[3.19] Poison Blade Vortex Assassin | Early To Endgame

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cerealbawks wrote:

Just hit 89 with this build and liking it a bunch, currently using a Kintsugi for a more defensive option and usually fine in T14-16s. I'm still missing Asenath's so if I get it before trying to go for the +1 curse chest I'll just get Whispers of Doom since it's only 3 points away.

3 Questions:

1) How big is Asenath's? Does it spread poison somehow? I've never used it before and it seems like it'd be helpful but dunno if it's for poison spread or chains or explosions

2) Is there any way to keep totems alive at all? Or are they always going to be paper thin?

3) In the POB for this, under 'Calcs' -> 'Poison' -> 'Total More' there's a listing for 350% for 10 blades but I can't get it to show up when I run my own. Think that's a pretty huge damage difference when looking at total numbers (I'm sitting at ~2m dps) but wanted to try and activate that too if I could

Thanks all!

Edit: also curious what people are running on the Atlas since this seems to be not great for bossing but burning through maps. Currently doing Delirium/Breach/Harvest but might drop Harvest for Strongboxes

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hackergooby wrote:

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happens_ow wrote:

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How do we consistently sustain our energy shield? Is there a source of ES leech?

ES recharges automatically 20%/second, it's an in-built ES mechanic which remains even after Eldritch Battery - though it's reduced to 10%/sec instead from EB.


Edited: Realized that cruelty indeed loses out on Boss dps since the buff effect % is affected my max HP of whatever you're hitting.

So instead i'll ask something else:
How do you deal with Elemental Ailments?
This league is full of Ele Ailments and degens on the ground.
Personally i opted into foregoing the clusters for now and grabbing all the ele avoidance nodes below ranger as well as bench-crafting ele avoidance on the triple influenced chest for a total of 95% ele avoidance, which still leaves me with crappy degens on the ground until i can craft elevated boots for those.

If i went with the clusters, what would be the solution for E.Ailements? It's the main reason that i'm currently not specced into clusters for even more damaging goodies :(

Btw build looking great, i'm currently running these:

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Currently in the process to acquire an Aug Phys harvestcraft to craft a +2 amulet :D
Testing out the free Pride for now - MIGHT be increasing the damage but not sure. Might remove it to put back the totems, they should be a lot more damage in any case.

Yea there's not that many ailment immunity options on the shadow side of the tree sadly.

Looking into this there's one new option that caught my attention, forbidden flame and flesh allocating pyromaniac would give shock and ignite immunity for a pretty low investment on the tree and only cost 2 ex at current prices it seems. This could be combined with freeze/chill immunity on flask, cannot be frozen on boots or brine king, might be some other options which i can't think of atm.

Then there's also an eater of worlds implicit that gives up to 32% ailment avoidance and exarch implicit for 50% chance to avoid being frozen at highest tiers both of which could be combined with 25% ailment avoidance bench crafted onto boots, keep in mind that one of these implicits would have to be t4 but even at that the eater one is 26% avoidance.

Also, that double influence ring is a pretty good idea and i don't know why i never thought about that after adding a despair on hit ring into the build. Been also thinking about trying out a watcher's eye with life gained on hit or damage leeched as life while affected by vitality since a lvl 1 vitality could easily fit into the build with the mana that's left unreserved.

Hopefully anything mentioned above can be of any use, thanks for the feedback.

Edit : Swapping out malevolence with purity of elements would be another option and give full elemental ailment immunity on its own.