Poison Dodge Roll Chonk - Trail of Caltrops/Void Illusion

This is a meme build through and through where I just spam dodge roll, but it's working out surprisingly well. I wanted to make a dodge spam Void Illusion Chayula after they doubled its damage this patch. That combined with the QoL to purple flames and the remnant supports, I went for it as one of my last builds of the league.

I added in Trail of Caltrops and they actually do more damage than Void Illusion and they have no cooldown so I can just spam dodge. I've scaled Caltrops to level 40 via two +5 attack skills maces, +3 proj ammy, +3 Prism of Belief and a +4 Vertex (attack speed doesn't matter so I went for high overall damage on both maces).

The Vertex and Treefingers allows me to dual wield 2H maces without worrying about the high attribute cost.

Scaling crit was going to be difficult so I opted for poison due to dealing high phys and Chayula's metric ton of extra damage as chaos. That combined with Wither, Despair and Thunderstorm for shock on bosses, the damage is actually crazy.

Palm of the Dreamer in my offhand for my clear setup and I just spam space bar through the map lol. I want to get more boss footage to make a full build showcase before the end of the league but I have other projects I'm working on as well (lore) so it may take a bit!

Anyways, I thought the build community might like this concept and there's improvements to be made for sure, cheers Exiles.

PoE Ninja

Comments

KitMaison•4 months ago•2

Love the creativity and I'm impressed at how effective it is at killing! Well done!

Edit: How do you have the two Greathammers equipped with only 139 str?

Skhemattos•4 months ago•2

Just a question out of curiosity, but does this work with blink?

PowerCrazy•4 months ago•2

Ooh I did this build last league and never considered trail of caltrops, that ups the consistency of the build so much

BuntSingles•4 months ago•2

Was going to attempt a build similar to this and never got around to finishing it. Looks really rad, might have to try it out!

Santi-Emite•4 months ago•1

I've been that route and ended up dropping dodge strat completely to just jump around with Shattering Palm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKP_nsKcAXc

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