[1.0.6] CI Crit Dagger Shadow (30k DPS Flicker Ninja) [OB video up!]

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Riot55 wrote:

How important is Vaal Pact? I am level 65 and just picked up CI not long ago, have Ghost Reaver, have about 3700 buffed Energy Shield and am getting about 4.5k Double Strike and 2k Lightning Strike DPS. I have Life Leech on LS and it seems to heal okay, especially with Blood Rage on, but solo is still a bit harder than party which is super easy. Will Vaal Pact make a noticeable difference in healing speed? Doesn't seem like a lot of people pick it up... is it better than going for that bonus to auras cluster on the skill tree?

hmmm early levels shouldnt pick it up because youll be going through alot of str nodes which is kinda wasted...

lvl 63 act 2 merci. i really need better ES gear and weapon >_> and i need to find a space for warlord's mark lol. oh and don't mind the crit strike on my helm. i just put it there :P

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Riot55 wrote:

How important is Vaal Pact? I am level 65 and just picked up CI not long ago, have Ghost Reaver, have about 3700 buffed Energy Shield and am getting about 4.5k Double Strike and 2k Lightning Strike DPS. I have Life Leech on LS and it seems to heal okay, especially with Blood Rage on, but solo is still a bit harder than party which is super easy. Will Vaal Pact make a noticeable difference in healing speed? Doesn't seem like a lot of people pick it up... is it better than going for that bonus to auras cluster on the skill tree?

Life leech is capped at 20% of your max health per second.

With 1000 health you will only leech 200 per second, because of that 20% cap. If your total leech from dmg is 600, you will be healed by 3 ticks of 200 health per second.

With VP you leech the whole instant.

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Focusix wrote:

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Riot55 wrote:

How important is Vaal Pact? I am level 65 and just picked up CI not long ago, have Ghost Reaver, have about 3700 buffed Energy Shield and am getting about 4.5k Double Strike and 2k Lightning Strike DPS. I have Life Leech on LS and it seems to heal okay, especially with Blood Rage on, but solo is still a bit harder than party which is super easy. Will Vaal Pact make a noticeable difference in healing speed? Doesn't seem like a lot of people pick it up... is it better than going for that bonus to auras cluster on the skill tree?

Life leech is capped at 20% of your max health per second.

With 1000 health you will only leech 200 per second, because of that 20% cap. If your total leech from dmg is 600, you will be healed by 3 ticks of 200 health per second.

With VP you leech the whole instant.

You mean, life that I would have if I wouldn't have CI?

to the point where i was so close..
I died at HC :( lvl 61
is there something wrong with sg gateway?





HP: 595
ES: 3267

oh well ima create another one..
im soo speechless right now,

Hey Invalesco, I've been working on a build since closed beta.
I first joined PoE in early december, but I work alot, so I hardly have time to play.
I might get 2 to 3 levels a week as it is right now.

My closed beta ci crit dagger shadow got wiped at lvl 33, and now i've been rebuilding
it in open beta again. When I first got into PoE, I researched what kind of character would
speak to me & suit my style best, and ever since your build of the week came up, I knew I found a build I'd enjoy & would have a ton of fun with, and it has been alot of fun.
I think this is my first post to you, so I just wanted to thank you for making such an awesome build.

As of right now my gear is:


as you can see I run 3 auras, with about 70mp left, lol. It seems low, but my mana regen is good enough that I can continuously spam LS or go flicker crazy with blood rage. I did for a while run Volls but the mana reduction was too much. I only wish my armor was fully linked so I can make my LS more powerful.

I'm level 44 as of now, and recently used several regrets to respect all the hp nodes i had.
Here's my current Skill Tree

My hp is 586 and my es is a little over 650, and I'm doing well.
so far in merciless I died only once, and I'm almost at act 2.
my double strike has dps over 550+ and flicker strike is over 600+ so I'm happy wih that.

Anyways thanks again for an awesome build. You've made PoE so much more enjoyable to me. ^^

Don't take Vaal Pact. I spent all my refund points, and sacrificed like 2k dps, to throw 8 points to Vaal Pact and shitty int-str nodes. And I didn't noticed any difference in gameplay. On double strike it's actually noticeable, when fighting single fat boss (don't have problems with them without VP too, thou), but for lightning strike against groups - it's useless.

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Vitalidze wrote:

Don't take Vaal Pact. I spent all my refund points, and sacrificed like 2k dps, to throw 8 points to Vaal Pact and shitty int-str nodes. And I didn't noticed any difference in gameplay. On double strike it's actually noticeable, when fighting single fat boss (don't have problems with them without VP too, thou), but for lightning strike against groups - it's useless.

If you find your DPS too poor at the start to make Vaal Pact worthwhile, by all means feel free to leave it for later on.

Vaal Pact is a defensive option. You'll realise later on how much reflect physical mobs can hurt your character when you crit on them. Vaal Pact will help prevent you from killing yourself from reflect when you crit, because when you crit, the amount of damage you deal will be so high such that the amount of effective ES leeched back will be >20% of your maximum ES and without VP, you won't be able to leech that amount instantly, causing the damage you take due to reflect to be > the ES you leech back.

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Invalesco wrote:

If you find your DPS too poor at the start to make Vaal Pact worthwhile, by all means feel free to leave it for later on.

Vaal Pact is a defensive option. You'll realise later on how much reflect physical mobs can hurt your character when you crit on them. Vaal Pact will help prevent you from killing yourself from reflect when you crit, because when you crit, the amount of damage you deal will be so high such that the amount of effective ES leeched back will be >20% of your maximum ES and without VP, you won't be able to leech that amount instantly, causing the damage you take due to reflect to be > the ES you leech back.

Actually, I'm pretty OK, with my DPS. What I'm looking right now, is more defensive. I understand now, that VP is against reflect. But how else can I improve my defense for now, for plain survivability? Check my stats please (youtube link on previous page) and tell me what do you think.

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ramilfish wrote:

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Vitalidze wrote:

Hello.

So I'm kinda finished building my shadow.
Made short video (with stats and gear in description): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QNCqmM2yWI

The main problem I have is pretty low survivability. I was running last two days a lot of 66-67 maps, and died too often. Today I started re-roll maps to a more secure stats, and things get better. But still, I could already be 2 lvl higher, but losing exp, stuck on 75.

So, please check video, screenshots, and give advises, how to avoid dying.

Ive seen your video and items... I think what youre lacking is Vaal Pact...

^this
ever ran in to physical reflect?
I dont know why people dont get it. If u have the dps to make it worth it, Vaal pack is awsome.
If u go in to maps with physical reflect. or anything else. u NEED it

It dosnt matter that theres better dps options. And ES nodes or resistences is more easy to understand the benefit.
If u cant leech back your es in time, your dead unless godly ES.
And if u keep running around away from enemys, or keep dying. how much good do the extra dps, ES, resistences do for u then?