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Exsanguinate (Main Skill)


Pain Attunement


Polymath


Auras: Pride, Malevolence, Herald of Purity


Curses: Vulnerability, Temporal Chains


"On Full Energy Shield" and "While Leeching" effects


15% Cull

Double Overleech


Evasion


Blind


Spell Suppression


Life and Energy Shield (Hybrid)


Joined Energy Shield and Life as a single Health Pool


Damage over Time mitigation


Ailment and Stun immunity


Enduring Cry


Divergent Frost Shield


Anomalous Petrified Blood


One-Shot protection


Defiance Banner


Taunting minions


15% Attack Block

Mana Usage


Pantheon

Exsanguinate - Chain / (Awakened) Swift Affliction - (Awakened) Brutality - (Awakened) Controlled Destruction - Energy Leech - Cruelty

Goes into the Body Armour.

Brutality and Controlled Destruction for the raw damage.

Energy Leech to make use of the fact that we are almost always Leeching and On Max Energy Shield.

Cruelty boosts both the on-hit component and the over-time component of our damage.

Chain makes mapping much smoother and the damage is more than enough. Swap to Swift Affliction for difficult single targets

Petrified Blood - Grace - Malevolence - Enlighten (lv 3 is enough)

Goes either in Boots or Gloves (NOT the Helmet).

Anomalous Petrified Blood gives more one-shot protection at the cost of damage-over-time being inflicted on you. Read more about it in the Defence section

Arrogance - Vitality - Defiance Banner

Goes into one of the weapons.

Pride - Divine Blessing - Increased Duration - Inspiration

Goes into the Helmet (for reduced mana cost).

This makes Pride a castable that you need to activate every so often (like 10-15s).

It is important to switch to Divergent Inspiration at some point to cut down the mana cost even more in order to squeeze in all the auras.

Divergent Pride gives a bit more damage but is not strictly needed

Without Vulnerability-on-hit ring: Vulnerability - Lifetap - Steelskin - Flame Dash

With Vulnerability-on-hit ring: Lifetap - Steelskin - Flame Dash - (Vaal Righteous Fire or Blood Rage)

Goes into either Boots or Gloves

With Vaal Righteous Fire only use the Vaal part of the skill, not the RF itself!

Enduring Cry - Herald of Purity - Frost Shield

Goes into one of the weapons

Upgrade Herald of Purity to Anomalous for 10% Taunt on Hit for minions

Divergent Frost Shield is not expensive and prevents some additional damage

Evasion and ES base, gives some chaos res, boosts the gems - overall great helmet without even considering the main feature; and the main feature is the 50% reduced mana cost of socketed skills, which allows us to turn Pride into a powerful Blessing and still reserve most of our mana.

Kintsugi provides some great one-shot protection.

The main problem with this armour is getting socket colours - we need 3 Red, 2 Blue and 1 Green, but this armour is entirely DEX-based which means it highly favours rolling green sockets. There is a way around it though, but it requires a hefty amount of Jeweller Orbs:
- Put the armour in Crafting Bench and craft either 2 Red and 1 Blue or 2 Blue and 1 Red
- Now craft "4 sockets" - if it comes up green, craft "3 sockets" (the new green socket will disappear) and craft "4 sockets" once again. Repeat until the 4th socket is either blue or red. Once that happens, do the same but now do "5 sockets" and fallback to "4 sockets" if the 5th is green. Since the price goes up, craft the blues and reds first and leave the last one, 6th, to be green as it is most likely
- This works because when doing the "x sockets" craft the game "remembers" the colours you had before and only manipulates the last one
- NOTE: this is the craft that adds UNLINKED sockets (costs Jeweller Orbs) not the LINKED sockets one (which costs Orbs of Fusing)


Skin of the Lords provides a lot of damage through gem levels and a free passive.

When buying Skin of the Lords remember about these VERY important things:
- It has predefined socket colors so search for one with 3 Red, 2 Blue and 1 Green
- It has a random notable passive in it and some of the passives can brick the build. Most often Skins with build-breaking passives are the cheapest, so be wary of that. Example of a passive that bricks most builds - Blood Magic (removes mana).
- Look for a notable passive that we use anyway to free up one point on the tree. Ghost Dance, Pain Attunement, Wind Dancer, any of these. Best would be Wind Dancer as it frees up 2 points.
- You can only socket corrupted gems into it so either be prepared to buy them or vaal them yourself beforehand (vaaling can brick your gems!)

This item is the main mechanism that allows us to go hybrid Life + ES. Read more about it in the "Defense" section: "Joined Energy Shield and Life as a single Health Pool".

Use the "Defence Quality" to get 2% additional Life as ES

Eternal Struggle is important for two reasons:
- It is our main way of getting attributes, which are a problem
- It provides 15% more damage with the cull

When buying Eternal Struggle, remember about these VERY important things:
- It comes with random Eldritch Implicits, make sure to fish for those that are relevant to us (phys damage, spell damage, etc.)
- The Eldritch Implicit from Searching Exarch must be stronger than the one from Eater of Worlds for the 15% more damage to work. If it's not the case, this amulet is mostly useless. Researching on trade site is a pain in the ass but also necessary

Whichever amulet you use, it has to be annointed with Sovereignty (3x Silver) to provide enough Increased Mana Reservation Efficiency to sustain multiple auras.

The Curse On Hit ring frees up one gem slot and makes it smoother to map (no need to cast the curse manually). Getting it is not that hard (Two Resists version):
- Buy a base with SYNTHESISED "Vulnerability on hit". It is important that this modifier comes from Synthesis (implicit) and is not a Influenced base, as it will make crafting the ring much harder.
- Make sure the ring is white (Scour if needed) and throw 4 Prismatic Catalysts at it. If you use Catalysts when the ring is not white, you will need 20 instead of 4 and they are expensive!
- Throw some random fossils at it until you get at least two good resists. Remember that you can reroll type of resist with Harvest so it's not really important which two you get, just roll as needed.


This ring with Two Resists is enough when using Kintsugi because that armour adds Fire Resistance. If you want to use Skin of the Lords, you need this ring to have Three Resists, which is a bit harder to craft:
- Buy a base with SYNTHESISED "Vulnerability on hit". It is important that this modifier comes from Synthesis (implicit) and is not a Influenced base, as it will make crafting the ring much harder.
- Make sure the ring is white (Scour if needed) and throw 4 Prismatic Catalysts at it. If you use Catalysts when the ring is not white, you will need 20 instead of 4 and they are expensive!
- Throw some random fossils at it until you get at least two good resists.
- If the third suffix is free, continue along. If not, use Orb of Annulment to free up the suffix. If a resist is removed, go back one step, if you end up with two resists and a free suffix - continue
- Switch the resists type with harvest as needed, considering that the third resists that we will bench-craft will be ~25%. Observe your resistances and switch on the ring accordingly so the ones you need the most are the "natural rolls" (higher than crafted) switched around with Harvest and the one you only need ~30% of is the crafted one.
- Craft the missing resist (with prismatic catalysts on, it should give ~30% resist)


The other ring needs to be our Resist Power House. You need a ring with THREE TIER 1 RESISTS. That is not as expensive as you might think, usually 1-3 divines if you settle for useless prefixes. Throw Prismatic Catalysts at the ring to get the Resists as high as possible.

You need to get the rest of the resists from boots

Remember some Fire Res is available in Kintsugi if you are going with either Defensive or Balanced option.

These need to provide as much resists as affordable, with some life and movement speed if possible

These boots and the two of your rings (and Kintsugi if using that) need to provide ALL you elemental resists, so make sure you do the calculations and get good resists on those boots.

These gloves give us a few things:
- Explosions!
- Temporal Chains on Hit, which boosts both defense nad offense
- Blind which plays well with Evasion

Cold Iron Points early on are very good as they give damage through gem levels and are cheap to get (usually start at 70c and drop to 20c in 5 days of the league)


Crafted Wands are our destination, each of those provide about 33% damage increase

How to craft them?
1. Buy a base with Fractured mod "(24-26)% to Damage Over Time Multiplier". I recommend buying an Imbued Wand base because it gives Spell Damage in the implicit but INT requirements are too harsh. You could buy Prophecy Wand if you want slightly higher Spell Damage but it requires 245 INT (over 188 INT on Imbued Wand) which is hard to get and you might need to waste a skill point for the +30 INT on the tree.
2. Use a 4-socket Resonator with these fossils until you hit the mod "+1 to Level of All Spell Skill Gems": Corroded, Jagged, Metallic, Shuddering.
3. If you have the mod and there is a free Suffix - continue to the next step. If you have the mod but there is no free Suffix - use Orb of Annulment. If it freed up a Suffix without deleting the "+1 to All Spell Skill Gems" mod - move to the next step. If it deleted a random Prefix and Suffixes are still full - try again. If it deleted the "+1 to All Spell Skill Gems" mod - go back to step 2
4. Bench craft the "Cannot roll Attack Modifiers" mod
5. Use Harvest Craft: "Augment Physical". This is an expensive craft but, thanks to step 4, it will ALWAYS roll "+1 to Level of All Physical Spell Skill Gems". The downside is that it will remove a random mod - if it removes the "+1 to All Spell Skill Gems" mod - go back to step 2. If you have an item with both "+1 All" and "+1 Physical" - continue to the next step.

From here there are two options: cheaper (and safer) or expensive (with some risk). I suggest to go for the cheaper one unless you are swimming in divines and can spare some. I've used two wands crafted with the cheaper method and they were more than enough.

Cheaper Option: Bench Craft the Suffix: "+(18-20) to Physical Damage over Time Multiplier". That's it, you're done.

More expensive option:
1. Bench craft "Prefixes cannot be changed" mod
2. Use the Harvest Craft: "Physical Reforge". This works like a Chaos Orb, except it can only roll mods with the "physical" tag - and, thanks to the previous step, prefixes (our +1 all and +1 physical) are protected and cannot be changed. Suffixes will be rerolled and the only suffix with the "physical tag" is "+X% to Physical Damage Over Time Multiplier". The generic "Damage over Time Multiplier" suffix will not change because it is Fractured (it will never change no matter what you do). The problem with this method is that it can roll a shitty tier of "Physical DoT" - if it is a bad roll you can either leave it or try to repeat from step one (but if there is no suffix free for the bench craft of "prefixes cannot be changed" then you need to use Orb of Annulment and that can destroy your item by removing one of the "+1" prefixes)

If you are done with the weapon and there are still prefixes or suffixes free, you can slam an Exalted Orb (make sure to keep your eyes closed).

Whichever option you choose, you end up with a weapon that has:
- +1 to All Spell Skill Gems
- +1 to All Physical Spell Skill Gems
- +X% to Damage over Time Multiplier
- +X% to Physical Damage over Time Multiplier
- Might have a random prefix and suffix, if you're lucky maybe even a useful one, like "Spell Damage" or "Casting Speed"

When it comes to getting the right socket colours on weapons, use the same Jeweller Orb method as described for Kintsugi. In short:
- Bench Craft "At least 2 Red Sockets"
- Bench Craft "Three Sockets" - of the third colour is the one you want, you are done. If not, bench craft "Two Sockets" and then "Three Sockets" again to roll a new colour on the third socket. Repeat until you get the one you need.

I suggest starting with Ethereal Knives because it's a smooth skill for the first 2 acts and we don't get the skills we want until Act 3 Siosa anyway.

Use any support for Ethereal Knives you think will work, I suggest: Chance to Poison, Controlled Destruction, Void Manipulation.

Get some helper gems along the way: Vitality, Steelskin, Flame Dash. Put Steelskin on your movement button

Doing the Siosa quest at the end of Act 3 is necessary (you could theoretically swap in Act 6 after Lily but you need to probably change the leveling tree).

Once you do the quest buy yourself the following gems: Reap, Controlled Destruction, Cruelty, Swift Affliction, Arrogance, Vulnerability, Enduring Cry, Corrupting Cry, Corrupting Fever, Discipline, Grace, Pride, Malevolence.

From now on, our main damage will come from Reap and stacking Corrupted Blood 🩸

We use Reap instead of Exsanguinate for the whole campaign because Exsanguinate has low cast speed and is clunky to use this early on. That being said, you can swap Reap and Exsanguinate at any time if you like - the support gems stay the same.

To make Reap apply Corrupted Blood stacks we need to use the gem Corrupting Fever - remember to activate it every once in a while if it stops working (it renews itself when you spend life to use skills).

We also make use of Enduring Cry for two reasons: it's a very useful HP recovery technique and it provides Endurance Charges. We support it with the new Corrupting Cry support, which inflicts 4 stacks of Corrupted Blood on enemies when we use Enduring Cry (this is the same debuff that we apply using Reap)

For Auras, use Discipline and two of: Grace, Pride or Malevolence - depending whether you want extra survivability (Grace) or damage (Pride or Malevolence) at this point. I'd suggest going with Pride and Grace.

Keep the other auras in spare sockets or second weapon set to level them up

At the end of Act 4 you get access to some useful gems that you should buy. For us that's: Brutality, Unleash, Energy Leech.

Unleash makes Reap hit multiple times, making it very easy to stack those Corrupted Blood stacks.

If you don't like it, you can swap it for Efficacy

When you reach end of acts and early maps, you will probably notice that Reap and Corrupted Blood starts to lack in damage. This is the moment when you should consider swapping to Exsanguinate. The main setup is described in the gems section, but it is worth mentioning that you can still use Reap with it if you prefer (just don't use Chain).

Exsanguinate (or Reap) - Chain (or Swift Affliction) - Energy Leech - Brutality - Controlled Destruction - Cruelty

Start using Frost Shield at some point

Cheap Corrupted 6-Link


Cold Iron Points


Asenath's Gentle Touch


Pride Blessing


Petrified Blood


Burden of Truth


Watcher's Eye with Life Leech on Vitality


Squeeze more out of Mana: Enlighten Lv 3, Sovereignty, Herald of Purity, Divergent Inspiration


Better Corrupted 6-Link


Automated Flasks


Crafted Weapons


Watcher's Eye with Life Leech on Vitality and Increased Physical Damage with Pride


End Game Armour


The Eternal Struggle


Curse on Hit Ring