This will hopefully be my last iteration of Vigilant Strike. I originally wanted to play around with poopbutts2200's Spectral Throw tech and started doing some mental PoB on the way home from work, aiming to build a tanky base for the skill. The obvious answer was ES stacking—but I’ve done that before and didn’t really feel like following the meta.

So I started racking my brain for other ways to reach similar levels of tankiness. Transcendence came to mind, but there’s a reason it fell out of the meta: solving physical damage becomes a real issue without good conversion options. Instead, I got as many Endurance Charges as I could and stacked a few other sources of physical damage reduction.

Once physical damage was handled, the next hurdle was getting to 90% max res, which, with Transcendence, is also a pain. There were a few routes I could’ve taken, but I ended up converting as much elemental damage to lightning as possible, effectively becoming pseudo-pen immune in the process. With a few jewels and some extra investment, it’s possible to hit 90% lightning resistance.

Now once this has all been put together, we are indeed extremely tanky hitting 400k ele max hit; however, we are now on the wrong side of the tree to scale spectral throw, and as a result, I threw vigilant strike in again to solve damage. So we're left with the 4th or 5th vigilant strike iteration of league.

Forgot to add pob - https://pobb.in/NojbCOUJoziU