[3.27] Cheapbunny's Freezing Crit Hexblast Impending Doom Assassin | Yoke of Suffering
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Updated to 3.27 - Keepers of the Flame League
- Curse Skills have increased Skill Effect Duration modifier can no longer be obtained in Delve - Replaced The Felbog Fang amulet and -Curse duration ring with Yoke of Suffering and Circle of Nostalgia - The Felbog Fang is no longer a core item for the build - Added Herald of Agony skill - Require Enlighten 3 now - Updated Hexblast and Impending Doom support gem - Added 3.27 POB - Both Asssasin and Hexblast got buffed in 3.27, big W for the build, enjoy!! Pre 3.27 Showcase https://youtu.be/eiCm6Y0vAnc Previous Version Update
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Updated to 3.26 - Mercenaries of Trarthus League From 3.26 patch note, huge change to Hexblast - Hexblast: Now has a 2 second Cooldown Time, with 3 Uses. Now has a base radius of 3.2 metres (previously 2.8), and the Spell's Cast Time is no longer added to its Cooldown if Triggered. Now has 150% more Damage with Hits if Enemy is Hexed (previously 100%), and 60% more Damage with Ailments if Enemy is Hexed (previously 40%). - I tested the new Hexblast in Standard, the cooldown is not as bad as i think, we cant spam as much Hexblast anymore, but impending doom alone could clear normal mobs, so the map clear isn't too bad, but need to be more mindful for uber bosses. Luckily, we got a new tech (Squirming Terror ring) to pre-generate power charge before boss fight, so we dont need to waste hexblast charges to generate power charge on crit in fight. - We also got new Rungraft of Time (20% not consuming cooldown) which helps the cooldown problem abit, I replace the skill cost life instead mastery because we dont need to spam as much anymore - New showcase video - https://youtu.be/Mk9gB7fVIEo - Overall, I think the build is about the same as previous version, due to damage buffed - Added Squirming Terror tech - Updated POB to 3.26 Return of Kalandra Jewelries has made this build possible again, so I decided to update this build to 3.25, and this time with some focus on freeze because of freeze buff. Updated to 3.25 - Settlers of Kalguur - Replaced Timeclasp unique ring with rare kalandra ring - Added Leveling Section - Updated Gears/Skill Gems - Updated POB to 3.25 Updated to 3.22 - Trial of The Ancestors League - Removal of Crucible skill tree on weapons - Added POB for 3.22, no change to the build 
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 Introduction This is my third build in Crucible league, and has become not possible due to the removal of Anomalous Impending Doom Support in 3.23. Return of Kalandra Jewelries in 3.25 has made this build possible again, so I decided to update this build, and this time with some focus on freeze because of freeze buff. This build has surprisingly good damage, can take down some ubers without much issue. It also has decent defensive layers, like decent ehp/cap chaos res/cap spell supress/leech+regen/ghost dance/freeze+shatter. However this build does not clear super fast, there is a slight delay in dealing damage, as you need to wait despair to expire to trigger impending doom or cast Hexblast to trigger it. I definitely had a (Hex)blast playing this build, hope you enjoy the build/guide. Build Thought
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Original Build Thought (Outdated)
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This section no longer applicable because the removal of curse duration ring in 3.27. Felbong Fang has been replaced with Yoke of Suffering, please refer next section. The build idea started with the unique amulet The Felbog Fang. This amulet gives a lot of bonus, with conditions of applied curse being closed to expired. So we will need a skill that deal damage at the end of a curse to fully utilize the bonuses from the amulet. Yes, you guess it right, they are Impending Doom & Hexblast. Because they are both chaos spell, we will use despair to trigger the bonuses and damage. Despair has base duration of 12seconds, how to gain the bonuses from amulet almost instantly?
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The idea is to reduce Despair curse duration to below 1 second. 1. Curse Skills have reduced Skill Effect Duration from Ring This is a kalandra ring that require reflecting mist to craft. 2. 20/20 Less Duration Support With theses, Despair duration can be reduced to 0.6seconds, which mean we can get all the bonuses 0.45 (0.6 x 0.75) seconds after casting Despair.  The setup is done, we can get more curse effect from other source
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1. Curse Effect Cluster and Mastery  2. The Felbog Fang (No longer available) 3. Despair quality We will get total 80% increase in curse effect for Despair, which is huge because -chaos resistance is hard to get. Yoke of Suffering and Hexblast
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With the removal of curse duration ring in 3.27, the build couldn't ultilize The Felbog Fang's bonuses anymore, so I need to find a amulet replace that works well with Hexblast. I quickly stumbled across the new rising star, Yoke of Suffering This amulet synergies with Hexblast very well, because Hexblast is able to apply ignite, chill, freeze and shock. With Herald of Agony, we are able to poison as well, so we are getting total 50% increase damage bonus taken from the amulet, which is even better than the Felbog Fang, and without the need of curse duration ring. Why Assassin?
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Hexblast has the one of the lowest base crit chance in the game (4%), Assassin's Ascendancy makes its base crit chance equals to your main hand weapon's crit chance, which is huge. Occultist would be a good alternative, it has better clear due to explosion. But I went for Assassin for more damage scaling.
Why Low Life/Hyrbid?
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There is no good damage aura for chaos spell, especially when Hexblast is already able to apply maximum shock effect to all enemy (skitterbot is not an option), so I decided to use Petrified Blood to stay low life and get 30% more spell damage from Pain Attuinment. Besides, Petrified Blood/Low life/Hybrid has been buffed quite a lot due to Mastery change in Patch 3.21, it has become a very viable option. Build Mechanic
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Hexblast and Ailments
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To apply all elemental ailments reliably, this build invest into crit chance (close to 100%) and ailment effect on trees. Freeze/Chill
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This build also invested into extra freeze/chill. Thanks to hexblast high base damage and all damage can freeze bonus, it can freeze/chill all the bosses including ubers (reducing their action speed reduced by 50%), it makes some boss fights really trivial. This build also gains damage from freeze and chill by getting the passives/mastery below.     Poison
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This build ulitize buff effect from Herald of Agony to gain chance to poison, which gives extra 10% bonus damage taken from Yoke of Suffering. Herald of Agony also provide bonuses from Circle of Nostalgia.
Pre-Boss Fight Power Charge Generation
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Pre 3.26, the build can generate power charge on crit swiftly during fight because there is no cooldown, and we can spam hexblast. After the cooldown introduced, we cant generate power charge as fast anymore, but we got a new ring to solve this problem. Squirming Terror Just slap this ring on and kill some worms before boss fight, you will get max power charge in few seconds. The implicit from body armour will help the sustain. Defenses used in this build
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1. Decent evasion rating (11k+ before flask) 2. Around 7k+ Ehp (Hybrid Life+ES, Corrupted Soul from Belt) 3. 75% Chaos Resis 4. 100% spell suppression cap 5. Ghost Dance 6. Life Leech (from gloves implicit) + Energy Shield leech (Passive tree) 7. Freeze + Shatter 8. CWDT Steelskin 9. Pantheon Soul of Araakali/Garukhan for mapping Soul of Araakali/Ryslatha for bossing Videos
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Post 3.26 Showcase (Hexblast with 2 second cooldown) Settlers of Kalguur League (no cooldown)
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T16 Phoenix https://youtu.be/u2UwPwv-aUk T16 + Baran https://youtu.be/2HyI3QEQU30 T17 Sanctuary https://youtu.be/CHeXjSCZqgc T17 Abomination https://youtu.be/KJd8EMtrxlw Uber Shaper https://youtu.be/LTsuwJ2FRhc Uber Sirus https://youtu.be/Eg1x87KFG-M Crucible League (no cooldown)
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T16 Hydra https://youtu.be/dgdF1Kvh2jE T16 Strand + Baran https://youtu.be/pwUs-VfWTOc The Hidden & Elderslayers Invitation https://youtu.be/iEf6jtTk_Rg Uber Shaper https://youtu.be/R4234QJjQqs Uber Maven https://youtu.be/DjPCeAgGfDE Uber Sirus https://youtu.be/RM8783auhU8 Skill Tree (POB)
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Kill all bandits. 31 Oct 2025 - [POE 3.27] 98 lvl skill tree (Latest) https://pobb.in/OrnkevqWyA0v 1 Jul 2025 - [POE 3.26] 98 lvl skill tree https://pobb.in/wiwzGjKP2p6q 7 Sep 2024 - [POE 3.25] 98 lvl skill tree https://pobb.in/loWJvrZ80syg 17 Aug 2023 - [POE 3.22] 97 lvl skill tree https://pastebin.com/d6EZSxma 7 May 2023 - [POE 3.21] 97 lvl skill tree https://pobb.in/XHBKxGQIPYjk Leveling
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Use Ethereal Knives in act 1 until you get Hexblast/Despair in act 3. Swap into self-cast Despair + Hexblast in act3, and try to get Blasphemy support on Despair to automate Despair as soon as possible. My leveling tree: https://pobb.in/JG6AQAzzHBLa Only swap into Impending doom + Despair setup after you got the reduced curse duration kalandra ring and Felbog Fang. Ascendancy
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Unstable Fusion -> Mystical Infusion -> For the Jugular -> Oppoturnistic Gears
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Weapon
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Early/Mid Game Spell/Spell Crit/Chaos damage rare wand End Game Helmet
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Helmet End Game Life/Support Gem deal more damage while on Low Life/+Level of Socketed AoE Gems/Resis Rare Helmet (Need to have at least 1 Evasion on Helmet) (Eldritch Implicit : Increased duration of Non-Damaging Ailments/Increased Damage per Power Charge) Crafting Guide
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1. Buy ilvl 85/86 EV based helmet 2. Use Essence of Hysteria until you get good suffix 3. Eldritch craft prefix for good prefixes and one open prefix 4. Bench craft +1 Socketed AOE Gem Body Armour
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Body Armour End Game High EV & ES/Spell Suppression/Resis/NO LIFE MODIFER Rare Body Armour (At least 10% spell suppression is needed to reach cap) (You can save one point on passive tree if you can get 14%+ Spell Suppression) (Eldritch Implicit : Zealotry has increased Aura Effect/Gain a Power Charge every 14 seconds (at least)) Gloves
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Gloves End Game Life/Resis/Damage while Leeching Rare Gloves (Need to have at least 1 Evasion on Gloves) (Eldritch Implicit : Chaos Damage Leeched as Life/Chance to Unnerve Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit) Boots
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Early/Mid Game Movement Speed/Life/Resis Rare Boots End Game Movement Speed/Life/Resis/Spell Suppress Rare Boots (Need to have at least 1 Evasion on Boots) Belt
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Early/mid Game Life/Resis Rare Belts End Game Amulet
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Amulet End Game (Map Clear: Skittering Runes Anointment) (Single Target: Force of Darkness Anointment) Rings
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Rings End Game Life/Resis Rare Ring Circle of Nostalgia Look for Chaos Damage/Chaos Resistance Variant Super End Game +1 Power Charge Implict Jewels
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Unique Jewel (Slot in specific jewel socket, refers to POB) (Slot in specific jewel socket, refers to POB) (Eldritch Battery variant) Legion Jewel (Need to make sure the jewel does not change the allocated notables) (Dominus Variant : Increased Area Damage per 10 Devotion/Increased Effect of non-Damaging Ailments on Enemies) (Slot in specific jewel socket, refers to POB) Rare Jewels Crit Mult/Spell Damage/Chaos Damage Gem Link
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6L Hexblast (Body Armour)
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4L Despair/Impending Doom (Helmet)
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3L Wither Totem
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2L Lightning Warp
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2L Steelskin
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Auras (Reserved with Life)
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My other build guide 最後に cheapbunny#0890 が 2025/10/30 23:41:45 に編集 最後にスレッドがバンプされた時間 時刻 2025/10/30 23:42:44
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Update
31 Oct 2025 - Added 3.27 POB 27 Oct 2025 - Curse Skills have increased Skill Effect Duration modifier can no longer be obtained in Delve - Replaced The Felbog Fang amulet and -Curse duration ring with Yoke of Suffering and Circle of Nostalgia - The Felbog Fang is no longer a core item for the build - Added Herald of Agony skill - Require Enlighten 3 now - Updated Hexblast and Impending Doom support gem 1 Jul 2025 From 3.26 patch note, huge change to Hexblast - Hexblast: Now has a 2 second Cooldown Time, with 3 Uses. Now has a base radius of 3.2 metres (previously 2.8), and the Spell's Cast Time is no longer added to its Cooldown if Triggered. Now has 150% more Damage with Hits if Enemy is Hexed (previously 100%), and 60% more Damage with Ailments if Enemy is Hexed (previously 40%). - I tested the new Hexblast in Standard, the cooldown is not as bad as i think, we cant spam as much Hexblast anymore, but impending doom alone could clear normal mobs, so the map clear isn't too bad, but need to be more mindful for uber bosses. Luckily, we got a new tech (Squirming Terror ring) to pre-generate power charge before boss fight, so we need to waste hexblast charges to generate power charge on crit in fight. - We also got new Rungraft of Time (20% not consuming cooldown) which helps the cooldown problem abit, I replace the skill cost life instead mastery because we dont need to spam as much anymore - Overall, I think the build got slight nerf but still fine - Added Squirming Terror tech - Updated POB to 3.26 7 Sep 2024 - Replaced Timeclasp unique ring with rare kalandra ring - Added Leveling Section - Updated Gears/Skill Gems - Updated POB to 3.25 17 Aug 2023 - Removal of Crucible skill tree on weapons - Updated POB skill tree to 3.22 最後に cheapbunny#0890 が 2025/10/30 23:42:10 に編集
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this looks so cool!!!
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How important is that Crucible tree on the wands ?
Those seems hard to get i belive... |
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" It is not too hard to get since I only look for 1 node, but build will work just fine with other nodes. I chose to use the curse effect crucible node just because it matches the The Felbog Fang amulet's theme and almost no one find this mod useful. 最後に cheapbunny#0890 が 2023/05/11 12:23:30 に編集
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Enjoying it so far, leveled with it no problem...
Just had to deviate up to power charges first then right had side of tree then left Lvl 89 so far, Mostly get killed due to positioning. One question any alt quality gems worth swapping around too? or is just better to get the 21/20 superior? 最後に Lavacaverns#5348 が 2023/05/14 20:17:04 に編集
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" what did you level it with? which gear, skills? or you just immediately started with the hexes on level 24/28? 最後に Gadarel#2355 が 2023/05/15 0:16:37 に編集
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I was no speed runner if that what u asking...
And this aint no league starter, going to need the Basic stuff. tabula, right Militant faith for inner conviction. Once those power charges start pumping you good. Leveled straight to 68 with a life sprig and storm prison lol. Just follow the skills used and add gems as you come into the level with em. Mind you i had pre-bought crafted everything before starting the build. So i had everything ready to go on level to swap too. Finding the 20% reduced is a bit meh atm, there usually is only one and its 150c+ so snipe that shit asap 最後に Lavacaverns#5348 が 2023/05/15 2:15:12 に編集
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" Superior is better, other alt quality does not do much, and we dont want too much cast speed on Hexblast as well. |
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I'm newer and wanted to start this build but had a question.
How were you able to get the window of opportunity without needing to link it to the rest of the tree? I see an aura over Magebane but not sure how it works. |
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