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The Mechanics Of The Non-MF Autobomber Chieftain Build In POE 3.23 Affliction League

Jan 20, 2024

How does Autobomber Chieftain (non-Magic Find version) work in POE 3.23 Affliction League?

The Mechanics Of The Non-MF Autobomber Chieftain Build In POE 3.23 Affliction League

How The Build Works?

The primary mechanic that this entire build revolves around is the Cast When Stunned Support gem. This gem is linked to skills like Detonate Dead, Desecrate, and Enfeeble, and Cold Snap to deal the damage needed to kill low-health monsters while ensuring the character doesn't die.

In order to slay the tankier rare and unique mobs, this build relies on the Hinekora, Death's Fury ascendancy passive. This passive is what allows the build to achieve screen-wide explosions that clear every monster within the general vicinity.

The Warlock's Penance Mark is used to spawn enemy phantasms around isolated rare mobs so that the build can fish for procs from Hinekora, Death's Fury in the event that no smaller mobs are around to further improve the effectiveness of the explosions.

Path of Exile 3.23 Warlock's Penance Mark

However, the build features a 100% chance to ignite alongside Defiled Forces so that whenever Hinekora, Death's Fury procs, the massive ignite deals on a monster can be infinitely sustained.

The most important part of this build is ensuring that monsters have a 100% chance to stun the character. This can be achieved by allocating The Agnostic and the Energy Shield Mastery node.

How To Get 90% Max Resistances?

There are 3 main ways that this character builds defenses. If you have enough POE Currency, it will be easier to use these ways.

  • High Maximum Resistances (90% Elemental Resistances)
  • Physical Damage Shifting (% Physical Damage Taken as)
  • Recoup/Recovery

Due to the Valako, Storm's Embrace passive, it is only necessary to achieve 90% max fire resistance to apply the same cap to both lightning and cold resistance. A total of 15% max fire res is needed to reach the resistance cap. And this is obtained through Prismatic Skin, Barbarism, Rise of the Phoenix, and Purity of Fire.

Keep in mind that a level 23 Purity of Fire is needed to achieve a 5% max fire resistance from the gem. Another 20% increase from Champion of the Cause and its Reservation Mastery node will bring that value to a 6% max fire resistance from Purity of Fire alone.

How To Get More Physical Damage Taken As Elemental From Hits?

Now, for the physical damage shifting, this build starts with the Cloak of Flame, which provides a 40% physical damage taken as fire that also applies to physical damage overtime effects.

The build runs a rare helmet that provides another 14% physical damage shift. A Watcher's Eye that gives 9% physical damage shift. And finally, a Lethal Pride that gives 10% physical damage shift by allocating Ancestral Knowledge and Expertise.

With these items alone, the build achieves a total of 79% physical damage taken from hits as fire damage. In order to reach the coveted 100% physical damage shift, the build uses a Pyroshock Clasp to convert another 30% of physical damage taken to lightning and fire damage.

Note that the effect from Pyroshock Clasp also applies to physical damage over time as well. This is how the build theoretically achieves slightly over 100% physical shift.

However, because the build doesn't actually deal that much lightning damage nor have a reliable way to shock tankier enemies, its physical damage shift is realistically closer to 94%.

Path of Exile 3.23 Autobomber Chieftain Build

How To Get High Recoup/Recovery?

The final layer of defense that prevents this build from ever getting one-shot within maps is high recoup/recovery.

This layer first starts with the Bloodnotch and Immutable Force combo. This enables the build to continue moving around even when constantly being stunned by enemies and also recover a significant portion of damage from stunning hits over a short duration.

Petrified Blood prevents 40% of damage taken from hits and causes that damage to be taken over 4 seconds instead. 30% recoup can be obtained by allocating Infused Flesh, and another 12% can be gained by anointing Vampirism.

The biggest goal here is to prevent the build from being one-shot, so a Defiance of Destiny will be used to gain 42% of missing life before each hit is calculated.

Important Flask Setup

The flask setup of this build features these 3 elemental defensive flasks to further boost the build's elemental max hit:

  • Masochist's Sapphire Flask Of The Rainbow
  • Masochist's Topaz Flask Of The Kakapo
  • Masochist's Ruby Flask Of The Lynx

A Sulphur Flask is used to improve life regeneration from Consecrated Ground as well as reduce the effect of curses.

Finally, the build runs a Quicksilver Flask (Masochist's Quicksilver Flask Of Infliction) for a bit of extra movement speed.

One additional thing to look for in the flask setup are prefixes that allow them to gain charges when the character is hit by enemies. This will greatly improve their uptime while mapping and fighting bosses.

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