58elronds BladeFaller

Basics of bladefall...
You cast it and a circle of knives fall down from the sky around where you clicked
Its a "area" "physical" spell - so we want go get a large area of effect - feels good
In this build we will convert 100% of it to elemental damage
We will make it into a crit build (when something crits it calculated crit damage from "critical strike multiplier" which should be around 400%)


Support Gems
Support gems that work best with Bladefall + what they are + Why we use them.
1.Controlled Destruction (A level 18 blue support gem, 45% "more" multiplier for your damage)
2.Physical to Lightning (A blue level 18 support gem, converts 50% of the phys to lightning + 30% bonus "extra dmg" as lightning)
3.Increased Area of effect & Concetrated effect for bosses (Blue level 38 support gem)
4.Spell Echo (Casts spell twice - Blue - level 38)
5.Increased Critical Strikes (Adds 2% base crit to the spell, and 88% increase crit strike chance)



Leveling
- Try to get good leveling gear, keep your res capped with rares & plenty of movespeed
- Try to get a Tabula rasa (level 1 6link costs 8c , can sell easily later)
- Use a wand/shield/amulet with as much spell damage/castspeed & life as you can while leveling - keep upgrading them whenever your dmg feels Lacking
- Get Life/Res on your boots/helmet/rings/amulet (Goldrim is great for resistances (40% to all res))

If you struggle & think your gear is fine, make sure you are not underleveled for that zone, all you base damage comes from the level of your spell skill (unlike attacks where the dmg comes from weapon) - if you do start to hate bladefall, u can easily switch it out for others (as you may read below)..

Level 1 Use Magma orb + Arcane Surge
Level 12 Use Storm Call + Arcane Surge + Spell Cascade
Level 16 Once you have killed the spidey - use both herald of ice & herald of thunder
Level 18 Use Storm call + Controlled Destruction + Spell Cascade + Arcane surge + Ele Focus
Level 28 Drop heralds, use Hatred & Swap Stormcall & cascade for bladefall & phys to lightning ..
Level 38 Swap arcane surge for Echo. Buy ESSENCE WORM with hatred. Buy clear mind (jewel)
Level 40 Make sure your res is capped, act 5 is a bitch
Level 50 Try out Bladevortex/Etheral knives (see below) (try to get highest lvl u can use!)
Level 68 Start buying your endgame gear (see the bottom) + Put spells/gems to level in offhand weapons (u can vaal them into level 21s once you level them to 20 and make loads of $$$$)

For bosses past level 28
You can level a blade vortex (similar green physical spell) In a spare socket & swap that into your main 6link setup - its about 3x the damage!


Skill tree:
Level 1-13 = www.poeurl.com/bK0B
Level 13-30 = www.poeurl.com/bK0C
Level 30-50 = www.poeurl.com/bK0D
Level 68+ endgame Tree = www.poeurl.com/bK1g


Ascendancy:
Inquistor
Normal lab: Righteous Providence
Cruel Lab: Inevitable Judgement
Merc Lab: Instruments of Virtue
Uber Lab: Augury of Penitence

Bandits:
Alira <3

General Links
# L = links , r = red, g= green , b = blue
4L 4r - Cast When damage taken level 1 + Immortal call level 3 + increased duration level 20 + warlords mark level 3
4L 1r2b1g - Lightning warp + faster casting + less duration + Swift Affliction
4L 1g3b - Lightning Golem + Orb of storms + Power charge on crit + blind
1L 1g (in ring) - Hatred
3L 2r1g - Shield charge + faster attacks + fortify
3L Portal + Vaal haste + Inc duration


Endgame Gear
Chest - Carcass jack 6l, or rare 6link with life/str/res
Weapon - Shaper weapon - it can roll special overpowered mods, with "phys dmg as extra fire/cold/lightning" which scales perfectly without a phys spell! poe.trade/search/otanzaaauyanat
Helmet - Rare with 90+ life , 30+ strength + Resistance
Boots - Rare with 90+ Life, 20%+ movementspeed + Resistance + strength
Belt - Stygian vise with life/res & a decent abyss jewel in!
Ring 1 - Essence worm + hatred
Ring 2 - Resistance ring or Opal ring , with life+castspeed+resistance
Amulet - Life + 25%+ crit multiplier (not chance) + 1 Elder/Shaper mod with "Gain % Physical Damage as Extra Light/Fire/Cold Damage" - don't worry to much about resistances on this. Probably will be 30c+

These is the kinda mods your looking for on that sceptre and amulet! They are super op and probably gonna get nerfed hard :) ... If you can get some spell dagger/sceptre with one of these mods on spell damage and craft "crit multi" on with vagan level 4 would be perfect


SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT THINGS:

Flasks You must roll them and quality them correctly!

(Roll freeze immunity not shock immunity on the stibnite - other rolls are important)

Jewels
You need 3 good damage mods, and 1 meh dmg mod....
On poe.trade change the "and" mod thing to "count" and list all these mods.... Physical % Damage, Spell % damage, elemental % damage, damage %, cast speed%, cast speed with staves, critical strike multiplier, critical strike multiplier with spells, life %.... there are probably a few more but try to get good jewels ... they make up about half of your damage.


Starting to hate this spell?
Think the skill itself is weak or horrible playstle? Blade vortex - scales EXACTLY the same way as bladefall, and is much much stronger (1.3 million dps vs shaper), same links/tree/playstle! Also Ethereal Knives (there is a gem that makes it shoot in a nova around you, very very fast) is a very similar setup & almost identical tree! Just let me know if you want to switch and i can edit this post to match most spells :)

If you wanna try Ethereal knives, swap aoe gems for pierce & use the unique ek jewel! Here is the skill tree endgame, www.poeurl.com/bK9w


If you wanna try Bladevortex just take the duration nodes Like this > http://prntscr.com/i7yc5b


PoB Pastebin (Use with path of building)
Here's a path of building pastebin, with decent endgame gear. https://pastebin.com/PBN4McQL

Thanks!
Go to https://www.twitch.tv/aaske and ask me in chat (58elrond) about the build if you have any questions/problems!