[2.1 DoubleTrouble] Aims' Blade Vortex : 300+K DPS : >5K life Atziri EZ Cheap : Hybrid Option added

My dps isn't coming out how I've been hoping it would. I got tips to change rings and amulet, and I did...am I missing out on important dps items other than a 6L and a GG dagger to replace the claw? I'm matching my gear up to OP's, and my dps is getting cut less than half...





I can only run hatred and warlord's mark because of my reserved mana. This is really frustrating.

he has two massive support gems for this skill, added fire and conc effect, where as you do not. you should run conc effect rather than inc aoe.

i'd also run warlord's mark on curse on hit with another blade vortex. plus you have blood magic linked to everything anyway so why not reserve 100% of your mana? use anger too, or herald of ash and herald of ice.


i personally don't know how people can run this skill without all of the duration nodes and inc duration linked - it seems so horrible without them.

The dagger is a BIG deal compared to Cybil's, and cast speed on jewelery would help a lot. The +damage to attacks on your rings isn't doing anything for blade vortex by the way.

I suppose I'll post my setup now that I'm kinda "done" with this build in Talisman. I didn't get to the point of having all the auras but this was the setup I liked best with what I had.



Got pretty lucky with a lot of the rares I bought, all quite high quality. Got the dagger without multimod for 2ex, so 4ex total for that. Amulet 1ex, all the other rares were in the 10-30c range. Took about 600~fus for 6L on the carcass.

Passive skill tree build @ Level 92

I ended up taking my points out of added power charges in the tree, picking up things like Heartseeker instead, finding crit multi to be far more DPS. Still, I found it worth keeping CWDT Lvl1+Power Charge on Crit+Blade Vortex in one of my daggers, 3 power charges give far more dps than a golem.

Then for the auras, I stuck with Blasphemy Warlord's Mark the whole time, as I didn't really find any other method of applying it as consistent. Since I don't have a level 4 enlighten or any aura nodes, I was only running Hatred OR Herald of Ash along side it.

Which leads me to my next choice, I'm not running Blood Magic. Since I'm not reserving 100% of my mana, nor using a Voll's, I actually preferred to run Increased Duration and cast my Blade Vortex with Mana. I have 190 mana unreserved, which while leeching from mobs with warlord's easily stays full 100% of the time. The only issue is when you want to pre stack a lot of blades before a boss, so I just carry a single mana potion to do that. I was using this before I got the 6L, and I still much prefer it now to gain increased duration.

Also as I said earlier, you could just run Herald of Ash instead of Hatred and have a much larger mana pool to stack blades with, at the loss of 1000~ish tooltip DPS for me, which is a lot less than giving up Added Fire Damage in the 6L for Blood Magic.

Other than that its all pretty self explanatory. Vaal Grace and Haste, Abyssal Cry, standard Whirling Blades and CWDT setups.

I did mess around with Blood Rage for a while, the extra attack speed on whirling blades is nice, and the frenzy charges add a good chunk of damage, I mostly stopped using it because I had to keep using potions when I got a gap between packs and got down to half health, and one time I didn't potion and whirled into a pack of otherworldly dudes that one-shot me from 60% health, then I got annoyed and ditched it. Totally a viable option though.

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In the end it easily shreds top tier maps. Outside of maybe Deresso, Kaom and Malachai tier 15's, every other boss dies before Vaal Grace ends if you prebuff 50 blades with this kind of damage. Unless you get unlucky and don't avoid, but it is still an evasion build after all.

ya im starting to notice just how massively important the daggers are. its so important to get daggers with spell damage on them. added elemental damage to spells is gravy but it gives SOO much more damage.

i've scraped my apep's rage's for dual daggers since its much higher damage per hit. apep's rage is more tuned towards cast speed and keeping a high number of blades up at one time. daggers have too much benefit with crit however. with elemental status effects, stuns, surgeon flasks, and leech, you can't not go crit.

you'll have much higher damage per hit per blade, but usually cannot sustain as many blades. i find the best way to overcome this is to run both vaal clarity and vaal haste. you can pop both at any time (they charge up very quickly with a legacy chill of corruption) and precast 40-50 blades.
with my setup i can sustain 50 blades if im constantly casting, but they drop off about half a second or one second after i stop casting. walk into a boss with 40 blades up and recover the others quickly after, no biggie.

cast speed anywhere you can grab it does MASSIVELY help because of the MORE modifier from spell echo. meaning 4 cast speed actually grants you almost 7! keep that in mind.

What gem should I drop from the BV setup if I don't want to sell my soul for a 6link Voll's?

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Yuxakii wrote:

What gem should I drop from the BV setup if I don't want to sell my soul for a 6link Voll's?

what gems are you currently using?

if you want DPS with BV, all 5 link setups should have blade vortex, inc duration, spell echo, conc effect and controlled destruction.

6th links are whatever you want them to be. PCoC, added fire, phys to lightning, crit multi, poison. doesn't really matter.

Will you update this build for ascendancy? What subclass will you pick?

hows this build now with the nerfs :/