3.10 Leap Slam Golems Trifecta - 40M+ DPS, Ultra Survival, and Ultra Movement Speed on Autopilot

5/5/20
Changed gloves as it seems Command of the Pit is no longer necessary to hit 100% hit rate.

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Add faster attacks for ludicrous leap slam speed.

With gloves change, changed ring enchant to minion movement speed

1. Leap slam gives you very high mobility to get across map and out of trouble.


It is enabled by using a sceptre:

The faster the attack speed base, the faster you go. Leap slam reaches ludicrous speeds with a high speed sceptre, lightning golem attack speed buff, and frenzy charges. You can even trade some damage for even more speed (to the point where it's a bit game-breaking as POE can't keep up and slingslot you back).

Leap slamming will trigger socketed spells which keeps your flesh offering up, giving large DPS boost to minion damage. Leap slamming will also trigger convocation, keeping your golems close to you.

And... leap slamming also gives you Fortify. So leap slam, leap slam, leap slam.

2. 7x Stone golems with ~5M DPS each. 1x Lightning giving you large attack speed buff (synergizes with leap slam), and 1x Chaos golem giving you large flat physical damage reduction. Golems fly around your screen, blowing everything up. 9 golems come from Elementalist ascendancy, Golem Commander, and the the following:


3. 20k Vaal Molten shell with 95% up time gives you insane health buffer. Only down time is how long it takes you to pop 3 flasks and reactivate VMS (about 0.5 seconds).


4. Glorious Vanity jewel (converts your Mind over Matter keystone to Divine Flesh) plus a couple of small cluster jewels give you 90% max chaos resist, along with of 50% of elemental damage taken being converted to chaos. Basically, you take very little damage elemental even without VMS.

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Soul of Shakari from Pantheon for further chaos damage reduction.

Option of taking Paragon of Calamity from ascendancy to reduce elemental damage even further.

5. Chaos golem and endurance charges from Inexorable give high flat physical reduction.

6. Brass Dome + Granite flask give high armor for additional physical damage reduction and high shield value for VMS.


7. Fortify gives you flat 20% damage reduction from all sources that hit.

8. Victario's Charity + Necromantic Aegis keystone gives frenzy and power charges. Minions get huge damage boost. You get more leap slam speed.


9. Cinderswallow flask gives 10% increased damage taken by enemies, a big DPS boost if you choose Shaper of Desolation ascendancy. Onslaught gives you more leap slam speed.


Note that I use Armageddon brand linked with curse on hit to apply curse. Armageddon brand will apply ignite more often, but the trade off with using storm brand is much slower curse application speed. Storm brand is near instant while armageddon takes a second or so. The more HP the monster has, the better armageddon brand becomes. Lesser HP monsters die instantly anyway.

Flasks:


Jewels:
x5
x4



x2

Cluster Jewels:

3 of the following:

1 notable don't care
Feasting Fiends
Renewal
2 added passives are sockets

1 of the following:

1 notable don't care
Feasting Fiends
Rotten Claws
2 added passives are sockets

These jewels can be crafted by chaos spamming and it should take you less than 40 chaos on average once you've acquire a good base with 8 passives.

The most expensive critical piece is a 6L Brass Dome which gives you the armor base needed for a big VMS shield. This will cost 2-3ex depending on if you buy one and linked it yourself or buy one pre-linked.

A corrupted +1 socketed gems version will cost significantly more, but is not necessary.

Soul Ripper can also be quite expensive if you aim for the ideal roll of 50 charges. Higher charges can be had for significantly cheaper and is a fine alternative.


Command of the Pit gives your minions 1000 accuracy rating, which raises their hit rate from low 90s% to 100%. Huge DPS. You'll need this until you have enough minion accuracy to hit 100% without the accuracy rating.



Look for a good primordial chain amulet with low "less damage" and high movement speed.


Regarding Harmonies and Eminence jewels -

Higher rolls are obviously better. For Harmonies, 20% increased damage is a must, then prioritize "Golems have increased % cooldown recovery speed" and NOT "Golem skills have...". For Eminence, 20% attack and cast speed is a must. Note that people often ask about the ideal ratio of Harmony to Eminence - my take is don't worry about it. Optimizing cooldown to attack rate does no good because Golem AI sucks, and Golems choose not to slam even if slam cooldown is over. (If anyone has actual data or testing contrary to this, please share). After hitting a damage threshold of 1-shotting packs, I prefer to stack eminences for faster clear speed. The reason for this because with slower attack speed (less Eminences), golems spend a lot of time slamming 2-3 times from multistrike when the pack is dead after the initial slam. Better to have that slam finish faster so that the golem can move to the next monster faster. By the time the golem moves to the next target, any slam cooldown will be over anyway.

If you choose to stack more Harmonies, like 7 Harmonies + 2 Eminences, then you'll want to add a 4th golem type for more damage (dropping to 6 stone golems + 3 others).

Regarding Glorious Vanity -
You want one with "Xibaqua". The number randomizes the effects of the nodes converted. There's no need to worry about the number. Most of them are useless, but you can get lucky and find a good one with increased curse effect, armor, or resists that happen to be the path.


For the sceptre - a +1 physical spell skill gem is a nice budget compromise from + 1 all spells skill gem. Look for a sceptre with +1 and minion damage roll, then craft it your self by doing the following:

1 - Prefixes cannot change.
2 - Craft up to 3 modifiers
3 - Minion attack speed/damage
4 - Trigger socketed spell

Cost of the base as of this writing can be found cheap at 50-100c, then crafting costs 4ex.


Alternatively, forego a bit of damage and go with something that is very cheap and PURE FUN like this instead:

Aim for high attack speed base and increased attack speed. Leap slam becomes insanely fast and hilariously fun. Link leap slam with faster attacks support and it's game breaking (POE can't keep up... who needs head hunter?).

Minion movement speed is a huge factor in clear speed. The more you have, the snappier the build feels. Look for minion movement speed ghastly eyes.

Also, enchant your rings:



For big bosses, swap Feeding Frenzy for Culling Strike.

Swapping storm brand for Armageddon brand will help you clear packs faster with weaker gear, as storm brand applies curse much faster. Armageddon brand is better at end game for ignite, but it's not good at applying curse to packs.

If you really want to, you can still swap in 2xCold Iron Point for even more boss damage, but I find it unnecessary. Plus I really don't like having to manually cast desecrate and flesh offering :)

+3 Bone helmet with 21% flesh offering enchant
p1/p1 life/life% stygian vise
life% ring
+1 all spell skill gem sceptre with 1.5 APS

Keep in mind there is a 20k VMS with 0.5s downtime and 6k regular molten shell. Next, stack insane defenses that reduce damage taken to nicks and scratches. Then, add insane mobility that lets you avoid most damage. Then, add DPS that kills monsters and bosses before they get to even attack.

If that's still not convincing, let's look at some example tradeoffs.

This build has 90% chaos resist. The last 2% come from a second small cluster jewel, and costs 2 points in the tree. That same 2 points can instead be be applied towards 10% increased life for 200 more life. So we have a difference of 90% chaos resist and 3.8k life or 88% chaos resist with 4k life.

Now, that extra 2% chaos resist translates to 17% reduced damage taken.

Ignoring the 20k VMS, a 4k + 1 hit kills you with 4k life at 88% resist, while the same 4k+1 hit will only damage you for 3.3k with 90% chaos resist, leaving you 0.5k to spare. Which would you rather have - 200 life or that 2% more resist?

Similar tradeoffs are made elsewhere in the build. Endurance charges to give more flat phys resist. Brass dome for armor. Fortify to give flat 20% reduction to anything that hits. Divine flesh for much higher elemental damage reduction.

If you really want to, you can drop a cluster jewel for more life, but it's not necessary. The reality is with 15k eHP builds, you'll still take a 1-shot, because those builds don't stack defenses. This build has 24k eHP and stacks defenses, mobility, and DPS. The one "weakness" of 0.5s VMS downtime is mitigated through the use of that high mobility leap slam to land in a safe spot to reactivate your 20k VMS.