Its decent build
i got all guardins down by myself with current gear and its not ideal at all, i guess u cant kill shaper with this build but most content are pretty easy.
I guess u should go with ci bv in this league if u want all content done by urself but this build is good enough to get 40/40, just buy shaper for 20c.
gear:
Vinktar PTL, TOH, 29/15 rumi, remove shock flask (qs, ruby, basalt, diamond, aquamarine), life + remove freeze flask. I can keep Vinktar up very reliably with Overflowing Chalice but I don't know what flask to swap out. For curses I have a Basalt of Warding.
note: my rare gloves and my boots have some other non-related gems, ignore those. My gems for those are bv-pcoc-coh-wm and lightning golem-culling
With rathpith, facebreakers (what I usually use): 5716 life, 1570 mana
With rare shield, facebreakers (if I'm doing bosses that don't use spells): 5835 life, 1732 mana
With rathpith, rare gloves: 5907 life, 1570 mana
With rare shield, rare gloves (I don't like this one; no spell block nor crit multi): 6020 life, 1732 mana
Things I've done:
Endgame lab full key runs (including a couple bad mod combos like gargs, fonts, charges)
Uber Atziri (2 portals left)
T15 bosses except Overgrown Ruin (I'll talk about that below)
Phoenix (I actually facetanked his fire burst several times with a ruby flask, I was playing with another char and I'm not sure if he was doing anything that would contribute to my facetanking)
I think I've hit a wall. I couldn't do:
Minotaur with no regen + hexproof made me low on mana so it was really hard to handle his burrowing shots. I feel like even without those mods his burrow is hard since I can't leech while he's underground.
Overgrown Ruin bosses; the ST + storm call guy and the chaos-searing-bond totem guy were hard to handle for me.
Other nagging issues:
2 failed Hydras in parties. One, I died to something I didn't see as soon as I went into the room. The other, I stood right in front of her barrage and got bursted down.
Failed a Chimera in a party. Got stunlocked by the snakes.
For the most part I can facetank but I'm really not feeling so confident about late endgame content. Anyone have any thoughts or advice on those issues I'm having?
It would be great if someone had video of finishing Guardians and Shaper with this build.
I actually killed shaper with this build or a modified version of this build because I'm using atziri's acuity. It was kind of hard because the build has rather low dmg compared to Ci BV builds and the shaper fight is a dps check + dodging beams and balls. ( made it with 1 portal left and it was my first shaper try ever). The guardians are not much of a problem either if the map mods arent to hard ( i.e 2+ dmg mods).
I'm almost sure that you need
to successfully run endgame content because with the leech on crit you will never run out of mana during boss fights and you can respec out of vaal pact to get more dmg without losing EHP. (you lose one jewel slot and some evasion if i remember that right ^^ ). Having mana at 100% all the time really helps alot with guardians because the barrage + ball combo from Hydra or the dig from minotaur are not going to one shot you so easy.
Flask setup I'm using for general mapping is :
I dont feel like I need Rumis. I'm only using it for Minotaur and uber Izaro together with a basalt flask.
Things that you can improve imo are : your dagger, your amulet and your belt.
I would recommend to go for a rare dagger with spell crit, spell dmg, crit multi and flat spell dmg. You can get alot more dps out of a rare dagger than out of a divinarius and the 10% aoe doesnt do much imo.
Same idea for the amulet. Get as much dmg as you can:
And as a pathfinder you rly want a belt with reduced flask charges used and if possible increased flask charges gained. These mods help alot with flask uptime.
Items I use in these slots :
Last edited by Tek280#5942 on Oct 11, 2016, 2:12:04 PM
I dont feel like I need Rumis. I'm only using it for Minotaur and uber Izaro together with a basalt flask.
Wait, so do you never use a life flask? It's saved me many times where I would have otherwise died.
Nope, dont need one vinktar leech is more than enough for me. Even when I run reflect maps I only have to care that my vinktars is up. No need for a life flask.
The HP flask slot is kind of a waste, only need it in Uber Trials and Uber Lab through the traps. Also in niche situations when you are Vaal Pact and are standing on certain ground effects for extended periods of time.
I personally like veteran bowyer + master herbalist more than going for master alchemist. The poison dmg from herbalist is a nice dps boost (not visable in tooltip dps) and the 10% extra dmg and flask charge generation from bowyer helps aswell. The advantage from master alchemist is the status aliment immunity.The most dangerous one of those is shock which you can just remove with a flask that has the "Grounding" mod.
Ye the crit chance with this build is rather low. What I did to fix it was going for additional crit nodes, got a Diamond flask, replaced the rathpith with a shield that has 100% spell crit chance and just like you did aswell I'm using inc crit chance and inc crit dmg. I also tried to get as much crit dmg on jewels as I could possibly get. Im not sure if the 50% reduced mana is worth the 30% global crit from another diamond ring but its worth a try I guess.
Im using the exact same gems as you do. Sometimes I replace inc aoe with conc effect or faster casting depending on the map mods. If you want to go crit with this build you are kinda forced to use crit strikes and crit dmg gems.
As in, you use one for damage and you use the other to get power charges and make warlords mark go off?
None of this stuff was in the game in 2012 so im a bit confused..!
Yes just like you said. One bladevortex setup with: BV, curse on hit, warlordsmark and powercharge on crit.
The second BV is used in your 5 or 6 link and is used for dmg. You could use something like : BV, spell echo, added fire, crit dmg, crit chance, inc aoe. Or what ever you like more ^^.
Last edited by Tek280#5942 on Oct 12, 2016, 10:46:30 AM
guys i got the full build put by op besides the rarity 4l and vaal haste 4l because i think i dont need them at all, so im left with 2 x 4l items which i dont know what to put in em , can anyone suggest anything?
