Tag: Divination Distillate

(10-15)% increased Movement Speed while affected by Grace

I recommend either RF or BR, both have upsides, RF is faster and easier because less management, but with BR you can have much higher heal rate.

– Gives attack speed and frenzy charges

Not recommended because the buff the Harbinger gives can ruin your cooldown at optimal attack speed. In my test it started skipping every second cast of the socketed spells while I had the buff effectively halving my DPS, and I had no skipping without the buff, altough few players reported they didnt experience any skipping at all, so you can try it, but carefully test it if you are skipping casts or not. Also it has no life and flask mods, which are more important than life recovery rate and attack speed, so you should always aim for a rare belt once you can afford it.

– Lowers your heal by 500-1500 per second

28 080 damage per ball from ingame tooltip with EO (34541 against shaper/elder)

How to play the fight, flask management

Unearth supports: GMP always required to provide enough corpses for VD. Combustion applies -19% fire resistance debuff on bosses globally (affects VD)

– Permanent uptime, no re-activation required

I didnt make use of the 5th flask slot in the video, you can put a second Taste of Hate for easier uptime. Kaoms roots makes you stun immune and even Elder cant slow you down, but if you have cooldown reduction boots, you can do it with those too. Legacy 800% Zerphi isnt necessary, once you regen 20000/s+, which you can easily do with a lower roll, you need to focus on damage reduction. You ideally want Opal rings with Fire damage, like the ones below in mapping gear, but I needed to fix my resists.

If you get physical mitigation elsewhere or you choose to dodge physical attacks in the fight you can use Kaoms heart, which is also better in general for other boss fights.

PoB shows it wrong, ingame I definitely have enough fire resist, and it shows correct penetration tooIGN: Mrkusz

Pantheon:Arakaali with Arachnoxia and Armala, small for clearspeed Garukhan, for tanking Gruthkul

– If comboed with CWDT Immortal Call it can automatically trigger Arakaali-Arachnoxia pantheon (+50% heal rate!)

If you got the necessary stats to facetank the most important thing is flask management, it is the only thing you always have to play good during the fight, but it is also the only thing you do, so it is not difficult, just needs some practice. Just stand in your hideout, activate your flasks and try to keep up them as long as you can, preferably at least for 1 minute. Look for the flask duration markers under the flasks and try to re-activate only when there is a little bit left of the duration. If you choose to tank everything then you dont even have to look at the fight, only make your flask press timings perfect and move your cursor around a bit.

Volatile Dead supports: Concentrated effect is always best for bosses, the less aoe downside doesnt effect bossing speed. For the other support I recommend Elemental Focus, but keep in mind using that you will get less flask charges killing monsters (with pathfinder Veteran Bowyer)

2018. 07. 11. update: Improved the whole guide with more explanations, details and answers!

CWDT+Immortal call combo is only required in combination with Blood Rage to proc the Arakaali-Arachnoxia pantheon (+50% heal rate!), otherwise the phys immunity is not reliable during Uber Elder fight.

Helmet:The +1 VD enchant boosts your dps by 33%, so it is very good, but also expensive and not mandatory. In incursion you can get temple drops with 10% phys taken as elemental.

Omeyocan Carnal Boots (not recommended for uber elder):

Mitigate both elemental and physical damage taken, and heal a lot from Zerphi flask. For elemental mitigation use flasks with maximum resistances, for physical mitigation use modifiers that convert physical damage taken into elemental. Pathfinder regenerates flask charges, and with enough flask modifiers (reduced flask charges used, increased flask charges gained, and flask effect duration) you can keep up your flasks permanently.

Video of my very first attempt at Uber Elder in Incursion league:

Last edited by Mrkusz on Jul 22, 2018 4:43:02 AMLast bumped on Aug 16, 2018 3:11:19 AM

Zerphis Last Breath is a mana flask, so naturally its effect would end when you reach full mana, but since 3.0 Mind over Matter applies to Damage over Time effects, so you can consistently keep your mana depleted by running Blood Rage or Righteous Fire. Since your mana pool is depleted and you need something for the Mana cost healed as life mod, you have to use Blood Magic to use skills, which still works with the flask. You cannot use the BM keystone because it removes the whole mana pool, thus you cant activate mana flasks, leaving you with the BM support gem as a drawback, but you can kinda bypass that if you use a staff/mace with the vagan lvl1 BM support mod, a Covenant body armour, or separate trigger socket groups (Poets Pen). You can use any spell/attack that spends mana except channeling skills.

Blood magic and GMP are always best for highest mana multiplier, and Life gain on hit has nice utility. You can use faster attacks if you dont have it on gloves. You can use multistrike on Frenzy for even higher multiplier.

What is an attack speed cap? How to calculate it?

Being the hardest fight in the game, Uber Elder has many hard mechanics, projectiles and slams from 2 bosses in the 7-13k damage range mostly from pure physical and pure cold types, two types of ground degens to manage, occasional slowing effect, and boss immunity phases. What really makes it hard to cheese even with 80+% phys reduction and 95-100% cold resistance is Shaper balls having 25% cold penetration, with 97% cold resistance they still deal 3k damage per ball, 3+ balls in a row, so tanking all of that also requires big hp pool and recovery.

87/87/87% ele resists – Wise oak 14% reduced dmg taken from all elements

My Zerphi flask doesnt work or it deactivates, what to do?

(20-30)% increased LifeRecovery Ratewhile affected by Vitality

GEM BREAKDOWNSpoilerMain attack:Frenzy can generate frenzy charges and cap your attack speed the easiest (more dps, so its preferred). Power siphon gives culling strike if you dont have already and generates power charges to easier proc elemental overload. Kinetic blast has the highest mana cost, only use it if you cant get enough with the others.

Can I do this build with a different class?

I almost did the fight deathless, but I tried to facetank the tentacle attacks at the end, which didnt work out with 0% physical mitigation.

The gear wasnt fully optimized at that fight, I was in a hurry because I didnt know when they gonna patch the fight, so I had more attack speed than the cooldown would allow, so I was losing on some DPS, but I needed to maximize tankiness, so thats why I went with the higher attack speed for more heal. I also missed CWDT Immortal Call which is very important because it turns on the Arakaali pantheon with the Arachnoxia extension which gives a huge amount of heal rate.

This is a nerf.git good, copying a skill tree is hard skilled shit yo!

Facetanking everything however spectacular is not the safest strategy, the more attacks you dodge manually the safer you will be, but dont neglect your flask management!

PoB (twinned uber elder):IGN: Mrkusz

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Fire Resistance while affected by Anger

31232 damage per ball from ingame tooltip with EO and RF

Popular tanky bossing builds like LL/Life RF or melee Slayer look easy, but you still have to play good and actively dodge mechanics to survive because they simply dont have as high mitigation + recovery as the Pathfinder and Zerphi combo.

This part is only a showcase, you dont need this much defense for a regular Uber Elder.

Gear progression:Cap your attack speed for your cooldown first, try to get some cheap cooldown reduction gear, this helps the most on clear speed while leveling, then focus on defences, because VD has a very high baseline DPS with even low investment, and once you have high life gear you can upgrade into more DPS for faster boss kills, stacking penetration, getting triple wise oak resist balance, and good opals. Helmet enchant is very good for both clear speed and single target, so early on get one as soon as you can, even if its a bad base/unique, and replace it later.

Gear used in Twinned Uber Elder video

Uber Elder, Comparison to other builds

Last edited by Mrkusz on Mar 8, 2018 2:01:25 AM

838% of mana cost gained as life (54% increased flask effect)

My very first attempt at Uber Elder in Incursion league: incursion gear down in Budget version)

This means your heal has a 4 second build up time until it becomes maximized, so you have to know when you gonna take damage and start attacking a few seconds before, or just keep constantly attacking/casting. Also if you use blood magic you drop some amount of life at the start, so thats when you are the most vulnerable.

At bosses you shouldnt use it because you lose DPS with it. Poets pen alternates between socketed gems when you have more than one, so when you have Unearth, GMP, Bodyswap, you only create 5 corpses every 2 attacks, or average 2.5 per attack, but you still cast VD at every single attack, requiring 3 (4 with enchant) each. You can fix it with a Dying Sun, but you dont get much else from it, so in my opinion not worth it. It can help a bit in the Uber Elder fight to avoid attacks, but you will eventually get hit by some big ones, so you should aim to be able tank them. Arctic Armour also works while bodyswapping, I tested it.

I have different gear for mapping at the bottom!

Gear used in Deathless Uber Elder video (recommended for most safety):

Boots:Kaoms roots is the best in slot item for Uber elder fight because it is the only item that can make a Pathfinder immune to Elders slow attack currently, it gives you stun immunity, and has very high flat life. For other bosses and mapping you can use rare boots with movement speed and cooldown reduction.

26% life recovery rate from Watchers Eye, and 50% from pantheon

30% physical damage taken as lightning (L. Coil)

Do not use(50-70)% increased Life Recoveryfrom Flaskswhile affected by Vitality, it doesnt work with Zerphi, I tested it myself.

Try to dodge the shaper balls manually, these do the highest damage in the fight, but they are the easiest to avoid by moving around a little bit, which can make the fight much easier.

– An incursuon-specific unique item that constantly drains 7% of maximum mana, easily outdegening any mana gain

In my example above: 336 mana cost * 544% of mana cost gained as life with 54% increased flask effect with 76% life recovery rate (26% watchers eye + 50% pantheon) minus 336 blood magic cost lastly multiplied by 4.37 attacks per second

SpoilerWhy not using Indigon Hubris Circlet?

– Physical mitigation (not the conversions, but traditional mitigation like endurance charges, immortal call, or basalt flask)

My build canface tank all mechanicsof the encounter, thats why it is the easiest in the sense that itrequires no dodgingat all, you just have to stand still, hold right click, and manage flasks and Blood Rage, which can be permanent with enough investment. Being realistic you can still easily die if you miss flask use, so I recommend it only for softcore, but this isas easy as it gets

First read the gem breakdown and Zerphi mechanics sections above, then check how your mana behaves. If you have this problem you probably only use Blood Rage to degen your mana, which can be low enough that your mana still regens and reaches maximum turning off your Zerphi flask. You can try getting more life or getting rid of any mana/mana regen on your gear, but if it still regens after that then you can try using Righteous Fire instead of Blood Rage.

You should only use Vitality or Anger if you have a Watchers eye jewel with the matching mod, otherwise you can use Herald of Ash, Arctic Armour, or Purity.

I didnt use Taste of Hate because I wanted better uptime on my Sapphire flask, so I rolled reduced charges on a blue one, and I was lazy to respec my character to Lightning Coil, so I stayed with Kaoms and chose to dodge all physical attacks manually.

Budget version, my gear in Incursion leage

The most required item is the Zerphi flask, currently around 16 exalts in Incursion, the other uniques are cheaper, not entirely mandatory, and you dont need expensive rares. You can make it in about 20-40 exalts total, and it doesnt scale much higher with more. For a build that you can easily farm Uber Elder and any other boss in the game with, it is a good investment. See budget version at the bottom.

– Cant use Kaoms Roots (this is the main reason I dont recommend it)

– It gives just a little degen that you can outheal with base life regen, and the 30% taken from mana drains 100-140 mana with 6-8k life, which is usually a bit more than what the Zerphi refills. When you also activate Distillate the degen is usually not enough, so you have to stand in damage to keep up Zerphi (+management, but usually not an issue in uber elder fight)

Wise oak:You can only benefit from Wise oak if either all of your resist are equal, or your Fire is the highest, and Cold is the lowest, because you need the penetration for fire, and for Uber elder you need the cold reduction. Because we also use Taste of Hate, it can make the cold resist really high. In the Twinned video and my regular mapping gear I simply have very low cold resist without flasks (14%) which is very risky, and only ToH makes it equal with the other 2 resists. In the deathless video I made all resists capped without flask, which is safer, and removed Wise.

Overall I used much cheaper gear than my standard league version, aside from Zerphi and Kaoms Heart I only spend 20-50c on each item slot on average.

776% of mana cost gained as life (54% increased flask effect)

20 187 life recovered per second maximum (after 4 seconds of consecutive attacking)

(6-10)% chance to Dodge Attacks while affected by Grace

Pathfinder is currently one of the best classes in the game imo because it has the highest flexibility in the entire game through easily swapping flasks to any need, any boss, you can alter it from being tanky to being high dps or high clear speed, making it the best allarounder class.

Pure mana based Zerphi setups are possible, they are very different from what I showcase here, and those would need to balance mana usage to not get full mana nor empty mana too long, and overall need very high mana recovery investment and more attention to keep up the mechanic.

Watchers Eye is not necessary but nice to have, Useful Watchers eye mods in order of importance, look for the best you can afford:

Body armour:Lightning coil gives the easiest physical mitigation, but it has a big negative resistances downside, you can upgrade it if you get a Horror essence crafted rare chest (15% as cold) on a shaper or elder base (another up to 15% as one elemental)

Leveling:I recommend leveling with 2 Poets pens and any spell that you like (try Arc, Glacial Cascade, Bladefall) in one wand and Unearth + Bodyswap in the other wand. Also check out the recentBuild of the weekwhich is similar to my build.

Zerphis Last Breath now recovers life over 4 seconds instead of instantly. It now heals you for 450-600% of the mana cost, down from 800%.

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You multiply your tooltip mana cost, your zerphi heal number, your flask effect modifiers, your life recovery rate modifiers minus your mana cost again because of blood magic, and finally multiply with your attack rate

Jewels:You need at last 3-4 Fevered mind jewels for high mana cost, and a Conquerors Potency (increasing flask effect from 46% to 54% gives you +2% maximum resistances from sapphire and distillate flasks!).

You can build up your heal effect before boss fights so you wont be vulnerable when you enter, and you will keep regening if you stop attacking for a few seconds when you move around, or get stunned.

Auras:You should only use Vitality or Anger if you have a Watchers eye jewel with the matching mod, otherwise you can use Herald of Ash, Arctic Armour, or Purity. See useful watchers eye mods above under gear breakdown.

Improve your gears defensive part, make sure to have enough life, maximum resistances, physical mitigation and heal amount.

44% physical damage taken as cold (ToH with flask effect)

Deathless Uber Elder video with no legacy gear:

(40-60)% increased Fire Damage while affected by Anger

Poets Pen + Volatile Dead combo is one of the most mainstream meta builds since it came out, but my builds main focus is defense. Two broad approaches to bossing is damage rush or steady tanking, with the first you focus on highest DPS finishing the fight as quick as possible, you have to dodge mostly all boss attacks and do mechanics to survive, and with the second you aim to tank the bosses, ignore most mechanics, do some damage, do the fight as long as it takes slow and steady. My build is in the second category, but Poet+VD has very good baseline damage, even with cheap gear, so the fights dont take too long at all.

My builds: thread/1600072 (Ethical PvP builds, AFK Twinned and Ghosted Uber Elder, Twinned Uber elder kill with Zerphi Poet VD 30k+ heal/s, CI EK/GC mapper, Lowlife Indigon PvP)

Incursion Flaskback league: Becase Zerphis price is exptected to bevery low, 2-5c at the startthis build will be a cheap uber elder and an allaround boss/high tier map farmer (2-5 ex minimum,3x Fevered Mind2x Poets Pen)

Going crit could only yield more damage than Elemental Overload if you sacrifice survivability, which is not the focus of the build.

On rings and helmet get high life and resistances to cap you without flask preferably, and spell/fire/elemental damage if you can afford.

Improvement options:Glove supports are only for highest mana cost, mine is only 110% * 110% * 120%, and you can get Poison support too with 135%, which is more ideal. I could get more resistances on helmet, to get more life and damage from rings. On belt cooldown recovery and one flask mod is the most important, after that highest life and possibly a second flask mod (duration). If you are on standard get legacy items (Zerphi, Coil, ToH).

Any purity mod that gives Physical-Elemental conversion

Mana depletion:There are currently 3 ways to drain your mana to keep up Zerphi and Divination Distillate flask, and all have up/downsides:

Flasks:Aside from the above explained Zerphi, Taste of Hate and Divination Distillate flasks, you want an Overflowing Chalice to maximise the uptime of your other flasks and get a nice damage boost as well, and for last slot you can choose anything to your preference, quicksilver, wise oak etc.

There is no cap to the amount healed, you just have to scale the stats it relies on: mana cost, attack/cast speed, flask effect, life recovery rate. You can scale flask effect from skill tree at witchs region, going pathfinder, using the unique Potency jewel, or an Elder belt. You can scale life recovery rate by choosing the Arakaali pantheon with the Arachnoxia extension and having a CWDT Immortal call to proc it, or you can use an Elder belt with life recovery, or a Watchers Eye jewel with Vitality aura mod, or having Trickster ascendency node. You can stack mana cost by having elder/shaper items with extra supports, or just choosing the highest mana cost supports in your 6L, using several Fevered Mind jewels or other sources of increased mana cost.

Belt:The most important mod on belt is Reduced flask charges used which substantially increases your flask uptime, the most important modifier to make your flask uptime permanent. Secondly you want high flat life, and if your budget allow either Cooldown recovery speed on a shaper belt base (gives dps), or Life recovery rate on an elder belt base (gives more heal). Lastly you want either flask effect duration or a resistance if needed.

You must have automatic flask recharge during boss fights without killing monsters, so the only other option is Scion-pathfinder, which has the same flask regeneration, but you will miss flask effectiveness, uptime, and ailment immunity, making you less tanky, but if you already have a scion you can give it a try.

When just mapping Bodyswap is still fine anyway, because you get a lot of corpses from the map monsters and you can gain clear speed with it.

Bandit:I recommend 2 passives for boss killing if you need the damage/hp, but I personally chose Kraityn (6% attack/move speed, 3% attack dodge) for clear speed, which you dont really benefit from on bosses.

26% life recovery rare from Watchers Eye, and 50% from pantheon

+(5-8)% chance to Evade Attacks while affected by Grace

Poets Pen puts a base 250ms (0.25 seconds) cooldown on the socketed spells, so by default in theory you could activate them 4 times per second. Altough in practise it works only with attacks that are somewhat slower than the actual cooldown, otherwise it starts skipping casts. There is no exact formula for calculation, it can also depend on your internet latency. You should always test your own attack speed and see if it skips casts or not. In my tests without cooldown reduction gear 3.77 attacks per second is the highest that works with the base 250ms cooldown.

I didnt try it yet on this build, but I will sometime. I will have to swap out VD for other spells at Atziri mirror clone, like Firestorm and Glacial Cascade with cold to fire. Defences are enough as is, anything is tankable except double Flameblast. I already recorded a run in 3.1 with Blade Vortex Zerphi, and I got a lot tankier since then:

Gloves:An elder gloves can have the most support gems that work with wand attacks (Poison 135%, Faster attacks 120%, Chance to bleed 110%, Faster Projectiles 110%), you can get all 4 at the same time to get the highest base mana cost, and you can still get flat life rolls too, but it can be expensive.

DisclaimerZerphis Last Breath price can be very different based on the league, in Flashback leagues where Perandus mod is active it can be2-5 chaosbut in regular Challenge leagues it is usually500-2000 chaosbut this is a Zerphi build, you need to at least get the Zerphi flask,

GEAR BREAKDOWNSpoilerWeapon:On Poets pens preferably you want higher attack speed, but its easy to cap your attack speed to the cooldown, especially without cooldown reduction gear, so its not important. If you are looking to spend more currency on it you can get 8-10% elemental penetration with corruption which is nice damage but also expensive.

If you cant keep up your flasks long enough, make sure you have enough flask modifiers, you need at least a Reduced flask charges used mod on belt, but you can also get Flask effect duration

– Has a several seconds duration, needs re-activating manually or by CWDT (+management)

32 051 life recovered per second maximum (after 4 seconds of consecutive attacking)

– Doesnt work early game when you have lower life, because it cant outdegen the mana recovery

24 585 damage per ball from ingame tooltip with EO (23109 against shaper/elder)

2018. 07. 21. update: Changed support gems in weapons and gloves

This time I intentionally used a different fight strategy than in the deathless video, I tried to dodge most attacks, to showcase that this way it can be even easier.

If you still die with flasks up you can do 2 things:

15 066 life recovered per second maximum (after 4 seconds of consecutive attacking)

Amulet:Xophs Blood is usually the best you can get because of the ash debuff it puts on enemies (20% DPS boost and slows), but also currently a bit overpriced, so this is one of the last item you should upgrade to, otherwise you can be fine with a rare amulet with life, spell/fire damage or resistances.

31% physical damage taken as cold (ToH with flask effect)

For Uber elder you need to have a Sapphire flask and Divination distillate for resistances, and at least 50-60% physical mitigation, for which the easiest choice is Lightning coil and Taste of Hate, but you can stack anything that gives the same modifier. Aim to have around 6500 life. You need to have a Kaoms roots because it makes you immune to slows in the fight. On the gloves you should get support gems that increase the mana cost of your attack, granting more heal, and 3-4 Fevered mind jewels for the same reason. On all other items you need high rolled flat life, resistances enough to cap without flasks, and lastly any source of damage for VD (fire, elemental, spell, area). Xophs blood, VD helmet enchant, and penetration Watchers Eye are not necessary, they dont enable anything, only make the fight faster thus easier.

– It degens a lot of life, you constantly have to keep attacking and using Zerphi, but it always outdegens any mana gain

(336 * 8.38 * 1.76 – 336) * 4.37 = 20187

My builds: thread/1600072 (Ethical PvP builds, AFK Twinned and Ghosted Uber Elder, Twinned Uber elder kill with Zerphi Poet VD 30k+ heal/s, CI EK/GC mapper, Lowlife Indigon PvP)

It doesnt work with Blood Magic, and it requires a lot of mana investment, it can give a lot of damage, but it makes the build less tanky, so I didnt use it in this build. I tried it out on an other character, but I felt it inconsistent, so I didnt continue yet:

Keep in mind that with cheaper gear your survivability is not guaranteed, so you might need different strategies at Uber Elder, such as move around a bit and dodge attacks manually wow!

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No offense, but I have seen few characters that were further away from what I say in the Guide in terms of gearing than this. The Rings are horrible, Amulet a little less so, the Links are bad, you dont use Tombfist for whatever reason, etc.Ascendant ele Conversion BF + Various

Sitting at 5.4 Million Shaper DPS right now:

Currently I have 104% of physical convert to cold (20+20% from tree, 39% from jewel and 25% from glove). Would like to ask is it any benefit for the 100% conversion? if not what is the minimum % to sustain? Thinking to change my glove to tombfist, but using the current one because of that 25% conversion.

Yes, more Conversion is better, but theItems we get that from are bad: Conversion VInktar, Stormchargers, Hrimsorrow, etc. But I explained that earlier already and will add it to the FAQ now.

Oh my sorry. I read the full guide inc. leveling and read over this point…

I go over that in the levelling Section tho, maybe read it again :)Ascendant ele Conversion BF + Various

Have a nice day and gl with the Upgrades 🙂 Maybe use some of the Trade Links for rares in the Progression or Endgame Gear Section and adapt them to your needs.

You get Mana Leech from Soul Raker. Until then you can grab a 1 Point 0.4% Mana Leech node on the down right side of the tree.

Will take your suggestion to save up for tombfist + jewels & a decent weapon…wow should cost a lot.

Yea, I have bad flasks on my belt, I m still farming for it, too poor to buy them now. _

Also, there is no Reason to not use Tombfist. Extremely high damage and Life, but I explained that in the Guide.

Last edited by Guffinn on Jul 10, 2018 9:01:50 AM

Rotgut is a completely wasted Flask that lowers your DPS and Clearspeed. It counteracts our Raider Ascendancy completely. Divination Distillate doesnt work on a Build like this, you only gain its Boni while the Flask Effectis active, which it only is for like 2 Seconds or so since our Mana is full after that.

I am using 2 claws because of these nodes claw of magpie and soul raker, wonder when it says 20% increase physical damage with claws, will it apply to the 2 claws with a total of 40% increase? A bit confuse with the way of calculation.

fixed belly. Tombfists next then rings/belt.

Gonna be finishing up Challenges soon, and Bossing Services is up from tomorrow or so as well.

Yo, thanks for checking my guide out 🙂

I go over that in the levelling Section tho, maybe read it again 🙂

Np man, mistakes happen. Thanks for the kind words 🙂

I have a belly actually, I have just changed to Loreweave for the MF, I try to twist a bit the build to increase some MF% for the fun of exploring…at the cost of sudden death sometimes though :p

E: Just saw your Edit. Remember that the trees that drop Aspect of the Lynx also use 3 Might of the Meek. They went up in price recently, but are still way better than 3 rare Jewels for the same Price.Ascendant ele Conversion BF + Various

Thx for this great and detailed guide. The trade-links are very helpful.

Last edited by Guffinn on Jul 10, 2018 9:30:53 PM

No, they are not worth it. Tombfists offer strictly more Life and way more Damage.

Thx for this great and detailed guide. The trade-links are very helpful.

Last edited by PatienceGG on Jul 10, 2018 7:26:34 AM

Ascendant ele Conversion BF + Various

That said, maybe try using the correct Links, Gear, and use rares that follow the Stat Priority 😛

Oh my sorry. I read the full guide inc. leveling and read over this point…

Ascendant ele Conversion BF + Various

[3.3] Guffins McFlurry Flurry All Bosses Down Fast and Safe Mapping Skillchoices

Thanks you for the time to checking up and the suggestions.

Like I said man, no offense. Thing is, you can get decent rares in trade Leagues pretty easily and they have a big impact for our damage. Crafting stuff yourself is nice and can be a cool achievement, but if you are struggling with dmg then maybe its time to buy some cheap ones.

No time to load your stuff into PoB right now and check in Detail.

With the rares I wanted to get my resists all to 75. Most of the gear was self found/crafted :v

Fixes all INT Issues, and 90 added as extra + Crit Multi. Pretty cool.

Currently I have 104% of physical convert to cold (20+20% from tree, 39% from jewel and 25% from glove). Would like to ask is it any benefit for the 100% conversion? if not what is the minimum % to sustain? Thinking to change my glove to tombfist, but using the current one because of that 25% conversion.

Btw, why do you use 2 Claws? Thatshorrible, you should use a Sceptre or Axe as a Statstick, and nothing else. A second Claw or Foil or Dagger gimps you DPS by a lot.

You get Mana Leech from Soul Raker. Until then you can grab a 1 Point 0.4% Mana Leech node on the down right side of the tree.

Upgraded to a perfect ToH for no real Reason

Hi there. So my damage is really herpy derpy, was wondering what i am doing wrong in regards to having that great damage. tool tip showing around 15k

Hi there. So my damage is really herpy derpy, was wondering what i am doing wrong in regards to having that great damage. tool tip showing around 15k

With the rares I wanted to get my resists all to 75. Most of the gear was self found/crafted :v

dmge went up a lot with those adjustments.Last edited by PatienceGG on Jul 10, 2018 8:53:13 AM

Conversion GlovesONLYbeat my Tombfists with Perfect T1 Rolls on a Spiked Base: 6 to 10 Phys, 60 Dex, 16% Attack Speed, 500 Accuracy, 25% Conversion. For the price such mirror worthy Gloves cost, you could just buy better 4prop Jewels and Tombfist would win again.

% to sustain, what do you mean? There is no Breakpoint or something, just go with what I say in the Guide: 90% earlygame with Moonbenders Wing, then up to 80% with a 40% Watchers Eye.

Hi I have been following your build with some modification of item used, but never thought the damage is drop so much 😮

Adjusted my Talent Points too….idk how i missed that part. Still had aspect of the lynx.

Can someone plz tell me best way do not always run out of mana.

I recommend against using Loreweave and explained that thoroughly in the Guide. Your choice tho, but if you enjoy it: at least go for a 80% Maxres Roll so that you getsomedefensive Value from the Chest.

Upgraded 3 Abyss Jewels, slammed them and got shit Stuff 😀 (ES Regen etc.)

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Reached Level 97 to get another Jewel Socket

Also, I see you are using BF to clear and not one of the recommended clearkills in a pseudo Link Helmet. Thats fine if you enjoy it, but then remember to not follow the BF links 100% as inc AoE over Conc Effect will feel much better while mapping. Also, maybe Inc Crit Strikes over Ele Focus so you can still Freeze/Shatter and proc your HoI. For big bosses, swap to the recommended Gems tho.

4 -Gear, Flasks, JewelsMy GearWeapons

Ruby flasks give 9-10% maximum fire resistances (10% with an elder belt). I usually put bleed immunity instead of curse immunity on this flask because curses dont matter for most endgame bosses and curse immunity is a bit more common among boss fights.

Capture at least: Jorus, Skys Edge (T12 Summit map)

Switch Ruby into Topaz Flask. Nothing else to keep in mind here.

Soul of Shakari- Mostly for Mapping.

We want to socket Frenzy in gloves because we can have a pseudo 5-8 Link which increases our Mana Cost to get more regen out of Zerphis last Breath.

This jewel is very easy to acquire as it a quest reward (The Wings of Vastiri in Act 8).

Incursion and Redblade Helmet give us another 10% of physical damage taken from hits as fire/cold/lightning.

Kaoms Roots are required for Uber Elder. Elder puts a movespeed and more importantly attack speed slow on us. Which is really bad because we rely on attacking for Zerphis Last Breath. Stun Immunity is good to keep attacking even while taking damage.

=93-97% of physical damage from hits taken as X elemental damage

When you check your tooltip in the skillbar you should aim for 0,26 Attack time on Frenzy while you have all your buffs up (Frenzy Charges, Blood Rage and at least 1 Flask). If it says 0,25 attack time youll attack too fast. The best way to notice if you are attacking to fast is by using unearth + bodyswap and volatile dead. If you then jump in a straight then shouldnt be any (or barely any) skipped bodyswaps.

If you want to use Dying Sun get a jewel with Corrupting Blood Immunity. Usually I would search for a few good stats and as long one is on the corrupted jewel it seems good enough to use.

Word of Light when you take a critical strike

Purity of Lightning-Purity of Elements

Lure Minotaur in the Lightning Pillars in the top (those activate first) and make sure that you dont stand in them. Those Lightning Pillars put a debuff on everything they touch which makes the enemy take more damage. Either way you can facetank Minotaur with 83%+ phys taken as ele.

First of I want to say that Ill add full explanation to the guide as soon as I can. I just wanted to submit it right now to not mess with linked items etc. So stay tuned 🙂

This pantheon upgrade gives Poison Immunity and makes us tankier against chaos damage.

10% of Physical damage taken from Hits taken as X elemental damage while affected by purity of X element

10-20% Increased Flask charges gained (suffix)

We use Mind over Matter, Blood Rage and Righteous to lose mana and therefor negate our mana regen and the mana recovery for the flask. Because we never reach full mana this flask is up for the full duration. Which is why you dont want to put quality on this flask. Quality would increase the amount of mana gained.

2. Life/mana leech if youve killed recently. Which would give you to much mana regen for blood rage to mitigate and therefor Divination Distillate and Zerphis Last Breath would end.

Same amount of phys taken as Ele as Lightning Coil without the downsides of -60% Lightning Resis. On top of that you could get good elder mods or even higher resistances. Higher life rolls than Lightning Coil is possible as well, but that would be really rare to have in combination with both phys taken as ele mods. I would recommend crafting on an Astral Body Armor for another 36% resistances advantage over Lightning Coil.

Basically if you have the VD enchant dying sun is ~50% more damage while mapping. It doesnt do much for boss farming.

The way that Armour works and how it works combined with physical taken as ele.

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21-30% Increased Flask charges gained (Ilvl: 85, suffix)

Phoenix reduces maximum fire resistance by 1% per 10% hp he has lost. Towards the end you might not want to tank his everything and then dodge a bit. Avoid damage mods which make the fight too harder especially extra damage as fire or min max.

It is important to have Purity of Fire/Ice level 23 which gives us another 2% max fire resistance (+1 from lvl 23 compared to lvl 20 and another +1 from 22% aura effect)

For mapping get curse immunity and replace Overflowing Chalice with it. For Bosses with a lot of physical use a granite of Iron Skin instead of Vessel of Vinktar (for example Minotaur, Shaper, Uber Atziri Trio).JewelsCore item: Fevered Mind

Useful Corruptions: 4-5% Damage corruption.

Granite flasks are quite amazing for physical mitigation in this build. Why?

2. Master Alchemist(immunity to elemental ailments and some ele damage)

In terms of flask mods go for bleed, poison or curse immunity. Atziris Promise can be used if you dont use dying sun.

10-20% Reduced Flask charges used (suffix)

Super High Budget (I would NOT recommend trying to craft it, it can be really expensive):

Which means that all converted damage to fire and cold damage is reduced by 97% down to 3% remaining damage taken and all damage taken as lightning damage is reduced by 81-85%.

(was my first run and sorry for the follow thingy).

Becoming really really tanky to facetank Uber Elder safely in Hardcore without even dropping below 50% HP and not dodging anything. Stacking Physical damage from Hits taken as Elemental up to 97%, running high resistances 97/97/85% Fire/Cold/Lightning and using Zerphis Last Breath to regen A LOT OF Life per second. Poets Pen Volatile Dead + Unearth is our damage source and Bodyswap can be used for mobility in maps. Permant flask uptime due to Pathfinders flask charge recovery every 3 second and stacking as much Flask charge/effect duration modifiers as we can.

High physical mitigation due to stacking physical damage from hits taken as X elemental damage.

+Permanent up to 30% IIQ and 100% IIR with Divination Distillate

+10% Ruby/Sapphire Flasks (67%+ Flask effect)

+10% Incursion Helmet/Redblade Helmet

Aug – Regal – Craft Life or Resis and Exalt

In this build it is important to have the lowest attack speed Poets Pen possible (8% Attack Speed).

I just link Increased Critical Strikes because there isnt much that would be beneficial.

Use Amethyst Flask instead of Ruby until the Snake phase is over. After that you can switch back to ruby or granite. Be careful during the Snake minion phase because they deal a lot of chaos damage. Best way is standing on the bottom right side of the arena and kill them as they come close. Then try to get the Unique Snake down quickly. Whenever Chimera goes into Smoke phase where you have to find him dont forget that you still want to attack in between to get regen from Zerphis Last Breath.

Dont hesitage having resistances on your jewels if you need it.

The Overflowing Chalice enables permanent flask uptime during boss fights. It takes some time to get used to it. Basically while this flask it active it doesnt generate flask charges for itself, but increased flask charges gained for all other flasks.

Capture: Terror of the Infinite Drifts (T13 Desert Spring map).

(ignore colors, check the astral body amour or the gem section below)

Another good elder mod is %increased Life Recovery rate but it is not as important as Reduced Flask charges used.FlasksThis character has up to 69% increased flask effect. Which is important to keep in mind when looking at the flask stats because they dont take the flask effect into account.

Could you explain how to play this build as a complete newb? What skills to use during fights, any typical flask rotation to keep your flasks up, etc? Theres some mechanic where you have to keep your mana low or something?

5-15% Flask effect duration (craftable suffix)

Those are usually not super hard to get. I paid about 100-200c for a single stat Watchers Eye in IHC.

3. % reduced Mana Cost of Skills if youve been Hit Recently. We want to gain mana cost and not lose.

If your gloves dont have Socketed Gems are supported by level X Faster Attacks you may want to linkFaster Attacksinstead of Life gain on Hit. Just keep in mind that with all attack speed buffs we are looking for 0,26 attack time.

= 22% extra maximum fire and cold resistances which adds up to97%in total.

12% of physical damage taken from hits taken as X elemental damage while affected by Purity of Elements

Capture: Tahsin, Warmaker (T10 Siege map)

+6% Divination Distillate (50%+ Flask effect)

If it comes down to having T1 flask effect and no other flask mods vs. no T1 flask effect , but instead have reduced charges used and crafted flask duration. Pick the option which grants reduced charges used.

-Nullifier nemesis mod on rares removes all active flask buffs and blood rage – dangerous

Unearth-Greater Multiple Projectiles-Combustion/Bodyswap

[3.3] 97% Fire & Cold Resis – Zerphi Poets Pen VD – Facetanking Uber Elder – Super EZ Flask uptime

T1 flask effect pushes our total flask effect to 67-69% which gives us another +1 max resis from resis flasks. Ruby and Taste of Hate Sapphire Flask will grant 10% max resis of their respective element.

If it comes down to having faster attacks + another support with at least crafted life vs. 3 or 4 supports and no life at all, pick the option which grants you life.

iLvl 1: (35)% increased Attack Speed

Armour – IMPORTANT: Lightning Coil works just fine. With the downside of having a harder time with fixing resistances. Crafting an Elder Body armour costs a lot currency and I would NO recommend it.

Soul of Solaris- Mostly for Bossing.

Otherwise we will attack too fast for Poets to proc on every pack and it will miss casts.

The best prefix on flasks is 20-25% reduced Flask charges used (Chemists). Try to get this mod on all non-unique flasks. This way all flasks besides Overflowing Chalice and Zerphis have roughly the same duration which makes it easier to manage your flasks.

=83-85% of physical damage from hits taken as X elemental damage

In my case it is: 3.79 attacks per second * 564 mana cost * 4,99 times our mana gained as life * 1,67 increased flask effect * 1,14 life recovery from my belt = 20306 Life regen per Second

You If you dont have 90%+ Physical taken as Elemental consider using a Granite Flask of Iron Skin against high physical damage encounters.

5 Points for Herbalism (3 nodes for 20% life)

This is more expensive and harder to craft:

Best Enchant by far: Volatile Dead destroys up to 1 additional corpse

Having more flask mods is huge for easier sustain (in order of importance):

Any Damage taken conversion is taken into account before armour. Which means that 73%-83% of the physical that we take is already 0 or close to 0 with 100% ele resistances. The remaining physical damage is much smaller than before and armour becomes even stronger relative as it works better against smaller hits. If you have 93% or higher physical damage taken as ele it becomes not so impactful and should replaced with something else. Because the amount of damage taken is so small that it can simply be outregened.

For a Watchers Eye with Purity Elements drop either Purity of Lightning or Ice depending on which one is less important.

Core Items which you always want to use:

Depending on the mods a granite grants:

Blood Rage-Blood Magic-Vaal Righteous Fire-Increased Duration

***** DONT PUT QUALITY on this flasks *****

Redblade Helmets always drop magic and identified. Drop from Redblade (Fire type) warbands. T4 Lighthouse has those as map bosses. Whenever you kill the bosses press ALT to see hidden items and then you should be able to *Redblade X Helmet* if one dropped. From my experience they drop every 10-20 map runs.

Combustion support only works with Unearth if unearth does at least 1 fire damage. So you want to have a single mod whichs adds fire damage to spell, fire damage to spells while dual wielding.

A Topaz flask can be used example against Atziri and Eradicator.

A Chaos resis flask can be used against Constrictor, Chayula or any other heavy chaos damage encounter. An Amethyst flask provides up tp 58% chaos resistance.

If you want to see how the build is doing in Hardcore Incursion or have any questions you can visit write your questions here in this thread

If you dont have an elder flask effect belt you can go for Master Herbalist to get chaos resistance (great for Incursion) or Veteran Bowyer for 10% elemental penetration.BanditsKill them allfor 2 skill points!PantheonsMajor God Powers:

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Switch to Controlled Destruction instead of Concentrated Effect for Mapping.

20-30% Spell damage per Jewel is pretty good as well.

Dying Sun is a great Flask for mapping if you can get your hands on a corrupting blood immunity jewel. Combined with Bloodgrips: take no extra bleed damage while moving, you can drop your bleed immunity flask. Dying Sun becomes even better if you have the +1 VD helmet enchant.

Level 23 Vaal Impurity of FireLevel 23 Purity of Ice

iLvl 1: (1520)% increased Area of Effect

Its a great way against multiple crits taken within a short time span and we will get hit a lot during while standing still in uber elder. 6% physical damage reduction and 20% Chance to take 50% less area damage from hits is nice to have.

all other map mods are more of less easy. All extra damage as Fire/Cold barely or doesnt matter at all with really high resistances.

Vaal Impurity of Fire sets enemy fire resistances to 0 which works great against Bosses and Maps with extra resistances. This also means that during that duration you cant lower their fire resistance below 0. Since we any or either pretty low amounts of penetration Vaal Impurity stays relevant.

It is important to have at least 1 fire damage to spells on a jewel, so that unearth can ignite and proccing Combustion to help Volatile Dead Damage.

Most important is having Faster attacks because then we dont have to link it in the actual Frenzy setup and make room for Life Gain on Hit (150%). It is also important that you only have lvl 16 or 18 faster attacks as a build in support because level 20 grants too much attack speed for our Poets Pen setup. The more supported gems you have the better.

Lightning Coils30% of physical damage from hits taken as lightning is makes it the go to item for pretty much all boss fights.

Use Talismans with Fire Damage taken as Cold Damage if they are available

It depends on your Watchers Eye which Purity youll use in that Socket. Either Purity of Lightning or Purity of Elements. If you dont have a Watchers Eye use Purity of Lightning unless you need the resistances from Purity of Elements. In my case I choose Purity of Elements because I have a 2 mod Purity of Elements Watchers Eye.

Optional flasks which should be used in certain situations.

Nothing to keep in mind here. Just face tank.

I used his guide as a base to quickly see how Zerphis Poets Pen works right now especially how it works with Blood Magic. Now you are probably wondering why I make a build guide when his guide already exists (Yes. He is fine with me making this guide). Basically: This build is tankier and more HC viable as well as permanent flask sustain is easier (~25% more flask charges which gives more room for error in terms of flask management).

Level from 1-12 with Molten Strike, Frost Blades or any skill youd like to use.

Volatile Dead-Elemental Focus-Concentraded Effect/Controlled Destruction

In terms of flask You press all flask besides Overflowing Challice at the same time. Yes Zerphis has a last duration and you have to press that often, but the fla

Zerphis heals us based of the mana cost of skills we used and lasts 4 seconds. This effect stacks when using more mana within 4 seconds. Which means that after attacking for 4 seconds we ramped up the healing to a maximum. The more mana/life we used to attack and cast the more regen we get.

Try to get a belt with a good roll on reduced charges used (10-20%) and craftable increased flask effect duration.

The mini boss is cold and physical damage, so just face tank.

How to find and how to craft Redblade HelmetsHow to find Redblade Helmets:

Damage Penetrates 10% of Enemy Elemenal Resistances if you havent killed recently (Keep in mind ouf of all Boots enchants there are 2 which are rarer then the rest and this is one of them).

For Uber Elder we want high Fire and Cold Resistances and at the same time we miss out on lightning resis. Which puts 25% Physical damage from hits taken as Fire/Cold damage closer Lightning Coils 30% Physical damage damage from hits taken as Lightning. If you manage to get T1 Phys taken as Fire it actually becomes better than Lightning.

You can facetank everything here besides the Bullet Hell phase (just stand in Zanas bubble). I havent tried to facetank the bullet hell phase yet, so be careful if you want to try it out.

3. Natures Adrenaline(attack and movement speed)

3 Points for Blast Radius (aoe, damage)

We pick up all flask nodes on the skilltree which help sustaining flask charges: Reduced Flask Charges used, Increased Flask charges gained, Increased Flask Effect Duration and Increased Effect of Flasks (applies to The Overflowing Chalice).

1. Life and mana regen if youve been hit recently. As well as

Cast When Damage Taken-Immortal call-Blood Rage-Increased Duration-Enfeeble

Nothing to worry about here and you can just stand in the middle and tank. At the end stand in Zanas Bubble.

-flask management is important, if you spam your flasks during a boss fight you will run out of charges and no charges means playing without Ascendancy and therefor much less defense.

Here is the thing with those Helmets + Enchant…

Essence of Horror Elder Body Armor as an alternative to Lightning Coil

***** DONT PUT QUALITY on this flasks *****

more video soon (hopefully)2 -OverviewBuild ConceptZerphis Last Breath

Bloodgrip is a good amulet to make mapping even more save while not running around with bleed immunity to use Dying Sun. Combined with a Corrupting Blood Immunity the only bleed damage left is going to be low and should easily be outregened with Zerphis. It is a cheap amulet and you might want to get corruptions.

This jewel provides Flask effect and Aura effectiveness which are important.

Frenzy-Blood Magic-Greater Multiple Projectiles-Life Gain on Hit

4 Points for Jewel socket above Elemental Overload

Use Cold damage taken as Fire Talismans against Shapers Balls

The Pathfinder ascendancy node Natures Boon got buffed in 3.2.0 and it now generates 3 flask charges for every 3 seconds. This combined with increased flask charges gained, increased flask duration and reduced flask charges used as well as The Overflowing Chalice keeps all flasks up all the time without having to kill anything.

+6% Divination Distillate (50%+ Flask effect)

This enchant places consecrated ground (6% life regen)whenever you take a critical strike. It has a 5 seconds duration and 5 seconds cooldown. You can farm this enchant in normal lab as the lab tier dont matter for it.

1 -VideosSpoilerMy First Uber Elder in IHC(sorry for the follow thingy)

11-15% of physical damage taken as Fire (T1, Elder mod, prefix) or 5-10% of physical damage taken as Fire (T2, Elder mod, prefix)

3 Points for Potency of Will/ Exceptional Perfomance for Higher Blood Rage, Vaal RF and Vaal Impurity of Fire duration

We use these jewels to push the mana cost of frenzy too 300-500+ to gain as much regen out of Zerphis Last Breath as we can.

10% of Physical damage taken from Hits taken as X elemental damage while affected by purity of X element. (X = Fire/Ice/Lightning)

T1 8-10% increased effect of flasks on You(itemlevel:81, prefix)

a bit annoying, but doable map mods:

Uber Elder in Hardcore Incursion League:

5 -Gem LinksSkill GemsAny Gem quality bonus that gives Frenzy increased attack should not have any quality on. Which means that: Frenzy, Blood Rage, Greater Multiple Projectiles and Faster Attacks (if you linking it with frenzy) shouldve 0% Quality! This is important for Frenzy to not attack too fast for Poets Pen.

This will give you 10% chance to avoid projectiles and 5% chance to Dodge attack and spell hits if youve been hit recently. Physical damage reduction up to 8% per nearby enemy doesnt do much up it helps.

iLvl 1: Damage Penetrates (810)% Elemental Resistances

Taste of Hate is like a Lightning Coil in a bottle. It provides 30-33% of physical damage from hits taken as cold damage while also giving us 9-10% maximum cold resistance. It is most the expensive unique in this build besides Zerphis and a watchers eye.

Level 23 is a important level because at grants 5% max resistances and therefor having 20% aura effect is enough to get a total of 6% max resistances.

1. Natures Boon(passive charge generation)

I havent decided yet which option I prefer, but I think picking up skill effect duration would be nice for Vaal skills, especially Vaal Impurity of Fire because its not linked with increased duration.AscendanciesIn order of Importance:

Here we want to put Purity of Fire and Ice in.

6-10% Chance for your Flasks to not consume Charges (Ilvl: 82, elder, prefix)

Not a core item but really good if you can get afford it: Watchers Eye

Gem order does matter with Poets Pen. From top to botton you always want Unearth first before Bodyswap otherwise your first attack will cast Bodyswap instead of Unearth. The gem order doesnt matter in the Volatile Dead setup because there will only be one gem.

During fights you will attack with frenzy as often as you can, keep your blood rage up to degen mana and you can use Vaal RF and Vaal Impurity of Fire for a damage boost (helps for incursion architects). Thats about it in terms of what skills to use.

Unset Rings with +2 or +3 level to socketed gems

Capture at least: Thraxia (T5 Spider Lair map) and Sebbert, Crescents Point (T9 Moon Temple map).

Extra Items for Mapping and certain Bosses

reduced flask charges gained (you might be able to run this mod, but you have to time your flasks better)

Priority of stats order: %maximum Life, %Fire Damage, %Spell damage while dual wielding, %Area Damage, %Spell Damage, %Damage

Our life is full most of the time with Zerphis up.

This information is not as relevant while Incursion league is active, because those can drop rare.

15% of physical damage taken as Cold (Essence mod, prefix)

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Map Modsfor Shaper Guardians avoid:

Overall I find having Vaal Righteous Fire and Vaal Impurity really good, especially for Incursions to burst architects down quickly. But it would be hard to get a lvl 21 Vaal Impurity of Fire. So you probably end up with lvl 20 Vaal Impurity of Fire in a +3 Ring.

Bodyswap is only used for mapping. If you dont care about selling Boss Kills you can link culling strike with unearth. In that case a Poets Pen with white sockets is a good choice.

First I want to give credit toMrkuszand his Zerphis Poets Pen build guide:

+Volatile Dead is satisfying too look at and it got a MTX recently: Stygian VD

The following Support gems can appear on Elder Gloves and have a mana multiplier in order of importance:

What skills to use during fights, any typical flask rotation to keep your flasks up, etc?

This flask ends before its duration runs out when both your life and mana are full at any moment.

Unlock pantheon upgrade for more regen while standing still and physical damage reduction. You are not stationary while using Bodyswap which makes this pantheon not usuably while mapping with Bodyswap.PoBLevel 93 IHC Character

Some crafting methods for Redblade Helmets:

+6% Level 23 Purity of Fire and Ice (5% + 1% from 20%+ Aura Effect)

Soul of Tukohama- Mostly for Bossing.

Switching between different flasks for specific bosses and mapping to further increase survivability.

Soul of Lunaris- Mostly for Mapping.

8-9k armour with any non Iron Skin mod

3 -Skill Tree, Ascendancies, Bandits, Pantheons, PoBSkill TreeLevel 90

Beyond level 93 There are multiple options:

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Enchants worth mentioning (for example if you get them on an incursion helmet): Reduced Mana Reservation for Purity of X, Volatile Dead Damage, Righteous Fire grants %increased Spell damage, Enfeeble/Flammability/Elemental Weakness Curse Effect.

Regal – Multimod – Craft Life and Resistances

Zerphis Last Breath is a mana flask, which the stops when either the duration is over or when you reach full mana. Mind over Matter + Blood Rage + Righteous degens degen our mana to prevent Divination Distillate and Zerphis Last Breath filling our mana and therefore stop beeing active. This way we have them up all the time.

Poets Pen alternates between Unearth and Bodyswap. So after a full spell rotation you casted volatile dead twice and unearth/bodyswap once each. So you end up with 5 corpses and volatile dead using 6 or 8 depending on enchant as well as bodyswap will take 1 corpse too.

If you have level 20 Purities youll need +3 to level of socketed gems to push them to level 23.

That means that it wont be up all the time and while the flask isnt active it will generate charges for itself again and should be up again soon.

If you have level 21 Purities youll only need +2 levels.

They are strong on their own and really strong combined. 10% phys taken as X Element vs. ~30% More Damage. I would prefer the defense over offense for Uber Elder and other high phys damage bosses. In Softcore you are probably fine with more damage over defense.

6 -Boss Section, Map modsBoss SectionImportant for ALL BOSS FIGHTS: Make sure to keep your Blood Rage up. Without it your mana will fill up and Divination Distillate and Zerphis will end.

4. 2x small pathing nodes+ 8%+ flask effect on an elder belt to get another +1 Fire/Cold Resis from Ruby and Sapphire flask.

+4% Level 20 Purity of Lightning (optional)

Damage taken as another damage type is applied before resistance calculation which includesPenetration. This is important as it lets us bypass penetration when we convert the damage we take. Shapers Balls have 25% Cold Pen and Atziris double flameblast has 10% fire pen. For example Shapers Balls with 100% Cold resistance deal damage as if we only have 75% cold resistance. With the talisman 50% of that damage is converted to fire which is 97% and therefor mitigated. In the end the damage each ball deals is almost cut in half.

Incursion Helmets with Volatile Dead Encahant are hard to acquire and therefor really expensive or not buyable at all. I got insanely lucky and enchanted it after ~50 Enchants on various Incursion Helmets which I would sell whenever I get a good Enchant

+Permanent Flask uptime against Bosses

=73% of physical damage from hits taken as X elemental damage

Stand in the middle of the arena facetank and keep your flasks up. Keep attacking for Zerphis regen and to deal damage.

too much lightning damage because we only have up to 85% Lightning resis.

Note for Incursion League:Incursions have quite a lot chaos damage and I highly recommend using an Amethyst flask. Use it at least for mapping.

Lightning Resistance is going to be between 81% and 85% depending on what kind of Watchers Eye we have. With a Purity of Elements Watchers eye it is fine to drop Purity of Lightning.

Use the following 4 flasks for all Boss fights

Focus on life and depending on what you need resistances and fire/spell damage.

Nothing worry about with 83%+ phys taken as Ele.

They drop magic and the physical damage taken from hits taken as fire damage is a prefix.

How to get 97% Fire and Cold Resistances

Divination Distillate is quite amazing because we can keep it up all the time:

+High elemental resistances 97/97/85% Fire/Cold/Lightning

Most of the time you want to use a Ruby Flask but for some bosses you want to switch it for Topaz or Amethyst Flask.

Those might not be availabe in every league, but recently they were accessible during Bestiary and Incursion League. If you have it for Uber Elder then USE IT.

Use Soul of Shakari (Pantheon) with the upgrade for Poison Immunity and better chaos defense. You can switch Ruby into Amethys flask. Once you got that just face tank.

Nothing to keep in mind here. Just face tank.

You can calculate that by multiplying your attacks per second, your mana cost per use, zerphis heal – 100 (Mana cost), your increased flask effect and life recovery rate.

You should use 3-5 of those depending on your level and other jewels. Try to get 5 for Uber Elder as long as you dont have to give up the other Core Unique Jewels.