[3.18] 20ex CWDT Ward loop Very easy guide Occultist
Rejoice, the build lives
3.18
3.18
Drought Bringer and Temporal bubble can be dangerous, be careful around them
3.18 Leveling guides https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3177175 This should be possible in under 20 ex if you are savvy with your crafts. If you buy things out right it can be 25 ex or possibly 30 ex. This is going to be a very easy copy paste guide with trade links. Youtube videos 3.18 Sirus Kill on Occultist level 85, same items as Scion https://youtu.be/lu7weRp6MhE Scion Omni 3.17 Boss Kill https://youtu.be/58Byvk2hZCo Index
Calculator, to check life/chaos res and heartbound loop damage https://instacalc.com/55610 No Armour allowed. Avoid chaos resistance or use the above calculator When you buy items make sure they don't have Armour or chaos resistance POB
Budget Pob
Omni pobs - Omni is 50ex
How the build works
Build Mechanics
Expedition items have Ward Ward will absorb the damage done to you If you have 1500 ward, and a monster hits you for 2000, only 500 damage will go to life and your ward will disappear, it breaks Ward will be recharged after 5 seconds Olroth's flask When this flask is on, your ward will not break/disappear The goal is to permanently have Olroth's flask on If Ward is always on, then ward will absorb the damage Permanent Olroth's flask effect So we want to have Olroth's permanently on, to do this we use Brutal Restraint The Traitor https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Traitor_(keystone_passive) Using the traitor keystone and 2 cluster jewels which give us high flask duration, we can get permanent Olroth's effect The traitor keystone works when you have 3 empty flask slots, means you can only use 2 flasks.
High budget 100ex
you can use 3 flasks at high budget, this is explained in upgrades section
Heartbound loop ring explained You summon skeletons, and when skeleton die, the ring will do damage to you Since you are damaged, CWDT will cast spells linked to it The damage each skeleton does is 420, its less than 1500 ward. So you take no damage. If you have 300 ward then you will take 120 damage to life. CWDT gem needs to be level 20 to cast level 20 spell gems For CWDT level 21, you should take about 3580 damage to cast spells We use 3 skeletons and forbidden rite gem to reach self 3580 damage Forbidden rite is a skill that will deal damage to yourself If you cast forbidden rite, it will deal a lot of damage to your life https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Forbidden_Rite As long as your ward is more than the Forbidden rite self damage, you will take no damage to life How to Level up
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Use any Witch build guide to level up, respec at level 85 Level and Life
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Calculator
Required level This build will work from level 80, you just need 1700 life minimum. And also allocate all necessary staff nodes. You can make it work below that, but its not worth the hassle. Also complete all the labs and get pathfinder and elementalist. 420 heartbound loop ring requires 1700 life 350 heartbound loop ring needs 2400 life Ascendancy
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Olroth's Resolve Flask
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Olroth's Resolve Option 1 Buy the flask for 1ex Divine it for 40, 41 or 42 increased charges used Anything more that 42 is bad https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/5prgaRmta Once you buy this, make it 28% quality with Hillock from T4 Research Betrayal You can do this yourself or buy this craft from TFT Services channel Option 2 Or you can simply buy the flask with 28% quality If not less than 42, divine it to make it less that 42 increased charges used https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/LnWvl67Cn Divine for 40, 41 or 42 Craft Reused at end of flask effect To Dust Jewels
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We will need to buy 3 - To Dust jewels Two with 20% reduced skeleton duration One with 19% reduced skeleton duration How to smart craft You can buy 3 To Dust jewels and divine first, second, third And which ever becomes 19 or 20, keep them aside then Divine the other two Then finally simply buy the third one from trade If you don't want to divine them yourself, just buy from trade using the following links One - 19% https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/7n7K7Oru5 Two - 20% https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/6zG8BYqFG Amulet
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The Pandemonius https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Pandemonius Craft it by using Blessing of Tul and The Halcyon amulet Other Jewels
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Survival Secrets Act 2 Yeena quest reward, buy this or do the quest First kill the white beast and then do this quest https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Survival_Secrets Or you can buy this https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/ZJJRCQ Brutal restraint Balbala for The Traitor keystone The number does not matter https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/ypmdYKWiR Buy this and put it in your tree Make sure your Jewel does not grant you Alchemist's Genius, this will break the build If your Brutal restraint gives you alchemist genius, then simply buy a new one Intuitive Leap Hatred cold pen Watcher's eye Jewels, budget version This will help you cap resistance, you can get % life and also cold damage or ele damage. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/4e08MS9 Cluster jewels
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If you are under very tight budget use Voices and blessed rebirth, Otherwise buy a normal cold damage cluster and use Anomalous Summon skeleton. See Upgrades section for this info! Again I will repeat, See Upgrades Section 1 before you commit to Voices. In 3.18 Anomalous Summon Skeleton is cheap. It should not be corrupted. 5p Voices https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/aVklGj7Ce Blessed rebirth Minion jewel https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/qb2VMEvTg Flask clusters Option 1 - Buyout, correct option for no risk gamers You can just buy them from trade Trade buyout url https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/Ebo63ZyC5 Option 2 - Craft Buy the base and simply use Chaos orb spam till you get Fasting + 25 effect or Fasting + distilled perfection Base url https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/LL0pGyVtn Rings
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https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/3rnv6Rdi5 Buy 2 heartbound loop rings with 420 physical damage Or buy a ring and use noxious catalyst on it If you buy 350 damage rings then you will need 2400 life. You can buy 350 rings with good corruption Such as Ingite immunity, poision immunity, lightning or cold damage to spells. Body Armour
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Easy option Skin of the Loyal 2 Red, 2 Blue , 2 green https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/0EnbZpcg Skin of Lords - MORE DPS You can only insert corrupted gems in Skin of the lords And Cast When Damage taken should be level 19/20 corrupted Use the below link to buy, I have filtered out the keystones that break the build https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/35jmdzGu5 Weapon
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Lots of choices for budget weapon Either buyout 6-linked weapon or 6-link using the bench recipe Or you can ask a friend to 6-link it for you Or you can try the TFT discord for 6link harvest craft 3.18 Best weapon is Buy a 5-link if you cannot afford 6-link Duskdawn - more easy dps, simple to understand and search This item can be crafted for 15c vendor recipe, see the wiki on how to craft it https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Duskdawn Cane of kulemak https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/zv9dJXqs4 Rare staff 6-link with essence Belt
Belt
Use the link to get a cheap belt Divine orb the belt for 19% or 20% reduced flask charges used You can also do reroll suffix lucky harvest https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/l4o678pcV Bench Craft 9-12% Increased Cooldown recovery rate on it, craft using bench You can buy the craft in TFT or ask a friend Crafting CDR CRAFTING
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Crafting guide for helm/gloves/boots coming soon
Short summary Just spam dense fossil and craft suffix using eldtrich currency On helm/gloves you can block accuracy with bench You can watch LOLCOHOL video on how to craft, its the same for helm/gloves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y02Pn61bZEY Helmet
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Gloves
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Gloves Resists, all about resists here again https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/vPL0KnLHE Boots
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Boots are the same for all builds, only resistances I managed to grab a nice pair again with 2 ex https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/VQlvoOoIp Skeleton gems
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Anomalous minion speed Level does not matter, but quality should be 20% https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/68MyPV2hG Gems in helm, very important keep same levels CWDT level 5 Summon skeleton level 11 - Minion speed x/20 - Forbidden rite 1 - Cast When Damage taken 5 Buy Skeleton Gem using this link, sell gem to vendor with Orb of Scouring to reduce level https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/BJLZOqjS8 The levels of these gems should be fixed, do not level it up CWDT must be 5, skeleton must be fixed at 11 Don't change these in the helm, or else you need to do math Gem links
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https://poe.ninja/pob/4xR CWDT Gems
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Cast When Damage Taken - Body armour It should be 20/20 for Skin of the Loyal It should be 19/20 for Skin of the Lords Reason is Skin of the lords has +2 Skin of the loyal is +1 CWDT should never go above level 21, if you make CWDT level 22, build will fail. 19/20 Corrupted CWDT, cheaper to make it than buy it https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/44mrbKvu9 20/20 for Weapon https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/kjqK0F5 20 for gloves https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/qoEvIg 21/20 for weapon if your skill gem levels are 21 https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/vyQ8DhE Also don't link CWDT gem to Righteous fire, flame dash or phase run Make gloves 3-link and use Righteous fire in gloves Or use RF 21 in gloves, that way CWDT 20 won't tirgger RF Helm and glove implicits
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See POB please, just spam greater ichor and lesser ember till you get it
Gloves - Cold exposure with Greater ichor, and lesser ember for unnerve Helmet - Spell damage with ichor and ember for lightning damage. Very important - Use only 2 flasks with Brutal Restraint Traitor, 3 if you have high budget Flasks
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Resistance and curse reduction flask We also want defense from shock, if possible try to swap flasks when necessary or use purity of elements for shock immunity https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/3X3Mn8kF5 https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/v4k7JaDHE In this build you can only use 3 flasks not use more than 3. You will die if you use more than 3 flasks Get a flask with shock immunity and another flask with reduced effect of curses Dont buy armour flask, its useless https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/9QZrgwycK Weapons in second slot
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Buy wands from Act 1 Nessa And use Essence of insanity You can put cast when damage taken and portal in 2nd weapon Pantheon - Very important again
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Soul of Brine King Soul of Yugul You need to kill the bosses to get freeze/chill immunity And also kill Shrine map boss for reduced curse effect Atoll map boss You can also change craft on boots to give you chill immunity Start / Stop
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Swap weapons to start, Press X To stop remove belt and put it back on Or you can remove helm for one second Map mods
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You can do reflect and no regen, easy YES DO Elemental reflect No regen CANNOT DO - RED ALERT Reduced cooldown recovery rate Reduced flask charges gained Upgrade 1 - Anomalous summon skeleton
Anomalous Summon Skeleton
This will help you get rid of Voices cluster. Buy this and remove the minion life cluster, the blessed rebirth cluster https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/L9LeErBHn Then you can remove voice and replace it with a damage cluster High budget https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/ae9RmMMse Low budget https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/Xb5wWaJhP Upgrade 2 - Crit Watcher's eye
Watcher's Eye
Hatred critical - Divine it for more than 1.7 https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/MQQLMTJ Upgrade 3 - Rare Ring
Rare Ring
Its time to remove one heartbound loop and use a rare ring Examples, they are missing life, so they are quite Ok, not great What and why and how
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For this upgrade, there are 2 - ways
Increase life to 3626, or Use Divergent Cast When Damage Taken Assuming you have a 420 heartbound ring, and level 11 Skeleton Lets find out how much life required Level 21 CWDT requires 3580 Heartbound 420 does 1260, its 3 skeleton X 420 3580 - 1260 = 2,320 2320 / 0.4 / 1.6 = 3,625 2320 should come from Forbidden rite. 0.4 is Forbidden rite damage, see the gem text 1.6 is -60 chaos resistance So you need at least 3625 life. Forbidden rite should deal 2320 damage to reach 3580 for CWDT 21 The problem with this is, when you ward is 1800 or even 1900, around 300 damage will go to your life pool. And this is really bad for sustain and makes you squishy. Buy Divergent cast when damage taken Weapon 20/20 Body armor 19/20 for Skin of the Lords You need 2510 life for Heartbound 420 You need 2840 life for Heartbound 350 https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/j8wgOQrCX https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/MDl2M0RFJ You can make this yourself by corrupting If you lose quality, don't worry, you just need to increase your life pool. Keep increasing your life pool till skills get cast. Get 3020 life for 420, the worst quality level 11 Get 3400 life for 350 Upgrade - 4 - Empower 4 and gems
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Just buy Empower 4 support Ice spear 21, creeping frost 21 Weapon keep 20/20, its easier, because divergent CWDT 21 is 50 ex ore more Upgrade - Omniscience Amulet
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Crystallised Omniscience With the amulet updated, you need to change your helm and gloves to have attributes instead of resistances Omni Helmet Craft Dex on it in the suffix https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/zv9Zkmvc4 Omni gloves dex/int Crafted Int on it in suffix https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/Ebojgz4u5 Helm Enchant
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Best Ice Spear fires an additional Projectile Second Righteous Fire grants 30% increased Spell Damage Awakened GMP
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This is a lot of damage, buy this if you can 27% cdr
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We are now in uncharted territory, this can get complicated from here Do all the above upgrades before doing this. Especially the divergent cast when damage taken upgrade. I am not a fan of Level 21 summon skeleton, the reason is, its complicated, because of trigger order, it gets messy. And you will run out of Mana issue with 27% cdr and this causes a lot of frustration Yes you need mana to cast the skills, mana is used when CWDT casts the skill. Make sure you have 6% Mana Recoup on the Ring as well!!! Else mana issue. Get a belt from here https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/KBWaRmPc5 Get some CDR on boots Also get CDR on abyss jewel Total must be 27 or more. To Dust Update To Dust for 20/20/18 Total 58 20+20+18 = 58 20+19+19 = 58 Gems in helm now become Skeleton + Minion speed + Less Duration 4/20 + CWDT 5 Forbidden Rite goes to gloves 420 heartbound ring Forbidden Rite level 1 + CWDT level 9 + sniper mark 12 350 heartbound ring Forbidden rite level 1 + CWDT Level 7 + sniper mark 10 You also need to downgrade sniper's mark in gloves To level 10 or level 12 The Annihilating staff
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If you still aren't using this one, then get this weapon With omni, get a good stat ring if you are not using omni, get a rare ring with lots of resistances Get perfect resistances on helm, gloves, boots With Omni 55 int on hlem, craft 30 dex 55 dex on gloves, craft 30 int Then use the staff. There is no other way. You need to buy Unnatural instinct as well. Make you tree like this https://pastebin.com/8pzFRqY6 Editado por útlima vez por Akshay#5418 en 6 jun. 2022 9:33:43 Reflotado por última vez en 30 nov. 2022 4:28:01
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I keep dying from time to time from a damage over time, is corrupted blood dangerous for this build? ignite? I don't know, health just goes down slowly till i die. I'm level 80 atm so just enough to start, i took all staff nodes except counterweight that is only dps i think, will be my next point. Am i missing something? Character is FreeTheKraken if you can check it
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looks like that purity of elements instead of hatred is more safe, i don't die anymore, i also bought a corrupted blood immunity abyss jewel, now it's all a matter of passive points :)
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Hi!.. thx for share this build, it look funny
One question, in your pob, CF and IS have cast rate 4.33... I currently have 1.5, i dont know how increased it :/ pd: sometimes dying when swap weapons, i dont know why -.- Editado por útlima vez por IverzonX#0899 en 24 abr. 2022 22:56:30
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" The cast rate is probably due to gmp support, i have almost the same gear as him, and i have your same cast speed. there's no other explanation about dying, be sure that BEFORE weapon swapping when entering a zone you first of all move, to remove the immunity debuff (when you change zone until you stand still you can't be seen/damaged, it's to protect yourself), then wait like 3 seconds while moving a bit that the 2 flask buffs appear on top of your screen, near your auras. when they appear you can press x 2 times and start the rotation. that's something he had to explain better, but whatever |
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" oh i get it lol ty for reply bro |
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Hello,
I will try this build. ty. I have one question " I bought 2-3-1 which gems should I put in slots? |
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This is like a scion version of cwdt ward but on a weird class o.0
Corrupting blood will kill you with this build in most high tier maps You can do reduced flask charge mod as long as you only use 2 flasks (elemental version?) You can do reduced CDR if you remove less duration gem (elemental version?) If you dont run purity of elements i think a lot of random things will make you kill yourself (standing on shocking ground etc) The staff this build is using is way worse then the triple damage staff (but way easier to cap res ;p) Adding on to this from my exp with the elemental version: This build will die and is not immortal This build can do wave 30 simu but not most of the time (ive done it like 6 times out of 300 trys) This build can do 100% t16 dels but you will likely die a couple of times (may just be if your running beyond tho...) To get this build close to being *done* its WAY more then 20ex... unless everything is dirt cheap this league Editado por útlima vez por Lynerus#6363 en 8 may. 2022 18:17:34
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" You can put increased crit damage Will update this guide for 3.18 after Draught bringer is nerfed. Yes corrupted blood is bad, it will kill you Occultist is very tank and a good class for this build. Annihilating staff is high budget, because its hard to cap resistances with just 20 ex And yeah this build can be done with 20ex late stage 3.17 Its going to be expensive in 3.18 |
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Hey, i by and change all, but i can use only 1 flask, cna u help me?
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