Also, i hate chasing the meta, so i build skills thats different Being a physical base spell, it has insane scaling capability.

So i decided to do a started with this skill and i was totally amazed at the clearspeed and damage i managed to squeeze out building around an elementalist Penance brand is a very strange skill with regards to its damage scaling and mechanics.

So before we start, take a look at some of the videos before deciding if this is for you Alternatively, you can check out my stream at, i will be playing this build and optimizing it on the way for the 1st 2-3 weeks of the league Try not to PM me in game or forums for questions, drop them here in the thread or come by the stream, its easier for me to answer questions on the thread as your question might benefit others as well.

I am pretty much afk 95 of the time just doing trades while i am in game Videos: 3.11 Videos taken on A8 Slight juiced t16 promenade map clear(check video description on what was added in) 1 min 26 seconds T16 promenade clear A8 Sirus cut from stream Pros Pretty much 1 of the strongest clear speed build i have ever made Huge satisfying explosions all the time You get to use all 5 herald effectsMTX league start viable because i started 3.11 with it Be a hipster, use purposeful harbinger after its nerf All content cleared, from all delve boss to A8 all bosses We reach max dps by right clicking twice every 1.39 seconds, allowing a mobile playstyle Cons You have to read my penance brand explanation column, else do not continue Build can feel abit wonky due to delayed damage Low life build means we need a shav But we cant kill atziri due to reflect Our Defenses 6-9k ES(depending on your gear and version of PoB Flesh and stone blindless damage taken Always chill enemies(beacon of ruin) Quartz flask for phasing and dodge 29 block, 10 spell block Herald of purity meat shields Key build mechanics You have to absolutely take some time to read this, because penance brand and how we scale it is pretty specific.

When attached, it will pulse every fixed interval, modified by cast speed and brand activation frequency, stacking up to 20 energy stacks.

Upon reaching 20 stacks, penance brand will instead pulse out a part of damage to nearby enemies.

Do not worry about reaching past 20 stacks in this build, because we dont want that to happen.

Keep in mind, this is the main mechanic we want to scale penance brand by.

If you go according to my passive tree, penance brand will last 1.36 seconds with a 2020 swift brand supported.

Our cast speed of penance brand is 0.32 seconds(taking from my pob, again exclude cinderswallow) This means the second brand starts calculating energy stacks roughly 0.32 seconds afterwards.

In this situation, Brand duration - cast speedbrand activation frequency 1.36-0.320.1326 7.84 This ultimately means we will have 10 7 stacs of energy explosion on an enemy(single target) if we want to cast 2 brands at 1 go(without cinderswallow), means we deal 17 energy stacks of explosion every 1.36 seconds, effectively 12.5 energy stacks worth of explosion per second.

Now the reason why the math above was taken into consideration was because if you were to stack cast speed blindly, you will either over cap a cut off point or miss the energy stack cut off point by 0.01 second.

This is a dps loss for no reason.

Follow what it says and poof, you can kinda understand how many stacks you have Double dipping elemental conversionpurposeful harbinger herald stacking.

In total, we run Herald x5 Wrath Hatred Zealotry Flesh and stone(defensive) Discipline(defensive) In this scenario, we focus on double dipping mechanics.

There is no mechanics whatsoever that bypasses the conversion hierarchy like converting chaos into lightning(correct me if i am wrong).

So for our build, Penance brand is a skill with intrinsic physical damage, with 50 converted into lightning.

That means a modifier that increases physical damage, will fully increase the damage of penance brand by that modifier.

That means if we have extra elemental damage, it affects lightning, cold and fire.

In this build, we convert 100 of phys into lightning.

Not counting in and herald effectaura effect; Herald of purity gives us 12 more physical damage.

Wrath gives us 22 more lightning damage, elemental overload gives us 40 more damage Hatred gives us 27 phys damage as cold, 18 more cold damage, elemental overload gives us 40 more damage Herald of ash gives us 15 phys damage as fire, 12 more fire damage, elemental overload gives us 40 more damage Non chaos as extra 5 chaos damage from our weapon gives us 5 damage based off everything above(physlightingcoldfire added together) As you can see, going down the elemental conversion line gives us multiple stacking of aura and effects that greatly magnify our final damage(59 of our damage is fire, 29 of our damage is cold, 1 of our damage is lightning and ultimately, 11 of our damage is chaos.

We dont even stack chaos damage, but that 5 non chaos as extra chaos was 11 of our damage.

This is how double dipping work and what makes physical spells extremely strong with scaling.

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