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    Path of Exile Champion Build Guide: Incandescent Heart and Divine Flesh

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    Hey everyone! Today, we’re diving into a Champion build in Path of Exile, and this will likely be the last video for this league. We’re shifting away from the Pathfinder and focusing on a Champion setup. This build utilizes the Incandescent Heart alongside Divine Flesh from the Timeless Jewel, transforming 75% of our elemental damage into chaos damage and mitigating it significantly through armor and energy shield mastery. Let’s explore the details of this robust build.

    Build Overview

    Key Components:

    1. Incandescent Heart: Converts 25% of elemental damage to chaos, providing additional chaos resistance.
    2. Divine Flesh (Timeless Jewel): Converts 50% of elemental damage to chaos damage, increasing maximum chaos resistance.

    Why Champion?

    The Champion’s inherent tankiness and ability to utilize Fortify effectively makes it an excellent choice for this build. The goal is to leverage high chaos resistance and substantial armor to mitigate incoming damage.

    Comparison to The Fourth Vow

    While The Fourth Vow offers decent chaos resistance, it doesn’t scale as well with armor. Incandescent Heart, on the other hand, benefits greatly from increased armor, providing more consistent damage mitigation.

    Build Mechanics

    Defensive Layers

    1. Chaos Resistance: Achieving a high chaos resistance is crucial. Aim for at least 80-89% max chaos resistance.
    2. Armor and Energy Shield Mastery: Use armor to mitigate chaos damage effectively. The Champion’s Fortify further enhances this.
    3. Molten Shell: Provides an extra layer of defense, absorbing significant damage.

    Offensive Capabilities

    1. Dual Swords Setup: High damage output but requires careful positioning to maximize damage.
    2. Shield Setup: Sacrifices some damage for increased survivability.

    Gear Breakdown

    Weapons

    • Replica Dreamfeather: Offers high attack speed and damage, scaling well with this build.
    • Dual Wielding Option: For maximum damage output.

    Body Armor

    • Incandescent Heart: Core to the build, converting a portion of elemental damage to chaos and providing additional chaos resistance.

    Helmet

    • Formless Flame: Enhances armor based on overcapped fire resistance, crucial for scaling the build’s defenses.

    Shield

    • Crafted Shield: Prioritize chaos resistance and maximum resistances. Saffell’s Frame is a budget-friendly alternative offering similar benefits.

    Accessories

    • Amulet: Preferably an amulet that boosts life regen like Doryani’s Invitation, or high-damage options like Ashes of the Stars.
    • Rings: Focus on chaos resistance, life, and fire resistance. Use The Taming or other high-resistance rings as needed.
    • Belt: Mageblood is optimal, providing significant boosts to survivability and utility through flask effects.

    Gloves and Boots

    • Gloves: Evasion base for additional flat evasion, with dexterity, fire resistance, and chaos resistance.
    • Boots: Prioritize movement speed, life, and resistances.

    Flask Setup

    1. Baseline Flasks: Armor, evasion, bleed immunity, and elemental resistance flasks.
    2. Unique Flasks: Vessel of Vinktar for shock application and penetration, Progenesis for additional damage mitigation, and possibly a Taste of Hate for physical damage mitigation.

    Gem Setup

    Main Skills

    • Smite Divine Judgment: Primary damage dealer.
    • Elemental Focus, Elemental Penetration, Multistrike, Weapon Elemental Damage, Hypothermia: Enhance Smite’s effectiveness.

    Support Skills

    • Leap Slam: Mobility and attack speed.
    • Molten Shell: Defensive cooldown.
    • Precision: Boosts accuracy and crit chance.

    Auras and Buffs

    • Purity of Fire: Essential for overcapped fire resistance.
    • Defiance Banner: Free from the Champion’s ascendency, providing additional defensive layers.
    • Grace: Adds evasion, synergizing with the build’s armor stacking.

    Passive Skill Tree

    Focus on the following:

    • Armor and Energy Shield Mastery: Ensure maximum effectiveness of your armor.
    • Chaos Resistance Nodes: Prioritize Born of Chaos notable for additional max chaos resistance.
    • Life and Regen Nodes: Sustain your character’s survivability.
    • Attack Speed and Damage: Balance offense and defense for optimal performance.

    Gameplay and Content

    Uber Bosses

    • Uber Elder, Uber Sirus, Maven: The build handles these bosses effectively, leveraging high chaos resistance and armor.

    Mapping and Bossing

    • High-Tier Maps: Easily cleared with the dual swords setup for faster clearing speeds.
    • Tanky Bosses: Switch to the shield setup for increased survivability against heavy-hitting bosses.

    Challenges and Considerations

    • Curse Immunity: Ensure you have adequate curse resistance, especially against Despair curses which can significantly lower your chaos resistance.
    • Fizz Mitigation: Use Taste of Hate or similar options if you find physical damage problematic.

    Conclusion

    This Champion build utilizing Incandescent Heart and Divine Flesh offers a unique and powerful approach to handling both mapping and bossing in Path of Exile. By focusing on chaos resistance and armor stacking, it provides robust defenses while maintaining respectable damage output. This setup can be adapted to various ascendancies and playstyles, making it a versatile choice for any Exile looking to dominate Wraeclast.

    Try the build, tweak as needed, and enjoy the tanky gameplay. If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to leave a comment. The PoE Currency or Items required in the build are all available at MMOexp.com. Happy hunting, Exiles!

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