[2.6 / 3.0] BLADE VORTEX OBLITERATION

Hi I'm running a similar build in Essence league.

The big questionmark over my head is..how do you deal with traps in uber lab (Because you said it is super easy to do)? Vaal Pact/Leech does not work with traps and i even start to hate the uber trials because i'm dying so often :/

Tanks for your respond!

Hey!
Trials are pretty easy. You just portal out of the map before going in, grab 4/5 health flasks (I usually have at least two of them with istant recovery), go back and run it without any problem (every life based build should actually apply this strategy, if they have little or no life regen).
Lab in general is okay as well, I usually just run through everything with silver/quicksilver flask, using life flasks when needed, flame dashing when I have the chance to avoid dangerous traps.
It mostly comes down to a "get used to" strategy; if you have never played a no-regen build in the lab, at first it seems awful, but slowly you start to learn how to deal with it.

I also believe that Mathil, when lab was released, made some videos about it. He suggested either to run through everything careless, or take it veeeery slowly and carefully. Choose one and stick with it, don't try to mix them, you are screw yourself.

Just posting my current gear and setup for advice.

Cheers

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billy393 wrote:

Just posting my current gear and setup for advice.

Cheers

Really solid gear. If you manage to get a bit more life (in the ring, boots and mayb a better amulet) it'g going to become pretty much perfect.

Thanks for that. At 86 now and am running most tier 7-8 maps just for safety while levelling gems. Havn't tried uber lab yet but got through merci lab at lvl 81 really easy. My DPS atm just running haste is around 16k.

This is a really great build for 2.4. I started out following a different Berserker + Oblivion build, then spotted this guide and saw my dps shoot up.

The only things I've changed is to not pick up Unvavering Stance and Bloodless. I decided to go for more jewel sockets (4) instead.

Im at level 84 with my life at 4,935 which will go over 5K when I spend my next 2 points getting Quick Recovery. I feel the char. is pretty much built right now and don't enjoy grinding for harder and harder to achieve levels and will probably shut this character down in another couple of levels or so, which is why I decided to deviate from your spec.

My tool-tip dps with Haste and Fire Golem is 17,280.

Thanks for the time and effort documenting your build.

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Hi,

If I don't use the Berserker class (I am thinking to use Raider in this league), how do you scale the scale Obliteration explosion damage to 100%?

Thanks,

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TheHeadsmasher wrote:

Hi,

If I don't use the Berserker class (I am thinking to use Raider in this league), how do you scale the scale Obliteration explosion damage to 100%?

Thanks,

Hi, I need to make some assumption to answer your question.
Supposing you will follow a similar tree, with all the AOE (+50% area damage) and Chaos damage (+76% chaos damage) nodes, with 8 frenzy charges (3 base, +1 merciless bandit, +3 from tree, +1 from raider) you gain +32% more damage. I will not go through all the math, it's essentially what's written in the first page, but you need at least +77% addittive damage to reach the 100% of life explosion damage. As said in the guide, you can gain this amount mostly from flame golem and jewels (increased damage, increased chaos damage and incresed area damage).

Update.
After recent changes to blade vortex mechanics (patch 2.5) I feel like this build is stronger than ever.
In fact I actually decided to try it again in Breach League, but maybe this time I'm gonna try the Cospri's Will version, focusing more on curses.