Chaos Innoculation

ci is very viable, very strong, but also highly gear dependant.

With a life chest to max it out you got to roll max life#, which is 109, 1 maxed stat.

With a ci chest you got to roll max es#, and roll max es%, and roll max es% + block and stun recovery%, thats 3 stats that all have to roll to get the max es from the chest. If you get it on your chest and your hat and your shield and you have rainbowstride unique boots and you got an eye of chayula and a dreamfragment ring then youll be really op tanky, maybe more so than the guy with maxed out life stats on his gear.

But its really hard, its expensive in trade and its extremely hard to find gear like that. Life gear is everywhere, you can find good life bits every day, buy endgame worthy gear really cheap. I wouldnt plan a ci character unless I had serious endgame gear already or many 10s of exalts to trade for it, and even then in a league like nemisis I would level as life until the 60s and want good life gear to get me there along the way, then Id do a sizeable respec into ci.

Thanks!

There's a difference between making a build that's end game map viable and making a build just for a fun playthrough. Hint: You don't need all the best possible gear for the latter.

IMO, not really worth it until very late game. CI gives 100% chaos damage resistance but at the cost of 500+ health. Normal/Cruel, you can get by without CI just off of regular health pool. It is only really for Mercy/Maps when chaos damage would normally start killing you off.

Just a way to keep pumping ES instead of health and still be end-game viable.