PoE Hierophant builds

Thought you guys might be interested in this rather unusual build. I was looking around for a means to overtake the classic Brutal Lead Sprinkler strength stacking ancestral warchief build. Now that Multistrike works with totems, I thought it might be time for ancestral protectors to be competitive. So I came up with this: MoM, Agnostic, Mind of the Council Ancestral Protector Hierophant. Using Dance of the offered for easy access to Agnostic, Arcane Cloak for massive added lightning damage, all that grants insane added damage(albeit a bit over 50% of

Let me start this off with this build is not viable, it does no damage, and by no damage, I mean it literally does less than 10k damage a second. However, this build should hopefully not be able to die to anything. I haven't been able to create it yet, but from a purely theoretical standpoint, you have so much effective HP that damage becomes negligible. In addition we make use of absorption charges with 11 charges, basically meaning that if elemental damage isn't one-shotting us, it is healing us instead. We also use chaos innoculation, so that we take no chaos damage. Now all we have to deal

Thoughts Pros \-Decent Damage/Clear \-Very good EHP (Block) \-Simple gear choices (Uniques everywhere lol) \-Budget 10ish ex? Clusters easy to craft. Watchers Eye 2ex Cons \-Chaos bosses can kill you if not careful \-Slow ES sustain, if a lot of damage goes through block you die \-Low physical Resistance, can be one shotted by big phys hits. \-DPS listed is not accurate, probably more like 25-40% less depending on Manapool, easily stays below 50% though.

Since the damage on manabond is based on current mana, not mana spent, I've theorycrafted a hiero build based on reducing mana cost of skills as much as possible, which should allow us to control the AOE/damage by controlling our mana. With 9k mana and Pledge, Manabond will cost 4000 mana without any reduced costs. Using inspiration, reduced mana nodes on the tree, jewels, and flask, we can reach 100% reduce mana cost (might be optimal to have at 80-95% reduced though). Mana can be easily restored to full for AOE/MoM purposes using a mana flask (as it doesn't nec

tldr: molten shell go boom for \~2M dps, generally invincible, and maximum jank I discovered an interesting interaction with Power of Purpose (PoP) awhile back, namely that any "Gain maximum mana as extra maximum energy shield" modifiers actually use the pre-conversion maximum mana (verified in game). This means mana stacking gives us both armour and energy shield. However, I couldn't figure out how to get reasonable damage out of the build... until this patch! The core of the build is to stack mana to get over 50k armour, to make maximum use of Molten Shell. Molten shell gets popped by atta

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As far as I can tell, fanaticism is clunky and sucks... but the new manabond skill got me thinking that maybe it could be spammed to high heaven using fanatacism. The general premise is that you would play a character with like 10,000 mana and get 1500 base lightning for manabond when all your mana is gone and you use the skill. At this point it seems like you would use archmage... but what if you didn’t? What if you somehow got all your mana gone and then spammed the skill super fast with no mana cost at all? Enter fanaticism with guest appearances from inspiration and the Templar mana co