Been testing a Herald of Purity setup with The Broken Elegy and it turned out way better than expected.

Core idea:

• fake ward setup with The Broken Elegy

• CWDT procs a bunch of level 1 spells

• those hits keep auto spawning Herald of Purity minions

What makes it work:

• Fortress Covenant makes minions take 180% increased damage

• you need reflected rings with negative res

Crit scaling:

• Scornful Herald seems to work with Minion Instability, which is what really makes the setup come together

• with Fresh Meat, Spirit Offering and the passive tree, the minions get to around 90% crit chance

Defence / feel:

• Blunderbore + Resistance Shrine on a Screaming of the Desiccated belt puts the build at around 90% all res

• 4 endurance charges

• around 12k fake ward

• the build is actually really tanky... until it suddenly isn’t, which is pretty on brand for non perma ward setups

• Detonate Dead gives enough cast speed through Corpse Pact that Frostblink actually feels pretty smooth

For clear:

• Annihilation support also works really well here

• explosions get close to crit cap too

• map clear is actually way better than I expected

Video:

https://youtu.be/biiWY-15F9M

PoB (current character):

https://pobb.in/BAdiI1zL4qgL

Note: this character already has a fair amount of investment in it, so it’s definitely not a budget setup. I’m also not using a particularly good Elegant Hubris yet, so there’s still a lot of room to improve the build. The main issue is that good minion Elegant Hubris jewels are really expensive right now because of how popular minion pact builds are.