Harvest Warlock 1500 corruption showcase Last Epoch [1.3.2.1]

Описание: Planner in the comments. The meme lives! kills Uberroth too!
Now why tf would you go Warlock for Harvest? Storytime, see back in 1.0 Warlock was introduced and so was Chaos bolts and it had a node Reaper of Mayhem which could proc Harvest upto 3 times a second. Now most people saw it as a way to use Harvest without scaling attack speed or to proc Harvest for some utility but I saw it differently. Most attacks are typically limited by their attack speed. However, most of the strongest melee skills in the game have a way to go beyond their attack speed. Shatter strike for example typically uses the Repeat node so for each attack you get two extra, Void Rive another Uber viable skill uses echoes, Erasing Strike also Echoes so additional casts for a melee skill typically very good. Now of course time spent chaos bolting is time not spent Harvesting but you could auto proc chaos bolts with Fissure so that was the core reason I wanted to try this out on a Warlock. Of course this flopped as Harvest was garbage in 1.0-1.2 and I shelved it as the failed meme build that it was. But now 1.3, Harvest is actually decent now and gets good Dex scaling so I tested it out and the damage was actually shaping up to be potentially Uber viable so I invested some more, tried different things and got some decent results.

Well other than that, Warlock's main nodes for hit damage Chaotic strikes doesn't work for Harvest(which is BS EHG) but having more curses is great for Harvest as its kinda needed to unlock its damage(although Flay has a curse too) but yeah maybe overall Lich could still be better(I haven't tried).

Now DISCLAIMER, this is probably not a great Uber killer, took a lot of tries and honestly this run was pretty lucky especially in terms of the speed as usually it takes a bit longer in p2,3 and 5. It's also kinda being carried by LP uniques. But I'm still finetuning stuff trying different setups and gear could be more LP too. There's also a fair amount of issues if you want to try this.

Issues with the build:
1. Grim Harvest is definitely not giving 100% increased area, it looks more like 40% inc aoe I think, very pathetic(but atleast dmg is proper).
2. Either fissure hitbox is broken or it is not applying Acid skin properly, doesn't apply it many times. eg: 00:20 and 08:52
3. Many enemies cannot be cursed during their slow spawn animation eg: Bumblebears coming from ceiling, burrowed skeleton enemies, void nagasa, etc. Very annoying as they attack immediately after and Harvest needs the enemies to be cursed for both damage and ward gen.
4. Can get bodyblocked by own Bone Prison...
5. Grim Harvest can stun enemies, normally this would be a good thing but in LE its bad as it causes them to skip animations and go crazy. eg: 09:56

Now, the build itself its pretty decent, fun actually but still kinda a meme build. Defenses are actually pretty solid you have less dmg from cursed enemies, less dmg from withered, frailty, double red ring dr, titan heart and a decent armor with more per curse on enemies. However, the main problem is actually sustain(recovery) as this build doesn't have leech like most melee builds, it has only one health-ward affix(on the gloves) and ward is mostly generated from direct Harvest casts.

There's also a fair bit of alternative options for Harvest now that it has a decent damage effectiveness and Dex scaling. But I think Death's Embrace in general wins out due to its massive dmg multiplier. I was initially trying out a 1h and offhand setup with either Traitors tongue or new Velocyn's but the damage wasn't quite there. I also tested the Super crit amulet but that didn't feel very good here, maybe there's some issue with it and acid skin? I felt I wasn't super critting enough even with the additional crit nodes instead of AoE in Harvest.

But I think Harvest still has a key problem in that the left side of its tree gives way too little for the amount of points required. The AoE nodes feel mandatory and should be baked into the skill IMO.

00:00 - Echo Clear 1 (Barbute)
03:17 - Echo Clear 2 (Butcher)
08:18 - Lagon and Harbinger kill (Butcher)
08:42 - Rahyeh and Harbinger kill (Barbute)
09:15 - Orobyss kill 1 (Butcher)
09:43 - Orobyss kill 2 (Butcher)