[3.0] Stormburst Ass-Raider, 7500 EHP, 1.40M DPS High End, *Clear all content* [With Videos]

If you make a step by step guide for leveling this, it will be amazing!

Thanks for making a lightning build mate. I love lightning <3

PS: Do you have an HC variation of this build? 130% Life on tree is too low. I think 180% is the minimum required for any build in SC or HC.

Hello there!!

3 things:

1-"Uses a Choir of The Storm for shocking bosses in t14+, so its awkward to use a Bisco’s Collar"

Could you explain me that, please?

2-I'm leveling Inquisitor since i don't like Scion at all, and i see more potential on the Templar. Could you tell me if i'm wrong, and specially if the frenzy charges are at MAX all the time? because it is my main doubt. And yes, i rode your explanation of scion Assa/Raider, but i still have a doubt.

3-I don't like Controlled Destruction mechanics (yes i know i'm stupid). What do you think it would be the best alternative. I'm thinking about Inc Crit Dmg or Empower 4. Any thoughts?

TYVM and sorry for my english (:

P.D. Gratz on the build of the week

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liruijiang wrote:

作者，你好！
我是一位中国玩家，在中国服务器。看到你的帖子后，一直拜读。虽然在翻译问题上有很多模糊，可以勉强按作者的描述构建出我的BD。
https://poe.game.qq.com/account/view-profile/%E9%9B%A8%E5%8F%B6%E6%AE%87/characters
这是我的构建后的装备。
现在我的DPS达到1340，能自由出入T7左右的图，在对于更高的图还是很吃力。
中国服因为物价膨胀，很多不能按作者所描述的来进行提示，这让我很绝望。
最后，十分感谢作者的分享，也希望作者能对我的构建提供意见，谢谢

Let me translate for you:
I'm a Chinese player, in china server. After seeing your post, did a lot of researching. Although I got some issue with translation, it's still manageable to do my build.
https://poe.game.qq.com/account/view-profile/%E9%9B%A8%E5%8F%B6%E6%AE%87/characters
This is my current character.
Now my DPS is coming to 1340, able to do some T7 maps, but it's frustrating to do high tier maps.
The Chinese server makes me depressing because of price inflation. I can't do what the post says.
Thanks for your sharing. And plz give me some suggestion for my current build. Thank you again.

Would this be viable on hc?

A few Questions about this build, since i dont want to mess up things as i want to try it out :)

First of all would it work with a full way with Shadow Assassin ascendancy?
I understand that you take Rider for speed and a bit of dmg boost from frenzy charges but how does it influence the speed or the ammount of dps output for the build?

Like one of mates mentioned before id like to see an alternative for Controlled Destruction, i was thinking about Inervate as flat lightning dmg source and extra shock chance.


Last thing are there any possibilities to make this build a bit more hp pumped or more defensive?

hi , can we use skyfoth and remove the firestorm power charge on crit setup ?

and what wrath used for?

thx

Thanks for the replies everyone, here are my answers to some of your questions.

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champloncar wrote:

Great post, been reading over it a couple of times now and am wondering whether the playing as a shadow and going for the pure assasin ascendancy might be better than the ass-raid split. How necessary is the frenzy charge generation in your opinion, and do you you feel that you get can maintain power charges with ease as the scion? As i see it it is a dmg (ass) vs movespeed (ass-raid) question.

A shadow going pure assassin would be a perfectly viable alternative. The main benefit of raider is 30% total move speed plus 20% cast speed from onslaught, along with easy frenzy charge generation vs bosses and rares. My frenzy charges give 12% increased cast speed and 12% more damage, so they are nice but if you pick up the damage elsewhere you don't need them.

Path of building shows for me that a scion assassin-raider with 3 frenzy charges and onslaught is more damage than a pure assassin, but if you were to use dual void batteries assassin would be more damage.

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litesabr wrote:

1) Why do you use flame dash over shield charge? Was it a preference call or did you find that it has better utility?

I use a slow attack speed weapon and have high move speed, so I personally find flame dash a bit nicer for movement overall when combined with just running to the next pack. Shield charge with a fast dagger as the weapon would let you use fortify and could be faster if you pick an alternative class like pure assassin or inquisitor, so its just personal preference.

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litesabr wrote:

2) I love the idea of GMP on this. Am I right in understanding that each projectile will still hit separately in a not-quite-shotgun because the projectiles are cast individually?

That is correct, each separate ball can hit the target, and then each balls explosion can hit the target again.

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litesabr wrote:

3) Do you feel that you have enough life with +132% from the tree excluding jewels? Even with the MoM help, it feels sketchy at first glance.

This build can instant leech enough life and has close to infinite mana, so I havent had a problem with it in Harbinger Softcore, but you'd want to bump up the life for sure for hardcore. I personally like a bit more glass cannony mathil builds, but sacrificing a bit of damage for life would be a fine alternative.

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Meleover wrote:

Like one of mates mentioned before id like to see an alternative for Controlled Destruction, i was thinking about Inervate as flat lightning dmg source and extra shock chance.

Controlled destruction is the highest damage link aside from concentrated effect (which hurts your pack clearing aoe), so I think it is the best damage option. That being said concentrated effect isn't a bad alternative, and increased critical damage or innervate could work as well sacrificing a bit of pure damage for more, larger shocks.

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hyteria75 wrote:

hi , can we use skyfoth and remove the firestorm power charge on crit setup ?

and what wrath used for?

Yes, skyforth would be a great option. I don't have access to a pair, but I'd probably use them if I did. You might want to pick up a bit of extra life if you do to offset no life on boots.

Wrath is used for bosses that will 1 shot anyway (Shaper), or ones that I can kill before they get to attack/be dangerous (Uber Izaro). I normally leave wrath turned off to have the extra EHP with MoM.

Thanks for the response zaraki83, to answer your questions

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zaraki83 wrote:

1-"Uses a Choir of The Storm for shocking bosses in t14+, so its awkward to use a Bisco’s Collar"

Could you explain me that, please?

Bisco's Collar is really a pretty overpowered item for farming currency and divination cards, so much so that using any other amulet is a large opportunity cost. Choir of the Storm is very strong for this build giving damage and shocking tough bosses, so we use it but it still hurts to either not wear a Biscos or have to carry one in your inventory to swap around.

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zaraki83 wrote:

2-I'm leveling Inquisitor since i don't like Scion at all, and i see more potential on the Templar. Could you tell me if i'm wrong, and specially if the frenzy charges are at MAX all the time? because it is my main doubt. And yes, i rode your explanation of scion Assa/Raider, but i still have a doubt.

When clearing maps I have max frenzy charges probably 75% of the time, and against bosses 100% of the time. That being said an inquisitor is a certainly viable alternative to scion. My tree paths very close to the Templar start so it would be easy to remake this build as an inquisitor. Raider Subclass offers move speed which is nice quality of life so that is why I chose Scion.

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zaraki83 wrote:

3-I don't like Controlled Destruction mechanics (yes i know i'm stupid). What do you think it would be the best alternative. I'm thinking about Inc Crit Dmg or Empower 4. Any thoughts?

I partly answered this already, but I'll explain my reasoning again because people seem curious. Controlled Destruction even with its decrease to crit chance is still the second highest damage support we can use (after Concentrated Effect). I prefer Ctrl Destr over Conc Effect because I find Conc Effect reduces the overlap of ball explosions making the pack clearing potential of the build worse. If you still dont want to use Ctrl Destr though, the next highest damage options would be Faster Casting, Increased Critical Damage or Innervate.

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Completed 36 Challengeshyteria75 wrote:
hi , can we use skyfoth and remove the firestorm power charge on crit setup ?

and what wrath used for?

Yes, skyforth would be a great option. I don't have access to a pair, but I'd probably use them if I did. You might want to pick up a bit of extra life if you do to offset no life on boots.

ok thx so if we use skyforth , what did you recommand as gem setup as replacement ?

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