[3.1] Ele Flurry/Reave Pathfinder | Guardian/Shaper | Versatile | VIDEO

Level 90

Tankier Version (6-6.5k Life)

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Higher DPS Less Tanky Version (5-5.5k Life)

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Ascendancy Points

Nature's Adrenaline -> Nature's Boon -> Master Alchemist -> Veteran Bowyer

Bandits: Help Alira

Great for getting through early game leveling with mana regen and helps caps resists. Crit Multi is always nice as well.

Passive Tree (30 Passives)

Passive Tree (60 Passives)

Passive Tree (90 Passives)

We choose Pathfinder to help give us insane movement and attack speed while mapping. Pathfinders are also notorious for having very good burst dps on bosses due to their great synergy with flasks. Our skill tree is quite self explanatory but I will talk about a few key nodes that the build makes use of.

Soul Raker - This node is the bread and butter of our build. It gives us much needed life and mana leech so we can sustain without taking duelist leech nodes.

Primeval Force - Basically a must have node for any elemental build that travels on the right side of the tree. Ele penetration and damage is just amazing.

Acrobatics - Our main layer of defense. Acrobatics will give us 30% increased dodge chance to combine with our base evasion.

YES YOU CAN PLAY THIS AS A RAIDER

A Raider variant of this build can arguably be better for Guardian and Shaper farming due to their ability to generate frenzy charges on single targets. Feel free to play either ascendancy you want. I just prefer pathfinder for the efficient mapping. If you go Raider, make sure you pick up the extra frenzy charge nodes.

This build makes use of a decent amount of jewel slot. Jewels are a perfect way for us to gain a good amount of life and some extra damage from a wide range of stats, but mainly added lightning damage and increased attack speed.

Attack speed and life should be a mandatory stat on most, if not all your jewels. We grab only a handful of attack speed nodes on our skill tree, so the more attack speed we get on our jewels the better.



These are some examples of decent jewels. I bought all of them for under 10c a piece.

Weapon


This is my current claw I self crafted. Main stats you are looking for are high crit and high attack speed. Make sure your claw has both of those and you will be on the right track. Aim for atleast 2.0 attacks per second and 8% base crit on claw. Second priority will be high crit multi. You can look for an open suffix on a claw to self craft it. Any added lightning damage is a bonus. Other elemental damages would be fine too.

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Off-Hand


Large dps increase due to not needing accuracy. The typical meta builds are set up to dual wield a stat stick item but that is not the purpose of this build and will actually make you lose damage. If you can't get Lycosidae you must get accuracy on gear to be at least at 92% chance to hit or you will begin to see an astronomical loss in dps on bosses.

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Helm


Starkonja's is a perfect item for this build. Gives a little bit of crit and attack speed with high life. Very easy to get with Blade Flurry enchant on it. A high life helm with some resists will also work.

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Chest


I love this item to death and it's my go to for mapping. Not only does it's rework look amazing, but it helps clear speed immensely using both Blade Flurry or Reave. This chest is very easy to color correctly and comes with some nice added life and damage on it as well.

USE BELLY OF THE BEAST IF YOU FEEL SQUISHY AND NEED EXTRA LIFE OR RESISTS

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Gloves


These gloves give very nice offensive bonuses with attack speed, two jewel slots, and free intimidate. Huge dps increase. Rare gloves with high life and resists also work.

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Boots


Nothing special here. Just make sure you get massive life and resists in this slot. This is where you cover most of your resists. Can craft Elemental Damage with Attacks if available.

AIM FOR 1-160 LIGHTNING DAMAGE ENCHANT IF YOU DON'T NEED TWO-TONED BOOTS TO CAP RESISTS

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Amulet


My Amulet is not very good at the moment. Main stats to aim for are high life, crit multi, and elemental damage with attacks. Added elemental damage and crit chance would be a bonus and can easily be crafted.

THROW ON BISCO'S COLLAR WHILE MAPPING IF YOU WANT

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Rings


Same goes here. My rings are far from perfect but are plenty good enough to clear through all content. High life, resists, elemental damage with attacks, and added elemental damage are all good. Opal rings are obviously best bases.

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Belt


Used for Mapping for obvious reasons.


Paired with two 40 life and high added damage jewels this belt is insane. It will be better than any rare belt for damage.

USE RARE STYGIAN VISE IF YOU NEED HELP CAPPING RESISTS

Main DPS Setup

6L for Single target


6L for Mapping


Or swap in Reave for better clear speed.


Our main method of scaling our damage is through increased elemental damage and critical strikes. These gems do a great job at doing both of those. This build is very versatile in which main skill you want to use though. If you don't like the idea of Blade flurry or Reave, you can easily swap to Spectral Throw/Lightning Strike/Molten strike by switching a couple of skill tree nodes in favor of the "Sniper" node up by the claw nodes, and by grabbing Point Blank. Be creative!

CWDT Setup



Cast when damage taken Immortal call helps protect us from getting deleted by a bunch of small physical hits. Very good defensive layer to add on top of an Evasion/Acrobatics build.

Mobility Setup



Whirling Blades is very useful for racing across maps and dodging abilities. This is also our method of keeping up Fortify, another one of our layers of defense.

Aura Setup



Wrath is self explanatory and scales our lightning damage which is the center-piece of our build.
Our Herald of Thunder curse on hit setup allows us to generate power charges while mapping giving us a large boost to dps.

SWAP OUT CURSE ON HIT SETUP WHILE BOSSING

Use this power charge on crit setup to generate charges on a single target.


Alternative Assassin's Mark Setup

It's possible to drop Herald of Thunder entirely and run a Blasphemy -> Assassin's mark 2L setup in your gloves since those gem slots don't get used anyways.



This would free up another 3L setup for the Orb of Storms -> Power Charge on crit setup at the same time. The only downside would be losing some added damage from Herald of Thunder.

Golem



Golem for some added crit, Blood Rage for Frenzy charge generation, and Ancestral Protector for massive increase to attack speed (very useful for bosses).

I started out leveling using spectral throw, but you could also use frost blades or molten strike. All options seem to work well. Grab added lightning and cold damage in act 1. Ancestral call is amazing for leveling with molten strike/frost blades if you decide to go that route (also found in act 1 after first quest). Faster attacks and herald of thunder in act 2, blade flurry or reave in act 3 if you want.

Try to get as many leveling items as possible to make the process easier. I found that tabula and HoTW was fine for a weapon all the way until lvl 68.