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Today's Silly Build: MoM Indigon Heirophant

Hierophant

3.89K19.72K7.76M

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Hypnotic Eye JewelImpossible EscapeGlorious VanityWatcher's EyeThe Annihilating Light
Saintly ChainmailIndigonNexus GlovesCerulean RingCerulean RingAtziri's FoibleTwo-Toned Boots (Armour/Energy Shield)Stygian Vise

PoB: https://pastebin.com/3qXd3JCF

Theorycrafted this as a potential second or third build for this league. There are a collection of core concepts that I'm fusing together:

  1. Indigon with a lot of mana spent is a large damage increase, but hard to sustain.

  2. If I'm stacking mana for Indigon, it needs to also be doing something else to be valuable

  3. Eldritch Battery provides a lot of effective mana regen in the form of energy shield recharge.

  4. Arcane cloak spends mana, but does not cost mana, meaning it affects indigon in spite of Eldritch Battery.

  5. If I'm relying on Eldritch Battery for mana costs, I need to not have it take damage.

So, let's get fusing. The goal is an Arcane Cloak with a combined cooldown and duration of 4 seconds to regularly refresh indigon's % increased spell damage. Stacked mana plus Mind Over Matter gives us a large pool of hit points. Heirophant lets us get that mana as extra energy shield, and with 50% less cost of skills helps deal with the massive cost increase from Indigon. Then, take Divine Flesh so that your energy shield never takes damage, so its recharge is always in effect. And, Divine Flesh helps mitigate elemental damage by converting it to chaos, so why not use Annihilating light? A few sources of mana recovery on skill use should endure that we're at max mana every time we want to use Arcane Cloak for max damage. And, since Arcane Cloak spends mana through Eldritch Battery, we can use sigil of power for extra added lightning damage.

Finally, we're mana stacking, so we may as well use Lightning Conduit to make use of the increased mana applies to shock effect. Conveniently, Lightning Conduit and Storm Brand have the same cast speed / activation frequency, which should allow us to cast a brand and then spam cast conduit. And if you don't want to clear with stormbrand (like me), I have it in a 5l setup in the staff that you can add whatever clearing skill you want, like arc.

Notes: I have 65% shock in the PoB even though I technically don't reach that with current setup. I figure a bit better gear and it's reasonably achievable, so I left it. Defenses other than an 8k health pool aren't great, but may be enough. Recovery in scary situations is a bit flask reliant, but with indigon's health from mana flasks and MoM plus leech I expect it will be okay. A rare amulet with lightning damage leeched as life plus other mods may be more useful than Atziri's Foible, allowing you to take the charge ascendency node instead of leech, but I was too lazy to investigate.

Edit: as pointed out in a comment, I was mistaken about energy shield recharge: any damage to the character will stop recharge, not just damage to energy shield. Enough faster start of energy shield recharge may make it still usable, but that hurts the build significantly.

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Life

3893

Mana

6198

Energy Shield

3615

DPS

8M

Effective Hit Pool

19.72K

Chaos Res

80

Fire Res

-10.85

Cold Res

-15.05

Lightning Res

-5.6

Armour

952

Evasion

16

Block

18 | 0

Crit Chance

6%

Crit Multi

100%

Rage

0

Strength

98

Intelligence

457

Dexterity

44

Ward

0

Item Quantity

0%

Item Rarity

0%

Movement Speed

-5%

Divine Guidance
Divine Guidance
Sanctuary of Thought
Sanctuary of Thought
Arcane Blessing
Arcane Blessing
Illuminated Devotion
Illuminated Devotion
Mind Over Matter
Mind Over Matter
Zealot's Oath
Zealot's Oath
Elemental Overload
Elemental Overload
Eldritch Battery
Eldritch Battery
Arcane Capacitor
Arcane Capacitor
Arcane Focus
Arcane Focus
Arcane Will
Arcane Will
Arcanist's Dominion
Arcanist's Dominion
Ash, Frost and Storm
Ash, Frost and Storm
Asylum
Asylum
Crackling Speed
Crackling Speed
Cruel Preparation
Cruel Preparation
Deep Thoughts
Deep Thoughts
Deep Wisdom
Deep Wisdom
Discipline and Training
Discipline and Training
Dreamer
Dreamer
Essence Extraction
Essence Extraction
Essence Infusion
Essence Infusion
Foresight
Foresight
Forethought
Forethought
Heart and Soul
Heart and Soul
Heart of Thunder
Heart of Thunder
Insightfulness
Insightfulness
Lightning Walker
Lightning Walker
Mental Rapidity
Mental Rapidity
Precision
Precision
Prodigal Perfection
Prodigal Perfection
Purity of Flesh
Purity of Flesh
Quick Recovery
Quick Recovery
Retribution
Retribution
Righteous Decree
Righteous Decree
Sanctity
Sanctity
Static Blows
Static Blows
Utmost Intellect
Utmost Intellect
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