[3.9] Purifying Flame Sabo | 7kEHP | 2mln Shaper DPS | All content | League starter

Hello!
I would like to share with you my Sabo Purifying Flame Miner.
It is great league starter - with decent rare items you can get ~1.5-2mln+ shaper DPS. With ~7k eHP (MoM), 75% Dodge, 65+% Evade with basic/SSF gear and additional defensive layers available if you don’t play SSF.

3.9 Metamorph League
New PoB added. No big nerfs or buffs to the build in this patch. New shield Mistwall should be nice at the beginning of the league if it is not very expensive.
Some bosses now take reduced damage for a short period immediately after becoming targetable - this is QOL nerf to mines overall, but shouldn't be a big problem. Buff to Wand spell damage.

POB: There are three 'Item sets' and 'Trees' versions for Start League(SSF), Mid Game and Late Game.
I will probably add End Game version after league starts and we know more about new influence items.


Why you might be interested in this build?

Purifying Flame - self heal, huge AOE, fast clearing, no targeting, strong single target DPS.

Very tanky Sabo - 7k eHP, 75% attack and spell dodge, High evasion, Blind, high life recovery etc.
Even with SSF gear this build is very tanky - non-SSF version is even crazier.

The Agnostic + Indigon + Enduring mana flask [NOT SSF] - Militant Faith jewel is very cheap (~15c last league), Indigon is not very popular helmet so it should be affordable (1c last league). Together they give you an amazing defense boost.

Elusive buff on Saboteur (optional) - thanks to Whirling Blades + Nightblade (and quite high crit chance) you get Elusive often when you speed through maps. Whirling Blades are surprisingly good movement spell for Sabo and works very well with Smoke Mine. It was supposed to be just an short experiment, but I fell in love with this mechanic. It is 100% optional - you can just go with Shield Charge or Flame Dash (you lose Elusive tho), but i would recommend trying it.

All content | League starter:
This was my league starter in Blight and I was super happy with it.
It can do Shaper, Uber Elder, all map mods and all map tiers with budget rare gear. I did go to 350 delve depth with zero RIPs - probably could push much further but I have limited time for playing. Mines overall are great against bosses, so it should be fantastic starter for metamorph league. New unique shield Mistwall will be a nice buff too.

The Agnostic + Indigon + Enduring mana flask mechanics:

Budget Gear/SSF/League start/HC viable?:


Gems:


Leveling: Below in PoB you can find examples of tree leveling from lvl 1 to lvl 90.
Alot depends on gear you find, but if you follow this you should be fine.


To do:

You should post up a video when you get a chance. I was considering respec'ing my 91 sabo to a different mine setup for kicks later on. It'll probably be a purifying flames version (life, similar to yours).

Though check out BalorMage's ES version, he's pushing Delve 600 with it pretty easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02CH60dsTS8

T16 Lair of the Hydra


T15 Dark Forest [Breach, Blight and Boss]


Because of my potato-PC i have trouble recording vids - my game slows down alot, so these do not fully reflect how fast you can go with this build.
This weekend I will try to play with the settings, maybe it will help.

Some great use of mechanics and a cool build. Gave me some new ideas to try.
Thanks for posting!

The overall basis with this mine is pretty versatile.
For defensives can go ES. Can go life+leech with soul tether and machina mitts for that Vaal Pact level HP restore. Can try life mana+mom etc with more than one essence worm. For offensive I've seen two versions, one with a 6L Tremor Rod and Xoph's Blood for full fire convert, and the other being with a 6L Infernal Mantle and some Gain Ele/Non Chaos to Chaos wands+elder amulet for min-max'ing dps.

The overall spell itself is really great due to the high multiplier, good crit base, large aoe, high base damage, and can take advantage of converting phys to ele to chaos shenanigans for some strong dps.

Still not sure what to try myself but at least there's plenty of options.

I have tried a similar build to great success.

However I went bow+quiver to fully convert to fire.

Quiver: signal fire, 50% convert and 40% gain

Bow: multimod bow
+1 all skills
+2 supp gems
Mine dmg

Multi craft
Crit multi
Mine throw speed

2 x circle of anguish with 90%+ hoash buff effect (practically triples your gain as fire)

Wear either kaoms heart or carcass jack for more aoe.

And cranking out the dmg. I just cant stand the clunkyness of throwing mines using minefield, it locks up my character and got me killed several times.

The dmg is there though.

I'm running a squishy work in progress glass canon variant of it so far. Mainly using stuff to do phys to other ele conversion and non chaos/ele to chaos conversion stuff including using a 6L Infernal Mantle (they're dirt cheap, can get uncorrupted 6L of those for 30c).

Haven't pushed it past T11 yet, but the dps is pretty nuts so far. A lot more work and refinement to do, but it does have some great potential.

Just for shits and giggles I stole natherox's PoB gear, slightly altered his Divine Ire Tree and made a completely stupidly expensive total DPS build variant. I could never afford it myself, so I can't speak for it's effectiveness, but the average hit IS over 9 million Boss DPS with everything down (over 7 million without Shock allocated).

There are probably many 100+ exalt builds out there that are better than this one... but as I said - shits and giggles. Have a look for lols if you want. PoB: https://pastebin.com/xgeHWEmW

Personally I run a very similar build to the OP. Except no Militant Faith. I use Skitterbots, HoA with two Circle of Anguish rings, MoM, Indigon - about 150 chaos worth of gear all in all. Nothing special. It is actually pretty tanky as long as you keep your distance from Bosses and don't get one shot. T16 is no worries, haven't done Shaper or Uber Elder yet, but knowing the fights already I can tell you they won't be an issue damage wise, just have to dodge their major attacks. The only consideration is the low life due to Indigon and the rings having no HP. MoM helps and with an Enduring Eternal Mana Flask I have never had any mana problems.

Thanks again to the OP. Hope everyone is having fun with the build.

I thought I was original with my build, but I guess you thought of it first.

Here's my Eternity Shroud CI build, pumping out 1.5 mil Shaper DPS per hit

https://pastebin.com/k33n5g0M

I did small update in guide pre patch notes (and added new PoB) and will try to do more updates before league starts. Ty for all comments!

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Chucacobra wrote:

Some great use of mechanics and a cool build. Gave me some new ideas to try.
Thanks for posting!

Ty!

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reciprocate wrote:

The overall basis with this mine is pretty versatile.
For defensives can go ES. Can go life+leech with soul tether and machina mitts for that Vaal Pact level HP restore. Can try life mana+mom etc with more than one essence worm. For offensive I've seen two versions, one with a 6L Tremor Rod and Xoph's Blood for full fire convert, and the other being with a 6L Infernal Mantle and some Gain Ele/Non Chaos to Chaos wands+elder amulet for min-max'ing dps.

The overall spell itself is really great due to the high multiplier, good crit base, large aoe, high base damage, and can take advantage of converting phys to ele to chaos shenanigans for some strong dps.

Still not sure what to try myself but at least there's plenty of options.

For sure! There is many ways you can go about doing Sabo.
Alot of people goes ES. I prefer MoM because of dodge and evasion, but ES version can have waaay more buffs and has sick DMG. Maybe i will add ES version later to my PoB.

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reciprocate wrote:

I'm running a squishy work in progress glass canon variant of it so far. Mainly using stuff to do phys to other ele conversion and non chaos/ele to chaos conversion stuff including using a 6L Infernal Mantle (they're dirt cheap, can get uncorrupted 6L of those for 30c).

Haven't pushed it past T11 yet, but the dps is pretty nuts so far. A lot more work and refinement to do, but it does have some great potential.

Glass canon variant is for sure a option, I really don't like dying thats why I tried to make this build as tanky as possible.

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dejuvenate wrote:

I have tried a similar build to great success.

However I went bow+quiver to fully convert to fire.

Quiver: signal fire, 50% convert and 40% gain

Bow: multimod bow
+1 all skills
+2 supp gems
Mine dmg

Multi craft
Crit multi
Mine throw speed

2 x circle of anguish with 90%+ hoash buff effect (practically triples your gain as fire)

Wear either kaoms heart or carcass jack for more aoe.

And cranking out the dmg. I just cant stand the clunkyness of throwing mines using minefield, it locks up my character and got me killed several times.

The dmg is there though.

Yeah, i was thinking about going multimod bow or staff in next league but than i saw Mistwall and as defense junkie i decided to stay with shield ;P

100% agree with your comment about minefield. For maping I use Swift Assembly, minefield for hard bosses like Uber Elder.

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Chucacobra wrote:

Just for shits and giggles I stole natherox's PoB gear, slightly altered his Divine Ire Tree and made a completely stupidly expensive total DPS build variant. I could never afford it myself, so I can't speak for it's effectiveness, but the average hit IS over 9 million Boss DPS with everything down (over 7 million without Shock allocated).

There are probably many 100+ exalt builds out there that are better than this one... but as I said - shits and giggles. Have a look for lols if you want. PoB: https://pastebin.com/xgeHWEmW

Personally I run a very similar build to the OP. Except no Militant Faith. I use Skitterbots, HoA with two Circle of Anguish rings, MoM, Indigon - about 150 chaos worth of gear all in all. Nothing special. It is actually pretty tanky as long as you keep your distance from Bosses and don't get one shot. T16 is no worries, haven't done Shaper or Uber Elder yet, but knowing the fights already I can tell you they won't be an issue damage wise, just have to dodge their major attacks. The only consideration is the low life due to Indigon and the rings having no HP. MoM helps and with an Enduring Eternal Mana Flask I have never had any mana problems.

Thanks again to the OP. Hope everyone is having fun with the build.

Thanks for comment and PoB!

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HwtChirino wrote:

I thought I was original with my build, but I guess you thought of it first.

Here's my Eternity Shroud CI build, pumping out 1.5 mil Shaper DPS per hit

https://pastebin.com/k33n5g0M

Well, this is very diffrent build, so all credits to you! :)
Looks very nice, probably too expensive for me, especially now when shaper gear will be harder to find, but thx for posting PoB!