After league starting a miner, I wanted a great mapper with as least buttons as possible. So I revisited a classic: Death’s Oath Occultist. I hadn’t tried Vaal Caustic Arrow, I had missed the chaos explosion ASMR sound, and Death’s Oath was buffed in the last patch note.

I don’t know if there is an updated 3.26 build guide. I simply followed Bergerbrush forum guide (it’s a really good one in my opinion) which I had followed a few times years ago, and kept an eye on poeninja to copy what most people were doing.

I should have levelled with Poisonus Concoction and optimized Mercenaries to speed the campaign but I don’t like Poisonus Concoction playstyle and I wanted to keep my 3 mercenaries so I just got some good bows and levelled up with Caustic Arrow. I completed the campaign in 5h49 which is probably my fastest, I ran like hell wearing basically lingerie and as a result died 12 times…

I had bought all the gear before so I simply equipped all the gear around lvl 60-70 when starting mapping. I went to the mine quite a lot as this build is great for it. I quickly levelled to 92 exploding a bunch of stuff.

I did a few end game Pinnacle content mostly to get a better grasp of DPS and defences but it is not made for this! You can still kill guardians, Elder, Shaper. Probably the other ones (not Uber) with a bit more gear and levels (or skills).

I’m continuing playing this character but for the purpose of comparaison, here is a lvl 92 POB with all the stats as I do for the other builds.

Below another link to the forum guide, even if it’s not updated, there are plenty of good info if you want to do this build.

Path Of Building and stats

https://pobb.in/0mWqezNvUuGx

Not in POB, my mercenary who gives me Malevolence, Grace, life regen with Shaper’s Seed Agate Amulet, 50% increased damage with Leer Cast Festival Mask, 25% phys taken as fire with Kaom’s Binding Heavy Belt, and some worms to trigger Adrenaline more constantly and on boss without adds (via Squirming Terror Unset Ring).

Please visit this Google Sheet to see the main information and POB data I kept track of. You can more easily compare with other builds.

My experience in video