In the Trial of the Ancestors League, life stacking has become a popular strategy for a particular build centred around the Relic of the Packed Wand. This unique item, exclusive to the Trial Master, grants a powerful channelling skill that reserves a portion of your life to deal with area damage. The more life you reserve, the more damage you can unleash. This guide will delve into the mechanics of life stacking and how to optimize it for your character.

 

• Life Stack Essentials
• Tattoos for Life Stacking
• The Omen of Fortune
• Supreme Ostentation and Timeless Keystones
• Life Stacking Builds
• Conclusion

 

↖ Life Stack Essentials

To maximize your life stacking potential, you'll want to make use of various mechanics and unique items:

• Disillusion of the Flesh and Blood Magic: These notables provide more life multipliers, helping you stack even more life on your character.
• Caws Roots and Cam's Heart: Unique items like these significantly boost flat life, which is crucial for life stacking.
• Split Personality Jewels: These jewels can stack additional life on your passive tree.
• Life Mastery: Invest in the life Mastery passive nodes to further increase your maximum life.

 

↖ Tattoos for Life Stacking

In the Trial of the Ancestors League, two new tattoos offer exciting options for life stacking:

• Journey Tattoo of the Body: This tattoo replaces a +30 strength notable passive skill and grants 25 maximum life per allocated Journey Tattoo of the Body. Four of these notables are on the passive tree, spread across different locations. You may need to use anointment or Strangle Gas to allocate all four. Each tattoo can provide up to 100 flat life, totaling an incredible 400 maximum life.
• Honored Tattoo of the Oak: This tattoo grants 2% increased maximum life and can be applied to any small attribute passive. It complements your life stacking strategy, allowing you to increase your life pool further.

 

↖ The Omen of Fortune

The Omen of Fortune is a unique item that allows you to convert a normal item into a unique one using a chance orb. Here's how you can make the most of it:

• Glorious Plate: Obtain a Glorious Plate with the Heist enchantment that grants 15% increased life modifier magnitude. This enchantment is crucial for life stacking.
• Preparation: Scour the Glorious Plate to turn it into a normal item, then have the Omen of Fortune in your inventory.
• Use a Chance Orb: Use a chance orb on the Glorious Plate, hoping for it to become Cam's Heart Glorious Plate with the life enchantment modifier intact. With 15% increased life, you'll gain an additional 75 life.

 

↖ Supreme Ostentation and Timeless Keystones

If you've acquired Cam's Heart with a substantial increase in attribute requirements, consider the Supreme Ostentation Timeless Keystone. This keystone allows you to ignore attribute requirements, making it easier to equip your gear. Pair this with the Honored Tattoo of the Oak for even more life.

 

↖ Life Stacking Builds

Life stacking builds often make use of the Rathpith Globe Shield to gain damage and crit chance based on maximum life. They may also convert physical damage from spells into other types, such as cold damage, and use unique items like Heat Shiver for additional damage.

 

↖ Conclusion

While life stacking in Path of Exile's Trial of the Ancestors League is a high-investment and specialized build, it offers the potential for astonishingly high life pools, possibly reaching 20,000 to 30,000 life. If you're intrigued by this unique strategy, explore what other players are doing on Poe.ninja for inspiration. With the right gear and careful planning, you can create a character that's both formidable and unique in its life stacking capabilities.