3.27 Phrecia - (permanent) Vaal Arctic Armour - dreams of immortality - highly detailed pob

#Major new additions that didnt exist in last Phrecia league and are enabling - Chaos Bloodline - Runegraft of the Soulwick #Tech - Vaal Arctic armour + high block or dodge / evasion (sorts of 100% damage avoidance) - Can take 3 hits with 90% dmg reduction. With enough damage avoid this should be pretty high uptime no matter the content. - Vaal arctic armour also gives a lot of es recovery and we will grab other sources of dot recovery so dot's should be no problem. - Possibly "immortal" feeling. - The trick is to be able to deal damage while frozen in place. So need persistent damage skills to activate before triggering vaal arctic armour. - OR you can cast instant skills like frostblink while frozen. ...Note...Vaal Arctic Armour frozen cannot be prevented by any means. #tech base requirements - Depose Order Ascendency Node (Phrecia Only) - Priest of Yaomac (Chaos Bloodline) - Shepherd of Souls Keystone (multiple possible sources) (in the base PoB we get it from 4 corrupted items + Corruption's Embrace Chaos Bloodline) - Triumvirate Ring with 30% less souls per use and 30% reduced soul gain prevention duration - Runegraft of the Soulwick #soul gain prevention possibles - 50% depose order - 20% priest of yaomac - 14% soul catcher with 40% flask effect - 16% dual wield yaomac's accord - 30% from triumvirate ring Note that duration increases will cancel out the soul gain prevention reduction, and supposedly it works vice versa for duration reductions #soul gain - 2 per second (which fills all vaal skills at the same time. (1 from bloodline, 1 from runegraft) - 40% chance to gain souls back on vaal skill use (not reliable but could be useful here and there) - Can use a low charge soul ripper with charge gain per second for emergency presses? #100% uptime? Vaal Arctic Armour costs 4,9,14...etc based on previous amount of vaal skills in the past 8 seconds. Ideally you are only using vaal arctic armour. But with just the 2 souls per second and base duration of vaal arctic armour we should sustain 2 casts in a row no problem. With enough block and avoidance this "should" enable infinite uptime. #Example (loadout) - So the purpose of the PoB is mostly just to show the Vaal Arctic Armour tech. - But I did create an example pob with what should be very attainable gear. It uses vortex and cold snap / vaal cold snap as the persistent damage sources that will exist while encased in ice. #Megalomaniacs - You want one with enduring composure + block nodes / str / dex / res - The rest can be block / str / dex / res #Skill rotation on boss: - (cold dot infamously a lot of button press) - frostbite -> frostblink (into boss) -> vortex -> cold snap -> vaal cold snap -> vaal arctic armour -> frostblink for repositioning #other possible skills to try out - rage vortex, righteous fire, blade vortex, vaal flicker strike (maybe), frost blink, any ignite build with ~5s duration ignites - (I didn't cover in the video but trigger skills are also another big possibility) CoC rage vortex? lol A possible problem though, if using vaal skills the cost of all the vaal skills will go up from shephard of souls. So vaal arctic armour may not be spammable on bosses in these circumstances. There are various pieces that is hard to estimate theoretically and it needs testing in game though. Like chance to not consume souls. Soul Ripper flask with charge gain. etc #obvious big upgrades to the tech - evasion / suppress gear + acrobatics - svalin 90/90 block - elusive / elusive effect (my example uses elusive effect through badge of the brotherhood and elusive on vaal skill triumvirate) #What if they change the Architect of Chaos Ascendency? (they didnt) - They very well might. The most likely node they will change is depose order so we would lose -50% soul gain prevention duration, which is really bad, but possibly salvageable with reduced duration on the tree 35%, and some other sources (ring / ammy / etc), and other sources of soul gain prevention, some listed below... This will also reduce the duration of vaal arctic armour requiring more casts, so will need more charge gain / less charge usage, in some cases