[R.I.P.] life Mjolner done right by Rico - Juggernaut version - R.I.P. thx to "balancing" policy

I facerolled elder on red maps for 2 months before I gave up and stopped popping him b/c I never got him on a 15, ill be at 14/15 fragments for all of time unless they come to their senses and change that garbage.

No mechanics needed, with the proper life/regen you can just sit in the middle and facetank him, I never even moved out of the goo. You want to cyclone around during the portal phase though to keep shaper alive so you can hide in his bubble at the end to avoid that cheap 1 shot when the elder dies.

Ive never been mechanically gifted, im an old man and all these games nowadays build around 17 yr old asian kids with lightning reflexes and mathmatics degrees from Stanford so when I choose a build I look for something that is capable of facetanking with low button management.

This build easily does that and can be made more or less complex depending on your comfort. Im playing a similar build atm which literally has permanent immortal call and is immune to everything outside of curses.

Doing this build right now, but instead of Purities I am running Blasphemy - Enfeeble and Elemental Weakness, and Vitality with the % Damage leeched as Life Watchers Eye.

I also took Unstoppable instead of Undeniable, for faster map clears. Put Addition Accuracy in my main links to compensate, if I ever get a CDR belt I may switch as I don't think I can hit the required APS without Undeniable.
Due to not using purities I also use rare gloves to cap resistances.

Love the build, safe as hell and fast. The first build I have ever played that I don't have any random bullshit deaths every few hours of play time.

My gear:

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Discharge damage enchants are sitting at 2ex + in BSC, but curse effectiveness ones are 10c, so thats what I am using for now. Im saving Offerings and once I have 40+ will attempt to farm a 40% Discharge Enchant.

Also, I use 3x Grand Spectrum, they are only 3c in BSC! Great budget option for jewels.

Another tip, lvl 21 Dicharge is also very cheap in BSC (about 8c for mine), but no quality. HOWEVER, due to diminishing returns on AOE, you won't even notice the 10% loss from not having 20% quality Discharge, but you WILL notice the damage going from gem level 20 to 21.

I have played almost all Mjolner variants so far, and in BSC I am playing Ascendant (Witch+Jugg).

I am dual wielding Mjolners this time, as I really like to have Arc for dealing with stranglers during map clear. Also, Witch has minimum 10% more shock damage from ascendancy which is further increased by icreased effectivness if I am not wrong, and Arc is great for shocking with 20/20 quality.
But I might say that not having to worry about Ele Reflect is the main reason why I choose this route. Immune to reflect, shock, ignite, poison, chills and stuns - sounds really good.

Also, I am using 10% Phys as Lightning Watchers Eye but I am also immune to Shock from it. I prefer this variant as it makes life much easier on any Lightning based boss or guardian.

I decided to try new Fenumus Weave gloves instead of Repentance few days ago, and I am loving them so far.
I think 50% bonus damage is close to Repentance bonus, but they also offer some defences.
I was thinking to run all 3 Purities with Enlighten, but now because of Spider Aspect I am using purity of Fire and Lightning, and just switch to Cold on Elder fights instead of Fire (need to change ring also).

Mjolner is still great and safe to play, if only they reduce penalty a bit as top tier damage is still bit underwhelming. (I've got spoiled playing Molten Strike Inquisitor last league)

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Rich85 wrote:

I also took Unstoppable instead of Undeniable, for faster map clears. Put Addition Accuracy in my main links to compensate, if I ever get a CDR belt I may switch as I don't think I can hit the required APS without Undeniable.

Am I missing something amazing from unyielding? I considered it meh and took unstoppable from the start, but now I read you take unyielding over undeniable and I am scratching my head. Is it end charge source, damage or stun that make it so undroppable?

Amazing build, thanks for the guide!

Any recommendations on must have skill points beyond level 93? Is there a recommended lvl 100 tree out there?

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RicoKGB wrote:

Yes I was testing recovery Watchers Eye and I wasnt impressed. It only affected base life recovery (recovey added from golem / endu charges / vitality itself wasnt affected by it). So it was kinda "meh" as I recieved like only +60 flat life regen with it. Its either meant to work that way or it is possibly bugged as PoB shows much greater gains than in-game "reality".

Watcher's eye recovery mod acts a multiplier on top of your effective leech cap / recovery cap. It will not show in-game at all. The jewel is very broken in the way that it effectively adds around 1k life recovery or life leech cap depending on the build / hp pool.

For instance a classic RF jug life version (like everyone in HC is playing) get's about 1k added to life recovery per sec. On my ascendant slayer my effective leech cap went from 3k to 4k.

With a recovery belt and soul of Arakaali (50 % recovery after DOT dmg stopped) the leech/regen goes to absurd levels, i.e. old vaal pact lvls.

It truly is one of the strongest jewels out there.

Hey Guys! i respecced my rf jugg to this last night and it feels great thanks for the fun build!

could someone help me how to push needed aps for cyclone?

https://pastebin.com/y8ArAuvE

i know, rares and jewels sucks and i need to upgrade those later on the weekend. but is there anything else im missing?

i have about 18ex still laying around so i wanna make most out of this build.

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Madzak wrote:

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RicoKGB wrote:

Yes I was testing recovery Watchers Eye and I wasnt impressed. It only affected base life recovery (recovey added from golem / endu charges / vitality itself wasnt affected by it). So it was kinda "meh" as I recieved like only +60 flat life regen with it. Its either meant to work that way or it is possibly bugged as PoB shows much greater gains than in-game "reality".

Watcher's eye recovery mod acts a multiplier on top of your effective leech cap / recovery cap. It will not show in-game at all. The jewel is very broken in the way that it effectively adds around 1k life recovery or life leech cap depending on the build / hp pool.

For instance a classic RF jug life version (like everyone in HC is playing) get's about 1k added to life recovery per sec. On my ascendant slayer my effective leech cap went from 3k to 4k.

With a recovery belt and soul of Arakaali (50 % recovery after DOT dmg stopped) the leech/regen goes to absurd levels, i.e. old vaal pact lvls.

It truly is one of the strongest jewels out there.

Interesting. It didnt work for me this way. I would definitely feel the +1k life regen and I did not. Instead I even couldnt hold RF degen in place. I had 650 life regen without it and without vitality.

https://imgur.com/a/UrNZ7

If you only have 600ish life regen it won't mean all that to you, but as you see, I enabled vitality watcher's eye jewel and vitality aura and you get 900 ish regen.

Bought
What if replace PoI with PoE, worth it?