PoE Consecrated Path of Endurance Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The Consecrated Path of Endurance build in Path of Exile combines the powerful slam and teleportation mechanics of Consecrated Path with the durability and strategic benefits of Endurance Charges. This guide will provide a comprehensive overview of how to optimize a Consecrated Path of Endurance build in the 3.25 patch, ensuring you maximize your damage output, area of effect, and survivability.

Key Features of Consecrated Path of Endurance

Consecrated Path of Endurance (Level 20):

• Fire, Attack, AoE, Movement, Duration, Slam, Melee: Consecrated Path of Endurance is a melee attack that slams the ground at a targeted location. If an enemy is near where you target, you’ll teleport to it, slam, and create an area of consecrated ground.
• Mana Cost: 13 mana.
• Cooldown Time: 2.00 seconds (bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge).
• Attack Speed: 80% of base.
• Attack Damage: 305.8% of base.
• Effectiveness of Added Damage: 305%.
• Weapon Requirements: Requires Level 70, 98 Strength, 68 Intelligence, and a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff, or Unarmed.
• Damage Mechanics:
  • 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage.
  • Deals up to 30% more damage with hits to closer targets.
  • 10% more Area of Effect per Endurance Charge.
  • 10% more Attack Damage per Endurance Charge.
• Consecrated Ground: Creates an area of consecrated ground on hit, providing increased life regeneration and other benefits.
• Duration: Base duration of 4.00 seconds.

Building Around Consecrated Path of Endurance

1. Weapon Choice:

• Swords, Axes, Maces, Sceptres, Staffs, or Unarmed: Choose high-damage weapons with added fire damage, increased attack speed, and critical strike chance to maximize your damage output.

2. Passive Skill Tree:

• Focus on nodes that enhance fire damage, melee damage, attack speed, critical strike chance, life, Endurance Charge generation, and physical damage mitigation. Specific clusters to prioritize include those near the Marauder, Duelist, and Templar start areas.
• Consider pathing to nodes that increase area of effect, life regeneration, armour, and resistances.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Juggernaut:

• Unflinching: Grants Endurance Charge generation and reduces physical damage taken.
• Unyielding: Increases the effectiveness of fortify and grants damage reduction.
• Unbreakable: Increases armour and grants life recovery based on physical damage prevention.
• Unstoppable: Grants immunity to stuns and slows, and increases movement speed.

2. Chieftain:

• Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance: Increases fire damage and converts additional physical damage to fire.
• Tukohama, War’s Herald: Increases totem placement speed and damage.
• Hinekora, Death’s Fury: Grants life leech from fire damage and increases damage.
• Ramako, Sun’s Light: Increases fire resistance and reduces fire damage taken.

Support Gems

1. Main Skill Setup:

• Consecrated Path of Endurance: Primary attack skill.
• Support Gems: Elemental Damage with Attacks, Fire Penetration, Combustion, Fortify, Pulverise, and Endurance Charge on Melee Stun.

2. Secondary Skill Setup:

• Ancestral Warchief: Totem skill to enhance melee damage.
• Support Gems: Multiple Totems, Melee Physical Damage, and Fire Penetration.

3. Utility Skills:

• Leap Slam: For additional mobility.
• Steelskin / Immortal Call: For defense.
• Blood and Sand: To switch between Blood and Sand stances.
• Enduring Cry: To generate Endurance Charges and enhance survivability.

Armor and Accessories

1. Armor:

• Body Armor: Prioritize armor with high life, resistances, and physical damage reduction. Consider options like Belly of the Beast for increased life and resistances.
• Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Look for items that boost fire damage, attack speed, life, and resistances. Consider using items with life regeneration and Endurance Charge generation to enhance survivability.

2. Accessories:

• Amulet and Rings: Focus on items that enhance fire damage, life, resistances, and critical strike chance. Look for mods that increase Endurance Charge generation and damage mitigation.
• Belt: A Stygian Vise with life, resistances, and increased fire damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

• Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

• Quicksilver Flask: For increased movement speed.
• Basalt Flask: For physical damage reduction.
• Ruby Flask: For increased fire resistance.
• Atziri’s Promise: For additional chaos damage and life leech.

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

• Use Consecrated Path of Endurance to teleport to enemies, dealing high damage and creating consecrated ground. Maintain high Endurance Charge levels to boost your damage, area of effect, and attack speed.

2. Utilizing Ascendancy Passives:

• Leverage the Juggernaut or Chieftain passives to enhance survivability and damage output. Use Juggernaut for a focus on Endurance Charge generation and physical damage mitigation, and Chieftain for fire damage and life leech.

3. Managing Buffs and Debuffs:

• Maintain high uptime on Blood and Sand stances and leverage the increased damage and control provided by each stance.
• Use your flasks to boost damage, resistances, and survivability during combat.

Example Builds

1. Juggernaut Consecrated Path of Endurance Build:

• Focus on Endurance Charge generation and physical damage mitigation.
• Utilize Unflinching and Unyielding to maximize survivability and damage reduction.
• Use support gems that enhance physical damage and fortify effects.

2. Chieftain Consecrated Path of Endurance Build:

• Focus on fire damage and life leech.
• Utilize Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance and Hinekora, Death’s Fury to increase damage output.
• Use support gems that enhance fire damage and penetration effects.

Conclusion

The Consecrated Path of Endurance build for Path of Exile 3.25 offers a powerful and dynamic playstyle for melee enthusiasts who enjoy combining high damage with the durability and strategic benefits of Endurance Charges. By focusing on maximizing damage, attack speed, and physical damage mitigation, players can effectively dominate both single-target and group encounters. Proper gear selection, passive skill tree planning, and strategic use of ascendancy passives will ensure that you unleash the full potential of this powerful skill. Equip your weapons, prepare your flasks, and incinerate your enemies with the devastating power of Consecrated Path of Endurance.