10 months ago

Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 97 Corrupting Fever Champion3.22

Life: 6,563172%
ES: 61
Mana: 4
eHP:
106,689
Resistances: 78%/77%/77%/75%
Evade: 58%
Supp: 100%
Armour: 30,388
Evasion: 11,442
DPS: 4,330,492
Hit Chance: 100%
Config:
Pinnacle, Frenzy, Custom Mods
Bandit: Kill All
Pantheon: Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Ralakesh

Gear

Driftwood WandIvory Spirit ShieldPig-Faced BascinetFull DragonscaleDragonscale GauntletsDragonscale BootsTurquoise AmuletUnset RingAmethyst RingLeather Belt
Divine Life FlaskJade FlaskQuicksilver FlaskGranite FlaskQuartz Flask
Ghastly Eye JewelGhastly Eye JewelViridian JewelViridian Jewel

Gems

Corrupting Fever
Brutality
Swift Affliction
General's Cry
Pride
Determination
Malevolence
War Banner
Faster Attacks
Shield Charge
Lifetap
Flame Dash
Vaal Reap
Brutality
Controlled Destruction
Swift Affliction
Cruelty
Efficacy
Cast when Damage Taken
Molten Shell
Lifetap
Vulnerability
Corrupting Fever
Lifetap
Second Wind
Frenzy
Additional Accuracy
Maim

Tree Preview

Call to ArmsCall to Arms
Iron WillIron Will
MagebaneMagebane
Duration MasteryDuration Mastery
  • 10% more Skill Effect Duration
Evasion MasteryEvasion Mastery
  • +15% chance to Suppress Spell Damage if Equipped Helmet, Body Armour, Gloves, and Boots all have Evasion Rating
Life MasteryLife Mastery
  • +50 to maximum Life
Physical MasteryPhysical Mastery
  • 40% increased Physical Damage with Skills that Cost Life
Reservation MasteryReservation Mastery
  • 8% increased Damage for each of your Aura or Herald Skills affecting you
  • Auras from your Skills have 10% increased Effect on you
Warcry MasteryWarcry Mastery
  • Remove all Damaging Ailments when you Warcry
  • Recover 15% of Life when you use a Warcry

Notes

WARNING: THIS IS MORE EXPERIMENTAL OF A POB AND LESS BEGINNER FRIENDLY THAN YOU'RE USED TO FROM ZIZARAN GUIDES, WE ALSO DIDN'T GET TO TRY THE NEW SUPPORTS YET, PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK

> CALCULATIONS OF DAMAGE <
PoB doesn't have support for Corrupting Cry yet as of writing this PoB, to compensate for this I looked at the % difference between Corrupting Fever and Corrupting Cry numbers and added those in config.
One thing to keep in mind though is that any +1 all skill gems or +1 all phys skill gems mods won't work on Corrupting Cry, if you add any of those on gear make sure to lower Corrupting Fever level by 1 each time. 

> CRAFTING GLOVES <
1. Get gloves with suppress fractured(if not the next step might require multiple attempts)
2. Use an essence of Delirium(until suppress if you skipped step 1)
3. Suffixes cannot be changed -> veiled chaos. If no open prefix for Suffixes Cannot Be Changed you'll have to annul first
4. Check on craftofexile what your best mod to craft is for blocking
5. Unveil +2 aoe hopefully

> LEVELING <
We can either level with Spectral Throw or Phys DoTs(including Corrupting Cry).

For Spectral Throw leveling we want to use basic 2H axe/sword leveling strats, make sure you take Adrenaline in normal lab and proc it with Corrupting Fever - Lifetap

Phys DoT leveling is a bit more experimental and pretty much relies on Corrupting Cry being good in acts already
Stack Exsanguinate, (Vaal) Reap and Corrupting Cry, try to get a dot mult wand or +1 phys wand.
Make sure you take Adrenaline in normal lab and proc it with Corrupting Fever - Lifetap 

> PATHING <
YES THE PATHING AROUND IRON WILL FREAKING SUCKS, it's worth the single target though

> PIVOTS IN CASE THIS BUILD SUCKS <
- EA Champ (Zizaran has a guide for this :D)
- Dom Blow Champ (something like this: https://pobb.in/OwQbcmknAzwI)
- Corrupting Fever Champ (Ruetoo has a PoB for this)

> CHOICES/PROBLEMS <
Grace vs Malevolence
I feel like the build is tanky enough while mapping with just a Jade flask, if it's not though make sure to swap out Malevolence and swap in Grace(and be ready for the dex requirements)

Explosions?
We don't hit, so explosions are really hard to get(can't bleed mobs for example). We do get a lot of AoE on our General's Cry though, so it should still be fine maybe?

Any other warcries? 
Technically you can have perma uptime on other warcries, but General's Cry has the shortest cooldown by far, and cooldown will be key for clearspeed.

Can't you save 1 point at Escalation by pathing the other way around?
Currently I'm expecting warcry duration to scale the corrupting blood duration, then the 1 extra point is probably worth it, if not just path the other way around.

Frenzy charges?
Either blood rage with a 2nd unset ring or a frenzy - faster attacks/accuracy - maim setup instead of the adrenaline setup and weapon swapping to double midnight bargain for Adrenaline proc.

My warcry cooldown is too slow to clear with properly
If the warcry cooldown is too long to clear with you can switch to the "double warcry" setup(change the tree AND the skill gem setup).
This means you CAN'T have a warcry on left click anymore, but since we have an Enduring Cry added in with a 4 second cooldown you can press that whenever you feel like you need it.