Balazan Quill

This is a Noxious Resonance build, a Poisoning build where most damage comes from the pants Balazan's Maxtlatl and the Jaguar Main Hall. This is overall very similar to what DoNotHitMe used to clear 115 Pit on PTR, but I changed some skills, found some small Paragon mistakes and did some changes to Unique, stats and Mercenaries. I also plan to do a bigger Paragon Update.

1. Vortex pulls enemies once you've gotten yourself in position**.
2. The Hunter should be spammed, use it when you need to increase your Ferocity Stacks.
3. Seasonal Powers add Poisoning, they are really op, and this season the build is better off being based on that rather than poisoning with a skill.
4. Toxic Skin, should always be active, and it's one of your sources of poison and a major Thorns Buff.
5. Quill Volley is your main way to poison enemies by activating the effect of your unique pants.
6. Counterattack should not have 100% uptime, it's important to let yourself be hit once every 5 seconds to activate your pants.

This build is based around the Keystone Passive Noxious Resonance, it allows us to turn Poison Damage in direct damage, the damage is further increased by the Jaguar Main Hall which can be activated quickly by Quill Volley.

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Quill Volley has a lot of projectiles which increases the amount of hits the enemies take and ends up activating your Jaguar Main Hall

These Unique pants are the heart of the build, they convert Thorns damage into Poison dots.

Leveling

Optimal Leveling

Some builds require certain Uniques to be playable, usually Blizzard release a new and powerful unique that gives birth to a new build for the season. To Avoid problems, we'll be using a generic leveling build that does not require specific Items to work.

You can't really level well with this build so For the leveling Guide you should check this and click HERE .

Mercenaries

Raheir is a flexible piece you can use it to cap your elemental resistances or boost your armor, depending on the rest of your gear.

Seasonal Powers

Corrosive Vapor

Turns your Catalyst into Poison damage and a minor damage boost.

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Arcana:

Fractured Core eliminates some annoying abilities from enemies.
Bottled Wind is a good defensive tool that helps us achieve better uptime of our barrier.
Invigorating Helix is another layer of defense for our build.

Runes

Ahu QaX I am not sure about yet, it's still a good damage increase but might prove a bit clunky.

Poc Que is the most important set of runes, it is our main source of shield. We further increase Earthern's Bulwark's potency by adding barrier generation in our build-

Elixir and Incenses

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase our XP gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

Song of the Mountain
Soothing Spices
Spiral Morning
Elixir of Destruction or Elixir of Fortitude

Attack Speed Breakpoints

How much attack speed do I need? Check your attack speed with all buffs up.

AS% ATSFrames
123.8 13
140.3 12
163.8 11

Masterworking and Greater Affixes Explained

Masterworking and how it works.

Masterworking (MW) enhances an item's stats. Each MW rank boosts all affixes by 5%. Ranks 4,8,12 give a 25% bonus to a random affix (MW Crit).

In this planner, the color blue on an item denotes that the affix got one MW Crit, the color yellow denotes that the item got two MW crits and the color orange denotes that the item got three MW crits.

For future reference the amount of MW Crits on an affix will be denoted by 1MW, 2MW, 3MW.

Greater Affixes

Greater Affixes (GA) on an item force the affix to roll at the top of it's range of possible values and then applies a 50% increase to its value. GA increases are additive with Masterworking increases.

In this planner, the yellow star to the left of an affix denotes that is a GA.

Example

To put it all in to practice, let's calculate what stat increase a GA Affix on a 12/12 Masterworked item with 2 MW Crits gets:

Ranks 1-3, 5-7, 9-11 all give 5% -> 9 * 5% = 45%

Two MW Crits -> 2 * 25% = 50%

GA = 50%

Total = 45% + 50% + 50% = 145%

Masterworking and Greater Affix Priority

Required GA on Items

Unless a certain amount of a stat is required and no more, like in the case of Attack Speed Breakpoints, Armor and Resistances, GA and MW priority should be intuitive. Whenever a GA is required for the build to follow I will be mentioning it here.

Example:

For example, if a build has GA Armor on the Amulet, that GA is going to probably be a requirement for the build and it will be showcased here. This is especially true for Pit Pushing builds that follow strict Stat Guidelines, for all standard build I keep a bit of extra stats on the build since people do not have perfect gear.

FAQ

When can I play this build ##

As soon as you find a pair of Unique Pants.

How do you generate resources without Ring of the Midnight Sun ??

• LHC on Weapon and Wound Drinker if it is not enough.

How much attack speed do I need? Check your attack speed with all buffs up.

AS% ATSFrames
123.8 13
140.3 12
163.8 11

Why Mystic Circles?

• Jaguar Main Hall is bugged and double dips with several things, including Mystic Circles. Because of this Spiritborn has been using Jaguar as it's main spirit for the past year. You can expect builds to continue using this mechanic till a bug fix which might not occur, it doesn't seem like Blizzard can fix the skill without reworking it, and yes they are aware of the bug.

Colossal?

• Colossal can be a good Glyph if you are using Resolve Stacks, but generally builds have not been using this anymore.

How much Barrier generation do I need?

• 123% is cap to turn your Earther Bulwark barrier from 45% of your Health to 100%.

Vessel of Hatred has incorporated a "stat squish" along with the new Torment difficulties that make us incur heavy penalties to our Armor and Resistance values. There are various ways to help alleviate this problem:

• - Use Yen's Blessing, it will provide with all the resistances you need and you can use Armor on the gems slot, Replace Xal runes with Kry.
• The Soothing Spices Type II Incense provides 10% All Resistance and 150 Armor.
• The Song of the Mountain Type I Incense provides 200 Armor.
• If you do not struggle with Armor or Resistances, you can considering using Thorns for your defensive Elixirs and Incense, you can get 650 extra Thorns in total by doing this.

What do I do when I lack Paragon levels?

You do not need all the Paragon Points, feel free to remove damage, mobility or resistances while you grind your levels. What you remove will depend on what your character is lacking.

5/29/2025

Update Season 9

7/2/2025

Update texts

7/4/2025

Update glass cannon pit push build

7/9/2025

Update glass cannon pit push build

7/11/2025

Update Paragon Update Pit push

7/22/2025

Updated new Fist of Fate version

8/1/2025

Updated assigned skills