3.26 - Ancestral Commander Earthshatter Slammer - Merciless Gauntlet

3.26 Gauntlet Ancestral Commander I'm washed, don't trust this pob.. Testrun without private league: - Be a juggernaut with Unbreakable, Unflinching, Unrelenting, Unstoppable - Take the Warcry cooldown recovery from the "Deep Breaths" wheel Leveling: - Mule Ranger for Momentum - Get very early coral rings - Might want lowlevel Precision until RT - Stay heavily overleveled compared to zone (5-10) - BA is dangerous and not a place to farm Anoint Options: - Hatched Mastery - Clever Thief - Admonisher Mercenary: - You won't have one - Don't ever talk to them, ever Crafts: - minus mana non channeling is Cold River - movement speed avoid chill is Mesa - Increased phys impale is Orchard - strength/dex is Ivory Temple - Warcries cannot Exert Travel Skills is The Chamber of Innocence Stats on Gear: - Need to get Resist on Items (Elemental and Chaos) -> faked in config - Any additional Armour is great - Any Spell Suppression doesn't hurt either if space for craft Mana: - Mana is annoying, period. - Without the minus mana crafts, you probably have to sacrifice some parts of your second warcry setup and cast vuln yourself - Mana leech jewel is quite the priority - Tireless wheel can be replaced if everything works out, especially with the minus mana crafts - Remove the nodes as well as the jewel socket next to "Stamina" and take an additional endurance charge, jewel socket and the devotion wheel - Enduring mana flask is great early (replace is no longer needed) - Want to remove lifetap from links if mana is stable Endurance charges: - Enduring cry to keep the buff up and get some without killing - Endurance Charge on melee stun helps a lot - Endurance Charge every x seconds from chest makes them permanent with charge mastery Low Gemlevels: - Leap Slam, Faster Attacks, Frostblink and CWDT/Molten Shell have lowered gem levels Quality variance: - Warcries have different quality levels to stagger their activation, as quality gives CDR - Specific quality amounts are not relevant, just different is the point Attributes: - Strenght might be needed if you actually get the highest bases (body armour) - Int is quite tight, but less of an issue until level 20 gems - If you somehow can solve int without getting the 30 int node on tree, that great and gets you some points back - Dex is mostly for faster attacks and the weapon requirements Socket Pressure: - Moving faster attacks/blood rage to the weapon helps with coloring (its str/dex base) - Fast attacks can be dropped entirely Map Mods to avoid: - Any Reflect - minus max res - cannot regen and less recovery - crit/crit multi - cannot leech - phys as extra chaos - additional proj - poison on hit - vulnerability - Ele weakness (if no mastery) - Shocked Ground (if not shock immune) - less armour - burning ground (maybe) - always ignite - Steal charges on hit - Goatmen/Solaris Fanatics - Monster variety - cannot be stunned (if endurance on stun is still needed and can't focus on using enduring cry instead) Gear and Crafting Stuff Weapon: Use a slow axe (Void, Vaal, Karui), you looking for added phys, increased phys and attackspeed. Craft with phys/speed essence or reforge speed. Or use recombinator. Hitting two mods is fine, craft the last one. ilvl breakpoints: 65 / 77 / 83 Chest: Gamble the base with 5/6 link with gold Reforge Phys, Reforge Defence or Defence Fossils. Getting huge life roll is not that bad and you can remove mastery. (so can use reforge life if needed) Helmet: Reforge Life/Chaos/Defence Gloves: Reforge Life/Speed/Chaos/Defence Boots: Reforge Life/Chaos/Defence Belt: Reforge Life Amulet: Reforge Life Rings: Reforge Chaos Atlas Tree: Core Stuff: - Block Ritual - Get Niko Buff - Get Map Sustain More Points: - Shrines/Strongboxes for monsters - Abyss for belt - Harvest for crafting - More Niko if you want to