Lv96 Poutsos' Flicker Nuke - Outdated

Hm, I think the difference is I went through the 2% mana leech path instead of grabbing the power charge. with those nodes and the 4 aura resevres, I had about 96 mana left with flick costing around 88 I think( no other mana on gear). With another 4% reserve, I was at 150 Mana left unreserved, which is morre than fine with acuitys on. Hell even 90 mana was fine, just whirling blades on no mana regen was an issue.

Could you explain what the reasoning behind the projectile damage/sniper node at the start of the tree instead of 1 handed?

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Sidashley wrote:

Could you explain what the reasoning behind the projectile damage/sniper node at the start of the tree instead of 1 handed?

You mean on the standard league core builds, right? Yeah no reason at all, it was a mistake, thanks for noticing.

For anyone struggling a bit with this build who can't afford Acuity's I have just started toying around with the Bloodseeker paw instead. Same skill tree except you go for claw nodes over dagger ones. I am getting alot less DPS. Only around 30k but my survivability is INSANE. I am actually not sure if I can die.

Hi Poutsos,

here is my final version of the lvl 100 Flicker Striker. I managed to use herald of ash but had to remove the dual curse setup. I mirrored 2 more rings and swapped windscream for rainbowstride. Due to the patch I gained 1 frenzy charge (6 in total) and some damage, but lost some ES.

You can find my final tree and gem stetup in the in the spoilers below.

Thx again Poutsos. Great Build. Great Guide. Great Fun.

How does this build work with Bino's ?

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returnofsnow wrote:

How does this build work with Bino's ?

Pretty good. Better than most Crit builds, because this build does not benefit from high attack speed.

PASTA777 - Gz again man, and glad you rally enjoyed the character.


I should also mention that i will propably not update this build any further, at least until the new skill tree rebalance, beause i do not play PoE anymore. I might get back to it someday, but i don't know. Also seeing the hate that still exists towards daggers, i have a feeling that these 3 months league will be the end of an era. On new rebalance, i strongly beleive that they will either nerf slightly dagger and buff other melee weapons, or nerf the hell out of daggers and maybe buff alittle other weapons. Unfortunately i see the second one happening.

I always thought of making a frenzy/flicker shadow, that had CI and Ghost Reaver.

Never took serious thought until the recent patch, when I got a passive tree reset on my shadow. Your guide helped a lot actually.It's insanely fun, but after 20 mins of careful playing, I tend to RIP. After I've checked everyone's gear, I've come to the following conclusion: you guys have insane gear.

Compare it to mine:


I'm not doing enough damage so I refunded Vaal Pact, so I can actually get some leech. If I'm lucky, after extensive flickering the mobs won't hit me and the ES will refill on its own. The moment I stop flickering it's RIP. Only lvl 62 now, but I seriously can't level further due to extensive RIP-ing. Still fun gameplay though. Might have to work a bit to get better gear, and then come back to this.

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ata wrote:

I always thought of making a frenzy/flicker shadow, that had CI and Ghost Reaver.

Never took serious thought until the recent patch, when I got a passive tree reset on my shadow. Your guide helped a lot actually.It's insanely fun, but after 20 mins of careful playing, I tend to RIP. After I've checked everyone's gear, I've come to the following conclusion: you guys have insane gear.

Compare it to mine:

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I'm not doing enough damage so I refunded Vaal Pact, so I can actually get some leech. If I'm lucky, after extensive flickering the mobs won't hit me and the ES will refill on its own. The moment I stop flickering it's RIP. Only lvl 62 now, but I seriously can't level further due to extensive RIP-ing. Still fun gameplay though. Might have to work a bit to get better gear, and then come back to this.

Yeah man your items, your level and the level of your gems are not suitable for flickering. You do not even have a 5L. I also think that 62 is way tooo soon to respec in CI. Anyway, double strike will work much better with your gear/level, but still, at least a 5L is pretty much required. CI Crit builds in general are very expensive, with flicker being even more gear depended. Sucks but that;s the way it is. The only thing you can do at this point is to try to level with double strike at least to 75, and improve your gear, mainly your dagger, as well as getting a 5L.

Hi Poutsos,

Care to explain why you made rampage tree build with S&D and a normal skilltree with/without acuity? I have auxium, i have S&D but I absolutely hate my stunnecklace. Why shouldn't I specc to your normal specc that allows me to get unwavering stance? Been pondering about it for a while now. I can still reach vaal pact that way.

The problem why I wouldn't do it is that I have a total more crit, alot more physical damage but I lack some multiplier. I'm not the theorycrafter to decide what gives more dps.. I can also get a DPS necklace now. With my tree I also have more ES.

Help me! ;)

Regards,

FEGAN

PS: If you can take a look at my gear. My first upgrade will be another helmet (to get accuracy), afterwards it's abit of a mess. Kinda glad I managed to get this far in a new league with no currency to back upon. I've never played another build, but I used to play LS as mainskill, it's the first time I'm putting FS in my chest. Cheers!

My current gear


My current tree