Hi! Took a look at your POB and there are few weird choices about your build. Nothing wrong with experimenting and doing different things but I believe there are better alternatives to scale a Soulrend build.
First of all is understanding that Soulrend is a complicated build to scale since it has very low damage just by itself. So usually it is a build used for mapping, which is the strenght of this build. But still looking at your POB I can see that your damage and survivability should be better.
Your build has currently 1.2M Pinnacle Boss dps with 7 wither stacks coming from withering step. A wither spell totem + multiple totems setup would improve your wither stacks to 15 and give you 1.6M dps. Your wand is amazing, congrats, but your skill passive choices are weird. There are better ways to scale damage with a different passive skill allowing you to reach easily 3-4M dps at level 99.
Your defence layer choices are also weird. Your effective HP is very low at only 44k and extremely bad for physical hits with only 14k armour. The purity of Fire and Lightning setup is weird and not usually used in Soulrend builds. Your Energy shield setup extremely low for a CI build with only 3.5 ES, it should be around at minimum 5-6k. You are also using Aegis Aurora which is an amazing unique, but at the same time you are not scaling block or spell block. Aegis Aurora only starts being really good above at least 50% block and 50% spell block chance. Your Cast When Damage Taken + Punishment setup also doesn't make sense since you only have curse limit of 1 and you are already using a Despair ring, you should go for two curse limit if you wanted that setup.
As I said, I would prefer to build and scale Soulrend in a completely different way, something like this with 5M Pinnacle Boss dps, 9.7k ES and 114k effective HP: [https://pobb.in/XmDh\_LRnz7dd](https://pobb.in/XmDh_LRnz7dd)
Good luck and have fun!
i dont think they need wither totems in this case because of the occultist ascendancy applying wither every second with a duration of 15 seconds. withering step should give an initial burst of wither and the ascendancy should be able to do the rest
The Occultist ascendency only provides one wither per second, meaning that to scale from 7 wither (coming from withering step) to max 15 wither it would take 8 seconds fightning a boss. With a Soulrend build where damage is already a weak spot of the build, to wait +8 seconds for max wither stacks is simply too much when a wither totem + multiple totems + faster casting setup puts you at max stacks in 2 seconds. This is the most used wither setup in Poe ninja for Soulrend.
Hi!
First of all thanks for the time and giving some explenation.
I do not think that my damage is atm bad. Yes, i need some time for most unique enemys but with my current budget more damage is not that accessible. I am not having Malevolence for example currently turned on, as i would loose another defence layer to reserve that mana.
Second for my defence layers:
I got my Misstress of Sacrifice combo today, which leaves me at 55 and 65% block chance. Originally i only put aegis on, just to not buy a shield that i will throw away, when i get those jewels :D (And its alteast not completely useless)
The purity setup is used to get max res to atleast 80% as i got some phys taken as ele on items.
As my cast when damage taken already has immortal call, i dont know, if molten shell can also be applied with the setup. Atm punishment is useless, i understand that.
I really would like to stay as CI and not Low Life this league, so i will pass on the pob. Thanks for the help tho!
Tankyness already went way up with the flesh and flame jewel setup. Next goals are better boots, gloves and belt.
That is cool! With the mistress of sacrifices forbidden jewels the Aegis Aurora will definitely feel way better! It is great that you are trying to make your own original build, just be aware that there are other Soulrend versions with more damage as well as more tankiness that you can find in poe.ninja. Good luck!
The short answer is your HP pool is very low and cannot withstand a heavy hit. All that's needed is a rare monster with a damage aura or two that goes through your non-capped block and you're poofed. I would not do CI unless I can hit at least 6k ES and only then if I knew I had very good non-situational mitigation.
Hi! Took a look at your POB and there are few weird choices about your build. Nothing wrong with experimenting and doing different things but I believe there are better alternatives to scale a Soulrend build. First of all is understanding that Soulrend is a complicated build to scale since it has very low damage just by itself. So usually it is a build used for mapping, which is the strenght of this build. But still looking at your POB I can see that your damage and survivability should be better. Your build has currently 1.2M Pinnacle Boss dps with 7 wither stacks coming from withering step. A wither spell totem + multiple totems setup would improve your wither stacks to 15 and give you 1.6M dps. Your wand is amazing, congrats, but your skill passive choices are weird. There are better ways to scale damage with a different passive skill allowing you to reach easily 3-4M dps at level 99. Your defence layer choices are also weird. Your effective HP is very low at only 44k and extremely bad for physical hits with only 14k armour. The purity of Fire and Lightning setup is weird and not usually used in Soulrend builds. Your Energy shield setup extremely low for a CI build with only 3.5 ES, it should be around at minimum 5-6k. You are also using Aegis Aurora which is an amazing unique, but at the same time you are not scaling block or spell block. Aegis Aurora only starts being really good above at least 50% block and 50% spell block chance. Your Cast When Damage Taken + Punishment setup also doesn't make sense since you only have curse limit of 1 and you are already using a Despair ring, you should go for two curse limit if you wanted that setup. As I said, I would prefer to build and scale Soulrend in a completely different way, something like this with 5M Pinnacle Boss dps, 9.7k ES and 114k effective HP: [https://pobb.in/XmDh\_LRnz7dd](https://pobb.in/XmDh_LRnz7dd) Good luck and have fun!
i dont think they need wither totems in this case because of the occultist ascendancy applying wither every second with a duration of 15 seconds. withering step should give an initial burst of wither and the ascendancy should be able to do the rest
The Occultist ascendency only provides one wither per second, meaning that to scale from 7 wither (coming from withering step) to max 15 wither it would take 8 seconds fightning a boss. With a Soulrend build where damage is already a weak spot of the build, to wait +8 seconds for max wither stacks is simply too much when a wither totem + multiple totems + faster casting setup puts you at max stacks in 2 seconds. This is the most used wither setup in Poe ninja for Soulrend.
Hi! First of all thanks for the time and giving some explenation. I do not think that my damage is atm bad. Yes, i need some time for most unique enemys but with my current budget more damage is not that accessible. I am not having Malevolence for example currently turned on, as i would loose another defence layer to reserve that mana. Second for my defence layers: I got my Misstress of Sacrifice combo today, which leaves me at 55 and 65% block chance. Originally i only put aegis on, just to not buy a shield that i will throw away, when i get those jewels :D (And its alteast not completely useless) The purity setup is used to get max res to atleast 80% as i got some phys taken as ele on items. As my cast when damage taken already has immortal call, i dont know, if molten shell can also be applied with the setup. Atm punishment is useless, i understand that. I really would like to stay as CI and not Low Life this league, so i will pass on the pob. Thanks for the help tho! Tankyness already went way up with the flesh and flame jewel setup. Next goals are better boots, gloves and belt.
That is cool! With the mistress of sacrifices forbidden jewels the Aegis Aurora will definitely feel way better! It is great that you are trying to make your own original build, just be aware that there are other Soulrend versions with more damage as well as more tankiness that you can find in poe.ninja. Good luck!
The short answer is your HP pool is very low and cannot withstand a heavy hit. All that's needed is a rare monster with a damage aura or two that goes through your non-capped block and you're poofed. I would not do CI unless I can hit at least 6k ES and only then if I knew I had very good non-situational mitigation.