[3.8] DoomHerald | All Content | Millions+ DPS MirageArcher | 7k+ Life | 600+ Delves | 5-Link only

T16: Hydra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpuPyOfyQXc&index=8&list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=167s

T16: Phoenix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV-GYmLSPNc&index=4&list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=155s

T16: Chimera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_QYpmXvuk&index=11&list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=184s

T16: Minotaur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8rfZTM8CM&feature=youtu.be&t=118

T16: Purifier

https://youtu.be/y8WgXXoTDGM?list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=592

T16: Enslaver

https://youtu.be/820sFGdza-w?list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=166

T16: Constrictor

https://youtu.be/DM2k4nWlRLY?list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=172

T16: Eradicator:

https://youtu.be/FzS3X1WJdEs?list=PLTLUHocB4ZiIr9FhRGNvLGG8FHQYsNjgi&t=232

This is pretty much the centerpiece of this Build - It is a fated (meaning it has a base variant that can be upgraded via prophecy) unique bow that costs about 1c to 5c; depending on daily prices. It has fairly low base physical damage but compensates that by giving *extra* elemental damage of *each* element. And a wooping 100% at that. That means for each point of physical damage you deal, you deal an extra point of lightning, cold and fire damage.

Now - historically this bow has had a couple drawbacks - its low base phyiscal damage being one - and that it gives all its extra damage split over 3 elements is another one.

The low physical damage made it hard to stack %-increases with it - since a % of a low value results in an total value thats still kinda low. This is something we can circumvent now though via abyss jewels who can roll with flat physical damage on them.

Due to stat-sticks being rendered obsolete for melees those jewels are fairly cheap to come by nowadays. Another source of flat damage stacking comes from the fairly new Herald of Purity - made even better by a little quirk of the ScionElementalist Ascendancy - which buffs ALL Heralds by 40%. Thats a higher buff then the Witch Elementalist gets on the flat damage values and makes this interaction uniquely good with the Scion Elementalist.

Since we do get this nice buff on heralds and stacking flat damage is nice - we utelize three more Heralds (Thunder, Ash and Ice) to further synergise with our conversion by Doomflecth Prism. This also synergises with Elemental Ailments (Freeze, Shock etc)
We link those 4 Heralds up with an Enlighten (Level 3 is fine - Level 4 feels a tad better) to make this a bit easier on our mana. If you do get around to 6link the bow eventually you can add Blind to the Heralds which synergises nicely with them due to not increasing the manaupkeep of the heralds and providing quality of life by blinding all enemies.

The split elemental damage provided by the Doomfletch Prism is another bottleneck we need to circumvent; part of that is handled by our Ascendancy Elementalist. It provides us with general, non-element specific elemental penetration.
This is a fairly rare modifier in the game, only found at one other point on the talent tree - which we naturally take as well. This combined on its own however would make our elemental damage only viable and not act like a multiplier which is usually the thing which makes elemental damage scale so well for so many Builds out there.

If we would stack damage in just one element (which is what most builds do) we could link up [choosen element] penetration support and be ready to rock - since we convert to all elements at once though we need something better:

This chestpiece is a synergistic element to the Doomfletch's Prism. On first glance it seems lackluster due to 5 links - but it supports socketed skills by the incredibly powerful support: "Level 20 Elemental Penetration" which adds general elemental penetration!
For us - utelizing Doomfletch's Prism - which lets us deal extra elemental damage of all three types - this is the equivalent of linking our skill with Lightning Penetration, Cold Penetration AND Fire Penetration all at once.

Effectivly making our 5-link an 8-link.

That we get another Abyssal Jewel and get a bunch of other benefits from useing Abyssal Jewels is just iceing on the cake.

Please note: depending on how many Abyssal Jewels you use and how good those are a 6linked Loreweave is a good alternative. Ultimatly the Shroud will outperform the Loreweave though IMO.

To top the elemental conversion shenanigans off we use an elder amulet with the following modifier:

% of non-Chaos Damage as extra Chaos Damage

If one followed along the guide and its conversion stuff from before it is easy to realise why this modifier is blatantly off-the-charts stupid good for us. It gives us extra Chaos Damage based on our physical Damage (which we stack via Abyss Jewels) - that physical damage then gets converted and amplified into ALL three kinds of elemental Damage - and of EACH one we also now get an % as extra Chaos Damage. We are essentially Quadro-dipping this More-Modifier.

Other then that we look for a high life roll, elemental resists, phys and elemental damage, accuracy etc. We are fairly flexible on that front and the new crafting system can be used to craft something solid for cheap.

The rest of the gear is fairly straight-foward - as mentioned multiple times we benefit from flat phys-damage stacking a lot. This is easy to do via Abyssal Jewels so we stack up on gear with abyssal sockets:

Gives up to two abyssal sockets, is dirt cheap and provides incredibly good sustain while mapping. Spirit Burst is a strong mechanic which is very well known and liked by many players. Try to get one with an enchant for your choosen attack-skill. We can run basically almost any bowskill - this Build uses mostly Scourge Arrow and Rain of Arrows.

Gives up to two abyssal sockets, provides us with Intimidate which is another More Multiplier when socketed with a Murderous Eye. Which we totally should socket into it. Ideally you get it with an Curse Corruption like Elemental Weakness - but those tend to be expensive. An Attack-Crit Corruption would also be good. And a double corruption of the both of them BiS.

Gives up to two abyssal sockets. Solid stats otherwise, good movementspeed, destroys corpses and thus annoyingly dangerous 'on corpse' effects often found on strongboxes (corpseexplosion) or in deeper delves.
The by far and hands down best enchant on them is the rare-ish "Penetrates % Elemental Resistances" roll. Luckily the Lab is really easy to do on this Build.

The Quiver can have a multitude of different and good shaped as well as elder rolls - none of which we truely need though. Getting Life and Resists on this slot feels like the best option though. We use a fair amount of Unique Items on our other slots. If you can get your resists elsewere though you can spend a lot of currency on this.

A shaped Steel Ring is best for the flat Physical Damage it provides. (found the theme with gear in this build yet? :P) Life, Resists and other stats one might be lacking can be found on this as well. The only reason this thing is shaped is to enable the Mark of the Elder Ring. If you can get this sort of ring with an 'Assassins Mark on Hit' roll on it, it would be perfect. Just make sure if you have that to not waste money on a curse on hit corruption on the gloves. We can only support one curse after all by default.

Just a solid and cheap Damage Boost for Attack-based Builds. Also enables tentacle slaps. Yey.

A Stygian Vise for Life and resists + another abyssal socket.

Since we are an Scion and thus close to the, well, Scion-Cluster we make use of Jewels that synergise well with it. Those unique Jewels are expensive, but not needed for this Build to perform. They are more a thing you unlock/use once you have the dosh:

They make the Scion Lifecluster Nodes stupid good, give resists and supercharge the nodes unlocked by the Unnatural Instinct. Making the %Life from the Scion Lifecluster stronger is of particular note since we stack a lot of flat life from Abyss Jewels. So the %-increase we get from the Lifecluster this way is really strong for us.

Pure Talent helps with stats and leech and enables some tree varations - like pathing to the shadow area if one is so inclined. Not strictly needed in this build however. If you can get a corrupted one to make you immune to corrupted blood it would be neat. You can have that corruption though on any other jewel you use as well.

The secret stars of this Build!

Basically we look for two rolls on them:

1. Phys Damage rolls for Attacks/Attacks with a Bow
2. Life

Everything else like resists, ele penetration, crit or crit-multi etc are nice but ultimatly just a bonus. This makes gearing this fairly easy since those two rolls can actually be alt-spammed or grabbed for cheap on the market. But if one whishes to invest a lot into this build one can do as well. This makes this build so nice to scale.

The quiver I used to balance res for Wise Oak. Nothing too special about it.

The Hybrid flask I take only for no regen maps when I Blink Arrow too much and don't leech mana. The main flasks are the Wise Oak and Atziri.
Others are just whatever.

These worked just fine swapping out both rings and helm when doing pure breaches. Didn't notice any lack of damage.