My Abyssal Lich Build - Cold 'His Scattering Calamity'

Just showcasing my build with "His Scattering Calamity", and "100% of Lightning Damage Converted to Cold" to freeze and shatter almost everything. Using Umbral Souls, I'm getting +66% Skill Speed, +150% Spell Damage (in addition to 295% from the staff), netting me a ~240k base skill DPS. I can reach +1M with a combo of Headhunter, shrines, and Sigil of Power.

You can find my character here on poe.ninja.

The build can be improved by getting more Spirit (using Against the Darkness Time-Lost Diamond) or anything that improves spirit reservation efficiency.

Pros:

Very fast cast speed, satisfying freeze, and shatter mechanics
Can snipe most things off the screen
You can reassign Spirit to gain more energy shield, but less DPS (though, even with 10k energy shield and 75% elemental resistances, I still get one-shotted lol, so I would rather put all points in DPS)
Never run out of mana [almost]
YUGE AoE on secondary weapon set (useful for Elemental Weakness and Sigil of Power)

Cons:

Expensive to improve (Spirit is expensive)
Can't get Abyssal Lich early
Glass cannon, but hey, read my note on the Pros
You sacrifice a lot of things to stack Spirit and reservation efficiency
Can't take the "Acceleration Shrine". Not sure if a bug or intended behavior, but taking the shrine or putting a lot of Spirit into skill speed renders the "His Scattering Calamity" useless. You're so fast you can't cast??

I was really excited to try the Abyssal Lich, and I wanted to do a full Abyss Lich (staff, rings, and so on). Though after weeks of grinding, I don't think Abyssal Lich is worth it. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about the build. There are more videos of the build here. If you guys have any suggestions to improve, please let me know. I'm new to PoE2.

Bonus point [bug]: using this build, mobs continue moving around after dying.

Comments

froginbog•5 months ago•1

Awesome build. Love seeing ones that aren’t cluttered with a million different effects

Effective-Road4807•5 months ago•1

What settings do you run? It looks so clean. Or maybe my tv is trash i cant tell lol

deez_ill•5 months ago•1

I do this on Titan, much tankier if you wanna try something different. Stacks armour and life

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/deez__Strawz-7689/Big_Pooh?i=0&search=name%3DBig_Po

Jaybone1212•5 months ago•1

Below is a link for my Titan doing mana stacking. Close to 1 million million hideout DPS

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Phacesmasha-9243/character/Phacesmashr

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