A few days ago I posted here asking if I should go Consecrated Path or Smite using One for Nothing Hollow Palm Technique. Last league I just did Smite not really knowing about Consecrated Path. This time I tried Consecrated Path and man it's amazing! I beat a new record for myself killing A10 Kitava with all passives & norm/crue/merc labs done in 3 hours 45 minutes.
Here is my final level 67 PoB:
https://pastebin.com/NL8yPdst
I made a few changes from TyTy and other's leveling build. I picked up a Skin of the Lords with avatar of fire keystone so I'd have 100% conversion on Consecrated Path. This boosted the dps tremendously as now all elemental damage nodes would buff it as well.
I picked up a brutal restraint that happened to have 5% increased dex on power and frenzy nodes on the tree and 75% total critical strike chance on other passives.
My final character is using a bottled faith so I decided to equip it as early as I could. It turns out it's highly synergistic with Consecrated Path. Any consecrated grounds you make while the flask is up will give you the bottled faith bonus - not just the consecrated ground bottled faith makes.
I rushed to socket One for Nothing as quickly as possible and used smite until level 28. I used increased AoE until I got 4 junk vast power/towering threat mediums at level 54 (then swapped at 67 for my good vast power/towering threats.) which then let me use concentrated effect effectively.
The build ended up with 290k in game tooltip DPS (non-shaper), 345k PoB dps (non-shaper), and it's capable of map bossing alched T5s, and clearing mobs only alched T10s (no bossing.) The aoe is insane even with concentrated effect. The teleport range of consedcrated path is amazing and really helps speed through the leveling process.
I'm on Softcore so I have no idea if this is hardcore viable. I did have a couple of deaths. I'll definitely level with consecrated path again! I have one or two more characters to level so I'm glad to have this set of leveling gear around.
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