[2.6] PoisonMancer LL Bladevortex Witch - Shaper + Uber viable - High Budget

Hey 200,
great guide and nice build. Thinking about respeccin gmy Occulstist but was wondering which was mentioned but not discussed in all aspects I guess.

I thought about running Witchfire (mainly because of lack of other better flasks), and since my mana reservation is less crutial don't take the "Charisma" nodes below "Vaal Pact" and maybe also skipping the complete "Dreamer" Cluster and taking some more Chaos damage up top in the witch side of the tree. What do you think, or are the added aura effects worth 4 points?

Plus Edit: Why don't you use an Energy from Within on the usual spot? Not worth having some more ES? You got some dope gear, but with 100ES less on helmet and shield I got the feeling I need it...

You could substitute 1 Blasphemy with a Witchfire, i would still take mana regen nodes because casting without echo really costs alot.

I don´t use EfW in that spot because i feel like 10k ES is enough, it would give me like 250 while losing damage.

Absolutely loving the build.

Thanks for your assistance with the questions regarding what gems to put in etc, you have been a great help!

Fantastic guide well done mate!!

I know it was discussed in the thread, but noone went into any details in testing it. So again:

Has anybody tested Increased Duration vs. Controlled Destruction? I mean it is obvious that mapping will be better with Duration. But what about boss kills? Does the better poison outweigh the lost hit damage? Just want to have a better idea before I try to recolor my Shavs.

I guess overall I want to know which of the two is more endgame viable (Guardians, Breaches, Shaper)

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Mecielle wrote:

I know it was discussed in the thread, but noone went into any details in testing it. So again:

Has anybody tested Increased Duration vs. Controlled Destruction? I mean it is obvious that mapping will be better with Duration. But what about boss kills? Does the better poison outweigh the lost hit damage? Just want to have a better idea before I try to recolor my Shavs.

I guess overall I want to know which of the two is more endgame viable (Guardians, Breaches, Shaper)

I did Shaper, Uber and Guardians with both Gems, cant really tell which is better.

Damage seems to be the same, leech is better with CD, but inc. Duration lets you keep more stacks during the fight so ye... just use what colour you get first. (or corrupt for a white one ;))


@Demandrer

Happy to hear you enjoy the build so much :)

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ZweihundertMorder wrote:

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Mecielle wrote:

I know it was discussed in the thread, but noone went into any details in testing it. So again:

Has anybody tested Increased Duration vs. Controlled Destruction? I mean it is obvious that mapping will be better with Duration. But what about boss kills? Does the better poison outweigh the lost hit damage? Just want to have a better idea before I try to recolor my Shavs.

I guess overall I want to know which of the two is more endgame viable (Guardians, Breaches, Shaper)

I did Shaper, Uber and Guardians with both Gems, cant really tell which is better.

Damage seems to be the same, leech is better with CD, but inc. Duration lets you keep more stacks during the fight so ye... just use what colour you get first. (or corrupt for a white one ;))


@Demandrer

Happy to hear you enjoy the build so much :)

Ok, will go for recolouring my Shavs to fit in Inc. Duration. I still have 10 levels to go to reach 92 and get all the good nodes. So more mapping is in my near future and the QoL of Duration seems pretty sweet :D

Thanks for the reply. The fact that you didnt see a difference between the gems besides the obvious less leech convinced me^^

Hey 200,

what do you think of the current "meta" of going additional BV like the pathfinder triple BV?

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Thirban wrote:

Hey 200,

what do you think of the current "meta" of going additional BV like the pathfinder triple BV?

I assume you are talking about this: https://youtu.be/q4R32Jj8G3M ?

I would not know where to put all that BV links.. it also seems to be a bug that will be fixed so no need to even think more about it.. i mean for what? I allready kill Shaper & Uber in seconds why would i need to abuse some kind of bug to get more damage?

I'm curious - has anyone tried swapping out a support gem for Empower? Maybe in place of Void Manipulation?

lvl 3 Empower is less damage than CD or inc. Duration.

Idk about lvl4 but it should not be that much of a difference, i guess roughly equal.