POE Ruthless With Gold: What I'll Be Playing - Bane Occultist - Path of Exile

Gems: Act 1: Use anything. Take Clarity when able. OPTIONAL: Make a Marauder, mule Vitality and don't pick a reward for Breaking Some Eggs. Later, select your Breaking Some Eggs Marauder reward to fit your drops (e.g. Molten if you get a fluke Determination) Act 2: Use anything. HELP ALIRA. Act 3: Clarisa quest take Bane. Library, trade your Uncarved Stone for Temp Chains. MODIFICATION: If you get a lucky Bane or Temp Chains drop, take Despair instead. Act 5: Use your Uncarved Stone for Despair (if you already got a lucky one, sell your Uncarved Stone or trade it for a utility gem) Later: Trade for Soulrend and damage supports for it (don't bother with multiple projectiles here, it's single target only) Reservations: You can deterministically get Vitality and Clarity in Act 1 (with a mule) and that's all that you can get that way. Use Malevolence if you can get it. If you get a fluke Determination: Use it. Get an int/ES shield (12% resist implicit like Angelic Kite Shield). Aspire to Sirus helm. OR: Sell the Determination but don't sell it cheap. If you get a fluke Grace: Use it. Get a pure ES shield and helm, ES/EV chest. Allocate Ghost Dance, Supreme Ego, Influence, Charisma, Revenge of the Hunted. Packages of other nodes to consider: You are near all the 30 stat nodes you could ever need. Hopefully. "Walker" nodes if desparate for a specific resist (these are bad but you might need them) MOM + Quick Recovery + Acrimony - general defense + some damage if you don't have Malevolence or another aura Stun Immune package: Tolerance cluster + mastery =80% stun immune. Arcane Sanctuary = 25%. This package costs a LOT, so don't take it lightly. A cluster jewel Great Uniques You Want To Own (but probably won't): Cherubrim's Malifiecience, Allelopathy, Cane of Unravelling Crafting a Wand: Corroded + Metallic + Shuddering on a (non-minion) wand with MAXIMUM ilvl 82. 1 in 4 to be +1 chaos skills, 1 in 12 to be +2. 4 link: Bane + Temp Chains + Despair + one of the damage supports (Controlled Destruction, Void Manipulation, Efficacy, Swift Affliction, Arcane Surge from best to worst) 5 link: Add a second support. OR add Punishment if you own one of the uniques that's +1 curse (Doedre ring, Windscream) 6 link: yeah good luck