[3.4] ❖❖ Low-life Phantasy ❖❖ Occultist / Dbl Soulwrest / Phantasms / BM / 8 Auras / 3 Curses ❖❖

Soulwrest - Price would ramp up further, relevantly cheap. Without it we are not a Phantasm build, no links required, sockets 2g4b. If you have tons of extra Jeweler Orbs mid league do not buy 6 sockets for 30-60c, just buy cheap 1 socket and do Vorichi craft step by step starting from 2 green off-color sockets



Victario's Influence - Cheap. Our key for aura and curse spam. 6 sockets, at least 4 link 3b1g, separate 2g. We take advantage of generosity and +1 to boost our main damage auras - Hatred and Haste. Reduced reserved mana is godlike to run 3 curses with Blasphemy support (gets +1). Corruption +2 lvl to curses is solid and rather cheap to affect 4 gems out of 6. Got mine under 40c.



Alpha Howl - Cheap. 8% reduced mana reservation mandatory for this build to function. +2 level of aura gems is great for our Purity and Discipline auras. In this helmet lvl 21 Purity gems with aura bonuses grants us extra 2% max resists.



Coruscating Elixir - Cheap. Without this flask low life just dies to chaos/poison damage through energy shield



Fluid Motion - Cheap. Without it we do not meet gem/gear DEX req. Converts excess STR to DEX

Bubonic Trail Boots - Cheap. Makes this build shine and autopilot. Death Walk Aura basically triggers summon Phantasm. Corrupt +2 lvl of AoE Gems can buff Grace aura)



Presense of Chayula - 2ex+, more ES, solid chaos resistance, anti-stun is pointless since we have Vile Bastion.



Ming's Heart - 20-50c for good roll. Main half of our chaos resists, necessary evil to have 75% chaos res



Lorri's Lantern - 20-50c for good roll. Enemy hits are unlucky is huge damage mitigation. Movement speed, free corrupt implicit and last part of our chaos res. Solid corrupts are buffs to Hatred and Discipline auras



Grip Of the Council - 30c+. Just additional mini-Hatred aura. +2 lvl of Duration gems is solid corrupt for Phase Run link



Watcher's Eye - 5-30c. Look for anti-ignite! and % phys damage taken as elemental. Now you can do T16 Phoenix

Taste of Hate - 2.2ex+, any roll. It is second Basalt Flask, best flask ever)



lvl 21 Purity of Fire/Cold/Lightning gems - 1ex+ each, with Alpha Howl and passive tree they add +2% to max resists over lvl 20 version.



lvl 21 Summon Phantasms - 1ex+ flat 5% to total DPS



+2 lvl AoE/Aura Alpha Howl - 0.5-10ex. could be alternative for set of lvl 21 Purity gems, hard to catch cheap one online



Presense of Chayula with lvl 23 Purity skill and 2 Abyssal socket on Bubonic Trail (we move Grace to helmet, also you would need + DEX on one of jewels)


Upgrade Victario's Influence with +2 lvl of AoE gems (Affect every gem aside Blasphemy. Really hard to find, may be expensive and most likely you would end up spending a lot of Vaal orbs at Vorichi to recolor it. Other possibility is to gamble for it.

Ascent From Flesh - Chap and solid unique to start on budget.



Depending on the market rare Crystal Belt with reduced Flask Charges and high ES would work. +Armour is solid. +INT/STR is nice. +DEX is Insane, expensive and questionable alternative.



Upgrade to Darkness Enthroned with +ES and minion damage Jewels if you willing to sacrifice flask sustain. In that variation you gain minion damage/utility and at least +30 additional flat ES over max Crystal Belt.

Anti Maim and Hinder are great corrupts on 2 of gems.



Watcher's Eye with anti-ignite and % phys damage taken as elemental



Fluid Motion, without it we do not meet gem/gear DEX req.



Rest are Abyssal Jewels with +ES and +% Minion damage. Minion Blind on hit is great for boss encounters. Hinder is solid extra defense layer. +20% Damage on minion skill use is good only if you willing to recast golem every 4 seconds. +% minion damage against abyssal monsters is solid in delve abyssal cities.
Place your +% Minion damage in Darkness Enthroned if you run it.

Press all 5 on CD during clear/delve. During boss fights you would be able activate flasks 2-4 times, if by that time boss is still alive something is wrong.

3 to max our ele resists:
- Coruscating Elexir
- Topaz
- Taste of Hate / Aquamarine


2 to reduce phys damage:
- Basalt
- Granite


On non unique flask search for Curse and Bleed immunity, and grab +30% movement speed one. I prefer to use Chemists variation, but Topas/Granite flasks can use increased duration. I do not recommend non Chemists Basalt, it just feels bad and clunky.

We can run situational gear swaps to boost build perfomance and raise comfort level:

Shavronne's Revelation - Great swap for T16 Guardian fights, since they have almost no chaos damage. Raw shield boost and a bit of permanent ES regeneration.

No reason to have links, Phantasms buffs works without links.

1+2. Slower and Faster Projectiles works great together. For extra 10-20% DPS on bosses Faster Projectiles could be swapped for added Cold Damage or Culling Strike.
3. Summon Phantasm on Kill Support - boosts our minion number from 10 up to 21
4. Minion Damage Support - BIS
5. Physical to Lightning Support - around 14% more DPS over closest competitor gem: Added Fire Damage support.
6. Elemental Focus Support - Another solid DPS choice since we have Hatred, Elemental Weakness, Grip of The Counsil and Physical to Lightning Support


Why no Pierce, GMP or LMP? Pierce is bad choice since Phantasms have it already. GMP and LMP are trash DPS options both for bosses and clear/delve. As Profane Bloom Occultist we need spike DPS to proc it. Profane Bloom is our clear AoE, not gem supports. Also Profane Bloom receive damage boost from raw damage gems as well as damage auras.

Why no Spell Echo, Faster Cast or Faster Attack support? Faster Attack and Spell Echo support do not work with Phantasms. Faster Cast < spike damage for Profane Bloom proc.

Why no Controlled Destruction Support? Unfortunately it stacks poorly,
Physical to Lightning Support gives better numbers with Elemental Weakness and Elemental Focus.

Phantasm have physical damage, why not to go physical with Brutality Support? Brutality Support while great on paper in reality is solid noob trap for this type of build. Brutality deletes following: Profane bloom, Hatred, Grip of The Counsil, added Physical to Lightning Support. So you need run other curses, auras, ascendansy, gems and gear to be physical.

We utilize Generosity Support from armor as 7th socket. Reduced mana reservation allows us to run most expensive curses and auras.


4 link:
- Blasphemy Support (add ability to slack on our APM)
- Poacher Mark (Give us flack sustain, gives frenzy charges to minions, not as solid as on golemanser builds, but still great)
- Enfeeble (Chosen over Temporal Chains. It is our protection against 1-shots in boss fights and deep delve. And really only 1-shots bother this build.)
- Elemental Weakness (BIS since we run Hatred, Grip of the Counsil and Added Ele damage gem)


Non linked:
- Hatred (Most broken aura for DPS)
- Vaal Haste (Just plain added DPS, Vaal variant is great for DPS boost on bosses)

+2 on helmet allow us to have more defenses. Purity stacking just delete your resistance need.


Non Linked:
- Purity of Fire
- Purity of Ice
- Purity if Lightning
- Vaal Discipline (Vaal version is solid emergency heal)

Look for +2 lvl of AoE or Duration Gems corrupt to boost Grace


Non Linked:
- Purity of Elements (top out our resistances, necessary evil)
- Vaal Grace (Emergency survival tool)
- Summon Stone Golem (Mandatory for Blood Magic build with active skills)
- Dececrate (Mandatory to start Phantasm spawn and great to sustain minion numbers during challanging fights)


+2 lvl of Duration Gems corrupt is nice to setup movement/buff 3 link:
- Phase Run
- Duration Support
- Flesh Offering (Mandatory, second component for Desecrate, more minion DPS)

Phantasms remain summoned and maintain their supports when you switch to another Soulwrest!!! (Playtested it with GMP). You just need another Summon Phantasms on Kill Support to stay at 20 minions. This allows for second combined set of gems.


Since we "lack" (1mil+ on 21 phantasms) in boss DPS department Summon Vaal Skeletons 5-6 link is great choice. We do not need to link Summon Phantasms on Kill Support to skeletons if you use it only on bosses, for delve cities however you can use extra link to have +10 Phantasms from Skeleton kills.

We rather tight on support gem choices that works both on Phantasms and Skeletons. To compromise we leave Minion Damage, Elemental Focus and Physical to Lightning Supports. Projectile supports are exchanged for Added Fire Damage.

Also be aware that second weapon set need some babysitting. Vaal Skeletons do not charge while other set is active, so you would need to charge it before encounter. Not a big deal, since even with sub-optimal link Phantasms have good clearing potential on second set.

Perfect DPS loop for this set is:
- Summon 20 Phantasms with weapon set 1
- Switch to set 2
- Summon Vaal Skeleton army
- Try not to resummon a lot of Phantasms during skeleton Phase for more DPS
- Switch to weapon set 1 at the end of skeleton phase
- Repeat if you have enough souls