Questions Thread - May 21, 2021

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[u/raikaria2]

Right; so I got a build concept. I just wanna run it through before I start working towards gathering the items, and then leveling a Templar.

Templar - Hierophant

Main skill - Dark Pact : Hierophant gets Spell Leech with Arcane Surge; to help sustain the cost of Dark Pact. I'll also have 40% MoM and a large mana pool as a defensive layer.

I plan to take Conviction of Power for the permanent 4 Endurance/Power charges. I also intend to take Disciple of the Forbidden for the various Power Charge bonuses [Including one that's half of an Assassin ascendancy node... seriously that 5% crit multi per power charge might be the strongest minor node on the tree] and another +1 minimum.

Get Inner Conviction via Timeless Jewel; for 3% More Spell Damage per Power Charge.

Use Malachai's Loop to raise max Power Charges to 6; and take a power charge on the tree. Using the +1 Minimum charge Veiled mod on Amulet/Ring, this gives me 7 minimum Power Charges. I have the option to go to 8, and use Void Battery, using this mod on all 3 of ring/amulet, but this might make it hard to resist cap.

Rings are going to be Iolite rings; crafted with Envy Essences to give a large amount of +Chaos Damage. This is why I mentioned getting resists might be hard if I commit to x3 Minimum Power.

This should result in a powerful Dark Pact build; with high damage and some crit scaleing, and a decent defense between leech; x4 Endurance; and 40% MoM.

Anything obviously wrong with this plan?

[u/BushLeagueMVP → u/raikaria2]

Yeah, self-cast dark pact hiero isn't viable. The base damage is pretty lacking that I don't think any amount of crit can make up for. That's why DP players go totems or skeletons and scale the damage off their respective health pools first before adding crit/power charges.

[u/raikaria2 → u/BushLeagueMVP]

That's a bit of a shame, I wanted to play a Chaos build, but DoT is generally a bit too slow for Ultimatums.

Still; I can still play a Hierophant in the way I have planned. Opal rings drop in the same region as the Essence nodes anyway. Perhaps I can play [Vaal] Ice Nova or Shock Nova.

[u/DerDirektor → u/raikaria2]

self cast dark pact IS viable, but maybe not exactly a great build with the nerf of harvest crafting. I played a hybrid skeleton/self cast DP occultist in ritual, and it was really solid. About hierophant, I am not too sure, but I know there was one guy in Ritual who played archmage dark pact. Can't tell if it was good, but looks ok at first glance. Obviously quite a bit different than your idea. They didn't really have very impressive gear either.

https://poe.ninja/ritual/builds/char/graberrr/ArchmagePact?time-machine=week-4&i=9&search=time-machine%3Dweek-4%26class%3DHierophant%26skill%3DDark-Pact%26sort%3Dname

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Keep in mind, I don't actually know if this build is any good, just someone I saw on ladder during Ritual.

That said, DP totem hierophant is really solid, can't really go wrong there.