[3.19] Malachai’s Loop Self-shock Lightning Conduit Raider

TL;DR Unique interaction: Ralakesh’s Impatience + Malachai’s Loop + Shock Prolif can be INFINITELY CONSUMED by Lightning Conduit.

PoB: https://pastebin.com/54zUwvUX

Explanation video: https://youtu.be/AKbeKLiIi4k

Forum post for more explanation in text: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3304834

Features:

• Minimal micromanagement – auto-flasks, one button, consistent DPS output

• Smooth clear, 8M DPS single target

• Decent survivability: 95% evasion, 100% suppression, 5k ES, 30%+ physical hits taken as elemental, permanent Ruby, Topaz and Sapphire flasks

• Recommended budget: 10 Div (Vessel of Vinktar price highly volatile)

• Orb-walking melee-ish playstyle

Noteworthy interactions (Neato style):

1. We use Ralakesh’s Impatience and Malachai’s Loop to inflict shock on ourselves whenever we stand still (i.e. start casting Lightning Conduit).

2. We proliferate the shock on self with Vessel of Vinktar (rare proliferation variant), while making ourselves Unaffected by Shock via Replica Winterheart (or Inpulsa’s Broken Heart), which does not affect the proliferated shock on enemies (so “increased Shock effect on you” mirrored downside sadly doesn’t work).

3. While most regular shocks (such as the one from Vessel of Vinktar) are removed from enemies once expended by Lightning Conduit, proliferated self-shock seems to be constantly re-applied, so each self-shock can sustain a baseline of 2 seconds of unlimited Lightning Conduit casts on all nearby enemies, making it an incredibly efficient skill. (Possibly an oversight)

4. (Negative interaction) Ailment avoidance (e.g. from Avatar of the Veil ascendancy) will make us unable to self-shock from the shield, so some orb-walking is necessary, and some Ailment Duration scaling is good QoL as the base duration is only 2 seconds.

5. Inner Conviction Keystone from Militant Faith is a great damage multiplier that does not affect Minimum Frenzy Charges, and we benefit from the +2 Maximum Power Charges from the shield. All benefits from charges are “snapshot” when we stand still for a brief moment to cast the spell, making it efficient to stack bonuses from Power Charges (helmet implicit, passive tree top, good Malachai’s Loop).

6. Forbidden Flesh/Flame from Nature’s Boon and some flask investment to provide permanent Vinktar uptime, while also allowing us to use Coruscating Elixir to reach Low-Life for Pain Attunement, and Taste of Hate for physical damage mitigation. Conveniently they give good elemental damage mitigation.

7. Impossible Escape around Arrow Dancing gives access to Flask cluster, which is more efficient than medium cluster jewel for flasks.

8. Dread Banner and flat Evasion chance from Grace Watcher’s Eye is great for evasion builds that generally have diminishing return with Evasion investment. We can reach 95% evasion cap with just Raider Ascendancy and 25k Evasion Rating.