We're so pleased you like the build :)

Can you share PoB? I seem to struggle with living and not dealing enough damage. Any suggestions are welcome.

Is it still viable?

​@@beefchampion2792 It is very viable.

Nice! Thanks for watching :)

Absolutely! We always give credit where it is due!

We're glad to help!

Yup!

You want the attack speed to be close to the cooldown, but slightly slower. So if you can trigger 4 Mjolner on-hit procs per second (.25 sec cooldown), you want your attack speed to be as close as possible without going over. If it's exactly the same, that's ideal, but hard to get. If it's slightly slower, like 3.9 attacks per second (.256 sec per attack), then every attack will trigger a proc. If your attack speed is too high, say 4.1 attacks per second (.24 sec per attack), you will hit again before the cooldown has finished, and have to wait another for another .23 seconds to trigger another on-hit, which means you can lose a huge amount of damage.

Thanks for the nice comment! It's a fantastic build. Fingers crossed it sticks around to the next league-or gets buffed, you never know!

you dont need a mageblood to run this and can even be ran on a 3 link with prism guardian instead of squire, but severly looses dps.

Mageblood..? I league started arma brand of recall hiero and then swapped to mjolner around lv 85 and was able to get through yellow maps. After leveling gems and tuning mana correctly you can blast t16's. You definitely don't need a mageblood.

@@quack3891 I haven't been able to experience this myself though I would like to. I mentioned in another comment that I didn't try very hard. Maybe next league I'll give it another try, it looks really fun and I'd like to experience it.

@@angelo2268 it's tough around yellow maps, but that's exclusively because you're swapping to a stack setup which only gets better after a certain limit over traditional builds. The build can't really start up easily, you'll need a little bit of gear to get it actually rolling unfortunately. For me I think I had roughly 8k mana with indigon and mjolner and ivory tower before I really got it rolling (which was like 15 div at startup). I think I swapped over when I had ivory tower + mjolner + prism guardian and it's pretty tough without having good jewels and stuff on.

Excellent!

Thank you!

It's pretty nice!

This is a scaled-down version of one of the most expensive, high-scaling builds in the game. Still expensive, but less than it could be!

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Yup! Reflect sucks!

Yup!

You'll want to adjust.

That's true, and it is an option, but it will sacrifice a lot of potential power from Str/Int/Mana scaling via Adorned. It can absolutely work as a stop-gap, but for long-term optimization, you will want to pick up that AS elsewhere.

Here you go: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5OZaqym3buVfXk.html

Glad to help!

interesting

Thanks!

It should still be doable. You'll want to start as some other Inquis or Heirophant build, maybe Storm Brand, then transition into this once you have the gear to get it started.

Glad you enjoy it!

Glad it helped!

At the current state of gearing on this character, it's clearing Ubers and t17's without much difficulty, but it can't totally face-tank all boss hits. At peak levels of gear, it can face-tank absolutely everything. Uber Maven Memory Game hits are nothing. That will require a serious level of investment, and probably a super-tanky weapon and shield combo on a weapon swap, but it is a possibility if you're willing to take it that far.

@@PathofEvening Thank you for reply :) After my wife took my SS Trickster gear away from me, I had created an Armor Stacker Scion, but the DPS was not as high as I would have liked, so I was looking for a better build. I'll start making one today asap. Thanks.

Then I actually finished the build. I had to compromise because watcher's eye was quite expensive, I tried to copy your build as closely as possible. In short, it's the best build I've ever seen! Easy, strong, defensible! I wish I had done it sooner! Thank you Sir :)

Yup, it really cleans up breaches! Just hit 100 clearing them a few hours ago!

There are alternatives, tattoos work, flask suffix without mageblood can work.

That's right!

Should still be great!

Glad to help!

That's a really fun idea, definitely going to check it out.

You can use 40 Mana & 6% Damage Recouped as Mana as a crafted ring prefix if you're not using mirror-tier rings, too, and that also really helps with sustaining mana in longer fights.

Thank you! Stay sane!

Thanks for the kind words! As for dealing with freeze, you have several options. You can use a crafted prefix on boots, you can just take Brine King, or you can use a Stormshroud unique jewel and then use a flask suffix or Essence-crafted boots to make yourself Shock Immune, which then makes you fully elemental ailment immune.

@@PathofEvening Thanks totally wiffed on Brine King. Have you considered a Unnatural instinct jewel just to the right of the shaper node? i had one while building this and its a pretty nice addition, let me know what you think.

It's still viable, but we are not likely to make a new guide for it this league.

Still works

@@PathofEvening Kinda sad that I just now found out about this/your build, in doubt because of the melee rework. Feels like I have to go melee this league >

Storm Brand Inquisitor (or Heirophant) start pretty strong, and they can transition into this build pretty smoothly.

Leaving a comment to check for confirmation later.

Yup, it absolutely should be good for 3.25 league start. Level it up as a Storm Brand Inquis or Hiero and then switch over to the Mjolner setup once you have enough gear to get it off the ground.

@@PathofEvening any adive pob availabe for transition ?

Excellent! You don't need Flesh/Flame to make this build work. They're good/fine, but basically competitive with Adorned, so really just a viable alternative rather than a requirement!

Don't use Battlemage's Cry at all in the build anymore.

That should just be part of the default UI. Thanks, it is a really amazing build!

Kinda agreed. The Dual Strike Jugg that did 80M+ dps helped with transitioning out of this build, but it is pretty insane how strong/smooth it is.

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Thanks!

You clearly have a good level of game knowledge if you're operating a build like this at a multi-mirror budget, so rather than a full-fledged build idea, here's a suggestion to get started: Damage conversion. It's probably the single strongest defensive mechanic in the game. Because enemies cannot penetrate converted damage, it completely trivializes many of the toughest mechanics GGG has for making bosses and monsters dangerous. Face-tanking Uber Shaper balls, etc. Mahuxotl's Machination is not the only piece to build around, but it is probably the strongest. If you combine it with a Lethal Pride under Rakiata (for Tempered By War), you can convert 100% of your Cold and Lightning damage taken into Fire or Chaos (and 50% of your pre-Conversion Fire into Chaos). This makes defensive gearing extremely easy. It also converts your Leech into Slayer Overleech, so as long as you have a source of Leech elsewhere in your build, the self-sustain is excellent. It's most commonly played in Pathfinder, Champion, or Deadeye builds (we covered FR PF this league & LS Champ in Affliction), and those are all great Ascendancies, but the potential feels completely unexplored by the community at large. It combined insanely well with Original Sin last league, before the nerf to Returning Projectiles Support, but there are still so many possibilities left undiscovered. There's very real potential to make a Juggernaut or Inquisitor build that works with it. Maybe a super-offensive Ascendancy like Assassin could build around Mahuxotl's and demolish the endgame with ease. Also, despite being a Trialmaster-exclusive drop, it's a bafflingly cheap unique, just a couple of Divines pretty much the entire league. It definitely seems like it could be a potential candidate to stay strong while other, more popular builds get nerfed or oversaturated by players and become financially challenging.

100%. CoC Ice Spear is pretty fun, but Mana Stackers just push the potential scaling to a totally different level.

You don't have to maintain the flask. The Ivory Tower as well.

It does not struggle.

​@@PathofEveninghey man, can I get a link to your leveling video for this build?

10 out of 10, would recommend!

@@PathofEvening Just a thought. I’m the type of player that plays mostly on the weekends. If you have the time, a budget version with progression to HOLY SHIZZLE would be awesome. I do understand if you can’t. This would take a lot of time.

It's this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5OZaqym3buVfXk.html

Clarity, 100000%.

Forethought grants increased mana, which is the most important stat. Mana regen is much less important. All mana costs modifiers are completely steamrolled by Indigon, which increases your mana costs by hundreds to thousands of percentage points depending on how much mana you've spent recently. This makes mana cost passives throughout the tree and on gear actually have very little impact.

Dread Banner gives a modest bit of defense. You could probably argue that Defiance Banner is slightly better in this setup since we're not using Grace, so the Crit Reduction would be a little more consistent. It's definitely not essential. Swapping to War Banner or Precision for more Accuracy seem like pretty good optimizations!

We also discussed it in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLt7l5mjtt_Qio0.htmlsi=2fdPhlYdPKeA8QNQ&t=256 Beyond that, you may get some traction from other viewers here in the comments, and there's also Reddit.

@@PathofEvening Thanks for replying! Would you ever consider doing a build review? My damage is woefully low compared to yours (under a million), and while all my gear and jewels aren't as perfect, I didn't expect to be millions lower. I could email it, but didn't know if that was cool.

Stygian Vise is pretty normal, especially if you go with a % Increased Attributes Hunter mod. Headhunter's probably bad, since it will affect your attack speed and can throw off your proc rate, buuuuut it will give steal random defensive mods and may give you like 80k ES from time to time, so worth a try if you want to get wacky.

I am actually playing with headhunter until I save enough for mageblood. But only mapping at the moment but it's fun.

hunter stygian but if you need to, you can just get away a cyclopean coil. You can then just get the rest of the cdr on boot implicits or increased attack speed on mjolner.

T17's can still be very nasty!

Definitely worth checking the Calcs tab to make sure your trigger rate is right!

Since it relies on Indigon, you definitely need to league start as a different build and transition into it later on. Storm Brand Inquisitor (or Hierophant!) works well on a budget, and the transition into this can be pretty smooth.

I've league started this build for the last three leagues, just use a mindspiral for the first week until indigon comes down in price!

It's playable without Mageblood, but it's definitely a lot weaker.

It's a combination of Mana pool scaling, Clarity Watcher's Eye, and reserving all of your life pool with an Ivory Tower equipped.

Banners and Battlemage's Cry were reworked, so you can drop them.

Absolutely, that 'half hits' number is a very conservative estimate.

Nice!

In the game design sense? Make them open up passively, like Breach hands! In terms of how to do it? Just clear around them a bit, click and immediately start Cycloning.

@@PathofEvening Ive been taking 4 points getting a caster mastery to open them on cast. Its not perfect but I don't have to stop channelling. Also, FYI I learned you can use tainted catalyst even on the greatwolf. Its a bit of a gamble to get attributes and a high roll, but the extra X% seems like a huge boost.

It's a gamble alright, but worth it once it finally pays off!

Yep. You can start as a Storm Brand Hierophant or Inquisitor until you have the gear to make the transition.

@@PathofEvening Are you putting out a new guide for this build for 3.25?

Automation support, nice and easy.

yup replaced shield with prism guard for auras and belt with stygian and used it as a league starter - and if ill get enough currency ill get shield, belt and you are even stronger so transision to stronger version is doable

@@MsDannyHappy this is my second league so still really new. i bought everything but the mage blood. im just not sure how hes getting resit cap at all. unless its coming form the flask being up at all times from the mageblood effect.

Yes that is how you do it

@@PathofEvening Ty, apricate a replay from the creator of the video lol thats new. i saw your video of you farming 8 mod maps and you got like 70 duns maps how did you get so many maps of one kind cant seem to figure that out in all my google searching?

Llarold just farms a lot of maps, that's it. No real secret. He's a machine.

Yes

B2B T17's can be pretty crazy, and super variable. Some map bosses are completely easy, zero effort, others are substantially more dangerous than uber bosses. They will definitely need to do more to standardize them in the coming league.

It still functions, just needs some tweaking.

@@PathofEvening maybe new guide ? :D

Probably not for this one

Yes, currency will become easier to make in higher maps.

@TheJanstyler in short yes, the currency you get incoming to you scales up a lot more. for instance you may right now be relying on raw chaos and divine drops and kinda just hoping for a good drop. but for people who have progressed their map atlas map, we can say go into essences farming along with 2 or 3 other things and instantly start making 10-20 divines per hour. you map for a few hours at that level, then sell the essences/harvest goo/or whatever, and you'll see that you can start spending a few divines per piece easily. even essences and harvest in yellow maps could be like 5-15 div an hour (scarabs and the atlas tree). cheers mate.

The point at which you have are high enough level to equip all the gear that will give you enough Strength and Int to equip Mjolner is basically the point at which you want to make the swap. Somewhere in the 80-90 range, but your mileage may vary slightly based on your rare gear, jewels, and so on.

@@PathofEvening Thanks man! Keep up the amazing work!

craft of exile website allows u to add corpse and simulate crafts. then u tweak scarcer/increased according to the mods that pop up in the simulations until u have a consistent generated result

Yup, that's it. Corpse crafting is never going to be 100%, so the best course of action is to just be prepared to make several attempts, and sell anything you craft that may be useful to someone else. Fracturing stats is always a good call.

The Shock Nova version of the build is a lot stronger for high-level bossing.

@@PathofEvening Thanks, i also watched your updated vids didn't see them earlier.

Not too bad.

You can probably do it at any point once you're able to equip all the uniques, but we waited until Level 90, just to make the passive skills work comfortably. Going from killing Kitava to level 90 only took an hour or two with Domination Shrine leveling, so not too much work.

Hasn't changed in a significant way

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@@PathofEvening Rnow Im using leveling build with hollow palm, what do you think when should I change it to this build ?? when the build is starting ?

It requires Indigon and Shaper's Touch to function, so not really. You can league start Storm Brand Inquisitor (or Hierophant), which works really well, and transition out of that into this pretty easily.

@PathofEvening thanks! Might give it a try depending on how the new league looks. Hoping we get an actual melee buff/fix!

First days/week were harsh as a leaguestart for a slower player. Indigon popped up in price because of mana build this league. After I got the indigon (12D :-/ ), it only went forward and quickly became better and better. Was never more impressed with my "starter build" in the end.

Oof

Dude just get to maps and do the breach thing

Just use Hollow palm and smite to lvling more fast

I have a lvl 100 of every ascendancy. Twink lvl + breech and Dom scarb is ez mode. Lvl 100 in a day or two.

Pay someone a few divs to power you through campaign. Takes 1.5 - 2 hours

The Storm Brand setup was a real pleasure to level, and it transitioned into this build very smoothly!

That is true.

RNG can be a pain

Unfortunate, but that can happen late in a league.

Nope, Ivory Tower covers you.

@@PathofEvening Sick, if I could sell my damn strength stacker I'd love to try the build out. Even took like 500 divines off the price but I left it too late in league I think

There is zero way to make a mana stacker work on a non-templar.

@@PathofEvening 😪

Oh yes

It's still viable.

@@PathofEvening okeh nice thank you for the guide!!

Cast While Channeling linked to Lightning Warp.

@@PathofEveningmine is linked and it says I can’t use the skill all I do is sit and spin when cyclone is on it’s infuriating 😢

@@PathofEveningis it because he has an awakened jewel. Help please 😅

Oh by he I mean you lol

I’ve put like 300+ dog into the build and something just isn’t melding

Yeah, like most of our recent videos

It destroys them.

@@PathofEveningindeed! I just went level 95 to 96 with just one death, that was totally my fault, and I still haven't finished setting up everything. It just "feels good"! My previous build (DD of Chain Reaction) was almost immortal, but the damage sucked. This one just acts like a... spinning lawnmower! :) Thanks for the build and the video. (yes, I am having trouble with the trigger rates, as you so aptly predicted, hah)

lol

You'll want to start as a storm brand hierophant/inquisitor until you have the gear to transition, but yes.

@@PathofEvening doesn’t cost very much to do end game that smoothly ?

To us, no, but we have no idea how much you play etc

Okay, good luck!

Three body armours? You can't equip more than one, but since the gem colors are fairly uncommon, you can keep a couple of Ivory Towers around to swap back and forth if you choose to swap out your gem setup for any reason.

@@PathofEvening Idk i saw three body armours in your pob. The first use lightning warp, sc use shock nova and the last use lightning conduit. can u expain for me how is that work ? tks bro

You swap out the armors and the gems if you want to swap your Cast While Channeling skill!

@@PathofEvening tks bro, forgive my stupidity

Pretty good. Probably start storm brand and transition into this.

Get it on your rings/jewels/amulet/boots or use Int/Str Split Personality jewels.

@@PathofEvening thanks, made it work today. but eye of the wolf is 200 divs ....lol

Mageblood and quicksilver flask, mostly!

Yes.

oof

Friendly? Definitely not.