[3.3] Milkys Vesselpulse Righteous Fire MF/XP Ascendant

We use the synergy of some uniques and classfeats:

Ascendant - Slayer has the feature that our leech does not end on full life. Depending on the amount of monsters killed, monster life and dmg scaling we can get something between 10-30 seconds of leech if we stop killing.

Ascendant - Trickster is mainly used for the 50% recovery on kill, which increased our leech and regeneration. The Frenzy/Powercharges on kill make mapping way smoother with more speed/dmg and easier elemental overload proccs. The manaregen also can reduce a bit pressure on the lifepool if Mind over Matter is used, more about that later.

So how do we leech?

Inpulsas Broken Heart + Vessel of Vinktar.

Vinktars shocks nearby enemys, those explode due to Inpulsas and Vinktar allows us to leech 20% of the dmg! On top vinktars already increases the dmg taken on enemys.
With good clearspeed and the skilltree i use its basically a 100% uptime on Vinktars except with some heavy backtracking.
The Inpulsa explosions increase our clear area and singletarget dmg to rares and surviving rares always have the EE debuff for instantly higher fire dmg taken.


Special case: Mind over Matter

Picking Mind over Matter has a few advantages and disadvantages with RF:

You gain the possibility to use the Flask Divination Distillate for a big chunk of Magicfind stats and maximum elemental resistances since you never (except the max fire resist is TOO high) regenerate mana while the flask is up. The manaregen also acts as liferegen, even tho its not very high… just a bonus.
The bad thing is that Scorching Ray, shield charge and utility skills with manacosts need a bloodmagic supportgem. It doesnt really matter for the singletarget dmg while magicfinding regular content since bosses melt anyway with RF + VaalRF + SR.

So for magicfinding i highly recommend using Mind over Matter for the divination distillate. For non MF its debatable. The maximum all elemental resists are great, but you loose some singletarget dps and sockets.

Incursion Videos are coming soon. Won't be much different from 3.2, except more singletarget dmg with Vaal RF

Bestiary:

Buildguide
random Burial chambers run
-max no regen t13

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAAHcAl8DBAQHBg4J9gthDF8OXBQgFSAYVhkuGbQaehynHNwfAicvJ-0o-i2DNZI2xTrYOuE8LT1fQYdEDUV-RZ1HfkyzTeNQR1JTU1JTpVXGVkhboF8_YN5lTWebaHRo8mr6dqx343lofA6Cm4LHg1-DzIPbhNmFMpBVlKCXlZitmjua4J_fogCkDKYyplenCKdVqLupbq2Nr2yxW7c-uJO9Nr6nwQTEWMT2xq7I8M9-1HzUj9gk2E3Yvdlh2mLhc-RR6-7sOO8O73rvfPAf8kX2SPaj-ej-Cv6P?accountName=Milkyslice&characterName=MilkyRagdoll

lvl 76 atm.

Skilltree will be transitioning into the one posted in the Skilltree section once i finished uberlab (pathing, some regennodes).

Gear will be upgraded to MF gear over time and once i reached my goal (probably HH) i go for a 2nd gearset with no MF for xp.

Note: First char in Incursion SC, no atlas etc. Had a lucky bereks grip drop in a temple in act 9 which geared me up to this point.


Here is a link to the gear/tree/etc of my 3.2 character which goes in the direction of what the character will look like later:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1623473

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAP66JJ19dWJaxq6a4EWdU1KbLR8CBAcYVmh0lKDaYho4kFUnL1JTl5X2ow5cRX5q-kd-ZU29NthN5dGCxyj62CQ2xVBH7w4UIA3NHM7-VCtQOtiouz38jM_2SJ_f73xWSKcIuJMc3I8a5FEs6YazPC2DzINf8kX-Cv6POuGmVzWSTePYvVhjXz9EJWDe932kDAJfBLOiAPAfVcaD2zpY0B_v65itRA3I8NN-1I8J9tR8Bg7sOIKb4XOaO2ZUPV8Zju2DAF5Bh7c-GS7ZYV85sKu-p4TZGnrEgorwpjIDBLFbrY12rM9-r6cn7fnoFSDveggur2xMs2ebLYPr7hm0C2HE9oUyhXto8gAAAAA=

I picked the slayer subclass first, then the trickster.
Leveled with rf since lvl 40, earlier i used scorching ray… but you could do what you want for leveling with twink gear.

Some information about choices:

The flasknodes are important to keep up vessel of vinktar all the time. On top flask effect increases our max resists, item quantity/rarity, movementspeed and so on.

After that point grab extra jewels, life, attack/movementspeed (faster shieldcharge) or even the duration cluster. depends on what you want ;)

Vaal Righteous Fire + Increased Area of effect + Elemental Focus + Efficacy in a helmet with support of increased burning dmg and concentrated effect.

If you only got a helmet with one supportgem in it, replace efficacy since its the weakest gem in there.


Scorching Ray + Burning Damage + Elemental Focus + Bloodmagic + Efficacy + Controlled Destruction.

Without Mind over Matter you probably dont need Bloodmagic (just get some manaregen) and swap in Empower or Swift Affliction

Shieldcharge/Leapslam + Faster Attacks +Fortify + Bloodmagic

Without MoM you can drop BM and use this as a 3link or add a critchance for even more reliable EO proccs.

Purity of Fire + Purity of Ice + Purity of Lightning + Enlighten lvl 3


bricked (corrupted lvl 3 enlightens) arent expensive), but you could use arctic armour or herald of thunder (EE reapply) in the meantime for one of the puritys.

With a good watchers eye purity of elements could replace one as well, but in general i like the max all resistances.

Vitality aura is not needed once the ball is rolling, but an option as well.

For pure magicfind those puritys help A LOT capping resistances, especially with mediocre Ventors Gambles.


Utility:

Here are some setups that worked out for me

Flamegolem + Combustion + Bloodmagic/Cwdt.

extra singletarget dmg via the combusion debuff. Optional, not required for low lvl burial chamber farming etc. Something to consider for high tier maps.

Bloodrage + Orb of storm + Bloodmagic

optional again. Bloodrage is mainly used for the atkspeed buff (already generating frenzy charges), oos is there for more reliable singletarget EO/EE proccs. debatable.

20% Portal + Enhance + Faster Casting.

The best thing ever if you chain maps really fast

There are various other utility setups, with or without mind over matter (drop bloodmagic gem ofc).

For my taste a portal setup and bloodrage are fixed for fast mapping.

It highly depends on what you wanna do… Magicfinding or not, with or without MoM and if you use a Headhunter or not. I seperate it in two parts, one for mf and one without.

Magicfind gear:

Weapon: Brightbeak. Fastest weapon for quick clearing and up to 60 resists

Belt: Biscos Leash for the mf part and rampage. Rampage increases the clearspeed and dmg of all sources (inpulsas explosions, rf, sr). The first big mf item i would get.

Headhunter for the juice.

Boots Goldwyrm: 20% IIQ, not much more to add.

Gloves: Sadimas Touch. the firedmg with atks is bad for EE with shieldcharge/leapslam (doesnt matter while clearing since ss aoe is small and inpulsas overwrites it after the explosion). Orb of Storm is needed with those.

Null and Void with a Headhunter. You keep the rampage with headhunter buffa, has good life and some phys immunity from time to time.

Ring: 2x ventors gamble. 9-10% IIQ as a baseline, some life is nice, IIR should be at least over zero (more is better) and resists not abyssimal. Fire res can be negative since we already get a ton from the purity + brightbeak + goldwyrm

Amulet: Shaper amulet with IIQ and life. everything on top is nice (resists, iir..)
can be quite expensive. Alternatively use a rarity + life amulet on a budget.

Biscos Collar is also nice to have, but doesnt grant any life (dmg) and isn't so valueable in incursions.

Shield: 1% max all res or 2% max fire res shaper/elder shield with high life and fixing the missing resistances. Personally i prefer the allres route.

Evasion bases with high movementspeed or Armour bases with extra life are prefered.

early on rise of the phoenix / saffels frame are fine, just keep in mind that too high fire resist can hurt the mana degeneration and bricks the Divination Distillate interaction.

Body Armour: Inpulsas Broken Heart. required to make everything work. Go for a 10% monster hp explosion roll and good life. inc dmg if killed recently is a decent stat as well. Not sure if the shockeffect works with vinktars shock aura (or flaskeffect).


Normal Gear:

Overall gear: Its waaaay easier to (over) cap ele resist so chaos resist and strength rolls are easier to fit on the gear as well as manaregen on some slots for non-MoM casting.

Weapon: Brightbeak for the fast clear. Alternative doryanis catalyst or a high aps rare sceptre with elemental/fire/burning dmg if dps is needed (can also weaponswap.

Belt: Biscos leash/headhunter again for clearspeed.
For a safer/cheaper route a rare stygian or elder (life recovery roll) belt with high life and resists is the way to go,preferable with flask propertys (reduced charges used/more charges gained/flask effect duration).

Boots: Rare high life boots and 30%+ movementspeed.

Gloves: Null and Void for rampage (no bisco leash) is an option. Insanity gloves for shieldcharge are great to have or just regular rares with tons of life and resist.

Rings: Stormfire is a good and cheap choice. Since we literally have a shock aura all the time and clear fast it can add a lot of dps. Besides that high life Opal rings preferable with firedmg% are nice. On a budget just life and resists.

Amulet: Life, resist, firedmg% and manaregen. liferegen and maximum leech rate are also nice to have.

Shield: Same as the mf route, get high life and 1% max all res OR 2% max fire res.

Body Armour: Inpulsas Broken Heart. required to make everything work. Go for a 10% monster hp explosion roll and good life. inc dmg if killed recently is a decent stat as well. Not sure if the shockeffect works with vinktars shock aura (or flaskeffect).

Vessel of Vinktar with lightning penetration. Bread and Butter for the build to keep the leech running and the explosions to happen. The penetration helps inpulsas explosions a bit, the other versions do nothing for us. Core


Witchfire Brew: The curse is nice to have so we dont need anything to trigger one, helps killing stuff near instantly. dot dmg is nice, blind great for a stationary build on bosses and a bit evasion% might help as well. great flask, but can be replaced if you have a useful curse on hit corruption on the gloves (applied via shieldcharge, explosions and oos). Core without curse on hit

Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline. Gotta move fast! Not necassary with leapslam

Divination Distillate. 4% maxres, a shitton of iiq/iir and both scale with flaskeffect. great! Without Mind over Matter not usable. Core for MF

Sulphur Flask with Bleed removal. adds a bit generic dmg, regen if we are stationary (facetanking some bosses) and has 3 base uses. can be another basetype like a lifeflask or amethyst flask


Alternatives:

Its nice to have freeze and Curse removal on flasks, if you switch 1 or 2 of the unique flasks, get it on there.
I would prefer curse removal since monsters barely freeze (high max cold res + life) and box monsters die instantly while most effects are negated via the explosions (barely any corpse explosions) and high resistances.

Ruby Flask is normally a goto for rf builds, but hard to use with Mind over Matter. Very high fire resist results in lower lifedegen from rf, usually great. With all the mana, manaregen (tricksters 15 manaregen after using shieldcharge and 50% on kill) + ticking divination distillate and barely any degen… you can regenerate mana which turns off Divination Distillate… lowering your other max res and iiq/iir!
Not a problem with the usually shitty rf mapmods (lower recovery etc).

Sapphire Flask. Purity of ice, distillate maybe 1% maxres on the shield? why not push it further!

Abberath as the minor god for reduced fire dmg taken mainly. reduced ignite duration on us is also nice since we got no ignite removal.

For the Major god everything is fine… really anything has advantages.

I like Soul of Solaris which reduces phys dmg against single enemys and you avoid critchaining.

Soul of Arakaali is ofc nice as well with reduced dot dmg taken, recovery bonis with cwdt + immortal call + bloodrage and chaos dot dmg reduction.

Bandits… kill em all!

Conqueror's Potency adds valueable stats to us (listed in the math section). Higher iiq/iir, movementspeed, maxresist etc. It pushes some flasks over a threshold for extra bonis like topaz flasks 7% (including flaskeffect on the tree) max lightning res to 8%.

Watchers Eye with many different rolls.
for %life and a mediocre roll its already worth it.
good rolls are:

Physical dmg taken converted to x element.
Immunitys (esp freeze)

You might even consider swapping an aura if you find a sweet deal. Vitalitys recovery mod is insane (and expensive) and purity of elements has some great mods (like a shitton of chaos res) that might make em worth using.

Abyss jewels:

You want 3 rolls in particular:

Flat life, as much as possible.
Onslaught on kill, one good 8% roll is enough or 2x worse rolled ones
flat cold dmg to attack/with maces. 1x doesnt matter how high to trigger EE with shieldcharge.

Liferegen% while moving, dmg% if killed recently etc are also good mods, but the mentioned ones are a must have on your abyss jewels. 2 abyss jewels are usually enough for that and you can go for normal jewels then.

Normal jewels want the standard rf build stats:

Life%
%firedmg, %burndmg, %generic dmg, % dot dmg

and so on.

Why Ascendant over Slayer?
several reasons. With MF in mind ascendant has easy access to stats (40dex esp) that are very hard to obtain with so many mf uniques.
She saves 5 skillpoints over the Slayer while gaining 4 extra skillpoints on top (and uses 2 for her own start) which basically is worth all the flasknodes or 45% life in 5% lifenodes.

Slayer feats like cull, aoe, more dmg, leech on full life are either compensated by that, the same or slightly weaker.

The trickster subclass adds tons of substain (50% more leech/regen) and qol with power/frenzy generation in particular. Its way easier to keep Ele overload up.

Can i pick other scion classes?

No and Yes. Slayer is necassary for the non stop leech. Besides that the culling strike and 20% (basically permanent when we need it) are nice feats on top.

Trickster on the other side could be switched despite being the best choice for fast and safe mapping.

Pathfinder subclass adds better flasksubstain for longer fights, chieftain better bossdmg and a bit substain/life for excample.
I want to make the character good for one thing and not a mediocre mix for different things. If i want a safe bosskiller i would go for a J U G G R F instead.

Why not the alternative start to the shadow?

There are just not enough skillpoints for that. We need the path from the witch flasknodes down to the ranger flasknodes or the flask effect and substain is not good.
removing the duelist starting nodes doesnt result in more skillpoints those 5 nodes are required for travelpoints instead and a loss of atkspeed and life.

How dare you writing a guide with such a low level char?

Played the build in 3.2 as well a lot, farmed his headhunter in 3 days, optimized a lot etc. Currently i just have more time to write on my mobile than playing on the PC :P

I don't have much time to play with a job and family, so this will grow over time.

28. July 2018

Reached maps and unlocked a few t1/2. My first goal is to setup my atlas for Burial Chambers T3 farming. For that i will NOT unlock any other T3 or T4 map.
T5+ maps will be bought at the beginning. I want the 4th shaper orb (T4 > T9) to upgrade relic chambers. This will prevent any t4 relic chamber to drop.

Then i will /global 820 Uberlab trials and run it to fix my skilltree.

Any remaining currency will go into a abyss jewels (cold dmg with atks/maces, onslaught on kill) a decent watchers eye and cheap (not toprolled) mf gear and i will run hundreds of Burial Chambers.

The first Doctor card will be sold and the currency invested in better MF gear. those ~6.5 Ex should be enough for max quantity gear.

Then clean the stash, roll maps and i start counting how long i need to farm the headhunter.
Took me 3 days playing (idk, around 24h total) to farm 5 doctor cards and enoufh currency to buy 3 more doctors AND had currencly left for 5.5ex worth of gear upgrades :x I did stream most of the farming, but didnt count maps or /played. So thats coming in here hopefully ;)

After a non mf setup is made i would go for some xp grinding in wither t11/13 maps or t16 maps... or reroll :p