[3.13] Archmage Blade Vortex Hierophant | 20k EHP 40m DPS | Depth 2000 Delve Tank

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Camatoo wrote:

The build runs very smoothly for me while mapping, but im not conviced enough from myself to run bigger bosses like uber elder or maven.
The survivability is great, i can stand within a full pack of harbringer mobs on a juiced valdo's rest map and run around like a lawmower. It's really more a question about damage. Sometimes it feels like i deal less damage than intended. I thought its archmage overlapping and screwing over my rotation with indigo, but thats not it.
Another thing, does vortex still work with culling and curse applying?
Im not sure it works. I doubt its a matter of arrangment of sockets in the body armour, is it?

Are there some things i could improve on the gear?
Resistances are a little tough, im around 30%+ over cap.

Im working on the %attributes on the stygian vise, but its a slow progress with harvest. If i would hit that, i could look for a replacment of the saphire ring.

Im currently running the base version without the initinal setup for 70% more damage or plume of pursiut. (do those really make a huge difference in pure boss fights? Maven or sirus?

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Camatoo wrote:

Sometimes it feels like i deal less damage than intended. I thought its archmage overlapping and screwing over my rotation with indigo, but thats not it.

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SenorHabanero wrote:

That Ammy is POG, any chance you can describe how you made that?

Edit: So i think you start off with the incursion base[ilvl82+]+dex, yolo influence and hope you get crusader then harvest craft the other mods?

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RudyBaby wrote:

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Camatoo wrote:

Sometimes it feels like i deal less damage than intended. I thought its archmage overlapping and screwing over my rotation with indigo, but thats not it.

Do you always hold down left click to move? If so, then lvl 12 Vortex is a bit too high lvl. I believe a lvl 9 Vortex should do the trick. My bad really, I did not consider the possibility that people would be holding down left click and thus proccing Vortex exactly on cooldown.

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Camatoo wrote:

ok, i will downgrade the gem again. Im terrible at understanding that game, so i never thought gemlevels would make a difference in culling/applying curses.

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JermStudDog wrote:

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Camatoo wrote:

ok, i will downgrade the gem again. Im terrible at understanding that game, so i never thought gemlevels would make a difference in culling/applying curses.

An easy way to do it is to start with level 1 Vortex - run a map and check your damage from time to time. Level it to level 2, run another map, and compare, your damage should be just a bit higher. Keep going until you trip the cost and kill your DPS, then scour it back down to the previous level.

You will likely hit this breakpoint around level 8 or 9. It's not important that you maximize every little point of damage, though that helps. What's important is that you don't break your build by spending too much.

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Missngo wrote:

It seems I instantly die when attempting uber atziri because my damage is too much for the reflect. How is this handled?