30+m DPS on a (relative) Budget: Poison Animate Weapon Occultist

Hey folks,

I'm having an absolute BLAST playing and just finished killing Maven and non-Maven Ubers with this so I thought I would share. Occultist gives us the curse effect and pops, using glancing blows and life on block for defences. You can start this build with only United in Dream and 4W Triad Grip Darkness Enthroned with Chance to Poison Jewels to hit 100% chance to poison. A 4W Triad Grip is a nice boost to damage, but not essential. I crafted mine using Betrayal. Took 3 Catarina runs, so just a couple of hours specc'd fully into Betrayal on the tree. I have two trees here, one with Aegis Aurora and one without. Aegis is not necessary at all and may in fact be a side-grade if anything, but the max res helps.

The clear is great and the single target is (obviously) pretty wild. I haven't died (except once to maven memory game because I suck) in about 10 levels (currently 96). Temporal chains curse effect plus chill from skulls plus action speed reduction from pale seraphim also pretty much hits the action speed reduction cap on pinnacle bosses.

In my opinion, the priority after getting the above two uniques:

Ghastlys to hit 100% poison chance

Amanamu's gaze

Darkness Enthroned (excellent to hit immunities on key ailments)

+2 Minion Helm

+2 Unset ring and level 21 Spectre to get a third spectre

4W Triad Grip to round out your damage

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This build is mostly self-found. I try to only buy essentials, but even if you bought everything, the build should be doable on 5-6 divines, which is an amazing cost to power ratio. I think this is my favourite build in 8k hours of play so I hope you enjoy too.

Oh, any tips for squeezing more power out of this are more than welcome.

POB: https://pastebin.com/1V8iAPs4