This build aims to use 
Pillar of the Caged God, 
Hand of Wisdom and Action and 
Enhanced Effectiveness to achieve some absolutely absurd level of Attribute scaling
It is a tanky, fast build that absolutely wrecks all content. It can be made for a budget but its full potential can really only be explored with a hefty amount of currency.
Big thanks to my good friend Liggles for sharing all his findings and theorycrafting this build with me every single step of the way. Click HERE for his version of the build.
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Mercenary
Gemling Legionnaire
End Game
Gemling Attribute Stacker
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End Game
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Build Variants
Endgame
Midgame
Earlygame
Campaign
This variant is almost impossible to acquire, 
Astramentis and 
Ingenuity are prohibitively expensive.
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Equipment
We will anoint 
Spaghettification on our Amulet.
We will socket a combination of Elemental Resistance, Chaos Resistance and Maximum Life Soul Cores on our gear.
We will look to Corrupt Cold Damage on to our Pillar of the Caged God, Lightning Damage or Attack Speed is acceptable too, and socket in Elemental Penetration Soul Cores.
We will want to Corrupt Extra Sockets on our Hand of Wisdom and Action, Morior Invictus and Black Sun Crest.
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Skill Gems
Support Gem Requirements:
Str 40
Dex 35
Int 65
Ice Strike
Herald of Ice
Tempest Bell
Combat Frenzy
Charged Staff
Hand of Chayula
Lightning Rod
Orb of Storms
Support Gems are listed in order of importance.Lightning Rod and Orb of Storms are used on a Weapon Swap to almost instantly consume our entire Tempest Bell every it's up. This represents a massive DPS increase against bosses.
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Passive Tree
main:
122
122
set 1:
20
20
set 2:
20
20
The philosophy behind our Passive Tree is that Jewels are frankly overpowered. This is doubly true because we get big benefits for traveling to nodes with our Strength scaling.
It is very important to search for Jewels with a Fire/Cold/Lightning/Chaos Resistance Corruption to help cap our Resistances, if our Resistances are capped we can look for Strength Corruptions.
We will also want to use an Against The Darkness Unique Jewel with Chaos Resistance and another useful stat such as Maximum Life%, Extra Cold/Fire/Lightning Damage, Cold/Fire/Lightning Resistance, the best one being Strength %. Lastly, we will use 3x Grand Spectrum Rubies which will provide us with 18% Maximum Life%.
What affixes do we want on these Jewels with Resistance Corruptions?
- Maximum Fire/Cold/Lightning Resistance
- Damage Recouped as Life
- Freeze Buildup
- Freeze Buildup with Quarterstaffs
- Cold Damage
- Elemental Damage
- Attack Speed
- Attack Speed with Quarterstaffs
- Movement Speed
- Melee Damage
- Rage on Hit (we want 2-3 of these)
- Maximum Rage
- Increased Life Regeneration
- Cold Penetration
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Atlas Tree
Breach
1. 
Frantic Invasion
2. 
Rising Pyre
3. 
Crumbling Walls
4. 
Interdimensional Assault
Delirium
1. 
Disturbed Rest
2. 
Detailed Records
3. 
Timed Detonations
4. 
Legendary Battles
Ritual
Expeditions
Arbitor
How it Plays
This build plays in a very simple way. We cast Charged Staff whenever we have Power Charges and spam Ice Strike.
Whenever we're against a particularly tanky Rare, are completely surrounded, or against a Boss we will use Tempest Bell. On bosses we will also use Hand of Chayula to apply Curses and Marks.
How it Works
This build is enabled by Gemling's Enhanced Effectiveness, which we then combine with Pillar of the Caged God and Hand of Wisdom and Action to get scaling from Attributes. Items such as Morior Invictus, Black Sun Crest and Astramentis provide us with much more bang for our buck.
Although Attribute stacking seems simple at first, it's not so easy to fit all the pieces together. Capping Resistances can be difficult to do when we are focusing on getting Attributes on our Suffixes, especially when we end up using so many Uniques. One way we get around this Resistance deficiency is by solving it through Jewels.
We can search for already Corrupted Jewels on Trade with Resistances on them. We can also use an Against the Darkness Unique Jewel with Chaos Resistances near 
Polymathy to further bolster our Resistances.
