6 months ago

Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 67 Heft Smith of Kitava0.3

Life: 2,41832%
ES: 66
Mana: 363
eHP:
8,158
Resistances: 75%/75%/75%/75%
Armour: 8,242
Hit Chance: 97%
Config:
Custom Mods

Loadout

Gear

Anvil MaulGuardian GreathelmGlorious PlateGrand MittsBeetlebiteAmber AmuletAmethyst RingAmethyst RingPlate Belt
Thawing CharmStone CharmGrounding Charm
Prism of BeliefRubyRuby

Gems

Trail of Caltrops
Brutality III
Multishot II
Close Combat II
Heft
Life Leech III
Herald of Ash
Thornskin II
Fire Mastery
Magnified Area II

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Notes

Watch my stream at twitch.tv/sillyislily to see updates as they happen or join the Thornhub at discord.gg/6bzZVx6AEZ to be the first to get PoB updates
If I start Caltrops I'll update this PoB throughout the league

Rolling Slam/Boneshatter is my levelling tech of choice because we get to run a 2h Mace all the way through
Feel free to start with any other levelling methods you like, but make sure you have a good 2h Mace by lvl 36!
It will cost about 14-16k gold to respec into Caltrops from the Rolling Slam Setup, so try to save gold in Act 3. You can trickle respec as you get gold if you don't have enough
You'll also need 65 dexterity for the swap, so save a little extra gold for that

Choice Rewards:
 - Valley of the Titans	- Personal preference, I take Increased Charm Charges Gained											 - Can be changed
 - Venom Vial				- Stun Threshold or Ailment Threshold. 
											Stun Threshold should be better on Smith, but worse if you switch to Titan later               - Can't be changed
 - Tattoos					  - Strength, Res, Res
											Triple Res also works, but we take Astramentis eventually so Dex and Int don't matter     - Can't be changed
 - Abandoned Prison     - 30% Increased Life Recovery From Flasks 																		   - Can be changed
 - Seven Pillars              - 3% Increased Movement Speed 																							- Can be changed

Beetlebite is a totally optional unique, but it's very cheap for 30% inc movement speed and 100% inc damage. If you need defences use rare boots instead. MOVEMENT SPEED IS NB!!!!!

It's very easy to craft good suffixes onto your 2H Mace - Just make sure to buy 3 good prefixes with no essence mods or desecrations!
Omen of the Liege + Preserved Jawbone gives you the armour break - Prefixes must be full and you must have one open Suffix
Perfect Essence of Battle gives you the +levels - The item must be full for this. 1 in 3 to remove the desecrate, + Levels is more important!
Once you have a levels+armour break Mace you can optionally spec into increased effect of broken armour on the tree for better single target. I haven't added it because desecrating could be expensive this league
You can also consider Armour Explosion for clear, but the AoE is terrible
You can also consider Uruk's Smelting with a way to consume armour break for better bossing at the cost of more active gameplay and a probably expensive lineage support

Grab Giant's Blood as soon as you have enough Strength and two maces with +levels - your offhand is a statstick for armour break and levels, it's damage doesn't contribute to Caltrops

Regular Attack Speed doesn't help us at all, Movement Speed is Attack Speed for us

This build should also work on Druid, but I don't have enough information to make a guide for that yet

If you have any questions join the Thornhub (discord.gg/6bzZVx6AEZ) and I'll answer as soon as I can!
I'll add frequently asked questions to the notes over time