[3.20] Level with VAAL FLICKER STRIKE from LV28 - LEAGUE START

Greetings, all! I'm contemplating rolling up Flicker Strike for my next build, but I'm not sure how it does in Delirium. My instinct is that it should work pretty well due to the increased mob density, but delirium mobs not spawning until you get close enough to trigger them may cause some hiccups. Can anyone share their experience?

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kyoumeh wrote:

wich notable to allocate in amulet?

I thought in tribal fury, but idk if it's a good anointing, still waiting too

Would love to see a video from this league and get some feedback on the build

poeurl.com/cOQy

So, this was my take on your build in HC Delirium. I ended up dying at lvl 83 bcuz I'm a retard and forgot to check if the map had ele reflect but that's it. This was my plan for a lvl 100 Flicker Strike build on HC. I had about 3.9k life when I died still using a tabula and having sub par gear, I reckon I could get about 5k easily by upgrading my rare gear. Sincerely the build was so strong damage wise that 3.9k life didn't really feel bad... I killed most mobs in the map before they could even blink and I had about 60% phys dodge and 50% spell dodge so... 50% crit in both hands too :P

For auras I was using:


For damage I used:


For defense/movement I used:


My Leveling experience with this build:


My personal take on this build is that it's not very defensive and not very boss oriented but it's very fun. Saddly on this league you have to backtrack a lot since there's things that explode. I exploded packs, cleared maps in less than 1 minute, probably the biggest fun I had with this game for a while, so I definitly recommend it. I tried a more defensive take on this build don't know if it worked but if any1 has suggestions please let me know! Thank you for reading all of this and don't die exile!

PS: I'll try this build again now that I have more currency, probably try a full physical build that way I won't have problem with elemental reflect...

PS2: This build is very bad at killing bosses, I had a lot of dangerous encounters, vaal warchief totem would probably help a lot. Otherwise you can just use this build as a Spark build of old and clear mobs and not kill bosses... I would say it's even faster than Vaal Spark used to be.

PS3: As much fun as it's if you hold the button for Flicker Strike when you see mobs you'll probably die very early, that said I recommend using the skill in bursts, you can think of the skill like an AK in CS. If you hold the left click you'll die miserably... In CS bcuz the enemy will kill while you miss 90% of the bullets and in POE bcuz you'll teleport to the middle of a pack and get rkt... So click you flicker strike for 3-4 seconds and then stop, jump around with Leap Slam for awhile make him work those 3 support gems and then Flicker again

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lord451 wrote:

How do you maintain your frenzy charges with the current 92 build? I'm not seeing anything in either your equipment or the tree to help generate them. Do you just load up and go into combat hoping everything dies before you run out/frenzy strike mid combat or am I missing something critical?

Blood rage

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mookie990 wrote:

Greetings, all! I'm contemplating rolling up Flicker Strike for my next build, but I'm not sure how it does in Delirium. My instinct is that it should work pretty well due to the increased mob density, but delirium mobs not spawning until you get close enough to trigger them may cause some hiccups. Can anyone share their experience?

It works pretty well, it's a bit annoying when the mobs ends and the delirium mobs are still spawning but you can always flicker again... The exploding little thingys are the annoying part since you kill all the mobs in the map then have to backtrack to get your loot but I think all builds are having the same problem, at least the ones that have high clear speed are...

My experience, I got 92 lv this delirium leage following mostly this build:

I leveled with 2 swords without allocating skills into either two hand or one hand

I got my hands on terminus est 60ish, gone full two handed passives, physical damage.
Done the early mapping and at level 85 bought dual rebukes and respecced around 20-30 passives into dual wield and out of physical damage. Damage skyrocketed, went all da way to tiers 10+ and started struggling. With heavy investment I can clear t14 but I die every 3-4 maps, and most bosses, witch is enough to keep me at 0% xp. Tier16 still doable but at least 1 death evey map is normal. I see no way to get past 92 with this build unless I invest 200 ex and a new pc also. Low frames on delirium kill me sometimes, but mostly its just one shot by boss or flick into too much crap.

BTW tried self bleed, dont do it. Really. It works untill you hit something you cant leech. Sometimes you just start bleeding even if you just killed something you leeched. With enough damage you can bleed from 100% to 0 faster than human reaction time allows to react and flask.

clear speed and damage is insane, build is fun.
bossing impossible on tier 14+. end game is frustration.
I saved 20ex and starting something else.
Anyone wants to flicker, go with terminus est, its fun and sword is cheap, try it you will enjoy. No high tier mapping tho and without 200exalts or more dont attempt leveling past 90.

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tahuro wrote:

BTW tried self bleed, dont do it. Really. It works untill you hit something you cant leech. Sometimes you just start bleeding even if you just killed something you leeched. With enough damage you can bleed from 100% to 0 faster than human reaction time allows to react and flask.

I think this is what is happening to me, though can't be sure. If I finish of a lone mob, 9/10 I die the next few seconds (it says I've suicided). I daren't even do my 2 remaining labs as I'll end up dying from suicide. Apart from that I'm enjoying low-tier mapping right now.

Hello. First of all, I am no stranger to flicker strike but didn't played the game for quite a while.
I started the league with this build(well, to be honest I just took the general idea of self bleed and dual wield) and it feels really good(using as a self bleed right now). Died a few(hehe, 10 or so) times because of reflected bleed from non-leech targets, but thats it. Finishing 16 maps so far so good, but bosses are something that makes me jump into town to refill flasks ; heal ; etc.

Currently Lv93 with 5.1k hp

If any seasoned player is willing to help.. How can(should) I upgrade?

https://pastebin.com/qcR0FVdv

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xkonsole wrote:

Hello. First of all, I am no stranger to flicker strike but didn't played the game for quite a while.
I started the league with this build(well, to be honest I just took the general idea of self bleed and dual wield) and it feels really good(using as a self bleed right now). Died a few(hehe, 10 or so) times because of reflected bleed from non-leech targets, but thats it. Finishing 16 maps so far so good, but bosses are something that makes me jump into town to refill flasks ; heal ; etc.

Currently Lv93 with 5.1k hp

If any seasoned player is willing to help.. How can(should) I upgrade?

https://pastebin.com/qcR0FVdv

I checked your build in PoB and idk if im doing something wrong but with everything activated, your dps is 800k, in my current build, doing some changes ive almost 2kk dps (without bleed and just 1 unique item)