"Truth is illusive, yet God has provided us with all the tools necessary to find it."

Inquisitors focus on elemental damage. They can, among other things, specialize in critical strikes, elemental penetration or buffing themselves with consecrated ground.

This build is designed with the use of Poet's Pen in mind. It can be lvld using Arc as self-cast but is designed with the use of 2 PP wands making it slightly expensive to get going, however, once you've acheived 2 of those wands the rest of the gear can be VERY cheap to purchase.

Quick Jump

• Pros & Cons

• Defence & Utility

• Skill Tree 

• Gems Setup

• Gearing & Stat Priorities

• Leveling

• Expectations & POB

Pros & Cons

Pros

• + tanky
• + decent clearspeed
• + not too expensive
• + Using 10+ Discharge per sec again

Cons

• - CI version is very expensive
• - Requires time to get used to the play style
• - If you run out of flask ur a dead

Defence & Utility

The build utilizes Mind over Matter with tons of mana unreserved and getting help from the Ascendancy nodes to sustain your effective HP pool.

Here is a link to a downloadable calculator for how much effective HP you'll have with Mind Over Matter: Mind Over Matter eHP Calculator

Skill Tree 

Ascendancy

• Instruments of Virtue this is to increase the general clear speed of the build
• Righteous Providence self-explanatory
• Inevitable Judgement also self-explanatory
• Augury of Penitence again, also self-explanatory

Bandits

Kill All

Pantheons

The Pantheon List

Major God - Soul of the Brine King

Prevents getting chain-stunned or frozen

Minor God - Soul of Shakari

Helps with chaos damage taken, can later be upgraded to be 100% immune to poison as well

Passive Tree

Gems Setup

Frenzy or Power Siphon

IF you don't have a "Warlord's Mark on Hit" Elder Ring you'll want to use this setup:

- Frenzy, Greater Multiple Projectiles, Curse on Hit, Warlord's Mark, Onslaught, Culling Strike

OR

- Power Siphon, Onslaught, Cast on Critical Strike, Glacial Cascade, Physical to Lightning, Concentrated Effect

NOTE: Poet's Pens has a 250ms CD on the triggers which means they will be able to cast a spell if you attack 4 times per second (0.25sec atk speed). Which is why I'm not linking faster attacks in either of the setups as if you're doing this as a Trickster or Inquisitor they both get a ton of attack speed from the Frenzy Charges, Ascendancy nodes as well as the Onslaught buff.

Poet's Pens

Arc, Increased Critical Strikes, Increased Critical Damage

Freezing Pulse, Increased Critical Strikes, Hypothermia

NOTE: When you're lvling the use of Added Lightning and/or Added cold as well as Controlled Destructions are solid choices till you have the crit nodes allowing for the end-game links.

Mobility

- Lightning Warp, Faster Casting, Less Duration, Swift Affliction

Cast When Damage Taken

- CWDT, Immortal Call, Increased Duration

Utility

- Portal, Faster Casting, Decoy Totem

Auras

- Herald of Ice

Gearing & Stat Priorities

What base items to use

The base items of this build really doesn't matter as we don't care about the base defensive stats such as armour(str), evasion(dex) or energy shield(int). So instead the base items will follow the stat priority listed in this guide.
However, the attribute requirement of the items will base how hard it is to chrome (color) which will be the only thing we will think about when planing our gearing.
So, if you need 4 blue sockets in an item the recommendation is to get an item that has Energy Shield (int) base or a hybrid base which includes Energy Shield (int).

By using this chrome calculating website:  siveran, you can easily track how hard it will be to chrome the colors you need. This YouTube playlist can help a lot for new players and also includes a few tricks when coloring items with the "wrong attribute requirements" for your build: List

The uniques used for the build outside of the weapon is an Inpulsa and the rest of the gear can be 100% rare obviously there are a few options such as Starkonja.

When it comes to jewels the most important one is having 2x First Snow, if you are going for higher budget input and end-game clear speed enhancer, getting an Inspired Learning is a solid choice.

Defensive Stats

• Life
• Resistances
• Mana

Offensive Stats

• Elemental Damage
• Spell Damage

They are all worth equally much for this build.

Jewels

• Spell Damage
• Spell Damage Whilst Dual Wielding
• Life
• Mana

Flasks

• 1x Seething Divine Life Flasks <w/e sufix>
• 1x w/e prefix Diamond Flask of Warding
• 1x Vessel of Vinktar (spell dmg version)
• 1x Atziri's Promise
• 1x w/e prefix Quicksilver Flask of Heat

Recommended Unique Items

The Poet's Pen, Inpulsa's Broken Heart, Atziri's Promise, Vessel of Vinktar (Spell dmg version)

Recommended Leveling Unique

The Poet's Pen, Tabula Rasa Simple Robe, Goldrim, Wanderlust

Leveling

Skill Tree

Leveling skill-tree, 51 points

Leveling skill-tree, 68 points

Leveling skill-tree, 98 points

Finished skill-tree

You'll want to reach 2 jewel slots as early as possible which can fit 2 "First Snow" so that you have better clearing with the Freezing Pulse, outside of that the tree is designed to provide enough HP from the tree throughout the acts.

Make sure you cap your resistances properly around act 5 & forward.

The end-game tree is using an Inspired learning on the far left side, if you don't want to use this or can't afford, simply skip the extra nodes being the power & endurance charge as well the es/res node around that jewel slot.

Leveling Tips

MoM is a solid node to take fairly early on for increased eHP.

Here is a link to a downloadable calculator for how much effective HP you'll have with Mind Over Matter: Mind Over Matter eHP Calculator

Simply use Magma orb or Freezing Pulse till you hit lvl 12 in which time you should equip 2x Poet's Pen and use Arc & Freezing Pulse using either Power Siphon or as I recommend at this point, Frenzy to proc em.

If you've decided to play this build before you're able to purchase Poet's Pens or as a league starter I recommend that you simple run with a self-cast setup with Arc which would mean you'd want to use these support gems:

Added Cold, Added Lightning, later on you'll want to get Faster Casting as well as Controlled Destruction in over the Added gems.

The build can work very well whilst lvling only using 1 poet's pen, so buying one as soon as you can afford one is highly recommended.

Expectations & POB

POB link: https://pastebin.com/cJ8vESEe

(If you do not know how to use it, see the instructions below, otherwise please ignore)

• Download Path of Building (link: https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding)
• Copy pastebin URL.
• Launch path of building.
• Click on Import/Export.
• Click Import from Pastebin
• Paste the URL copied in step 2.
• Done!