Level 97 Reap Ascendant^3.23

Notes

Crafting upgrades in order of importance:

Life + Resists on gear
 - Early on just get your resists capped (including chaos) and enough life to survive

Regen and Physical Damage Reduction (PDR) / physical damage taken as elemental on gear
 - Once you get resists settled focus on fitting in as much regen as you can to sustain Reap comfortably and eventually Righteous Fire
 - PDR is very important seeing as physical damage is one of our biggest weaknesses same goes for physical damage taken as elemental

Eldritch Implicits
 - Use Eldritch Chaos + Exalts + Annuls to craft good gear before getting good implicits, makes crafting so much easier
 - The + maximum resists on eldritch influence is incredibly strong and a very big priority, dont worry about orb of conflicting to higher tiers until you have gear your comfortable with keeping for a long time
 - Leech on gloves is a good survivability boost and enables our end game amulet annoint
 - If you're low on Ichors and Embers dont roll over usable implicits just to get BiS early, regen and resists can be very helpful for giving you the small boost in power to farm more
 
+1 Wand
https://youtu.be/_CbZ348Y4EQ?t=470
 - The video is for cold DoT but you can use the same method for physical +1 and just use benchcrafts that benefit physical instead of cold damage
 - Can also use the vendor recipe: normal rarity wand + 2 or more quality gems with a combined total of 40% quality & the Physical tag gives +1 physical skills and you can just benchcraft physical damage over time multi or cast speed

Vulnerability on hit ring
 - Buy from trade or self craft with reforge caster on item level 80+ Warlord influence base can also be found in delve or as a glove corruption implicit (leech eldritch implicit is better obviously)

+2 Amulet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNJrnV3bGyY
 - Use whatever base you need attributes for, dont forget to catalyst first. Only annoint Hematophagy if you have the glove leech implicit otherwise do something cheap and useful like attributes or whatever you need

+2 Wand
 - Crafting section is at end of my guide 
https://youtu.be/HR7AQt03Bu4?t=1255

FAQ:
What order for my ascendancy?
 - Raider first for huge quality of life and speed from Frenzy charges

What order should I take passive points while leveling?
 - Path towards Relentless, Vanquisher, and Tireless first, from there head down to Bannerman, go all the way up the tree to Purity of Flesh. Get Pain Attunement last since you wont be low life until later
 - Take jewel sockets last unless you find a very strong jewel early on

Body armour benchcraft
 - Phys taken as is Gravicious unveiled prefix I personally spam reforge phys on a decent 6 link base until I hit a usable tier of PDR then finish the rest off with eldritch currency + beforementioned benchcraft

Helmet benchcraft
 - Phys taken as is Korell unveiled prefix

Cast speed feels bad
 - Make sure you have Arcane Surge linked to Flame Dash
 - Frenzy charges are a ton of cast speed since they also grant onslaught at max charges, if they are falling off take the charge duration mastery
 - Can link Faster Casting until you get enough cast speed on rings, jewels or amulet

Hardcore tips?
 - Gladiater ascendancy with a shield + Glancing Blows keystone is quite powerful with a recover on block setup 
 - Drop Herald of Purity for Tempest Shield, dawnbreaker is BIS for phys mitigation (can get phys taken as on implicit with corruption as well)
 - Swap Pride and War Banner for Grace and Defiance Banner
 - Capping spell suppression is a good idea for late game, too much suffix pressure early on

Should I use Awakened Spell Cascade?
 - With 3.23 Reap lost the AoE from gem quality and since the build doesnt run much AoE it might be difficult to get overlaps, if you find its worth using go for it but I prefer just sticking with Swift Affliction

Does this build want a cluster setup?
 - Eventually yes a large physical cluster with Force Mulitplier + Furious Assault + Master the Fundamentals is BiS but any 2 of those + a random third that gives something useful is just fine
 - A small armour cluster with Enduring Composure allows easy endurance charge generation which helps with PDR
 - Can get a good amount of Intelligence or Dexterity from cluster jewels if you need it

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@tfwStarving for any questions :)