THE ULTRATAMER - Mistress of ailments!
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Text form explanation and further depth analysis:
The Taming gives increased elemental damage with hits and ailments for each type of elemental ailment on enemy. How do you make most of this?
Normally, you can inflict four types of elemental ailments on an enemy: Shocked, Ignited, Chilled and Frozen. There are however three alternative elemental ailments, namely Brittle, Scorched and Sapped, which are quite limited in accessibility:
You can get Sapped, Scorched or Brittle ground as an Eldritch mod on your rare boots, but that requires you to stand on top of your enemies, which is hardly practical. Animate Guardian can also use such boots, but its movements are significantly less predictable.
Legacy of Fury is a set of unique boots that makes all nearby enemies Scorched, which is nice, but still requires you to be "nearby" to the stuff you shoot. Animate Guardian can use these too, and tanky minion builds like BAMA love it. However, it's less zoom zoom because you can't then have Tailwind boots or Darkray Vectors if you decide to go that way.
Arkhon's Tools is a unique belt that adds a Scorching skitterbot, meaning you can apply chilled, shocked and scorched with them, if the enemy is near enough, at the cost of reserving 35% of your mana. However, then you can't use any actual belt and still only get one extra ailment.
Secrets of Suffering, which is comes small cluster jewel named The Interrogation that disables your normal ailments, but makes you apply all three alternative elemental ailments on a critical strike. That's garbage for this purpose, so it's out.
Unseen Hue is a unique ring that makes Prismatic skills apply Brittle, Scorched or Sapped, but you only get one and you have to use Prismatic Skills. What if you don't wanna? Trash.
Lastly, there's Replica Malachai's Artifice, a ring so nice that it has eight users in Mirage league according to PoE Ninja. Firstly, it will lower all your elemental resistances by 20% and then give you 75-100% cold resistance. The actually interesting part is makes the socketed gems have Secrets of Suffering, so if you socket an attack there, that attack cannot Shock, Chill or Ignite, but it does Brittle, Scorch and Sap on every critical hit. The effect is scaled from the damage that skill deals, meaning the best option is Elemental Hit of the Spectrum. The problem is that you get no supports for it because there's only one socket on the ring... Until now!
In Mirage league, you can get the gem imbued with Manaforged Arrows, which makes it shoot out automatically when you've used your main bow skill enough. Huzzah!
The best way to benefit from this is to get the Wildwood Bloodline Ascendancy that gives you an extra ring slot. Just put the dumb heist ring in the third slot and blast away! You can forego flasks if you were planning to use Screams of the Desiccated, like the Acceleration shrine. You could skip the amulet slot too, but with this setup, Yoke of Suffering makes enemies take up to 70% increased damage, which is pretty nice. Or if you get lucky with a Volatile Vaal Orb, up to 84% increased damage.
A Volatile Vaal Orb could also make your Taming go to 60% increased damage per each elemental ailment, so up to 840% increased damage if you apply everything and mirror the ring with Kalandra's Touch.
This is of course in addition to the inherent benefits of the alternative ailments: Brittle gives flat crit chance, sapped makes enemies deal less damage and scorched lowers their elemental resistances.
I feel like I haven't even exhausted all the possibilities with this interaction, but I will certainly be testing many things and hope this brings someone else joy too!
