[3.5] Disintegrator Double CoC Build

POB Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/NAJFw0sg
Skill tree: poeurl.com/cfnQ
Example skill tree around level 64-68 (when you can start to equip your Disintegrator and other endgame gear: poeurl.com/cfo9
My character link: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/dust36/characters?characterName=BiggerCritter

For those who just want a total dps number (as it’s a combination of several skills for this build): ~1.4 million Shaper dps (See my POB link and the DPS section below for detailed calculations)

Uber Elder kill- yes, I died twice because I’m bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDY7LxScFQ

T16 Elder Guardian map with bonus T16 Zana (both with 40% phys reduction/no regen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok1S7JDM4qc

T16 Hydra without using Conc. Effect on boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNeAhK0Q2c

I also did Uber Atziri several days ago and didn’t get a video of it, if I’m able I’ll try to add one at some point.

Build Pros:
- Can run any map mod other than no leech (and maybe some combo of 60% less life recovery, Vulnerability, or no regen)
- 6k+ life at endgame, even when using a Rat’s Nest or Devoto’s
- No need to stand still and self-cast Blade Vortex; Static Strike does it for you!
- Nearly permanent, auto-refreshing fortify (also thanks to Static Strike)
- Very strong single target damage
- Cheaper than many other options if you’re looking to play a CoC build
- Have a ton of fun playing with CoC!

Build Cons:
- Slower clear speed than the top tier meta builds
- Slightly less consistent CoC procs than a build with hits can’t be evaded and/or higher crit
- Need to deal with the degen from Disintegrator, especially when affected by certain map mods (less recovery of life, cursed with Vulnerability, no regen)
- Sometimes can get in awkward/dangerous positions when trying to attack with Static Strike (Ancestral Call Support fixes a lot of this issue)
- Needs at least one 6-link to make full use of the build’s Static Strike QoL features

The basic idea of the build is to use two Cast on Critical Strike setups, one with Cyclone triggering Bladefall and another with Static Strike triggering Blade Vortex. Static Strike can continuously proc CoC over its entire duration, so you can hit once and as long as it’s up BV will gain stacks. You can then be Cycloning (and proccing CoC-Bladefall) throughout that duration. Static Strike can also continuously refresh fortify for you.

We make use of the large physical damage boost Disintegrator gives (almost doubling the base damage of Bladefall/Blade Vortex), and get crit and accuracy from our tree, gear, and skills to reach good levels of both and avoid the need for an expensive hits can’t be evaded mod. We also get global leech from Disintegrator that works with our spells, gives us survivability, and helps offset the Siphoning Charge degens we take.

We stack accuracy and crit to get 90-93% chance to hit and ~85% effective crit chance, which is enough to make CoC feel good and proc spells often enough. We achieve our good crit chance through our passive tree and ascendancy, gear, skill gems, and diamond flask.

(I did not do any of these CoC cooldown time calculations myself, I took the info from others who posted about it previously. The links to those posts with the info I used are below)

The new CoC gem has a 150ms cooldown. Thanks to a ton of research and info posted by other players, we believe that the actual cooldown is more like 165ms due to server tick rates. 14% cooldown recovery is the break point required to actually improve this cooldown.

If we don’t get any cooldown recovery, we can only trigger CoC 6.06 times per second. Cyclone hits at twice your attack rate, so we would need to have under 3 attacks per second to avoid going over this breakpoint. Our weapon base has 1.2 aps, and Cyclone has a 50% more attack speed modifier, so we’re at 1.8 aps by default. We can only get 66% increased attack speed to stay below the breakpoint, and we get 37% from our tree, 10-16% from one of the three main helmet options, and 10-20% from Blood Rage. In short, we’re already at or above the CoC breakpoint if we don’t have any cdr!

If we can get >14% cdr on our belt or boots, we can then proc CoC 7.57 times per second, which we can reach by staying below 3.75 aps. This means we can get a better 108% increased attack speed everywhere without worrying about going over the breakpoint, while triggering our spells more frequently.

All that explanation too complicated? For this build, it’s pretty simple: if you don’t get 14% cdr somewhere, your Cyclone aps should be below 3.0. If you do get 14% cdr, your Cyclone aps should be below 3.75. Try to calculate it with everything you would have up vs a boss, as single target is the main time these calculations really matter (e.g. I don’t include onslaught in my personal calculations, as I only get it on kill occasionally, so it likely won’t be up against a boss).

Links to CoC cooldown discussions I reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/a1e0o1/psa_cooldown_and_aps_thresholds_for_new_coc_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/ab2g9n/updated_cyclone_coc_discharge_proc_rate_now_with/

(Disclaimer: I aim to be an ethical dps player. I’ve only checked the settings in my POB that you can reasonably expect to have up during a boss fight like Shaper or Elder. These calculations are based on that anti-POB-tooltip-warrior ideal. If you have any issue with the settings or think I’ve screwed up my calculations, please let me know.

Cyclone itself does 200k dps.

Blade Vortex hits 7.5 times per second at 10 stacks (nearly always up against hard bosses), and does 78k per hit, for a total of 585k dps.

Static Strike does very little, but if you care, the beams are doing 40k dps.

Bladefall is the tough one to calculate, as it’s hard to know how often it’s actually proccing. If we had 100% hit and crit chance, our Cyclone would crit about 7 times per second, which is under the CoC cooldown (7.57 per second) with our >14% cdr belt mod. We only have ~92% hit chance and ~85% effective crit chance, which would lower that to around 5.5 crits per second (7*.92*.85). Let’s just say we’re only getting 5 of those to be safe and ethical. Our bladefall does 119k per hit, giving us a total of 595k dps. (It’s possible for an enemy to be hit by more than one of each bladefall’s waves, but I’m not going to get into that. The build has more than enough damage, ok?)

This gives us a grand total of: 200k + 585k + 40k + 595k = 1.42 million dps

What if I only have two 5 links instead of two 6 links, my damage is probably shit then, right?
Let’s find out. I assume you’re going to take out either fortify or ancestral call if you only have a 5L for Static Strike. In either case, Blade Vortex damage will be unchanged, and Static Strike will either lose 2k dps or gain 8k dps (it’s basically no change in either case).

For our Cyclone setup, we have to drop either conc effect or vile toxins for a 5L. They’re close, but let’s say we drop vile toxins. Our Cyclone goes down to 149k dps, and our Bladefall goes down to 82k per hit (or 410k dps if we’re proccing it 5 times per second like we said).

In total, our damage with two 5L is: 149k + 585k + 38k + 410k = 1.18 million dps (only???)

In summary, your damage should be fine, even on 5-links. Don’t worry about the numbers so much!

This is a Scion Ascendant build that combines the Assassin and Slayer subclasses and uses Path of the Shadow to get to the Shadow area of the skill tree.

Assassin:
Every part of this subclass is helpful for the build. The extra 1% crit helps us more easily reach the high levels of crit chance needed. The built in power charge on crit gives us easy power charge generation everywhere, including against bosses, and means we don’t need to use Assassin’s Mark. The 40% chance to poison affects both our spells and attacks, giving us a bit of extra poison damage and applying plenty of poison stacks for the damage boost from Vile Toxins support (if we choose to use it). The extra movement speed is a nice bonus. Finally, immunity to reflect when we crit (coupled with Slayer’s complete physical reflect immunity) means we can run any phys or ele reflect maps, and we don’t have to avoid the Atziri Mirror clone (though that could still be an issue if we don’t crit, as our bit of elemental damage can then be reflected).

Slayer:
The main draw of the Slayer node for this build is the “Life leech effects are not removed at full life” line, as it gives us a recovery buffer to help counter the physical degen we take from Disintegrator. Culling strike, the extra damage, and the extra area are all nice bonuses as well. The immunity to physical reflect is also helpful as discussed in the Assassin section, as most of the damage we deal is physical.

Path of the Shadow:
The Scion’s ability to start at another class starting point is relevant for this build, as it allows us to get many of the great nodes in the Shadow starting area while saving 7-9 travel points to get there.

Skill tree link: poeurl.com/cfnQ

The tree should mostly speak for itself, but generally we’re going for the close jewel sockets, a good amount of life, crit chance and multiplier, accuracy, and damage (physical, spell, minion). We make sure to grab the Potency of Will skill effect duration cluster, and extra power/endurance charges when we’re able. If there’s anything that doesn’t make sense about why I grabbed it, go ahead and ask and I’ll explain my thought process. Otherwise, make changes as you see fit.

Cyclone

Static Strike


Auras


Utility

General recommendations


Example Set- My current gear




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Body Armour


Helmet


Gloves


Boots


Belt


Amulet


Rings


Jewels


Flasks

Example tree for leveling from around 64-68 (when you can start equipping Disintegrator and other endgame gear): poeurl.com/cfo9

I was going to level with arc totems, but just stuck with storm brand after trying it and realizing how good it was. This guide probably isn’t for extremely new players, so my hope is you have an idea of how you like to level a build and can just roll with that.

Around 64-68 you should be able to equip your gear for this build, so focus on getting to the key areas of the skill tree if you want to switch around then. Disintegrator will likely be able to carry you through early maps on its own power. Don’t be afraid to travel directly from Scion to the Shadow area and refund those travel points once you can get the Path of the Shadow ascendancy node.

We’re a crit build, so we help Alira. Pretty simple.

Pantheon powers are very helpful and important for our build. Almost always, you’re going to want to run Soul of Arakaali and Soul of Ralakesh.

Arakaali: Gives us 5% reduced damage taken from damage over time, and 10% chance to avoid lightning damage when hit. This helps us mitigate the degens from Siphoning Charges and Blood Rage, as well as helping against lightning damage.

When we capture Queen of the Great Tangle in the Jungle Valley map, we improve our life recovery from all sources when we stop taking damage over time. This means that whenever our CWDT-Immortal Call procs (as long as we aren’t taking elemental or chaos damage over time too), our physical degen stops and we gain the extra recovery. Instead of our leech being capped at 20% of our max life per second, that goes up to 30%.

The other bonus powers are nice too, so capture them if you can.

Ralakesh: Gives us 25% reduced physical damage over time taken while moving. We’re nearly always moving with either cyclone or just walking, and the damage reduction helps mitigate both the Siphoning Charge and Blood Rage physical degens. It’s also helpful against traps when you’re running Lab!

When we capture Drek, Apex Hunter in the Fields map for the bonus power, we can’t be blinded, which greatly improves our accuracy against Shroud Walker rares, Shrouded Shrines, or any other blinding effects.

Q: “Your Loreweave only has a 79 max res roll! What are you, stupid?”
A: Probably, yep. To explain myself, I linked, colored, and got the white sockets I needed before divining it, and then I hit the current roll with 1 divine so I just left it. Sue me.

Q: “Why are you wasting a passive point on 18% Lightning Res? Nice shitty build lmao!”
A: Thanks! I really wanted to craft -x to mana cost of skills for QoL rather than resistance, and I was too lazy to replace gear pieces to fix it. I’m sure your certified NiceBuild ™ will have better gear and be able to save that point to use elsewhere.

Q: “LOL you died twice in that Uber Elder video. Trash player, trash build.”
A: That’s not a question… but yes, I’m definitely not a top tier mechanical player and Uber Elder is very hard content. Hopefully you can look past my mechanical shortcomings if you’re interested in this build.

Q: “Based on my extensive calculations, simulations, and doctoral thesis, you’re only 76.313% efficient with your CoC procs! Relying on accuracy and shitty staves is terrible and your build is terrible.”
A: If the build still feels good to play, can do pretty much all endgame content, and is an order of magnitude cheaper than other meta CoC builds, how terrible is it really? Maybe you should actually try it out before you judge it!

Q: “You copied Mathil’s build!!!”
A: Nope, but I’m a fan and was excited to see him trying out a similar concept. If you take a look at the guide, however, you’ll realize that while the builds have a similar playstyle, there are several differences in the passive tree, skill setup, and gear requirements. Also, while it would be wonderful to have the ability to know what Mathil’s going to build two weeks beforehand (when I built this character), I unfortunately don’t have that power.

Q: “Why are you taking minion damage nodes?”
A: The Spiritual Aid notable passive has “Increases and reductions to minion damage also affect you.” This means the damage on the nodes we take to get to Spiritual Aid affect us directly. It is general increased damage that affects all types of damage we deal. We also get a nice bit of life regen and increased accuracy rating from those nodes.

Q: “Can I use this as a league starter?”
A: Probably not, as Disintegrator only drops from the endgame Uber Elder boss, and will likely be unavailable or rare/expensive at the start of any league. That said, most items for this build are relatively cheap, easy to get, and unpopular in the current meta, so it’s possible you could start as something else and get this up and running a week or so into a new league.

Q: “You forgot about an item/passive/skill that would be good for this build!”
A: It’s very likely that I screwed up and forgot something, yes. Please let me know or ask about it; I would love to discuss other ideas or improvements to be made! Or, just go ahead and make changes yourself; the build has plenty of flexibility for you to try different things, and that experimentation is one of the most fun parts of PoE, in my opinion.