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

Good guide.

I posted awhile back complaining the build was not what I was expecting and the OP suggested some changes.

I switched from trickster to assassin. I also picked up some new gloves, new belt, and a voidheart. I can honestly say this is one of the strongest builds I've played thus far when you have good gear. I did shaper deathless on the first try after the changes and I've done all the guardians deathless. Hydra and Chimera take a little longer due to being poison immune, but they still go down fast compared to my KingoftheForest build.

All in all this build is great, but you should be warned, it is VERY EXPENSIVE.

If anyone wants to see my setup my chars are public, MegacritFlurry.

gz i may switch to your Build when 2.6 is here
i do believe poison double dipping will .. wack

Bf may nerf a bit on some support gem
Vaal pact and es passive may rework or nerf

I just swapped from Howa to this build but I seem to be struggling to survive. Can you guys check out my gear and give me a heads up as to what I can do to improve?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1505925

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lancefooo wrote:

I just swapped from Howa to this build but I seem to be struggling to survive. Can you guys check out my gear and give me a heads up as to what I can do to improve?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1505925

Hey guys

I'm not gonna post many updates before 2.6 as there's no way to tell how much is going to change.

I've made a new passive tree that gets the 5th power charge and some extra notes, though loses es which for me is around 350 total. You can look at Priky to see the new tree.

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deadamaranth wrote:

I didn't spec much into HP nodes at all, I just toughed it out wearing HP on my gear until I had ~3k/~4k ES and then switched to CI / pure ES gear (at which point I swapped in Melee Damage on Full Life instead of Inc AOE / Inc Crit). Using Discipline helps round out the ES. I think I was ~60/~70 before I swapped to CI, it depends on your crafting luck / drop luck / if you have any gear available to help with ES. You can roll some "ok" ES gear just using Alts and Augments on magic items to help with the transition.

But don't neglect capping your resists! In my own opinion, having 75% resist all (excepting Chaos, of course), helps tremendously in survivability.

Problem is, even if i get hp on my gear, have 75% on all resists, i'll still only have around 2k hp and 800 ES with discipline, at lv 55. I even respecced nodes into hp. I either screwed something up, or this build is very hard till the point u can go full ES.
I aint a pro in poe builds, and this is my first build after a 3year break, so i'm gonna give up on this build, i really have no idea how to survive. Shame cause i really liked the blade flurry skill.

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Grimstarz wrote:

Problem is, even if i get hp on my gear, have 75% on all resists, i'll still only have around 2k hp and 800 ES with discipline, at lv 55. I even respecced nodes into hp. I either screwed something up, or this build is very hard till the point u can go full ES.
I aint a pro in poe builds, and this is my first build after a 3year break, so i'm gonna give up on this build, i really have no idea how to survive. Shame cause i really liked the blade flurry skill.

Your profile>characters are set to "private", I was going to look at your gear and tree. Honestly, though, I just toughed it out until 3.5k ES. One thing you may have noticed is a common theme in this thread is that this is not the cheapest build if you want max potential, including survivability. If you really feel like you hit a wall, and the budget variation OP posted at the bottom of his first post is not helping you, you may very well want to take a little break. I spent several exalts getting what I have now, and I'm STILL not done spending.

If you want to stick with Blade Flurry but are not necessarily looking for super DPS and instead want survivability, maybe look at another build for now:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/105920

It's an Inquisitor (Templar) that can choose to use a few different skills (Blade Flurry being the most recommended), is cheaply geared, is life-based, and focuses on capping block chance. I'm rolling one now for variety.

Per OP this thread's build doesn't really double-dip, so it probably won't be nerfed too hard in 3.0, but it does use ES, and it's possible that may be juggled a bit in upcoming balance overhauls. Man, they've been trying to balance CI since I started playing in 2012! :P

Good luck, however you go!!

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hmcg020 wrote:

I've made a new passive tree that gets the 5th power charge and some extra notes, though loses es which for me is around 350 total. You can look at Priky to see the new tree.

I checked out your new tree, interesting. I always wondered about those ES nodes around Scion as a temporary solution instead of trekking seven points westward for that +1 Lit res. Interesting. I can probably go grab the Scion nodes now/soon for an ES boost, which is helpful!

I actually just got the fifth PC. I'm max crit chance now with all charges, even after dropping Trickery node. I almost feel like I'm wasting some gear modifiers/nodes now (i.e., stocking up on crit chance I no longer need for reaching cap), but I'm not a spreadsheet warrior. Really if I can just get my ES to 10k I'll be much happier (it's a psychological thing, I guess). :)

I'm curious why you picked up a spell crit chance node, what am I not considering?

I'm very interested in seeing what 2.6/3.0 bring. I'm sure some things will change, but where and how much... I don't know.

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hmcg020 wrote:

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lancefooo wrote:

I just swapped from Howa to this build but I seem to be struggling to survive. Can you guys check out my gear and give me a heads up as to what I can do to improve?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1505925

Hey guys

I'm not gonna post many updates before 2.6 as there's no way to tell how much is going to change.

I've made a new passive tree that gets the 5th power charge and some extra notes, though loses es which for me is around 350 total. You can look at Priky to see the new tree.

I looked at your char, your abyssus is 49% increased damage taken, that's huge, get a 40% one. You also have really low life leach on your amulet and are missing a few levels.

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lancefooo wrote:

I just swapped from Howa to this build but I seem to be struggling to survive. Can you guys check out my gear and give me a heads up as to what I can do to improve?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1505925

Another thing I noticed is that you don't have a bleed removal flask. If you find yourself dying often to degen, that's why.