This Defensive Setup DESTROYS ELEMENTAL PENETRATION! | Path of Exile: Necropolis

I'm going to be taking the opportunity of my next build in Path of Exile's 3.24 Necropolis league to experiment with The Flawed Refuge combined with Divine Flesh. These mechanics make 90% of elemental hit damage be taken as chaos damage instead, which can be incredibly powerful if paired off with other useful mechanic, but also make the character nearly unaffected by elemental penetration because that damage type penetration cannot carry over to the damage types being shifted into. This video is a bit of a dive of my thoughts on the setup.
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0:00 Introduction
0:23 Divine Flesh & The Flawed Refuge
1:48 Stacking Additional PDR
2:30 Ralakesh's Impatience
2:55 Juggernaut
3:20 Maximum Charge Rings
3:42 Arn's Anguish
3:55 Stacking APDR
4:13 Warcry Buff Effect
5:39 Other Sources of APDR
6:11 Timeless Jewel Calculator
6:40 Other Sources of APDR cont.
7:26 Overwhelm
8:07 Doppelganger Guise
9:30 Phys Taken as Chaos
10:33 Further Improvements
12:41 Elemental Penetration
13:08 Thoughts

[@dreamcore_gg]

Who's still gravedigging in Necropolis?

[@DanielyanAG]

one of the worst leagues ever

[@Toxicgazeful]

me ssf has never been better

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@DanielyanAG I tend to agree

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@Toxicgazeful Despite how much I dislike interacting with grave crafting, it's pretty damn good for ssf!

[@pridefulworm]

It's a thing where the logistics of trading are actually what makes the crafting really annoying. At base if you already have all the Graves it is the most intuitive crafting in the game

[@javisup564]

I dont know if there's a POE channel not that's even equal in terms of quality to this one, or one that comes even remotely close. Your videos are informative, backed by a lot of research, cool mechanics, cool interactions, items... All just raw useful information for players and analysis of the greatest and coolest things out there.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy the vids!

[@jannol1269]

for every immortal build, there is 1 mechanic that shreads it: this build has overwhelm, pathfinder has siphoning flask charges

[@balvin8524]

The poe special: you are immortal, until you’re not

[@julianolotero6600]

I played a Flawed Refuge build last league, can concur that phys overwhelm obliterated me.

[@hrodwulf172]

The dumbest thing about this is there is no visual indicator for those mobs

[@finneas9894]

@@hrodwulf172there is a debuff indicator for flask siphoners

[@taiwanisacountry]

I mean, that is not necessarily true. My Valdo farmer last league was completely immortal. Leech, regen, recharge, 70% suppress, capped block, a ton of physical taken as elemental, and a huge es/life pool to absorb the rest of the Phys damage. Of course nothing is immortal (any more xD) so if I were beaten by monsters with triple as extra, stealing my flask charges and I have reduced block and suppress, then I could get beaten down, if I were also taking huge DoT damage...

[@ascendedsleeper5693]

Don't forget that you can use a chaos golem for another 5% PDR.

[@Perf401]

In juiced maps he unfortunately dies pretty easily without minion health bonuses

[@mystagogue71]

Endurance charges will never fall off if you take the warcry mastery that gives a minimum power of 10. You have to watch out for charge stealers still though.

[@lavq7000]

In this case, charge stealers don't work against Ralakesh Impatience boots. you will always count as having maximum endurance charges. Charge stealers can still take your brutal charges tho as they are granted by Arn anguish belt

[@undeadspez]

How are they stealing brutal charges? I don't think any mobs have modifier 'gain brutal charges' so their max brutal charges should be zero in my opinion​ @lavq7000

[@lavq7000]

@@undeadspez ohh you are right. Then there is nothing to worry about those monsters lol

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

​@@lavq7000Yet, ggg might feel a little silly and change it.

[@mystagogue71]

@@lavq7000 I'm talking about ditching Ralakesh Boots for Death's Door.

[@atulanand9292]

Such in-depth work, my God it's impressive. Always a pleasure to see a willingly hard-working person. Hope you get all the success.

[@sukariamu]

I love your content on defensive setups in this game - I always find it hard to figure out which defensive shell to use for certain builds so I appreciate these videos especially!

[@Reliquarium]

I love that TJ calculator site. Its leagues better than PoB's, and its nice seeing it get some love and recognition!

[@PauloVictor-tz9bg]

What site?

[@mak1skav]

@@PauloVictor-tz9bg I guess he is talking about the Timeless Jewel Calculator site, it is linked in the summary under the video.

[@Ryan_but_the_name_was_taken]

I’ve been making a pdr stacker build every league for the last 3 years. They keep getting easier every league and I love it. I prefer a 5%pdr helmet fracture. Overwhelm always ruins the build though. And it’s becoming a more common occurrence each league.

[@Ryan_but_the_name_was_taken]

Also look out for synthesis mods that let you take flat reduced phys/ele/chaos from hits because with enough layers of these you will take much much much less damage

[@aldontrimble896]

Thanks for the tip, it's my first league running this as a major Def layer. Going slayer cause I hate myself haha

[@chinhowwong3399]

Thank you sir. I like how you explained all.these combinations and how it works, I am playing PF with Divine fresh and it is pretty tanky

[@tweedledee8952]

Man, i love this channel. Exactly my kind of content. Explaining mechanics, items and interactions, instead of handholding. The teach a man how to fish kinda approach. Keep up the good work!

[@dreamcore_gg]

Appreciate that, glad you're enjoying it

[@Doucze]

Interesting that you posted this. I've started theorycrafting a similar build that stacks pdr, but in the way of frenzy charge stacking as a trickster and using replica badge of the brotherhood which gives max fortification charges for each endurance charge, meaning you can hit 40 to 45 fortify stacks with the new gloves. I was pondering using that shield as well.

[@atulanand9292]

Holy shit, nice.

[@vitormax2005]

Thank you for this video. This shield was actually the last piece i needed to be tanky enough for ubers. just tried uber maven and i cleared it in one portal for the first time. I was already using fourth vow and divine flesh so it fit right in.

[@LordNerfherder]

I love this type of videos. Glorious content. Talented. Relatively novel. Good stuff. This is why we are here.

[@L1nktaro]

dopplegangers guise is def one of my favorite uniques

[@Davidbruun]

I just dropped that chest in SSF. Might look into incorporating it.

[@pixelj4877]

I come to learn from my POE sensei. I leave this lesson feeling optimistic about reducing my death count in the future :p

[@dreamcore_gg]

🤣

[@samimisamiy]

Thank you for the idea. There is so much negativity on the comments so I wanted to thank you. Even though there are other conversions like sublime vision+dawnbreaker+timeless jewels, this one is different, people didn't understand this I think.

[@Pedram_Aphotic]

"so much" kids these days are so soft... "oh mr, dont say anything critical against anything, all must be praises." get out of here u wuss. actually growth comes out of struggling, u think dreamcore is scared of his ideas being challenged? no. he gets even more ideas. these thank you comments grinds my gear.

[@samimisamiy]

@@Pedram_Aphotic haha lil bro, they are not saying sth critical, they are saying other conversion techs which dreamcore and I know already. Dreamcore shared something different which I appreciate.

[@ethanlarge3572]

@@Pedram_Aphotic there is a big difference between challenging someone’s ideas and just being negative.

[@Cat_vs_Jad]

Great video mate, been wondering how to deal with ele pen.

[@HenriHakl]

Have you considered Arctic Armour for additional less physical damage taken?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Yeah Arctic is a great addition here too especially if you're doing some ramping trauma build or similar

[@ethanlarge3572]

Guise has been 2/3 of my normal maven drops this SSF league, kinda crazy that it’s a rare drop. One of them is a couple %off perfect, I’m probably gonna use it.

[@dreamcore_gg]

According to crowdsourced data, it's a ~4% drop, so 2/3 is kinda crazy

[@ethanlarge3572]

@@dreamcore_gg for sure. It may have been 2/4, I’ll have to check when I get on later. Either way it’s insane. No boots yet lol.

[@JimjimG]

Though blocking makes the elemental conversion partially working if I understand it correctly. If we can find a way to make sure the character can never block an attack hit, this would be even more powerful I think

[@dreamcore_gg]

Block happens after damage taken as in the order of operations for receiving damage, so with this setup, if you block a hit of elemental damage, 90% of that hit(50% chaos/40% phys) will be blocked and you take no damage from it, and 10% that remains as elemental damage deals damage to you.

[@vipersguard]

I love this content!

[@PauloVictor-tz9bg]

Man you have no idea, I just watched your old videos about divine flash, fourth vow, mahuxtols and I was trying to figure out a way to combine it all and make an "immortal" build. This is such a good answer, ill def gonna give it a try!! Btw have any idea of skill that could scale damage even with this much tank itens?

[@dreamcore_gg]

I'm not sure on damage ability yet, potentially some melee setup with trauma stacking, or perhaps a spell if I can find good corrupts on gear etc.

[@PixelsPending]

I'm planning on making a final build this league and pretty much thought of a similar set up as yours. I already made a uber ultra tanky build, that could walk me through basically any T17 mod so I can then swap to my actual mapper / Bosser to get into the map, spawn in the boss room and oneshot them. Now I wanna, to close out this league, try to combine both, going a very similar route of damage mitigation to yours and then trying to stack rage mechanics with flesh and flame jewels for the berserker note, while utilizing a one handed heist axe to then dish out alot of physical damage (not sure on the skill yet.)

[@oiseauhipster8737]

Great content as always. Quick question, you mentioned it's now trivial to reach 100% buff uptime on enduring cry but how do you do it?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Probably should have included it in the video! Take the full Deep Breaths wheel just above marauder start(minus the small node which just grants AoE), get a level 20/20 Enduring Cry, linked to 20/20 increased duration and 20/20 call to arms, then you just need a further ~25% increased duration - you can get it in the middle of the tree from either of the duration wheels, or at the bottom of the tree, the first 2 small nodes into the Escalation wheel is enough to reach 100% uptime with triggered Enduring Cry. Before you get to 20% quality gems you'll need heavier investment into duration/CDR either at Scion start in the middle of the tree, or more of the Escalation/Natural Authority wheel taken

[@alexlegard6245]

@@dreamcore_gg Hey you can also use a few Tattoo of the Tukohama Warcaller to gain extra recovery rate and save yourself a few passive points.

[@thomaswayne4292]

@@alexlegard6245 how many exactly?

[@alexlegard6245]

@@thomaswayne4292 Depends on your exact setup. For me: Escalation on the passive tree. Enduring Cry linked to Call to Arms, Increase Duration and Lifetap, all 20% quality. Lifetap is there so Enduring Cry never goes down even when you get hit by various things that drain your mana. 7 tattoos needed.

[@Koroistro]

That's interesting. Usually the strategy is to shift *away* from physical damage, but this turns that on its head. The only concern I'd have is that elemental damage has generally way higher numbers than physical, given that the game is balanced around physical being harder to mitigate. That said getting an effective 91% (capped pdr + the ES mastery) flat pdr is very impressive and I don't see how it wouldn't be enough to tank anything in the game besides DD.

[@anonname7610]

This. 500,000 eater of worlds ele damage vs shaper slams 50,000 phys. So convert it to physical and then reduce it by 90% hey look back at base shaper slam damage!

[@user-yi3wp7km8u]

First 1/3 of the content is very similar to Quinn's build which you featured previously. Just thought I mentioned that for credits to Quinn and you. Ichimonji has 10% generic buff effect so that should bring enduring cry to 51% if you can make use of this weapon in your build. Issue is with so much investment in defense, what's left for offense as someone already pointed out.

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

general question about defensive layers. would the fourth vow + divine flesh + eternal damnation work? wouldnt be too demanding of a setup and make it so that the half that wasnt transfered into a different element still doesnt deal full damage.

[@dreamcore_gg]

You could do this if you wanted to yep, especially strong on a Juggernaut with Unbreakable as well

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

@@dreamcore_gg does fourth vow work against elemental dot though? cause if it does, it should be possible to run RF even without 90% fire res no? since it doesnt just get reduced by fire res, but also by chaos res and armour.

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@dervakommtvonhinten517 Armour never works to mitigate damage over time, and FV only mitigates chaos hit damage. In an RF setup using FV+DF+ED, 50% of the RF damage would be mitigated by your chaos resistance, and the other 50% first by your fire resistance and then by ED's damage reduction

[@ILikeGuns1992]

Interesting idea actually? Got any PoBs? I don't think people covered it yet. Would love to see it in action.

[@ReretYryry]

There is a new armour stacking build in armour stacker compendium, maded by Bigdaddy. It uses pretty much the same items.

[@ReretYryry]

12:37 Why energy shield mastery does not work alongside Eldritch Battery? In case if all my skills cost zero. I don't get it

[@dreamcore_gg]

If you have no cost and your ES is always full it will work, but most builds that take EB don't invest into reduced skill cost to 100% as that kinda defeats the purpose of going EB in the first place to solve skill costs

[@zaggedout]

classic dreamcore W

[@user-zo8cw3qv1j]

Another benefit for this build is - you kinda can dip ele resistances, lol

[@Shadzen]

Это все очень интересно, не понятно только откуда в таких билдах DPS брать.

[@Thurmos20]

You can get 8% warcry buff effect on lethal prides.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Yes but we're using Glorious Vanity for Divine Flesh

[@tenkid840901]

FYI you can get 8% warcry effect nodes on lethal prides. just can't use it with divine flesh like in this build tho.

[@Vorador-8]

You can get a synth unique ring with +1 max charge implicit and +4% add phys reduction while affected by herald of purity, for an additional 8% reduction... tho your life would be really low

[@user-dd2yx9ze6x]

good explain, the reason of this pure physical reduction is not good is because it affect by tons of map modifier, if player use your mechanic, they can't farm those following modifier physical overwhelm cool down recovery rate buff effect from player monster steal charge on hit if you use damage transform, than you shouldn't need to deal with those map modfiier problem

[@Yundris]

I get defensive layers, and how to make tanky character, but whenever I PoB some tanky build its never more than 2M dps. How do you fix damage on these builds?

[@dreamcore_gg]

In this type of setup, the Arn's Anguish/Ralakesh combo can go a long way to boosting damage output. Generally it just comes down to ability choice and often endgame upgrades(like the corrupted implicits for gem levels) can be the biggest bumps in damage

[@nayrux1546]

We need an other video with this shield

[@paramagnetism5693]

Thats cool, but how would you make a build like this offensively viable?

[@reinw2328]

i tried a frenzy stacker slayer with flawed refuge and doppelganger last league, i was scaling damage with frenzy/trauma support and while all the numbers looked good, phys overwhelm is very common and melee frenzy doesnt feel that good to play

[@____Daniel____]

soo what will be the dps skill gem of choice?!

[@UncleJay69]

I have been using the doppleganger guise on my afk pathfinder build, and it's absolutely amazing, so good against lots of damage over time too

[@Siromlake]

I'm trying this in standard, the pob seems very solid, i need to test against some serious content because tier 16 maps are a joke

[@mk-rf9iu]

I'll give you better one: Replica Badge if the Brotherhood on Shadow. I went into Assassin's route and am getting +2 Frenzy Charges from Trickster. I have 2 Circle of Guilt rings with 4% additional Physical damage reduction while affected by herald, and ofc +1 max frenzy charges. And am using Olesya's belt, and Celestial Braces. Also 5% physical damage reduction while stationary on Doppleganger. With +1 frenzy charge on Celestial Braces(70 divs) I would have this: 12 frenzy and endurance charges, 12 affliction charges, and 5 power charges. This gives me in total: 96% more DOT for damaging overtime ailments and ailment effect. I think the only right answer is to go poison 36% more damage and 36% faster attacks 250% increased critical strike chance 48% pdr(72% with Enduring cry) 48% Fortify(10 from Celestial Bracers, 12 from amulet, 6 from tree), but kinda difficult to maintain in 1vs1 In total, with rings, I have 80% pdr, 85% pdr while standing, 88% after 1 second stationary. Buuuuut, overwhelming monsters are disastrous for this build. It just doesn't have any answer to it. And also, I couldn't stack high life, only 3.4k and virtually no regeneration. Pretty good life gain on hit from Watcher's eye vitality mod, but build is bad against DOT, even though Doppelganger also works on DOT. Damagewise, I did Trauna-stacking with Double Dtrike of Momentum. Even with Multistrike, I could ramp up up to 23 mil on UBER. But, it does need 16 seconds, so it's good in POB, but not so good in reality. Maybe the better way is to go Transcendence route on different build? Even 70% pdr is decent

[@FrEeWaY7k]

sounds decent for a flicker build maybe?

[@harryosborn4942]

I'm pretty sure that "additional p.dmg reduction" will be exactly an Additional p.dmg reduction while you count this as a global phys resist.

[@user-zo8cw3qv1j]

Very interesting!! Abit sad that 40% from shield is for hits only :(

[@Tsazao]

I tried to get phys reduction 90% with trancendence setup without buff effect from items, would have to use greatwolf

[@dreamcore_gg]

If you're able to use the heist staff base which has an extra maximum endurance/power charge implicit then it's much easier(like Quin's build last league) otherwise yes, it's hard to reach

[@N3K0Cloud]

@@dreamcore_gg you'll have to sacrifice the shield for the staff though.

[@severinschultheiss5213]

I have exatly this on a fire reap jugg with eternal damnation, im a thicc boi and it feels so good

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@N3K0Cloud Yes, they said in a Transcendence setup, so you're not using Refuge in that build

[@MeTuLHeD]

Armor stackers are practically immortal. Haven't seen much they can't tank if built right.

[@aidonblack3390]

I mean.. you can make tanky jugg immune to death pretty easily.. watching this I have only 1 question ... how will you do damage.. and why not just use Vow or simple ED and have much more room to well do damage while still being immune to death.

[@user-il3dr9lv9b]

Can add Arctic Armour for 20%+ more pdr while stationary

[@dreamcore_gg]

It's less phys hit damage taken not PDR but yes, decent addition to this setup for sure

[@banishedbr]

get recoup + PBLood + flask just cant die, cant do dmg either but cant die 🤣

[@Hezexify]

Can be use with chaos inoculation?

[@dreamcore_gg]

No, Divine Flesh makes all damage bypass energy shield

[@ElicatrothTV]

Time to do my CoC FR Sabotuer again I guess, this time with the new CoC DD trigger skill instead. Most of this build your showcasing is what I was already doing a couple leagues back, so now I can just make an even stronger version of it probably.

[@ugly_poe]

Love your work!

[@DaJodad]

I saw a mod on a grasping mail I didn't even know existed. The dude has pushed an Arcane RF build to over 50k ES, 40k Mana, and all damage taken as fire, with the grasping mail having the mod "Fire resistance cannot be penetrated". How have I never heard of that mod before? Is it graveyard exclusive? His build literally couldn't die even afking in t17s

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

Graveyard can craft mods from various places

[@netherlim]

so did you try it ?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Not yet

[@demonek156]

Interesting idea. I think you can do some neat stuff if you were to add one of the unique amulets to the setup. With The Eternal Struggle you'd get easy +1% max res from eldritch implicit and you could choose between 15% cull or 10% less damage on monsters. I could see trying Crystallised Omniscience because you'd easily cap resistances with Endurance charges but idk if you'd be able to reach decent damage levels. And for rich boys Eternal Damnation would kinda make your eHP skyrocket I think, but I'd have to play with pob to see if it really works or i'm just stupid.

[@dreamcore_gg]

The Eternal Struggle in paticular is an interesting one for this build. Eternal Damnation provides elemental damage reduction and since we're only taking 10% of elemental hits as elemental damage, it wouldn't be very useful unfortunately

[@demonek156]

@@dreamcore_gg Does it only apply post conversion? I assumed it works before conversion happened, but if you're sure it applies after then yeah it's bad.

[@chrisditmi7119]

gg

[@Lennji]

First!

[@viktorzolsar8873]

I like the defense, but unless they add a new skill or unique weapon endurance stacking with a single one hander is going to be a walking potato.

[@carlostrevisan1980]

Arakallis fang jugg anyone?

[@Pedram_Aphotic]

so many interactions combined & yet random one shots are still gonna happen from an obscure combo outhere haha... what about other classes?

[@Trypan]

This was my league starter traumatic_timmy. Level 98 now. Trauma stacking to ignore all degens (230+ stacks). Can afk wave 10 ultimatums. 700 depth delve atm. 35 fortify stacks, 11 end charges. BUT, it has a few weaknesses. Requires giga investment - 10+ end charges + ralakesh boots. Otherwise any monster that steals charges will just kill you. Especially when trauma stacking like Im doing. Blocking damage with mods phys as extra elemental somehow just kills me. So any map mods with: Less recovery Phys as extra Less buff duration Phys reflect Are currently a no go for me. Phys as extra works with caution. Forced to take ruby/sapph/topaz flasks just to mitigate some of that blocked elemental damage. Cant do t17 bosses, they are seriously giga overtuned. Can face tank 700+ vaal city boss, but not a t17. Had fun making it.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Sounds like a beefy setup, are you using the new gloves for the max fort? The extra elemental from phys should interact as if it were base elemental damage and split 50/40 with only 10 remaining as elemental in this setup, I wonder if it's bugged? Also, classic t17 experience

[@Trypan]

Idk man, feels bugged but dont have the data to prove it. Have a 100 phys as cold aul with 300% crit ready that just one shots me. But it also at 700 depth lol

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@Trypan What about testing in a T16 where you alt roll phys as extra as the only mod on one map and another just run white, and use allflames to replace the top pack as the same monsters(some common allflame, maybe legion or something). With just the one modifier, it should be quite easy to see if it's bugged or not, since if I'm understanding it correctly, the bug may be causing the modifier to make you take the full pre-mitigation elemental damage(which is somehow not being shifted). Would be awesome if you could check/record it. Either way that does suck if it's the case

[@lavq7000]

I played a similar setup as described in the video last league. If you REALLY want to tank that high elemental damage, you have to try getting up to 90% true physical damage reduction and as close as 90% chaos damage resistance. Last league I was little by little getting up my phys damage reduction while farming tier16s juiced up by affliction. I noticed quite a big survival boots when going from 10 endurance charges to 11 (by grabbing a +1 Ralakesh Impatience), by grabbing the small born of chaos clusters (so getting to 89% chaos res) and by getting 4% phys reduction on both my rings (one precursors and one synthesis herald of purity ring) I went from dying sometimes to basically never dying again. I tested the tankiness by taking regular Atziris double flameblast, Sirus labyrinth bomb and stuff like that. But it was short of a bit more life to be able to tank Uber Atziri double flameblast. Also, I recommend grabbing the pantheon that makes you immune to burning ground. Any elemental damage over time is the real enemy of this build even with high regeneration.

[@Trypan]

@@dreamcore_gg tried 3 t17 now and plenty of phys as extra maps. Could face tank them all. its not as bad as before. Maybe I hit some phys overwhelm mod without me noticing. Or possibly the 15 extra fortify stacks +5 max all res from flasks that mitigates most of the elemental damage that I would take.

[@Jauertussen1]

question is how are you gonna do damage? guess only option is some sort of 1h melee with trauma

[@azizhusseinz2083]

Okay its great, do I still alive from random mob Detonate Dead? 😂

[@dreamcore_gg]

Nope, that's the final boss

[@doaks31]

The Flawed+Flesh baseline is a strong defensive layer to build off of, but is there a particular reason you are ignoring armour? If we just talk phys DoT then in my experience a Cloak of Flame w/ 90% fire res is enough to be VERY tanky to phys DoT when paired with a good recovery layer (I don't even notice 10 CB stacks). Anything above 70% pdr seems like overkill in terms of surviving DoTs and not pursuing 90% (non-armour) pdr opens up a lot of gear pressure. Doppleganger Guise also becomes further overkill for defending against DoTs. If you pivot the chest slot to defense against hits a rare body armour with phys taken as mods or even Lightning Coil serves that purpose and helps greatly against overwhelm. Higher armour also synergizes with the mastery to greatly negate chaos hits. With a 70% full uptime baseline pdr even 20k armour would nearly guarantee 90% pdr against phys hits.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Dopperganger is defense against hits in this setup, it's the equivelent of 36% less damage taken from elemental hits damage and 40% less from physical/chaos hits with a max roll. You don't need to ignore armour at all, you'll still be using it in fact on the road to 90% APDR, I just wouldn't be focusing on it especially since Unbreakable is significantly less useful with only 10% of incoming elemental damage being taken as elemental. Also, Doppelganger is not overkill against DoTs at all, since you're not scaling maximum elemental resistances, the half of the elemental damage that you take as chaos is being significantly reduced by chaos res then Doppelganger to make up for the half that's not.

[@doaks31]

​@@dreamcore_gg you had mentioned scaling max chaos res through cluster jewels, but without at least 85% then the Dopplegangers starts to make a lot more sense. As a suggestion, you might want to split these videos into the "core interaction" then branch off a couple synnergized build paths (dopplegangers, max chaos res/armour, phys taken as). I get this isn't a build guide and you are just tossing out ideas to layer further defenses, but some of the suggestions don't make sense together. Good video as usual regardless

[@Wrongusername2]

sounds like very solid defensive idea, but zdps in way worse sense than PFs... what are you going to run realistically, some molten strike with 5mil dps?.

[@criticap-jo9dl]

If you still going to max elemental resistance then what is the point of the setup, so many slot are limited. Just make use of the elemental cannot be penetrated haunted mod and convert all damage to fire damage taken.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Capping elemental resistances is pretty trivial anyway, you're not investing into maximum elemental resistances. Okay I'll just get a purity of fire sublime vision thanks

[@punchline6791]

Check the “purity of fire” sublime, i think it’s price tells, why it’s not that easy

[@Cat_vs_Jad]

Because this means you can become practically immortal

[@ICANTLOLW]

ok

[@dreamcore_gg]

[@iulian3335]

Lots of yapping with no PoB😂

[@user-ts4mz3jy9i]

What an idiotic thing to say.

[@pumpgod940]

This basically is a poor people's version of mahuxotl+tempered or divine+sublime+dawnbreaker.

[@almaneara8197]

this is bait