[3.3] Tanky BLADE VORTEX Chieftain/800k+ Shaper DPS with Budget Gear/1.3M+++ with Endgame Gear

Hello.

Some prehistory:

After i was looking 3.2 ascendancy changes for some reason I immediately liked the Chieftain. His ascendancy talent named "Ngamahu, Flame's Advance" (70% extra fire dmg every 10s looks very awesome) bothered me every day. So i wanted use it in some build but not with Molten Strike or Tectonic slam coz I was tired from autoattackers. So i decided to create this one. Also i liked BV but never tried it, so it is reason to.

Main part:

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Leveling section:




Budget section:



Tree lvl 93

IMPORTANT NOTE:

We need some cast speed. It can be taken in tree, jewels, amulet, rings, off hand sceptre. 2,5-3 casts per second will be enough.


PoB Link [3.2 Gear]:

https://pastebin.com/ChpvDyCg

Videos 3.2:



3.3 Update:



Special thanks for help these exiles: breakingthrough, Tortunga, Kilqax

Build will be complement in the course of the league, thanks for reading.

From my experience, I haven't found any other way to leech mana from spell damage except Warlord's Mark. It's pretty bad, reserving 35% of your mana just to leech (I played it twice on BV where Blasphemy was a clear solution. Now that we have MLG rings maybe it's a better option), but at least you get the endurance charges too. And if you're life-based (which i usually wasn't because hipster genes or idk), you also get some sicc leech

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Kilqax wrote:

From my experience, I haven't found any other way to leech mana from spell damage except Warlord's Mark. It's pretty bad, reserving 35% of your mana just to leech (I played it twice on BV where Blasphemy was a clear solution. Now that we have MLG rings maybe it's a better option), but at least you get the endurance charges too. And if you're life-based (which i usually wasn't because hipster genes or idk), you also get some sicc leech

Thanks for answer. What mean MLG rings?

Oh, sorry - that was just internet slang combined with me being me.
By the rings I meant the new (way stronger than normal) shaper/elder rings which can apply ny of the different Mark curses on hit.

Such rings could mean basically 35% less mana reserved, which is huge. However, rings with just the curse cost a lot and if they are to have more useful affixes, they will be very expensive.

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Kilqax wrote:

Oh, sorry - that was just internet slang combined with me being me.
By the rings I meant the new (way stronger than normal) shaper/elder rings which can apply ny of the different Mark curses on hit.

Such rings could mean basically 35% less mana reserved, which is huge. However, rings with just the curse cost a lot and if they are to have more useful affixes, they will be very expensive.

Anyway for lategame it is good option. Thanks.

UDP 1

Tree was changed.

Was taken "Potency of WIill" for more comfortable using BV. Now duration is 7.25s (was 5s).
Was taken jewel socket near Scion start point.
Was taken "Coordination" for some cast speed. U can use this skill point for crit multi near "Doom Cast" if u have enough cast speed or for HP node.

Was canceled "Explosive impact" and "Arsonist".

I have another possible upgrade to the build: You can, these days, create a dagger even better than Divinarius for just a few chaos with the help of a few Essences of Scorn, which guarantees the Spell Crit mod at a very high value - and you can still roll affixes like Spell Damage, Fire Damage or Crit Multi and even craft some missing out of these.

This has also been the reason why all the streamers are trashing Divinarius very hard - you can get a way better dagger for cheap.

However, you do lose a little bit of AOE (10% isn't much), but I personally still see Divinarius as a good weapon: it's a 1-alch stepping stone before a Scorn dagger.

Hope this could help.

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Kilqax wrote:

I have another possible upgrade to the build: You can, these days, create a dagger even better than Divinarius for just a few chaos with the help of a few Essences of Scorn, which guarantees the Spell Crit mod at a very high value - and you can still roll affixes like Spell Damage, Fire Damage or Crit Multi and even craft some missing out of these.

This has also been the reason why all the streamers are trashing Divinarius very hard - you can get a way better dagger for cheap.

However, you do lose a little bit of AOE (10% isn't much), but I personally still see Divinarius as a good weapon: it's a 1-alch stepping stone before a Scorn dagger.

Hope this could help.

Of course Divinarius is a cheap option before good rare dagger. I prefer to buy weapons coz im bad with crafting, but maybe now ill got some information about it and will craft my own dagger. Thank you for answer.

UPD 2

Tree was changed again.

Canceled "Purity of Flesh", "Barbarism", "Juggernaut" and jewel socket near them.

Was taken "Quick recovery", "Elementalist", "Devotion" and jewel socket near them.

Compare this we have:

- 3% reduced physical dmg reduction (some less armour)
+ 8% AoE/8% ele dmg
+ 12% all elemental resists
+ 18% inreased elemental damage
+ 1 free skill point
+ some life regen.

HP pool wasnt changed.

PoB and tree links updated.

Looking good! I will try it out in SSF :)