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

Alright i'll be the first to ask:

"Blade Vortex now has a stack limit of 20 (down from 50). It now deals 63% more damage at level 20. The number of hits per second causes substantial performance problems. The skill was also deemed too strong against bosses."

Thoughts?

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Aevykin wrote:

Alright i'll be the first to ask:

"Blade Vortex now has a stack limit of 20 (down from 50). It now deals 63% more damage at level 20. The number of hits per second causes substantial performance problems. The skill was also deemed too strong against bosses."

Thoughts?

Stronger for mapping, slight hit to single target. We can now drop spell echo and most likely inc duration for inc crit multi + emp 4 (added fire possibly). Take out mana regen investment freeing us of atleast 4-6 passive nodes into dps. On top of the 63% more damage added at gem level 20. Also no more sacrificing mana regen/reduced cost to skills on jewels either. Free up an affix for dps.

It's a buff/nerf all in one. Hit onto single target due to the stack decrease will hurt, but nothing we cannot overcome with the points mentioned above. We'll have to see.

2.4.0 Blade Vortex Changes

Here's the general gist of my understanding of what the patch does for Blade Vortex:

Map Clearing: BUFF

Boss Killing: NERF

Maps: Now that the maximum stacks is only 20, and the typical blade vortex character runs around with 5-15 stacks in a map (on average), this means the damage and clear speed has been significantly increased while mapping, since we essentially gain 63% more damage.

Bosses: Unfortunately, since this build revolves around maxing 50 stacks for ridiculously high single target damage for a given period, having a cap of 20 now is a significant nerf. I don't know the exact numbers, but I can tell you that 50 stacks with 63% 'less more damage' is far stronger than 20 stacks with 63% more damage.

However, with this level of gear and currency investment, we can probably safely assume that blade vortex will still be quite uber viable.

Other Changes:

Now that we only have a maximum of 20 stacks, Increased duration can definitely be dropped and substituted for something like empower or crit multi/chance. Spell echo should probably still be kept (too low cast speed without it imo). This also means that we can probably drop lots of mana regen / mana sustain nodes/jewels as we don't have to worry about focusing on 50 stacks.

Those are my initial thoughts, would love to hear everyone else's opinion.

Haha you beat me to it Cap, thanks for the info! :D

well fuck a duck, I just wasted a shit load of ex on this gash not only do i struggle on a fuckton of map mods but boom, gay dmg decrease against bosses. time to quit path of aids.

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well fuck a duck, I just wasted a shit load of ex on this gash not only do i struggle on a fuckton of map mods but boom, gay dmg decrease against bosses. time to quit path of aids.

What is your gear/tree like?

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prfct1on wrote:

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DBM92 wrote:

hey man, can you tell me how much you should have in crit chance as shadow without power charges on :) ?
because i only have 38% and kinda thinks that really low :o

btw i bought this

Nice dagger. Crit chance is low, swap in inc crit strikes over multi if you're using option 2 gem link setup. Another option would be using a diamond flask as well.

what flask do you want me to change instead then, and another question is, how can you have 80k dps, while i only have 22.5k dps with IoE, and i now i have crafted crit on dagger but still on 38% crit with blade, another question, how can you have so much ES. you got 3k more ES than i have. i have 5291 in ES :)

I think it is going to be fine new blade vortex, making some adjustments: change Increased duration by leech life and add chaos damage by faster casting, can keep some 10 always active.
I tested on a map T12 and clean good, and well the boss kill without even 63% more damage.

I also think it is ascendary occultist will be the best option.


I dont know if so easy to kill uber if this new blade vortex.

Helo so since we have patch notes and bv got nerf/buff i think it wil be still strong.
So do you can help me to improve my dps ? my items atm

i know my dager its preaty shit fo rthis build and shield have no spel dmg/crit
but i was start i t aboute 1 week ago ( lvled from 91-94 shit its amazing :) ) so i was wh8 for new update to not waste money i was afraid nerf.

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DBM92 wrote:

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prfct1on wrote:

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DBM92 wrote:

hey man, can you tell me how much you should have in crit chance as shadow without power charges on :) ?
because i only have 38% and kinda thinks that really low :o

btw i bought this

Nice dagger. Crit chance is low, swap in inc crit strikes over multi if you're using option 2 gem link setup. Another option would be using a diamond flask as well.

what flask do you want me to change instead then, and another question is, how can you have 80k dps, while i only have 22.5k dps with IoE, and i now i have crafted crit on dagger but still on 38% crit with blade, another question, how can you have so much ES. you got 3k more ES than i have. i have 5291 in ES :)

Replace one of your res flasks. 2-3 items are missing %energy shield rolls. Lastly you're comparing dps with outdated screenshots that are specifically labeled as "old/outdated".