Just respecced my benched DW Purifier into your build. It’s pretty fun to play and indeed very tanky. I like it! 
Forgot to reply to this 'stoya. This was an excellent breakdown. Thanks for the explanation, sir.
I really didn’t give my mortar build as much thought as I should’ve because I thought it was going to be a meme thing.
Good reads, Thanks for this stoya.
I remembered that your old trozan build also used similar defensive concept.
I just glad that putting point in giant’s blood is not a waste anymore. Though idk for Acid and other elemental based caster that has low armor, can it use similar defensive mechanism also?
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well its deep question to answer… so many parameters to talk about this, you still want +2k armor +20 phys res +30 overcap all res decent cc res for any char these days imo. and +3max all res from conduit is sooo huujje to pass.
i beleive most of the time its quite possible but in the end you shouldnt give up so much dmg for it. some classes has easier times to build up these kind of defences than others.
any class combo that includes occultist can reach massive hp regen and phys res thats for sure… blood of dreeg line is just amazing.
demo has vindictive flame and conduit, pretty solid.
nightblade has probably best skill lane in game pburst. not strong as demo and occultist. after patch nightblade will have best all around defence in game imo.
shaman has mog pact.
if you want hp regen part of your defence you need starting point like vindictive flame, pburst and some items like judicator + barbaros + motd+ undying oath + collossal gloves + tinkers ing+gollus ring and you start to build up from there, also some suffix/prefix like ancient,natures bounty,dranghoul and %hp increase on tree adds up super fast. in the end everything adds up and you reaach +400-800 flat hp regen on your char. i cant stress this much but when you play a caster with 600 perma reliable hp regen outside of procs, you gonna see the difference and how reliable it is.
also lizard and harvestment scythe, behemoth can be starting point to build hp regen from tree
but in some conditions i dont think its possible you lockd behind set items and some builds has leech like DE and Pblades. you better look armor phys res and such in this case.
life regen also similar to absorb and its quite powerfull than inq seal and such imo cause it doesnt luck you in 1 spot or procs, its permament and constant.
and there is some weird ideas that mutators that lower your hp regen and some mobs debuff you with hp regen; -hp regen mutator is ultra little effect on your char its nerfed already so its not problem… and with this idea stacking armor is useless cause mutators and mobs debuff you aswell… layer of defences is not working like that LUL weird logic btw
behemoth and solemn watcher buffed so much, and its kinda crime not to take them for most casters imo… people forget behemoth has +80 armor, solemn watcher has +80 armor aswell… you will have +160 flat armor which will add everypiece of armor slot and multiply from there… its just bonkers. behemoth proc with decent CDR is also some silly defensive layer.
i also love to get mantis + lotus + 3pts of wendigo if i can… they add good phys res armor hp and energy regen to casters. reahcing obelisk is not only option anymore finally. scrab + hound + typhosesp next patch offers so much armor and other stuff. basically you can cover phys res armor from these aswell.
If stoya is taking the time to post a guide it’s probably super powerful.
Nice build. Really need to take the time to try Mortar Trap at some point soon, perhaps once I’m done with median again. Which could be soon. given where i’m at now with summon necro and how awful the rest of the fights left are for me. And with 1.1.2 coming, yeah.
Oh, and I also need to try that cold DE you have…
ty for kind words man, our theorycrafting sessions has to be publised sometimes 
always waiting your cool gd action !!
5.45 crucible added btw.
Super Crucible time and beautiful firework show!Btw,why so few trash mobs are spawning,oh wait they’re dying from AoE damage,before I can see them:D
i %100 legit beleive 5.20 is there, double green maidens, +5more skills fucking trash mobs lefts corners bothering me alot i tried 3 times and i said fuck it no need for more showoff, going out my own way.
dont know what to play now, patch hype is real !!
Nice offensive spec. I see we convinced you dropped TBO and pick up bwc/agonizing flame.
Question, why do you use meteor shower vs fissure? Correct me if i’m wrong (i did dummy dps tests), it seems like fissure does more damage than meteor shower. Mainly because in this build we cannot convert the phys dmg from meteor shower to fire, whereas we get the full benefit form fissure. In my testing, seems fissure does 2x the dmg of meteor shower. What are your thoughts on this?
well i already knew tbo was bad anyway, and said it aswell, you guys hardly understand my pov about gd imo. i just wanted to see tbo in action and how to benefit it.
i still hate bwc and its trash ability to use to me but i wanted to save pts on tree, and i had no points to spend. like no dmg stuff left to spend pts so i pickd bwc.
yep fissure does way more dmg than meteor but leading nodes on metoer is so good to pass.
btw i didnt spend hours of theorycrafting and testing to achieve this offensive spec, different variatons are perfectly viable and prolly better than what i have done. just ran 3 crucibles thats it
i am telling you man 5.20 is there. 5.20 is there…
hey thx for this amazing guide do you think that this build hardcore viable ?