[PoE 3.25] SSF Svalinn Smite Occultist

The idea was to make a fun explody melee occultist build while not playing a meta skill. Main ideas:

• Svalinn carries avoidance, allowing for zero investment into evasion. This allows you to wear the new ES bases, giving you a huge ES pool, which synergises well with Corrupted Soul, ES Leech from triggered lightning bolt/tempest shield/shock nova, and ES regen from occultist ascendancy.
• Mitigation comes from the new flesh and stone and sigil of power.
• This defensive tech allows you to have 80/80 block, 7.5k raw EHP pool, and 35% all damage mitigation (not counting endurance charges on block), with ZERO INVESTMENT INTO EVASION, ARMOR, BLOCK NODES, OR EVEN ENERGY SHIELD NODES!!! This lets you take many more damage nodes on the tree!!!
• Smite aura allows you to add a lot of lightning damage, which allows your triggered tempest shield and shock nova to deal sufficient damage to auto clear white/blue packs in T16's (and sometimes even rares due to profane bloom) without you even needing to attack.
• Since all the damage in this build is lightning, you can abuse volatility support for giga damage and shocks (shocking T17 bosses for 50%, as you can see in the video)
• Choice of occultist ascendancy was mainly for the fun pops. But it also really does benefit the build: 1. Stun immune helps a lot for the hybrid life + ES EHP pool, 2. AOE helps a lot for smite, 3. Starting occultist allows you to have enough int to wear the new ES bases, 4. There are a lot of good lightning damage nodes around the occultist starting location.

https://poe.ninja/pob/629f8

0:00 T17 Fortress 2:15 Talking about build 8:10 Tempest Shield/Svalinn Auto Clear 33:21 T16 Minotaur

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