Hi everyone, i love impale and i always try every ascendancy/classes just to play that archetype and this league i choose to play it with Bog Shaman.

Why Bog Shaman, because it's easy to stack life and i like me some spell that can impale, but how can we do that? by using this glove: Entropic Devastation this enable us to impale with spell but we also need to critical.

And since we are a Life Stacker, we are using the BiS shield for life stacking: Rathpith Globe, every 100 life we are getting 5% spell damage and critical chance. With a lot of critical nodes in the tree + Zealotry you can easily achieve a decent crit chance, but for me i use the this helmet, Sandstorm Visage, so that it can use the base crit chance of my equipped wand as the base of our spell's base crit chance with this combo you don't even need to allocate crit chances on the tree and just focus on life stacking and some impale nodes.

Very important for this to work is to have a high life recovery rate:

• Watcher's eye give us up to 15% life recovery rate when we are affected by Vitality.
• Physical Damage leech given by the timeless jewel as we need to leech some of those damage.
• Surge of Vigour notable passive in the tree acts like a decent alternative to eternal youth without the penalty of life regen and life leech.

For our defense:

• Using the Petrified Blood and Defiance of Destiny
• Arctic Armour when stationary gives us 20+% less physical and fire damage taken from hits
• Divine Flesh and Divine Drinker (when poisoned) and we have 85 max chaos res.
• 75% Spell Block
• Malediction gives 10% reduced damage dealt to enemies.
• Consecrated ground via CWDT - Purifying Flame(if you have Rationale doctrine might be better but its too expensive) + Immortal Call

My Current POB: https://pobb.in/ZmEaCIBfa42h

Showcases:

Bog Shaman - Reap Impale Mapping

Bog Shaman - Reap Impale Bossing (Normal Shaper)

Bog Shaman - Reap Impale Bossing (Conqueror)