[3.10] INSANE REGEN BLADE VORTEX PATHFINDER [6k+ Effective life] [2k+ Regen] [3M-7.5M Shaper dps]

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Pinkalicious wrote:

Just an update, I'm up to level 82. Starting to feel smoother. Lack of HP (i'm at 3K) means I can still die to bosses, but I'm comfortably running all the white maps, and wrapped up uber lab. Using Mistwall as RichardFox recommended has been a boon, as it trivializes all lab content.

I deviated a bit from the tree since I decided to pick up some more resists / life nodes. I'm also playing around with Righteous fire, as the regen enables us to run it when flasks are up. With all flasks, arcane, and RF I'm at around 1.2M pob against trash and 900K against shaper/gaurdians. Still decent DPS for very little investment.

Given the low health count I'm hesitant to call this "tanky", as you need to stay vigilant with flasks otherwise pretty much insta death during Delerium.

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RichardFox wrote:

I'm using these two for clear. Obliteration as suggested, but mistwall makes you even more tanky and lets you be lazy because of the block and avoidance and dodge~ Two oblit's was a bit much for just clearing.


Thanks for writing the guide, it's a fun build :)





EDITTTT:

Just thought I'd add that Divine Mana Flask is a better choice than Eternal because it gives more mana per second. The downside is it's got a really short period of a few seconds and can run out of charges (not infinite) if you don't have the mods for it. Put it on 26% quality at hillock and you'll be at 352 base mana per sec, vs 324 on the eternal at 26%. The tough bit is getting one though... an eternal 26% is about 100c but I've got to craft my own divine flask. Anyways, with 2 mods of reduced charges and mana flask recovery on the belt it's pretty amazing, but now I'm clearing maps counting 1234-pinky_flask-1234-pinky_flask lolll

-vs-

Divine = 336 (352)
Eternal = 308

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Pinkalicious wrote:

I've been playing this build now for about a week. Took a while to level, but I quickly realized that Caustic Arrow is far superior for leveling rather than BV. It doesn't impact the tree too much as the skills between them have maximum synergy. I used a Tabula until level 71, and just now switched to a 6L chest. Will update with links to my jewels in a sec. This is far from optimized, but the mana regen is quite nice. Reminds me a bit of my fav. build of all time, the Zerphi VD build.

The gear below is still half my leveling gear, and half end-state.

When I swap out the gems for BV, I use these two knives:

I did notice that there was a flaw in the gem setup. You can't have both Arcane Cloak and Immortal Call in the same triggered 4L. Cloak never triggers. I've slotted Vaal Blight in there instead.