Undying Bladefall [2.2 Update]

Jewels: 1x Conqueror's Potency, 1x Conqueror's Efficiency, 1x Energy from Within, 1x Rare with ES and damage

L86 Ranger Tree

Stats are 7.8k ES, 43k damage with flasks/buffs and increased AoE (6L using L19 gems)

Offense: 288k tooltip with 5PC, 4FC, conc effect and Taste of Hate. 355k with vaal haste. 210k with vaal haste and inc aoe. 1.66M tooltip with RF, Atziri's Promise and Vaal Haste. Real DPS is Tooltip x1.15 (poison from consuming dark) x1.5 (shock from Vinktar). So 288k TT is actually 496k DPS. After factoring resists + assassin's mark, real world DPS is right around 500k per hit, so 1M-1.5M DPS against most larger hitbox bosses.

Defense: 8042 ES, and with perma flasks: 88 allres, 39% phys taken as cold, 4.5k armor, 75 block, 74 spell block.

In Yolo mode DPS is 355k with consuming dark (no vaal haste) and 6.7k ES.

T12
Village Ruin boss (vulnerability curse immune)
Village Ruin boss? (2boss extra cold)
Arsenal Haast Fights (-Max, Enfeeble, 72% monster life, beyond)

T14
Vaal Temple (temp chain, phys red)
Palace Dom (temp chain, vuln, extra fire)

T15
Core malachai runs away (2p with DukeLBH)

Core Malachai (easy mods)
Core (176q 30p map)
Colosseum Daresso (2p health, temp chain, monster dmg, monster crit/multi)

Unique
Uber on Talisman HC by WhiteShark using the low budget CI variant of the build.

Alluring Abyss aka Uber 9m59s deathless full clear
Hall of Grandmasters 5m49s deathless fullclear
Hall of Grandmasters 6m29s deathless fullclear
Hall of Grandmasters 7m16s deathless fullclear
Vinktar Square

Crazy Mods
Double Reflect (L79 Overgrown Ruin)
No leech, No regen, 18% ele reflect (L79 Village Ruin)

2.2 Tree

Krait/Passive or Alira/Alira or Krait

4 Jewels:
1x Energy from Within below Melding
3x Incr Energy Shield + Damage

Notice we don't take stun immunity, just a lot of stun avoidance. This is enough to kill core malachai, but you have to watch out for heavy damage bosses (eg an enraged Gnarr) in temp chain maps, where the stuns you do take will last longer.

Arcane vision is a mandatory 3pt tax. It's really impossible to play this build safely without it. It could be unspeced for fights like Alluring Abyss though.

Shadow - Assassin - Deadly Infusion + Toxic Delivery

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Perrydtf wrote:

I'm running Unstable Infusion and Toxic delivery because I personally one shot any mob with any health anyway except for bosses so the initial hit from Ambush doesn't seem worth it to me. For non uber runs Ambush would probably be stronger then Toxic Delivery though.

Shadow - Assassin - Ambush + Deadly Infusion
Ambush allows us to 1shot most regular mobs while deadly infusion lets us generate PCs and have high sustained damage against tougher mobs.

Witch - Occultist - Malediction + Forbidden Power
Extra Curse, PC generation, 10% explode on death, and a weird non-chaos as chaos added mechanic.

Shadow - Assassin - Assassinate + Unstable Infusion
When enemies are on full life and below 35% we have 100% more crit chance. In the midrange we don't have the additional crit chance so we generate PCs with unstable infusion. We also have culling strike so that's like 9-11% more damage.

Scion - Assassin + Raider
Generate PCs thru assassin & FCs thru raider. We also phase & onslaught at full FCs.

Scion - Assassin + Pathfinder
Free PCs and even more flask charges. Honestly it seems like overkill on the flask charges in this spec.

Scion - Assassin + Juggernaught
A potential way to generate ECs, and grant ourselves stun immunity, but the EC is 10% on hit. We usually don't get hit because we block, so it may not be worth it.

Duelist - Gladiator - Versatile Combatant - Violent Retaliation
Cap block without Rumi or Lazhwar. Use Atziri + Rare amu for DPS.

Marauder - Juggernaught - Unbreakable + Unrelenting
Stun immunity, and reduced elemental damage taken per EC. This would be like a more multiplier on our HP against all damage thanks to taste of hate.

The most important part of this build. Vinktar's gives 12-20% (depending on whether I'm using the conversion or penetration one) instant leech. Both life and mana, so it sustains our skill cost as well as our reheal. Taste of hate gives great mitigation as well as great damage. The grounding flask caps our fire res and dispells shocks from Vinktar. Rumi puts my block at 75/74.


Shavs is required IMO. Before shavs I'd play life/es or CI with a 5L 500ish ES chest. Lorica is trashy and hard to chrom. This is my old setup, I don't use P2L any more. Empower/added fire is a better 6L than P2L.


Gloves/Helm are there for ES.

Option 1:

Spell damage on the dagger is better than adds x-y to spells since I mostly take phys damage on tree. The base dagger APS doesn't affect whirling blades, but the local %inc atk speed does, go figure.


Caster rings are meh so I use Loris for nice res, chres, and about 6% more ES. I also use Ming's for that sweet DPS boost and chaos res. Shavs + 28% chaos + over 7k ES basically makes me immune to chaos.

Option 2:

Despite a 10% lower tooltip than the above, this gives 15% more damage overall thanks to poison and the fact that chaos resists are typically 15% whereas elemental resists are 30%.


The belt needs 16%-20% reduced flask charges used to make it so that taste of hate & co only consume 20 charges per use.


My spellblock setup, this gives me 75/74 block, 8.2k ES, 215k DPS.

A alternative setup is:

This gives 71/75 block, 7.9k ES,, 220k DPS.

I used the rathpith/rare amu setup for a long time because it's much cheaper, and it's hard to beat with a rare shield. My rare shield cost me 2.5ex, and I exalted the 47 int myself. It's probably worth 10-15ex now.

Blade Fall - Spell Echo - Faster Casting - Added Fire / Empower - Controlled Destruction - Inc AoE / Conc Effect
AoE gems are last priority. I like conc effect in high DPS parties, and inc aoe the rest of the time.

Blood Magic (21) - Discipline - Arctic Armor | Hatred
You could also do Blood Magic (17) - Enlighten (2) - Discipline - Arctic Armor. Hatred is not linked to the blood magic.

Herald of Thunder - Curse on Hit - Assassin's Mark - Poacher's Mark
HoT is always working thanks to Vinktar. Poacher's gives flask and frenzy charges.

CWDT L1 - Immortall Call L3 - Warlord's Mark L5 - Tempest Shield L7
This is what saves us from phys/ele ref maps when we forget to flask. Paid two deaths to realize this is necessary if going for 95+. The reason is going for high levels you have to play somewhat carelessly so you can't expect perfect flask uptime.

Or you can replace warlord's with increased duration.

Or you can just use sibyls + p2l for physref maps and get vaal haste + increased duration.

Whirling Blades - Faster Attacks - Fortify
Gotta move fast to clear fast. FA could be replaced with culling strike for tough bosses.

Lightning Warp| Herald of Ash | Summon Fire Golem
Stick them in somewhere. In theory HoA+AA could be replaced with Wrath, but I haven't tested it.

This setup is only meant to be used for leveling L96-L100. Before L96 you can't even really spec this tree. What changed? We get 3 curse and run Warlord's mark on Blasphemy instead of arctic armor, as well as a CWDT-Dur-IC. The purpose of this is that it protects us from phys reflect, and can give us an extra 2 seconds to manage corrupted blood / bonespire. Warlord's is on blasphemy because it's the most important curse in order to protect us from reflect (more important than Assassin's or Poacher's).

The purpose of this variant is to minimize deaths to certain annoying mechanics that the base variant can die to:
1) phys reflect if you forget to use flasks
2) ele reflect if you forget to use flasks
3) corrupted bloodline
4) bonespire

Gear:


Tree:
L99
For L96 I would take out one of the spell crit clusters. For L97 and L98 I would put those points into spell damage.

You can play this build as soon as you have a Vinktar flask and a 5L ES chest with about 500 ES (easy to craft one yourself ~ 200 alts + 10regal&scour). You can also play before getting a Vinktar flask but it will feel *bad to play* because you'll have trouble with mana and no good source of life leech.

L90ish Passives

Use consuming dark, pyre, rathpith, rainbowstride and doedre ring.

Bladefall - Spell Echo - Faster Casting - Controlled Destruction - Added Fire - (Conc/Inc AoE)

For auras just skip HoA and AA. I.e. use Disc - Hatred - HoT curse on hit.