Bloodlines "Press D to End Game" High Projectile Speed Vaal Spark Scion 1.3

This is a build built around Vaal Spark.




Vaal Spark is an interesting Gem. Everyone know it's destructive power but rarely anyone builds around it.


Some have tried via 100% projectile speed rolled Quill Rain or Voltaxic but many miss the beauty that is




5 souls gained on rampage. This pair of gloves basically guarantees Vaal Spark Refresh. If a map is good enough and your mine placement is smart you will clear every map safely and quickly within 6 to 7 repeated vaal sparks.

All boss room Map Bosses die within one vaal spark, guaranteed.


This is due to the combination of Fast projectile speed, 100% pierce, and increased duration.

The dps of vaal spark becomes exponentially higher the faster the sparks move & the longer the sparks last.

We add pierce so the volley doesn't disappear on hit leading to the hilarious consequence of trivializing boss rooms & capitalizing on clear speed


Warning: Undead only Maps & Lightning Res Maps will make you cry due to non Vaal Spark dps being below average. At least until you can start Vaal Sparking.


The Goods:












The Build:

http://poeurl.com/zgI8TAs

This is the full build. you can level as the build, it remains effective, prioritize getting Increased duration nodes & pierce nodes. You will level faster than flameblast prolif. The hardest part is level 1 - 24 and those are the cake walk levels. 25-Forward is insanely fast. strap on a tabula & run increase duration, vaal spark, gmp, pierce, faster projectiles, Spell echo/Remote Mine and profit. Before Ele Reflect appears immediately switch from spell echo to remote mine.

Late Game Links:

Remote Mine, Vaal Spark, Lightning Pen, GMP, Pierce, Faster Projectiles. (If you are able to get a single red, replace lightning Pen with Increased Duration, this will increase your clear speed but drop boss dps, funny enough bosses still die in one spark regardless. This only ever becomes a problem in lightning resist/Undead only maps)

4 link
Spark, pierce, Faster projectiles, Spell echo

This will build up your initial souls, with this tree Spark is nothing to shake a stick at. It does damage, it clears quickly, it sucks against necromancers. Ele Reflect is a bit scary but that's what lightning leech is for.

The other stuff. Typical Cast when Damage taken & Aura/Herald set up.

CWDT, Inc Duration, Enduring cry, Immortal Call

Clarity, Herald of ice, herald of thunder, Reduced mana.

For Defense run a Decoy totem and with the crazy amounts of increased duration this character has, Conversion trap is godly.

Become a pokemon trainer with conversion trap, it'll save your butt more times than once.


A lot of people will probably ask how to get Flesh & Spirit.

It's fairly simple.

Chance it in a rampage map, it's actually harder to get your hands on the Ironscale gauntlets. The things never drop, I had to enlist guild members to grind normal riverways. we spent 5 hours doing it, we found 5. I dropped an exalt on scours and got it on the 7th scour/chance.

If for some reason you can't get your hands on it, the build is perfectly viable.

I used



as a ghetto 5 link for normal spark until I chanced flesh & spirit.


This build also requires you to dual wield Projectile Speed Wands. This is not a recommendation it's a requirement.



If you would like lower clear speed and more defense or you'd like to self cast Vaal Spark with Spell Echo you could try:

Saffell's Frame, Empower+ level 21 purity of lightning


This will be higher survivability and the damage may be high due to Spell Echo doubling the number of sparks from 750 to 1500 but the reflect risk is very real along with Lightning Thorns risk. I will try this later (Sold my empowers weeks ago, leveling new ones).


If you have any questions feel free to hit me up here, in game or at my Stream http://www.twitch.tv/premiumtax


Boss Videos:

Jungle Valley
http://youtu.be/G3gIH3zKY_0

Academy
http://youtu.be/lpYB86Gqj8A

Villa
http://youtu.be/OvnFVLzEVWU

Double Graveyard:
http://youtu.be/8OQL2Lb8AME

Museum
http://youtu.be/da7Gll-i6TI?t=3m11s

Playlist with several maps:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYnV9HLH5o5wgO6zXcks3k3pD853I5dGo

Cool build and quite clever, I may try this one first in SC, but do you think it's HC viable? With all the decoy and meatshield, I think it can be viable like all semi-glassy cannon build in HC, i.e. with great care and attention.

I am currently playing on Bloodlines. (Hardcore league) so yes, it's hardcore viable. I unfortunately don't play softcore.

So it should work for everything.

Hi, cool build may I ask what you did with the bandits.

Forgot about bandits lol. Honestly.

Normal: Help oak

Cruel: Kill All

Merciless: Kill all (or help oak for endurance charge)

Awesome build. Been playing the last week and flying through leveling. I'm mostly been just relying on regular old spark 6 linked as it just plows though everything on it's on so far half way through cruel. Question with Flesh and SPirit though, at what point are you actually considered to be rampaging? I thought as long as I had a kill streak going on that would be good enough. I feel like most of the time I'm not getting 5 souls on deaths, wondering if I was missing something.

Thanks
Ater.

Going down to Heart of Oak seems a little expensive.

Neat build man.

very nice

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KiDevil wrote:

Awesome build. Been playing the last week and flying through leveling. I'm mostly been just relying on regular old spark 6 linked as it just plows though everything on it's on so far half way through cruel. Question with Flesh and SPirit though, at what point are you actually considered to be rampaging? I thought as long as I had a kill streak going on that would be good enough. I feel like most of the time I'm not getting 5 souls on deaths, wondering if I was missing something.

Thanks
Ater.

That's probably because in cruel mob packs aren't that large hence you aren't able to kill enough mobs for you to refresh your vaal spark. This shouldn't be a problem in maps. Hope I helped. :)