The Tankiest Grandmaster in Path of Exile! Meet GGNoobs

PoB: https://pastebin.com/uFMcYXny Detailed forum post: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3225632 Thanks to Empyrian for the opportunity to create this https://www.twitch.tv/empyriangaming

The ingame character name GGNoobs was passed back to it's original owner, you can contact me on @GrandMarkusz for duel requests, from any league, not just standard!

Music: Path of Exile OST: Crusader, Maven, Angels and Demons mystery box

The Forbidden Trove discord: http://discord.gg/tftrove

Thanks for everyone who contributed to the project: Yanick, Empy, Bazukatank, Niz, Kurama, Kurosaki, Hobbit, Vince, Anathiel, Sijama, Jix, Zzang, Johnsonman, Lapiz, Regisle and other members of the PvP community.

We created the tankiest Grandmaster ever! It has 36K ES, very high block, regen, and recoups up to a 158% of elemental damage taken as energy shield. Basically it is as unkillable as currently possible. All the other tanky grandmasters are relying on mechanics that are easy to cheese, block and regen can be almost completely bypassed, so they can be killed by any build by swapping two gems. Recoup is a mechanic that recovers a percentage of damage taken over 4 seconds, and it is not considered regen, so frost bomb cannot reduce it. Recoup for ES only exists on the Graven belt. Using 5 minimum and 9 maximum power charges, and 47% increased ES recovery rate, the build recovers more ES than the elemental damage it takes. Submitting a character into the Hall of Grandmasters is only possible by using a token that came with the Grandmaster supporter pack, which cannot be purchased any more. For our submission we used the token of a generous community member Yanick. The character was geared in Standard league, using the best legacy ES gear, funded by Empyrian and the community. We spent around 12 mirrors crafting, buying, and mirroring items from The Forbidden Trove and MaiCedere. At the time of making this character, the Grandmasters cannot use Flasks, Pantheons and Cluster jewels, but GGG support clarified they intend to fix the latter two sometime in the future. The hall of Grandmasters map uses PvP damage scaling, which in short means player damage gets reduced by a logarithmic formula from millions and billions into thousands, appropriate versus other players. The block chance reduction support gem stacks a debuff, which gradually reduces block, but it is still worth to use in this build, because while the recoup recovery ramps up, the block can fill the lack of recovery in the first few seconds, and block makes it mandatory to use that counter gem, making the enemy lose a precious support gem. The build stacks a good amount of regen to withstand pure DoT builds. It has 90% crit reduction, a 130% curse reduction, overcapped resistances, full elemental ailment immunity, and recovers 5% ES on block, which triggers on anything, if you have secondary or triggered utility spells, all of those will make the grandmaster recover ES. Against physical damage it has endurance charges, Immortal call, and twenty percent of physical damage is taken as elemental. Taking damage triggers Enfeeble, Frost Wall to stop enemy projectiles, two spells which place consecrated ground, and two movement spells to move out of potential damage. The grandmaster can deal decent damage on its own with Tempest Shield and Blazing Salvo, so it's not trivial to beat it with a glasscannon, or standing still. The absorption charges granted by the belt cannot be stolen by the Highwayman or claw passives. It usually takes a while for GGG to add new submissions to the live map, so if you want to see the build yourself in action, you can message me on GrandMarkusz for a duel. Once it's added to the map, you may record and send your experiences to me, and I will make a compilation, just upload them to youtube and link as a comment. Before knowing the limitations of grandmasters our original plan for the submission was a lightning strike juggernaut, similar to Putrefy, but much much tankier, so when GGG fixes cluster jewels and pantheons in the future, we may be looking for another submission token.