[3.20] Hollow Palm Railgun Juggernaut (various slam skills) | V High DPS | League Start | FEARED

We combine the acquisition of the Hollow Palm technique via One With Nothing cluster jewel, dexterity stacking for a very high damage output and Unstoppable Juggernaut ascendancy node for maximum accuracy and high attack speed. The main defensive layers are Fortify in 6L-Setup and 7-8 Endurance Charges which also provide a huge damage output and filling in the missing resistances (since hollow palm users tend to have resistance problems).

I prefer the Vaal Ground Slam skill for massive stuns in certain dangerous areas and generally Ground Slam for machine gun screen wide destruction, but I am confident that some other skills can also work well with this build if adjustments are made.

Pros:
+ Very tanky
+ Very high damage output without too much investment
+ Fast map clearing (I wouldn't say super fast, but I can clear a minotaur map in 1-2 minutes inlcuding boss)
+ Budget to red maps
+ Viable league starter
+ Satisfying gameplay

Cons:
- Uses a bunch of hotkeys for several activations (Ground Slam + Vaal Ground Slam, Ancient Protector Totem, Ancestral Warchief Totem, Molten Shell + Vaal Molten Shell, Flame Dash and Dread Banner), no one-click wonder
- Can't run physical reflect maps (unless you get the Elder Body Armour prefix)
- No leech maps are very difficult
- Resistances can get slightly tedious to cap the more you invest into damage, but less so than most other hollow palm builds
- Requires atleast 1 Unset Ring for full potential
- Baram's mana runes are annoying
- Low HP pool (still very tanky though)

https://pastebin.com/myeMe296 (15+ mill dps)

PoE Planner VGS WITH Mastery Nodes

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https://pastebin.com/39eDgYAe (40+ mill dps)
https://pastebin.com/CKnd1jZB (25+ mill dps AND tanky af)

PoE Planner Ice Crash WITH Mastery Nodes

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https://pastebin.com/YwYTaqqg (5+ mill dps and extremely tanky)

PoE Planner Volcanic Fissure WITH Mastery Nodes

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The main mentality you have to play this build with is hit & run. You don't stand around much in one spot because even though the build has a high survivability, it also might get overwhelmed at times and can't facetank everything. A lot, but not everything. Maintain your Molten Shell buff when you know there is high damage incoming (usually during boss fights) and use Vaal Molten Shell during mapping. The build uses both Ancestral Protector Totem and Vaal Ancestral Warchief Totem (ONLY THE VAAL VERSION FOR WARCHIEF!) since one normal totem is the limit. Place your dreadbanner only during encounters where you know you will be staying a while (like boss encounters). Vaal Groundslam is a very powerful stun with large area and high damage output and can even interrupt a lot of Unique monsters (shaper/elder guardians for instance), so use that to either quickly clear shrines or legions monoliths and to interrupt annoying casts on uniques monsters.

Don't be scared of dropping on low life (below 50%) because that's where the Starkonja evasion increase kicks in and turns into armour as we use iron reflexes to transform all evasion to armour. The high leech output this build provides with Vaal Pact and several leech nodes boosts fills your life in no time. If that's not enough, don't be afraid to use your Instant Life Flask every now and then.

One With Nothing is the absolute MUST-HAVE item in order to play this build as intended. Without it, don't even bother looking at the rest. Explanation: One With Nothing grants us the Hollow Palm technique that provides 60% MORE Attack Speed and 14-20 Added Attack Physical Damage per 10 Dexterity while UNENCUMBERED. Unencumbered means that you aren't allowed to equip any weapons or gloves (those slots MUST stay empty).
Cost: Around 1-2 exalted orbs on first few days of league start. Price drops relatively quickly usually. Item drops from Delirium Bosses so might take 1-2 days until they are being sold.
WARNING: This item is the most expensive piece of "gear" you will need early on to make the build work, so plan to acquire it once you hit yellow/red maps (see leveling section).


Astramentis is the second core item in this build. You can acquire an Astramentis with level 20 and zoom through the chapters if you have both Hollow Palm + Astramentis. However, even lategame, this Amulet provides us with up to 139 TOTAL ATTRIBUTES (that means 139 base Dexterity) before multipliers kick in. The damage boost from this relatively cheap Unique is astonishing.
Cost: Around 15-30 chaos orbs on league start.



This Helmet is mandatory for Ice Crash/Volcanic Fissure/Other Elemental Skills (enchant varies for each version)
Cost: 1-5 chaos orbs without enchant.

Other great but NOT core items:

This helmet provides a lot of damage output due to its high dexterity and attack speed but also grants us good survivability because of the high maximum life. It used to be good because of Iron Reflexes, but now since we swapped to Magebane as Keystone, it's only semi-decent as budget pick. Definitely would upgrade to a Armour-based Dexcraft Helmet or if using one of the elemental skills (ice crash), skip and go directly for fractal thoughts.
Cost: 1-5 chaos orbs.


Free Perma-Freeze Immunity and a crapton of damage. Need I say more?
Cost: 10-30 chaos orbs on league start. Elder drop, so usually takes a couple of days until they are being sold.

Stat priority for rares:
-> Dexterity (try to get it wherever you can)
-> Elemental Resistances (atleast 50-60% each, rest comes from endurance charges)
-> Maximum Life

Anything besides those basic stats are not mandatory.





Ice Crash Version Gear

My Setup of choice:


Ground Slam Version:
1. Life Flask with high Recovery
2. Lion's Roar provides a huge damage output and a strong armour boost.
3. We use Magebane now instead of Iron Reflexes, so instead of a Jade Flask, pick a different flask. I highly recommend Basalt Flask for more armour.
4. Sulphur Flask is another big damage boosting flask. You can upgrade that into a Bottled Faith if you have enough currency and if you replace the Jade Flask with another Flask to cover all the neccesary immunities.
5. Quicksilver Flask is a nobrainer usually.

Ice Crash Version:
1. Life Flask with high Recovery
2. Atziri's Promise
3. Taste of Hate
4. Sulphur Flask (with immunity or attack speed)
5. Quicksilver Flask (with immunity or attack speed)

Volcanic Fissure Version:
1. Life Flask with high Recovery
2. Atziri's Promise
3. Silver Flask (with immunity or attack speed)
4. Sulphur Flask (with immunity or attack speed)
5. Quicksilver Flask (with immunity or attack speed)

Just make sure you get all the immunities that make life easier. You won't need Freeze immunity because we get that from Cyclopean Coil.

Body 6L: Vaal Ground Slam - Melee Physical Damage Support - Brutality Support - Multistrike Support - Impale Support - Fortify Support
If you can afford, replace Melee Physical Damage Support -> Brutality Support -> Multistrike Support with their Awakened versions (i.E. Awakened Multistrike Support) in that order (cost efficient).
Final 6L: Vaal Ground Slam - Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support - Awakened Brutality Support - Awakened Multistrike Support - Impale Support - Fortify Support

3L: Vaal Ancestral Warchief - Ancestral Protector - Maim Support

No Links: Vaal Molten Shell, Flame Dash, Dread Banner, Blood and Sand, Pride, Herald of Purity (requires Helmet enchant 15% reduced pride reserve (3.17 No longer a requirement but nice to have))

NOTE: If you use Enlighten Support lvl 4, you will need TWO Unset rings instead of ONE and either the Boots or the Helmet as 4L (whichever you dont use for totems) and link as follows:

4L with Enlighten lvl 4: Blood and Sand - Herald of Purity - Pride - Enlighten Support

If you are on a small budget, get the cheapest version of all of these jewels as they still provide a significant damage boost for almost no investment!

You have a total of 4 Non-Cluster Jewel slots, so acquire 2-3 Fluid Motion jewels and 1-2 rare jewels with Resistances and Max Life. Later on you can upgrade one of those jewels it into a Watcher's Eye with Impale lasts 2 additional stages if you can manage your resistances.

Try and get "Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you" on a jewel. If it's too expensive, go for the passive cluster next to "Unwavering Stance" keystone passive and save those points on the attack damage on leech cluster below "Magebane" keystone passive.
For your Fluid Motions, try and get "1% Reduced reservation" as implicit. The Dexterity value doesn't have to be max, a high roll is nice but not mandatory, the reservation implicit helps you more (not mandatory anymore, so get whatever implicit you want on those).

Stat priority on rare jewel:
- Life
- Resistances
- Attack Speed =/= Damage

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With recent changes to mana efficiency and changes I made to the build itself, there is no "mandatory" enchant anymore. So just get Ground Slam damage/AoE as enchant or the 30% Pride reservation efficiency enchant (for more comfort)

Ice Crash Version: Ice Crash Phys as extra Cold Damage enchant
Volcanic Fissure Version: Determination mana efficiency

For Amulet Anoint there is only one option:
Best-in-Slot: Panopticon (Vertigo Oil + Indigo Oil + Opalescent Oil)
Overall about 10-15% more damage for a simple anoint.

Undeniable > Unflinching > Unrelenting > Unbreakable

We pick Undeniable first because it's a huge damage boost for the leveling process as it caps our accuracy and also gives us more attack speed.

Unflinching is the second choice to get some endurance charges passively and from there on it's a matter of preference.

Unrelenting is the obvious third choice. It'll help greatly until you cap all resists with gear.

And lastly, Unbreakable should be the last pick. It used to be crap, but ever since they reworked it a league or two ago, it's become a powerful choice to elevate the build to a new level of survivability. The small damage boost from Unyielding is not worth it in comparison.

Unstoppable is an optional choice with Flesh/Flame Jewels. It'll save you picking Unwavering Stance on the tree and also let's you get freeze immunity, so you can swap out the Cyclopean Coil for a better Synth Dex-based Belt. Unless you get freeze immunity on flasks, then go for Unyielding or other jewels instead.

Initially I went with Unyielding as last choice.

Major Pantheon:
Based on your prefered playstyle, you can pick either Soul of Solaris for boss encounters or Soul of Lunaris for safer mapping.

Minor Pantheon:
1. Soul of Grukthul (for additional damage reduction)
2. Soul of Abberath (Burning Ground immunity and ignite reduction)


I personally prefer using Soul of Solaris and Soul of Aberrath in general.

Bandits: Kill them all (Passive points are BiS)

These crafting tips are NOT the only way to craft said required items for this build. There are plenty of different ways to craft any item, so if you are creative and experienced, you don't have to follow step-by-step.

Every item can be replaced by a better rare, it's just that some of these rares can become so incredibly expensive (like Amulet for example), that it's very difficult to actually replace their recommended unique counterpart.

- AMAZING 40% MORE Damage with no downside thanks to the addition of the new Keystone passive "Precise Technique" where Winddancer used to be. If you struggle with Accuracy, take the accuracy cluster left of precise technique with +3 accuracy per dexterity mastery earlier on.
- Replaced Flesh and Stone gem with Herald of Purity because it provides as a higher total damage.
- Ground Slam now has a higher base radius (up to 10 from 6) and Rapid Expansion Jewel is no more, so we replace it with either another Fluid Motion, Rare Jewel or Watcher's Eye.
- The addition of "Magebane" Keystone passive in 3.16 is a huge defensive buff and replaced the Iron Reflexes the build used before. This means less armor but a lot of spell suppression.
- Overall the damage and defensive aspects of this build have been significantly buffed and I can't simulate Precise Technique yet (PoB update not available), but it'll probably be around 3-5 million more dps than before on an affordable budget (~30-50ex), way more on min-max ofcourse (but who even has the money and time for that?).

3.16: Right now it looks like this build is getting a buff in defensives for 3.16 and took a slight nerf to damage from previous league (3.15) changes. At most we are talking about a downgrade of 15 million dps to 10 million dps but still enough to destroy bosses in seconds.

3.17: The damage nerf above (3.16) has been completely negated by the addition of the above mentioned Precise Technique keystone passive and a few minor changes. The new ascendancy jewel from pinnacle bosses may even be interesting for the 40% more damage Berserker ascendancy, but needs more testing if it's worth taking 10% more damage in return.


3.18: Added a PoB link to the new Ice Crash version of the build that I modified it into. It's really amazing how powerful it turned out and with the new Headhunter change it's even more stunning + we don't get punished by the Archnem phys to ele conversion mod that punishes brutality builds atm.

3.19: Despite all the nerfs, nothing changed for this build. Infact, there might be some new uniques worth trying, but will require testing. Only nerf affecting this build is the change made to Molten Shell, but it's irrelevant as it's still really powerful. Kalandra reflections can increase our damage A LOT as we can stack Dexterity a lot higher than before. I would estimate 50+ mill dps is very possible with this build now.

3.20: Changes to curses don't really affect the builds, besides some numericals that are irrelevant. Getting Onslaught synth boots is much more expensive now due to Synthesis Atlas passives being obliterated (only pair I found so far was 100div whereas before I found various with 10-25div). Volcanic Fissure works like a charm. Despite people saying the orbs dont scale well, point blank helps with that and they do a nice chunk of damage ontop of giving us a very reliable and powerful source of leech. Pastebin updated in the PoB section for VF.