PoE Penance Brand builds

showcase last floor with 40% less damage pob

just simple penance brand occy phys conv chaos can someone finish it for me thx XDD need some survilability

I created this pob in my spare time trying to pull a skill that I like a lot, I think it was relatively cheap, and the damage looks great! Is there something wrong with pob? Is it possible to optimize further? ty. ;)

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 t

Penance brand as hierophant using the reworked arcane surge on the cheaper side. Just sad that Penance brand is not much used and overlooked over the past several leagues, currently only 6 visible on the poe.ninja crucible ladder including me. It's often seen as a scaling build only used with great investment or with an aurabot. Bonus point, the mtx is wonderful and penance brand is one of my favorite skill. I understand it's hard to make it feels good and you can feel discouraged when you first try it but with a good understanding it's lovely to play (but beware you need to click a lot),

I dont see any recent Penance Brand builds on the subreddit so I figured I would make one really quick to see what you guys think. Seems like a pretty beefy build with decent damage and doesnt cost much. Thoughts?

Posting this mainly for me to save for later, but also as a showcase for what nearly perfect geared penance brand can look like.

PoB: Why Raider? Haven't played her before. 20% Exposure. Great avoidance defenses including high evasion (with damage reduction from Wind Dancer), Dodge capping is doable, move speed for mechanics dodging, Phasing + Ailment Immunity, what's not to love? Why Brands (why Penance)? Because I love the play style. I've played 3/5 Brands with Penance and Arcanist left to go. I want to do cold conversion because then I can hopefully leverage Taste of Hate, one of my favorite flasks in the game for its damage and survivability boo