Forbidden Rite Hierophant PoB, Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links

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March 5th, 2023, 15:04

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END GAME PoB & PASSIVE SKILL TREE

This build is extremely straightforward tree-wise. Budget-friendly versions include 0 Cluster Jewels, due to how volatile they are in terms of crafting difficulty and due to how expensive they can be.

Here is the Forbidden Rite Hierophant Low Budget PoB

Once the skill-tree is finished, just focus entire on more jewel sockets or cluster jewels if you can afford it.

LEVELING PROGRESSION

In the main page of this build guide you can see the detailed leveling progression

MASTERIES

A lot of the masteries available comes down to a matter of personal preference but some are more or less mandatory. We don’t really use that many masteries in this build but there are couple really juicy ones we don’t want to live without:

Life Mastery: “+50 to maximum life” is a very solid way of increasing our life pool and should be taken in our first initial possible life cluster we get to.
Life Mastery: “10% increased maximum life / 10% reduced life recovery rate” is another easy way to scale our life pool higher and should be taken on the second life mastery cluster of nodes we get to.
Totem Mastery: There’s 2 mastery nodes that we’d like to pick up here, first one being “Totems Taunt Enemies around them for 1 second when summoned” this can help keeping enemies off your back.
Totem Mastery: The other mastery from here is a very generic one: “60% increased global critical strike chance if you’ve summoned a totem recently”
Chaos Mastery: Best scaling for our damage would be: “20% increased effect of Withered”

AMULET ANOINTMENT

There are a couple of options for optimal performance to anoint with this build but I feel that Ironwood is the absolute best one, it will require 1x Clear Oil, 1x Amber Oil & 1x Teal Oil which are all very easy to find and cheap on the market.

END GAME GEM LINKS

6-Link Forbidden Rite

These are the most optimal links to use in order of efficiency:

3-Link Utility + Portal

Generic guard-skill set-up with a Portal slot if you wish:

3-Link Mobility

A very generic Shield Charge set-up including Flame Dash to get over ledges:

4-Link Wither

The wither set-up is made to be totems, which our main source of damage is as well, however, in combination with Multiple Totems Support the Wither totems can be 2 more than what our Forbidden Rite totems can be, this means that we will start by using this ability once then spam the FR totems to maintain maximum FR totems with the extra 2 Wither totems applying the Withered debuff on the enemies.

3-Link Arcanist Cursing

We will be using Arcanist Brand to automatically cast our mark curse on enemies this is to avoid needing to time the curse by simply pre-cast the brand on a boss before it becomes attackable.

There’s an open slot here in which you can place anything you want, Portal Portal or even Increased Duration Support would work very well here.

4-Link Golem

Since this build is not remotely close to being starved of sockets we can put a fully supported golem here to make it more useful for the build as well as making it tankier so we don’t have to resummon it very often:

Summon Stone Golem / Summon Chaos Golem / Summon Lightning Golem use whichever you prefer
Culling Strike Support
Minion Life Support
Elemental Army Support

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