Low Life MoM Penance Brand Hierophant - Proof of Concept

Low Life MoM Penance Brand Hierophant ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defensive Mechanics Explained : When hit, 60% damage goes to Mana and 40% goes to HP. (+10% watchers eye, +10% hiero passive) Then, with Anomlaous Petrified Blood, we only take 55% of the remaining damage (or 22% of the initial hit) The damage that we would have taken is then applied as damage over time, which is then healed by the Agnostic. The damage is further mitigated while we have Arcane Cloak, allowing us to run with a relatively low life pool of around 2000 Other Defensive layers : Max Block Stun and Freeze Immune Recoup + lots of Regen + Recover % Mana on Block 75% Uptime on Arcane Cloak 4 Permanent Minimum Endurance Charges Damage Scaling : Penance Brand scaling with Duration + Swiftbrand + Hiero's Brand activation node Arcane Surge Effect for More Spell Damage and Cast Speed Archmage Support 100% conversion of base damage to Lightning - ( can use physical to lightning support before the implicit and craft ) Low Life Spell Damage Buff Righteous Fire Spell Damage buff PoB DPS with 2 brands and utility setup = 17mil DPS peaks at 25mil+ when using Vaal RF and during the last 25% of Brand duration, but I suspect PoB numbers are misleading. Actual DPS should still be overkill for all content, barring Ubers. Managing Mana might be difficult with Archmage, MoM, RF and Agnostic together, especially when taking damage. Gearing seems to solve this, but here are some other options: Penance Brand lasts 1.6 seconds. If you cast after the previous brand expires, mana regen should catch up. If mana is too expensive, try using Faster Casting instead of Swiftbrand for 4 sec duration, and cast less often. If thats still not enough, Archmage can be removed entirely. Penance Brand still does 10m+ without it. RF can be turned off if Mana Recovery is still insufficient as a last resort. Using Arcane Cloak is not an issue because of "Regain 10% of Mana over 1 second when you use a Guard Skill" , plus a 10sec duration with 75% Uptime. But maybe don't put it on left click. For bosses, respec the Brand mastery to "Recover 10% Mana when a Brand expires while Attached". That should make even Archmage sustainable. Weaknesses : DoT doesnt get mitigated by Petrified Blood or Block, only by MoM. ( Soul of Arakaali is mandatory ) No Supression, Low Spell Block, lower EHP against spells Average Clearspeed Can't do no regen maps, less regen maps would be hard. Can't do reflect maps ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Levelling : Armageddon Brand / Cremation is going to be smoother early on. Penance Brand requires a lot of Cast Speed and Duration, and MoM requires gear. Budget estimation : ( Based on crucible league average. Assume price variance based on how early in the league it is, item rolls, and meta trends ) Starter : crap wand - 2c shaper shield - 10c helm - 1c enchanted base, 1-10c to roll life+mana+resists, 1ex for craft. Cloak 5 Link - 50c dex gloves - 10c base, 4c craft boots - 2c Foible - 10c for good regen roll ring - 4c base, 4c craft essence worm - 2c shaper belt - 10c Rumis max attack roll - 5c 3 crap hypnotic jewels - 3c Kurgals gaze - 10c black oil - 3c = 150c or < 1 div for a basic setup. Upgrades : double clarity watchers eye - 1 div (either recoup or recovery + damage taken to mana) anomalous petrified blood - 40c cloak 6 link - 3 div anomalous efficacy - 35c taste of hate - 100c intuitive leap - 100c good wand - 1 div fertile catalyst on foible - 80c vaal rf - 5c GCPs - 11 x 4 = 55c implicits ~ roughly 50-75c depending on rolling luck. only important ones are unnerve, conversion on gloves and phys taken as elemental on helm, others are luxury = 1540c or 7.5-8 div for optimized setup Luxury : exceptional implicits - 30c per ichor Awakened Gems - 1-10div each gg wand - 5div+ progenesis - 35div+. ( Note - this build is by no means recommended to farm Uber Maven )