[3.10] Liggles' Immune Stormwall - crit/block staff cyclone | All content | HC

*BUFFS!*

So, this league at level 88 on hardcore as of writing I effectively have:

• Immune to Reflect - witch ascendancy
• Immune to Elemental Ailment - inquisitor ascendacy *on conc ground
• Immune to Bleed - Death's door boots (the downside of which doesn't affect us to the immune to elemental ailments as above)
• Immune to Curses - Hex breaker cluster jewel OR holy flame totem setup
• Immune to poison - Antivenom cluster jewel or pantheon
• Immune to on (most) death effects - most monsters will be frozen and therefore shatter on kill

3.10 POB pastebin (WIP): https://pastebin.com/4aBcBB4d

I decided to play delirium and I've been having a blast. I started on HC as the bleed gladiator/champ puncture build Zizaran put up as my league starter, and then I switched to this build out of curiosity to see how well it would do in Hardcore + seeing an almost perfect rolled stormheart for 30 chaos...

The benefits - big updates. Staff nodes have been buffed somewhat (+2 melee range, for example, on the endurance and crit staff node, instead of +1). The rest of the relevant tree seems mostly unchanged. The cluster jewels we can get are amazing - Overlord, Drive the destruction, Hex breaker, Precise focus, Fettle, Antivenom - there are so many that fit so neatly into the build and they're so easy to chop and change for relevant fights for only one regret (e.g. Antivenom for Al-Hezmin).

I have these 2 as a medium jewel with 1 more socket for a small jewel in my setup:



My damage is slightly lower than my 3.7 softcore char, but I've made some changes to be more tanky. I could massively (and simply) ramp up my damage by getting more crit multi (I'm at 100% crit) in place of health. I've got 7,100 hp at level 88, which for softcore you could easily drop the HP to get more crit multi on rings etc. Also - gear on SC is generally much more bountiful, so it's "easier" to trade for (good) gear.

Did not play due to WoW Classic

Did not play due to WoW Classic - though nothing much changed from what I can see. I *think* holy flame totem was added here, which could have been included for a source of consecrated ground + curse immunity.

I've been playing path of exile on and off since open beta in 2012 but I've never made a (genuinely successful) build on my own. I also wanted to do something strong, yet "off meta" - Not many people seem to be playing ele conversion staff crit block cyclone. According to poebuilds.io - not a single player in Legion/HC Legion/SSF Legion or SSF HC Legion is using the Stormwall.


So, preamble aside - let's get into things! This build uses a (very!) cheap unique staff (The Stormwall) in combination with the Scion ascendancy options, various passive nodes, and gear, to achieve a balanced combination of tankiness, life regen (12%+ a second), leech, ailment immunity and damage.

The stormwall is a great staff for myriad reasons:

• It's VERY cheap*
• It has very high base phys
• It gives 100% phys > ele conversion
• It has very high base crit
• It has 33% base attack block
• It has a 30-40% chance to shock (for 20%) on block

* The Stormheart, which upgrades to the stormwall via a prophecy, is currently going for (as of this writing) 15 chaos for a SIX LINK on legion SC, and the prophecy itself is 1 alch.

Because we're using staves, we can pick up all the staff node goodies. This gives us endurance charge on crit, powercharge on block, armour on block, attack and spell block, and high crit chance.

So, we have a good and cheap weapon, some good defenses from staff block, high crit and 100% ele conversion. Now we can throw in some extras from the scion ascendancy options.

Templar - Inquistor.

• Crit multi vs enemies affected by ailments (basically permanent - as we're high crit meaning we'll apply ailments)
• Elemental immunity on consecrated ground
• Ele penetration
• Nearby enemies take extra elemental damage
• Chance to create consecrated ground on attack vs rare/unique

Witch - Elementalist.

• Elemental reflect immunity
• Ele penetration
• Increased effects of heralds, and we use two heralds
• Shock always does a minimum of 10%
• Can have two golems active

Now we're building synergy!

We're immune to all elemental affects, have good regen through the tree and consecrated ground (as we have multiple ways to generate consecrated ground - including flasks - but I'll come onto this later) and we're immune to ele reflect (phys isn't as issue as we have 100% conversion).

Poison immunity we can gave through the pantheon, and bleed immunity I get from my boots (Death's door); however, for a league starter you can get by without the boots, and just use a bleed removal flask.

Pros

• Fast Clear
• No Gem Swap
• 6 Endurance charges with fast and auto generation
• Moderate to high life pool
• Moderate to high AoE and ST DPS
• Can be a league starter
• No need for flask micro management
• Decently Tanky

Cons

• Not taking loads of AoE Cyclone nodes makes it slower than other cyclone builds for mapping
• Not amazing at the legion mechanic which requires huge AoE due to the above
• Full ailment immunity (bleed) requires Death's Door boots which are 2ex+

1. Templar - Inquisitor
2. Witch - Elementalist
3. Path of the Templar

Level 100 - 128 points (https://pastebin.com/npbv9TbZ)

level 90 budget gear (https://pastebin.com/guyTdy1h)

This build should be a pretty good choice for a league starter as the weapon is extremely cheap. You can farm up currency to hit endgame (shaper, uber elder) as you then progress through maps. Section 4.3 goes over the budget gearing options, and here is a level 90 budget gear PoB (https://pastebin.com/guyTdy1h)

I posted this in a reply on this thread about how to get a 6link stormwall as a 'league starter' (assuming you have no chaos). *Prices might fluctuate - this was true at the time of writing for Legion SC!

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Grab yourself one of these (stormheart) 6 linked, and buy the prophecy to upgrade it for 1alch: http://poe.trade/search/onarikatokikah (you're just getting the 6 link stormheart on the cheap, here, you'll be getting a non-linked stormwall for level 60)

Then, for level 60, also buy a pre-upgraded (unlinked) stormwall for (as of right now) 3 chaos, and use that to finish the story/get to the map you need to upgrade your 6link stormheart. You can use a 4 to 5link chest (or 4-5 stormwall if you get 5 linked) for your cyclone setup during story/white maps with the non 6link stormwall (the prophecy is in a t10 map - but that should be easily doable at a reasonable level if you just run it as a white map and go for the boss). Once you have the 6 link stormwall you can replace your chest with a decent 'stat' chest - e.g. a defensive astral plate.

I tend to upgrade all my pantheons, and switch out depending on the fight/mods. However the following are probably the most important to this build:

Major

• Soul of Solaris provides many really nice defensive benefits for when you actually get hit

Minor

• Soul of Shakari. Poison Immunity.
• Soul of Yugul (upgraded) 5% Reduced cold damage taken if hit recently. Good for Über Elder / Shaper.

WEAPON:


Pretty self-explanatory - the build revolves around this. High crit, high phys, 33% attack block, 100% phys > ele conversion and chance to shock (for 20%) on block.

ARMOUR:


Ideally this would have cyclone enchants but they're expensive and this was a really good defensive option for me.


I crafted this, and I'd say it's a kinda BiS chest armour as it gives us a 7 link cyclone setup.


Intimidate gives us 10% more attack damage vs the enemy, and Tombfist are just generally great gloves


Defensive stygian. When I'm richer I'll get one with a high elemental damage with attacks mod.


Bleed immunity, res, life, high armour and an extra endurance charge. The downside doesn't even affect us either, due to the fact we're almost always on consecrated ground which makes us immune to elemental ailments.

JEWELLERY:


Gives me some leech, life, and extra phys as fire, which is huge for this build.


All around good item - good defensive and offensive mix. The -mana cost to skills means cyclone costs 1 mana on a 7 link setup.


This ring is cheap and SO good for this build. Crit chance, chance to trigger consecrate ground on crit, 50% increased damage whilst on consecrated ground (which we are - a lot!) and 5% extra block on consecrated ground. So much utility for the minor cost.


Might of the meek - we can use this with the scion life wheel to massively pump up the life % we get, and the resistances/life regen. See my PoB for it to make more sense!


Unnatural instinct - not required, and I've removed it in the budget version (TBC) - but this gives us lots of good small passives for 'free'


Transcendent flesh - not required, and I've removed it in the budget version (TBC) - but this gives BIG damage and some phys damage reduction


Pure talent - we are connected to THREE starting areas - so we get the templar bonus (ele pen), the marauder bonus (inc AoE range) and the scion bonus (25 all stats)



FLASKS:

Standard life flask. I should remove the bleed mod on this.

Atziris is great for this build. We get 35% more damage with it up and good leach (and with my current gear, 75% chaos res).

Extra block, spell block, and armour, for relatively small cost.

40% increased damage and immunity to everything while this up (as it gives curse immunity from the flask, and we already have immunity to everything else)

Movement flask - a diamond flask would be a better DPS option.

MAIN 6 LINK SETUP:


Standard 6 link setup for an ele conversion cyclone build. Infused channeling also gives us extra physical damage and AoE damage reduction, and fortify means we're a bit tankier. I have this in my body armour, so I get a free level 1 maim, too.

MOVEMENT:


Self explanatory

CWDT:


This gives us a molten shell that procs pretty often for a little over 1k without a granite flask up. You can change this up to a higher CWDT level and use steelskin, or even immortal call. Lots of options here.

CURSE:

I manually cast this as it's such a big DPS upgrade for us. It lasts for ages, and it is easy to cast on bosses (only time I use it). I don't have it on CWDT as I want it on demand + high level.

AURAS:


Fairly standard aura setup. I need to sim the all heralds vs hatred properly, but this is what I'm using through intuition, and it's working

UTILITY:


Vengeance and Riposte on CoC Purifying flame, Chaos Golem + Flame Golem

Vengeance triggers on hit, and we have little to no evasion, so we get hit a lot (a block counts as a 'hit'). With our high crit, this triggers A LOT so I always have my chaos golem (extra phys reduction) and flame golem (more damage) up. Purifying flame is also good as it creates consecrated ground.

I'm tempted to take off riposte and throw in a second cyclone so I can have it more on demand. Perhaps even take off vengeance too (for bosses) and have wave of conviction so we can get the debuff that gives on a second cyclone (we only have to spin for a few seconds)

TBC - but please see my budget level 90 tree https://pastebin.com/guyTdy1h for some examples.

Helmet:

Rare helmet with life and resistances.

Belt:

Good rare stygian or:
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Boots:

Any rare with movespeed, life, and res.

Gloves:

1 socket tombfist for intimidate (if not using belt of the deceiver) otherwise a good rare or Meginord's vise (1c unique)

Body armour:

Wall of brambles is a decent and cheap choice, especially through leveling. Otherwise an astral plate with life and res. If you can, get socketed gems are supported by level 1 maim, too.

Neck:

Rare with life, resistances you're missing, crit damage/multi, extra phys as elemental. If you want leech, ensure you get "x% cold/fire/lightning leeched as life" too.

Rings:



This is cheap and so good it's worth putting in the budget options



A rare kinda like this. The -mana cost of skills is imperative, as it makes your cyclone cost 1 mana/be 'free'.