[3.28] Day 2-3 Update -- Ground Slam of Earthshaking Slayer w/ Tainted Pact (+Upcoming Plans)

Shopping List **Buy upgrades as you can afford them** **Chaos recipe after act 9 helps to hedge bad drop luck** ---Maps--- 1. (1-5c) 400 pDPS axe with 5L somewhere 2. (1+1+3c) Great Old One's Tentacles + Belt of the Deceiver + Carnage Heart 3. (2c) Quick resistance capping (helm / boots / 1 ring preferred) 4. (~10c) 650+ pDPS axe with 5L somewhere 5. (20c) Ground Slam of Earthshaking (price depends on meta, Sunder works perfectly fine if delaying is necessary) 6. (1+1+25c) Tainted Pact + Icefang Orbit + The Golden Rule + Unwavering Stance on tree + make sure helmet's armour is highest stat (Golden Rule price usually plummets as more people drop them) 7. Swap to Soul of Lunaris and upgrade when possible 8. (~3c) Anoint Harvester of Foes 9. (1+1+1+1+1c + a few alts) Writhing Jar + Lion's Heart + max roll Doedre's Elixir + rage tincture with AS + Quicksilver, may want to splurge on quicksilver + lion's roar automation 10. (15c+ ~10c) Kaom's Heart (don't forget quality!) + cap resistances (should be easy with Purity of Elements + Alira bandit) + high accuracy from helm or ring + precision 11. Voidstone carries if you need them ---This is where we are now. Can easily farm T16 eldritch altars with this. Next is journey to crit--- 1. (35c) Quality up Ground Slam (can do lab for quality craft) 2. (50-200c) Craft 5L fractured fleshripper (AS or crit, screaming+ contempt essence until %phys or opposite suffix, craft remaining mod) - Might be easier with new Betrayal fractured modifiers 3. (300c) 6L weapon (+Fortify) 4. (Regrets + 2x Scour Act vendor + gold respec) Swap tree to crit 5. Add lvl1 lifetap to expensive skills (mana res is lower), maybe splurge on 20% quality 6. (~25c) Mana Reservation Efficiency implicit on helmet + -mana craft on ring 7. (5c) 2-mod 8 passive cluster (Feed The Fury + 1, we can fix later) 8. (5c) Anoint Hatchet Master 9. (~10c) Rosethorn tincture + attack speed suffix craft (ilvl 85 is GOAT, 84 is fine) 10. (40c) Lethal Pride (check cheap listings for anything useable) ---QoL--- 1. (30c) Corrupted Blood jewel with 1-2 useable mods (poison duration only 2s) 2. (25c-150c) More Quality: Ground Slam > Intimidating Cry > Seismic Cry > Pulverize > Fist of War > Pride 3. (~75c) Buy ilvl85 Tincture, quality, craft T2+ AS and %inc effect 4. (~50c) Craft/Buy Cluster with Feed the Fury + 2 5. (?) Get Vuln on Hit via glove implicit or ring + Add Blood and Sand + Unset Ring for gem space + Points in tree (can run 0 mana since everything on lifetap) 6. (?) Purity of Elements Watcher's Eye can help with chaos resistance 7. (?) Echoes of Creation 8. (?) Swap Fortify gem for Inc Crit Damage + fortify cluster on tree as you level up 8. Probably start thinking about another build