3.26 | Herald of Thunder Elementalist on 30 Div budget^3.26

Notes

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TOTAL COST: 
90c+30c+2Div+25c+125c+1Div+20c+139c+5c+100c+70c+6Div+1Div+1Div+40c+20c+1Div+1Div+1Div+40c+50c+4.5Div+30c+5Div+150c

23.5Div + 848c = 27.5 Div, rounded up to 30 Div.

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   GEAR:
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Weapon - 60c | The Annihilating Light with 60% roll, very important.

This weapon is giga dps boost but require you to get way more resists on gear.

Linked same way as body armor, took around 30c.

Total cost: 90c

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Helmet - 20c | Life with highest total Elemental Resists.

At the time it was one of cheapest helmets on trade, really good for the price, with multiple under 50c with similar resists.
Around 10c spent on implicits.

Total cost: 30c

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Body Armor - 2 Div | +1 Socketed Gems Inpulsa ideally, or +2 AoE or Duration Gems.

There are +2 AoE/Duration gems 6 linked for 2 Div but i went for +1 Socketed Gems since it give slightly more damage.

Linking corrupted body armor is very easy and usually cheap:
1. Do 4 socket on bench.
2. Use Tainted Jeweller's Orb until 6 sockets, if sockets drop below 4, do first step. Tainted Jewellers are 0.5c each.
3. Do 4 links on bench,
4. Use Tainted Fusing Orbs until 6 link, if links drop below 4, do third step. Tainted Fusings cost ~5c each.

For me it took around 25c to 6 link it, counting vaal orbs, regular fusings and jeweller orbs for bench craft.

Total cost: 2 Div + 25c
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Gloves - 80c base | Fracture Chaos Resistance, higher better, preferably base with ES.

Craft with either of 3 essences, Hatred, Wrath or Anger, then swap resists in harvest if needed.
I was using Screaming Hatred, at the time they were 0.5c each. Took aroun 20 to get T1 Life.
Average to hit T2+ Life is 17 essences. Then harvest swap costed me 20c. Implicits took around 15c.

Total cost: 125c

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Boots - 1 Div | Life with highest amount of Elemental Resists, plus Movespeed or empty Prefix.

Preferably with some ES. Implicits took around 20c.

Total cost: 1Div + 20c

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Amulet - 100c | +15 All Attributes roll is important.

*You have to use this amulet if you want to use worm spawning ring on merc.
Otherwise you get two - Lightning Res rings on merc and Perquil's Toe.
And then you can use either Replica Dragonfang's Flight or Ashes of the Stars.

Quality costed 30c. Anoint 9c.

Total cost: 139c

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Rings - same from 1 Div version, just used Blessed Orbs to roll 30%. Costed like 5c.

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Belt - 100c | Heavy belt with Life and Resists.

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   GEMS:
Herald of Thunder 20/23 - 70c | 21/20 is slightly better but at the time it was 4 Div, fuck that.
Empower lvl 4 - 6 Div
Awakened Elemental Focus 4/20 - 1 Div
Awakened Added Lightning 4/20 - 1 Div
*Since i have +1 on Inpulsa, those gems get another level to reach level 5 and give +1 lvl to Herald of Thunder.
Hypothermia 20/20 - 40c
Energy Leech 20/20 - 20c

Rest of Gems are like 1 Div, some are from 1 Div setup, some bought with quality.
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   JEWELS:
Glorious Vanity - 1 Div | I didn't spend much searching it, it was first search, while there's a lot of jewels to check.

In tree tab you can setup search to find jewel with most amount of resists on small passives.

Large Cluster Jewel - 1 Div | Doryani's Lesson, Prismatic Heart and any third notable.

Medium Cluster Jewel - same jewel from 1 Div version.

Small Cluster Jewel - self crafted, took around 40c worth of alts, augs, regals and scours.
Still need Enduring Composure with good resists on suffix.

Viridian Jewel - 50c | %Life with highest amount of Elemental Resists.

The Light of Meaning - 4.5 Div | Lightning Damage variant, give ~13% more damage, worth it.

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   FLASKS:
Took me like 30c to alt spam. They can be better but whatever.

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   MERC:
Merc i use is Earthshaker with Determ and Endurance Generation.

Idk if it even need weapon at all. Kingmaker might be good, but build already more expensive than i wanted.

Helmet - 15c | Just Life with Resists. 
Doryani's Prototype - 90c
Gloves - 10c | Life and Resists.
Boots - 5c | Life, Resists, Movespeed.
Kaom's Binding - 20c
Squirming Terror - 10c
Rare ring - 3 Div | Highest negative Lightning Res within your budget.
Amulet - 2 Div | Highest negative Lightning Res within your budget.

Total cost: 5Div + 150c