Miscalculated, ACTUALLY: 84m-123m dps

Building a Strength-stacker usually costs hundreds of divines just to feel okay. We break down how start your first stacker with a Reliquarian using Astramentis for easy attributes and Terminus Est for innate Frenzy sustain. If you have 0 div, my Poeninja will have a history of a league start with flicker if you're interested in a zero to hero.

• Minimum level 84 Scion
• About 70-90 d

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Astramentis: +60 all attributes

This helps meet attribute requirements, allowing sole investment in strength gear, making it much cheaper to start and get going.

Terminus Est: Gain a Frenzy Charge on Critical Strike.

We can use the Iron Fortress(Chest) instead of Farruls fur or Precursor Emblem Ring since we have innate sustain.

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#Showcase
Nightmare - Ziggurat 8 mod, harvest Map
Wave 15 Simulacrum AFK

Overview

Ascendancy: Reliquarian

Pantheon: Solaris / Tukohama

Damage Scaling: Spell Damage + Chaos Damage + Strength + Crit + Attack Speed

Skills:

• Flicker strike: Main attack
• Whirling Blades: Mobility
• Berserk: Buff
• Blood Rage: Buff

Auras:

• Precision: Increased Crit Chance and Accuracy
• Arctic Armour: 20% less Physical Damage Taken
• Sand Stance: 20% less Damage Taken
• Purity of Elements: 35% all elemental Resistance, Ailment immunity
• Determination: +1000 armour, 50% increase armour

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Stat Category	Base Value
Attack Rate	10.12	Strength	2,377
Crit Chance	88.09%	Dexterity	214
Crit Multiplier	543%	Intelligence	161
Hit Chance	100%
Hit DPS	125,477,455
Mana Cost per second	91.07
Life Cost per second	12.65

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Life	6936
Armour	30,506
Effective Hit Pool	216,859
Max Phys Hit	29,690
Elemental EHP	54,579
Chaos EHP	43,295
Block	68
Spell Block	71

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Frenzy Generation

To sustain infinite Flicker, you need a Net Positive (+2 gain vs -1 cost).

Source 1: Quality Flicker Gem: 25% chance on hit.
Source 2: Terminus Est (Ascendancy): 1 charge on Crit.

For this variant, You must generate two charges per activation.

Support	Hits	Logic	Result
Multistrike	3	3 rolls at 25% + Crit	Sustained
Greater MS	4	4 rolls at 25% + Crit	Guaranteed

Total: 2 charges per activation (Net positive = Sustain!)

• With MultiStrike support To consistently sustain flicker you need 75% minimum Crit Chance without a Tincture.
• with Greater MultiStrike support it can be 55% minimum Crit Chance without Tincture.

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Damage Scaling

This build converts Strength into three separate scaling values:

Keystone Interaction

Item/Affix	Base Value
Iron Fortress (Chest)	Strength instead grants 3% increased melee physical damage per 10 strength.
Iron Will (Passive Tree)	Strength's damage bonus applies to spell damage
Crown of Eyes (Hat)	Increases and Reductions to spell damage also apply to Attacks at 150%
Replica Alberon's Warpath (Shoes)	1 - 80 Chaos damage per 80 strength

Normally, 10 Strength gives 2% Melee Physical Damage.

Iron Fortress bumps this to 3% per 10 Strength.

At 80 Strength, you get 24% increased Melee Physical Damage.

Iron Will: This keystone makes Melee Physical Damage from Strength also apply to Spell Damage.

Your 24% Physical bonus is now also 24% increased Spell Damage.

Crown of Eyes: This helmet makes Increases to Spell Damage apply to Attacks at 150% of their value.

24% x 1.5 = 36% increased Attack Damage.

Total: 1 - 80 added Chaos / 36% Increased attack / 40 Life per 80 strength.

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Keystone Interaction 2

We use Unholy Might to convert our damage and exponentially scale it via Wither.

Source: Overwhelming Malice (Cluster Jewel) grants Unholy Might on Crit.

Unholy Might: 100% Phys-to-Chaos conversion + 25% chance to Wither on hit.

Wither: -6% per stack (-90% Enemy Chaos Res) by hitting 30 times per second.

Support Gem	Attacks/Sec Needed	Hits/Sec Generated	Time to Max Stacks
Greater Multistrike	7.5	30	2.0 Seconds
Multistrike	10.0	30	2.0 Seconds

Wither: Disappears after 2s, so attack speed is necessary.

Total: -90% Enemy Chaos Res.

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Keystone Interaction 3 (Optional)

Rathpith Globe: 5% increased spell damage per 100 life. Our build ran range from 6000-7000 HP.

~6500 x 5% /100 life = 325% increased spell damage.

Crown of Eyes: This helmet makes Increases to Spell Damage apply to Attacks at 150% of their value.

Total: 325% x 1.5 = ~487% increased Attack Damage.

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Defense Scaling

From Pantheon

• 9% reduced Physical Damage Taken, after 3s

From Auras

• Arctic Armour: 20% less Physical Damage Taken
• Sand Stance: 20% less Damage Taken
• Purity of Elements: 35% all elemental Resistance, Ailment immunity
• Determination: +1000 armour, 50% increase armour (Optional)

From Items

• Shield: +1200 Armour and 6% Physical Damage Reduction
• Gloves: +900 Armour
• Chest: +1550 Armour
• Boots: +350 Armor
• Jewels: +1 Endurance charge per second if hit, Stun Immunity

From Flasks

• Granite: +1500 Armour and 55% increased Armour
• Any: 65% reduce effect of curses

From Passive Tree

• Armour Mastery: 30% Reduced damage from Crits
• Critical Mastery: 30% Reduced damage from Crits
• Leech Mastery: 5% leech is instant
• 5 Endurance Charges

Keystone Interaction

With the Juggernaut Ascendancy, we sustain endurance charges. Immortal Call:

• 15% less damage taken per endurance charge removed up to 5.
• 35% less Elemental damage taken

Immortal Call will trigger whenever we take 2100 damage. Our leech and 5% Life on block will regain our HP back inflating our EHP values for 2 seconds.

Stat Category	With Immortal Call
Effective Hit Pool	323,568
Phys Max Hit	137,834
Fire Max Hit	97,150
Cold Max Hit	74,944
Lightning Max Hit	74,944
Chaos Max Hit	43,295

This mechanic will prevent HUGE hits, but only after you have taken 2100 damage first. This is only up 50% of the time. It has a 1.5 second cooldown after Cooldown Recovery Support and 20% Quality.

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Keystone Interaction 2

Our shield provides 5% life gain on Block.

We get about ~6500x0.05 = 325 life every time we block a hit. This mechanic allows us to AFK in maps with our high life pool.

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Items

Slot	Item / Description	Price
Weapon	Paradoxica(Chaos resistance + Attack Speed + attributes or bloodrage	5d
Shield	Rare (Life Gain on Block + Str + Life + Attack Speed/Phys Reduction/Resistance	5d
Helmet	Crown of Eyes or Corrupted(90% mana res)	10c or 10d
Body	The Iron Fortress 6 link	1d
Boots	Replica Alberon's Warpath	30d
Gloves	Rare (Strength + Life + Res + Chaos Res)	3d
Belt	Rare (13-15% Increased Strength implict + Life + Res)	3d
Rings	Rare mirrored (80+ Strength + Res + attack speed or life)	3d
Amulet	Rare (13-15% Increased Strength implict + Str + Life + Res) + annoint	3d + 2d
Unique Jewels 1	2x Split personality (Str with dex or int or life)	1d
Unique Jewels 2	Forbidden Jewels(Juggernaut)	1d
Unique Jewels 3	Light of meaning(Chaos Res)	2d
Unique Jewels 4	Lethal Pride(5% strength(3 at least))	1d
Rare Jewels	Life / Crit Multi One handed / STR	3d
Cluster Jewel Large	8 passive Feed the Fury + Martial Prowess + (Calamitous) x2	2d
Cluster Jewel Med	Overwhelming Malice	30c
Flasks (Utility)	Silver / Diamond / Granite (Armour/Crit/Curse Effect)	1 d
Flasks (Tincture)	RoseThorn(Attack Speed)	1 d
Flasks (Life)	Bleed	1 d
Runegrafts	Gemcraft(+1 all Skills) + Treachery(15% mana res) + Stability(3 rolls to spell block)	1 d
Skills	Greater MultiStrike + Enlighten	11d + 2d
	Total	~ 85 d

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Notes: To get 50% more damage(123m dps), swap out Granite flask with Bottled Faith, and Rare Shield with Rathpith Globe.

• Bottled Faith: up to 150% increased Critical Strike Chance and Enemies take 10% increased Damage.
• Rathpith Globe: 5% increased Spell Damage per 100 Player Maximum Life
  Since we are stacking Str, life becomes an easy multiplier for damage, however, sacrificing defenses minus ~5k phys max hit making our max hit 25k. We will lose the Life on Block, the modifier needed to AFK in maps.

• Greater Multistrike isnt necessary to get it going, but great for scaling dps later on.
• Prioritize Resistances before you get attack speed... at least 70%.

Skills

Setup	Gem Links	Socket Colors
Main (6 link)	Flicker Strike(Ruthless/Void Manipulation) 🟢 Advanced Multistrike 🔴 Volatility 🔴 Close Combat 🟢 Fortify 🔴 Crit Multi/Chance 🔵	🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴🔵
Auras (Main)	Flesh and Stone 🔴 Arctic Armour 🟢 Purity of Elements 🔵 Enlighten 🔵	🔴🟢🔵🔵
Auras (Life)	Precision 🟢 Arrogance 🔴 Enlighten 🔵	🟢🔴🔵
Automated Defense	Immortal Call 🔴 CWDT 🔴 Lifetap 🔴 Cooldown Recovery 🔵	🔴🔴🔴🔵
Movement & Mark	Whirling Blades(lifetap) 🟢 Assassin's Mark 🔵 Lifetap 🔴 Mark on Hit(lifetap) 🟢 or Blood Rage 🟢	🟢🔵🔴🟢+ 🟢 - 🔴
Burst Buffs	Berserk 🔴 Determination 🔴 Enlighten 🔵	🔴🔴🔵

Notes: If we do not meet the Crit Requirements or you feel that flicker strikes are not sustaining, replace Increased Crit Multiplier with Increased Crit Chance

TO fit more Buffs like Berserk and Blood Rage, we need lifetap support imbued into Immortal Call/Whirling Blades. These can cost up to 10d.

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Build Links and Content

Nightmare Map - Ziggurat 8 mod, harvest: Map

Wave 15 Simulacrum: AFK Simu

Poeninja: Poeninja

POBin(84m dps, AFK): https://pobb.in/qrPHi0nAZ77z

POBin(123m dps): https://pobb.in/o4A0aoezuqZe

POBin(Level 84 Tree): https://pobb.in/QdkpcZ75eEt2

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Notes

How to meet Intelligence and Dexterity requirements

Skill Tree

On your passive tree, by temporarily sacrificing damage ~5-10%, you can get over 100 dexterity or intelligence depending on your needs

Attributes mastery: 5 int/dex/str per allocated mastery passive or 5% attributes.

This one node can get you 50+ int/dex.

Proficiency/Hardknocks(Passive Tree): +30 dex/ +30 int

Spend 2 passive nodes, get 30 dex/int.

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How to meet Resistance requirements

• Tattoo(Moonwarden): 6% to Cold Resistance / -10 dexterity

• Tattoo(Firewalker): 6% to Fire Resistance / -10 Strength

• Tattoo(Stormrider): 6% to Lightning Resistance / -10 Intelligence

• Gloves: 1 Line Res + 1 Line Chaos Res

• Rings/Amulet: 3 Line Res

• Belt: 1 Line Res + 1 Line Res/Chaos

• Shield can optionally have res.

We can swap the Resistances ie. Lightning -> Fire via Horicrafting Station.

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How to meet Mana Reservation Requirements

• Runegraft of Treachery(Tree): 15%
• Ascendancy(Tree): 15%
• Enlighten(Skill): 2%
• Mana Mastery(Tree): 12%
• Total mana: 850

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions, always looking for new ways to scale!