Dreamcore's Grey Wind Perforate Totems Hierophant

Life-stacking build utilising the new Grey Wind Unique Axe combined with Dawnstrider to create melee Perforate Totems.

Videos

• Build overview
• Map example
• Uber bosses

• Flat damage is gained by scaling life alongside The Grey Wind, which adds fire damage to attacks based on maximum life.
• Our damage is scaled via Rathpith Globe which grants increased spell damage based on maximum life. The damage is then transformed to also apply to attacks with Crown of Eyes.
• We use Dawnstrider to create Perforate of Duality totems. We also use Blood and Sand to switch stances - in sand stance our totems create a large area attack, perfect for map clearing, whilst in blood stance they create a much tighter attack which deals a lot of overlapping damage for single target bursting.
• Along with lots of life scaling on the passive tree and on gear, we use Dissolution of the Flesh. This jewel changes the mechanics of how damage interacts with life loss, creating life reservation instead. Due to this, we need to buy time for a window of 2 seconds to allow damage reservation to be unreserved. This is done by investing into avoidance mechanics such as block and immunity to damage over time effects such as bleeding.
• Notably, life reservation from skills does not lower our effective hit pool due to the mechanics of Dissolution of the Flesh. When life reservation from damage would exceed 100% whilst a skill is reserving life, that skill will automatically unreserve to make room for more damage life reservation. We can therefore reserve our life against powerful auras such as Haste without losing any EHP.
• We convert 100% of fire damage into chaos damage to make use of Wither to deal a lot more damage.
• Please see the video for a lot more information!