Level 100 Reap Champion^3.25

Notes

Modified/stolen basic idea off of @tfwStarving / twitch.tv/tfwStarving
From his Hiero PoB https://youtu.be/AIB3OJiFuSo
Removed fluff/slight padding

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)
 - Once you get resists settled focus on fitting in as much regen as you can to sustain Reap comfortably and eventually Righteous Fire
 - Physical damage is our biggest weakness so be sure to get as much PDR as you can

Eldritch Implicits
- SAVE ICHORS for gloves
 - If you're low on Ichors and Embers dont roll over usable implicits just to get BiS early, regen, resists, physical DoT, and spell suppression can be very helpful for giving you the small boost in power to farm more
 
+1 Wand
 - Use the vendor recipe (vendor recipe on a Pagan Wand, lowest Int req base, cause we're dumb fucks and have no Intelligence):
     - Normal rarity wand with 2 or more quality gems with a combined total of 40% quality & the Physical tag gives +1 Physical skills and you can then just benchcraft physical damage over time multiplier or cast speed

Vulnerability on hit ring
 - Self craft with reforge caster on item level 80+ Warlord influence base (acquire ring with any influence, swap influence with harvest0
 - Can also be found as a delve mod, synthesis implicit, or as a glove corruption implicit

+2 Amulet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNJrnV3bGyY
 - Use whatever base you need attributes for, dont forget to catalyst first. 

+2 Wand
https://youtu.be/HR7AQt03Bu4?t=1255
 -  Cold Iron Point is good if you find one

Suppress gear
 - smush together stuff in the recombinator until something good pops out
 - beg Rog
 - use the new crafting systems?


FAQ:

Why Champion over Hiero?
 - 2x ehp/max hit, ~10% less damage (with same gear/setup)
 - Hiero doesn't have a 4th ascendancy
 - New shiny :3

Why not?
 - Needs to press a buton for Adrenaline every 20s
 - Occasionally needs to press ANOTHER button for enduring cry (when dry streak on enduring composure)
 - Really wants small armour cluster for reliable ECs
 - Leech mod on gloves can be a PITA to get day1/2
 - Ailments can be a bit more cumbersome early on without Illuminated Devotion
 - no Lethe Shade (with 3-4k net recovery I personally don't really see how that's a problem)
 - Entropic Devastation is easier to make work on Hiero, plus the option to respec to Inquis for some cold convery action

Leveling?
 - Take the "Physical Attack Damage" scenic route when starting, optionally Martial Experience+Destroyer, and yeet it towards scion (respec later with gold so keep some on hand)
     - Spectral Throw, Helix, Sunder, whatever floats your boat
 - Take the life mastery "Skills cost life instead of 15% of mana cost" and the physical mastery "40% increased physical damage with skills that cost life" for a quick power boost
 - Use the vendor recipe to upgrade your weapons:
     - Magic/rare/unique rustic sash + any rarity weapon + 1 Blacksmith's Whetstone = magic weapon with "x% increased physical damage'"
 - Slap on precision for much needed accuracy
 - Until level 28 where you can equip Reap (Will very likely feel worse, so you might wanna wait a bit (well, if you're the "optimal" type of guy, why the fuck are you playing phys DoT champion in 2025 xdd)
     - but don't forget to level Reap and Exsang in your offhand! (can only buy lv1 gems, CF you can buy lvled)

 - Would swap after lab at the earliest (if you wanna swap during campaign), because without adrenaline you won't really have any dmg passives
 - Spellslinger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siWFhIAbpPo (scion, but will be similar)
 - Self-cast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHROxQRQiDY (scion, but will be similar)

 - Don't overlevel your green support gems unnecessarily, attributes can be a pain
 - same for Faster Casting and Flame Dash (just needs to cost enough mana to proc Arcane Surge in 1 cast if you're using that)

What order for my ascendancy?
 - Adrenaline - Fortify - Worthy Foe/Inspirational - Inspirational/Worthy Foe (Worthy Foe is more dmg, Inspirational gives you armour/regen from determ/vitality)

How to proc adrenaline
 - Early game - press CF, optionally put CF+lifetap in your offhand and weapon swap for it
 - LL - press your life flask. If you feel like you're running out of charges, get reduced charges/increased charge recovery/charge on hit prefix instead. (or Profane Chemistry) 
     - If it's not proccing, you are reserving too much life, lower your Vitality levels (you need to have unreserved life > recoverable, so that you can use a flask to go above low life)

Why Arsonist?
 - Good early regen, especially during campaign. 1.2% life regen + ~100 flat for 4 points. There's not really good regen nodes around except for Hearty

Enlighten?
 - Gives access to Arcane Surge
 - Can drop it, but then you need to lifetap everything, you lose Arcane Surge (20% cast speed), and you're down a socket anyway.
 - Optionally, just get the 12% RMR mana mastery for 3p (Dynamo, so you get a sweet 40% duration on molten shell as well)

Skill Duration?
 - If it feels bad, you can grab an increased skill duration wheel (3-4 points + 1p mastery if you want even more)

I don't like shields
 - Unlike Hiero, we can likely afford to toss the shield, and use double wands/CIP. Tempest Shield is replaced hy Herald of Purity (dmg) or Arctic Armour (defense, freeze immun)

Corrupting Fever
 - Shares space with Reap, no space for a standalone. For bossing it's better to take it off in favor of a dmg link for reap (and no danger of killing yourself pressing it in the middle of combat xdd)

Suppression
 - You can pick extra point or 2 around Reflexes if you're a bit short. 
 - Entrench is a very cheap annoint for +12% suppress
 - small suppression cluster (unlikely you have a good large cluster without getting 40% suppress from 5 pieces of gear to fit this and enduring composure)
 - If you include these ^^, you get around ~60% just from the tree, which should make capping it very easy

Cast speed feels bad
 - Can link ^x7070FFFaster Casting^7 to ^xE05030Reap^7 until you get enough cast speed on rings, jewels or amulet
 - Optional, drop^xE05030 Exsan^7 for^x7070FF Kinetic Blast^7 + ^x70FF70GMP^7 +^x70FF70 Pierce^7 +^xE05030 Lifetap^7, and just apply CB

When do I make the swap to ^xE05030low life^7?
 - Get some kind of ^xC8C8C8bleed^7 immunity and mitigate ^xB97123ignites^7 and ^xD02090poison^7 atleast a little bit (High ^xB97123fire^7 and ^xD02090chaos^7 resistance is preferable but Soul of Abberath is okay)
 - Have the Eater glove implicit, Physical damage leeched as life.
 - 1k+ net regen

What are some other options for mitigating ailments?
- Fortification mastery for a total of 52% reduced ailment duration (ALL ailments, not just elemental, so includes bleed and poison (not CB tho, sadge))
    - Combined with Anointed Flesh wheel (and travel nodes) you can get 100% for chill+freeze/ignite/shock
 - Protection Mastery - Damaging/non-damaging ailment cannot be inflicted if you already have one
 - Pantheons are the low cost easy choice since they are always on and are simple to change



Spell suppression item level breakpoints:

Helmets, Gloves, and Boots
 - 68 76 85

Body armours, and Shields
 - 67 77 86