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Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 75 LL MoM Crit Frostblink Inquisitor3.26

Life: 109141%
ES: 7,566
Mana: 0%
Str: 789
Int: 845
eHP:
51,501
Resistances: 79%/71%/80%/-6%
Hit Chance: 100%
Crit Chance: 63.30%
Crit Multi: 252%
Config: None
Bandit: Alira

Gear

Energy Blade One HandedRathpith GlobeCrown of the Inward EyeThe Ivory TowerShaper's TouchWarlock BootsAstramentisAmethyst RingAmethyst RingCyclopean Coil
Coruscating ElixirSapphire FlaskTopaz Flask
Searching Eye JewelBrutal RestraintCobalt JewelCrimson JewelCrimson JewelViridian Jewel

Gems

Frostblink
Haste
Eternal Blessing
Frost Shield
Tempest Shield
Shield Charge
Faster Attacks
Precision
Energy Blade
Enhance
Vitality
Flameblast of Celerity
Increased Critical Strikes
Infused Channelling
Increased Critical Damage
Spellblade
Faster Casting
Flesh and Stone
Arctic Armour
Discipline

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Blood MagicBlood Magic
Eternal YouthEternal Youth
Iron WillIron Will
Mind Over MatterMind Over Matter
Pain AttunementPain Attunement
RunebinderRunebinder
Zealot's OathZealot's Oath
Armour MasteryArmour Mastery
  • +1 Armour per 2 Strength
Armour and Energy Shield MasteryArmour and Energy Shield Mastery
  • Recover 5% of Energy Shield over 1 second when you take Physical Damage from an Enemy Hit
Attributes MasteryAttributes Mastery
  • 5% increased Attributes
Block MasteryBlock Mastery
  • +1% Chance to Block Spell Damage per 5% Chance to Block Attack Damage
Brand MasteryBrand Mastery
  • 40% increased Brand Attachment range
  • You can Cast 2 additional Brands
Caster MasteryCaster Mastery
  • 6% increased Cast Speed for each different Non-Instant Spell you've Cast Recently
Energy Shield MasteryEnergy Shield Mastery
  • Regenerate 2% of Energy Shield per second
Reservation MasteryReservation Mastery
  • 20% increased Life Reservation Efficiency of Skills

Notes

********************************* Should you play this build? ******************************************

Pros:
- Adaptability -> Energyblade skeleton can make almost any spell good (obviously skills are not created equal, some are just better than others but who cares, play what you think is fun)
- VERY strong intially on about 5-10d of gear with amazing scalability with each upgrading making a meaningful difference

Cons:
- Has to Play Coruscating Elixir until much more min-maxed gear which allows dropping ivory/coruscating which is a QoL downside
- Has a decent amount of map mods that are auto skips -> example: less defence(t17) / remove 5% life on hit(pk mod for lowlife builds, can run this after swapping out of coruscating)
- Only had enough time to do some brief testing for early map progression so haven't 100% mapped out if staying EO till ivory swap vs crit is correct

Sidenote:
- this type of character will make future characters feel weak (example: most spell skills will feel bad playing a different way after because scaling is just worse than eblade + battlemage inquis)

********************************* Skill Gem Setups to Try on build ******************************************

Self Cast Options:
	*Flameblast Celerity(this skill is just giga fun aoe clear + decent damage)
	*Incinerate of Venting(probably strongest single target, feels bad ramp until good gear, check out onemanaleft for an endgame example)
    *Penance Brand of Dissipation(one of the strongest self cast+mobility skills, requires picking up some brand stuff / explode for clear)
	*Wave of Conviction of Trathus(bit of an unknown but if running less duration allows consistent double hit seems like a great spell echo skill) depends on how duration + double hit stuff works
CoC Options:
	*Eye of Winter BiS Single Target
	*Ice Spear of Splitting + Return Proj(BiS Clear with decent single target)
	*Bladefall(requires awakened cascade) Good Clear/Single Target
    *Blazing Salvo (use return) Good All Rounder
Mine Options: 
	*Ball Lightning of Orbiting All rounder Clear / Decent Single Target
	*Eye of Winter Generally BiS Single Target with decent enough clear
	*Arc Regular/Oscillating(potentially best feeling clearspeed with ok damage)
	*Frostblink Wintry Blast Theoretically good (requires aoe investment & solving chill proc)

IMPORTANT: Quality on Energy blade = 10% more es(10% more damage), with enhance =20% more es/damage, prioritize quality on this first, then other gems(IE if lab font gives you good quality then put it on EB)

********************************* Leveling ******************************************

4hr Act 10 Eblade Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCCfyB30qI

Vendor Regex(use in act 1/2): -\w-.-|b-b|g-r|r-g|nne|rint|Flam|Earn

This tree was based on doing a straight into Eblade right at lvl 30ish or so on first lab, if you don't want to do that a more basic firebased cast inquis leveling works fine just make sure you have gold/respecs to change when needed

First Lab = Battlemage: Battlemage + Energy/blade is just fairly solid damage early on, make sure to be picking up ES / hybrid ES pieces where you can to help this flat damage. If you find a very high ele damage one hand you can also use that and wait on using Eblade. 

Leveling Gem Progression Recorded by MrBwite
Mule Ranger
Momentum for shield charge
3 blue  

Templar start
Rolling magma - ele prolif

Tidal back:
Holy flame totem
Frostblink
Arcane surge
Flame wall
shield charge + momentum
 Items to grab:
Goat horn
es belt

Flooded depths:
Combust support

Brutus back:
Flame dash

Fidelitas:
Herald of ash

Dominus back
Elemental weakness
Firestorm - main skill now
faster casting - conc effect - trinity
energy blade
discipline 

Crystal veins back: 
Armagedon brand

Ascend -> Inquisitor -> Battle mage
E-blade swap


Movement Skills: (Leap Slam OR Shield Charge)+ momentum(mule a ranger)/Faster Attacks(do siosa for this or wait till act 6) + Frostblink/Flamedash

Aura Skills: Discipline + (Flesh & Stone / Arctic Armour / Tempest Shield)(pick one, then later on if you want to invest in reservation like sovereingty wheel, these are good reservations to consider)

Curse: Elemental Weakness / Punishment

Bandits: Help Alira(15 all ele res less gear pressure) OR Oak(40 life, harder to res cap, better late game scaling) //// 8% movespeed is decent but i think leap slam is ideal and less dependent on movespeed


********************************* How To Get First Easy Chaos to Buy Early Gear for Real Smooth Early Maps ******************************************

Pick up rogue markers/demo contracts throughout campaign

Starting at lvl 60 check vendor in heist for demolition contracts(these specifically drop chaos alot from the '?' Side chests

The vendor will reset every level 

5-10 missions should net 10-20c which you will use to buy the key items first

********************************* Gearing ******************************************

Better Trading Buy Folder: be sure to highlight the whole text or import can fail

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OMEGA Early
SSF 'ID' rares till you get currency to purchase some of the early basic uniques to get you started

EARLY
Rings: Rare Life/Es + Attributes + Res
Helmet: Broken Crown(Cheap t5 unique with 200 es & 50 chaos res) -> Rare Hyrbi ES/Armour (divine crown base) can get this via rog/gwennen early - craft with reforge life / essence
Body armour: Geofri's Sanctuary(Cheap t4 unique with some ok es/res) -> Incandescent Heart (requires capped chaos res IMO) -> Rare Hybrid ES/Armour (Sacred Chainmail) craft with some dense fossils
Amulet: Rare amulet Life/Es + Attribute + Res
Boots: Rare with life/attribute/res/movespeed 
Gloves: Kalisa's Grace(Cheap t5 unique pseudo 5L early) -> Rare Hybrid (paladin gloves base) can get this via rog/gwennen early - craft with reforge life / essence
Belt: Rare with strength + res/life(ideal base is heavy)
Shield: Leper's Alm -> Rare Titanium with block chance / ES 
Main hand weapon: any random one hand with socket colors you want

Mid-Game(swapped to Early Ivory Setup)
Rings: Good rare, use the trade search & get fairly high attribute/life/es + res/cast speed depending on setup
Amulet: Astramentis
Helmet: Curtain Call / Crown of the Inward Eye / Glimpse of Chaos(requires extra res on gear/corrupt off mana mod) / Good Rare Lich's Circlet
Belt: Cyclopean Coil / Rare
Boots: Rare (high attribute + life + movespeed + chaos res)
Body armour: Ivory Tower(REQUIRES Balbala SetUP)
Shield: Rathpith
Gloves: Shaper's Touch
Weapon: one hand weapon with abyss socket

End-game
Rings: Rare Helical(harder to craft but can save with recombine sometimes) Fractured t1 Int/Str -> attribut catalyst -> essence of scorn till t1 int or str -> suffixes can't be changed veild chaos
Amulet: Simplex Amulet with Awakener orbed %str + %attr -> anul benchcraft life on prefix(or veiled chaos) / OR do a three-rat / OR gigachad eyes of greatwolf (check costs of various options, fairly comparable in power)
Helmet: Curtain Call
Belt: Cyclopian Coil Max Roll with %attribute corruption & quality
Boots: Rare fracture t1 Str/Int + Fundamental/Sanctified/Hollow Fossil combo till T1 str/int + abyss socket -> suffix can't veiled chaos + block slam
Body armour: Ivory Tower
Shield: Rathpith
Gloves: Shaper's Touch
Weapon: one hand weapon with abyss socket


JEWELS To Look for:
Rare Jewels: %life/%es/Str&int/All attribute/Crit multi
Adorned: this jewel is probably still BiS in late game BUT requires a very good roll and basically perfectly divined magic jewels(only for very min-max IMO)
Emperor's Mastery: Best jewel the build can get but very expesive and not necessary
Life Grand Spectrums: Solid options but quite expensive and only marginally better than good rare jewels
Split Personality: Str + Int / Str +Dex / Int+Dex / Str+ES / Int+ES / Str+life / Int+life (str+int is BiS, but other combinations can be worth depending on character, and tri-stack likes other attribute combinations as well)
Watchers Eye: Evade% /%suppress / spell block / regen / recovery / gain on hit / ect good with discipline


********************************* Mana ******************************************

Mana Solutions to aim for early: 15% skill cost as mana as first life mastery / Mana Nodes
Mana Solutions to aim for in later setups: Late game solution -> blood magic + eternal youth (sometimes life recharge turns off in predicitive mod, this is a bug with internet, swap to lockstep should help avoid this)
Mana Solutions for GIGA late game: Use unleveled skill where gem level doesn't change %effectiveness + high int/str investment gives a lot of base mana + Sanctuary of thought 50%ish more regen for mana

Eternal Youth DOWNSIDE: There are a select few mechanics in poe that turn off recovery, Exarch ground(i think not 100% sure)/Sirus Ground/Maven Degen beam if you get hit by or stand in one of these
the life recharge will be deactivated for 2+ seconds thus softlocking skill use for a bit. Simply Avoid Sirus/exarch Ground mod on T17s & you have to play around those mechanics in ubers, very doable(sirus is the only real problematic one imo)

********************************* Eternal Youth BUG ******************************************

sometimes life recharge turns off in predicitive mod, this is a bug with internet, swap to lockstep should help avoid this
but it happens on occasion to people based on what people have told me, I've run into this issue a few times but its very rare and generally for most people predictive fixes the issue


********************************* Snacks ******************************************

S-Tier:
Water(only drink you will ever need)
Doughnuts(best snacking desert there is)
Eggs -> scrambled/omelet/breakfast sandwich combo, always good no matter how you make em


A-Tier:
Cereal -> time efficient breakfast to get gaming faster(i recommend granola)
Dino Nuggies(fairly time efficient, we can pretend its meal) (pair with mac-cheese)
Frozen Pizza(fairly time efficient also kindof technically a meal)
Taquitos(idk how good these are, but chat seems to love and won't shut up about it)
Mac-Cheese = Easy/Time Efficient we can pretend this is almost a meal (pair with dino nuggies)
Club Crackers solid snack easy and affordable
Gold fish (i'd put this in S-tier if my babies had more control of this list)
Oreos/Preffered Cookie + Milk (pretty min-max for taste value but does require setup of milk & oreos -1 minute efficiency)
Milk/Protein Shake-> delicious/filling -> requires a blender
Peanuts the most notable nut there is, personally i like honey roasted but you do you
Potatoes -> great build diversity, can min-max into basically any meal (do not consume raw)
Cheeze-itz(previously S, moved down due to lack of it being in my pantry recently)
Popeyes(been on a popeyes kick recently and I am biased)


B-Tier:
Asiago Bagels + cream cheese (decently time efficient but mid risk of cream cheesing your keyboard)
Ice Cream(bit less time efficient but tastes amazing, i recommend peanut butter + vanilla ice cream + dark choco chips that you keep in freezer)
Fruit snacks (easy & convenient) but will screw your teeth
Smoothie(dealers choice of ingredients) decent setup time, not a tasty as a shake probably healthier
Pretzels maximize water efficiency and help you pretend you aren't starving from lack of real food (add in whipped creamed cheese and it goes to A-tier)
Cashews Delicious and a bit more cost efficient than pistachios
Tea bit of setup time with boiling water but fantastically soothing
Chipotle -> delicious but super costly if you pay to deliver OR you brick your time efficiency by going to store
Eggo Waffles -> pretty solid time efficiency, charlotte loves these
Quesadilla -> cost efficient & easy to make solid flavor
Chips & Salsa (not my thing but a staple classic for many, just don't spill the salsa) +add guac for 10 points of flavor but -10 in time it takes to mash up the avocado
Oatmeal -> pretty filling, results in high end gaming, not BiS flavour but gets the job done


C-Tier:
Hotdogs Fairly time efficient, quality will vary greatly depending on what dogs you get and how you cook them (F tier= microwave, A tier if grilled with high quality dogs)
Pistachios super tasty but kinda p2w nut
Honey Buns -> tasty unhealthy fast & you will need to wash hands
Beef Jerky (mid taste in my opinion but if thats your thing it could jump up some tiers due to time efficiency/ease)
Gummy Bears -> solid but will get stuck to teeth which feels bad
Grilled Cheese Decent time consumption, high flavor, can vary greatly on how its made


D-Tier:
Hot-Pocket(time efficient, seem way worse than I remember)(will probably burn your tongue)
Cheetos/Doritos => tasty snakc but finger debuff will destroy your keyboard/efficiency
Reese's -> RIP teeth
Skittles -> RIP teeth
Star Burst -> RIP teeth


F-Tier:
Popcorn -> thing will get stuck in teeth, GG - multiple hours due to pure tilt and efficiency loss
Every other drink known to mankind (bud light)
raisins -> just a creeper version of a grape
BabyCarrots/Cucumbers w/ humus(too healthy, almost like you know what the sun looks like)
Poptarts super time efficient but you will feel dirty on the inside eating them & they kinda suck now
Apples
Pokimane Cookies(you disappoint me)
Door-Dash -> giga expensive, could have gotten a new pc



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