[3.0] The Azure Knight (Flurry/Frost Blades/Multi-class/Budget/Crit/Life/Conversion) Shaper/Uber

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Bristoling wrote:

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Sarunastm wrote:

Have you considered "15% reduced Hatred Mana Reservation" helm enchant?

From my hypothetical calculation (failed to get it in lab, thus my math may be wrong) with this enchant it should be possible to add Herald of Ash or Arctic Armour to Hatred + Blasphemied Curse setup on mana.

It would be hard for me to list all available options for mana reservation, I know some people use a bit different setups (Herald of Ash and Ice with corrupted gloves, as one Necromancer plays for example), and since some of them rely on Uber lab enchants, I don't list them, but if you happen to have such a helmet then feel free to use it, guide is not written with the rule "you have to do absolutely what I say" :D Just like CwDT setups, I listed Immortal Call as an option but don't use it myself.

So I got reduced Hatred mana reservation on helm, but with lvl 3 enlighten you get 95% mana reserved, so you need Lvl4 Enlighten on Hatred and Blasphemied Curse to get mana reserved down to 91%. Anyways i wrote thinking not about mana reservation options, but helm enchantments (which you listed quite a lot), because with Occultist you use +1 curse, thus most likely you will have Blasphemied Curse, so this helm enchant should be noted in description as excellent option allowing you to use AA or HoA. And in my opinion Herald or AA beats other helm enchants bonuses by huge margin...

And about following guide... I naturally do not follow guide word to word. I'm just too lazy to design my own build, so after returning from break to PoE I look for build idea. And then I make so changes to fit my playstyle.

I will definately keep this in mind, I have some revisions/fixes/additions to do over the weekend, mainly leveling/gearing sections etc., and alternate mini-threads, but I'll try not to forget and add this option in the enchantment section :)

Good build!

Hello and thank you very much for this amazing build. I have been enjoying it very much with the raider ascendancy.

I just wanted to ask you about my endgame objectives as I level up, currently I am sitting on lvl 81 and I just defeated normal Atziri without even dying once but now I don't rly know what I should be aiming for. My idea is to just farm maps (I can complete T8 without any problem maybe T9 as well) but other than that I don't rly know any other endgame objectives until I reach T15-16 maps.

Is the Pale Council worth trying? I mean i hate farming all the prophecy and I've been trying to avoid it as much as possible.

Also if you have the time maybe u can check out my tree/items because I also don't know what should I look into improving next.

Thanks a lot!

You can always run Breach domains, they are both fun and a good source of exp. Other then that, I think mapping will be best until you can start farming T15-17. I only ever run Pale Council twice in my life, and I don't know if it is profitable (I also don't remmeber difficulty of it, been a while :P).

Regarding your gems:
- You can stop leveling your Frost Bomb/Vortex and cwdt, in fact you could drop it a few levels, so that both spells trigger more often. This will also drop the overall intelligence requirement, giving you more flexibility with other gear.
- Same with the Golem, having it on level 17-19 is enough, anymore and it might not recast often enough. Unless you are aiming to get quality on in once you reach level 20.
- Definately get Fortify in your WB setup.
- You can get Vaal Haste to further buff your dps, and Blood Rage for Frenzy charges while mapping (and increased attack speed)

Now with the gear:
- Try to get Lion's Roar flask, it is amazing.
- You can get Elemental Damage mod on your belt if you aren't looking to replace it soon, for 2 alchs it will be a great investment.
- Since your left ring has a lot of resists (over 125), I would look into upgrading your right one and amulet first.

Passives (or rather jewels, passive tree looks good):
- After you take Twin Terrors, get a jewel socket near Scion wheel. For 1 point you can get a very good jewel with something like 2 damage mods and 2 resist mods for less then 2c.
- You should also replace Survival Instincts jewel with something better, again, jewels with resists/damage are quite cheap.

How do you get power charges?

Occultist ascendancy Forbidden Power gives you a chance to generate them. You can also use Jaws of Agony to prebuff yourself with full power charges if you stopped for whatever reason for too long and lost them (and want to get them back quickly, like before a boss fight).

IM playing the ranger version, so i would need the jaws in my weapon swap?

Jaws of Agony are recommended for all versions, even those that have charge generation.
For example, when you stop before a boss to swap AoE for Conc, you might lose you charges anyway and need to build them up from zero, which might take a few seconds or maybe longer due to rng. So, to get the most of your dps going at once, you should use the Jaws before any boss that can potentially kill you, so that you can delete them as fast as possible, regardless of the class used.

PSA: updated the passive tree to include Acrobatics. Same amount of points spent, same amount of life, slightly less dps (2-3%) but gain of 30% chance to dodge.