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• ✅ Icetomb: Unique armor that grants cold thorns damage based on maximum mana.
• ✅ Bramble: Boots that add 25% to the base critical strike chance of thorns.
• ✅ Pale King's Crown: Essential equipment that applies thorns damage to all hits.
• ✅ Wand: A weapon to increase damage gained. Preferably one that increases the level of physical spells.
• ✅ Holy Flame: Equip in the off-hand to further increase damage gained.

• ✅ Bone Storm: For mana recovery. Uses the Zenith bug to recover mana.
• ✅ Blasphemy + Elemental Weakness: Makes it easier to apply elemental thorns damage.
• ✅ Mana Remnant: Overflows mana to increase survivability (not very useful in practice).
• ✅ Elemental Conflux: Increases elemental damage.
• ✅ Frost Bomb: For bosses. Applies elemental exposure to deal damage (easy to forget to use).
• ⚠️ Firestorm: Only included to use 10 red support gems, not actually used.

• ✅ Acquire many critical-related and elemental damage nodes.
• ✅ Also acquire Eldritch nodes.
• ✅ Reason for selecting Infernalist: Easier to gain maximum mana, and critical damage bonus is increased by 50%.
• ⚠️ The overflow from Mana Remnant doesn't mean much due to fire damage received.

Critical damage bonus is 693%. The displayed thorns damage may be a value that does not reflect the critical damage bonus.

• ✅ Maximum mana is about 4000, and cold thorns damage gained is about 640.
• ✅ Also gain fire thorns damage from the belt.
• ⚠️ Tried to increase thorns damage with Wrath, but no results were obtained.
• ✅ Also including Beira in the charm (it's just a bonus, but the Beira build might be interesting).
• ✅ Trash mobs can generally be one-shot.
• ⚠️ Not comfortable because you can't defeat enemies unless they attack you.
• ✅ Don't feel much danger of dying due to mana recovery on kill and Bone Storm recovery.

The downside of a build that deals damage with thorns is that the feet and head are essentially fixed as unique items. Since there was a specification change for evasion and block in 0.3, it is hoped that thorns retaliation will also be buffed.

• ✅ Thorns damage is about 200,000.
• ⚠️ Displayed damage is unreliable.
• ✅ Cold breath after form change is effective.
• ⚠️ Very thrilling, and instant death is possible without life leech.
• ✅ Softcore-only build.

• ✅ Electric zapping attack hits multiple times, so you can aim for big thorns damage.
• ⚠️ Slam attacks must be avoided.
• ✅ Victory is certain when the stationary electric zapping attack of the 2nd form comes.

• ✅ Aim for the electric zapping rock buster.
• ✅ The delicious attacks in the 2nd form are beams of fire and cold (but difficult to hit).
• ⚠️ A bug may occur where the boss stops and stops attacking, making it impossible to deal thorns damage.

• ✅ Firepower may be higher than physical thorns builds.
• ⚠️ Since there is no way to mana leech with thorns, physical thorns builds are better balanced when considering defense.
• ✅ In the future, if thorns mana leech becomes possible, it has the potential to join the ranks of the tanky builds.
• ✅ Can defeat Citadel bosses, so it's a usable build.