[3.28 - Work in progress] Vaal Cold Snap Lifestacker (Chaos bloodline)

■ Early replica allelopathy

■ foulborn rathpith globe is broken

­■ Scaling gem levels

■ cold resistance scaling

■ Righteous fire

■ Curses and exposure

■ High health pool:
As a life stacker, we scale between 10 and 20 thousand life, far more than the average build!
Petrified blood looks like it halves our HP pool, but since 40% of the damage is taken over time and easily mitigated through regeneration, it is only a 9% EHP drop.

■ High regeneration:
With mechanics such as Consecrated ground, Brink of death and Warrior's blood, Stone golem and a regeneration crafted flask, we regenerate around 15% life per second, scaling well with our high health pool.

■ 90% Maximum elemental resistances:
After reaching 6 corrupted items, our ascendancy Everlasting sacrifice grants us 5% maximum resistances. With our flasks giving us an additional 5% (9% with mageblood), Nomadic teachings from the tree, and maybe a little more from gear implicits, we reach 90% maximum elemental resistances.

■ 80% Chaos resistance:
Because we spam the craft "+15% to cold and chaos resistance" to scale the DoT multi cold mastery, this build has a heafty amount of natural chaos resistance. Rounded up with 17% from chaos golem, and (with heavy investment) double foulborn Red dream and Progenesis, coupled with our high health pool, this build is very resilient against chaos damage.

■ 7 Endurance charges:
With 3 baseline and 2 from the tree, and an additionnal 2 from ring implicits at high investment, this build reaches up to 28% physical and elemental damage reduction.
We generate endurance charges using Enduring composure.

■ Immortal call:
While generally not considered a reliable defensive layer, we scale immortal call enough for it to be really good. This gem is usually weak combined with Cast when damage taken, because when it triggers your character is already almost dead. Due to our very high health pool (damage is counted before petrified blood), this is not the case for this build. And because of our investment in consistent endurance charges, Immortal call grants us a staggering:
- 34% less elemental damage taken
- 84% less physical damage taken
With around 50% uptime, biased in our favour by the way it triggers on damage spikes.

■ 80/75% block chance:
The cherry on top: we ignore three quarters of all incoming damage with block.
With the three clusters on the tree Wall of steel, Aggressive bastion and As the mountain, and maybe a few Valako tattoos or jewel mods, we reach 80% attack block.
Rathpith globe's innate 15%, Tempest shield's 27% and 16% from the block mastery, we only need a little help from cluster jewels to reach 75% spell block too.

■ Pseudo ailment immunity:
Early game setups use Purity of elements for the quality of life and free damage from the cold mastery.
Later on, this build is still effectively immune to all elemental ailments:
- Freeze and chill : Frigid wake from forbidden jewels grants freeze and chill immunity.
- Shock : Tempest shield makes us completely immune to shock.
- Ignite : Our 90% fore resistance, elemental damage reduction and great regeneration allows us to shrug off any ignites curently in the game.
- Brittle : Our pantheon choice Solaris grants us immunity to critical strikes if we've been crit recently. Sicne our other defences are solid, a single crit won't kill us, and then we're immune.
- Sap : Doesn't matter, we deal enough damage.
- Scorch : We scale resistances, a little less changes almost nothing. Even if fire and lightning resistances drop below 90%, our other elemental mitigation mechanics are strong enough to keep us alive the few seconds this lasts.

Non elemental ailments are not mitigated as well however. Fortunately, both bleed and poison have a pantheon to take care of them. While poison is generally shrugged off by our high chaos res and regen, Bleed may ocasionally be a problem. Switching to the Soul of ralakesh pantheon even for general mapping is a viable option.