[2.5] CoC Vortex Elementalist *Insane dps* 2-3 shot Guardians - Shaper down! [Video Inside]

In reponse to the 2.4 patch and the nerfs to cast on crit, I was determined to somehow make a viable cast on crit build again.

This build can be made with many ascendancy variations such as inquisitor,occultist,elementalist,trickster,assassin and saboteur.

My own character is a Low-life Elementalist.

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Build concept and Mechanics

Has a unique mechanic that allows spell damage modifiers (increased and more" to affect damage over time applied by it.
Utilizing pyre we are able to convert all of the cold damage from vortex to fire damage allowing it to make ignites which is the main damage source of this build.

We try to scale big ignites through spell/fire/elemental damage as well as reducing the enemies fire resistances.

Mapping

This build can run almost any map mod but the ones to look out for are:

Immune to status ailment - this one really only matters when fightning guardians, anything up until that point should be doable even if they are immune to ailments.

Elemental reflect - high chance of one shotting yourself and should be avoided.

Blood magic - Should probably just avoid this, I havn't tested if its actually possible.

Forge of the Phoenix - you can do the map, but the boss is immune to ignite so I don't recommend trying him.


PRIMARY Attack set up

For my CoC I use:
5-link Cyclone - Cast on Crit - Vortex - Controlled destruction - Increased Critical Strike chance
6-link Cyclone - Cast on Crit - Vortex - Controlled destruction - Increased Critical Strike chance - Inc/Conc effect

Vortex has a unique mechanic where spell damage modifiers applies to DoT from the skill, so any increased/more spell damage provide huge damage boots to the build.


Offensive stats
With auras on - no flasks or charges.


Defensive stats
With auras on - no flasks or charges.


Aura + Gem set-up

For movement I use:

3-link Whirling blades - faster attacks - fortify
You can replace whirling blades with shield charge if you like that skill more

For the rest:

3-link Flame Golem - Inc Duration - Vaal Discipline


4-link Orb of Storms - Curse on Hit - Elemental Weakness - Power Charge on Critical Strike
This set up is to generate power charges on single target.


4-link Blasphemy - Enfeeble - Assassin's mark - Ice Golem
Ice golem is only if you have the elementalist ascendancy giving you 2 golems, otherwise you can insert an enlighten here.


3-link Clarity - Discipline - Blood magic


1-link Rightous Fire
For potential burst damage, but isnt require for the build.

Passive skill tree


My passive skill tree focuses on getting spell damage/fire damage/elemental damage, all these damage modifiers will "double-dip" with DoT applied by Vortex, for keystones I take Pain attunement, this MORE multiplier will double dip due to the unique mechanic of Vortex, Ghost reaver to leech ES and Vaal pact to leech fast, I havnt tested if the build can be made without vaal pact, but it might be an options since we are more burn focused the leech will never be as big as other builds.




From Bandit I picked:
Skill Point (kill all) / Skill Point (Kill all) / Power charge (Alira)

Ascendancy choices




Current gear set up



Helmet

- On your helmet you are looking to get a useful enchant like flammability effect, ele weakness effect, vortex radius, vortex damage. Anything that boosts the output of the build basically. Other than that you want High ES and potential resistance if you can get it.

Chest

- Since the build is a Low-life build a shavs is required. Try to get as high an ES roll as possible.

Gloves

- For gloves you want High ES and Resistances, bonus could be an essence crafted pair of gloves like these for increased whirling blades speed, or a pair of fingerless silk gloves for the spell damage implicit.

Boots - You want High ES and movement speed on boots, bonus if they have resistances or high INT also.

Amulet - For an optimal set up you are looking for a +1 Curse amulet, anything else is a bonus but preferably %ES and resistances.

Rings - You need doedres for the additional curse and Pyre to convert cold damage to fire damage, since these are 1c items, try to get high rolled once.

Belt - on belt you are looking for High ES and resistances, crystal belt is the best base you can use.

Dagger - You need a vagan dagger with the mod "hits can't be evaded" bonus if it has lightning damage to proc elemental equilibrium, and spell damage to buff your vortex.

Shield - On shield you are looking for high ES and spell damage, bonus if it has resistances.

jewels - On jewels you are looking for double dipping modifiers, spell damage/fire damage/area damage all works here, crit multi also works fairly nice since we are just looking to get a single big crit to achieve a big burn. Energy from within is used to convert the life from melding to energy shield.

Flasks
- the most important flask to this build is Diamond flask to help with our crit chance. Other than that you can use pretty much anything you have the budget for. If you are not using a Vessel of Vinktar I recommend to have a vaal lightning trap in your gem set-up


Feel free to ask any questions about the build or mechanics here on the forums or in-game, i'd love to see the community's imput and how to optimize/improve my set up.

Alternatively you can check out https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1746612 - A very similar build but uses another ascendancy and shield charge.

reserved.

Will be adding more videos and expanding on mechanics soon!

i was looking for a CoC build that can do uber lab very fast (all phase/mods).
i wanted to ask if it's possible with only a 5L shav? can it do uber lab just fine with it?
i dont really care about mapping or else since i wanted to create an uber lab farmer. thanks

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jinhaoxuan wrote:

i was looking for a CoC build that can do uber lab very fast (all phase/mods).
i wanted to ask if it's possible with only a 5L shav? can it do uber lab just fine with it?
i dont really care about mapping or else since i wanted to create an uber lab farmer. thanks

Izaro is very easy to kill with this build, I could already one shot him at lvl 74, so I think that you will be fine.

If you dont mind doing lab with ES based char, then I would say go ahead and try.

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Nekhebet wrote:

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jinhaoxuan wrote:

i was looking for a CoC build that can do uber lab very fast (all phase/mods).
i wanted to ask if it's possible with only a 5L shav? can it do uber lab just fine with it?
i dont really care about mapping or else since i wanted to create an uber lab farmer. thanks

Izaro is very easy to kill with this build, I could already one shot him at lvl 74, so I think that you will be fine.

If you dont mind doing lab with ES based char, then I would say go ahead and try.

thanks for the quick reply man.
i don't really like farming lab with life based char because i'm used to soul strike and wicked ward combo (ignore all traps). was it hard to pass cancer trap with this build? i mean yes i can deal with most traps but sometimes sh*t happens you know haha. anyway nice build!

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jinhaoxuan wrote:

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Nekhebet wrote:

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jinhaoxuan wrote:

i was looking for a CoC build that can do uber lab very fast (all phase/mods).
i wanted to ask if it's possible with only a 5L shav? can it do uber lab just fine with it?
i dont really care about mapping or else since i wanted to create an uber lab farmer. thanks

Izaro is very easy to kill with this build, I could already one shot him at lvl 74, so I think that you will be fine.

If you dont mind doing lab with ES based char, then I would say go ahead and try.

thanks for the quick reply man.
i don't really like farming lab with life based char because i'm used to soul strike and wicked ward combo (ignore all traps). was it hard to pass cancer trap with this build? i mean yes i can deal with most traps but sometimes sh*t happens you know haha. anyway nice build!

Im fairly certain that you can make this build with occultist if you prefer the wicked ward for uber lab, and with that it should be pretty easy I would assume :)

Without occultist / soul strike traps will always be somewhat annoying, but I was never that good at lab lol.

Hi. How do you leech life and mana? It seems you don't use Warlord's Mark. The enchant is relied on "on kill' which is not so useful for one-on-one boss fight. Is the leech from the Vinktar?

Edit: watched the Chimera fight again. It seems the leech was from Vinktar...

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loonger wrote:

Hi. How do you leech life and mana? It seems you don't use Warlord's Mark. The enchant is relied on "on kill' which is not so useful for one-on-one boss fight. Is the leech from the Vinktar?

yup for bosses I use vinktar for mana leech, but I have some decent mana regen.

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Nekhebet wrote:

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loonger wrote:

Hi. How do you leech life and mana? It seems you don't use Warlord's Mark. The enchant is relied on "on kill' which is not so useful for one-on-one boss fight. Is the leech from the Vinktar?

yup for bosses I use vinktar for mana leech, but I have some decent mana regen.

What about life/ES leech?