Best Cast on Crit Fireball Nimis Build in Path of Exile 3.22
Do you like dealing a lot of damage or do you like screen clutter, or maybe do you like not having to aim whenever you cast something?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this build guide is just a thing for you. I have decided to replicate last round Cast on Crit Fireball Nimis build and remade it to be faster and better.
The result was maximum possible damage of 200 million, mostly thanks to Nimis’ projectiles being able to hit enemies twice now. While the build still depends on some specific unique items to function, we no longer need to indulge into crafting complicated Cast on Crit ones as we have switched to a unique solution.

Ascendancy
Let’s kick it off with our Ascendancy. We are a Ranger ascended into a Deadeye.
First, we go for Gathering Winds. Having Tailwind as a passive buff with 150% increased effect is just amazing. It’s 20% more Action Speed overall and you can easily maintain full effect sonic as you play the game.
Next, we go for Ricochet. This node allows our projectiles to chain one additional time with a small chance of allowing them to bounce off of walls. This allows you to better utilize your damage while mapping, since monsters are scattered all over the place.
Next, we have Endless Munitions. This node makes all of our projectile scales fire into additional projectiles.
Last but not least, we have Focal Point. This node increases the effect of our marks by almost double. We use Sniper’s Mark, which makes affected enemies take increased damage from projectiles. This node also allows our mark to proliferate to other enemies when the marked one dies, adding a layer of automation to the build.
Passive Tree
Now, let’s take a look at our Passive Tree.
Our tree focuses on life, spell suppression, accuracy, attack speed, crit chance and crit multi, projectile speed and damage, power charges, fire damage, and spell damage.
Next, we have a large cluster jewel setup. This one adds the following notables: Doryani’s Lesson and Cremator from.
We also branch off into a medium AOE cluster jewel. This one adds the following notables: Vast Power and Towering Threat.

For Mastery choices, we have:
- Chance to Suppress Spell Damages is Lucky - Spell Suppression Mastery
- 15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifier on Equipped Body Armour - Life Mastery
- +3 to Level of all Critical Support Gems - Critical Mastery
- +25% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Unique Enemies - Critical Mastery
- +50 to maximum Life - Life Mastery
- Fire Exposure you inflict appliers an extra -5% to Fire Resistance - Fire Mastery
Items
Next, let’s take a look at our POE Items.
Remember what I said about not having to craft Cast on Crit weapons for this build? While looking to simplify things, I thought about using Void Battery. The wand has 8% base crit chance for attacks. It also provides massive damage to spells in a power charge stacking build. And power charges scales global crit chance, which is mandatory in Cast on Crit builds.
This means that we stack power charges, our attacking skill will get crit capped without us even paying much attention to it and our triggered spell will get enough damage to rival mirror tier Cast on Crit ones.
The drawback is having slow ass attack speed, which I decided to fix with my jewels, passive tree, and flasks.
Our next item is the Dialla’s Malefaction unique chest with either +1 to level of socketed gems corruption or +2 projectile gems. This item is a damaged powerhouse for spells, assuming you roll the correct socket colors on it. You are looking for 4 red and 2 green sockets. With that, we are running level 30 Fireball. And for those who do not know, spells gain massive damage as they level up, unlike attack skills.
Our next item is the Uul-Netol’s Vow unique amulet. This amulet rolls some useful resistances. However, the most important aspect about it is it having a socket and allowing whatever support gem socketed into it to support our main six link setup in our chest. This makes this amulet pretty much piston slot for any build that can accommodate one additional support gem.
Make sure to anoint your amulet with overcharge as it represents the last power charge notable that we couldn’t manually afford to allocate on the passive tree. As for what support you on the socket and our amulet, we have Power Charge On Critical Support.
Our next item is the Miracle Ward Samnite Helmet with +1 to maximum power charge warlord mod. Aside from that, you are looking for life and as many resistances as you can have. All of that must be crafted on the bases that have Petrified Blood, which has 45% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency.
The best way to craft something like this is to buy the enchanted base, slam it with Warlord’s Exalted Orb, and then Chaos Orbs permit until you get live and +1 to maximum power charges. After that, you lock the prefixes, you refouch crit for crit multi, which is optional, and then exalt slam for resistances, which are common.
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Next, we have Nimis Topaz Ring. This is the core item for this build obviously. It allows your projectiles to return to you at the end of their pathing. This effectively doubles your damage against bosses, assuming you are standing on top of them, which is not impossible. The ring also makes projectiles fire in random directions, which is good for mapping.
For our second ring, we have a generic Precursor’s Emblem with +1 to maximum power charge mod. I should emphasize that it doesn’t have to be a Precursor’s Emblem. You just need any ring with +1 to maximum power charge mod. Either it being implicit or explicit, it doesn’t really matter.
Our next item is Mageblood. While I don’t like using Mageblood in any of my builds due to it being the most expensive item in the game, I still can’t find a better alternative as it solves all of our issues starting from Attack Speed all the way to Mana cost with the reduced Mana Cost of Skills, Flashcrafter. While you can sacrifice clearing speed and damage by getting a different build, you will have to get creative to solve your Mana issues.
Next on the list, we got a pair of gloves (Brood Clutches) that have accuracy, increased attack speed, life, resistances, and crafted increased damage while leeching.
Now, you would want to slam your gloves with Eldritch Currency to get both fire exposure and chance to unnerved enemies on hit. A nerfed enemies take 10% increased spell damage.
Finally, our last item is a pair of rare boots (Vortex Dash) that have perfectly rolled elevated cooldown reduction and elevated onslaught that alongside movement speed, resistances, life, and Elusive on Crit.
You must have elevated cooldown reduction on your boots even if you are on a budget. This alongside hitting level 9 Awakened Cast on Crit gem in our main 6-Link allows us to reach 53 cooldown reduction, which is the cracking point for us to trigger supported spells 10 times a second in a state of 7.
Make sure to enchant your boots with 10% Elemental Penetration once you have time.
Gems
Next, let’s talk about our gems for our main 6-Link. We have Fireball, Anomalous Power Siphon, level 6 Awakened Cast on Crit, level 4 Empower Awakened, Greater Multiple Projectile Support, and Divergent Inspiration.
Please note that every one of these gems must go in a red socket except for the Anomalous Power Siphon and Cast on Crit. Also remember that this setup will be supported with whatever support gem we have socketed in our amulet.
Next, we have our primary reservation setup, starting with Zealotry, Herald of Ash, Petrified Blood, and level 4 Enlighten.
Next, we got the second 4-Link. This one is our main damage support setup. It contains Sniper’s Mark, MarkOnHit, level 4 Enhance, and Life Tab Support.
Our last jump setup is a 3-Link that contains some leftover gems. These are Precision, Summon Lightning Golem and a Portal gem.
Jewels
Now, let’s talk about jewels.
For our Watcher’s Eye, we got increased Critical Strike Multiplier while affected by Precision and Critical Strikes penetrates some Elemental Resistance, as well affected by Zealotry.
Next, we got one Militant Faith Timeless Jewel that mentions High Templar Dominus. Place it in the socket to maximize its effect. This shield will convert only by keystones into Inner Conviction. And Inner Conviction grants you 3% more spell damage per power charge you have. If your jewel end up converting any important notable with any strange, then just buy a different one with your POE Currency.
Aside from these two jewels, we have the Dissolution of the Flesh. This jewel interacts in a unique way with Petrified Blood, allowing us to virtually double our total life pole versus hits by splitting the damage when two conditions are met: One, your maximum life must not be reserved and two, your current life must be set to 50% at the start of every map or boss encounter.
I achieve this easily by having a random Herald linked with Arrogant Support socketed in any of my items. I just activate and deactivate it at the start of each map.
Finally, any remaining dual socket you have left must be filled with the normal rare jewel, like the Maelstrom Splinter. You are looking for life, crit multi, and attack speed.
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With Path of Exile 2 patch 0.4.0 fast approaching, we need to prepare for the start of a brand new league journey.
Generally, a new league starter build is crucial for every exile starting afresh, as it allows for rapid progression with minimal currency investment, lowers the learning curve for new players, and lays a solid foundation for your character before investing heavily in resources.
In summary, a good league starter build should be stable and reliable, require only a small initial investment to be effective, and be able to handle various game content, including campaign modes. Bone Cage Lich build is definitely one of the best in this regard.
This build features one-click operation, utilizing Cast on Critical to trigger Detonate Dead and Bone Cage for quick map clearing, making it extremely simple to use. Meanwhile, Lich Ascendancy provides skills like Unholy Might and Eternal Life, granting it strong survivability. Therefore, both its one-click map clearing settings and extremely high life regeneration make it a flexible and efficient build for early game progression.
Patch 0.4.0 Bone Cage Predictions
Currently, we haven't received any definitive information regarding PoE 2 Patch 0.4.0; everything will be confirmed during the developer livestream on December 4th. However, prior to the 0.4.0 update, Bone Cage's base critical strike chance was increased to 15%, and its damage per level was also improved, so this build can still perform well even in the late game.
More importantly, Bone Cage is unlikely to be nerfed in Path of Exile 2: The Last Of The Druids update because it's a meta-gem that requires significant investment and has specific limitations, making it less prone to abuse than other skills.
Unlike regular skill gems, meta-skill gems like Bone Cage can synergize with other skill gems to trigger specific effects, making them complex and powerful tools that require significant investment to use effectively.
Nerfing Bone Cage would require balancing many other synergistic abilities, which is far more complex than simply adjusting a single gem. This means it's less likely to be nerfed in future updates. Therefore, we believe the Bone Cage Lich build will maintain its current strength in 0.4.0.
Gear
Now, let's look at the gear choices for this build.
Rattling Sceptre
Our main-hand weapon is Rattling Sceptre, a basic sceptre type in the game that grants the player the Skeletal Warrior ability. Players can obtain it by opening chests, looting from enemies and bosses, and trading with vendors.
If you have more PoE 2 currency, you can also upgrade it to a unique version, Dark Defiler Rattling Sceptre. This enhances the summon-centric build, providing mana, intelligence, and chaos damage bonuses to each active summon, and increasing mana regeneration.
However, both the basic and unique versions of Rattling Sceptre can create extremely high attack and defense stats. Combined with the ring of bone spikes summoned by Bone Cage to immobilize enemies, you can easily clear out all enemies on the screen.
Sacramental Robe
For chest armor, we chose Sacramental Robe because it increases the initial recharge rate of the energy shield by 40%-50%. This is undoubtedly a powerful choice for Bone Cage build, which relies heavily on energy shields and rapid recharge for survival in the early game. Moreover, it is suitable for multiple characters and perfectly complements the high energy shield nodes on the talent tree.
Atziri's Disdain
In PoE 2, Atziri's Disdain Unique Helmet is generally considered a powerful late-game item because of its strong survivability. It's a worthwhile option for builds that effectively utilize its unique combination of attack, defense, and utility affixes.
Atziri's Disdain converts maximum health into an additional energy shield, distributes damage between health and the energy shield to increase health regeneration, provides a significant amount of mana and item rarity, and features a unique damage penetration mechanic that players can utilize to improve survivability in the early stages of the 0.4.0 league.
Breach Ring
Due to its improved quality, the well-crafted Breach ring is almost always the best ring choice for any build, even surpassing the inherent stats of a regular ring after enhancement.
While the highest quality regular rings are expensive, crafting a powerful Breach ring may be a more convenient way to obtain top-tier rings, especially after unlocking more Breach-related nodes through Atlas passive tree.
Other Items
There are no mandatory choices for other gear, but it's recommended to focus on survivability, such as energy shields and maximizing resistances. At the same time, stacking Spirit stats to increase damage and critical strike chance, and casting speed to improve damage and gameplay experience are crucial. Furthermore, Lich's unique damage derives from Spirit attributes, making Spirit stat stacking key to this build's success.
Skill Tree
In Path of Exile 2, the core gameplay of Bone Cage Lich build revolves around Bone Cage's critical strike casting mechanic. Therefore, the skill tree should focus on skills that support this mechanic, such as generating Power Charges and sufficient mana regeneration to sustain frequent spellcasting.
Additionally, in the early game, we should prioritize finding and enhancing passive skills that significantly increase Energy Shield or health to improve survivability, as the core of Lich build lies in Energy Shield.
As mentioned before, we also need to focus on mana regeneration, as this build requires the ability to continuously cast high-mana-cost spells. Therefore, having nodes that provide mana regeneration while moving is especially important, so be sure to keep moving to activate them. Simultaneously, increase casting speed, which allows you to cast spells more frequently and move more between casts, thus increasing damage and survivability.
However, be careful to avoid stacking Maximum Mana affix on equipment, as this will reduce your mana regeneration speed, especially in the early game.
Finally, after increasing critical strike chance and survivability, prioritize talent points that boost physical and spell damage. Once your critical strike chance reaches around 70%, you can shift your focus to critical strike damage.
Why Lich Ascendancy?
Ultimately, we chose Lich Ascendancy for Bone Cage build because it significantly increases damage through the chaos damage provided by Unholy Might, and maximum mana further amplifies this damage.
Furthermore, it allows for powerful skill combinations, such as Cast on Crit, quickly triggering multiple bone spikes using Bone Cage. This is often combined with Steward of Kulemak node to enhance its effect, making it highly efficient for clearing maps and killing bosses.
Lich build offers both strong damage output and good defensive capabilities, making it a flexible and efficient choice for various game content.
In short, compared to other Lich builds, Bone Cage Lich build is relatively inexpensive, making it a good choice in the early stages of a league where gear is scarce. Not to mention, this build allows you to easily switch between farming and boss-fighting setups, enabling you to quickly adapt to the new mechanics with simple settings after entering POE 2 0.4.0.
Path of Exile 2 0.4.0 The Last of the Druids has been confirmed for release on December 12th. This is a highly anticipated major update, introducing the much-anticipated Druids class, which had previously been delayed.
Judging from the trailers, this update focuses on endgame content and may adjust the season mechanics to improve the overall game experience, but specific details have not yet been released. However, before the full patch is released, we want to discuss several features and mechanics that urgently need to be added in the 0.4.0 update so far, hoping the developers will heed the long-standing demands of the players.
Trials of Ascendancy
First and foremost, we must mention Trials of Ascendancy in Path of Exile 2. Many players believe its design is poor, the penalties are too harsh, and it is inconsistent.
First, the Honor mechanic in Trial of the Sekhemas has been heavily criticized for its excessive penalties on builds that cannot avoid damage, leading to frustrating deaths for reasons unrelated to player skill. Dying in a Trial not only results in the loss of all PoE 2 currency and loot, but also forces players to restart the entire challenge from the beginning, a long-standing complaint of overly harsh punishment.
Furthermore, The Trial of Chaos introduced mechanics not found in other parts of PoE 2 in previous updates, such as Petrification Statue, movement skill lock, and weakening curses, making it a distinctly different and often unfair challenge.
More importantly, the difficulty of Trials often feels determined by random factors rather than player skill and character builds. This means that Trial mechanics can heavily favor certain character builds, such as high-evasion characters, while directly penalizing other builds, creating significant disparities in difficulty.
Therefore, many players believe these lengthy, tedious, and meaningless Trials do nothing to enhance the gameplay experience and urgently require a rework and adjustment.
Atlas System Overhaul
Furthermore, Atlas system in PoE 2 desperately needs a complete overhaul, as the current system suffers from numerous problems, including a restrictive and uninteresting Atlas tree, a lack of player autonomy, and an unsatisfactory reward system.
The limited 40 Atlas points force players to choose a single optimal path from powerful but often repetitive strategies, rendering other nodes useless and diminishing player satisfaction and freedom of choice. Players have little control over what they want to experience, often feeling trapped in repetitive mapping loops.
The 0.4.0 update urgently needs a major overhaul to address these issues, although some fixes were introduced in the previous 0.3.1 patch.
We hope to increase the number of choices in the Atlas tree and add more unique passive skills, making it more rewarding and strategic. The goal is to give players more control over their map experience, providing more choices rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
Delve
Delve system in Path of Exile 2 also needs improvement because, compared to its counterpart in the original game, it currently lacks meaningful endgame progression and strategic decision-making. Players, aside from finding a few nodes, cannot meaningfully advance the game, making their choices seem random and meaningless.
It's worth noting that in Path of Exile 1, Delve provided a strategic element, requiring players to choose their exploration direction using limited resources. However, in Path of Exile 2, players feel this strategic depth is lacking because there's no clear distinction between spiral expansion and linear progression.
Furthermore, Delve is disconnected from the new Atlas system, which aims to link endgame mechanics to plot progression. Therefore, some players feel that Delve exploration progress is unrelated to their overall Atlas tree.
Therefore, Patch 0.4.0 needs to adjust Delve to establish a more direct connection with the Atlas system, allowing players to synchronize Delve character growth with Atlas progress.
Performance Optimization
Finally, performance optimization for Path of Exile 2 0.4.0 is urgently needed. Imagine constantly experiencing frame rate drops, stuttering, and crashes during tense moments like encountering large groups of enemies or participating in major events, severely impacting your gaming experience-wouldn't you want to smash your keyboard?
These issues directly affect the player's gaming experience, hindering quick and effective reactions in combat, which is at the heart of Path of Exile 2's action role-playing game.
Therefore, stable and smooth performance is crucial as Path of Exile 2 prepares for a major update and final release, ensuring positive feedback from players who have already encountered some issues.
While the 0.4.0 update has made significant progress, development is still ongoing. Developers need to continue working on further optimizations and bug fixes for future updates, especially for console versions that still suffer from stuttering issues.
In any case, nothing is certain until Path of Exile 2 0.4.0 is released. The above are just some adjustments we hope the developers can make to the game, which are also the necessary steps for POE 2 to extend its lifespan.
The livestream for Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 will begin on December 4th, with the official release date being December 12th. This update is titled The Last of the Druids, confirming the addition of the new Druid class.
Players have been eagerly anticipating Druid class, partly because it was absent from Path of Exile 1, and partly because a Druid demo video was released back in 2023. Given the complex skill and equipment system of PoE series, integrating a completely new class into the game is challenging.
The History Of Druids
Druids originated from the proto-Celtic people, serving as religious leaders who presided over rituals and sacrifices, built natural monuments, and were symbols of wisdom. Knowledge about them primarily comes from Romans, such as the accounts of Julius Caesar.
As Christianity spread across Europe, Druidism gradually disappeared, but some of its beliefs and customs were absorbed and assimilated by Christianity.
Scholars once believed that Druids' connection to nature was fictitious, until research in the 1960s and 70s confirmed they were a real group, although they did not possess magic.
Druids first appeared in Diablo II, but they were not part of the original class roster; they were added with Lord of Destruction expansion. Although many ARPGs now feature Druids, Druids in Diablo II are considered by many to be the best in all ARPGs.
PoE 2 Druid
Druids made their debut at ExileCon in 2019, when the official trailer confirmed their inclusion in Path of Exile 2 with a running Werewolf shot. The demo was operated by game director Jonathan Rogers, with founder Chris Wilson providing commentary.
At the time, Druid's form was considered an aura, permanently maintained after transformation, only dispelled by using incompatible skills (such as archery). Only logically compatible skills could be used in different forms, such as leaping and slashing in werewolf form. However, it lacked unique skills and appeared somewhat rudimentary.
When it was showcased again in 2023, Druid's mechanics had undergone a fundamental change. It shifted from a permanent form to skill-driven shapeshifting. Using specific skills would temporarily transform Druid into the corresponding form.
In addition to demonstrating Druid's shapeshifting, elemental spells such as Lightning Storm, Volcano, and summoning wolves and tornadoes were also shown.
Druid was initially planned for release with version 0.1 of Path of Exile 2, but was delayed with patches 0.2 Dawn of the Hunt and 0.3. The delays were reportedly due to design issues and animation problems. On the other hand, Path of Exile development team has a habit of conducting large-scale redesigns in the last days.
Data Mining
New Weapon Types
With the introduction of the new Druid class, new weapon types will be added to the game. The description of Martial Weapons reveals this.
These weapons are classified as Martial Weapons in PoE: axes, bows, claws, crossbows, daggers, flails, maces, quarterstaves, spears, swords, and talismans.
Talismans mentioned in the description are based on weapons specifically designed for Druids. They are two-handed melee weapons that require both Strength and Intelligence to equip. Shapeshifting transforms Druid into a non-human form. However, you can still use the skills of all forms.
Shapeshifting will transform Druid's character into a non-human form, but unless otherwise specified, shapeshifting abilities will still function normally in the character's base form. If Druid uses an ability incompatible with their current shapeshifter, they will automatically revert to human form.
Druid Forms
Interviews with players and media have confirmed that Druid will have three core forms: Wolf, Bear, and another unannounced form, which may potentially be a bird-like form Data mining suggests this mysterious form might be Wyvern form.
Players discovered extensive metadata referencing Wyvern in the game's data files, involving animations such as running, turning, walking slowly, hitstun, and death. The data also revealed related abilities, such as Dodge Roll, Wyvern Swipe, Empowered Swipe, Wing Blast, Flame Breath, and Electric Spit.
Therefore, Druids may start with a Talisman or Voltaic Staff as their initial weapon to complement shapeshifting or lightning and fire elemental builds. Their starting skill might be Volcano or a shapeshifting skill.
Druids are expected to initially receive two Ascendancies, one focusing on shapeshifting and the other on spellcasting, covering physical, fire, lightning, and even poison builds.
Patch 0.4 Predictions
Due to the addition of new classes, the passive talent tree is expected to undergo significant changes and new content in the northwestern Strength–Intelligence section of the tree, where shapeshifting nodes should be added.
Since Patch 0.4 focuses on Druids and the Endgame, Atlas Skill Tree may see major adjustments or even a complete overhaul, with the addition of new PoE 2 currency. New endgame bosses are also likely, possibly including Uber Bosses.
The league mechanics in patch 0.4.0 are likely not entirely new, but rather an adjusted version of the existing Path of Exile 1 league mechanics. This may involve a Breach rework or delve-related content. Like Druid, Trial of the Ancestors 2.0 was delayed in patch 0.3, so it's likely to debut in patch 0.4 as the third Ascendancy.
As a completely new class for Path of Exile series, Druid is undoubtedly very appealing, and many players will likely try it out as their first class in leagues. Unfortunately, the official announcement states that no new class will appear in PoE 1, so you'll only be able to play it in PoE 2.
As the saying goes, everyone has their specialty, and this applies to Path of Exile as well: different classes specialize in different powers and weapons, and the main functions of available builds also differ.
Unlike the classes, whose basic attributes are fixed, the builds themselves, as craftable creations, are entirely up to you. Whether dealing with bosses, developing new dungeons, or farming PoE currency, each build's fate is sealed when it's crafted.
Of course, with the updates to various mechanics in 3.27 league, your strategy for crafting builds should also be adjusted. To save you time, this guide will directly introduce how to craft Death's Oath Occultist Build, suitable for farming resources.
Death's Oath Occultist Build Overview
In fact, this isn't a completely new build originating from Keepers league; it appeared in earlier leagues, but 3.27 gave it another chance to showcase its power.
As the name suggests, this build revolves around Witch Ascendancy class Occultist and the unique Astral Plate of Death's Oath.
The Occultist specializes in cold, chaos damage, and curses. And Death's Oath, when equipped, grants Death Aura effect. This effect deals continuous chaos damage to enemies within a certain range and inflicts chaos damage on yourself when you kill an enemy.
As a key element of the build, Death's Oath's advantage lies in its easy availability at the start of the season, allowing you to farm currency or XP early on through its effective health, damage reduction, and wide-area explosion.
However, as the league progresses, this build becomes less effective due to its relatively low single-target damage, requiring you to adjust your build strategy.
How To Craft This Build?
Before you can unlock Occultist class for crafting this build, we recommend using Chaosslinger build as a transition, which also focuses on chaos damage output, to complete early battles, accumulate resources, and level up.
This transitional build is centered around Spellslinger, combined with other chaos damage-dealing skills to quickly farm XP. Of course, if you have a more suitable Occultist leveling build, you can play at your own pace.
Next, use your earned currency to exchange for some basic gear, such as shields or rings that increase damage, but more importantly, obtain at least two Voidstones.
Socketing these items into Atlas of Worlds will enhance the base map's tier, up to Tier 16. This will give you a chance to obtain more and rarer loot when clearing the map later. The available Voidstone types and their corresponding enemies are:
- Ceremonial Voidstone - Drops from The Maven
- Decayed Voidstone - Drops from Uber Elder
- Grasping Voidstone - Drops from The Eater of Worlds
- Omniscient Voidstone - Drops from The Searing Exarch
Next, use these buffs to wreak havoc within your capabilities! Continue until you've earned enough Divine Orbs. Then, try to acquire Cluster jewels to expand your talent tree and activate more passive nodes.
Based on this, combined with your existing Death's Oath and Occultist, the basic build and the resources to further optimize it are complete.
Recommended Gear
When crafting this build, aside from Death's Oath as chest armor, most gear choices are not fixed. Just ensure the rarity is at least rare and meets your attribute requirements. However, for the helmet and amulet, we recommend the following:
Helmet - Heretic's Veil:
- Adds +2 to the level of socketed cursed gems.
- Socketed gems gain a level 22 Blasphemy bonus.
- Socketed cursed gem retention efficiency increased by 30%, dodge and energy shield increased by 90-110%, and maximum energy shield value increased by 40-50.
Amulet - Impresence (Chaos):
- All attributes are increased.
- Damage over time increased by 30-40%.
- Adds extra chaos damage.
- Maximum health increased by 50-70.
- Chaos resistance increased by 17-23%.
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How To Obtain Enough Divine Orbs?
There are many ways to obtain this currency, but we recommend Heist and Delirium. Heist's advantage lies in its optimization in 3.27 league; rogues' skills will upgrade along with their chosen jobs, accelerating your reward farming.
Since the enemies in Heist are not dangerous, you can easily complete it even in the early stages of the season when your character's damage output is insufficient. If you want to improve efficiency, you can equip items that increase movement speed.
To maximize your Delirium currency earnings in League 3.27, you need to add Delirium orbs to the relevant maps to increase the level of Delirium enemies encountered and the final reward. Currently available orbs include:
- Abyssal Delirium Orb
- Armoursmith's Delirium Orb
- Blacksmith's Delirium Orb
- Blighted Delirium Orb
- Cartographer's Delirium Orb
- Diviner's Delirium Orb
- Fine Delirium Orb
- Foreboding Delirium Orb
- Fossilised Delirium Orb
- Fragmented Delirium Orb
- Jeweller's Delirium Orb
- Singular Delirium Orb
- Skittering Delirium Orb
- Thaumaturge's Delirium Orb
- Timeless Delirium Orb
- Whispering Delirium Orb
How Effective Is This Build In Combat?
If you're familiar with PoE player community, you'll know that Death's Oath Occultist Build is often considered a chaotic version of Righteous Fire build, which inevitably results in a very slow combat pace.
But don't worry, with the right gear selection, you can ultimately gain increased chaos damage and damage over time, and further enhance your build's defense by stacking chaos resistance.
More importantly, besides direct damage output, Occultist class allows you to curse enemies, slowing their movement speed and reducing their damage output, thus ensuring you survive longer to the end.
That concludes this introduction. Hopefully, it will help you delve deeper into 3.27 league!





