Reap Exsanguinate Low Life Hierophant^3.25

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)
 - 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
 - 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 (BiS is Profane Wand but if you're struggling with Intelligence a Pagan Wand is fine):
     - 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
 - Buy from trade or self craft with reforge caster on item level 80+ Warlord influence base 
 - 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
 - If your not SSF Cold Iron Point is better power for lower cost



FAQ:

Leveling?
 - Can choose between Rolling Magma into Armageddon Brand or if you dont want to respec later you can use any physical melee skill applying bleed until level 28 where you can equip Reap
 - Take the life mastery "Skills cost life instead of 30% 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'"
 - Early on accuracy is hard to come by so using the sword base types with accuracy implicits is a nice way to offset that

What order for my ascendancy?
 - Conviction of Power for a huge amount of tank 
 - Arcane Blessing and Illuminated Devotion for the leech and arcane surge buff
 - Divine Guidance last cause nothing else is better

I dont have enough gem sockets?
 - Early on you can drop a gem in the Corrupting Fever setup (depending on what colour sockets in your gear Efficacy is nice for QoL but Brutality is more DPS)
 - Eventually getting Vulnerability on hit lets you drop that as well

Cast speed feels bad
 - Can link Faster Casting to Reap until you get enough cast speed on rings, jewels or amulet
 - Can link Arcane Surge to Flame Dash until you get Arcane Blessing (be sure you dont have Lifetap linked for this or you wont spend the mana neccessary for Arcane Surge to proc)

When do I make the swap to low life?
 - Get some kind of bleed immunity and mitigate ignites and poison atleast a little bit (High fire and chaos resistance is preferable but Soul of Abberath is okay)
 - Personally I wait until I have atleast 1k life regen per second in hardcore but in softcore do whatever you like

What are some other options for mitigating ailments?
 - Pantheons are the low cost easy choice since they are always on and are simple to change
 - Taking a shield wheel (I recommend Sanctuary since its on our path already) and the "20% Chance to avoid elemental ailments while holding a shield" mastery plus some extra chance on 
gear can be a fantastic way to get ailment immune combined with Illuminated Devotion
 - Darkness Enthroned  with some abyss jewels that give ailment mitigation is a nice tech

How do I get tankier?
 - Consider a Dawnbreaker for physical mitigation
 - Capping spell suppression is a good idea for late game, too much suffix pressure early on
 - Consider Lightning Coil for phys mitigation (also an easy target for double corrupting)
 - Swap flasks and pantheons around bosses

Does this build want a cluster setup?
 - A large physical cluster with Battle-Hardened + Force Mulitplier + Master the Fundamentals is BiS for damage
 - Can get a good amount of Intelligence or Dexterity from cluster jewels if you need it

How do I min max?
 - In the ultra end game you have several options, the easiest would be hit based crit Power charge stacking with Impale, in softcore this involves Entropic Devastation dual Void Batterys, and Diallas Malefaction for max DPS
 - Hardcore can stick with a shield and Lightning Coil if you value tank and spell suppression over more DPS
 - A secondary option is going for life stacking with Rathpit Globe and scaling crit without Impale
 - A third but viable option is going all in on physical damage over time multi on gear and using a Mageblood to make up for the otherwise lost stats
 - Consider +1 Power charge / Nearby Enemies take #% increased Physical Damage on helmet if you dont mind losing the tank
 - Elusive / Tailwind boots if you can get brittle elsewhere or cap crit chance without it is also nice



Bases worth crafting on:

Helmet:
 - Haunted Bascinet
 - Conquest Helmet
 - Knight Helm

Body Armour:
 - Conqeust Lamellar
 - Marshall's Brigandine
 - Full Wyvernscale

Gloves:
 - Wyvernscale Gauntlets
 - Chimerascale Gauntlets
 - Dragonscale Gauntlets

Boots:
 - Wyvernscale Boots
 - Chimerascale Boots
 - Two-Toned Boots



Spell suppression item level breakpoints:

Helmets, Gloves, and Boots
 - 68 76 85

Body armours, and Shields
 - 67 77 86

Current league video guide: https://youtu.be/AIB3OJiFuSo

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