[2.4] "The Lawn Mower™" God Tier Blade Vortex / UBER & SHAPER deathless / with video! Atlas Ready!

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JakeAlmighty wrote:

if only 3 sockets in weapon are available (all the rest are taken up by auras, and 6l is obv BV) -



Whirling Blades + FA is two of them.


3rd slot could be -

Fortify

Vaal Haste

Ice Golem (may not be necessary on Assassin)

???





so yes there is no room at all for Immortal Call or anything at all, so Fortify might be the best plan to be safer? In this proposed setup one of the Heralds can also be swapped out at will for Arctic Armor to help mitigate physical damage (and fire) as CwDT + IC is absent.


thoughts?

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prfct1on wrote:

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JakeAlmighty wrote:

if only 3 sockets in weapon are available (all the rest are taken up by auras, and 6l is obv BV) -



Whirling Blades + FA is two of them.


3rd slot could be -

Fortify

Vaal Haste

Ice Golem (may not be necessary on Assassin)

???





so yes there is no room at all for Immortal Call or anything at all, so Fortify might be the best plan to be safer? In this proposed setup one of the Heralds can also be swapped out at will for Arctic Armor to help mitigate physical damage (and fire) as CwDT + IC is absent.


thoughts?

In testing without cwdt + ic, I pop myself to reflect, and it makes atziri's built in reflect a bitch. You need VP + lifeleech to bypass her main reflect. Mob phys reflect, I've seen it one shot people using BV and no IC. It absorbs that initial phys burst, super important IMO.

Your results may very. If you're sure about dropping it and only have one slot left, Fortify IMO makes the most sense. Vaal haste is a very close second, as it helps with both casting, and double dips with shield charge for a noticeable clear speed buff.

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JakeAlmighty wrote:

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prfct1on wrote:

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JakeAlmighty wrote:

if only 3 sockets in weapon are available (all the rest are taken up by auras, and 6l is obv BV) -



Whirling Blades + FA is two of them.


3rd slot could be -

Fortify

Vaal Haste

Ice Golem (may not be necessary on Assassin)

???





so yes there is no room at all for Immortal Call or anything at all, so Fortify might be the best plan to be safer? In this proposed setup one of the Heralds can also be swapped out at will for Arctic Armor to help mitigate physical damage (and fire) as CwDT + IC is absent.


thoughts?

In testing without cwdt + ic, I pop myself to reflect, and it makes atziri's built in reflect a bitch. You need VP + lifeleech to bypass her main reflect. Mob phys reflect, I've seen it one shot people using BV and no IC. It absorbs that initial phys burst, super important IMO.

Your results may very. If you're sure about dropping it and only have one slot left, Fortify IMO makes the most sense. Vaal haste is a very close second, as it helps with both casting, and double dips with shield charge for a noticeable clear speed buff.

I will have to test vs the reflect scenarios you mentioned. Increased elemental damage from more heralds may help balance out versus the phys? Not sure if it gets close enough to survive.

Still haven't decided on a final setup, but here is a proposed, rather "all in" one. (that simply crams as much stuff into reservation as possible, making some sacrifices to do so) I had originally abandoned the idea of wearing Heretic's Veil as it made the rest of the gear difficult to maneuver, but this setup puts it to pretty good use.


+1 Gems Maligaros glove GGRB -

Haste lvl22 - Hatred lvl22 - Enlighten lvl5 - Blood Magic lvl X (lvl22 leaves us with a few % to spare in the HP pool, so you can scale it down some levels to require less strength.)



+1 Gems Skyforth boot - RBBG

Empower lvl5 - Enlighten lvl5 - Discipline lvl26 - Herald of Ice lvl26



Heretic's Veil BBBR (TBD enchant)

Assasin's Mark lvl21 - Warlord's Mark lvl21 - Enlighten lvl4 - Clarity lvl X (lvl9 as you have in the OP definitely fits, higher is possible if necessary with some straining of other choices)



mirror es Shield BRG or BRB

Enlighten lvl4 - Herald of Ash lvl20 (23q) - either Herald of Thunder lvl21 or Arctic Armour lvl21



this possible setup also allows wearing a mirror belt instead of Headhunter, while I enjoy HH for mapping I always build for boss killing and so rarely prefer HH in the end. (if you want the best mapper go play Spark or something) Mirror belt has it's own advantages including a free 5% move speed , energy shield


Downsides to this setup

- the Enlightens devour our gem slots, preventing the use of handy stuff like CwDT + IC, or Vaal Haste. The only open spots are in the weapon as noted in the post above.

- requires the use of Conqueror's Efficiency jewel, replacing a slot that would otherwise be a 4 mod jewel. This is not *all bad* as we actually make good use of all 3 unique mods that are on Conqueror's efficiency.

- Mana pool severely restricted - I have tested stacking BV with a mana pool of 91 (with BV costing 86 to cast) and it seems to work fine. I didn't recolor my +1 gems Shav yet, so I only tested it with lvl24 BV, not lvl26. (the base mana cost of BV goes up by 2 from 24 to 26)

- no HH buff for mapping! as mentioned not a big deal for me. You actually could wear a HH with this if you wanted, you would simply need to make up a bit of resists on the rings/jewels instead of shoehorning in strength/dexterity in weird places. (I've made them work for my belt setup)

- wearing heretic's is not actually much less ES than a rare helm. heretic has 300 es on it, the gap to rare is made up by the es we gain by Empowering Discipline to lvl26 and the big ES roll on the belt slot.

- probably a bunch of other concerns I've had every day since starting this but have momentarily forgotten


Upsides

DPS

and the inherent sexiness derived thereof



aside: also going to lay out a more conservative non-Heretic's Veil setup for comparison later to look at the pros/cons of each. (probably just a fit in Empower type deal, with no two additional auras.

...but let's face it, running so many seems very nice :D





gear wise - going to grab a copy of Plague Scratch in GGR (I guess? any other good color combos?) for Whirl + FA + Fortify and a Brood Choker when I get on later. going to need to find some new rings for this, all my old mirror ones are either for attack based builds or old enough not to have elreon es mod on them.

I tried to talk rayamn into selling me the original of Plague Scratch (hate being locked in on colors for stuff) but he does not want to sell it yet. r.i.p.