How to map with -558% Ele Res

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T16 Run: https://youtu.be/prhFB3eUV3U

I love to build the jankiest builds I can, and this one seems to have been a success.

The concept was to forgo elemental resistance entirely by taking 100% of elemental damage as another source. There's a few ways to do this and I ended up going with a combo of three things:

- Divine Flesh: 50% ele taken as Chaos

- Refuge in Isolation: 15% ele taken as physical

- Flawed Refuge: 40% of ele taken as physical

This is over 100% conversion, so we are technically taking more ele from hits that is necessary, but we have a few ways to mitigate that:

- 8 Endurance Charges

- ES Mastery: 10% less physical damage when ES is full (which is always is because of Divine Flesh)

- Armour

This frees up all our gear slots from needing any ele res which lets us work with more unique's or mirrored rares that we don't care about the downsides.

Now how do we do damage?

Replica Nebulis is the obvious answer. When you're at -200 res you hit the cap on the item easily. Then we stack a moderate amount of strength with iron will for a bit more % damage. Then lastly, lets take advantage of our negative res by using Doryani's prototype the way it was mean to be used (none of that mercenary shenanigans).

I was initially using storm call as my skill of choice, but from what I can tell the new Greater Spell Cascade has different behaviour to the old Awakened Spell Cascade. Even with stacking huge amount of increased area I couldn't get the five circles to overlap in the middle, which is a damn shame. The new shock nova of procession slotted in very nicely into the shell I had built for storm call and does amazing damage.

Other fun aspects of the build:

- Resonating/replenishing desiccated belt for max all charges and a lot of regen

- Coiling whisper for 225% increased cast speed

- Lightning warp for almost instant blinks

- Animate guardian with companionship, kingmaker, gruthkuls pelt, and the new transfusion tech to have 15% of hit damage divert away (although he did die in my demo because I didn't wait for the souls to ramp in the mirage zone). The extract crit multi, rarity, cull and fortification are fantastic on top.

- 28 casts per sec + echoes + life gain on hit (watchers eye)

Downsides of the build:

I may have diverted all ele hits away, but there are some DoTs that you can't get away from. I have immunity to burning ground from pantheon, reduced DoT from pantheon, but there are a few bosses that drop cold ground effects that as far as I am aware you cannot avoid. You have about 1 sec to lightning warp away before you die. This build cannot do Maven as a result (at least by my unskilled piloting).

Searing Exarch was a pain as well, as the flame wall he pops out is neither burning ground nor a hit, so full damage taken on that one. I did manage that one though.

Further improvements:

Volatile vaal orb could reduce the ele to phys on either the helmet or the shield to reduce the over 100% conversion.

Alternatively, using a Bound by Destiny Hunter affix could remove the need for the helm slot, opening up other scaling options there, although you'd need to find another way to reduce lightning res without the helm.