Death's Oath Occultist - 3.18 League Start Abridged | Path of Exile: Sentinel

---------- NOTES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - BANDITS: Kill All - PANTHEON: Lunaris + Shakari - Rare Gear is a guideline, not a rule. It shows the minimum recommended affixes at average rolls but feel free to mix and match the resists - Quality is only on gems that need it - Gem level is important; some gems do not require leveling - Try and replace any supports with Awakened variants when you can ---------- NOTES ON PASSIVES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You want at least 50% chaos resistance before you start using Death's Oath to help mitigate the degen incurred when Death Aura kills an enemy. The "Extra Chaos Res" build solves this issue by taking resistance passives which you can respec out of once you've obtained chaos resistance on your gear, as well as picking up the Life Mastery node that reduces the mana reservation of Vitality, an aura I advise taking until you have chaos resist on your gear. ---------- NOTES ON AURAS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The core auras for this build are Determination, Malevolence, and Blasphemy tied to Despair and Enfeeble, all of which provide a good mix of both defense and offense. Alpha's Howl will make sustaining them much easier. Summon Skitterbots and Defiance Aura add extra damage and defense but you will need both a chaos Impresence and a cluster jewel with Uncompromising on it. I naturally cannot speak for 3.18, but in 3.17 I picked up the amulet for 1 ex and the jewel for 10 chaos, which is quite reasonable. Alternative, you could pick up the Evasion Mastery to reduce Grace's reservation cost and use that over Summon Skitterbots for more defense. Until you have decent gear, I highly recommend using both Purity of Elements and Vitality. Purity will keep your resistances high until your gear improves, whilst Vitality will help offset the health loss when killing enemies with Death's Oath. ---------- OPTIONAL EXTRAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Glorious Vanity Jewel with Xibaqua is used to give us Divine Flesh on the passive tree, slotted in the jewel socket near Pain Attunement. This gives an additional 5% maximum chaos resistance, and 50% of our elemental damage will be taken as chaos damage instead, providing us with slightly higher elemental mitigation and reducing the overall degen we take from Death Aura. ---------- LEVELING NOTES --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Level to 12 using your favourite method as it really isn't that long to worry too much about. Caustic Arrow is the generic go-to. Once you hit Act 3 you can start adding Bane for increased single-target damage and the ability to easily apply Despair for even more damage. I used this setup until I could equip Death's Oath with decent chaos resist at around level 65. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're stuck don't be afraid to pop into one of my streams or post a comment on YouTube; I'm always willing to lend a hand. Have fun! ~ Mr. Tastix https://twitch.tv/rtastix