Reach 200 Corruption to farm your desired Blessings faster, as it unlocks a 5th option to choose from after you defeat a Timeline Boss. Once you are done with one Timeline, move to the next one. Prioritize gaining Timeline Stability and fight the Timeline Bosses as often as possible.

Reach Empowered Monolith as fast as possible.

Here are the objectives you should aim at when playing this build: Your goals in the Monolith of Fate will differ greatly depending on what build you play and what stage your character progression is at.

Ward and Ailment Cleansing on Potion Use: Cleanse all Ailments on Potion use.

Frailty: This Ailment reduces the Damage dealt by enemies by 6% for 4 seconds.

They are must haves on most builds, especially once you reach hard content with insane speed modifiers.

Chill and Slow: Are Ailments that greatly reduce the Action and Movement Speed of your enemies.

This is especially important to stay alive while using Death Seal in Reaper Form.

Spell Leech: Ageless Ascetic and Soul Maw provide insane Leech for the build.

Just with the implicit Armour from your gear, Soul Feast's Toxic Craving Node, Death Seal's Desperate Shroud Node and Reaper Form's Soul Shroud Node you reach 50% to 75%+ Mitigation.

Armour Mitigation: This build can get really high Armour.

Acolytes have access to Large Immortal Idols with % Health not all Classes have access to these amazing Idols! The more Health you have, the better the buffs granted by Death Seal's Desperate Shroud Node are.

Health: This build can stack an insanely high Health pool that is very effective when combined with all the other defensive layers the Lich has.

Combine it with the Damage Reduction granted by Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs to turn into a juggernaut while you use a Potion and cast Death Seal.

Elixir of Death: Gain 50% Physical and Necrotic Damage Reduction while this buff is up.

Chance To Fear On Hit: The Fear provided by the Large Immortal Idols helps keep enemies far away from you.Reaper Form's Soul Shroud and Vile Shroud Nodes allow you to gain Resistances and Armour based on your total Intelligence. Intelligence: Aside from gaining Damage per point of Intelligence with your Skills, this build also gains defenses from it.Your base Endurance Threshold is 20% of your total Health by default. Due to the Low Life nature of the build, endurance has insane value for this build. Endurance: A defensive mechanic that allows you to take up to 60% less Damage while below a certain Health threshold.Combined with the Desperate Shroud Node, this ability grants incredibly Defensive buffs for its duration.

When active it provides 33% Damage Reduction. Low Life: Death Seal enables the Low Life playstyle thanks to Deadlock.Mark for Death: Bone Curse's Sigil of Mortality Node inflicts this Ailment that reduces All Enemy Resistances by 25%, causing them to take extra Damage.Penetration: Three Plagues grants 24% Necrotic Penetration.With the amount of hits the build has, the stacks ramp up quickly. At -1000 Armour a target takes 16.5% increased Necrotic Damage, while at -4000 Armour it takes 40%. Enemies have 0 Armour by default and it can go into the negatives. Chance To Shred Armour on Hit: Each stack of this Ailment reduces enemy Armour by 100 for 4 seconds and stacks infinitely.This Blessing plays a big part on your Damage output, so make sure you roll it nicely (45%+) and as early as possible. 10 stacks increase the Damage enemies take by 50% (20% for Bosses). Grand Promise of Death: Since the build attacks pretty fast and has many hits, it is extremely easy to apply 10 stacks of Necrotic Resistance Shred to your targets.Clairvoyant Insight grants 50% on its own. Critical Strike Multiplier: Increases the Damage your Crits deal.It's easy to cap it with a good Implicit on your Crystal Skull and the Piercing Gaze Node inside Hungering Souls. Spell Critical Strike Chance: Deathbringer, Darkguard and the Reaper's Curse Node inside of Reaper Form give this tons of Spell Critical Strike Chance.% Increased Damage: Anything that increases Necrotic Spell Damage is welcomed.Intelligence: Hungering Souls, Bone Curse and Soul Feast gain 4% Damage per point of Intelligence.Cast Speed: The faster you attack the more Spells you cast and Ailments you apply.Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs also grants a good amount on Potion use. Your Profane Wand and the Necrotic Energy Passive grant tons of Necrotic Flat Spell Damage. Flat Spell Damage: With the amount of Damage Multipliers this build has access to, you want to stack as much Flat Damage as possible.In combination with the Dance with Death Passive and the Corrupted Consciousness Node, this ability provides incredibly Damage buffs for its duration.

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