Ethical Crit Impending Doom + Hexblast Occultist: The 6699 Build

DPS: 3.84M
Effective HP: 34.17K
Life: 4.95K
Level: 98
Min budget

Overview

Ethical Crit Impending Doom + Hexblast Occultist: The 6699 Build is a Path of Exile Occultist build by HolesHaveFeelingsToo, made for the Sanctum league (3.20). It is centered on Temporal Chains and plays as a dexterity, spell, area, duration archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 3.84M DPS with 34.17K effective HP, 4.95K life, 1.33K energy shield. Suited for: Mapping. Key uniques include Cane of Kulemak, Vixen's Entrapment, Bottled Faith, The Devouring Diadem, Maloney's Mechanism.

HolesHaveFeelingsToo's Notes

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6 power charges, 6 curses, 99% reduced impending doom curse duration

The impending doom rework this league is extremely fun, but most variants of the build are using curse-overwriting with Vixen's Entrapment and Cursed Ground / Spell Cascade for application. Impending doom is supposed to be triggered on curse expiration, but it also works on curse overwrite. This feels... unintended to me so I wanted to make an "ethical" version of the build.

Long story short, I use a very specific Cane of Kulemak and the "Window of Opportunity" passive tree wheel to get 99% reduced duration of my Anomalous Impending Doom curse. Using Anathema, 6 power charges, and Vixen's Entrapment, I can apply 6 curses more frequently than every 0.2 seconds. Since I have so many curses on the enemy, I can then use a Hexblast spell totem setup in my second 6-link for additional damage.

Since I didn't have to use Dialla's for gem quality, it opened up the chest piece for a Loreweave - Eternal Damnation combination. This let me get away without using spell suppression which was hard since I needed a bunch of uniques and was in the top left of the skill tree.

Mana problems were solved through cost reductions from the Tireless wheel, a Skittering Runes annoint, and using Diadem for EB. (Diadem is definitely getting nerfed)

I was able to assemble this in SSF and it actually worked out real well. >10M Guardian DPS, reasonably tanky, and fun as hell to map with due to the Occultist explosions. Gearing was straightforward; no T1/T0 uniques needed. The only things that might be trouble in SSF are getting an Anathema and the right rolls on the Cane.

Here's a PoB link: https://pastebin.com/Q7hbYAsH (Note, PoB doesn't calculate Doomblast damage correctly; to get the real DPS in this variant of the build, multiply the curse cast rate by the average hit damage provided the Doomblast cooldown is low enough)

Also, I wrote up a more complete build guide on the forums which goes over mechanics, gear, and links. Check it out if you're interested. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3354451