[2.5] Life based Scourge Blade Flurry, the Shaper/Guardians

Is the whirling blades setup allowing you to open strongboxes and WB away to safety during a screen freeze or is something like a weapon switch lightning warp necessary?

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Thunder71 wrote:

Build looks great. Probably gonna use one of my standard chars to try this out and finally do shaper.

Even though a lot of damage comes from DoT could you still show tooltip so I can at least compare my tooltip to something when I try this out.

Also what version did you use for shaper?

1. About 5.2k without any buffs when i hit enemy.(my current gear is a mess, so i couldn't check it clearly) It might go up to 5.4~7k with a golem, 7.2~8k with Hatred/Herald of Ash, 10~15k with 4 power charges, 17~20k with Blood Rage and 3 frenzy charges(i don't use it because i personally don't like it) You will be able to go further with Flasks and better ring/amulet than currently i have.(my scourge has about 250 pdps if you wonder)

I had about 3~4k tooltip dps with chaos dmg version from what i remember.

You can try equipping Abyssus or something like that, if you think dps is low. However, you will get one-shot from the Shaper's basic attacks.. so i would use inc. aoe(or yolo conc. effect) because dps is already high.

2. I killed the Shaper with both chaos and phys. dmg versions. Chaos version had lower tooltip dps than phy. dmg version had, but overall dps(dot) against the Shaper was much higher. Plus, if you can kill the mobs the Shaper spawns easily, than you can kill the Shaper with any build.(requires some experience and skills though)

I didn't use Abyssus, Hatred, HoA nor Blood rage. However, dps was still there.

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Hazzerone wrote:

Is the whirling blades setup allowing you to open strongboxes and WB away to safety during a screen freeze or is something like a weapon switch lightning warp necessary?

1. Yes and no, it's not necessary.
By the way, i just pop all my flasks up and click mouse right-button and pray for not dying when that happens.

Opinion on using a Blasphemy-Enfeeble link as a means of damage mitigation instead of Temp. Chains?

I can't tell from your gem links how you're activating your Temp. Chains also.

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Hazzerone wrote:

Opinion on using a Blasphemy-Enfeeble link as a means of damage mitigation instead of Temp. Chains?

I can't tell from your gem links how you're activating your Temp. Chains also.

Enfeeble is fine. I used to use Temp. Chains with Blasphemy and Doedre's setup, but i missed 200 life from a ring, so i changed it.

I assume I must be missing something about the build, but why the minions damage boosts being stacked? are the blade flurry hits considered summons rather than physical hits with weapon? or is it all just o boost your totem freind.

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I assume I must be missing something about the build, but why the minions damage boosts being stacked? are the blade flurry hits considered summons rather than physical hits with weapon? or is it all just o boost your totem freind.

The Scourge weapon effect "Increases and reductions to Minion Damage also affects you"

Sooo.. Can't this build be CI with ES gear and keep the tree most the same?

I can't see any gear requirements that would hinder this, what am I missing?

A 6L regalia would substitute for the belly just fine in terms of hit point pool and easy to color for the chaos version.

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MAD_DAN wrote:

Sooo.. Can't this build be CI with ES gear and keep the tree most the same?

I can't see any gear requirements that would hinder this, what am I missing?

A 6L regalia would substitute for the belly just fine in terms of hit point pool and easy to color for the chaos version.

CI version will be very expensive to perform well and most of casual players won't be able to afford it. And if you want to play CI version with cheap price, wielding a bino's and an ES shield will perform much much better. I had a CI version of both chaos and phys version, but i had a real hard time getting ES by dual-wielding the Scourge claws.(i tried to do it with under 15ex, but it was almost impossible)

Does Grace really make a difference?
Couldn't you just link double curse on blasphemy with temp and vuln instead of using that flask?

I'm only talking about shaper here.