3.20 Bane Complete Guide - Deep Dive Into My Best Version EVER

all right so there were some questions going into 3.20 how is Bane going to do and you know if you saw my last video the the hex Boom video and you see what's going on in the background right now honestly I just can't hide my enthusiasm right now um this has been my best League start of all time honestly this is shaping up to be my favorite League of all time already I love basically everything about it I just wish I could play the sanctum war and man Bane feels incredible and what I want to present today is my favorite form of Bane thus far we're nine days into the league I have five days and 15 hours played going into this league I was originally actually thinking of not playing Bane but then there were some people kind of disparaging the build in the public eye all right well I gotta keep proving it build's still freaking good man and so I played it and I'm really really happy that I did the combination of the hex Bloom support gem the strength of cursive is on monsters and especially my experience playing a lot of Hardcore self-hound and playing this build quite a bit over the past year and a half tweaking it constantly trying every single variation that I could this is my favorite version of the build ever it absolutely takes everything down that I needed to on 50 chaos I killed searing X Arc in either of Worlds and on one Divine I killed Maven and uh Uber Elder I got all my void stones for one Divine now nine days into the league I have invested about 25 divines which is about the end of where I'm looking at for like Soul cell phone viability I'm gonna be pushing it a little bit further a little bit more Min maxing but where it is right now I think is just the perfect completed final form really reinvigorated my love for the archetype that I'm actually gonna be probably playing it for another week before I go into transitioning into a second build or trying anything new because it is just it does everything that it wants it to do it plays like a glove like it fits so perfectly like when I want to express myself through the video game and enforce my will within the world of rayquast this is the perfect build for me now it's not the highest damage build it's not the fastest build this has been old trusty meat and potatoes I know that I can restart this and accomplish all of my goals and just having something comfortable like that is everything that I like I wouldn't be surprised if this video ends up being a little bit long I'm just gonna sit here and talk if you care about this build if you're interested in this build if you're being curious I'm just gonna sit down and talk uh my whole thoughts about this what I really think about this build as a template for you to customize it yourself this is my favorite build in the game that's why I get a little defensive when people uh disparage it because I don't know I have a ton of fun gets my goals done to me that is objectively a good build so anyway yeah long intro long let's uh let's get over to it and just start talking you know [Music] this is not like a beginner build guide or anything like that really that 318 video it has so much detail it is for the staff archetype which is the way that I played it up until this league basically that's actually still what I recommend for the beginner first time you play the build it has the most logical scaling it is the most you know for like 5 chaos you're off the ground with a cane of unraveling this is kind of like my hybrid hardcore solo cell found version that I also view as a template that I actually modified pretty often based on the content that I'm doing I really try to like customize it based on am I fighting a boss am I doing the sanctum am I mapping and we're gonna go over all those options if you don't know anything about this build at all uh you know watch that video so why do I like this build what is it what are all the pieces let's start from the fundamentals and then I I really want to start with the first thing it's annoying that it's called like the Bane build Bane is really just like the fuel for the engine the complete build and like that might be a little bit of the confusion when people you know talk down about this build there's oh Bane's bad but Bane is not everything about this build it is a combination it's a chaos dot occultist a combination of Bane Essence train and blight and that's really what uh you know brings the whole Build Together lets us do a little bit of damage let's just say what are we doing here so Bane is a spell that applies the linked curses as long as they're about the same level there's a little bit of a slush there but you do have to be careful you see that it says only applies hexes sorry hexes not curses from cursed skill gems requiring level 86 or lore also just uh additional detail Bane is a hex skill but it is not a hex so you know anything that says you know hexes last forever like hex Master does not apply to Bain Bane as a hex skill yeah so what it does is it does chaos damage it has a 48 more damage multiplier per curse but that is a single additive multiplier so it's not 48 times 48 times 48 it's 48 plus 48 plus 48 and that's your one multiplier just like your increased damage or increased damage taken if you're familiar with your damage uh damage calculations we are linking Bane with I'm using an Empower this is absolutely not necessary this is just Bane gets bigger when it has higher level and I wanted a bigger AOE you could use void manipulation here and it would be like the same damage but I just wanted a bigger Bane so Bane with punishment Despair and temp chains and then you saw hex bloom in there watch my previous video if you want to know how hex Bloom works with the curse proliferation profane Bloom hair lavash all those explosions not going to go into that detail now for doing more damage we just use control destruction hex Bloom is just for mapping doing really big explosions and uh and going super super fast so that's really like the main uh fuel for the engine and while you're mapping you're really only pressing Bane you're really not pressing any of the buttons once in a while you'll press Vol blade or just like regular blight to get a little bit additional damage on the monster but Bane is what you're casting 99 of the time and it blows up entire packs because of profane Bloom and then while you're mapping we use Harold of Ash as well you know I like Divergent here because it's increased AOE the hair levash combines with profane Bloom and the overkill damage there will just lead to bigger explosions because it can kind of chain and it chains even more with hex Bloom so that's the core of the build the way that most spells and Chaos spells in particular scale by default you know by the easiest scaling is Gem levels that's like the most important thing that we're looking for here so we're just trying to get as many gem levels as possible on all of our gear and then that's where we just get every single gem level up to 30 is 10 more damage than it falls off really quickly it's like a soft cap up down to five percent so we want to get our gems up to level 30. that's the easiest scaling and that's why this is such a good League starter is because just playing the game and getting your gem levels up you're just going to be finding 10 more damage every time you get more levels so going from like level 15 16 gems when you hit Maps up to level 20 gems you know when you get to about the end of yellow into early Reds you're gonna scale up to T14 maps on literally zero gear and it's gonna feel smooth and you're not gonna hit a wall the entire way through and then when you get to T14 Maps you know you're going to do this a little bit earlier but you can just buy like a cane of unraveling with plus two chaos gems and some cast out multiplier and then you're good to go from there that's going to push you into t16 maps and feel really really comfortable to me the staff archetype is so good for just getting off the ground and just kind of playing um you know just playing the game that's still what I recommend to newer players and then you know as I just said the combination of Bane Ed and blight we have uh blight and Ed Linked In Our gloves right here what we can do is we craft with an essence of delirium which has socket gems you have 30 more damage over time this does not cost more mana and and it is just a free five Link in your gloves so it's really really comfortable to just put your Ed and your blight in your gloves and then you're on like a double four link right there basically for free traditionally in the staff archetype you would just have uh your Bane and your staff and then you'd have like a plus one plus one level body armor um or a skin of Lords or something like that for your blight knee D that's really going to push your single Target you know a little bit higher like I think that version of the build with the gear that I've put together this league I think you're probably looking at like 12 to 14 million DPS I haven't checked but you know big staff is definitely really good damage that's the core of the spells here is you're basically just baiting around we are using Shield charge with flame Dash you know the awesome thing here is Shield charger with flame Dash is just incredible movement and like fluid ability to get around the uh the map and that's just something that if you're just walking around and just flame dashing um or I mean leap slam just feels so bad with a with a slow staff on a witch um you know that's the traditional way that I've played it and you know it's fine you know just walking around you can press withering step and just do this and occasional flame dashes and that's okay but being able to Shield charge and then weave in some instant flame dashes you know if you didn't know if you flame Dash about every 0.5 seconds instead of trying to spam it it's actually an instant flame Dash something that some people some people apparently didn't know they're just like why are you using flame Dash instead of frostblink um I really really like flame Dash because it has multiple charges Frost blink if you if you frost blink away from a pack of monsters then you have to wait for the whole cooldown whereas flame Dash I have three Chargers and I can just go again as soon as you get like that Cadence going of you know chill charge Shield charge flame Dash Shield charge Shield charge flame Dash it is so fast and you can just get around no you're zooming you're zooming as fast as like any build in the game really you know besides like a Headhunter Mage blood build so yeah that's like the core of uh of the mobility on the build the withering step here is really just a front load wither Stacks you will get phasing with this you know I'm using a quartz last but if you need phasing still to run through some monsters or something that can be really convenient it's a good way if you're gonna blow up a big pack of monsters or something just withering step in and then Bane and they're going to take a lot more damage because they have a lot of Wither stacks on them already but never ever ever cute dog I'm looking at you do not use withering step on left click it is objectively wrong we only use weathering step uh I know it makes you run a little bit faster we really only use withering step to get those Wither debuffs on the monster and you'll notice that when I press withering step my flame Dash stops recharging right and you actually just run you can't get oh I'm out of flame dashes because I'm pressing withering stop too much it just severely hampers your mobility and losing those flame Dash charges is really really harmful it's just a bonus utility for more damage uh you know you can use it once in a while if you want want to run a little bit faster and you know it can feel nice for that but using it all the time on left click is just please please do not do that so we have withering step Shield charge faster attacks and then I'm using Immortal call Castle damage taken with life tap here since I have so much life and I'm such a tanky character I'm actually using a mortal call here with level 20 Castle damage taken and it's actually kind of our best defensive guard skill like steel skin on left click is okay but I would much much rather mitigate any follow-on damage after taking one big hit honestly than a tiny little dinky uh steel skin I might lower the level on this a little bit I do think this is a little high 3200 damage taken you know that's not that much compared to my you know my 7 500 life you know maybe getting this down to like 2000 2500 would be a little bit more comfortable so I might re-level these a little bit but very very importantly is we also use lifetap support here you'll notice that uh Immortal call costs 78 Mana with Castle damage taken and that is just that's not going to trigger you know if I'm casting a lot of spells here really quickly you know it's pretty easy that I could be less than 78 mana and you want to make sure that your Immortal call or whatever it is can always go off now with the auras you can 100 use determination go armor that's actually what I did at the beginning of this league but I ended up getting so much life and just leaning entirely into evasion es that I ditched armor entirely but you can you can 100 do that if you want to instead flame Dash Arcane surge I'm using vitality and and that is the core of the utility gems here now the auras is a much more complicated discussion if we look here I I wrote down many many reservation options this was a thing that actually ended up kind of being there a lot of confusion is in the 318 guide I show a bunch of auras and I say in the video you know customize these how you want but a lot of people you know they missed that line and they just download the pob and they're like how do I reserve them all and this really speaks to how I think of the build as a template that you can customize how you want I mean just a few days ago I had a full dragon scale I had you know dragon scale whatever everything and I was doing a lot of like hybrid evasion and armor and then sneaking in as much Es as I could and it was pretty good right like it actually felt really really good using a granite flask at about 22 000 armor with my flasks up which is really good while you're mapping the problem is like that's just not enough armor and I had like I don't know it was like 10 000 without my flask up and the problem is when you're fighting a boss or you know anything that has like a really big hit that is just not enough armor you really want like 20 to 25 000 armor without your flat sub and then about 30 35 or 40K you know the more is the better the way that armor Works um you really need big armor to mitigate anything notable from like a big hit and so it made mapping very comfortable any inside this basically was never noticing taking any damage while I was mapping it wasn't enough armor to like matter while I was bossing to the point where I was actually swapping out determination for something like malevolence to do more damage and then I was sitting there with like a cast on damage taken molten shell that was doing literally nothing because I had no armor and it was just really really awkward you know the thing with which you know she is the pure intelligence character like if you don't you know if you're not familiar with the way that the tree is really laid out is this is the intelligence area this is the dexterity area and this is the strength area and then the the classes in the middle here are actually the hybrid right Templar is actually the strength intelligence character our shadow is the dexterity intelligence character right and which is the pure intelligence character and unfortunately Pure Energy Shield is an awful defense layer it's just really really bad you know it's just arguably like the worst pure defense layer in the game like if you could go full armor or full evasion or full es es is like way way below um the other two options so we're forced to you know go hybrid defenses no matter what and because we have to go to Whispers of Doom and then we're going into atrophy and it just weed it naturally pushes us down here because like wasting is so good and then Charisma is so so strong over here you could argue for going into acrimony and then corruption but this is just a way way weaker option you know if you want to go for the strength and armor version you know it's just not worth doing that way like I think we kind of have to go over here for this build especially they added steepen profane it's really making us right side leaning and so I didn't have access to any armor nodes really like you know you could get like small cluster drills or something for like more more uh more armor and endurance charges but it just felt like an awkward hybrid now if I was playing hardcore I would 100 just say that's mandatory I would still keep the armor I would even try to invest even harder into the armor like probably skip going down here going to acrimony and look for some armor like come down here into discipline and training sanctity stuff like that just get some more armor and defense there but for this variation I do really really like leaning entirely into ghost shrouds and Es evasion uh and as you can see we have access to a lot of life and energy Shield which gives us a great buffer for when those big fist hits do come in now I have thought about getting some endurance charges you know you can always use endurance cry you can use small armor jewels and you can really just lean into that if you want to uh it is not impossible to use this tree and still get a decent amount of armor but I just kind of I just nixed it and said I'm just gonna lean all the way into this and it feels pretty good it feels good enough so yeah that's what I've ended up doing personally I've chosen not to use determination but you 100 can um so I am primarily using grace vitality and Defiance Banner that's like kind of like my core Define spanner is like not a big deal especially with the Nerf it's pretty weak but since it doesn't Reserve that much it's really if you can fit it in still fit it in right it's giving us 25 increased evasion 40 reduced Critical Strike chance from enemies I turn it off when it's not doing that much it's not huge now a big thing that people don't do is actually Place their Define spanner when I am fighting a boss I put this puppy down and it'll taunt the enemies and they actually deal 15 less damage that's still something that is really really good that Define spanner just has like Placer Define spanner it does something but yeah I turned that thing off when uh you know if my Mana gets way too tight uh I'm also using flesh and stone which is an aura that I think people you know it does cost 25 Mana a lot of people don't think think of it that much but I still think after the nurse you know if you're going an evasion is still pretty valuable nearby enemies are blinded while in sand stance we always stand Sands we don't go to Blood any nearby enemies which is within the circle they're blinded so reduce chance to hit us you know with my flats up I currently have 78 evasion 30 000 evasion 78 chance you know if they're blinded you'll see they have 20 less accuracy rating that just makes them way less likely to hit us really stacks on top of our vision in a very comfortable way and then enemies not within that Circle are actually dealing 16 percent less damage which is probably more than our armor was actually doing you know versus some very big hits so I'm using flesh and stone to kind of like Shore up the lack of armor right there um and that's like in my mapping configuration and then we also use Harold Ash here like I said with the profane Bloom for really big exploding if you want to go into es even more you can use discipline but I very much only think of Es as like an additional bonus layer it is not the core of our defenses really the only reason that I care about getting es is you know which just gets a lot for free very high intelligence there's just es nodes hand you know laying around um and ghost answers right here and Ghost Dance is really good you know with 30 000 evasion every Ghost Dance trout is actually recovering 900 es so you want to make sure you want to do that calculation and multiply your evasion times 0.03 you want to make sure you always have At Last At least that much es which will make sure that you're getting as much value out of your evasion there every six seconds that's like a 2700 life pool buffer which is pretty incredible right like don't don't sleep on ghost shrouds they're very very good so yeah that's for like my my defensive auras generally and then kind of looking at the way that I think of this as build archetype flesh and stone hair lavash here and even Defiance Banner they're doing so little when I'm fighting bosses that they're actually just kind of low value auras and I know a lot of people they don't like gem swaps they don't like flat swaps or anything like that I on the other hand you know I don't want to have to do it every single map right like I don't touch my gems when I'm mapping but if I'm gonna go into a boss encounter right I very much value doing super smart things that really can steer the fight in my advantage right if I'm gonna fight searing exarch I I don't need a quicksilver flask for steering extract right put in a ruby flask that triggers when he hits me and then boom I'm taking 20 less fire damage taken or I'm fighting either of Worlds and I can trigger topaz flask when I hit him just to make sure that it's up all the time and then that way I'm taking 20 less lightning damage taken right so I like to swap things in just to put that fight in my favor and so when I'm in my mapping configuration you know I'm using hex Bloom and flesh and stone defines Banner Herald of Ash but when I'm gonna fight a boss I don't need flesh and stone I don't need uh hair lavash I turn off Herald of Ash and I un you know I unsocket flesh and stone that lets me put malevolence in just kicks my damage much much higher and even further Grace isn't doing that much right like the scariest stuff that a monster is gonna do to you like a boss specifically is it's gonna be a big spell or ability or something like serious little Auto attack that's not what's gonna kill you and like yeah Grace is gonna make my ghost shrouds better but you know what's an even better defensive layer more damage so actually what I do is I turn off Grace turn off Defiance banner and then I turn on zealotry and then this way with uh malevolence and zealotry turned on and just Vitality that's my only defensive aura's Vitality here I am doing way way more damage I think Essence train says about 160k damage in my mapping configuration now it says 356 and that's like really the night and day difference that turning those auras on can be you could use divine blessing support if you wanted to do that that way I could turn on zealotry periodically still keep Grace on and that's actually a thing I level up a divine blessing that I might do that but yeah like just be very cognizant of how much value you're getting from you know certain defensive ores and stuff like that like Auto attacks for certain bosses could be very very meaningful and you know they could be scary but by and large it's like I don't know I find it's usually abilities and all that and I would rather do 9 million DPS and kill the boss really quickly then 7 million DPS and just have evasion right that's the way that I think of it but customize it how you want and that's what I you know I really want to get across is you know put this together how you like all right and then on top of that for utility and hybrid you could use Tempa Shield if you're using a shield variation Arctic armor Clarity of Mana is still uncomfortable I'm using flesh and stone and aspect of the spider if you can fit it in it is tough to fit in is really really good uh the problem is like the RMR um you can't socket Enlighten with your aspect of the spider which is really annoying so it's gonna reserve a lot of Mana um so I'm not I'm not bothered with that at all right now and then just a bonus thing we get those new invocations on the Sanctified relics Ghost Dance and ironwell are basically the only two good ones on this build so iron will uh will roughly give you about 30 increase damage and then ghost stance would actually allow us to change our passive tree and unspec all these points right here probably just still take these three points but then we can save going over here which is pretty cool all right all right long video long let's keep going to the Gear section so I'm very very happy with how I approached gearing this this league um you'll notice that I don't have a single unique item that is very much on purpose and while my wand would be a little tricky to make and solo cell found the rest of the gear that I have is 100 solo cell phone viable and I even built this character like I said you know go more into determination and endurance charges for hardcore but this is also very very easily hardcore viable I know because I started this build last league in hardcore Soul cell found you can play this build how you want as I said what I did this league is I started doing you know armor evasion and energy Shield but over the past couple days I went pure evasion and energy shield and I'm really proud about what I made let's go over what I did so we'll start with a wand right off the bat this is the more expensive version of the wand the fractured base was eight divines and then I just threw it into reforged chaos over and over again there's a few different things you can do you can use essence of Woe which is actually probably the right way to craft this and I'll probably recraft this with that essence of Woe will give you spell damage prefix you just want to do that until you hit plus chaos spell skill gems and then you can just do prefixes can't be changed use a veiled chaos orb anything like that or you can use the fossils exact same way we craft the fossil staff the plus five staff we use corroded shuttering and metallic in a triple fossil resonator and that has the highest chance of giving you spell damage and Chaos spell skill gems and then what I did prefixes can't be changed veiled chaos orb I got the cast speed actually very very very highly caspied this league particularly because of the sanctum I want to be able to get my spells out really quickly and then just keep going so the you know the sanctum guards don't hit me so yeah that's how I crafted this wand this is the much more expensive version you can get a lower level wand that has fractured spell damage or fractured cast spell skill gems and just kind of spam for good prefixes on there or you can just buy one for like 50 chaos or less my old wand had like 80 spell damage cast spell skill gems and some other random stuff you know and that was really really good uh cost me about 50 chaos total oh also you really want chaos top multi of course based on your budget you know go for whatever you want to do um the more I look at this the more I know I have to recraft this wand that tier 6 spell damage is embarrassing and then very similarly on the shield we want to go for chaos spell skill gems and spell damage what I did here is I bought this base for like 30 30 to 50 chaos threw it into reforged chaos very specifically it is a lower item level which makes it a lot easier to hit the mods that you're going for you know there's way less stuff in the pool um I ended up with tier three spell damage which is great spell damage is actually kind of tricky to hit spell damage is actually a much much better fracture but you know costs a lot more and I valued having a lot of life here I actually do have a better Shield here that we're gonna craft up on stream today like I said a better fracture is the spell damage spell damage is actually the lowest weight on the prefixes so this is going to be an interesting craft to do it's going to be expensive you know I really wanted to make the video right now because this is like the break point where you know I've only spent 25 divides right now a week into the league this is basically solo cell phone viable I think this is a good break point after today we're going to kick this into higher gear and I'm just gonna stop tracking my my currency and just try to you know push this build as far as I want to and this is going to be like such a tiny upgrade for the build this is when you start spending way too much money on stuff this is uh this is my shield like I said the total cost of The Shield is like 100 chaos something like this is exactly what you want if you can just go for fractured spell damage just like fractured tier 3 spell damage reforged chaos solo aberrant fossils you can get something like this very very easily and very cheaply The Amulet here my total cost of my amulet I tracked it was 15 chaos that's the total cost of this amulet um I bought the base for 10 chaos I threw it into like two reforged chaoses I hit all chaos spell skill gems and this is good enough you know ideally would be like plus one plus one with life or spell damage plus one life something like that on the prefixes um the the plus one minimum frenzy charges is actually really good it's actually significantly noticeable damage on the character more attack speed more moving speed and a four percent more damage multiplier it's actually noticeable so I do recommend trying to sync that in either on a ring or on your amulet if you can the helmet here I just got the cheapest enchant that I could this was 10 chaos for blight damage you can go for everything from Blight damage Bane AOE Bane curse effect punishment curse effect despair curse effect temp change curse effect they're all good whatever floats their boat whatever's the cheapest whatever fits your budget they're all really really good ideally is probably uh Bane curse effects still but uh the blight damage is actually pretty good blight is our single highest damage spell so I just did this you'll notice a theme here with my crafting is I just use Essences of greed you'll get about tier one life with the deafening Essences of greed at time of recording they're about five to six chaos each you know seven seven or so in bulk and then I went for despair effect and increase spell damage on the Eldritch implicits is this as good as the crown of the inward eye probably not but it gives me it has evasion on it and it gives me spell suppression this was actually very important as I used it until I hit spell suppression I am actually spell suppressed kept on this build uh which makes it extra extra comfortable particularly for running uh either of world's altars those lightning fan monsters they will that's actually a spell uh spell suppression cap is like night and day for fighting them and then I went for you know I'm going for as much evasion and Es as I can get on the build very easy to craft gear right uh and I just I wanted like very much emphasize that you can just craft this stuff yourself um this is all ssfiable you know just put Essences on on your map device Farm them up I'm actually probably going to switch into Essences myself I think they're pretty good right now and then let's go to the gloves as I said everything at least has to have evasion on it because we're using the Mastery here for 12 more spell suppress um because we need evasion on all three pieces and that will allow us to hit that spell suppression cap I want for spell suppress on as many pieces as I need to to hit 100 also a thing to watch out for when you're calculating your spell suppression is don't look at the number in your character sheet right here it says 100 but I'm actually at over 110 because revenge of the hunted when you have full life will give you that plus 10 if I take off my body armor you'll see I'm actually at 98 right here which means I'm actually at 88 which means I need 12 for my body armor yo just be very aware when you're calculating that revenge of the hunted is bamboozling you always double check in yeah you'll see right here um it'll say plus 16 in uh in path the building helmet was Essence of greed body armor was Essence of greed as well just went for at least tier two spell suppression um and then anything else was good and then we crafted life on the prefix you know nothing crazy I went for malevolence and non-cursor effect on the implicits right here just you know more damage more general or effect the boots I did this with Essences of zeal which will give you 32 movement speed which allows you to use a non AI level 86 base you know 35 or 42 is ideal but what I did here is I bought a fractured spell suppression base which made it you know a lot more comfortable you know ideal here is probably just get like fractured movement speed or anything like that and then I can just craft until I hit spell suppression and uh I could go for more life and that's probably like a way that I would improve this build Mana regen enchant here is actually really important Mana does kind of get a little bit tight you know you could drop the fine spanner and use Clarity if you want to deal with Mana a lot more I really like this this enchant and then cooldown recovery rate of travel skills more flame dashes increased action speed since we are both casting and using attacks Attack cast speed and movement speed are all affected by action speed increased action speed is almost always better than movement speed as your steering XR complicit here and then the gloves I bought this fracture base for I don't know 1020 chaos and then I hit it with Essences of delirium which give us that socketed gems 30 more damage over time did that until I hit spell suppression as you can see everything I else is not very good the hybrid evasion life is okay and then tier eight you know I slammed I actually ended up I did slam that uh that two life per second and then I got the additional spell suppression on the implicit with the chaos.multy with a unique enemy in the present right um like normally that's like seven to ten percent but we really want more damage on unique enemies so I went for that version of it um which just helps us for fighting you know bosses right which is what is most important so I get really really big chaos dot multi on the implicit there never use apothecary's gloves not to mention they are armor and Es based so there's no evasion on them um and this is how much damage you can get you know with these uh these new Elgin implicits apothecaries are just bad now my belt you might notice that it looks like a hunter base I don't have a single Hunter Mod on this ideally on the prefixes I would have tier one life I would have tier one increased life and I would have tier one increased chaos damage and the uh the increase life percent uh those are both Hunter mods on the prefix you can do this by throwing in to reforge whatever I crafted this with Essences of Envy for I wanted to get my chaos res up I want to cap my chaos res I really rely on this also for my strength so the prefixes on this are absolute trash you know Elemental damage to the tax does nothing for this build so this is just like a nothing belt like this does not need to be Hunter influence right now just craft it with some Essences this is just a stat socket right now the ideal enchant here is withered enemies minus six res that's obviously really good since we always weather and so yeah this belt is like nothing this is like a budget crap belt uh my Jewels are just strength life res stuff like that now my rings here as I said earlier I very very much value cast speed and Rarity is pretty good too I actually did end up incidentally I'm at 33 I was higher before Rarity's pretty good it is just good for you know a little bit better drops but the big thing that I valued here is I bought this fractured cast speed base oh 10 to 30 chaos like all these bases I'm buying really really cheap um I light ring for the increased chaos damage is really good um you could go for a synth base as well if you wanted to what we do is we cut this with the essence of envy you know we we hit that with the noxious Catalyst to get the increased cast damage modifiers then we craft this with essence of Envy which gives us that chaos damage and we just Spam it until we hit something good um I crafted both of these for between 50 to 100 chaos this was a cast speed fracture and then this one was uh and this one's not fractured at all um this one is actually a crusader base because Crusader also gets increased spell damage on the prefix and I was just kind of hoping or or percent energy Shield as well and I just spammed it with a couple Essences until I hit pretty good stuff but I could obviously make this a lot better maybe just go for a fractured base and try to make something better further down the line but yeah this ring is not min max as I said this is really a break point for where I think the gear is solo cell phone viable and as always my profile is always public you can just import it you go to path the building right here import build just type in subtract them go to sanctum League you can always import my character um just just so you know like if you want to follow along with my updates that I've done with this build after now um I'll probably not make any more videos about this build this league um unless something crazy happens this is where I think it's just like the end of about solo cell phone viable definitely a couple things would be a little tricky to hit you know like the wand is obviously a little bit beyond sole cell found but everything else here is very ssf viable that is all the gear that I have on right now and then like like I said estimated total cost of what I've spent so far is 25 divines but that also includes a an 8 fine base this was like a seven Divine in power and then this was like a two Divine awakened void manipulation 17 18 of those divines is just locked up in the wand this Empower and this awakened void methylation which isn't contributing that much to the build you know take like one to two million off the DPS and you're looking at like a five to seven Divine build and you're still really really comfortable just like make that really really clear like you do not need these few expensive pieces that I you know I started already pushing it a little bit beyond ssf but besides these three things you know you're still looking at like a six to seven million DPS build um for about five to seven divines or very very ssf viable yeah very quickly uh flats are incredibly important um I I actually I should I need to be hammering this home more and more and more flats are so crucial to the build to every single build flasks are like 30 of like your build just feeling good I have a corrupted blood bleeding Divine Life flask I have all my flasks instilled with used when charges reach full you know it's like a fake Mage blood you don't have to press your flasks or whatever you use to make your flask go off it just makes it a lot more comfortable to just like after using a mage blood I just never want to press my flask ever again I know it's like sub ideal for perfectly mid-maxing and hardcore or anything like that but I just never want to press my flash ever again so that's just I'm an instilling boy now and that's just the way it is I use reduced effective curses I actually very much value that these days um with the hexer modifier I know it's like not called hexer anymore because arch nemesis is gone but the the hexer based modifier that we get from rares it allows you to ignore hexes from Maps right if I see in feeble or temp chains on a map it's not that bad also there's curse reflect and you know we reflect our own very strong curses back onto us that still feels bad with the juice of vector curses but this makes a lot we have 46 here and then we actually have an additional uh 15 here or you could go into tolerance here if you care about uh you know poison or stun and you could grab it here you know if you want to be fully curse immune I find like this is enough to feel pretty good when mapping and then quartz flask is just for me mandatory for you know being able to actually like play the game play the game and be able to um you know walk through monsters not get stuck on stuff I'm using a silver flask now there's just nothing better that I thought of to put in here um if I did want more damage I could toss in a sulfur flask uh get that 40 increase damage the uh the silver flask just feels really really good for just going faster right I just want to go really really really fast and getting that Onslaught is incredible you know if you can get an onslaught on hit synth ring more power to you you know that's really a great source of onslaught right now it's up very high percent of the time do recommend that then a jade flask we're evasion based very important Jade flask with increased evasion rating during flask effect and then I have Quicksilver now Quicksilver I ended up hitting you know always go for increased effect I hit attack speed I actually hit tier one attack speed and I was like you know what I'll keep that since I am you know I tack a lot right with my with my shield charge just lets me get around quicker and then I went for movement speed on the silver flask and then we're good to go there so yeah that's my flask yeah so you can see I'm going from 20K to 30k evasion that's what the flasks do I do strongly recommend you know very much prioritize those flasks and then in terms of the passive tree here this is at level 100 also I hit level 100 last night that's how much I'm loving loving this build I don't think I've ever pushed a character level 100 in a week um I did do some five ways to go from 99.5 to 100 I was just tired um you know I didn't map it fully naturally but mostly was naturally five days and 16 hours played I have just been loving this build so much that yeah I wanted to level it up to 100 also had a gentleman's agreement with cute dog gifted sub to whoever uh whoever wins and I I beat him he's been losing his XPS a little bit too much went up to level 100 uh just a quick overview of the character sheet Max spell suppression we got some block we got freeze and chill I actually have a lot of reduced effect to chill I'm basically chill immune um freeze avoidance we got good movement speed good some action speed I have 77 Fire Res from a Sanctified Relic uh overcapped chaos res from my shield right here really really big almost 600 life regen per second too which is pretty awesome as you're just kind of like walking around and detents don't even you know you shrug them off 6100 life and 1500 es we had access to a really large life in es pools here which is pretty sick there's nothing crazy that you'll notice in the passive tree here there is um you know the new the one big new thing here is Steven profane I had this early and then I unspect it and then now at higher investment it's starting to you know it it's one of those things where you always have to double check in path of building like are you going to be getting that much value from the nodes and like at a certain inflection point it wasn't worth as much and now it actually is worth a lot again so yeah this just gives us 20 increased effective curses which is you know just really good not to mention a good defensive layer everything else here is totally standard you know going for spell damage stats life uh chaos damage anything like that on our Jewels these are really good do not skip small Jewels um I also go for Mana regen attack and cast speed like I said earlier I value that a lot same thing damage of time multiplier Mana reduced effect to chill you know this makes us pretty close to chill immune we have 32 percent here uh and then Pantheon so the Brian King fully upgraded 50 here this puts us at 82 percent reduced effect to chill we basically don't even notice it um and then 60 reduce effective shock here so shock isn't particularly bad also and then in terms of our one cluster drill here I bought this for I think one Divine uh on holy graze unwavering evil Wicked Paul this is best in slot but um this is the harder one to get very very cheap for like 20 to 30 chaos instead of wicked Paul you can go for touch of Cruelty which is 10 increase damage taken which you know is not as good as 30 increased damage and skill effect but it's still pretty good and it is way way cheaper that's a great stepping stone and then uh very specifically this is what my medium cluster Jewels are I have flow of life here which is actually very low weight I took this cluster Jewel I bought it and I threw it into reforged life and uh Harvest until I hit flow of life and anything else food for potency is really nice uh just better flash charges gain really not best in slot though it's just you know I hit it with flow of life flow of life is really good you know I wanted that life in regen but Brew for potency is not the ideal here you know better life recovery better flash charge gain is is really nice but this one is actually very specifically rolled student of Decay this will allow us to cap our chaos res I was previously using one with evil here but changing it into I was able to change this into student of Decay and uh still keep my capped chaos res with unspeaking those entire right it's fun that's the fun thing that you know I like to do is sit here and look at my passive tree and be like hey these three points like yeah plus one Max chaos Rose that's fine you know I can unspec three points here and Three Points alone right is almost an entire uh little Jewel and then you know maybe drop a master or something you know you can get a whole additional medium cluster drill which is great so student of Decay here and then very specifically also El judge inspiration like I said Mana is very tight um you know losing replica conquer sufficiency this patch I have non-channeling crafted on both of my rings as you can see here and even with how much Mana regen I have like it's better when I have Arcane surge but I have a i stacked a lot of Mana in a lot of Mana regen and it's still pretty tight 100 you can drop Define span or run Clarity instead that'll be a great buffer also I killed all Bandits I don't I used a lira actually until yesterday but then I was able to cap my res and you know this is another reason why I I had to do the more Mana um respect into killing all Bandits but yeah I'll just inspiration more Mana more Mana regen very comfortable and then yeah I recognize that this part of the tree it's always awkward like I keep looking like could I put this one point here and then take that one point there and then I could inspect these two points but then I lose 10 strength right like I I recognize that there's a couple like it looks kind of inefficient and I could do that you know maybe I do that but you know I think I actually need that 10 strength right now maybe I could go for a new small Jewel that has strength on it instead and then I get one more passing point and then I get another Mastery etc etc you know that's I'll leave that as an exercise to the uh to the viewer you know if you want to take this bill to the next level another thing that I actually found was pretty significant with the change that I do want to call out I am no longer using the plus one level and lose 10 life Mastery previously we used that to you know push our damage as high as possible this was particularly impactful because we had so much increased damage taken you know wither punishment and despair but despair doesn't do increased damage taken anymore and punishment is less effective which means that wither is worth more so the 20 increased effect of weather Mastery is actually worth a lot more to this build now than it used to be and so I'm actually using that instead of the plus one level of all KS spell skill gems so we can spam our spells and we don't to worry about losing your life anymore which is really nice losing that life sucked so I just wanted to call that out as well as a nice little uh I don't know a quality of life change for the build I think that that is the whole build I don't know if I missed anything I didn't say the DPS rotation while we're bossing uh when you encounter boss I like to wither step into the boss I will cast Bane I will cast Ed last 6.12 seconds actually lasts a lot longer than that Ed lasts like 9 to 12 seconds with temp chains on him so we don't have to cast that very often right and the same thing with Bane the bass duration is three seconds that's closer to six seconds actually so Bane Ed flame Dash behind the boss and then just sit there and channel blight wither step occasionally once the Wither Stacks are at 15 they will sustain because of the way that withering presence works it actually uh inflicts a 15 second wither so after 15 seconds you're always at Max you don't have to use weathering Step at all unless they phase and then they start to drop Stacks but that's the whole thing um so yeah wither stop periodically Bane every six seconds Ed every 10 seconds and then just Channel blight as much as you can and at Max uptime of your DPS we're looking at about 9 million DPS that is when the monster's on low life you know it goes from like eight to nine million I know what it's just you know whatever uh based on punishment increased damage taken it feels really really good it absolutely murders bosses this is not a build that easily scales into Ubers I will be throwing this at some Ubers and see how it feels but you know lower DPS against Uber is kind of annoying but I'll probably be doing that this week just to you know just to flex and you know and see see what I can do and then if it does take down the Ubers comfortably then I'll just have even more confidence about this build but yeah anyway hopefully that was enough for you guys um I just sat here and talked for over an hour um I'll try to edit this down as much as I can but I also just wanted to share what I think about this build with you guys and you know my passion for this build it is just a build that has been around for a while now you know in different iterations I've been maintaining it for a while and especially with this patch I think it's taken it Beyond just a beginner starter into like in my opinion it is in the pantheon of one of the best starters you know particularly beginner friendly but just one of the best starters you can pick if you don't know what to pick for League start you know this will carry you to the vast majority of the content in the game and feel really really good I don't know I to me I think it's uh an Undisputed great League starter and I will I'm always happy to play it um and I'm particularly happy that I played this league and took it to this level and really was able to share with you guys and now I gotta sit down and edit a very long video I'll try to make it as short as I can thank you so much for watching thank you for your interest in this build that I really care about and you know thank you for everyone a few people signed up for patreon the past week and I appreciate that so much that you know all your support and you guys here in this community um it really means a lot to me looking forward to many more years with you guys sharing just having fun and really enjoying uh you know path of Excel and games in general so yeah thanks for watching and I'll see y'all tomorrow goodbye [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Mon Dec 19 2022