Kulemak's Tower Defense Invoker Build

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Why play PoE2 when you can play tower defense in PoE2? Here is a fun and different build. The main idea is to use Solus Ipse helmet to have 3 Kulemak's Dominion on all three offerings. Danse Macabre doubles each offering so that the 50% less damage penalty is mitigated. In the best scenario this is 300% more damage if you have all three offerings out.

The main skills we are duplicating are Enervating Nova from a paralysing staff, and Comet which will come from CoC and CoMD. CoC comet double dips Kulemak's Dominion bonus since we generate 4x the energy from Enervating Nova, and each triggered comet is also duplicated 3 times. This results in 16 times the comets if all three offerings are out.

CoMD works a bit funny with offerings. The skeletons don't actually die when the offerings are created, they just become the spikes. When the offerings expire, then we get the energy from CoMD. The amount of energy depends on which skeleton was sacrificed. With invoker's 35% more meta energy, the sweet spot is reavers. Each reaver gives 35 base energy, and we need 218% increased meta energy so that every offering cast will trigger a comet. In practice we can be a bit less that 218% since we also have energy refund chance. The triggered comet will also be duplicated at the offering that just expired to trigger it, so we are guaranteed a comet even if it is the only offering out.

We set up our offerings so that two of them have 3.86 seconds duration, so are protected by Utmost Offering. We also have a long duration bone offering which lasts almost 18 seconds, and is protected by Brutus' Brain, along with the reavers and clerics. This way all our minions are invulnerable. A couple of clerics and Citaqualotl's Thesis provides the revives needed.

The play style is a bit different and takes a while to get used to. It is more like tower defense. You set up your offerings and let the mobs come in to your electric field and comet rain. The most important thing is to know where your offerings and fodders are. It can be difficult with all the fireworks on screen. We also set up weapon swap so that we can teleport our minions to us if necessary. Since our minions are invulnerable, there won't be any revive timer. Weapon swap also gets around the offering cooldown. You cannot cast an offering again before it expires, so offering duration is same as offering cooldown. But if you weapon swap, the offering despawns and you can cast it again. This is really only necessary for the long duration offering.

This build is not the fastest for mapping since minions are slow and we rely mostly on mobs coming to us. It is however great for rituals, and good for abyss. With abyss we can see when and where the final mob will spawn from, so we drop a long duration offering on top of the abyss pit just before they spawn, and we can run away and drop comets on them from off screen. It is a great feeling when we pull it off, essentially we out bullshitted all the bullshit abyss mechanics with our shenanigans.

We murder slow moving and large size bosses. However something like Balbala is impossible to catch with stationary offerings. In those cases we weapon swap to a triple cast on X setup. Drop the minions and put on CoEA and EI. We have a random Thunderstorm on our CoC, this is to enable Shocking Conduction 2 on bone blast.

The best thing about this build is that it is cheap and easy to put together. Invoker's ascendancy nodes cover all the expensive aspects. We don't need any spirit gear, and since we are crit capping maligaro's with pinpoint critical, sunder my enermies is Rakiata's at home. Our damage scaling is more from shenanigans than gear.

Finally this build plays much better with mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately I am on controller so I had to remove astral projection from enervating nova, and can't really control which minions are offered. If you are on mouse and keyboard, remember to put on astral projection and you will have a much better time.