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The Sacrifice Pathfinder: super tanky self-cast Hexblast Ignite build guide

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I have created a build guide on the official forums showcasing two "sacrifice" effects: the new Sacrifice Support gem introduced in 3.22 and 100% energy shield sacrifice from "Everlasting Sacrifice." The result is an exceptionally tanky and fast Pathfinder capable of speed-mapping, Sanctums, Maven invitations, and Uber bosses.

The build revolves around spending a portion of life to add flat damage to a self-cast Hexblast. The flat added chaos damage results in large ignites (with 100% chance to ignite from gear and the tree). The build quickly recovers the sacrificed life by leveraging Pathfinder's "Master Surgeon." Using the unique ring Blackflame, damage is scaled with wither through the Pathfinder's other ascendancy notable "Nature's Reprisal" and the use of a Despair curse aura. Ball Lightning is used to apply wither stacks and ensure the enemy always remains ignited so that wither stacks do not expire.

Using the combination of Mahuxotl's Machination and a Replica Sorrow of the Divine, I was able to achieve 100% uptime on "Everlasting Sacrifice" making my maximum fire and chaos resistances 88 and 86%, respectively. All lightning and cold damage is shifted to fire and chaos using Mahuxotl's and a "Tempered by War" timeless jewel, meaning I don't have to build for lightning or cold resistances at all. This frees up space for stats in my gear suffixes, making room for a large number of tattoos on the passive tree. I convert travel nodes to % life to further increase the damage (due to Sacrifice support) and tankiness of the build.

All together, the build has huge max hits at 75k/71k/38k elemental/chaos/physical, >2,000 HP recovery per second, +130% unconditional movement speed, and ~4.5M pinnacle ignite DPS.

If you're interested, my forum guide has a very detailed description of the mechanics, gear selection, etc. I appreciate all of your comments.

Here are some showcases of the build at work: T16 quick map with Maven witness Level 83 Lycia High quant Maven invitation Tanking Sirus mechanics

Path of building: https://pobb.in/UOtwL27tnWVp

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Life

6035

Mana

21

Energy Shield

1358

DPS

43K

Effective Hit Pool

101.07K

Chaos Res

86

Fire Res

88

Cold Res

-30

Lightning Res

-23

Armour

15K

Evasion

1K

Block

26 | 0

Crit Chance

5%

Crit Multi

100%

Rage

0

Strength

199

Intelligence

210

Dexterity

140

Ward

0

Item Quantity

0%

Item Rarity

7%

Movement Speed

134%

Nature's Adrenaline
Nature's Adrenaline
Nature's Boon
Nature's Boon
Master Surgeon
Master Surgeon
Nature's Reprisal
Nature's Reprisal
Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance
Perfect Agony
Perfect Agony
Blood Drinker
Blood Drinker
Blood Siphon
Blood Siphon
Careful Conservationist
Careful Conservationist
Charisma
Charisma
Coldhearted Calculation
Coldhearted Calculation
Elemental Focus
Elemental Focus
Entropy
Entropy
Fangs of the Viper
Fangs of the Viper
Fervour
Fervour
Field Medicine
Field Medicine
Finesse
Finesse
Frenetic
Frenetic
Growth and Decay
Growth and Decay
Heart of Oak
Heart of Oak
Herbalism
Herbalism
Intuition
Intuition
Mind Drinker
Mind Drinker
Quickstep
Quickstep
Replenishing Remedies
Replenishing Remedies
Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness
Revenge of the Hunted
Revenge of the Hunted
Thick Skin
Thick Skin
Thief's Craft
Thief's Craft
Trickery
Trickery
Written in Blood
Written in Blood
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