[2.4] CI/LL Blade Vortex Pathfinder

Playing the LL version at the moment (without Skyforth's :( ) this is what I have so far, about 9.2k ES with current gear. Tree is in my character profile. Having a real problem keeping the perma flasks up on bosses, maybe I just don't understand how it works? I have about 75% crit with P charges, not including Diamond flask. Anyone can help me with this would be great!

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Pancakezx wrote:

Playing the LL version at the moment (without Skyforth's :( ) this is what I have so far, about 9.2k ES with current gear. Tree is in my character profile. Having a real problem keeping the perma flasks up on bosses, maybe I just don't understand how it works? I have about 75% crit with P charges, not including Diamond flask. Anyone can help me with this would be great!

maybe nature's boon ascendancy / overflowing chalice?

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Pancakezx wrote:

Playing the LL version at the moment (without Skyforth's :( ) this is what I have so far, about 9.2k ES with current gear. Tree is in my character profile. Having a real problem keeping the perma flasks up on bosses, maybe I just don't understand how it works? I have about 75% crit with P charges, not including Diamond flask. Anyone can help me with this would be great!

Yeah, I did some testing today with Shaper and realized Nature's Boon is really nice to play with vs. endgame bosses. It's not even such a big damage loss. I totally miscalculated that.

So I'm seeing most of people don't use divinarius do you think I eating a good rolled wand would be better?

Also I was thinking of the possibility to run assassins Mark with the curse on hit and put warlords mark on a blasphemy and run a discipline. I'd have a pretty small mana pool but should be alright.

What are your thoughts on that? Do you think assassins mark on top of power charge on critical would be overkill?

Also how do you hit your flasks? Can I just have my razer naga mouse set up so it hits all 5 flasks with 1 button?

So what's the priority like on the auras..

Disc>Hatred>Blashpemy Curse>Herald of Ice?

I can't put away my HoI tbh, it's got so much QoL on the shatters and cursing.

Also I just realized at lvl 85 today that I have 5 passive point quests that I haven't completed, felt stupid but excited at the same time having 5 free points I didn't know about.

If u r taking nature boon, might as well drop veteran bowyer / master herbalist (I'm assuming you are taking master surgeon) and go for master alchemist. With this change, drop your shock immunity affix on your flask and use roll armor% or curse immune. You can drop your freeze immunity now and have flexibility to use overflowing chalice / atziri promise.
Have run running around chilling ground / shocking ground affix map mod =)

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D_nasty wrote:

So what's the priority like on the auras..

Disc>Hatred>Blashpemy Curse>Herald of Ice?

I can't put away my HoI tbh, it's got so much QoL on the shatters and cursing.

Also I just realized at lvl 85 today that I have 5 passive point quests that I haven't completed, felt stupid but excited at the same time having 5 free points I didn't know about.

I don't know why you have problem shattering without herald of ice... Most of my mob are shattered with only hatred unless its elemental equilibrium or cold resistance mod.

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Purexec wrote:

Yeah, I did some testing today with Shaper and realized Nature's Boon is really nice to play with vs. endgame bosses. It's not even such a big damage loss. I totally miscalculated that.

Well if you recalled I advocated going for master alchemist + master surgeon in earlier posts instead of following cookie cutter veteran bowyer + master herbalist set up. I'm glad that we came to same understanding =)

What flasks are you using now (with master alchemist in mind)

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Vexorr wrote:

So I'm seeing most of people don't use divinarius do you think I eating a good rolled wand would be better?

Also I was thinking of the possibility to run assassins Mark with the curse on hit and put warlords mark on a blasphemy and run a discipline. I'd have a pretty small mana pool but should be alright.

What are your thoughts on that? Do you think assassins mark on top of power charge on critical would be overkill?

Also how do you hit your flasks? Can I just have my razer naga mouse set up so it hits all 5 flasks with 1 button?

I mentioned Divinarius in the guide and it's a solid choice, but a good rolled rare dagger is better.

If you're going for a dual curse setup go with Vulnerability over Assassin's Mark.

I just hit them with 1-5. You're not allowed to use macros for them (ToS)

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mlvnk83 wrote:

If u r taking nature boon, might as well drop veteran bowyer / master herbalist (I'm assuming you are taking master surgeon) and go for master alchemist. With this change, drop your shock immunity affix on your flask and use roll armor% or curse immune. You can drop your freeze immunity now and have flexibility to use overflowing chalice / atziri promise.
Have run running around chilling ground / shocking ground affix map mod =)

I dropped Veteran Bowyer for Nature's Boon.

Yeah, that might be a good idea. I don't know. We really benefit from the Poison so I would use a Poison gem if I'd drop Master Herbalist.

I have to think about that. What would be the best reason to go Master Alchemist? Getting another unique flask instead of anti-freeze. We can probably already do that for content that doesn't freeze. We'd get some comfort by now not relying on just one flask to remove the Vinktars shock.. though removing shock isn't really a problem anyway.

The 20% immunity chance is negligable and the 40% increased Eledmg is probably nice to have but not really that good for endgame since we encounter a lot of Ele-immunity. We would have to drop one support gem for Poison as well.

Any thoughts?

I think I'd use Vinktars + ToH + Rumi's + Atziri's + Chalice/Diamond or Silver/Quicksilver depending on the content I do. Chalice is nice to have for bosses but really not neccessary for maps. If you have close or more than 50% crit you can drop Diamond, maybe you can drop it anyway if you're using Chalice. I like either Quicksilver/Silver for some movespeed/attackspeed/castspeed (or a Ruby if we encounter fire, of course)