Bruxa - Decay Autobomber - Death's Oath League Starter - Fórum

Introduction
This is my take on a fast autobomber with explosions! The build revolves around using Death Aura and Decay linked Abberath's Hooves to constantly deal chaos damage over time to nearby enemies!

League Start POB: https://pobb.in/zIWV-qHmHIXM
Delirious Forge of the Phoenix League Start: https://youtu.be/GCJG3uWye_g

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Pros & Cons

+ Very fast mapper
+ Autobomber with explosions!
+ League starter
+ No temporary league power is used in any of the showcases (see tab for league specific suggestions)

- Not SSF viable
- Not HC viable
- Poor single target damage scaling
- Have to level as something else (guide included)

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Keeper of Flames Specific

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For grafts I recommend go Return to Dust and then Tender Heart or Ennervating Grasp.

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Build Mechanics

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Death's Oath

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Death's Oath grants Death Aura, which causes us to constantly deal chaos damage to nearby enemies. Any gems socketed into Death's Oath will support Death Aura, which means we don't need a six link! Death Aura has a limited number of support gems, but if we support it with Lifetap we can use support gems that can only support skills with a duration. To get the damage bonus from Lifetap support, we need to get the Lifetap buff from another gem though since Death Aura doesn't spend life. Fortunately, we can link Lifetap to our automation setup to constantly have the buff!

Death's Oath requires a lot of strength to initially equip it, but it grants a lot of all attributes, so you can just use an item with lots of strength to equip it and then unequip the item with lots of strength. Getting the right colored gem sockets can also be tricky if you roll it with chromatic orbs, but if you craft one blue and one green socket from the crafting bench and then repeatedly craft 2/3 (and 3/4 afterwards) sockets on the craft bench you can get 4 off colors pretty easily and then use the crafting bench to craft 6 sockets.

Abberath Hoove's Decay

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Decay is a support gem that causes any skill it supports to inflict a chaos damage over time debuff on enemies. We can socket Decay in Abberath's Hooves to cause each of our footsteps to automatically inflict Decay on nearby enemies! Decay and Death Aura have very similar scaling methods, which lets us scale both efficiently!

Sustaining Death's Oath

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Death's Oath causes us to take 500 chaos damage per second if we've killed an enemy recently. Fortunately, Occultist's Withering Presence grants us 60% chaos resistance and combined with some more chaos resistance from the tree and a bit of life regeneration we can easily sustain the self damage.

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Starter Gear

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Mandatory Items:
Death's Oath(totally fine to have a 4 or 5 link early in atlas progression)
Abberath's Hooves (only need one or the other to get started)
6-link
Hrimsorrow

Recommended Items:
The Grey Spire

General Rares: Make sure you are resistance capped. Then look for life, strength, dexterity and chaos resistance in that order.

Flasks: No required flasks, recommend Life Flask with Corrupted Blood/Bleed immunity, Quicksilver Flask and Witchfire Brew

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League Start Skills

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Death's Oath
Swift Affliction, Void Manipulation, Concentrated Effect, Efficacy, Lifetap, Less Duration (doesn't need to be linked)

Abberath's Hooves
Swift Affliction, Void Manipulation, Decay (doesn't need to be linked)

Automation
Automation - Withering Step - Phase Run - Lifetap

Self-Cast Curse
Despair

Auras
Malevolence, Summon Skitterbots, Flesh and Stone

Blasphemy
Blasphemy - Enfeeble

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League Start, Leveling and Transition

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Leveling as chaos DOT, which is always excellent on league start. We use Soulrend and Bane. Don't forget to buy the gems from the Skills section from Lily in act 5 and leveling them in your off hand.

Leveling POB: https://pobb.in/SEPA9dxxwDaL

Chaos DOT Leveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h93Gp31SA

Transition when you have enough currency to afford the mandatory items (shouldn't be more than ~20c day 1) and have hit at least level 75. Don't worry about swapping immediately on reaching maps, chaos DOT is a strong build through yellow maps with minimal investment. I swapped in early white maps and it felt smooth before and after. Recommended items should generally be your first upgrades.

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Upgrades

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Upgrades
Still building the character so these are preliminary (e.g. maybe Sundered Will is worth it or I drop Grey Spire for the sockets)

1. Roll eldritch implicits on gear (prioritize chaos damage over time multiplier on gloves
2. Roll flasks with good modifiers and use when flask charges reach full
3. Upgrade to a level 21 Decay
4. Get an amulet with damage over time multiplier and other good modifiers
5. Upgrade helmet to have higher tier modifiers
6. Upgrade belt to stygian vise with good modifiers and rare abyss jewel with Enemies Withered by you have -2% to all Resistances
7. Get a Runegraft of Gemcraft and Runegraft of the Warp
8. Equip rare gloves with auras have increased effect on enemies
9. Corrupt Abberath's Hooves to have +1 level to socketed gems implicit or increased movement speed
10. Socket an Awakened Increased Area of Effect in Death's Oath and swap to Awakened Blasphemy
11. Get a large 8 passive cluster jewel with Unholy Grace, Unwaveringly Evil and Wicked Pall and drop the Hasty Demise and Heart of Darkness clusters
12. Get a Glorious Vanity dedicated in the name of Xibaqua, allocate Divine Flesh and cap chaos resistance
13. Get small cluster jewels with Born of Chaos, continuing to unallocate the right side of the passive tree
14. Tattoo small intelligence jewels with chaos resistance
15. Get a Watcher's Eye with damage over time multiplier while affected by Malevolence
16. Upgrade belt to have (6-10)% increased Movement Speed during any Flask Effect
17. Upgrade helmet to nearby enemies have -9% to chaos resistance, 10% of physical damage taken as chaos and other good modifiers
18. Corruption hunt on Death's Oath (can use tainted chromatic orbs to color)
19. Upgrade rings with +1 to minimum frenzy charges
20. Upgrade other relevant gems to 21/20
21. Upgrade to staff to well rolled rare or Cane of Kulemak
22. Mageblood with good flasks (at least 1 with high tier avoid shock and increased effect)
23. Double corruption hunt on uniques
24. Socket Liege of the Primordial Forbidden Flesh and Flame and stack Primordial Bond cluster jewel notables (large clusters and Megalomaniacs)
25. Stranglegasp corrupted to rare

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