3.5 Chaos/Cold Storm Brand - Uber Elder✓ 10k EHP ✓ Budget ✓ HC ✓ Hierophant or Occultist

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Calibas wrote:

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DarkenX wrote:

For those who've reached endgame/maps, how's the build working out? Curious about switching to this from the current SB build I'm following, as this does look more viable for killing bosses overall...

I've been tearing through red maps with the Occultist build. High DPS and quite tanky when you've got all the curses going.

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DarkenX wrote:

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Calibas wrote:

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DarkenX wrote:

For those who've reached endgame/maps, how's the build working out? Curious about switching to this from the current SB build I'm following, as this does look more viable for killing bosses overall...

I've been tearing through red maps with the Occultist build. High DPS and quite tanky when you've got all the curses going.

Sounds promising, though I'm on the Templar/Heirophant currently. Was running with a build I found earlier, and was curious about switching over to this one, but wondered if it was worth the price...

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Hobo_Wilkins wrote:

Hey guys, just wanted to chime in on this thread, because this build caught my eye early on and I decided to stay with a much earlier "version", than what the OP's current iteration is.

I'm running an Occultist Arc Totem build, with some tweaks of my own and I could not be happier with where this build is currently at.

Feel free to check out my characters gear and passive tree, the characters name is Kobra_Kai_Dojo_Ho.

The damage is really good, but Don't just take my word for it. Here is a link to my character in Path of Building.

https://pastebin.com/Kzb5GPDj

Please note a couple of key things.

The effective dps currently shown is with 15 wither stacks. I haven't had a boss last for over 5 seconds in quite a while, so most likely those stacks will be lower outside of guardians/shaper/elder/uber elder.

Also I had to manually place the wither stacks in with a "Fake" gem because path of building was not treating my character as a walking wither totem "Ascendancy, Withering Presence"

Also, you could drop Wicked Ward and Forbidden power for Malediction and Profane Bloom, for even more damage and a side grade on survivability, but you would need to generate power charges some where else, "Power charge on crit gem in your main gem set up would work", and you would also need to gear differently to pick up more effective HP In my opinion.

As for survivability, as of right now, it's pretty good, everything gets frozen and dies so fast almost nothing touches me, but the gearing process and getting to the point that my gear currently is(No where near min/maxed by the way) can be a bit rough, if your effective HP is too low.

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DarkenX wrote:

Aren't those pretty expensive? Yeesh... Maybe I should reconsider all-together...

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muera wrote:

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DarkenX wrote:

Aren't those pretty expensive? Yeesh... Maybe I should reconsider all-together...

Void battery is ya 🙂 This build (CI occu) is super tanky and deals with bosses pretty well but I wouldn't call it a boss killer. Going with Ascendant is hard and also expensive.. so juyt stay with this one maybe 🙂

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RaltSh wrote:

I was following his steps with curses on heirophant and respecced to his latest version and things are much much better. You should do the same ASAP.

Is fossil crafting the most reliable way to get non-chaos as extra chaos on shield? Been watching trades for a few days and when I search *any* shields *only* with that mod at 1% I always get nothing.