[3.19] Jenno's Staff Crit Lightning Conduit Elementalist - All Rounder Spell Caster for End Game.

This mechanic is inspired by CantripN, the idea is simple: if monsters and bosses around you are frozen, then you survive. In my opinion, this mechanic is the most important defensive layer of our build. Unfortunately, Permanent Freeze is still heavily underrated by player base because its benefits are observable in-game only, rather than showing you nice numbers on POB.

In order to permanently freeze enemy, one needs to answer yes to the following 4 questions:

1. Can your damage type freeze?
By default, only cold damage can freeze. Our build answers yes to this question through Three Dragons.

This item overrides the freeze infliction damage type from cold to lightning, such that our lightning damage dealt by Lightning Conduit has the potential to freeze. As a side effect, lightning damage cannot inflict shock anymore, I will explain how we overcome this in the Offense Mechanics section under Orb of Storms.

2. Is your chance to freeze high enough?
Critical Strikes have 100% chance to freeze. Non-critical strike requires additional chance to freeze mod to inflict freezing. Our build answers yes to this question through critical strikes, our 97% critical strike chance of Lightning Conduit means 97% chance to freeze for each hit.

3. Is your single hit damage high enough to ensure a minimum freeze duration?
The more single-hit damage, more freeze duration (with a cap of 3s). Any damage that leads to less than 0.3s freeze will not trigger freeze at all. To properly freeze enemy, single-hit damage needs to remove at least 5% life of monster or 2.5% of life on bosses. (see POE Wiki - Freeze)

Our build answers yes to this question with around 4.5M single hit against bosses. This can freeze any bosses that has less than 180M HP, IF the boss can be frozen. I will provide more detail about this "IF" later, but the short answer is we will freeze any boss that can be frozen.

4. Can you sustain freeze?
If you freeze bosses for 0.5 seconds for every hit, but your hit frequency is once per second. Then the boss still won't be permanently frozen. Therefore, you still need a decent cast speed to ensure it never wakes up. Our build has 4.8 hits/second. Even with minimal freeze duration of 0.3s, the target will remain permanently frozen.

After answering yes to the above 4 questions, we will freeze anything that can be frozen. Here is a showcase on uber-shaper's portal boss even with 70% less damage mod.


As I hinted earlier, there are two more things about freeze that are related to our build. First, there are many end-game boss that cannot be entirely frozen, because freeze works by reducing 100% of action speed, and many end-game bosses have a minimum action speed (see list of such bosses from Wiki). Next, to freeze entire screen of monsters, it requires freeze spreading, because our lightning conduit can only damage (therefore freeze) a specific area. One such important mod we need is "Freezes you inflict spread to other Enemies within a Radius of 12 (or higher)". The mod can be easily accessible through Searing Exarch implicits on gloves.

To conclude permanent freeze, it is a different defensive layer from conventional defensive mechanisms. Permanent freeze prevents damage from the damage source rather than mitigating the damage dealt to you, which makes it much more effective in keeping you alive than other defensive layers. To us, this is only the start of our defensive layers.

So we freeze anything that can be frozen, a fair question to ask next is: what about those that can't? Well, the answer is chill.

Through Elementalist's Shaper of Winter ascendancy node, our lightning damage can chill too. Because the single-hit damage is high enough plus the additional non-ailment effect mods in our build, we apply 40% chill whenever we hit enemy.

The 40% chill mainly is used for most difficult bosses that can be frozen. Our Chill effect reduces the action speed by 40% and it works similarly to permanent freeze as a defensive layer, because it also mitigates the damage output from the source. Thanks to the chill effect, we are often able to face tank many end-game bosses (like shown in Simulacrum wave 30 video).

Defending attack damage is one of the most important aspects in building defenses because attack-based bosses are in the majority of the current game. To handle attack damages, we choose Block and Evasion.

Block


Evasion

Spell damage type is more dangerous than attack damage in end-game because the most difficult bosses uses more spells than attacks (like Shaper, Maven, Sirus, etc). How our build defends against spell damage is through investing in Spell Suppression and Spell Block.

Spell Suppression


Spell Block

Petrified blood is a powerful defense mechanic that converts part of incoming hit damage that results in life loss into damage over time. A good metaphor for this is: instead of paying for damage at a full cost, you pay with a loan that has negative interest rate. Ziz made a detailed guide on how petrified blood makes you tanky.

The most powerful thing about petrified blood is over-leech. Once you have a leeching source and unreserved life is more than reserved life, you are always leeching when you kill enemies. In our case, we have 883 life leeched every second from our skill. This can be viewed as 833/s additional life regen in combat.

On top of Over-leech, we have 494/s life regen because of vitality and bottled faith, so that our effective life regen is now 1300+/second. Combining this further with various life gained on block nodes and recover %life on kill mod, the petrified's blood damage over time can be entirely mitigated. So that in my previous "loan" metaphor, you can get away with paying "down payment" only.

Petrified blood also has a unique interaction with burden of truth on HP/ES damage splitting for even more defensive power, I will leave that to the next "Damage Splitting" section. Furthermore, petrified blood has many offensive benefits too, with details in offense mechanics section.

By default, energy shield protects your life such that all incoming damage types except chaos will first deplete your energy shield, then reduce your life. Damage splitting is enabled by the burden of truth belt. It makes the damage dealt to you split between life and ES, rather than from single source.



To see how damage splitting makes us tanky, let's see the survival of a character from a simplified view: survival is simply a dynamic process between two opposing forces: loss and gain, such that we die when we lose all HP/ES and we live by gaining more HP/ES than we lose.

In this scenario, it's important to know that both HP and ES have their own way of gaining itself to counter the loss. However, normally only one of such gain can fight the incoming loss at a given time. For example, when you are on full HP, life regen or life leech won't do anything when ES is taking damage.

Damage splitting makes it so that both HP and ES gains are jointly fighting the incoming loss together instead of one after another. Damage splitting is very effective in hybrid HP/ES build, especially when the build has various source of regen and leech.

In our case, damage splitting is a perfect fit for us because we have many ways of gaining both life and ES, such as regen, leech, gain % on block, gain % on kill, etc. To add to that, petrified blood's over leech effect can play a significant role in reducing the burden of ES.

In addition, Petrified blood and damage splitting have their own interactions too. As recap, petrified blood makes our HP stay at half, and it only prevents damage that results in a life loss below half HP. Under default setting, petrified blood won't help prevent any hit that damages ES, because our HP always stays at half while ES is being reduced. With damage splitting, in addition to both HP/ES gains jointly countering the incoming damage, part of the damage can now result in life loss below half HP, which further triggers the damage prevention for even less damage taken.

To conclude, damage splitting is another important defensive mechanic in our build. Similar to permanent freeze, it is a defensive mechanic that doesn't display as any number on POB but it can make a big difference in actual game play. Therefore, it is not a surprise that this defensive mechanic is very unpopular. To us, burden of truth is definitely a must-have for this build for its damage splitting capability. But the reason of using burden of truth doesn't end here, as it unlocks an even more important aspect of our build: Supreme Decadence, which I will explain next.

Burst damage is the sudden spikes in the stream of incoming damages, and it is often the result of critical strikes.

Technically speaking, our build's defensive layers described so far can already defend against burst damage to a great extent. Like block/evasion reducing the chance of such damage, spell suppression reducing the damage taken, petrified blood + damage splitting providing further damage prevention.

On top of things mentioned above, our build takes additional consideration of defending burst damage on two aspects: 1. preventing the extra critical strike damage 2. Once we take a burst damage, how to fully recover.

Reduced extra critical damage taken


Supreme Decadence

On top of everything I've mentioned above, most of the builds also have another damage mitigation layer against specific damage type, for example, elemental resistance for elemental damage. This section illustrates how our build handles various specific damage types.

Against elemental damage: We made sure our resistance is over-capped slightly in hideout, such that during combat we can still cap our resistance after elemental weakness (or exposure) with help from 4 additional endurance charges.

Against chaos damage: 75% chaos resistance is a must for all-rounder build, our build is no exception. Despite Chaos damage being not as common as other damage types, it is still frequently seen in end-game bosses and maps. For example, Simulacrum bosses deal a considerable amount of chaos damage, Sirus also deals a large portion of chaos damage. In maps, monster's poison will make you take chaos damage over time and it can stack many times. Many people make the mistake of ignoring chaos resistance and found themselves constantly getting one-shotted. This is why capping chaos resistance is one of the top priorities in our build, so that chaos damage doesn't become our weakness.

Against physical damage: physical damage includes physical damage from hits (such as Izaro's attack) and damage over time (such as bleeding). For hits damage our determination + defiance banner aura + rumi's concoction can give us about 17.8k armour. Combining the armour with 4 endurance charges that we gain whenever being hit, it results in about 76% phys damage reduction. We will talk about damage over time defense in the next section.

This section details the defensive mechanisms of this build against damage over time. Many of such mechanisms are covered in other sections already, but here I will summarize them specifically in the context of Damage Over Time, then comment on specific damage over time types.

When it comes to Damave over Time damage, in general there are two strategies of handling it: 1. Having many ways of gaining HP/ES (like having good regen, gain on block/kill, flask, etc) such that you gain more than you lose. 2. Mitigating DoT damage based on damage its damage type (like getting immunity for a specific DoT type).

In our build, we have both strategies prepared. Here are the related mechanics of the build for DoT defense:

Spell Suppression: DoT damage caused by spell will be suppressed by 50%

Life over leech + ES leech + Damage splitting: Both leech sources can counter DoT damage together thanks to damage splitting

HP/ES regen + gain on block/kill: Similar to the leech, they are also important source of DoT counters

Lethe Shade: This is not mentioned before. It is a keystone passive that makes us take 50% less DoT damage on top of everything else. The catch is that it doubles the duration, which is not a big deal because more duration means we are buying more time for our leech+regen to counter them. Also many DoT damage doesn't have a duration (such as ground effects), in that case we simply get the 50% less DoT damage taken for free.

Supreme Decadence: One good thing about DoT damage is that it is very predictable, because you can simply watch how your HP/ES reduces over time. If everything mentioned above still couldn't counter DoT, then simply hit the "reset button" when you feel you are low enough. For example, when I'm fighting this monster while standing on burning ground, I simply wait until my ES goes low enough then recover and move on.



Next, I will talk about several specific Damage over Time types:

Bleeding and corrupted blood: Among all the DoT types, bleeding and corrupted blood are the most unpredictable DoT damage because of their damage is based on moving. Therefore they pose the most threat to us. That's why we need bleeding & corrupted blood immunity on life flask to remove them in time. This will obviously take some reaction time, but from my game play this league, I found our DoT damage defensive layers mentioned earlier + our endurance charges can protect us decently well earlier such that we have plenty of reaction time.

Poison: Since we have maxed chaos resistance, I never find poison being a threat to us, therefore we will leave it to our natural DoT defensive layers to handle it.

Ignite: I find ignite damage is slightly more dangerous than poison. There are end-game contents that deal an insane amount of ignite damage(like Searing Exarch's ball, and Enslaver's spell). so far my strategy is to use Supreme Decadence to deal with it. But this heavily depends on how often you are ignited, if you find the life charge running out and still getting ignited in those encounters, you can replace the utility flask that has cast speed with ignite immunity.

non-damaging ailments are a subset of ailments, they usually apply a de-buff on you rather than dealing damage. Among all non-damaging ailments, here are the ones that are related to our defense, and I will explain how I handle them in our build:

Scorch: Scorch works in a similar way to fire exposure and elemental weakness. They all reduce your fire resistance as an end-result. You can refer to "Additional Defense against different damage types" section on how we over-cap resistances slightly so that even when scorched, with full endurance charge we can still maintain a good elemental resistance.

Chill: Chill heavily affects our game-play experience, and most of the time it is very annoying. Our build invests in reduced effect of chill to 90% by Brine King pantheon(50%) and a suffix craft on boots(40%). As a result, a 30% chill becomes a 3% chill, which is basically negligible.

Freeze: Freeze immunity is a must for every build, our build gains freeze immunity through Brine king Pantheon.

Brittle: Brittle makes enemy more likely to deal critical damage to us, but guess what, we take up to 90% less extra damage from crit. So we are not affected much by Brittle at all. You can refer to "Defense against burst damage" for more details on crit damage reduction.

Shock: Shock increases our damage taken. To make a proper end-game build, we must deal with shock too. Our build deals with shock by reducing 100% of the shock effect, it is done by having Garukhan pantheon (60%) and a suffix craft on boots (40%). As a result, we take no extra damage from shock, even though the Shock debuff icon still displays, it always stays at 0%.

Dealing with stun is another important topic for every build. For us, here are several build choices I made are related to handling stuns.

1. We are a hybrid HP/ES build, as long as we have ES >0, we have a 50% chance to ignore a stun (poe wiki - stun). On this matter, our damage splitting is taking some burden off ES so that we are more likely to have >0 ES. Furthermore, our various ways of gaining ES (like ES leech, gain on block) together with Supreme Decadence can also help us maintain a good ES level.

2. From passive tree, we also have 40% to avoid interruption from stuns while casting. Since we are a spell caster with high casting frequency, even if we are stunned, there will be 40% chance that it won't affect our casting at all.

3. Another reason we select Bring King as major pantheon is because of stun. Besides the stun recovery, it grants stun immunity if we've been stunned in the past 2 seconds. This has a nice interaction with 1 and 2 mentioned above, because both ignoring a stun and avoid interruption from stun still count as stun (more detail in wiki). Therefore, we are often granted stun immunity even though we are not affected by stun at all. Furthermore, this additional stun immunity will make sure we never get stun-locked.

Because of the above choices and interactions, stun is never an issue in any situation of our build.

Dealing with Curses


Blind Immunity


Maim Immunity

So we've covered lots of defensive considerations and ideas put into this build, and by now you probably know that our build's high defense isn't a coincidence. While playing the build with these defensive mechanisms built-in, I haven't found myself dying in maps yet, or having any difficulty with any archnemesis monster mod. In Uber-boss fight, I can face-tank a pretty decent amount of burst damage, like taking several uber-shaper balls in a row (not intentionally), standing in multiple shaper beams for a short amount of time, or tanking damage in Bullet Hell.



Having said that, our build is NOT an unkillable god. The thoughts and considerations that we put in our defenses are still constrained by budgets, we are just making the best out of what we have. Therefore it's also important to manage our expectations, and know our limits. DO NOT TANK EVERYTHING, because you will die if you do that, I will too.

In fact, you still need to make good efforts and learn the mechanics of every boss fight and fight them with skill. The purpose of defensive layer is to reduce the chance of dying from small mistakes (like getting accidentally shot-gunned by Kosis, or unintentionally took some shaper balls) and quickly recover youself to engage in the fight. For that, I can safely say that our efforts spent in building defense have paid off quite well.

Lightning Conduit only works on shocked enemies, and every lightning conduit hit will remove the shock from the enemy. Therefore we need a reliable source of shock to keep the enemy shocked between each lightning conduit hit.

For that I've tried orb of storm, storm brand, and hydrosphere. Among them I found orb of storm can provide the most consistent performance when considering both clearing maps and boss encounters. Orb of storm can apply shock to nearby enemies whenever we use a lightning skill near the area.

During boss encounter, one slight downside of orb of storm is that we have to be reasonably close to the boss. To me it's not really a downside because for most boss encounters we need to stay close to the boss to anticipate their move and get a better angle for dodging their mechanics anyway.

If you really want to keep away from boss, the orb of storm's effective area is slightly larger than the ring itself such that when you and the boss are at the two different ends of the ring, it keeps you roughly 60 units away from the boss.

As for weapon choice, I see almost all current lightning conduit builds are using wand and shield. I went with two-handed staff rather than wand+shield because of the following reasons:

1.While both shield and two-handed staff offer attack block chances, the block related passive tree for staff is much better than shield. As a result, I can max out my attack block chance much easier.

2. Since I plan to use crit to scale damage, the staff-related passives gives me good amount of crit chance and crit multi. This benefit does not exist in wand or shield.

3. Using a 2-handed staff gives me 6-link, which allows me to add additional utilities to orb of storms that can scale lightning conduit damage even further. In the next section I will explain this in further detail.

Orb of storms is our secondary skill to make lightning conduit viable, in addition, it is also an important utility skill that enables several important interactions for offense.

Applying 65% shock


Faster clearing speed


Increase our crit chance


Culling Strike


Permanent Onslaught

For damage scaling, first I used critical strike to scale the spell damage. With the staff-related passive node and the support gems (crit chance - crit damage - inspiration - awakened added lightning - awakened lightning pen), I was able to reach around 5M DPS.

Then with petrified blood, I am able to stay low-life, which can leverage Pain Atonement keystone for 30% more spell damage, This becomes around 7.4M DPS.

With the cluster setup (will explain in gear section), and some extra investment in cast speed, I was able to reach 10M DPS.

To increase the damage further, I used elevated spell crit chance mod (+2% base crit) to remove the need of critical strike chance, and added a new support gem - hypothermia. This brings my damage to 13M.

In the meantime, I started double curse (conductivity + assassin's mark), which further pushes the damage to 15M.

Acquring the +2 amulet, and maxing my skill gems quality and level brings the damage to around 18M.

Finally, after getting some additional crit multi in jewel, enchantment on weapon, boots, I reached around 20M DPS.

Another aspect of our offense is self-casting assassin's mark.

Assassin's mark can improve the build's damage significantly by granting us more crit chance and crit multi against the enemy. Most importantly, assassin's mark is permanent, so it is worth it to self-cast assassin's mark during boss fight.

You only need to cast it once at the beginning of the combat and get to enjoy the damage benefit until the boss phases or dies.

Charges are very cost-effective investment for all builds. Our build uses charges in the following way:

Power Charge: We have power charge on crit supported on orb of storms, given our high crit chance, we maintain maximum power charges all the time.

Endurance Charge: We have endurance charge gained every second when being hit, also an extra 8% chance to gain a random charge on kill. With +1 maximum endurance charge on the passive, we have in total of 4 endurance charges in combat. These endurance charges can help defend against physical hits, their extra resistances can help mitigate different forms of elemental penetrations (such as elemental weakness, penetration, scorch, exposure, etc).

Frenzy Charge: In this build I also specifically look for ways to gain frenzy charges, because the additional damage provided by frenzy charge is very significant. Because of the Green Nightmare jewel, we have 20% to gain frenzy charge on kill. Moreover, the 8% chance to gain random charge on kill can also help with frenzy charge generation. As a result of these, we get to enjoy full charges in mapping. In boss encounter, depending on the specific boss, the frenzy charge will become very intermittent. But we are not counting on frenzy charges for damage in boss fight anyway.

Mana sustain is another important topic. Our build managed to sustain mana by working in two directions together:

1. Reduce the mana cost of skill
This is done by using inspiration support (no need for the alternative quality), together with two rings crafting -7 mana cost prefix. In the end, lightning conduit skill costs 22 mana.

2. Increase the Mana Regen
Because of our choice of using petrified blood, we get to use lv20 clarity to sustain mana. Combining this with various mana regen increase from tree, we have around 123/s mana regen.

Considering our peak cast speed of 4.41/s (even with frenzy charge), it would only cost 97 mana/second. In that case, our mana regen is more than what we can use.

Mana Siphoner is an archnemesis modifier on monster that can drain mana if you are within their blue ring. It can be observed pretty frequently in maps or sometimes even in boss fight that has minions.


Mana Siphoner poses big threat to builds that have low unreserved mana such as our build, because our mana will be drained and can't use travel skills to escape. The situation becomes worse if we are also slowed down by other mechanics in the meantime. Therefore, as long as you are spending mana for skills, it's necessary for any low-mana build to counter this mechanism.

Our solution for Mana Siphoner is vaal clarity, and this is the only situation that we will ever use vaal clarity.

Vaal clarity makes all our skills cost no mana for 10 seconds. Since our build doesn't have many active skills, I usually put vaal clarity on one of the remote key binding (R or T). Whenever we see a blue aura appears on monster, simply pop up vaal clarity and carry on with the rest.

Molten shell is our guard skill that gives us additional armour and damage mitigation. It's an active skill, which means you will need to bind the skill to a key binding.

For those of you who doesn't like pressing buttons for molten shell, you can simply bind molten shell on your left mouse click. Then your left click will take care of moving and activating molten shell whenever it's ready.

While left-click binding offers convenience, its downside is the lack of control.
In fact, the timing of molten shell really matters, because a) the amount of damage mitigation depends on the current armour, therefore it's better to use molten shell after rumi's concoction. b) it's better to activate the molten shell when we anticipate a big incoming damage, to make sure we have those extra defense when we need it.

For people who prefer an optimized game play, I suggest putting molten shell on a keyboard binding, ideally close to the main skill binding so you can use it easily.

I personally switch between the two methods, in boss fight I prefer activating molten shell manually for more control. In mapping I would bind it on left-click for one less button pressed.

Whenever I need to deal with damage reflection (say doing uber-Atziri for challenge), I will replace shapes of winter with bastion of elements and clear that challenge for one time.

If you are target-farming specific damage reflection content, then you can replace hypothermia with empower or cruelty.

This is obviously not a clean solution, but it's still much better than switching gears.

Duskdawn is a perfect item for our build, EVERYTHING about Duskdawn is insanely useful to us. Here's how:

1. It meets our weapon choice as two-handed staff so we can leverage staff-related passives.
2. It grants 35% attack block chance, so we can max out attack block.
3. Up to 80% increased crit chance for spell, which we really need.
4. Elemental damage as extra chaos. Remember how our lightning damage can't apply shock and we need an additional damage source? Well this could be it!
5. 135% crit multi because we maxed out attack blocks, and dealt a non-crit recently. Will explain later.
6. up to 150% increased spell damage if crit recently. Will explain later.

Regarding 5 and 6, our build can meet both conditions at the same time. For 6, our lightning conduit's 97% crit chance can guarantee crit recently(4s) condition. For 5, we use orb of storms which has a crit chance of 83%. For a duration of 4 seconds, with our non-crit chance of 17% and cast rate of 4.16/s, on average our orb of storm deal 2.8 non-crit hits, which is well above the required threshold of 1. Therefore we can always meet both conditions.

The weapon is widely accessible. The way to acquire this weapon is through a vendor recipe: Shade of Solaris + Light of Lunaris + orb of fusing = Duskdawn. Both shade of Solaris and Light of Lunaris can drop anywhere.


Alternative end-game weapon

For body armour, we need a dex-ES based body armour for some additional evasion chance and ES pool. As for mods, there are 3 mods that are really important to us:
1. elevated spell crit chance (so we can replace crit chance support for more damage)
2. endurance charge when hit (for defense)
3. additional curse (for damage)

Other than that, if you have some extra currency to burn, you can get one useful veiled prefix (this can be very flexible).

Crafting Instruction

Without a doubt, Three Dragon is our helmet choice for its perma-freeze mechanic. For detail about perma-freeze, check out the mechanics section.

Regarding helmet enchantment, you can get lightning conduit damage, assassin's mark efficiency, or even determination/wrath reservation efficiency to save ourselves a lv4 enlighten.

For gloves, we need a dex or dex/int base with two implicits: freeze spread and lightning exposure, both are very easy to get. When you are choosing the base, make sure the attribute requirement isn't too high.

As for mod, we need spell suppression, chaos resistance, and a good random elemental resistance. For prefix, a T1/T2 life roll, and a crafted increased damage while leeching.

There's no requirement on glove enchant, you can find anything that works for you as long as it's spell-based. I simply fill glove enchantment when I was farming lab for the boots enchantment.

Crafting Instruction

For Boots, we need a dex / dex-int base with spell suppression, chaos resistance, crafted suffix, life, and movement speed.

For lab enchants, I recommend getting lightning damage, this will be useful in boss fight.

Crafting Instruction

For amulet, we need a str-dex amulet with +2 level, chaos res, and non-damaging ailment as well as some life.

For anointment, we will go with Inveterate to cap our spell suppression.

Crafting Instruction

For ring's base, we need one unset ring (for assassin's mark) and one Amethyst ring to cap our chao res.

As for mod, I need one of them to have fractured lightning damage life leech, the other one to have fractured conductivity, doesn't matter which one. In addition, I use rings to meet the dex and str requirement.

If the fractured mod with desired base type is hard to acquire, then you can get life leech from alternative sources such as from watcher's eye vitality mod or from doryani's lesson cluster notable. Worst case scenario, you can remove the increased duration support for assassin's mark. Then you no longer need unset ring base.

Crafting Instruction for Rings:

Burden of Truth is one of the core items of our build, and it is massively under-valued by community. It provides lots of Energy shield, damage splitting defense and most importantly, Supreme Decadence. Check out the mechanics section for details.

Cluster Jewel


The Green Nightmare


Impossible Escape


Watcher's Eye


Other jewels

For life flask, we need instant recovery on low life to work with Supreme Decadence and bleed immunity.

Quicksilver to increase our clearing speed, Jade to increase our evasion chance. We need T1 armour /T1 cast speed on those flasks. For prefix, you can either get gain charges when hit or chance to gain charges on crit.

Rumi's concoction to max our attack block and provide armour.

Bottled of faith to scale our crit damage, provide life regen, and reduce curse effect. When target-farming specific bosses, I would remove the enchantment on bottled of faith and use it manually. During farming I would simply craft use when full.

Although the gears listed so far can be used for all content without change, to make specific boss encounters much smoother, I made minor changes when target-farming the following specific bosses:

Uber Sirus


Uber Searing Exarch

Always on low-life: Because of Petrified blood, we always stay at half life, which qualifies the low-life condition. Plus, our life reservation is close to half too, so even if we use flask, the life will drop to half immediately due to the life cost of skills.

Enemy chilled with 40% effect: Explained in Offensive mechanics section.

Enemy shocked with 65% effect: Explained in Mechanics under Offensive - Orb of Storm utility section.

Enemy on consecrated ground:: This is related to our bottled faith, the consecrated ground has screen-wide radius so that both boss and us can easily stand on it.

Power charges: Explained in Mechanics under Offensive - Orb of Storm Utility section.

Endurance charges: Explained in Mechanics under Offensive - Charges Section.

Have Onslaught: Explained in Mechanics under Offensive - Orb of storms utility.

Leeching: Explained in Mechanics under Defensive - Petrified blood. This is mainly because of over-leech maintaining leeching status.

on consecrated ground: Similar to "Enemy on consecrated ground"

crit recently: Our high crit chance will guarantee this.

Dealt a non-crit recently: Explained in Gear-Weapon section.

Chilled an enemy recently: Explained in Gear-cluster jewel section.

Ignited an enemy recently: Explained in Gear-cluster jewel section.

Shocked an enemy recently: Explained in Gear-cluster jewel section.

Been hit recently: It combat it's almost a given that we will be hit by enemy (regardless of block or not, spell suppression or not)

Have convergence: This is the only thing that is conditional without control, for demonstration purpose I checked it. Unchecking it can still result in 15M DPS.