[Ultimatum] PoE 3.14 Ascendant Exsanguinate Starter Scion Build

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Class: Ranger Witch Duelist Marauder Shadow Templar

This PoE 3.14 Ultimatum Ascendant Exsanguinate Starter Scion Build excels in mapping, bossing is very good too due to corrupting fever. Exsanguinate is insane for clearing when linked with chain support, and corrupting fever applies up to 10 stacks of corrupted blood which ramp up really nicely.

Quick Jump

Pros & Cons

Gems Setup

Leveling

Passive Skill Tree & PoB Link

Gear Setup

Endgame investments

Pros & Cons

+ Doesn't need any investment whatsoever to be reliable, and with investment it can fly to the moon.
+ Pretty much immortal. You can literally cast exsanguinate while standing and tank Anything they throw at you (Well, almost).
+ Has great CC control due to Void Sphere, this build excels at doing Ultimatums and Rituals. Just drop a sphere in the center, go to a corner and spam Exsanguinate.
+ Insane clear speed.
+ Extremely satisfying to play, there's something about seeing exsanguinate blood tendrils cover the whole screen forming a huge crimson web that is oddly soothing.
+ Very fast paced and fluid.

- Bossing damage might feel odd. You need to ramp up the damage applying Corrupting Fever stacks and micromanage the buff itself, you need to spend X life to keep the buff up, which is usually fine, but during boss events if you go too long without casting you could lose the buff and CF costs a massive chunk of life to re-apply, and that could potentially kill you.
- Can't do phys reflect, unless you go Slayer instead of Gladiator, but you'd be sacrificing defences, up to you.

Skill Tree

Ascendancy: for the ascendancies we take Gladiator first, then necromancer, necro will help us hit block cap after we drop shield and go dual cold iron.

Bandit: kill all

Passive Tree & PoB

Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/szFWXNYf

Gems Setup

Exsanguinate - Controlled Destruction - Efficacy - Swift Affliction - Brutality - Chain / Empower for boss

Corrupting Fever - Brutality - Swift Affliction - Efficacy

Aura before diadem helmet

Petrified Blood - Malevolence, Arrogance - Herald of Purity

Aura with diadem helmet

Socket petrified blood linked to arrogance suport, and malevolence + vitality in diadem for the reduced reservation bonus.

Petrified Blood - Arrogance, Malevolence - Vitality

War banner and herald of purity somewhere else

CWDT Immortal Call + Tempest Shield (You should keep CWDT at lvl 1, IC at lvl 3 and TS at lvl 7)

Drop Tempest shield and get Bone offering and desecrate after going dual cold iron point, we use bone offering to cap our block chances since we now lost half of them due to stop using shield, and desecrate is used to generate corpses for bone offering before a boss fight or to regen life if you need it and don't have a life flask, life regen comes from feast of flesh from Devouring Diadem.

Movement skill Flame Dash

Gear Setup

For the weapons you can start off with any +DoT multi / +Spell damage wand, then transition into either 1 or 2 cold iron points.

42% increased Spell Damage
+24% to Physical Damage over Time Multiplier
11% increased Fire Damage
16% increased Attack Speed
+13% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier
49% increased Spell Damage

Rings and Boots should have the most resistances, and 30% mov speed on boots. Could also use a Lori's Lantern.

Cheap rings with 120%+ res and cheap boots with 75%+ res and 30% mov speed:

Rings - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/ultimatum/0YjRKQFg
Boots - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/ultimatum/2q78K7dhk

Gloves should be "Apothecary's Gloves" base, then slam a essence of delirium on them for a +30% more DoT.
We will socket Corrupting Fever here.

18% increased Damage over Time
Socketed Gems deal 30% more Damage over Time
+35 to Intelligence
11% increased Rarity of Items found
+29% to Cold Resistance
+55 to maximum Life

Chest, shield and helmet should have any remaining res you need, chaos res and big life mods. Could also use Daresso's courage to cap spell block after you go MoM low life. Currently i'm wearing a tabula because i like to swap between chain support and empower for mapping/bossing, but it is not needed.

Amulet with big life roll and reduced reservation, this mod and a conqueror's efficiency jewel will allow us to cast Void Sphere, without them we won't have enough mana. After you go MoM you should get a +1 all strength skill gems and +1 all physical skill gems dual conqueror's amulet, an amulet like this is verry expensive so just 1 +1 is fine, after you go MoM we won't need reduced mana reservation anymore due to diadem.

For flasks, find Immunity to Freeze and Chill, Curses, Bleed Mod

Quicksilver Flask: Movement

Instant Recovery Life Flask

For a more detailed selection of gear, please refer to the PoB Link.

Leveling

If you don't have a Tabula yet i recommend leveling up with a Exsanguinate + Reap Spellslinger setup.

To use spellslinger you will need the Frenzy skill, which you can keep at level 1, spellslinger can't be cast directly, it needs a projectile to be shot from you want to trigger, and that's where frenzy comes into.

Spellslinger links:

Frenzy (You don't need to link it to anything, and you can keep it at level 1, we only use it to trigger spellslinger)

Reap + spellslinger + brutality + swift affliction/efficacy/controlled destruction

Exsanguinate + spellslinger + chain support + brutality/swift affliction/efficacy/controlled destruction

Corrupting fever + efficacy + brutality + swift affliction (It's a good idea to start getting used to micromanaging CF buff early, so i recommend using it while you level, CF costs a pretty pricey amount of life at end game, however after casting it once you can keep it up be spending enough life, this life will be spent with exsanguinate, so if the buff is expiring it might be worth to cast 1 or 2 exsanguinates in the air just to refresh the buff.

If you want you can take sovereignty in the passive tree, and that will allow you to add in more support gems to the spellslingers, but if you have a decent wand it shouldn't be needed.

If you have a tabula or any 6L then you can level up with exsanguinate + chain support + brutality + swift affliction + efficacy + controlled destruction

You can use exsanguinate from the go but i recommend using any other skill until you get chain support.

Any wand with high spell damage should make leveling a breeze, you can get one by simply slamming an essence of woe.

Be sure to pickup the gems in the gem links section while you level up.

Endgame investments

You should get this asap

The Devouring Diadem

+1 to Level of Socketed Gems
Socketed Gems have 20% reduced Reservation
Trigger Level 15 Feast of Flesh every 5 seconds
212% increased Energy Shield
10% chance for Energy Shield Recharge to start when you use a Skill
177% increased Duration of Ailments you inflict while Focussed
Eldritch Battery

After you get this helmet you can go Mind over Matter, slap Malevolence, Vitality and link Petrified Blood + Arrogance in the helmet, herald of purity and war banner on another piece of gear.

This setup will make far more tankier than you already are, Petrified Blood will be staggering damage while 30% of damage will be taken from mana, this reduces the chances of getting oneshotted by ALOT.

For the weapons you should use 2 Cold Iron Point

Get for damage and increased duration, which will be helpfull maintaining offering and CF

Replica Pure Talent

While your Passive Skill Tree connects to a class' starting location, you gain:
Marauder: 1% of Life Regenerated per second
Duelist: +2 to Melee Strike Range
Ranger: 20% increased Flask Charges gained
Shadow: 12% increased Attack and Cast Speed
Witch: 20% increased Skill Effect Duration
Templar: +4% Chance to Block Attack and Spell Damage
Scion: 30% increased Damage