u/AwesomeGia1

pob: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1accf

refer to this post for more detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1stg8nt/omega_beam_abyssal_lich_1200_proj_speed/

quick summary: abyssal lich umbral well souls are not snapshotted so you can just put a bunch of skeletal snipers on weapon set 2 and swap to it to gain tons of proj speed after casting the skill on weapon set 1 which has tons of gains as extra damage and crit. With projectile acceleration 3, all the proj speed becomes damage (+1200% damage in my case)

for mapping I'm using 'his scattering calamity'

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my single target kinda sucked so I was looking for something else to apply this tech to other than scattering calamity/ember fusillade.

new thing: you can basically use this tech with any spell in the game if it's socketable on spell totems. I've used bonestorm here and if you have power charges, the totems keep firing bonestorms as if they have power charges on each cast. I get the charges using the notable 'infusion of power' by using orb of storms to get lightning infusions and flamewalls to expend them. The lightning infused flamewalls also dramatically increase the damage of the bonestorms.

pob: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1abfa

Continuation from this build: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1seszoj/nuclear_frozen_locus_potentially_new_abyssal_lich/

Main interaction at play: abyssal lich's umbral souls stats such as AOE and projectile speed are not snapshotted. This means that for delayed activation skills (like frostbomb, ember fusillade, grenade skills, etc) you can you use the skill on a high damage weapon set then swap to another weapon set with like 50 skeletal arsonists for 750% inc aoe without having to lose out on damage.

For this build, I use his scattering calamity and then swap to a weapon set with 57 skeletal archers for ~1200% increased projectile speed. What's crazy here is that projectile acceleration 3 gains all of this damage on weapon swap so the projectiles do 1200% increased damage. I chose this skill because it is one of the naturally delayed activation projectiles and it chains quite a bit making for some funny map blasts with more chaining and splitting is added.

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On weapon set 1 is the unborn lich staff with his scattering calamity. I mainly want increased magnitude of holy might to get the most amount of gain as extra damage. Increased damage is lowkey pointless since I get so much from proj accel 3. We also add things like trinity (which is snapshotted) on this weapon set for more damage.

On weapon set 2 is the matsya crescent quarterstaff. This has 50% reservation efficiency of skills so it allows me to get the most amount of archers.

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I go low life on lich because there is not much else thats great to use the ascendency points on. With low life, I can get pain attunement for some nice crit damage bonus.

I tried doing mana stack eldritch battery, MoM, archmage but it was really clunky and way squshier. It also counter synergies with the Crystalline Phylactery because it will make my mana costs 1.5x as much.

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Defensively, there is another weapon swap trick I use. Weapon set 1 is focused on ES recharge rate using the skeletal clerics while weapon set 2 is focused on faster start of es recharge using some nodes on the tree. I can get the es recharge started more quickly while being in weapon set 2, then when it starts and I switch back to weapon set 1 I get my whole es pool back.

Other than that, just have big ES with nice es nodes and some extra skeletal frost mages.

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I add dominus' grasp and use mana tempest to get maximal coverage with each individual projectile. Mana tempest is bound to weapon set 2 to autoswap to projectile acceleration.

I also invest into massive crit bonus damage against full life enemies with ambush and some tree nodes on the right side of the tree to get mostly oneshots against most map enemies.

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For bossing I use ember fusillade using the same proj 3 weapon swap trick for massive damage. Because I am using a quarterstaff, I can apply a mark and curse using hand of chayula.

I also have orb of storms to get lightning infusions and infusions of power on the tree to get power charges. This lets me get some more crit chance with charge regulation on weapon set 1.

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This is pretty expensive endgame meme build. Main expense is against the darkness with +spirit (3k div) and the 3 grand spectrum emeralds (200 div each). Though everything else is not too bad though.

Feel free to ask any questions