Updated for Patch 3.24
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March 29, 2024 -Build updated for Patch 3.24 |
Build Overview | |||
Tags: [ELEMENTAL] [HYBRID] [LOW LIFE] [STARTER] | |||
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Absolution of Inspiring is very similar to the regular Absolution, however, this one encourages you to deal damage yourself rather than by the Sentinels of Absolution. It is done so by reducing the maximum amount of these types of Minions you're able to summon, and causing all increases and reductions to Minion Damage to apply to the Damage of this Spell at 250%. There are not a lot of opportunities to take advantage of it, but it's still a great source of damage when combined with the 60% sourced from The Black Cane. This Weapon also grants you the Phantasmal Might that adds Physical Damage per each Phantasm you have summoned. It's good with Absolution that deals Physical Damage, half of which is Converted to Lightning. The other half should be Converted too, which is done with one Support Gem. To Summon these Phantasm you will use Herald of Purity and Arcanist Brand linked to Vortex. These Skills, after linking with Summon Phantasm Support, have a 20% Chance to spawn such Minion on Hit against Rare or Uqniue Enemies (even higher on Kill, but that won't happen often). The maximum number of Phantasms is 11 if the Support Gem is at level 21, which it should be in both setups. These Minions won't do a lot of damage on their own, they're here only to add Physical Damage to your Absolution.
Your defensive layers are mostly Maximum Life, Energy Shield, Block Chance, Armour, and Perified Blood. After Reserving half of your Life Pool you will benefit from Petrified Blood and Pain Attunement to take damage in a more controlled manner and deal more Spell Damage. Algor Mortis Gloves, combined with the Chilled Ground you create with Brands and Vortex will Sap the enemies causing them to deal less and take increased damage. The Inquisitor is one of the best choices here. With its Inevitable Judgement that specializes in Elemental Damage and Critical Strikes, and Pious Path that Regenerates your ES alongside Life pretty much constantly, it's definitely suitable, if not the best ascendancy.
It's a cheap league starter build that can be used as a starting point for any other Inquisitor build, or developed into a proper end-game one after some investment and minor adjustments, like using the Awakened Spell Cascade Support. We won't delve into it in this guide.
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Use the Absolution to slay enemies as you go. Phantasms will be spawned during boss fights via Arcanist Brands and Herald of Purity - it will significantly improve your damage. Arcanist Brand will also create Chilled Ground with Vortex, making the build much stronger than it may seem initially. For a Curse use Assassin's Mark, for a movement Spell - Frostblink. Your Guard Skill is Molten Shell as your Armour is relatively high. It should be linked to CwDT alongside Frostshield to mitigate even more incoming damage. Your Auras are Zealotry, Determination, Herald of Purity, Tempest Shield, Petrified Blood, and Defiance Banner.
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You can start with Absolution or any other Lightning Spell as we have shown in this Templar Leveling Guide using Lightning Spells.
Bandits:
you should kill all three Bandits for two additional Skill Points
Final Skill Tree:
119 Points Final Skill Tree (doesn't include Unique or Cluster Jewels)
119 Points Path of Building (PoB) link
Ascendancy points:
Preferably in that order:
Pantheon:
Major God: Soul of Arakaali: 10% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time; +40% Chaos Resistance against Damage Over Time
Minor God: Soul of Abberath: 60% less Duration of Ignite on You
[DPS] Absolution of Inspiring setup | |
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Absolution of Inspiring - In this build, it's a basic Physical to Lightning Spell that also benefits from modifiers do Minions' Damage at 250% of the original value. |
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Summon Phantasm Support - Each Phantasm will grant you extra flat Physical Damage via The Black Cane. If you already have 10 Phantasms summoned with your other setups, replace it with ![]() ![]() |
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Physical to Lightning Support - Converts the remaining Physical Damage to Lightning, and a lot of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage. |
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Increased Critical Damage Support - Increases Critical Strike Multiplier. |
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Inspiration Support - Increases Critical Strike Chance, lowers Mana Cost, and grants more Elemental Damage. |
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Spell Echo Support - Used to cast the same Spell twice with higher Cast Speed but lower damage. It can be replaced with ![]() |
[UTILITY] Auras setup | |
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Zealotry - More Spell Damage and Increased Spell Critical Strike Cance. |
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Determination - More and Increased Armour to take less Physical Hit Damage. |
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Herald of Purity - More Physical Damage, later Converted. It also creates Minions that will have a chance of summoning Phantasms on Hit and on Kill. |
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Summon Phantasm Support - Sentinels of Purity will summon Phantasms. Each Phantasm will grant you extra flat Physical Damage via The Black Cane. Try to increase the Gem Level to 21. |
[UTILITY] Arcanist Brand setup | |
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Arcanist Brand - Arcanist Brand is used to trigger Vortex while you're busy casting Absolution. With Runebinder, you can have two of these on a single enemy. |
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Summon Phantasm Support - Vortex will also create Phantasms against tough enemies. It's a 20% chance of summoning one per Hit against a Rare or Unique enemy. Try to increase the Gem Level to 21. |
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Vortex - Creates Chilled Ground and causes enemies to take increased damage with Algor Mortis. It also deals Hit Damage with a chance of summoning Phantasm. |
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Increased Duration Support - Increases the Duration of Arcanist Brand to cast it less often and summon more Vortexes per Cast, which also last longer. |
[UTILITY] Petrified Blood setup socketed in Prism Guardian |
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Petrified Blood - It prevents a portion of incoming Hit Damage and makes it DoT, but only for the lower half of your Life Pool. The upper half is Reserved. |
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Tempest Shield - Use it for additional Spell Block Chance. |
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Defiance Banner - Increases your Armour and reduces Crit Chance for nearby enemies. |
[UTILITY] CwDT setup | |
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Cast when Damage Taken - Linked Skills will trigger after taking a certain amount of Hit Damage. |
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Molten Shell - Prevents a portion of incoming Hit Damage for some time. |
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Frost Shield - Drains your Energy Shield to form a protective, stationary dome, inside of which you take less damage, and have an increased base Critical Strike Chance. |
[MOBILITY] Frostblink and Assassin's Mark setup | |
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Frostblink - A movement Skill that also creates Chilled Ground. |
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Arcane Surge Support - After spending enough Mana on linked Spells it grants you the Arcane Surge buff for increased Cast Speed and Mana Regeneration Rate. |
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Assassin's Mark - Increases Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier against Marked enemy. |
[UTILITY] Vaal Righteous Fire | |
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Vaal Righteous Fire - Activate Vaal RF for a brief but potent bonus to your Spell Damage. |
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It's a very basic Spell Damage build, and despite the unique trait of Absolution of Inspiring, there are little to no opportunities to get "increased Minion Damage" modifiers. Most of the Rare gear will aim to improve your defences such as Resistances, Maximum Life, Energy Shield, Armour, and Life Regeneration. Attributes are not as important, but try to get as much Strength as Intelligence for more Critical Strike Chance - it's a very efficient way to gain this stat. You will of course need to reach a 100% Critical Strike Chance. All Unique Items are cheap, especially after the first day of a new league. They're all common, even as a loot from endgame bosses. The Black Cane is a core element of the build.
Our recommended items will:
Stat priorities on items:
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333% increased Armour and Energy Shield (9-21)% increased maximum Life, Mana and Global Energy Shield Transfiguration of Soul Transfiguration of Body Transfiguration of Mind |
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24% increased Elemental Damage +(20-30) to Intelligence (8-15)% increased Cast Speed (40-60)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate Minions deal (40-60)% increased Damage Each Summoned Phantasm grants you Phantasmal Might |
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+12% to all Elemental Resistances +2 to Level of Socketed Aura Gems Socketed Gems Cost and Reserve Life instead of Mana Socketed Gems have 30% increased Reservation Efficiency +(20-30) to Dexterity +25% to all Elemental Resistances |
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+(20-30) to maximum Life +2 to Level of Socketed Gems Triggers Level 20 Elemental Aegis when Equipped (180-220)% increased Armour +(60-80) to maximum Life +(80-100) to Evasion Rating and Energy Shield |
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Min. requirements: +100 to Maximum Life 80% Total Elemental Resistances Optional affixes: Attributes Life Regeneration Chaos Resistance Additional Physical Damage Reduction #% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage #% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage (crafted Prefix) |
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Min. requirements: +60 to Maximum Life 50% Total Elemental Resistances 25% increased Movement Speed Optional affixes: Attributes Chaos Resistance |
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+(50-70) to maximum Energy Shield +(15-20)% to Cold and Lightning Resistances (20-30)% chance to Sap Enemies in Chilling Areas Enemies in your Chilling Areas take (25-35)% increased Lightning Damage (15-20)% increased Effect of Non-Damaging Ailments |
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+(25-40) to maximum Life +(30-40)% to Cold Resistance Chill nearby Enemies when you Focus, causing 30% reduced Action Speed Focus has (30-50)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate (50-70)% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments against Chilled Enemies Veiled Suffix |
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Min. requirements: +70 to Maximum Life 80% Total Elemental Resistances Strength Optional affixes: Gain a Flask Charge when you deal a Critical Strike Life Regeneration Armour |
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<<Random Searing Exarch implicit>> <<Random Eater of Worlds implicit>> +(20-50) to Strength +(20-50) to Dexterity +(20-50) to Intelligence (10-15)% increased Global Defences Critical Strikes inflict Malignant Madness if The Eater of Worlds is dominant Kill Enemies that have 15% or lower Life on Hit if The Searing Exarch is dominant |
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Recommended Anointments: Charisma Throatseeker/Heartseeker Doom Cast Infused Sanctum of Thought |
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(15-25)% increased Elemental Damage 20% chance to Trigger Level 20 Summon Volatile Anomaly on Kill Adds (13-18) to (50-56) Lightning Damage to Spells (6-10)% increased maximum Energy Shield (6-10)% increased maximum Life (60-80)% increased Spell Damage if your other Ring is an Elder Item Cannot be Stunned by Spells if your other Ring is a Shaper Item |
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+(8-10)% to all Elemental Resistances +10% to all Elemental Resistances (6-8)% increased Movement Speed when on Low Life 31% increased Light Radius +(20-25)% to Chaos Resistance when on Low Life Damage of Enemies Hitting you is Unlucky while you are on Low Life |
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Min. requirements: +60 to Maximum Life 40 Strength Elemental and Chaos Resistances Optional affixes: Elemental and Chaos Resistances Non-channelling Skils have -# to Total Mana Cost (crafted) Adds # Lightning Damage against Shocked Enemies (Crusader Prefix) increased Cast Speed Attributes |
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Recommended affixes: Attributes Resistances increased Maximum Life increased Energy Shield Critical Strike modifiers |
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(4-6)% increased maximum Energy Shield (4-6)% increased maximum Life (4-6)% increased maximum Mana <Two or Three random aura modifiers> |
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Recommended affixes: 1 Added Passive Skill is Prismatic Heart 1 Added Passive Skill is Widespread Destruction 1 Added Passive Skill is Overshock 1 Added Passive Skill is Doryani's Lesson 1 Added Passive Skill is Inspired Oppression 1 Added Passive Skill is Snowstorm 1 Added Passive Skill is Sadist 1 Added Passive Skill is Storm Drinker |
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+1500 to Armour +(8-12)% Chance to Block Attack Damage during Effect +(4-6)% Chance to Block Spell Damage during Effect |
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