Hard to cap all resistances with EW mod on a map (you need to spam ruby or topaz flask)
- You need about lv93 for taking FAITH AND STEEL node and get extra ES and 8% elem. resistances

Upsides:
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- Immunity to Freeze
- Positive Chaos res (+35 chaos res with Atziri Promise)
- 6.7K ES (+7000ES taking x2 Witch nodes)