[3.26] Holy Flicker Strike Necro [League start > All content] Mercenaries. Updated to 3.26
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Hello fellow cultists. Long time no see.
Lets quickly run through the stuff. Great league, at around the end got my pc corrupted so didn’t post the updates. Gonna do it now while we getting ready for the new one. Also panning to remove a LOT of stuff from the main page. Some items are outdated, information is confusing for those who tried the build this league. Use PoB. Also here are video showcases Day 1 – fresh switch to relics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipcEA1dIHo Day 3 – 4x risk map printer (with 2 reflect rings with trash stats) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njJKoFY1qr8 Midgame – deli + ritual farming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItKbUy17Dhk Endgame – afk Ultimatum with Fissure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAK4SNITWbw Endgame – breach expedition by fellow cultist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVdnOT7Br8 Alright. To the notes and discoveries of the Mercenery league. First of all – Mercenaries. Have some notes on that, but since they are going away – gonna skip them.
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TL;DR – Sniper with Grace and Haste 99% of the time. The only thing to take from that is that once Mercs are gone, Perfect Primal Thunderbird will be taking the spot of the 4th specter to get the effect of Grace aura back. This will be relevant later, and you don’t need to do this, but having 60-70% dodge on top of max block and armor does seem very nice. System changes Animate Guardian
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Now doesn’t lose items. On top of that lot of damage to AG got nerfed. T17 are not longer as dangerous. In theory that means you can use different gear sets and experiment with AG.
On practice that means you just gonna use the same BiS set of Kingmaker + Garb without regard of losing the items. That being said – this league I experimented with AG a bit more. Garb was something like 20 divs because of Mercs, so I was looking for alternative. Icetomb proven to be a decent alternative for dangerous content like juices Essences, Ghosted Rogue Exiles, and Risk Abys. Combined with Freeze proliferation and/or freeze duration – mod you can get on gloves, it was freezing those big dangerous enemies solid. Will be adding that to mid game AG item set. Automation and chest opening
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Self explanatory – pretty big quality of life to pass on. Not gonna add it anywhere, but its easily can be included into the build for comfy blight farms.
You gonna need to replace CWDT+Moltenshell for Automation+Steelskin/Moltenshell and pick up caster mastery and Arcane Sanctuary ring instead of Arcane Guarding. Runegrafts
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Those gonna stay, right? There were a few that were rather nice to include into the build. And you can easily do that by taking masteries that are blocked by Timless Jewel anyway, so the cost is only 1 point
Runegraft of the Warp – helps a lot with “deal no damage for x seconds” ultimatum and t17 mod. Also removes poisons, ignites and w/e else. Extends duration of Moltenshell, static strike and flicker strike move speed buff. Very solid. Runegraft of the Fortress – at the end game – 4k armor, 1.5k evasion, 150 ES at cost of 1 passive point and some dex. Arguably worth but getting attribute stats can be a bit finicky. New items and new crafting methods Wine of the prophet – its garbage. Don’t bother with it. For fun item and its not even that fun. Veiled chaos orb is back, and that means New Boots
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Simply roll +2 boots with chaos resist essence till triple/double res, then anul prefixes and reforge for missing resistance. After that lock suffixed and try to hit the Move speed + Onslaught. Finish with crafting life.
Here is instruction from the discord from iFuga reforge Chaos -> T1 chaos + T2 cold -> lock suffix -> reforge fire -> T2 fire -> Lock Suffix veiled chaos -> craft mana -> Unverils move speed + Onslaught -> craft life The result will be something like this Doing so frees you flask slot replacing onslaught flask. New cheaper way of crafting BIS scepter
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Turns out there is an enchant coming from Heist that no one cares about “Can have 1 additional crafted modifier”. It stacks additively with “Can have up to 3 crafted modifiers” letting you craft 4 mods. And because its an enchant you can still modify your weapon however you want. First you need to remove all mods and make weapon magic. Then alt spam it will +1 all skills. After that you want to imprint it for safety. Then you want to either Synthesize for life on hit or something useful and regal+anul till you have only one prefix or prefix and a suffix. Restore and make a new imprint if needed. After you have +1 all skills as only prefix you can craft multimod and fill up as follows - Can have up to 3 crafted modifiers - Trigger a Socketed Spell when you Use a Skill, with a 8 second Cooldown, - - - Spells Triggered this way have 150% more Cost - Hits can't be Evaded - Minions deal % increased Damage The result will be something like that Getting life on hit on a weapon would make it BiS for it will enable you do 100% reduced recovery maps that disable your leech. In a similar way there are other sources of this stat and you REALLY want to get at least some of them, the more the better
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Feast of Flesh – 10 life per enemy hit on cluster jewel. You might want to consider stacking 2 of them Watchers eye - Gain (20-30) Life per Enemy Hit while affected by Vitality with using level 1 Vitality or Vitality Specter. Weapon It may not seem as much but with how many hits you make it will instantly heal you to full between blocks. Future plans Getting ready for next league. The drawback of not having a merc will surely affect a lot of builds. Less so this one, but I will certainly miss early haste and grace. Granted the build will survive patch notes at all. You may have noticed that a lot of changes relate to getting around nasty mods. This is party because of the new endgame revolving around t16.5 But mostly because Im looking to set up early afk Ultimatum farm next league. That’s gonna be my league goal, as I got reintroduced and addicted to the mechanic this league. I still might do ‘back in time’ kind of post in preparation to exactly that. |
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