[3.6] Crit. Staff Cyclone, 1 M+ Shaper dps, 100% Elemental Damage (Shaper Video online)

Your damage calculation (flasks ignored):

Main damage you cause due to ignoring elemental resistances on critical strike (Ascendency). And the Staff gives you 100% Elemental Damage. It converts 50% to cold and 50% to lightning. Also Hatred the amulet and Herald of Ash gives you extra physical damage as elemental damage.
You have
- 70% to Lightning
- 90% to Cold
- 15% to Fire

- A Staff with good physical Base damage

'more' multiplier with Skill gems 'Elemental Damage with Attacks' and 'Elemental Focus' and 'Hatred' (131% more for fire and lightning, 173% more for cold)

'increased' physical damage -> all is converted to 175% Elemental Damage

'increased' elemental damage

- High Crit Chance: your Critical Strikes have a 400%+ Multiplier

Shaper kill



Bosses on the way to the Shaper



Maze of the Minotaur



Pit of the Chimera



Lair of the Hydra




Defiled Cathedral (T15) - Boss kill in 1 second



Carcass - Boss kill in 1 second (T12)



Tower (T13)



Malformation (T12)




All of the following videos I used item find equipment (less Damage ~250K without Buffs):

Caldera (T14) Boss fight



Summit (T13)



Crimson Temple (T13)



Sunken City(T12)

Without Buffs (just standing around in the hideout)

either:
(best option I think at the moment)
or:
(more magic find, 10% more movement speed, less damage, more life leech)






- The Staff is Essential, it converts all of your damage to elemental damage, it has high block chance and you shock and chill enemies on a block. - you can get nearly the same amount of damage with Hegemony's Era if you skill to Winter Spirit and use Physical To Lightning support gem, but then you can't take Vitality Void and you will have less life.

- Take Life on all rare items, because you don't have on the uniques.

- Try to get also some energy shield (200-300) in addition, because you get 200 energy shield regeneration from Consecrated Ground (nearly always)

- Take some accuracy on Rings/Amulet/Gloves so that you reach at least 90% hit chance.

- Take Resistances spread over the rare items (also the Jewels if needed) that you reach 75%. Other mods should increase damage: 'To Physical Damage' and additional 'Critical Multiplier' and 'increased attack speed' is the best option, because it scales good (you convert it and you get physical as extra cold / fire / chaos)

- Flasks: You need only one flask to remove bleeding. Because of the Ascendency, you are nearly immune to ailments (pious path). All other flasks increase damage and defenses. Because of the immunity, you can easily use the Vessel of Vinctar! At the moment I use a Diamond Flask to get even more damage.

- Important: You will have problems with DEX perhaps, so you must have some Dexterity (30+) on your equipment - if you do not have enough you can take the +30 Node on the left side of the tree

6L Armor, Bronn's Lithe G-R-R-B-B-B, Difficult to obtain
...if you don't want to use Bronn's Lithe (-20% damage) you can put these gems also the 6 link staff...
Cyclone (G)
Concentrated Effect (B), for mapping use Increased Area of Effect
Elemental Focus (B), for Mapping you can also use here Item Rarity Support
Increased Critical Strike Support(B)
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support (R)
Melee Physical Damage (R)

6L Weapon, The Stormwall G-R-R-R-B-B
...active...
Cast on Critical Strike Support
Power Charge on Critical, for Power Charges
Enfeeble
Fortify, we want to have this buff
Molten Shell, COC for better defenses
Consecrated Path or fighting Shaper I use Leap Slam, utility movement skill and to trigger COC

In this 6-Link I want to have some utility to buff on Crit when jumping into the enemies.
For mapping and spawning Frency Charges you can use "Cold Snap" instead of Enfeeble. I also tried another color setup with COC "Blade Vortex", Curse on Hit and Enfeeble.

In general, feel free to change the 2nd 6-Link setup.

4L Gloves B-R-R-R
...defensive, you don't need to recast you Minions in a fight...
Cast when Damage Taken (20)
Summon Holy Relict
Summon Stone Golem, for more damage the best choice is Ice Golem
Ancestral Warchief (you have to cast it yourself)

4L Helm G-B-R-R
...for more damage
Enlighten (Level 4), but (Level 3) is also ok
Hatred
Herald of Ash
Herald of Purity
If you have too less mana you can take less life in the middle (see tree) and go to Tireless node (about 100 less life, but about 10 mana less needed to use cyclone)

4L Boots G-B-B-R
...defensive...
Cast when damage is taken (1)
Phase Run (1)
Immortal Call (1)
Increased Duration Support (20)

--> Amongst other things I tried
- Cast when Damage Take (1), Immortal Call (3), Ancestral Warchief (20), Blind Support (20), which is also ok - then you need (R-R-R-G)

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* Use Consecrated Path to jump in combat and get Power Charges, Molten Shell and also Fortify, use Cyclone afterward.
* Use Leap Slam to overcome obstacles faster or jump out of combat.
* Character is tanky because of about 1850 life leech and about 950+ life regeneration.
* Melee avoidance (Block/Evasion) is about 60% with this setup (pob).
* With Fortify and any armor flask on, we have good physical damage. reduction (up to 60%)

Key item with this Passive Tree is the Staff (The Stormwall), it converts all physical damage to cold and lightning. Also, because it's a staff, it gives you a good block chance, so evasion and physical damage reduction are low but ok. Also because of the massive damage, you won't get much damage while map clearing.

* Go to Inevitable Judgement for ignoring Elemental Resistances
* Go for Pious Path, it has some advantages:
- you gain extra Mana Regeneration - this is important because most mana is reserved.
- you create Consecrated Ground, so nearly all the time you have additional Regeneration (6%) and
- you get 40% increased damage
- you get 200 Energy Shield Regeneration
- you are immune to ailments on Consecrated Ground
- and because of this you only need one Flask for don't be frozen, do not bleed, don't be shocked: Surgeon's Sulphur Flask

--> All in all for pure damage it is better to take Augury of Penitence and Instruments of Virtue, but especially the passive abilities (immunity vs ailments) are worth to give up a small amount of damage.

* For map cleaning and easy bosses you can use Increase Area of Effect Support (I use it nearly always but the Guardians).
* Also I change Elemental Focus Support on map cleaning and put in Item Rarity Support. This Gem I only change when bosses are hard and map setup is difficult, too (rare map, no leach or regeneration).

Because you have high Critical Strike change best Passive Tree Jewel options are Life + Critical Strike Multiplier + Increased Attack Speed With Staves (+ either more damage or Resistances if needed)

Body Armor:
Instead of Bronn's Lithe, you can also use a rare Armor with Hitpoint and Resistances as long as you do not can get enough through other items. But you will lose a notable amount on damage (about 20%)


Also for getting 8000+ HP you can use Kaom's Heart and put Cyclone Setup into the staff. Remove setup in the Boots and put in 4L: Faster Attack Support, Leap Slam, Power Charge on Critical and i.e Fortify or Ice Bite or Blind Support.


Belt: For more damage and less life you can use Belt of the Deceiver


Amulet: For more damage and less Leech:

--> if you can get a good elder amulet with physical as extra cold and physical as extra lightning damage than you can do even 20%+ more damage!



Flask options:


You can use Sulphur Flask instead of Diamond Flask to create an additional consecrated ground - so stationary bosses get 10% more damage (see also ascendency 'Sanctuary')

* Six links on armor. If you use another armor you can put the Cyclone Setup also in the staff.

* Second six link isn't necessary but nice for cleaning. Teleport with Consecrated path in the Group of enemies to get Frency and Power Charges optional you can also use onslaught Support instead of using Leap Slam or Increase Critical Strike Chance

* Leap Slam I only use for movement but not for damage. So also here it is possible to use use a Totem skill gem.

* Don't use Blood Rage - you will lose the energy shield and 200+ hp Regeneration

* Summon Ice Golem instead of Stone Golem is possible for more damage but less life regeneration

* if you do not have an Enlighten Support on Level 3 dismiss Herald of Ash

Take 2 passive points