PoE 3.20 Sanctum Occultist builds

I commented in a thread about my CI Poison Spark build the other day, and there seemed to be some interest about my approach to what is quite a popular build this league, so I thought I'd make a post. My philosophy is that I want to hit the DOT cap, with good Wither uptime, and after that I focus on hit damage and defenses, namely in the amount of a high ES pool. At 10.31 casts per second (11.27 with Smite active), the build is extremely mobile and generally hits the DOT cap in 2-3 seconds, depending on the arena. I eschew Awakened Deadly Ailments and Awakened Unbound Ailments in favor of A

This is my first strong character (I probably think it every single league). Should it be able to kill Sirus? Do I need more defensive layers? All tips are appreciated. Just for the sake of the rule about explaining the build: It is an Occultist CoC Ice Spear with Cospri's Malice, Shav's Wrappings and Prism Guardian. There is not much to explain.

I'm looking at some other Poison Spark Occultists on poe.ninja and trying to figure out how their DPS is so much higher than mine. I've got a couple questions on where to go from here: I'm seeing a lot of use of Steady Torment. I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious. But for the life of me, I cannot figure out where bleeding is being applied from. Big differences in gear I'm seeing are Grand Spectrum jewels & weapon. Even adding

Saw somebody post their Poison Winter Orb build earlier today and thought I'd share the Poison Ball Lightning I made. It's more or less identical to Poison Spark, both in tree and gameplay feel, except for bossing when I swap gems and rings. You (probably) shouldn't play this? It does feel a tiny bit worse than Poison Spark in doing most things. But it was a nice change of pace for a bit, and I have a strong suspicion that as long as you have an Original Sin, you could get Ball Lightning going farther on a smaller budget than Spark. (i.e. if I had no Mageblood or Nimis or Grand Spectrums e

Just wanted to share my take on DO/CA farmer this league: Defense: Determination, Grace, Defiance banner, conditional crit immunity (60% from watcher's eye, another 40% if the enemy is cursed) , temporal chains (via skitterbots) , molten shell (cast on damage taken) , Divine flesh, Elusive from withering step , 4.2 k life at lvl 97 Offense: lvl 30 Vaal caustic arrow , \~495k DO farming dps(at 15 withered stacks), Despair (via skitterbots) , Malevolence , Profane Bloom. Misc: 5% of life on kill recovery , rampa