[3.0] New Meta?! Cast on Melee Kill Dark Pact?! 2c Starter Budget?! 5 Million DPS Single Target?!
 Welcome to my first 3.0 guide! Do you want to play something unique? Something that will make your friends laugh at you for trying? Then you are at the right address! This build is THE underdog of 3.0, Dark Pact is just awesome with Cast on Melee Kill! This is also awesome for Uber Lab and Atziri farming with this much dps! Path of Building Link! https://pastebin.com/1VPSUnMn HC version coming soon! ( NOT assassin... ) VIDEO Shaped Strand - https://youtu.be/stJXrK-yEXY Uber Lab - Coming Soon! Atziri - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ty-dV-l8Cc ( I suck at Atziri ) OVERVIEW Pros: + UNIQUE! + Fast Clearspeed + CHEAP!!! 2 Chaos!!! + Great Uber Lab / Atziri farmer + Insanely fast leveling using Essence Drain -> Dark Pact + Great party build ( Culling + Assassinate + Comk = NICE ) + Can run ALL map mods! ( Warlords Mark for Phys Reflect ) Cons: - Not so great Guardian / Shaper farmer (-50% Poison Duration) - Not tanky enough for Hardcore T12+ maps SKILL TREE poeurl.com/brDh Order after following leveling guide: Soul Raker -> Poisonous Fangs -> Claws of the Magpie ( Don't take the 3 Claw Damage and Attack Speed Nodes ) -> Claws of the Falcon -> Claws of the Pride To to complete these before you equip The Wasp Fang! ( when you are high level enough for Dendrobate / Cospri's ) Ascendancy Points: Assassin with Ambush -> Noxious Strike -> Toxic Delivery -> Assassinate Pantheons Major - Soul of Lunaris Minor - Soul of Tukohama Bandits Kraityn for Attack Speed and Dodge SKILL TREE EXPLANATION This tree focuses on a healthy mix between life nodes, claw nodes and chaos damage. Vaal pact because the normal % regen / second cap on life leech won't cut it. The rest is pretty straightforward. CAST ON MELEE KILL?! I just love this support... With 39% MORE Spell Damage it's pretty much any other support gem you would normally pick and with 0.25 sec cooldown it will always proc ( Unlike Cast on Crits's 0.5 sec... ) We have culling strike and 100% more crit chance vs low life enemies to secure last hits in parties or solo! On high health packs you just proc your worm flask, it poops out 2 worms which you can kill to trigger cast on melee kill! This will help alot! I just see this as a mini-game where I have to decide if I need to use worms or if they die fast enough without. I tried Cast on Crit but because of the 0.5 sec cooldown Cast on Melee Kill feels ALOT stronger! I also tried Cast While channeling but the spell damage multiplier is so low.... Cast While Channeling > Cast on Crit if you don't like Cast on Melee Kill. SCREENSHOTS SKILL DPS Single Target:  This dps is with max poison stacks! Farming:  DEFENSE  GEAR
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My Gear Mandatory Uniques: 1 Alch: 1 Alch: 1 Alch: Weapon Off-Hand > These give great dps to both Blade Flurry and Dark Pact Blade Flurry doesn't work with Scepters so it will attack with The Wasp nest only! Helm or Any Rare Helmet with 90+ Life, high evasion and resists Abyssus if suicidal :) Chest or Both are about equal, Cospri is better when doing maps and Dendro is better when farming bosses because bosses have 60% curse effectiveness. Gloves or the new unique gloves: The Embalmer ( For early /cheap 5 link ) Boots 25%+ Movement Speed > Life > Resists > Missing Attributes > High Evasion Amulet Life > Resists > Crit Multiplier > Physical Attack Damage > % Evasion Rings Life > Resists > Missing Attributes > Attack Speed > Accuracy Belt Life > Resists > Armour > Flask bonuses Flasks Jewels 6-7% Life + Missing Resists -> Increased Damage -> Chaos Damage -> Attack Speed FLASKS Life Flask ( Freeze / Bleed ) Silver Flask ( Freeze / Bleed ) Atziri's Promise ( 2% CHAOS LEECH! ) Stibnite Flask ( Sin's Rebirth ) Granite Flask ( Lion's Roar ) LINKS AND GEMS See Gear section for my current links! Pack Clearing Blade Flurry Cast on Melee Kill Dark Pact Added Chaos Damage (Vile Toxins) (Void Manipulation or 2nd Dark Pact) Boss Farming Blade Flurry or Viper Strike Melee Physical Damage or Multistrike With Viper Strike Added Chaos Damage Unbound Ailments (Vile Toxins) (Void Manipulation or 2nd Dark Pact) Switch Cast on Melee Kill with Melee Phys / Multistrike and Dark Pact with Added Chaos Damage on hard boss maps! Same colors, takes 5 seconds! You can also bring a 2nd 5 link chest, which is what I do :) Totem Spell Totem Wither Faster Casting Efficacy / Increased Duration CWDT Setup Cast when Damage Taken level 1 Vortex Blind Immortal Call Still testing different setups! Mobility Setup Whirling Blades + Faster Attacks + Fortify Aura Setup This is a bit tricky, it depends on if you play hardcore or softcore and if you use Cospris or Dendrobate Cospris: Blasphemy Assassins Mark Vulnerability or Warlords Mark or Enfeeble Dendrobate: Blasphemy Assassins Mark Herald of Thunder + Herald of Ash or Grace Golem Ice Golem LEVELING 1 -> 12 First pick up a and put Spark + Pierce + Arcane Surge in it and just level to 12 Tree:http://poeurl.com/brDd 12 -> 28 Grab Essence Drain and Contagion and put Essence Drain + Void Manipulation + Controlled Destruction ( Arcane Surge till 18 ) in Lifesprig or any other decent wand. You can vendor a blue named wand with a chaos gem like Essence Drain and you will get a wand with +1 level to chaos gems in return. Try to use a 3 linked wand for this recipe! Tree:http://poeurl.com/brDj 28 -> 62 Buy a 4 link and put Dark Pact -> Void Manipulation -> Added Chaos Damage ( Faster Casting till 31 ) -> Controlled Destruction in it, run Blasphemy + Warlords Mark with this and it will be the easiest leveling you have ever experienced! On bosses put down a wither totem and use Summon Skeletons - Minion Life - Spell Echo / Faster casting - Arcane Surge Level 1-4 ( in this order ) Tree:http://poeurl.com/brDm 62+ Equip The Wasp Nest, Dendrobate and Singularity and follow this guide! THE END Last edited by Yagamai#3710 on Nov 10, 2017, 9:30:54 AM Last bumped on Dec 20, 2017, 5:53:09 AM
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I wish i didn't start playing before this topic was posted.
Very nice build that i would definitely go with! PM ME on forums if i win ;) Last edited by se7enek#2759 on Aug 11, 2017, 2:55:19 PM
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Probably the only working COMK build I've seen so far. I'm actually surprised at the complexity. Saw you almost died a few times in the vid. Would it be more effective for you to lower your dps by a bit to grab some more life?
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" Already did that :) Took Vaal Grace instead of Vaal Haste Refunded some points and took life nodes instead And took a 20% level 65 remove Freeze flask with slower recovery :) Might change Vulnerability for Warlords Mark ( Stun and Leech ) or Enfeeble as well... Last edited by Yagamai#3710 on Aug 11, 2017, 3:41:42 PM
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Interesting build, might try it out
Although - " I'm pretty sure blind does not work with vortex because vortex does not create a hit my evasion is so high i only insta rip sometimes
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" It does have an initial hit :) |
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whould blade flurry - cast when channeled - dark pact be better?
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" That's an interesting thought. Wonder if this was tested before :P Guild #YoloSwag <SWAG>
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skill point progression? where to first?
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" It's in the guide, under leveling " It works but it's 9% vs 39% multiplier, 0.35 cool down vs 0.25, can't link 2 dark pacts and also hard to roll another blue on cospri and also hard to change to another blue for single target. Probably better in endgame maps where you don't instakill mobs. Last edited by Yagamai#3710 on Aug 12, 2017, 4:05:10 AM
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