[3.0] THEORY Ele Blade Flurry. 6-13 mil VS Shaper, 6667 life

I'm a confused little camper here.. ome assistance would be great.

I have been following this guide since I started my shadow. I'm at lvl 80 atm and just did my merc lab.
Now I noticed you switched from trickster to assasin in your passive tree. But I went trickster as per your info since I started this character.

In your ascendancy info you also say the order doesn't matter, but take shadow form first.. so now I'm confused.

In the same boat actually. Should I avoid getting Atrophy if i'm Trickster?

First off... the Build is absolutly insane in clearing and just having fun, thanks for ur time setting this all up in here. But i have atm. problems with my DPS and survivability because i can get one shooted pretty easily. can you give my current gear some improvments? mainly i lack some DPS.

I´m at level 79 atm. with 8400 ES (including Discipline) with vaal discipline at 12.5k and my DPS fully buffed is like 10k





is it a real big drawback dont having an enlighten gem for herald of ash? i run discipline and hatred, with vaal discipline for more survivability in some cases

i followed the path to assassin... would you say trickster is better? because my main goal is being quiet tanky and having an real good clearspeed. Hope you can help me with some things. Cheers.

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i followed the path to assassin... would you say trickster is better? because my main goal is being quiet tanky and having an real good clearspeed. Hope you can help me with some things. Cheers.

I would say trickster wants to be better, frenzy, free movement, 20% faster attacks, and 250 Flat ES.

But you lose surplus crit and have to spend more getting crit everywhere else, you also lose the beefy poison and bleed damage for bosses, that 100% more poison and bleed is rather large when things start moving, another thing I would miss if I went trickster is the Noxious Skill Duration, it makes my Vaal Haste with an inc.duration gem more rotate-able.

If you want clear speed, use vaal haste. Also, invest your money into crafting a high attack speed dagger. 1.80~1.90aps crit chance won't matter much as an assassin unless you're using marylene's falacy.(which is an option.)

If you want tankiness, throw away whirling blades and use shield charge, it's better with fortify, plus you can throw a Power Charge on Crit gem in there for a no-brainer way of keepin' power charges up. You can also just.. not wear an abbysus, you /could/ put on a .8% life leech Crown of Eyes and swap ur life leech gem out for more melee damage.

Personally, I wouldn't drop Abyssus, it does so much for damage, lol, but you /could/ look into getting life leech jewelry/gloves. I know it's only physical damage but having a more multiplier in place of life leech increases the leech on your other items. : P

Thats the point...i can't decide from almost 100% poison,more DoT and crit or the amazing ES flat, movementspeed, free frenzys and attack speed...and jeah i can't drop the abyssus because my dps would suck real bad without it..well lets say i'm "tanky" enough now, i will get with few levels more 10k ES and that should keep me in the most cases pretty safe.

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xFL0W wrote:

First off... the Build is absolutly insane in clearing and just having fun, thanks for ur time setting this all up in here. But i have atm. problems with my DPS and survivability because i can get one shooted pretty easily. can you give my current gear some improvments? mainly i lack some DPS.

I´m at level 79 atm. with 8400 ES (including Discipline) with vaal discipline at 12.5k and my DPS fully buffed is like 10k

is it a real big drawback dont having an enlighten gem for herald of ash? i run discipline and hatred, with vaal discipline for more survivability in some cases

i followed the path to assassin... would you say trickster is better? because my main goal is being quiet tanky and having an real good clearspeed. Hope you can help me with some things. Cheers.

I'm rocking 5.6k ES at 75 doing high yellow maps and not really have an issue with dying so far.

Your gem set ups are awful and pretty sure that is why.

You don't have a fortify linked to your movement(shield charge is really really good for that)... that is a flat -20% damage on hits so doesn't work vs DoTs but doesn't shouldn't be killing you.

I can't see your tree but Vaal Pack with Ghost Reaver should keep your ES up most of the time.

Your CWDT is level 17, it should be no higher than lv 1 with no higher than a lv 3 immortal call. CWDT > Immortal Call > Vortex(provides a chill) is nice for defense. Having it linked to your Ice Golem is pointless since you can easily self cast it or just put Ice Golem on a dif 2link.

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Your gem set ups are awful and pretty sure that is why.

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Your CWDT is level 17, it should be no higher than lv 1 with no higher than a lv 3 immortal call. CWDT > Immortal Call > Vortex(provides a chill) is nice for defense. Having it linked to your Ice Golem is pointless since you can easily self cast it or just put Ice Golem on a dif 2link.

1. my gems are linked almost the same as hmcg020 has. The only difference is i use warlords mark with spelltotem instead of wither and ofc i lack the third aura because i dont have an lvl3/4 enlighten, everything else is the same.

2.his CWDT and Immortal Call is level 20 so i think i´m good to go with my gems linked.

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xFL0W wrote:

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Your gem set ups are awful and pretty sure that is why.

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Your CWDT is level 17, it should be no higher than lv 1 with no higher than a lv 3 immortal call. CWDT > Immortal Call > Vortex(provides a chill) is nice for defense. Having it linked to your Ice Golem is pointless since you can easily self cast it or just put Ice Golem on a dif 2link.

1. my gems are linked almost the same as hmcg020 has. The only difference is i use warlords mark with spelltotem instead of wither and ofc i lack the third aura because i dont have an lvl3/4 enlighten, everything else is the same.

2.his CWDT and Immortal Call is level 20 so i think i´m good to go with my gems linked.

Your chest is a 5link and not linked like his

You don't have shield charge linked to Fortify or your movement skill

His set up is on standard so it has a legacy piece.

Melee Damage at full life is probably the biggest dmg boost gem and you don't have it.

I just don't see how someone rocking 10k ES and solid leech is having a problem with staying alive, I'm doing fine with 5.5k ES

i use the Melee Physical Damage Support Gem. the life leech gem was just for testing inside and i forgot to put it out. my problem is still not my survivability but rather my DPS. i feel like my tooltip with 5.5k DPS is way to low and i guess it is so.

Getting a 6 link will help and Blade Furry tooltip DPS is an odd one, its similar to Flameblast. You kinda need the Melee Damage, Melee Damage on Full HP, Faster Attacks are the big dmg gems.

I'm only at 8.9k DPS(tool tip) with full Power Charges but do more dmg than my 35k+ EQ Slayer atm