[3.1] 98% avoidance, Cold ST Dreamfeather Raider, Shaper down, Gifs, cca 1M+ Shaper dps

3.1 changes:


Hi,

I love spectral throw.. and prefer evasion based characters and I have decided to combine these two in this build. This build prioritizes getting great defensive capabilities which in return boosts its damage. Main goal is to get as much evasion/dodge/spell dodge as possible while still maintaining great dmg. I use ST with Added cold and Icebite. You can clear guardians on 5L with about 1.5-2 ex investment 5L price included (half of it is 5L + hinekora, which is not necessary).


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Cons:


Tree and PoBuilding link


Cleared content

Gifs/Videos


DPS vs shaper: With flasks up 230-280K with ST(thats without Point Blank), or 480-550k with 6th stage BF (change Slow proj to cold pene), with Point blank its around 350-400K. These numbers does not take into account that ST will hit one target multiple times.

Main uniques:


Defense:
This build uses 3 uniques to get spell dodge: Atziri steps, The Perfect form body armour and hinekora sight amulet. With additional 10% from flask, you can have 65% spell dodge almost all the time.

The perfect form also gives us free arctic armour, and evasion increase based on cold resist, which will help us get to 60-80k evasion with flasks up based on your gear. As aura I use obviously Grace - it provides both offensive and defensive boost. You need around 60k evasion to get to 76% evade chance vs normal accuracy monsters - and with raider asscendancy you have 25% more evade chance with onslought which caps you at 95% evade chance. Combine this with 50% dodge chance (Acro + quartz + hinektora) + 10% block chance gets you at 98% chance to evade attacks.
Most of the time you should have fortify up + I use phys reduction while stationary and phys reduction when just 1 enemy around to get to 34% phys reduction vs bosses + arctic armour.

With life on all jewels you could reach about 5.5K hp (lvl cca 93).

Offense:
Your main clearing setup is ST + Added Cold + IceBite + GMP + WED + Inc crit chance
For bosses swap GMP for slower proj and crit for Ele focus.
To boost your dmg even further vs bosses I use frost bomb and ancestral protector totem.

To help with mana problems (mostly with GMP vs single target high-hp rare mob) I use vaal clarity. Vaal grace is used as additional protection vs bosses (can use Vaal haste if you want).


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Gear/jewel info:


Bandit:


With this build I am quite happily farming guardians and shaper! 10 out of 10 would play again (Eddit from future: I am playing it again in Abyss :) ).

Changes for Shaper:

Notes:
If you are scared of ST build without faster attacks dont be, with 7 frenzies and Attack speed from them + raider ascendancy and 40% attack speed from onslought I am at about 0.19 per attack, with totem up its 0.16.

Where is my anti-freez flask? I dont have it.. I have never died to freeze... you should not be spell freeze locked thx to your spell dodge, and vs strongboxes.. just pop some ST and flasks before you open.. it will kill half of monsters when it returns to you, and you can still dodge while frozen.

I dont think I can make a video, my PC is a 6 year old notebook, I am glad I can even play :D

I have killed all guardians on 5 link (without crit/ele focus), but it takes quite some time, for guardians to feel good you need 6L, but up to T15 is a breeze with 5L. (EDIT: With 5L and point blank, it should actualy feel quite ok)

If you want to clear even faster, swap vaal grace for vaal haste.

1Mil+ Shaper dps is refered to all flasks up, with point blank and 3+ hits of spectral throw to the Shaper.

This build uses almost no points in projectiles, so you can actualy play this build with a lot of other attack skills without problem.. Like Blade flurry, Frost blades, lightning strike etc, but it will be weaker on bosses... because 3+ times hitting ST is just too strong.

If you want to check out my character from last league / import it to PoB, acc name Nathaniell123, char ST_FTW_

If you have any questions please ask here!

Minotaur and racecourse Gifs added! Will try to add something better played later! (minotaur is flaskless(just rotgut) and totemless :D)

Today I managed to do my first deathless shaper run :)
Updated build with changes for shaper.

Hi there i am making a ST build too but starting from scion with dreamfeather in both hands but i was wondering why are you not using Queen of the forest for high evasion + movement along the way?

Not Sure this is 100% aplicible to every scenario, but The perfect form gives you actualy more evasion thaan QoTF. It has cca 1500 evasion and you get increased evasion (from every other source) for your uncaped cold resist, so with standard 135% cold resist, chest itself gives you 3500 evasion.. + 30% spell dodge.. thats the important part for me and that evasion number is actualy higher then QoTF.. and ofc you can get your cold resist even higher. Overal The Perfect Form provides more evasion, at least in this build.

The main idea behind this build was to get as much avoidance as possible. So I wanted to stack evade chance, dodge chance and spell dodge chance as much as possible.. You dont really need high MS. We have so much Attack speed from onslough and frenzies you can just jump around with whirling blades.

Hi, I'm currently leveling using your build and I'm wondering why you're not using the "Steel Spirit" Jewel, it's a threshold jewel that grants projectile damage and damage for ST based on dex in radius.

So far the build is pretty good, thank you for that :D

Its not strong enough(that jewel)... Sorry I didnt make any info to the build about leveling proces, because I dont really think its so great during leveling (I didnt have enough life during leveling process, but I guess it can work :))

Some leveling info - dont get any crit nodes till like.. lvl 65+
Take projectile damage nodes coming from the ranger starting area, including the Ballistic mastery (I have droped these at lvl 88, because jewels will provide more dmg, and it makes possible switching to Blade flurry more optimal)

During leveling, I think Static electricity jewel could be really good, if you take some non-needed dexterity nodes around the jewel left to vaal pact, it can give you very good early dmg(it provides lightning dmg for dexterity around it).

I have lvled with tabula - ST+LMP+Added Cold + Added lightning + Ele dmg with attacks + dont remember (probably Faster attacks). With this setup I have used two Ewars mirage

Because most of your damage comes from added gems + dualwielded it provides 100%+ inc elemental damage, it was a best option if you didnt want to change weapon all the time. I have used these swords whole time till I get to the Dreamfeathers.

If you use 6L tabula + probably 2 heralds, you will absolutely need Elreon rings (or some other uniq ring) with reduced mana spent for skills.

can i use cyclone instead of ST?

Why do you go avatar of the chase instead of Veil? PoB is showing Veil to do better damage, and it gives you better spell and attack dodge and makes you immune to status ailments. So it's better offensively and defensively as far as I can tell.

With Avatar of the chase you will have twice as strong onslaught buff.. which gives you 40% Attack speed (and MS), thats huge QoL improvement to make your attacks feel good. Also you have to compare those two with frenzy and onslaught active, and when you do, you will see that Avatar of the Chase actualy provides more dmg than veil. The whole idea of this build was to get to the evade cap and thats the final (and main) reason to take Avatar of the Chase - Because you should always have onslaught on - and it gives you 25% MORE chance to evade - which gets you to 95% evade chance cap.

Update: I have made minor changes to the tree and PoB link.. Just added right enchants on boots and helm and switch 2 hp nodes for different hp nodes.