Vortex+Herald Pathfinder

Ok so I'm trying something different with my pathfinder soon so I'll finally put this out there.

The idea of the build is to be super mobile, durable and deal massive damage that goes through everything. I highly recommend it if you want to play some new overpowered crap. The build is surpassed really only by even more op casters.


The Offense:
Vortex dot cant be blocked/dodged and can be scaled by 5 more multiplier support gems so we use this as our 6link. Elefocus+controlleddestr+rapiddecay+empower+conc/incaoe

Herald goes through everything as well but is quite hard to scale with support gems. We use it as a 4link only with elefocus+empower+lightningpen. It deals plenty of damage and has huge range with all the increased area of effect we have from the tree/items. 4link is sufficient also because we don't want to reserve all of our mana.

Worth mentioning is the retch belt which is a huge boost to our flasks and most of all our damage against life builds. It's a core part of this build I would say.

Elemental Equilibrium is absolutely nuts with this build. There are multiple ways to make it annoying. I'll leave figuring that out for you.

As for curses, I found a strong Elemental Weakness to be the most funny one. A strong temporal chains is never a bad idea either though. We are almost forced to apply curses through a mere CWDT.


The Defense:
The build has only around 5,8k hp, but it is extremely mobile and surprisingly tanky. The build of course uses mind over matter (dmg taken gained as mana items are great and vinktar mana leech gives us unlimited mana. The build has 750 open mana and due to vinktar we are constantly full mana).

Another form of defense comes from 75% block against attackers and 75% spell block against spellcasters. On top of this we are using acrobatics and have 46% spell dodge with atziri's step+phaseacro. If needed, we can also skip a lot of our defense and gain more offense by dual wielding weapons instead of using legacy perandus shield / legacy saffel.

Flasks provide a huge boost to our mobility and defense. All potions last 10 sec or so with the retch and passive tree choices. As you can see from the tree, I've picked up the best flask nodes that also give us more mana which is essentially more "life" for this mom build.

Also for everyone out there, defense-wise legacy Vinktar life and mana leech are just completely and utterly nuts and make you nearly immortal when used in combination with a skill like herald.



The Tree:
http://tinyurl.com/h4d3ejd



The Items:
The chest is quite essential for the build. +1 gems is of course out of reach for most but dont worry vortex will deal damage even without it! The radius is what we really look for from it.

ES based +1 gems gloves are rather important so you can use Herald of Thunder in them. Another, cheaper option is to use geofri's crown or vertex as helm for +1 gems.

The rest of my items are some random 10 chaos rares. For amulet you can choose a good talisman, some unique one or just a good rare one. As rings you just want ones with lots of life mana and resists. For shields and jewelry all kinds of dmg taken gained as mana corrupts are nice.

For helm there are plenty of options too. You can just use some rare one with a good enchant like vortex radius, curse effectiveness, herald reservation reduction for an example.




The Potions
An example, can be whatever you prefer



The Jewels:
Random jewels with 7% maximum life and increased damage


How to counter:

Really nice build i was trying something similar for pve but it was focused on getting high lightning dmg so i used phys to light with bv to get more leech=more chaos dmg, but the veteran bowyer+EE is genius i will try out this build soon.

Do you think , a scion version , could work?

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EspadaDelPanico wrote:

Do you think , a scion version , could work?

Depends really what you consider as "working". As scion you would want to get the scion pathfinder too so you can get status ailment immunity with crystal skins from the passive tree. Elementalist is probably the other point you would go for I guess. Also grabbing the ranger tree start node can be neat.

Still, pathfinder is king in pvp for almost every single build. It just gives soooo much good stuff. Heck, I'm using pathfinder for my CI char too.

Those kind of build are worse than LA.

I applaud the mastercrafting of the build but the mechanism are disgusting.

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Head_Less wrote:

Those kind of build are worse than LA.

I applaud the mastercrafting of the build but the mechanism are disgusting.

LA and all bow builds are best as pathfinder too. Almost all builds are best as pathfinder.

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lapiz wrote:

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Head_Less wrote:

Those kind of build are worse than LA.

I applaud the mastercrafting of the build but the mechanism are disgusting.

LA and all bow builds are best as pathfinder too. Almost all builds are best as pathfinder.

And this is sad for the state of this game.
There is now cyclone COC pooping 3-4vortex at the same time.

This skill will become a cancer soon.

Look fun to play if you are on the vortex side haha.

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Head_Less wrote:

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lapiz wrote:

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Head_Less wrote:

Those kind of build are worse than LA.

I applaud the mastercrafting of the build but the mechanism are disgusting.

LA and all bow builds are best as pathfinder too. Almost all builds are best as pathfinder.

And this is sad for the state of this game.
There is now cyclone COC pooping 3-4vortex at the same time.

This skill will become a cancer soon.

Look fun to play if you are on the vortex side haha.

Vortex alone doesnt really do anything though and it actually gets beaten by many many things.

Coc pooping out multiple vortex doesnt increase dot damage so it doesnt really matter.. It's a pretty bad coc spell in that regard.

Ya, while everyone else is playing Pathfinder of Vortexile im playing path of pimpmyaxe lol. I never mind dying because this is just a game after all, but everything is just insane.

Think we're going to have to establish rules as a community soon unless ggg actually does something.

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Ya, while everyone else is playing Pathfinder of Vortexile im playing path of pimpmyaxe lol. I never mind dying because this is just a game after all, but everything is just insane.

Think we're going to have to establish rules as a community soon unless ggg actually does something.

Oh how much better your axe char would also be as a pathfinder! Even a lvl 90 ranger > 100 duelist