Soul Reaver Reave CI crit shadow Updated 2.6!! Assasin 4 Million DPS

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after rampage ended I had sold some stuff on standard and tried this build again with one of my shadows that had a respec.

currently level 86 with 9,9k ES and ~95k dps. it's kind of fun but the clear speed isn't that good (played crit split chain before this). if the new patch somehow buffs this build then I might keep playing but otherwise it doesn't make too much sense unless you really love the reave skill.
ign: YongSook

Extremely helpful uniques

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-Freeze chance and duration is based on life so being CI=1 your screwed without a remove freeze flask,Auxium,Dream fragments


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-Until you get unwavering stance this will prevent stun lock from mobs.


where do you get or farm these noob level 11 rings he posted at the beginning of the guide for leveling?
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AnalSphincter wrote:

Extremely helpful uniques

Verified
-Freeze chance and duration is based on life so being CI=1 your screwed without a remove freeze flask,Auxium,Dream fragments


Verified
-Until you get unwavering stance this will prevent stun lock from mobs.


where do you get or farm these noob level 11 rings he posted at the beginning of the guide for leveling?


u can't "farm" for a certain item in PoE. but you can buy Dream Fragments for 1 exalted in trade chat.
ign: YongSook
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ChestyPuller wrote:
Hey Atlas! First let me say, GREAT build. I am having a blast with this spec since I switched over to yours from someone elses.



On to the noob questions: (Sorry if they annoy)


Can you give me any advice as maybe take some time to check my current spec/gear and perhaps give your input and recommend specific changes? I would benefit greatly from your expertise here. I know my gear is trash in comparison but I find myself dying frequently to certain bosses ( Crematorium, and that damn Flame blasting exile). The other thing that kills me is when I see my character just standing there though i'm clicking attack like a mad man and dying due to no leech coming in. I assume this is desync or maybe I am running out of mana thought I don't see that is possible between my 4% and the auxiums 1% per PC.

Should you have the time to reply to this post (hell you wanna play as well not sit on the forums, lol) let me know what you recommend and what order of priority you would pursue what ever gear upgrades you are advising.

Thanks and sorry for the wall!


TL:DR


Am I dying due to Desync or being out of mana or is it just insane burst damage that VP/GR/Life leech cant counter?

How to avoid deaths vs crema boss, Flame Blast exile, and to a lesser extent the Academy boss depending on mods.

Can you look at my gear and recommend upgrades/change and a prioritization order to do them in?

Also am I running far too much mana leech 4% PLUS Auxium? IF so should I drop auxium and the 3 nodes in your tree (Mind drinker) and use only 2% from ring?


Crema boss is hard no matter what. When you are going in your best bet is to take 2 ruby flasks with surgeon and pop them as you hit. Your mana leech is nuts mine is only 2% and I don't have issues but I found before acuities that anything less than 8% net life leech made survivability a bit of a pain at times. If you can try and borrow or buy a death rush and give it a try it might make a huge difference. Your other stats are all good you might just be hitting some hard map mods and not using appropriate flasks. I hate the academy boss and Crema boss man and desync from their skills makes it that much worse. I hold shift to attack but having a /oos macro helps as well. Hope some of this was useful.
Also maybe test backing out a few nodes and grabbing the life leech node blood drinker?

Edit: you could also try backing out of cruelty and taking the berserking ias nodes past VP.
Also you run really offensive with those 3 quick flasks. That's ok if you have insane dps and over 11k in ES but not for your stats. I think people really under use Flasks. I would put a rumi a ruby and a lightning flask in there and get rid of the atziri flask and see how you do as well.
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Last edited by Atlas305#3834 on Nov 29, 2014, 1:38:10 PM
I haven't had any problems with Crema boss yet. The way I deal with her is that there is always 1 pack of monsters in the boss room so I quicksilver to them and get my charges up on them and then just 100 to 0 the boss. When I first started playing this reave build I tried moving around and dodging stuff but it usually makes you lose the charges and doesn't help too much.

Also bring 2 ruby flasks every time you run a Crematorium Map like said before. I bring one Dispels burning / Recharge on Crit and one with Extra Charges. That way there is no chance that you'll run out of charges while bursting her down.
ign: YongSook
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Atlas305 wrote:
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ChestyPuller wrote:
Hey Atlas! First let me say, GREAT build. I am having a blast with this spec since I switched over to yours from someone elses.



On to the noob questions: (Sorry if they annoy)


Can you give me any advice as maybe take some time to check my current spec/gear and perhaps give your input and recommend specific changes? I would benefit greatly from your expertise here. I know my gear is trash in comparison but I find myself dying frequently to certain bosses ( Crematorium, and that damn Flame blasting exile). The other thing that kills me is when I see my character just standing there though i'm clicking attack like a mad man and dying due to no leech coming in. I assume this is desync or maybe I am running out of mana thought I don't see that is possible between my 4% and the auxiums 1% per PC.

Should you have the time to reply to this post (hell you wanna play as well not sit on the forums, lol) let me know what you recommend and what order of priority you would pursue what ever gear upgrades you are advising.

Thanks and sorry for the wall!


TL:DR


Am I dying due to Desync or being out of mana or is it just insane burst damage that VP/GR/Life leech cant counter?

How to avoid deaths vs crema boss, Flame Blast exile, and to a lesser extent the Academy boss depending on mods.

Can you look at my gear and recommend upgrades/change and a prioritization order to do them in?

Also am I running far too much mana leech 4% PLUS Auxium? IF so should I drop auxium and the 3 nodes in your tree (Mind drinker) and use only 2% from ring?


Crema boss is hard no matter what. When you are going in your best bet is to take 2 ruby flasks with surgeon and pop them as you hit. Your mana leech is nuts mine is only 2% and I don't have issues but I found before acuities that anything less than 8% net life leech made survivability a bit of a pain at times. If you can try and borrow or buy a death rush and give it a try it might make a huge difference. Your other stats are all good you might just be hitting some hard map mods and not using appropriate flasks. I hate the academy boss and Crema boss man and desync from their skills makes it that much worse. I hold shift to attack but having a /oos macro helps as well. Hope some of this was useful.
Also maybe test backing out a few nodes and grabbing the life leech node blood drinker?

Edit: you could also try backing out of cruelty and taking the berserking ias nodes past VP.
Also you run really offensive with those 3 quick flasks. That's ok if you have insane dps and over 11k in ES but not for your stats. I think people really under use Flasks. I would put a rumi a ruby and a lightning flask in there and get rid of the atziri flask and see how you do as well.



What is your free mana out of curiosity? I dropped HOA for HOT due to mana. I now run, curse on hit, Assassins etc. My free mana is only 85. Wondering if thats enough and I hope it is, because getting anymore seems impossible. Tree only give like 7 mana per 6^ node
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subtiiter wrote:
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after rampage ended I had sold some stuff on standard and tried this build again with one of my shadows that had a respec.

currently level 86 with 9,9k ES and ~95k dps. it's kind of fun but the clear speed isn't that good (played crit split chain before this). if the new patch somehow buffs this build then I might keep playing but otherwise it doesn't make too much sense unless you really love the reave skill.



ofc clearspeed is slow since you are melee and cant offscreen kill everything. there is no way to fix it besides making you to teleport around with stuff like flicker :)
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Hey :)

I'm going back to my first love, the shadow reaver.

Tho, i got only 110 skills points to spend, which 9 nodes would you remove ?
ive had a look on the 1.3 tree , they nerfed ci meele and daggers
1.3 Is out on reddit https://github.com/EmmittJ/PoESkillTree/releases/tag/2.1.0

No only did this class get nerfed but they beat it to death with the nerf stick as far as crit goes.

Adders touch got nailed hard . Disembowel, is odd now to get what we had before in the tri node we have to spend 5 points in the NEW disembowel tree to still get 5% less crit than we had before. Cruelty and deadly precision have been completely removed from the game as far as I can tell.
Last edited by ChestyPuller#1566 on Dec 3, 2014, 9:00:03 PM

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