[2.2]Yolo flicker 2h crit poison, 3 million dps, - out dated, new build in link

Outdated, i keep this thread alive for 2.2 references

for a bit different up to date 2.3 version, see here, better with more everything :

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1674910/my-posts/1


This build is very difficult to make, because it requires a lot of corrupted items, and it will not reach full efficiency without them. Also there is margine for improvements, depending of the items used and yours resistances.


There is three variants:

- the first one has the highest dps without vinktar and cant use it
- the second one is the tankiest and can be played with vinktar, lowest dps
- the third one has the highest dps with vinktar flask, middle dps without vinktar

The skill three is the same.

If you have clicked on the thread because of the 10M+ title, there is no trick, it's doable but not viable !

Abyssus + mind fang mirrored weapon is a suicide, you will be capped resistance and can wear the gear but reflect will have your life too.

If you want to try it, look at the third variant of the build.


General idea


Physical, poison, curse, crit, two handed sword, life, evasion, dodge, assassin.

Warning, wall of text



To make it short


- First variant damage per crit strike and dps

9 frenzy, shock, vulne, assa mark, poison, crit + Potions buff + unholy might + blood rage

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484 583 average damage with one CRITICAL strike.

The dps without crit is 772 690

The dps with crit counted is 2 998 035

3 million dps

- Third variant dps

9 frenzy, shock, vulne, assa mark, poison, crit + Potions buff + unholy might + blood rage
AND temporal chain

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Without shock: 2 152 637 dps

Let's add Vessel of vinktar.

with shock: 4 465 251 dps

For the epeen experiment, with abyssus that is too suicidal for the build

With shock + abyssus: 6 100 000
With shock + abyssus + mirrored mind fang sword: 10 700 000

^ In thoses numbers, the accuracy is not counted, dps can be reduced by 8% to 11% depending of the variant.

^ With ambush and assassinate nodes, the crit chance is capped at 95% on full life and low life. I havent counted them! The real dps is VERY higher, depending of the maximum life of the target.


Concept

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9 Frenzy: 36% More on initial damage, 36% on poison.
Shock: 50% More on initial damage, 50% on poison.
Vulnerability: 25% More phys damage, 33% on poison.
Assassin's mark: Extra crit multiplier and crit chance.

For the 2nd and 3rd variants, Temporal chain: 40% More poison duration

Potions for more multipliers and double dipping flask effects with atziri's promise scaling on elemental damage, granting chaos damage and poison damage in the end.

= Poison ultra dip to the infinity and beyond.


Tree

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAYBAAHcAhEDJwUtBbUGIAZwBqIIsQmWES8UIBR1Fr8XsBfcGNshYCM2I_Yk_SaVLIUuIy5TMHEwfDWSNj031DkOOkI-zz_8QKBEnkTSR35Ki0t4TI5Nkk3jTp9QR1FHUxBTu1VLVYVW-loaXkVfP2HiYqxlTWqMbIxvO3BSdKB07XTxdf1313fjeA14enloen96738rhG-EooTZhO-HaonTjDaNfY2_kvOTmZd5naqi2aPnpcupJ6luqZSw2LTFtUi18ruevTa95r6nwBrBBMLsyBTTb9Qj1ELUUti92sHdqORR51ToZutj7T_vDvVv-uv-j__e

- Inspired learning jewel to get monster buffs.
- Malicious intent jewel, 30% of physical as extra chaos damage.
- A rare jewel to complete yours stats: resistances, stats, life or damage/crit mult.


Bandit quest

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normal: oak or kill all
cruel: oak or kill all, kraityn is a decent choice too.
merciless: kraityn for the frenzy charge

To kill them all grant two extra skill points. It's easier to customize the build.
And two extra points is an equivalent of 10% increased hp.

First variant, great dps and self done shock


Here we shock with three dragon + added fire damage because it's safier and it doesnt reduce physical/chaos damage on contrary of physical to lightning.

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if you cant get mana leech on gear, you will need one node in the mana leech cluster of the ranger area

Corrupted items with vulnerability and extra frenzy charges are NEEDED to reach the full effect. Especially vulnerability. The scaling of the damage cant be done without thoses items, the build is still viable but not insane.


Blasphemy vulnerability 20/20 against curse on hit vulnerability:




Recap for the first variant:

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Offensive:
- 9 frenzy charges
- 92% chance to hit
- 55.2% crit chance with 3 power charges, 9% chance for the target to receive a crit= 64%
- assassin ambush + assassinate = 100% crit chance on first strike & last ones
- Dual curse vulnerability & assassin's mark
- Fire shocks
- Poison ultra dip to the infinity and beyond
- Always one shot packs, always crit on first hit, always shock on first hit
- Destroy bosses like no tomorrow.

Defensive:
- 4400 hp
- 13.4% life regen
- 32% eva
- 46% dodge
- 30% spell dodge
- can use kaom's heart instead ,5400 hp but reflect is ultra dangerous with this setup.
- arctic armour or grace if you have enlighten 4


Flexible:

- Can swap flicker for viper strike and use faster attack instead of poison support = Insane monotarget dps when fully charged, can also swap melee splash for WED or similar (void manipulation requires a recolor of the sockets).

- Reload frenzy charge when needed with quillrain bow + frenzy

DO NOT USE PHYSICAL TO LIGHTNING SUPPORT !! it will reduce the physical damage then the poison.

The n(d)umb0rZ for the first variant:

Screenshot


The ingame tooltip numbers are inaccurate, they do not take into account the 100% crit on first hit and the 100% crits on low life, nor the curses nor poison nor shock and they are based on the 54% crit chance.

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13 682 dmg tooltip with golem
21 958 full charges & golem

48 815 damage on the tooltip with potions and Malicious Intent jewel which gives unholy might, full charges, golem


aps : 7.75
aps with vaal haste: 8.77

raw "tooltip" dps with potions + vaal haste = 428 107

First variant REAL DAMAGE AFTER ALL THE HIDDEN MULTS \o/







Second variant, the safier one

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- 4500 hp, 40% dodge, 30% spell dodge, 46% evasion

- The key item is asenath' corrupted vulnerability + enfeeble blasphemy. Temporal chain plus enfeeble. We throw away fire damage and shock for fortify.

- Temporal chain increases the poison duration by 40%, acting as a "more" multiplier while slowing down monsters.

- Fortify in the main link to have it constantly enabled.

- Chill + Temporal chain + Enfeeble + Fortify + Artic armour + taste of hate and 46% evasion 40% dodge 30% spell dodge grant great survivability against everything.

- The dps is still enough to rape t13 bosses in 4 seconds. I have done twined bosses village ruin (4 bosses) without problems using the 9 frenzy charges.

- But the critical strike chance is very low. 70% against full life / low life monsters and 35% otherwise. The gain in survability is real.

- CWDT + Blade vortex + power charge on critical strike + blind grants crit chances and survivability, however the power charges aren't permanent.

Without shock and the loss of crit mults/crit chances & fire damage, i expect the dps to be around 1 million, i haven't done the maths.


A third variant, less dps than the first, less survivability than the second, but insane scaling with Vessel of vinktar

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It's the second version with Assassin's mark instead of enfeeble, and void manipulation instead of fortify as shown here:

On the weapon and on the gloves, two gems swap make an insane difference for the dps, the gear is the same.

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48.4% crit chance with 3 power charges + 9% from assassin's mark.

It uses vessel of vinktaar flask to shock. The dps will skyrocket because of void manipulation 39% more chaos plus temporal chain 40% "more" duration.

vessel shocks yourself too so fairgrave's tricorne is great

Thoo you can also use a quick silver flask with "cannot be shocked"

Damage of the third version:

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The dps with assassin's mark + temporal chain + vulne + 9 frenzy + 3 power charges + unholy might + vaal haste +taste of hate + lion's roar + atziri's promise



2 152 637 dps over 3.64 seconds! Without shock!


With a vessel of vinktar shock: 4 465 251 over 3.64 seconds

Because shock double dip on the strike then on poison, the damage is increased by far more than 50%.



And for the lulz, with Abyssus 212% crit mult + vinktar

A minimum of 6 099 586


I havent counted the extra 40-60 physical damage!
So the dps is higher by 13 % more or less.

However, abyssus is not viable for this build. Too much reflected damage and no way to reduce the physical damage taken.

Also, keep in mind, thoses numbers do not have the accuracy reduction calculated.
The accuracy is 92% without abyssus and 89% with abyssus.
We lose 8% dps with the normal hat or 11% with abyssus

Thoses numbers do not have ambush and assassinate nodes counted too so the real dps is higher anyway.

For the lulz again, the mirrored Mind fang exquisite blade has 837.13 dps. My sword has 477.5.

With a mirrored sword + abyssus + vinktar we reach 10 700 000 dps!

Math for this third version, without and with vinktar' shock,

with assassin's mark + temporal chain + vulne + 9 frenzy + 3 power charges + potions + unholy might + vaal haste



Also this build can be played

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- with the goddess unleashed > swap Added fire with Weapon elemental damage, can also use abyssus + vinktar for maximum effect because the fire damage is relatively low on goddess and it will not shock bosses.

- or a One handed rapier with insane Damage is doable too.

- With atziri's disfavour Earthquake instead of flicker

Thoses possibilities require some small modifications in the tree and they are viable

Here is what i believe to be a way smoother and stronger tree (at least dps wise). And go for assassin, youll get 95% crit chance.



Assassin is -> Deadly Infusion, Unstable Infusion + Ambush.

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You can also change the tree to be a bit safer, like this and probably still be crit capped, with the option of using any weapon. (1hand, 2hand, staff, whatever)

i'm losing 13% life regen but get vaal pact. It's not even a choice, 13% regen is safier and can use atziri's acuity/ vinktar flask.

i'm losing 140% poison damage, it's a freakin fukin lot a bit more than 1/3 of my poison damage, so let's say 1/5 of my total damage

i'm losing an insane amount of %increased physical, losing so much that it's too long to count.

i'm losing inspired learning jewel socket too, this alone is a desesperate move.

i'm losing an insane amount of accuracy, i will enjoy the 85% chance to hit.

i'm losing evasion.

i'm losing attack speed.

i lose a frenzy charge. (more damage)

i gain two power charges (maybe 100% crit chance with ascendancy?) and 5% extra chaos damage...

Why do you take ambush with deadly infusion, WTF?! 200% crit chance is useless D:


Sorry, dps wise it's a disaster, make yours maths and you will see.
efficiency per point spent is a disaster too.


I use Ambush and assassinate BECAUSE it kills packs in one hit without a lot of crit, it gives culling strike too.

I dont need 95% crit chance, i need one shots with 100% crit chance on first hit for packs and decent crits between "not full life and low life" against bosses. With the high amount of damage per strike, it's fine with 64% crit, especially with the low AS. It's what i have and it doesnt need more.

In fact, it needs only 50% crit chance, more is not necessary for this setup, it doesnt hurt but doesnt help to clean map and only very few bosses with over 5 000 000 <- (haha)life would make a difference.

Shameless Bump plus added a tankier version.

Hi,

thanks for sharing

Can you add bandit choises?

oh ya, i forgot!

so for the bandit :

normal: oak or kill all
cruel : oak or kill all, kraityn is a decent choice too.
merciless : kraityn for the frenzy charge

We can get either 40 hp + 16 % phys or an equivalent of 10% increased hp in the skill tree. It also depends of your actual level and when you plan to stop the leveling.

The easiest is to pick the extra skill points by killing bandits because it offers better customization. Thoo the frenzy charge is needed to scale hit damage and poison, also it grants an extra flicker against monsters with a lot of hp.

I added a lot of informations, rewritten some parts and re organized the "guide" to make it easier to read.

Yo!

The Crit/ Crit Multi is already calculated in the AVG. Damage

So no need to calculate Crit. Multi a Second Time ;)

No it's not ( well yes it is but i havent used the same numbers). I have used the average base damage of the skill and not the average damage of the tooltip.

By base damage, i refer to the numbers under the top part of the tooltip, thoses damages arent modified by crit/crit mult, aps and accuracy. I have tested it by removing maligaro gloves, they do not change. However they change with flat damage and %increased/more.

If I had used the tooltip average damage of flicker, i would mess up the calculation completely because vulnerability doesnt scale chaos and elemental damage.

I havent shown my calculation but you can take thoses numbers, multiply them by vulnerability, shock, calculate elemental and chaos damage separatly because they arent boosted by vulnerability, then calculate poison ( phys + chaos) modified by frenzy vulne and shock again. Then scale the result with crit and aps.

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the base damage without crit/mult aps & accuracy :

4863-8480 phys = 6671.5 average
13-179 lightning = 96 avg
2259-3933 fire = 3096 avg
1512-2536 cold = 2024 avg
4227-7417 chaos = 5822


phys is boosted by vulne 25% more = 8339.75 then by 50% shock = 12 509
let's stack all elemental damage, 5216, then shock: 7824
chaos 5822*1.5 = 8733


total 29 066

Poison damage based on 21 242 damage with all increased, shock, duration vulne frenzy

increased 38+76+180= 294
2 seconds and 30% duration

59 040

I have done a mistake previously, i have counted frenzy charges on top of the tooltip damage. So my numbers are off, thank you man, imma redo all this crap. I'm such a dick head, maths have never been my forte. So more or less, the previous numbers were wrong by 36% (and more because of the poison scaling) , it's a lot :D

i correct all of this crap asap.

It's now corrected.