Welcome back, Exiles! Today, we’re diving into a unique and powerful build that’s been turning heads—the Soul Rend of Reaping Mine Build. This build transforms the traditional Soul Rend’s damage-over-time effect into pure flat chaos damage, making it a bursty, high-damage setup that clears maps quickly and efficiently.

In this guide, we’ll cover the core mechanics, passive tree, gear, skills, and some tips for optimizing the build for both mapping and bossing. Whether you’re a seasoned mine player or someone who’s never touched mines before, this build might just surprise you!

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Why Play Soul Rend of Reaping?

This build offers a lot of benefits:

• Massive Chaos Damage: By removing the damage-over-time effect, we get pure flat chaos damage that scales excellently with crit.
• Smooth Gameplay: Thanks to automated mine detonation, the playstyle feels almost like traditional spell casting.
• Survivability: Chaos Inoculation (CI) makes us immune to chaos damage, one of the deadliest damage types in the game.

Weaknesses:

• Relies heavily on gear for energy shield sustain.
• Requires fast mine throwing speed to feel smooth.

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Core Mechanics: Mines and Soul Rend

The centerpiece of this build is Soul Rend of Reaping, a modified version of Soul Rend that deals flat chaos damage instead of DoT. Mines allow us to bypass the casting delay, turning Soul Rend into an instant burst of chaos damage.

Key advantages of mines:

• Instant Detonation: No casting delays means smoother gameplay.
• Damage Multipliers: Inherent mine multipliers significantly boost damage output.
• Safety: Throw mines behind walls or around corners for safer clears.

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Passive Tree and Ascendancy

Ascendancy Choice: Wild Speaker

• Scourge of the Wild: Increases damage based on minion damage.
• Flash of Teeth + Fearful Symmetry: Grants permanent power and frenzy charges for a constant DPS boost.
• Primal Instinct: Caps spell suppression for improved survivability.

Key Passive Nodes:

• Focus on chaos damage, mine speed, and energy shield.
• Chaos Inoculation: Immunity to chaos damage.
• Minion Damage Nodes: Boost both minion and personal DPS.

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Gear Recommendations

Weapons: Dual wands with:

• +1 to chaos spell gems.
• Minion damage.
• Critical strike chance and spell damage.

Core Uniques:

• Replica Dragon Fang’s Flight: +3 to Soul Rend levels.
• Profane Proxy: Applies Despair curse automatically.
• Darkness Enthroned: Maximizes Abyss Jewel effectiveness.

Rare Gear:

• Focus on energy shield, resistances, and dexterity.
• Crafted reduced mana cost of skills on rings.

Flasks:

• Mana flask with “Effect is not removed when unreserved mana is filled.”
• Diamond flask for crit consistency.
• Jade flask for evasion.

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Skill and Support Gems

Main Setup:

• Soul Rend of Reaping + High Impact Mine Support + Minefield Support + Trap and Mine Damage Support + Greater Multiple Projectiles.

Other Gems:

• Wither Totem to increase chaos damage taken by enemies.
• Frostblink for mobility.
• Summon Skitterbots + Discipline + Zealotry for auras.

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Mapping vs. Bossing

Mapping:

• Use Greater Multiple Projectiles for clear speed.
• Place mines ahead or around corners for safe clearing.

Bossing:

• Swap to Void Manipulation for single-target DPS.
• Use Wither Totem to amplify chaos damage.

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Conclusion

The Soul Rend of Reaping Mine build offers a unique playstyle that combines burst chaos damage with the strategic advantages of mines. It’s fast, powerful, and surprisingly smooth to play. If you’re looking for a build that clears maps efficiently and has a fresh take on chaos damage, give this one a try.

Happy hunting, Exiles, and may your mines always detonate swiftly!