[0.2] The Fartmaster (poison spear Ritualist, all content viable)

Thank you for this build.
It the only satisfying poison build that I have found that is both viable and not busted.
I made a few changes to your build that made it more fun for me but slightly smoother (imo). expensive changes tho.
I used Headhunter (after I tried the Ritual Sacrifice accendancy).
I removed Martial Tempo and added Caltrops to Lightning Spear. It imporoved Plague Bearer buildup fast and it's fun and funny at the same time.
I used a Sacred Flame Shrine Sceptre but I agree that Palm of the Dreamer or Omen Sceptre might be better.
I used Trail of Caltrops and Barrage instead of Trinity and Withering Prescence. This is because I was adding a Thorns element to the build. I intend to scale back my Spirit usage and add Withering presence for Barrage. Trinity didn't feel like it was doing much for me, maybe cause of the Sacred Flame Sceptre.
I use the foloowing runes
Boots - Greater Rune of Tithing x2
Gloves - Courtesan Mannan's Rune of Cruelty x2
Spear - Fenumus' Rune of Agony x2
It improved Thorns damage and made Simulacrum so so easy. Why Thorns? Just like the idea and kinda adds flavour to the build.
The whole Thorns damage thingy is built into Wind dancer (underrated skill) and Trail of Caltrops.

I am calling the Nightshade Ritualist!!
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Thank you for the build again. I really enjoy playing Ritualist!

HH and Sacred Flame were beyond my budget. And HH is good for mapping, but not for pinacles, so you might want to swap to ingenuity for bosses anyway. It also makes it harder to get in ssf/hc, ingenuity is rather easy to get.

Trinity is abit tricky as you have to care abit about rings to properly balance elements. Ingenuity helps if you have different bonuses for left and right ring as you can balance elements by swapping rings as each of 3 slots has different boost. Sacred flame quite breaks Trinity as it just gives tons of fire damage, so you might just swap to blasphemy with chaos resist curse.

Nice... I will have to try this build out. Hopefully it is better than my Storm chain build in terms of dps and clearing speed!

I absolutely love the Red Dwarf reference. This build is pretty good too! Well done!

Super cool build. Hoping to find that spear at some point and give this a try.

I am running a very similar build - I am using stomping ground + rake - with that spear and 100% chance to poison, you apply 4 poison stacks per attack. I am also running the Trampletoe boots - with enough chance to poison, plague nova triggers trampletoe on all the targets it kills which can apply its own poison, this in turn instantly charges your nova. I am also running Bursting Plague on rake which can also trigger Trampletoes.

Thank you for sharing this, after getting my 40/40 in Poe, was thinking of looking at some builds in 2 and see if I can league start something even without hoping for patch notes to be good. Seems very good, wish the max phys hit could be higher but that's a tough ask in 2.