This is my, as titled, ridiculous self-cast Unearth meme build. It uses Unearth, which people underappreciate because it looks shitty until you see the cast time is extremely low. From a pure single target perspective, after 3.17, Unearth is actually not all that bad. Its mana cost is extremely low, which also makes it very spammable as you can use flat mana cost reductions very effectively.

A couple of notes -

1. it actually only requires level 94 and the extra timeless jewel is because Voll's Protector Inner Conviction isn't in PoB. You want to use glorious vanity. You could also go Incandescent Heart with similar results but need 75% chaos resist. Farruls + badge of the brotherhood is another possibility but is costly and marginally better.
2. I upped the spell level of unearth to 24 and put some cold damage on the chest to mimick 3.17 levels. I think its close. Definitely this version is ~3.17, you will see a +/- 5% difference, not a huge bonus.
3. Regen allows RF usage all the time. It regens 560 ES+HP after RF, and you get an additional 5%/s from Disciple of Kitava which feeds off unearth. It has decent armour and ailment immunity. Divine Shield offers more hidden ES regen.
4. The build actually does 18M DPS if you swap Determination for Hatred. There are a select few bosses I might do that (Sirus most notably). I wouldnt do this for anything other than PoB memes for the most part. Dead memers do no dps.

*5) If you build this and it sucks shit, don't blame me. This is the disclaimer. Unearth clear is not good. EK ST is not good. The build itself is totally untested. Using EK/Unearth in tandem is probably the way to go if you can figure out the mana. Its probably good if you can figure out the mana. No promises.

6. Predicted cost as built circa 2 weeks into league is around 15-20Ex. It could be 50, it probably wont be less than 10. I havent figured out the mana for EK, so it could be quite a bit more once you get that in. I suck at mana. Just use lifetap I think.

7. The mana sustain looks sketchier than it is because you will completely fill your mana every second due to Disciple of Kitava. Because of spell echo, you are only using around 40mana/s which you can cover before DoK kicks in and sets you back to near full. You can either slot in hypothermia/GMP or just switch to EK if you can figure out how to manage mana. This version slots in EK, but notably, I haven't figured out to deal with mana. You can definitely slot in lifetap, but you end up spending like 850 life/s for EK with flasks and VH up if you do it which is probably too much. I would want to halve that, whereupon it would be pretty manageable.

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because there are a lot of builds out there, here is why this one is good: LEAGUE STARTER TO LEAGUE FINISHER, 100C TO KILL AL12 SIRUS, MATHIL IS GOING PLAY THIS BUILD AND SAYS ITS REALLY AWESOME AND WE CAN BE FRIENDS NOW, FARM NEMESIS 7 IN HOUR 4 OF THE LEAGUE, CHRIS WILSON PERSONALLY EMAILED ME THIS BUILD AND TOLD ME ITS BETTER THAN DD IGNITE#

Because someone is going to say "just use EK" - if you do nothing other than put in EK, it is a dramatic downgrade in DPS. Check the PoB. The other issue is that you would have serious mana issues using EK. I might try and play with this. I think an unearth/EK gem swap is more reliable than other ways of increasing clear on this build.

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#important note - all false.

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important edit: I tried at one point to get the build to shotgun. Even with 100% increased AoE and greater volley, I couldn't get any evidence it would shotgun using Golden Rule methodology counting poisons. I am not saying it can't, I am saying it might be cost prohibitive. The only thing I didn't try was doing this as occultist and taking the power charge AoE scaling node for another 50%. I think i was at around 105 when I said fuck it and quit. If you get to 300 or something it still might.