Level 97 Hybrid MoM Storm Rain of the Conduit Whisperer^{3.25.alternate}

Notes

Guide by Allie
https://www.twitch.tv/Allliee_
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New to the build? Starter Build Guide - https://youtu.be/rFRh-P9Q-MU
Starter PoB - https://pobb.in/psbL4qiDVW_B


Removing Mental Rapidity

One of the first upgrades you will want to make is to get an Awakened Unleash. At Level 5, this gives you +1 Maximum Seals which does the same thing as the Mastery at Mental Rapidity.
We need the Mastery to reach 4 Seals which then gives us 5 Blade Vortex uses every time we press it. This allows us to get to 10 Stacks through 2 uses going 0 - 5 - 10.
Without this Mastery, we would go 0 - 4 - 8 - 10 only if you quickly pressed a 3rd Blade Vortex which would then ruin the first 4 Stacks.

As soon as you get a Level 5 Awakened Unleash, you can get rid of Mental Rapidity and get 4 Passive Points back.


Rational Doctrine & Righteous Fire

Rational Doctrine will be one of the first major upgrades you want to buy for this build once you are settled in. 

This Jewel will give us Consecrated Ground for 5% Life Regeneration while our Strength is our highest Attribute.
If your Intelligence is the highest, you will create Profane Ground when you Crit an enemy, giving you 100% increased Critical Strike Chance.

If you happen to have both your Strength and Intelligence balanced, you will get both at once.
To start, we at a minimum need our Strength to be higher for the Consecrated Ground as this is a massive amount of Life Regeneration especially given its multiplied by the "x% increased Life Recovery Rate" stat.

Balancing your Strength and Intelligence will be a bit annoying to do especially if you have no Strength rolls anywhere.
With you using Tattoos of the Tukohama Shaman on all of your Strength nodes, your Strength should be very low and we are going to combine this with Tattoos of the Tawhoa Warrior on our Intelligence nodes to lower it down as well.

By default, this should put you at 24 Strength and 42 Intelligence. We need to gain a total of 18 Strength to then be at balance between Strength and Intelligence.
Sadly, getting exactly 18 Strength is... difficult. Jewels roll between 12-16 for specific Attributes and 8-16 for Hybrid Attributes.

To fix this, you will either want to get two "+8 to Strength and Dexterity" Jewels or a combination of 18 Strength in total across two "+12-16 Strength" Jewels.
It is up to you on how you go about fixing this. 

If you happen to have a Strength roll on your Belt, it should be a lot simpler to fix through using Blessed Orbs to get your Strength to have the same ending number as your Intelligence then just simply adding/removing Intelligence Tattoos as needed.

Once you have achieved this, you will now be able to easily add Righteous Fire into the build for a 40% DPS increase.
While we could've used it earlier, without the constant Consecrated Ground from Rational Doctrine, it would've been a net loss of Life Regeneration making you feel squishier.

You can link Righteous Fire to Automation to then have it turned on for you at the start of every Map making it something you can completely forget about.


Profane Bloom Flesh & Flame Swap

One of the later upgrades you will want to make in the Midgame setup will be to get a Forbidden Flesh & Forbidden Flame combination with Profane Bloom on it.
Profane Bloom is an Occultist Ascendancy Point that gives you a 50% chance to Explode any enemy that was Cursed when they die.

Given Profane Bloom does 25% of the Corpses' Life, it will stack with Obliteration and Unspeakable Gifts for a total of 80% chance to Explode which will massively improve clear speed.

Profane Bloom has one important requirement to work which is that the enemy MUST be Cursed.
This then requires us to now get a Curse on Hit in the build as Profane Bloom will simply be a paper weight without us making the Explosions themselves Curse enemies to then cause a chain reaction.

To fix this, we will be swapping the Anoint on our Amulet over to Whispers of Doom and then getting a Fractured Despair on Hit Ring.
The reason we are choosing to pick Despair is due to this allowing us to swap our Ascendancy from Fell Fen over to Venom Drinker.

Despair will be a ~10% DPS loss from Fell Fen but, this gives you even more defences through Venom Drinker.
While Venom Drinker isn't 100% reliable, it has high uptime making high density content a bit safer to run & it gives you more Life Regeneration through the +5% Maximum Fire Resistance greatly reducing Righteous Fire's degeneration.

While this does mean we overall lose quite a lot of DPS from this swap, the clear that Profane Bloom gives us is too good to pass out on.
This will make a massive difference in pretty much all content you do and should feel amazing to play with.

If you end up feeling like you don't need the extra clear or don't like it, you can always opt to drop it and run two Rare Jewels and swap back to Fell Fen & Forces of Darkness.


Ailment Immunity w/ Mageblood

While this isn't traditionally considered a Midgame item, given how cheap Mageblood is currently in Phrecia & given how Mageblood will be the final goal of the Midgame setup, I will include this here for both the people who do have a Mageblood and those who will get it later.

With Mageblood, we can now run a Stormshroud and drop Purity of Elements while still keeping our Ailment Immunity.

What we can do is get the "x% chance to Avoid being Shocked during Effect" Suffix on one of our Flasks that is rolled to AT LEAST 53% with a "70% increased Effect" Enkindling Orb applied onto it.
With this, you will have 100% chance to Avoid being Shocked which Stormshroud will turn into 100% chance to Avoid All Elemental Ailments.

With Mageblood, we will not be changing any of our Flasks around and simply choosing to keep the same rolls outside of swapping the Prefix over to "25% increased Effect" & adding a "70% increased Effect" Enkindling Orb onto them.
This means we will still have a Ruby, Sapphire & Topaz Flask which will now be permanently active allowing us to treat those Flasks as free Resistances making up for the Resistances Purity of Elements was giving us.

Doing so now gives you a 50% Mana Reservation Aura back allowing us to fit in new things.
What I recommend to do is to add in Arctic Armour along with either Herald of Ash or Level 30 Aspect of the Spider.

Arctic Armour will give you a very large increase to your Phys Max Hit while standing still which is great on Bosses where with Mageblood we will be able to just stand still for.
Herald of Ash will theoretically give you more clear although with Profane Bloom it is hard to actually notice that it's doing anything other than making everything pretty.

I personally recommend you to try Herald of Ash, especially if you don't have Profane Bloom yet and if you don't like it, to instead swap over to Aspect of the Spider.

Aspect of the Spider is an Aura that has to be Beastcrafted onto an Open Suffix on one of your items.
There are 2 versions, Level 20 & 30 and we want to make sure we use Level 30 as it is basically 20% More Damage while Level 20 is only 15%.

To add it on, you will need to buy a Fenemus, First of the Night beast alongside a Black Morrigan.
You then need to go to the Menagerie and use the Altar with your desired Rare Item that has an Open Suffix to do the craft.
Make sure you select the version that uses both Fenemus & the Black Morrigan and not just the one that uses Fenumus.

Keep in mind you have to kill the Beasts to have the craft succeed and you will be missing your item for the fight.


Gear

Now that we are in the Midgame of this build, we will want to upgrade our items to higher Energy Shield bases along with higher Tier rolls on them.
The gearing methodology is the same as before, no Life on your Body Armour, Tier 1 Life on Gloves, Boots & Helmet as well as as much Energy Shield as possible on all of those slots.

Each section below will have a Crafting Guide that will walk you through how to make your own upgrades for every slot.


Wand

We will be sticking to Obliteration for now.
In the Endgame, we will be crafting a Haunted Wand but, given that it costs about 200 Divine to create, it is well out of budget for now.

What you can do to upgrade your Obliteration outside of looking for a higher roll on the Physical as Extra Chaos, is to look for a corrupted version with "x% increased Area of Effect" on it.
While this won't do too much, it is a nice extra bit of clearing and its relatively cheap.

Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/7Rr7qbnH5


Shield

We will never be replacing Rathpith given it is where all of the damage in our build comes from.
That does not mean we can't make it better.

You can ideally look for a "x% increased Maximum Life" corrupted Implicit on it giving you a decent extra chunk of Life.

If you do buy a corrupted one, you can also use Tainted Armour Scraps to quality it to 29% which will then give you even more Life due to Sanguine Power.
Keep in mind these are fairly rare so availability will vary.

Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/5nK4O2Kua


Amulet

For our Amulet, we will want to upgrade from Marylene's Fallacy to an Eyes of the Greatwolf.

Greatwolf is an Amulet that rolls with two random Implicits on it from a big pool of mods, just like a Watcher's Eye.
What we want is a Greatwolf with "x% increased Maximum Life" on it alongside either "x% increased Physical Damage Reduction" or "x% increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier."

A % PDR Amulet will be the tankier option giving you a very large increase to your Physical Max Hit while a Crit Multi version will be a DPS increase over Marylene's while also making you tankier through the Maximum Life.
It is up to you which one you go for between PDR & Crit Multi and I personally decided to buy one with PDR to be tankier at a slight DPS loss.

Keep in mind these are fairly rare and finding a perfect one will be almost impossible. Once you buy one, you will need a Tainted Oil to be able to Anoint it.
Finally, you can use Tainted Catalysts to try and roll for 20% Life Modifier Quality on the Amulet but keep in mind that the roll is random every time.
Trying to roll for a high Tainted Catalyst Quality will be expensive and something you should only do if you have money to spare.

Life & PDR Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/w5qEKOmub

Life & Crit Multi Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/dVaE9PqIJ


Belt

Nothing will be changing about our Belt due to how difficult it is to craft a better one. 
I would recommend trying to find a better one if you can but if not, just use the one you currently have until you can afford a Mageblood later into the build.

Mageblood will be the final upgrade in this Midgame setup and will be the start of the Endgame setup.
It allows us to do a lot of interesting things such as fitting in Stormshroud and possibly Melding of the Flesh allowing us to use a Silver Flask.

At the same time it will fix all of your Resistances and offer a lot more Life Regeneration through your Ruby Flask being active at all times along with the "Regenerate 3% of Life per Second during Effect" Flask craft.


Helmet

For your Helmet, we are simply looking to get as much Energy Shield as possible alongside a Tier 1 Life roll.
Given we don't need anything else in the build, we will be finishing the craft with a "x% increased Life Regeneration Rate" Benchcraft as this cannot roll on Energy Shield bases natrually.

Helmet Crafting Guide

Buy an Item Level 84 or higher Fractured Tier 1 Life or x% increased Energy Shield Lich's Circlet. If a Fractured Tier 1 Life or x% increased Energy Shield roll is too much, you can settle for Tier 2 as well.
You are better off getting a lower Life or x% increased Energy Shield roll than to get a lower base. The raw Energy Shield from a Lich's Circlet will give you overall more Life than a worse base with a higher Life or x% increased Energy Shield roll.

Helmet Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/XB7KbrRsP

1. Use Deafening Essences of Woe to guarantee "+x to maximum Energy Shield" until you get Tier 1 "x% increased Energy Shield" or Tier 1 "+x to maximum Life" based on the Fracture that you bought. 
This is a ~1/70 chance for both versions.

2. Use an Eater of Worlds Ichor on the Helmet to Influence it and then use Eldritch Orbs of Annulment until you have removed all Suffixes from the Helmet.

3. Craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" followed by "x% increased Life Regeneration Rate" and a Resistance of your choosing.
Given there are no other good Suffixes to go for, there isint much to do here other than just putting on a Resistance.
Another option if you don't need any Resistances, you can always opt for the "x% increased Rarity of Items Dropped by Slain Rare or Unique Enemies" craft instead. This will give you an increase to Gold gain which is nice to have.

4. Use Grand Eater of Worlds Ichors to get the "x% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage" Implicit.
You want to get the Fire version as we will have Fire be our highest Resistance thus reducing the damage by the greatest amount.
You have to use Grand Ichors to hit the 7% breakpoint, otherwise use Lesser Ichors for 6%.

5. Use Searing Exarch Embers to get the "x% increased Spell Critical Strike Chance" Implicit. 
Ideally use Grand Embers for the highest roll, you can use any that makes sense for your budget level.


Body Armour

For your Body Armour, we are simply looking to get as much Energy Shield as possible with NO Life mods on it.
This is to maximise on the 15% increased Maximum Life Mastery if we have no Life Mods on our Body Armour.

Outside of this, we will simply be looking for a Chaos Resistance roll which will help with Chaos Resistance when we swap to Venom Drinker alongside the crafted "3% additional Physical Damage Reduction" Mod.

Body Armour Crafting Guide

Buy a Fractured Tier 1 x% increased Energy Shield Twilight Regalia. If a Fractured Tier 1 x% increased Energy Shield roll is too much, you can settle for Tier 2 as well.
You are better off getting a lower Energy Shield roll than to get a lower base. The raw Energy Shield from a Lich's Circlet will give you overall more Life than a worse base with a higher Life roll.

Body Armour Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/V9QZOgXFp

1. Use Deafening Essences of Woe to guarantee "+x to maximum Energy Shield" until you get the Hybrid Tier 1 "% increased Energy Shield, x% increased Stun and Block Recovery" Mod. This is a ~1/65 chance.

2. Use an Eater of Worlds Ichor on the Body Armour to Influence it and then use Eldritch Orbs of Annulment until you have removed all Suffixes from the Body Armour.

3. Craft "Prefixes Cannot be Changed" and then go to the Harvest Bench and use the "Add a new Chaos modifier and remove another random modifier" craft.
This will always remove the "Prefixes Cannot be Changed" and will give you a random Tier of Chaos Resistance.
All six Tiers have an equal weighting so it is simply a 1/6 chance to hit Tier 1.

3.5 If you are not happy with the Tier of Chaos Resistance you got, use an Eldritch Orb of Annulment to remove the Suffix then try Step 3 again.

4. Craft "3% additional Physical Damage Reduction" onto the Body Armour.

I highly DO NOT recommend trying to use an Exalted Orb on the Body Armour to fill in the last Suffix. 
While getting a Resistance would be nice, getting Intelligence will brick your Rational Doctrine and getting Life Regeneration will brick your Life Mastery.

4. Use Grand Eater of Worlds Ichors to get the "x% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage" Implicit.
You want to get the Fire version as we will have Fire be our highest Resistance thus reducing the damage by the greatest amount.
You have to use Grand Ichors to hit the 11% breakpoint, otherwise use Lesser Ichors for 10%.

5. Use Grand Searing Exarch Embers to get the "Gain an Endurance Charge every 13 seconds" Implicit. 
This has to be the Grand Ember version as we need our Endurance Charges to be generated every 13 seconds to have 100% uptime.

6. (Optional) Use Tailoring Orbs on the Body Armour until you hit "8% increased Explicit Defence Modifier Magnitudes."
This will make all of your Energy Shield rolls 8% higher with is a pretty big improvement.

KEEP IN MIND - Tailoring Orbs are expensive, will break your 6-Link, and are pure RNG. It might take you 1 or 15-20 Orbs to hit Defence.


Gloves

For your Gloves, we are simply looking to get as much Energy Shield as possible alongside a Tier 1 Life roll.
Given we don't need anything else in the build, we will be finishing the craft with a "x% increased Life Regeneration Rate" Benchcraft as this cannot roll on Energy Shield bases natrually.

Glove Crafting Guide

Buy an Item Level 84 or higher Fractured Tier 1 Life or x% increased Energy Shield pair of Warlock's Gloves. If a Fractured Tier 1 Life or x% increased Energy Shield roll is too much, you can settle for Tier 2 as well.
You are better off getting a lower Life or x% increased Energy Shield roll than to get a lower base. The raw Energy Shield from a pair of Warlock's Gloves will give you overall more Life than a worse base with a higher Life or x% increased Energy Shield roll.

Helmet Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/LDE6QolCn

1. Use Deafening Essences of Woe to guarantee "+x to maximum Energy Shield" until you get Tier 1 "x% increased Energy Shield" or Tier 1 "+x to maximum Life" based on the Fracture that you bought. 
This is a ~1/80 chance for both versions.

2. Use an Eater of Worlds Ichor on the Gloves to Influence them and then use Eldritch Orbs of Annulment until you have removed all Suffixes from the Gloves.

3. Craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" followed by "x% increased Life Regeneration Rate" and a Resistance of your choosing.
Given there are no other good Suffixes to go for, there isint much to do here other than just putting on a Resistance.
Another option if you don't need any Resistances, you can always opt for the "x% increased Damage with Non-Vaal Skills during Soul Gain Prevention" craft instead. 
This will give you more DPS with your Blade Vortex for a few seconds after using Vaal Blade Vortex.

4. Use Lesser Eater of Worlds Ichors to get the "x% of Chaos Damage Leeched as Life" Implicit.
You don't need to use a higher Tier of Ichors as even the lowest Tier is enough to instantly cap out your Leech Instances.

5. Use Lesser Searing Exarch Embers to get the "x% chance to Unnerve Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit" Implicit. 
Given how fast Blade Vortex hits, the lowest roll of 15% is more than enough to have permanent uptime.


Boots

For your Boots, we are simply looking to get as much Energy Shield as possible alongside a Tier 1 Life roll and Movement Speed.
Given we don't need anything else in the build, we will be finishing the craft with a "x% increased Life Regeneration Rate" Benchcraft as this cannot roll on Energy Shield bases natrually.

Boots Crafting Guide

Buy an Item Level 84 or higher Fractured Tier 1 x% increased Energy Shield pair of Warlock's Boots. If a Fractured Tier 1 x% increased Energy Shield roll is too much, you can settle for Tier 2 as well.
You are better off getting a lower x% increased Energy Shield roll than to get a lower base. The raw Energy Shield from a pair of Warlock's Boots will give you overall more Life than a worse base with a higher x% increased Energy Shield roll.

Boots Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/b9qRmnzSL

1. Use Deafening Essences of Greed to guarantee "+x maximum Life" until you get any Tier 1 Resistance roll. If you don't need a Resistance roll, you can go for Tier 1 "Regenerate x Life per second."
It is a ~1/12 chance to get a Tier 1 Resistance and a ~1/36 chance for Tier 1 Life Regeneration. 
The Resistance type doesn't matter as we will use the Harvest Bench to change it later if needed.

2. You will now need to clean up any random Prefix you might have on your Boots and any Suffix outside of the Tier 1 Resistance or Life Regeneration that you rolled for.
If you have both a Prefix AND a Suffix you need to remove, use a normal Orb of Annulment to do so as it is a lot cheaper.

If your Prefixes are good and you only need to remove a Suffix, use an Eater of Worlds Ichor on the boots and use an Eldritch Orb of Annulment.
If your Suffixes are good and you only need to remove a Prefix, use a Searing Exarch Ember on the boots and use an Eldritch Orb of Annulment.

KEEP IN MIND - The Eldritch Orb of Annulment will only work on whatever Influence is the highest. 
For example if you failed on a previous attempt and had to remove a Suffix, you most likely used a Lesser Eater Ichor. 
If you now need to attempt to remove a Prefix, you would need to use a Greater Ember to have it be a higher Tier than the Eater Mod for the Eldritch Annul to remove a Prefix.
Simply use a Greater version of an Ichor/Ember for the type of mods you need to remove and use a Lesser of the other type to guarantee the Annul will do what you want it to do.

Your goal in the end is to only have Fractured x% increased Energy Shield, the Deafening Essence of Greed Life roll & either a Tier 1 Resistance or Tier 1 Life Regeneration on the Boots with no other Mods.

4. Craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" followed by "x% increased Life Regeneration Rate" and the Hybrid "% increased Movement Speed, % chance to gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on Kill" Mod.

4. Use Grand Eater of Worlds Ichors to get the "% increased Life Regeneration rate" Implicit.
You can use Lesser or Greater Ichors on a budget. This is a very important roll so I'd recommend using Grand.

5. Use Lesser Searing Exarch Embers to get the "+1% to Maximum Fire Resistance" Implicit. 
This mod will always be 1% until Execptional Tier so just using Lesser Embers is the cheapest option.

Rings

For Rings, we are going to be sticking with the rings we had previously.
Crafting better rings is expensive and before Mageblood its difficult to do so as we will be using this slot to Resistance Cap ourselves making getting a high Life roll as well as high Resistances difficult to do.

I'd recommend to use this slot as a flex slot where you change it as needed based on how the rest of your gear is doing especially with Resistances.
Keep in mind that you can use the Harvest Bench to Resistance Swap your Resistances around as needed.

If you haven't upgraded to Vermillion Rings by now you should, as the "x% increased Maximum Life" Implicit on them is a very large Life boost.
The trade link below will bring you to a default search for a generic Ring we would want in this build. It is up to you to turn the Resistance filter on/off based on what you need.

If you happen to have an Open Prefix, the "Regenerate x Life per Second, +x to Maximum Mana" Hybrid Mod is an amazing addition.

Make sure to use Fertile Catalyst on the Ring to get it to 20% Quality along you using Blessed Orbs to max roll the Implicit.

Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/Mg4bnpJcJ

Once you grab yourself a Forbidden Flesh & Flame, you will need to get a Despair on Hit ring to benefit from the explosions of Profane Bloom.
Profane Bloom will only explode Cursed enemies and if we don't have a source of Curse on Hit, the explosions cant chain as the next target in line wouldn't be cursed.
Thus, we need the explosions to be able to curse through a Curse on Hit ring. 

Despair on Hit Forbidden Jewel Ring Crafting Guide

Buy an Item Level 66 or higher Fractured Curse on Hit ring of any base type.
You can look around for whichever base would be best for you, but you ideally would want a Vermillion Ring.

In the Endgame, we will Recombinate the mod onto a Vermillion Ring but that is out of scope for the Midgame setup.
If you know how to do this, I do recommend to Recombinate a normal Despair on Hit onto a Vermillion Ring and then use a Fracturing Orb until you Fracture the Despair on Hit.
There will be another crafting guide in the Endgame on how to do this.

Ring Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/PV5jpaGIL

1. Use Deafening Essences of Scorn to guarantee "+x% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier" until you get Tier 1 "Regenerate x Life per second". This is a ~1/125 chance.

2. If your Ring does not have an Open Prefix, you will need to use an Orb of Annulment to get one. If you Annul a Suffix, go back to Step 1.

3. With an Open Prefix, craft "Suffixes Cannot be Changed" and use an Orb of Scouring to remove all Prefixes.

4. Craft "Suffixes Cannot be Changed" and then go to the Harvest Bench and use the "Add a new Life modifier and remove another random modifier" craft.
This will either give you "% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life" 11.1% of the time or "+x to maximum Life" 88.8% of the time.
From there, it is a 1/8 chance to get Tier 1 Life. I would recommend to settle for Tier 3 or higher Life and to try for a higher roll later if you are short on money.

4.5 If you are not happy with the Life roll that you got or if you got Life Leech, go back to Step 3.

5. Craft the Hybrid "+x to maximum Mana, Regenerate 25 Life per second" Mod in an Open Prefix.

6. Use Fertile Catalysts until you get to 20% Quality.


Cluster Jewels

Cluster Jewels for this build are.... rough sadly. While the Medium Area Damage Cluster is simple to craft, the Large Chaos Cluster is a bit more difficult requiring a Fracture to do so.

On our Medium Area Damage Clusters, we simply want Towering Threat & Assert Dominance. 
Two Assert Dominance rolls will be a massive amount of extra Area of Effect making your clear feel all that much better.

On our Large Cluster Jewel, we want to move Overwhelming Malice onto it to allow us to drop the Medium Critical Strike Cluster we had for another Area Damage one.
Sadly, trying to craft this is basically impossible unless we Fracture Overwhelming Malice onto it which then makes the crafting process a lot simpler.


Medium Cluster Jewel Crafting Guide 

Buy an Item Level 68-83 4 or 5 Passive Area Damage Medium Cluster Jewel.
Make sure it is not above Item Level 84 or below Item Level 68 otherwise you cannot hit the mods if it's below 68 or you make it harder to craft if it's above 83.

Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/2OKBnvdCk

Crafting this will simply be a one Step process that should be very quick to do.
Once you have the Cluster Jewel base, go to the Harvest Bench and simply reroll it with Reforge Life until you get both Towering Threat and Assert Dominance.

Given Towering Threat has the Life tag, it should be easy to see it often and its simply just spamming until you get lucky and also get Assert Dominance.
On average, this is about a ~1/200 chance of happening meaning it shouldn't take very long to hit and should only cost about 1 Divine in Lifeforce to get.

Once you do get it, you can Exalted Orb slam it to fill it up with potentially useful mods but, keep in mind this could also roll Strength or Intelligence which might mess with your Rational Doctrine.
If you happen to get a Resistance, you can always use the Harvest Bench to swap it to a different one if needed.


Large Cluster Jewel Craftng Guide

Buy an Item Level 75-83 8 Passive Chaos Damage Large Cluster Jewel.
Make sure it is not above Item Level 83 or below Item Level 75 otherwise you cannot hit the mods if it's below 75 or you make it harder to craft if it's above 83.

Trade Link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/Dr06agdf5

1. Use Orbs of Alteration on the Cluster Jewel until you get Overwhelming Malice. This is a ~1/110 chance.

2. Orb of Augment the Cluster Jewel if it has an Open Suffix, then Regal it and then use an Exalted Orb on it to get a Rare Cluster Jewel with Overwhelming Malice & three other Mods.

3. Use a Fracturing Orb on the Cluster Jewel. It is a 1/4 chance that it will Fracture the Overwhelming Malice. If you fail, buy a new Cluster Jewel and go back to Step 1.

4. With a Fractured Overwhelming Malice Cluster Jewel, go to the Harvest Bench and use Reforge Chaos until you get both Unspeakable Gifts & Wicked Pall or Unwaveringly Evil. 
Both Wicked Pall and Unwaveringly Evil are just as good as each other and it doesn't matter which one you get. This is a ~1/700 chance and will take a while to happen.

5. DO NOT use an Exalted Orb on your Cluster Jewel once you are done if you have an Open Suffix as you could either Strength or Intelligence.
This could potentially make balancing your Rational Doctrine much harder to do. If you happen to get a Resistance, you can always use the Harvest Bench to swap it to a different one if needed.








































































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