[Guide] Low Life / Windripper / Split Arrow / Level 99 / Updated 1.2

I thought you was running a 40% and a 60% on life or did i miss something?

If you don't have atziri gloves I assume you would take vaal pact?

dead?

you need The Vertex to run 2 auras on life

We will run 2x on Life but not 2x 60%. 1x 60% and 1x 40%. So we can activate Blood Rage with Blood Magic gem again and buff the attack speed. I will upload a passive tree when the patch got released and Gem Setup.
Lets see how this work after the nerf.

I plan on running 2 x 60% on life using the Vertex, level 21 BM and lvl 21 reduced mana.

This way all my auras get boosted +1 level (as i have +1 gems on boots also) which I think will make a sizeable difference considering the new tree gives us over 100% more elemental damage we didn't have before patch.

The vertex is also very nice ES/Evasion which suits this build nicely.

We won't miss the mana leech from CoE either looking at that mana gained on hit passive, which will be instant mana also for those without Acuity. (Especially with chain split arrow).

What do you think?

does vertex reduce aura reservation? or are we using it for +1 gems only? can we get 2 60% with a vertex?

Im not sure about The Vertex. But i think Alphas Howl could be a nice thing. +2 Level to aura gem, 8% reduced mana reservation (from all sources) and less chance to be chilled and you cannot be frozen. But i dont know if the less mana reservation works with blood magic gem. And it has no ES, but in the new tree, they add some flat ES in the ES nodes, perhaps this help us

The 50% reduced mana is useless on Vertex but you can run 2 x 60% auras still with the right gems.

Alpha's howl would be ideal but with 0 ES i think we'd be struggling to make that up even with the new tree. In my new spec I pick up roughly the same amount of ES% and like 30 flat?

Updated for 1.2, we got destroyed thats it guys :(
The crown only nerf was ok but anger + wrath + aura nodes. thats too much guys.