(2.4) Wormblaster the Third (A Herald of Ice build)

I've been farming shaper with 9.5k life things to keep in mind:

1) The balls can still kill you, so make sure you dodge all of them.
2) Even though the shaper smash is physical and you have IC up 99% of the time, he will smash you on the exact second when it's down. So dodge that too.
2a) when he does his laser attack, quickly move behind him. You should be able to tank it, but on occasion you slow down with the flask spamming and die
3) for the add phase use ele prolif as your 6th link. Don't use vortex (as you can't chill him anyways).
3a) during add phase, keep spamming flasks to keep your bv stacks up

Hi,

Your build is quite amazing. I decided to give it a shot. I probably switched to the wormblaster setup too early, however since I had a 6L Rat Cage lying around I decided to test if I could make the leveling process a bit smoother with the help of VMS.

I socketed 2x Atziri's Reign, Chill of Corruption and Sacrificial Harvest and specced into Exceptional Performance cluster. I also swapped the Immortal Call from the main setup with added fire damage. I also linked Added Cold Damage to VMS setup to ensure shattering.

Here's some leveling footage from dried lake (obviously this is just at a concept stage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ftmurAb0Cc

Some thoughts about perfecting this variant of the build: add additional Sacrificial Harvest, replace the rare jewels with Izaro's Turmoils for speed leveling. Also getting gloves crafted with Essence of Hysteria for socketing the additional Blade Vortex setup there would benefit the clear speed by a considerable amount.

Obviously switching back to Kaom's Heart and rare life and damage jewels when doing some harder content.

Posting this here in case somebody else is wondering how they could fix the tedious leveling process; surely this is a bit too expensive for the average player, but it seems to work pretty ok.

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qwertz wrote:

I've been farming shaper with 9.5k life things to keep in mind:

1) The balls can still kill you, so make sure you dodge all of them.
2) Even though the shaper smash is physical and you have IC up 99% of the time, he will smash you on the exact second when it's down. So dodge that too.
2a) when he does his laser attack, quickly move behind him. You should be able to tank it, but on occasion you slow down with the flask spamming and die
3) for the add phase use ele prolif as your 6th link. Don't use vortex (as you can't chill him anyways).
3a) during add phase, keep spamming flasks to keep your bv stacks up

I believe it's the shaper smash you refer to that's killing me, cause I can tank the laser, the ball phase is no problem for me, the add phase is no problem for me. So it's got to be that shaper smash that he's using that is killing me. I just have to figure out when he uses it so I can attempt to dodge it.

Well tried uber atziri but i failed.-> Vid

Some pics what this build is capable of.
Enfeeble-more life-80% cold resi
-> if you got a stack of 100(hirophant bonus)*4%increased dmg no problems

Blood magic with more unique boss dmg

both maps without dying

I officially give up on shaper, wasted 7 exalts now buying sets and trying to fight him and he always 1 shots me no matter what. Even with 8400 HP and spamming flasks as fast as I can no change. Even bought a 6L harvest and sold my 5L and went MOM and still no better. So after 7 exalts I have to throw the towel in and stop wasting money on him.

This build is great.
Only had trouble keeping up flasks in HO, when i had enchantment on boots Adds 45 to 68 Cold Damage if you've been Hit Recently
Looks like worms die to instant when i activate Doedre.
And even slow PC and in group you can play with Elemental Proliferation (drop Vortex/frostbomb)

I think there is no reason to recommend bloodgrip for amulet,the writhing jar flask recover speed is instant and for the 5th flask, usually it will be quicksliver flask. So bloodgrip is not the best slot. How about winterheart, insane cold res and life and dex, all three can be really helpful. Otherwise, if you want more dps, and in std, you can choose "increase cold damage" amulet or use essence of hatred on amulet to gain best cold damage scaling.

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Jax_ wrote:

I officially give up on shaper, wasted 7 exalts now buying sets and trying to fight him and he always 1 shots me no matter what. Even with 8400 HP and spamming flasks as fast as I can no change. Even bought a 6L harvest and sold my 5L and went MOM and still no better. So after 7 exalts I have to throw the towel in and stop wasting money on him.

Allow us to see your characters and we might be able to see errors in your build. Seems like your Immortal Call doesn't work.

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fljsdbd wrote:

I think there is no reason to recommend bloodgrip for amulet,the writhing jar flask recover speed is instant and for the 5th flask, usually it will be quicksliver flask. So bloodgrip is not the best slot. How about winterheart, insane cold res and life and dex, all three can be really helpful. Otherwise, if you want more dps, and in std, you can choose "increase cold damage" amulet or use essence of hatred on amulet to gain best cold damage scaling.

Bloodgrip doubles the Life reg from Writhing Jar. It's "increased Life Recovery". But I agree nonetheless - I think there are better options for amulets (especially as berserker with vaal pact ;)).

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Mangokid wrote:

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Jax_ wrote:

I officially give up on shaper, wasted 7 exalts now buying sets and trying to fight him and he always 1 shots me no matter what. Even with 8400 HP and spamming flasks as fast as I can no change. Even bought a 6L harvest and sold my 5L and went MOM and still no better. So after 7 exalts I have to throw the towel in and stop wasting money on him.

Allow us to see your characters and we might be able to see errors in your build. Seems like your Immortal Call doesn't work.

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fljsdbd wrote:

I think there is no reason to recommend bloodgrip for amulet,the writhing jar flask recover speed is instant and for the 5th flask, usually it will be quicksliver flask. So bloodgrip is not the best slot. How about winterheart, insane cold res and life and dex, all three can be really helpful. Otherwise, if you want more dps, and in std, you can choose "increase cold damage" amulet or use essence of hatred on amulet to gain best cold damage scaling.

Bloodgrip doubles the Life reg from Writhing Jar. It's "increased Life Recovery". But I agree nonetheless - I think there are better options for amulets (especially as berserker with vaal pact ;)).

Characters should now be public, my Immortal Call does work.

Been using this set up for fast farming - Phase Run lvl20 + lvl4 enhance will give me +62% ms and it's pretty much permanently up. Jewels are all freeze / freeze duration / life. It's a lot of fun but lags like hell in parties ...