[3.6] Triple Herald Blade Vortex Elementalist

Hi all. My gear is normal for the start maps ?
What should I buy first ? Ring (Mark of the Shaper) or flask(Taste of Hate) ?

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parvova wrote:

Hi all. My gear is normal for the start maps ?
What should I buy first ? Ring (Mark of the Shaper) or flask(Taste of Hate) ?

I clear tier 11 with far worse gear, i'm running around with a le heup and a 1 chaos weapon :)

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Vortilion wrote:

can someone tell me which items to change as next ?

Replace your eternal life flask with a diamond flask. Get a different amulet. Upgrade your rings so they have more life. Put an abyss jewel in your belt. Get real jewels for your skill tree. Do uber lab once you are level 84+. After that, replace aded fire with hypothermia. Nice gloves, but you seem to not generate frenzy charges at all? Consider using Blood Rage, although the degen is a bit annoying. Or get Ice Bite into your BV links in place of PCoC.

Not sure if it is clear to you: Blade Vortex is not an attack, but a spell. Therefore, "Elemental damage with attacks" on your sceptre doesn't do anything for you. The same is true for the leech on your amulet.

How do so many people have a 6-link below level 80? :D

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SimpleStuff wrote:

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DirtyDot wrote:

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SimpleStuff wrote:

Any advice for changes to make to do uber elder with this build? I ripped about 8 shaper sets today trying to do it both alone and with a support. I was really close a few times which is why i kept trying but there seems to be almost no room for mistakes at all, even when the ground effects are managed well, you still have to sometimes run through them. I actually can avoid death to most of the one-shot mechanics and my dps is fine when i can apply it, but the real problem comes in when there is a lot of stuff going on and I can't actively leech because I have to stay in the right spot for elder explosion/ beam and whatnot. Elder just inevitably chips me away with ice spears and I can't sustain. I'm sure the fight IS possible as is but I would like to somehow make it easier. Here is my gear for reference, currently using kaom's roots and a slightly different setup to do uber specifically:

mark of the shaper ring will give you 20% more damage. also i don't see herald of ash slotted anywhere, that's another 15% more damage.
for sustain maybe see if you can use rejuvenation totem + stone golem.

Like I said before, my DPS is more than good enough, I can do 25% of shaper's hp during the time that he does one laser. None of the phases last very long at all. Golems unfortunately die very quickly in this fight and rejuv totem provides a very meager amount of life regen.

I think that right now I'm going to try speccing out of MoM and some damage on the tree to get more life, and potentially use purity of ice. I also notice that my pantheon setup wasn't ideal for this fight so I'll come back and report on what worked for me when i down him.

Haven't attempted uber elder on my bv char, but have killed him with dual strike/reave this league and molten strike last league. The most imporant thing of the fight imo, is being able to move arround quickly and get in to burst the bosses when you feel its safe. Imo if you have close to 6k life, you don't need mom, most of the times you die to 2x elder icicles or shaper balls,so having a bit more ehp from mom would still have the same result.

I also checked your gear and u dont seem to have herald of ash which is our best single target herald.Bv duration enchant will also help you a lot since you don't have the second duration cluster either,maybe swap in efficacy instead of crit strikes too? Also,i am not sure but if you have you attack speed dagger in main hand i think that whirling blades will be faster?

im strating T11+ maps.... any tips on what should i work on?

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Xevs wrote:

Hey why do a lot of the high lvl BV players go for Bereks grip instead of mark of the shaper?

I'd assume it's because it gives better leech against end game bosses as it's 1% leech instead of 0.4% (end game boss have only 20% effect of curse, so the 2% from warlord mark becomes 0.4%).

It also allows to run Hexproof maps and allows you to replace mark of the shaper for more tankiness (resist/life etc).

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MrFireme wrote:

How are people managing their resist %' after they've swapped to elder+shaper rings though?
Seems impossible for me to get anywhere near all 3 caps.

Suggestions are welcome :D

I managed to cap them with only Belt/neck/boot/Warlord's ring. Although it's at 76 all res... so not good against elemental weakness. But I keep it this way because I'm using Wise Oak for a triple 15% pen and triple 10% dmg taken reduced. Much better DPS increase than Taste of hate, for 10% of the price.

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Guenselmann wrote:

It feels like something is missing without the lag on every pack :D

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Esspay wrote:

This build is so much better after last patch

They optimized herald of ice and vaal BV AI

Def less laggy on huge explosions now.


Also Zeels MTX is looking mad sexy.

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Esspay wrote:

Well that was a lie.. vaal bv AI is actually worse. its zag zagging all over the place cus it cant make up its mind what target to go for now.

I honestly have not seen any difference with Herald's change. I still freeze every pack of mobs, so does my friends. As for BV... Not sure it changed anything, it still does not know where to go most of the time. The only very welcomed change is that you dont lose your Vaal BV anymore when you cast it on unwalkable terrain.

I am seriously NOT having fun with this build. Until Act8 it played... okayish.
But sitting now on Blood Aquducts and I am dying like crazy. Fully resicapped 2k+ life and I just drop dead all the time. I wanted to try to get to 66 to get a divinarius so it might be easier to dodge stuff and get more out of the lifetime of the blades but it just is not fun.

I leveled over hundrets of builds but this is one of the few I really say "no" to. I won't delete the char and might try again in a few days but for the moment I'm done.

im strating T11+ maps.... any tips on what should i work on?
and i know, i know that i need to do more lab runs for the enchantments... i'll do it.

Hi what do you guys think of intuitive leap for dark arts + Alchemist + Blast Radius + Instability
i am not sure how strong it rly is. On the paper it sounds good.

So close .. wish it was aoe or duration gems but o well.