[3.21+] Cold Reap Occultist | Crunch Supreme ❄️

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settonull99 wrote:

So been pretty unhappy with the builds i did this league, was thinking of going back to this. But ashes is now almost 50ex!

Everything else seems ok thought.

Can you use a helm with reservation to get the auras in? Or do you really need ashes to make it work?

I so loved this build last league, but worried I won't be able to reproduce it at my current budget.

I've probably sunk a good 30-40ex into this build and it can absolutely slap, currently sitting at 6m Sirus dps (though POB doesn't calculate cascade/unleash well), 89% all ele resistances, decently tanky. plus there's some fun new min/maxing you can do thanks to recombinators.



First off, you can do 60% conversion gloves (Topotante's + Chosen recombinated together) which opens up the eldritch implicit slots and watcher's eye slots. I think cold exposure is the best Eater option (especially since I'm running Mastermind of Discord on Flesh/Flame). Toyed around with with Unnerve vs Max Resist for Exarch, think Unnerve is better early when you don't have Melding.



Power Charges on rings is incredibly nice and a huge DPS increase. Ignore the Redeemer influence here, i thought i could double aug caster to guarantee cast speed and then frostbite on hit but those don't work on influenced items. One of my last upgrades will be to get a frostbite + power charge ring.

There's also two cool Temple mods that I think are very useful but less known. Life leech is hard for spells so I went with the below amulet. T1 Cold Res + the Cold Damage Leech is pretty nice to keep you somewhat healthy, and doesn't use up an extra affix. +1 to Cold Gems is just to get Purity of Ice to lv 23 which bumps up the Max Res it gives you by 1. Empower could probably do the same thing.



The other temple mod I'm trying to get is the T1 Cold Res + 30-50% inc damage against chilled enemies on gloves, plus the 60% cold conversion. Had a lot of failures so far but it'd be a good 400k dps extra. Would also try to elevate the +1 max cold res to +2 Exarch implicit and then those would be done done (and at 90% all res).

As for your actual question (and sorry for taking a million years to get there), aura wise I'm running Determination/Hatred/Purity of Ice/Defiance/Herald of Purity, and with a single Lvl 3 enlighten + Determination Mastery + i think any small cluster jewel reservation mastery (i use Pure Guile for the +20 to Dex) you can enable all 5 and still have enough to not have lifetap on every non reap skill.

Ashes would obviously still be great (especially for 21/20 Anomalous Reap which is HUGE if you switch from Increased Crit Strikes to Increased Crit Damage in your 6L) and you probably could fit in Tempest Shield as well which would be amazing to cap both block chances with Glancing Blows.

Happy to answer any questions you may have too, I'm really enjoying the build and got to 97 pretty easily. <3

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cerealbawks wrote:

...you probably could fit in Tempest Shield as well which would be amazing to cap both block chances with Glancing Blows....

Happy to answer any questions you may have too, I'm really enjoying the build and got to 97 pretty easily. <3

That's great, I really enjoyed it last league. I just have terrible luck at crafting - spent 10s of EXs last league to craft a wand better than void and failed miserably. Though I did finally manage to make some decent gloves last league. I've never successfully gotten 2 mods I wanted on a recombinator this league.

I ran with Tempest Shield and Aegis (and Divine Shield)and just felt super tanky, would love to do that again.

I've decided to give RF a go for a bit to get some challenge grinding and save up some currency. Gonna try and get an ashes and then see if I can put the rest of the gear together. Will take a look at your char when I start doing that. thanks for the info.

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cerealbawks wrote:

Happy to answer any questions you may have too, I'm really enjoying the build and got to 97 pretty easily. <3

Ok, I am giving it a go! Splurged on the Skin of the Lords, but otherwise pretty budget, mostly using gear I had laying around. Bought a 10C void battery until I can afford a decked out wand, I found it really hard to improve on it last league (though the int req is rough). Grabbed some cheapish 60% gloves (I've had crap luck with recombinators). My damage is like 1/4 of yours though :( If i get 21/20 alt reap and lvl4 empower it's closer to 1/3 (with full power charges)

Question - I assume you went with Herald of Purity (as opposed to Ice) and Spell (as opposed to cold) cluster to scale the physical spell as much as possible with hatred giving you extra? Do you miss the pops from HoI? I found that really nice for clear.

Debating about going with cold cluster for doryani's lesson, or going the amulet route you went, really need some life leech though. The spell clusters do seem to otherwise have some better mods.

Leveling some alt quality Reaps to go for the 21 corruption. Still messing with the gem setups a bit. Running Vitality since no life leech, and going melding is a bit beyond me right now. Also put in Tempest shield to get that max block (when rumis is up).

Clear T16s ok, bit slow, but only died to amped up exarch mobs so far. It's my RedndingSouls character if you have any suggestions other than the obvious above.

Yeah, Purity is a pretty sizeable damage increase (~11%) and the Anomalous version can have the sentinels taunt enemies. Ice gives a comically low amount of damage (~1.5%) and clear is usually good enough not to worry about needing pops.

I just checked your build out in POB and it looks like you're at 2.5m Sirus dps already, so not that far off, though you are ahead of me in one category with the +1 phys gems amulet. Obvious upgrades would be a watcher's eye (might be able to work out some more dexterity or drop the solo 6% life node to grab a jewel slot and get it in.


Could go cold cluster, Seal Mender I think is really big though on Spell Cluster, Physical ones are just solid damage/utility as well.

Hope you're enjoying! I'm a big fan of the build

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cerealbawks wrote:

Yeah, Purity is a pretty sizeable damage increase (~11%) and the Anomalous version can have the sentinels taunt enemies. Ice gives a comically low amount of damage (~1.5%) and clear is usually good enough not to worry about needing pops.

I just checked your build out in POB and it looks like you're at 2.5m Sirus dps already, so not that far off, though you are ahead of me in one category with the +1 phys gems amulet. Obvious upgrades would be a watcher's eye (might be able to work out some more dexterity or drop the solo 6% life node to grab a jewel slot and get it in.


Could go cold cluster, Seal Mender I think is really big though on Spell Cluster, Physical ones are just solid damage/utility as well.

Hope you're enjoying! I'm a big fan of the build

I never bothered to get HoP because I liked HoI crunch, it was always there for aesthetics instead of damage. Kinda forgot to tell people that they don't have to use it hah.

Officially went all in on this character after lucking into an Omniscience drop from Exarch and bought a 65 ex Crit + Cold Pen Watcher's Eye (20% damage increase) and then beat Uber Shaper and Uber Maven right afterwards. Just Cortex/Sirus/Ooba Ooba left!

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cerealbawks wrote:

Officially went all in on this character after lucking into an Omniscience drop from Exarch and bought a 65 ex Crit + Cold Pen Watcher's Eye (20% damage increase) and then beat Uber Shaper and Uber Maven right afterwards. Just Cortex/Sirus/Ooba Ooba left!

Awesome! Congrats on the omni. I have been having (more modest) success so steadily investing. I got a watchers eye with pen and block, and dropped a 21 tempest shield. I now have max block (w/ glancing blows) without Rumis. I also found a cheap Circle of Guilt that had cold damage leech (only the buff effect mod, but for 10c it seemed worth it). So switched over to the Spell Cluster.

Leveled 3 Anomalous Reap gems and hit 21/20 on my first vaal which was nice. I could definitely improve things more, but feels strong enough to do some grinding now. Thanks for the encouragement!

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DexBunny wrote:

I never bothered to get HoP because I liked HoI crunch, it was always there for aesthetics instead of damage. Kinda forgot to tell people that they don't have to use it hah.

If I'm being honest I kinda miss it, it was fun to see them all pop. But with the archnemie mods and ubers I'm happy to have any damage I can. I also like how they can keep a lot of mobs a bit away from you, especially nice with the reap dead-spot.

I'm pretty annoyed with myself for not switching over to the build sooner, thanks again for the guide.

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settonull99 wrote:

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DexBunny wrote:

I never bothered to get HoP because I liked HoI crunch, it was always there for aesthetics instead of damage. Kinda forgot to tell people that they don't have to use it hah.

If I'm being honest I kinda miss it, it was fun to see them all pop. But with the archnemie mods and ubers I'm happy to have any damage I can. I also like how they can keep a lot of mobs a bit away from you, especially nice with the reap dead-spot.

I'm pretty annoyed with myself for not switching over to the build sooner, thanks again for the guide.

Remember to get Reflection lab enchant on your gloves, helps even more!

Completely forgot about this in the pursuit of highest DPS options, but Bastion of Elements is a very good backup Flesh/Flame combo if you want some tankiness (i get a 2625 health elemental damage shield) + ele reflect immunity and not super expensive (combined 4.5 ex).