[3.27] The Armoured Exsanguinate Scion embraces madness

Not too much time, expect videos next week.

old:
A9 Sirus Scourge
A9 Sirus
Mavenized Shaper
8mod Enslaver Map
The Formed

We only use exsanguinate to do Damage, no corrupting fever, as the damage increase is too low for a 4link and not needed anyway. To scale we use RF, Pain attunement and diverse jewels.

Supporting damage auras are: Pride, Malevolence/zealotry, Herald of Purity.
This is a selfcast Build! We have about (0.4 seconds casttime => 2.5 casts per second which is fine.
Realistic dps is at 7+ mil for both trash and Bosses with Gem switch. (up to 40 mil with gg gear)
Reap may perform a little better on bosses, but the difference is negligible

Block
This build utilizes Block with Daressos shield and without glancing blows in early game. Later on we can switch to DW for full dps, but there are some needed steps to take first.
get strong corrupts (dmg taken as fire, Crit reduce, life on block) on daressos for midgame.

to enable DW we need at least one replica reckless defense gem, unnatural instinct as well as offering effectiveness increase on boots!

Armor

Armour is now the way to even if we have a little bit evasion. With mageblood we realistically push 40k Armour(without any auras- Determination is an option through and will push Armour farther).

Spell Suppression
we have 100% Spell Suppression.

Elemental ailments
Early get chill immunity on boots and freeze duration reduce on jewels. With 100% less duration on debuffs we won't care much either way. later either:
Immunity with a combination of mageblood and stormshroud
Or boots avoid craft(s) plus ancestral vision.

Elemental Defense
Thanks to the prismatic skin as well as soul of steel and new masteries we get at least 81/79/79, with fire flask we push this to 89%-90% resist for fire and tempered by war converts 50% of cold and lighting to fire (which also defends against penetration mechanics)

Life gains
We have lifeleech thanks to eater Gloves Enchant or Watchers eye. This can be pushed further with the life recovery mode of the watchers eye(23%). This is also a slayer type leech, it won't stop when you reach 55% as long there is enough space (at least 55% + some small hp number unreserved life)
We also have a strong life regen(about 1200+). Even with active righteous fire it still regenarates about 900 hps
1 Life flask(charge gain + bleed immunity)
We use life mastery to push to 55% low life ofc.
Last but not least we can also gain life recovery on block through either block mastery or shield corrupt, this is a good node for trash survivability

Dots and debuffs
Here comes the new shit. We have 100% fasrter debuff expiration, which halves all debuffs on us. This will help migitate alot of problems low life build face, as well as defend against some annoying t17 mods and uber boss skills. yay

Misc
How to gain 100% faster debuff expiration:
1. 15% through delirium ascendancy
2. 15% through Window of opportunity
3. 20% through arakaali pantheon
4. 30% through runegraft of the warp

The missing 20% can be gained either with:
1. 15% through duration mastery (95% is actually enough - we just need to get the duration of embrace madness debuffs under 2 seconds)
2. 20% through temporal rift

(or both!)
My way here would be to use temporal rift, and gain a passive point

petrified blood protects us from hits and keeps low life active as well as enables the slayer leech.

Stuns: - Currently not relevant. Too much survivability to get stunned, but increase stun threshold on belt or flask avoid craft is hopefully enough until better options are available.

Damage pushes:
Light of meaning. This jewel is insane, especially with unnatural instinct to buff it.

Pros:
Tanky and Fast Build, outside of bosses nothing will kill you.
No need for unleash/Spellslinger or Echo, des Build can substain 3 stacks of exsanguinate without problems, even with awakenend Swift Affliction.

Cheap Entrypoint for the build to work, can even be used as a league starter (see leveling section)

Cons:
Low damage - even with GG gear 15-20 mill is cap, normal version will reach ~9-10 mill with gem switch, enough, but not powerful.

Cannot do Phys reflect maps (Aztiri only with minor god and phys mastery)

While it can tank most strafe hits even from endgame bosses, Movement skills are still required when dealing with Slams. (Dodge those is the best way even if you could gamba for block or evade.)

Gem switch for Endgame Uber Bosses(maven/shaper/uberelder/guardians etc)

Feels slow without onslaught, but mageblood and/or daresso fixes it mostly.

Int/Dex is hard to come by sometimes.

Without good gear Damage suffers. Especially in the beginning. (thanks to grafts and the recent buff, its currently fine!)

All my Pobs require the Community fork!
3.27:
https://pobb.in/aSIonJe7bq1a

3.25:
https://pobb.in/RSp0Ye-8Q9r7
This is maybe the max currently possible? 22m dps on bosses, ~6mill on uber pinnacle, 300k ehp max block, max supp, real 2k hps.
3.24:
https://pobb.in/K83KtkqoDBRH
Old:
3.22:
https://pastebin.com/hpUfAPqm
https://pastebin.com/yUPWVMy3

The gear we need that this whole Spiel works:

Daressos defiance gives us permanent onslaught even at bosses with enduring composure. This makes the selfcast dream come true. If you have Berserker Tattoo you can skip the node.

This shield makes capping block and spell block very easy. It also gives Elemental resistances and even counter the -block enchant on maps for trash. Sure a rare shield may be give more dps, but defense this thing is awesome, espically with a good double corrupt.

Rare shield with glancing blows is also an option but can get expensive fast!
(If you want dps on shield flat spelldamage >>>> Gem level at this point)
but for DPS dual wield will win the day anyway.

watchers eye with life leech mod. As soon as you have gloves with phys leech, get a damage watchers eye. Life regen mod of malevolence is still op through.

Amulet:

Purity ring with good mods:
Buff effect/phys dmg is BiS

Unnatural instinct(4?ex): This quite expensive gem gives as MS CS as well as life and dmg for 4 points, its awesome but not that important.

Crafting:

Gloves:
get Gloves base (Dragonscale is best) with life recover fractured, the more the better.
get Fossil für Life mod crafting. Try to get max life Life regen and max life

Helmet:
get helmet with life regen or chaos fracture would be best. get Exsanguinate enchant(yep also still working on that :X) use Essence craft for 10% reservation efficiency. Either spam essences until you have another decent suffix and then use eldritch currency to get two fine prefixes (Max life and Armour/Evasion). As finishing touch craft + 1 AOE gem level for better auras.

Boots:
Dragon Scale Boots with a good fracture. Life recovery would be best. we also need an open prefix as Runspeed/cannot be chilled is best. Best is fossil crafting for life regen and max life. Chaos res is also always fine. we can also use eldritch currency here.