[3.13] 🔥Oro’s Flicker Strike Raider🔥 | Top tier mapper/currency farmer | 10M+ DPS | All Content

Hey so you said cyclone was the good swap when having hard time dodging stuff. what would actually be the gem loadout for a 5/6 link. since a corrupted fortify isnt on the table atm, or do you not run fortify at all in that cyclone build varient for it. Thanks

Hey! Thanks for writing up this build! I was wondering what the priority on fortify is, as I see that you have fortify on your leap slam rn on your ritual starter and I also see that you don't have the fortify nodes specced. Are you leap slamming in your maps to keep fortify up or are you only using it against bosses?

@MaxLvlNoobster : See gem setup section for recommendations. I'd try to keep fortify up for a hard fight, probably replacing Fire Penetration before a corrupted Oro's.

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Hey! Thanks for writing up this build! I was wondering what the priority on fortify is, as I see that you have fortify on your leap slam rn on your ritual starter and I also see that you don't have the fortify nodes specced. Are you leap slamming in your maps to keep fortify up or are you only using it against bosses?

Priority on Fortify mostly depends on how hard is the content you are running relative to your gear. Having it on leap slam "works", but it's not really reliable.

What I'm doing right now with my crap gear is swapping in Fortify to replace Melee Splash on my main link on Conquerors - its both more DPS and more survability on a single target.

It has been working fine so far (3round of conquerors, T12s, single death from lvl 89 -> 90), but i'll need to start paying attention to map mods in higher tiers if I want to keep lvling up with this kind of gear.

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Heinarc wrote:

Unfortunately, I'm positive Raider ascendancy + 21/20 flicker strike gem doesnt sustain frenzies on a single target. Source : my lvl 100 SSF physical based raider from Harvest.

I'm not sure why, but its not enough - just test it yourself before commiting gear into a theorycrafted character. I think its because the flicker gem never gives back more than one frenzy per cast, but I've not thoroughly playtested it.

Well i tested and i float with 5+ frenzy charges on bosses indefinitely. You can get 1 frenzy from ascendancy and 1 from flicker on each cast.
Its way easier to sustain from 7 charges tho and hard to climb.
For hard one entity bosses you wouldnt want flicker anyway.

hello. trying this build out. it'll be my first raider char too.

question on ascendancy:

is Avatar of Chase (onslaught) really better than going for Avatar of the Veil (Exposure & Elem ailment immune)?

can't we just get Onslaught on some jewel?


What are the pros and cons?


Also what are the other recommended anoints for the amulet? I only see Smashing Strikes to generate endurance charges but other bonuses are for staves which we will not benefit.


Thanks!

@Baronello

Yep, you can indeed kill most bosses before depleting your charges if you engage them while full on frenzies, and that include conquerors and most guardians once you have some gear.

But it for whatever reason you let you charges run out (checking ritual rewards, selecting metamorph organs, interrupting multistrike to dodge mechanics ...) you are gonna struggle doing any DPS to a boss. That's why I consider running Farrul's or having an easy gem swap at hand to be mandatory if you are not using Oro's.

@GamingCaterino

Short answer, the phasing ascendancy would allow you to be more tanky against spells (25-30% ish) while being considerably weaker against regular attacks (75% evade instead of 95%, so +500% avg dmg taken). DPS potential is about the same.

Alternative annoint is Frenetic for +1 frenzy (about 11% more DPS) but I'd not skip an endurance charge generation mechanic if you plan to do rippy endgame maps. Deep delirium mobs can hit for 8000 raw phys dmg, if you do not run 3 charges + basalt, you can get straight one-shotted.

Best alternative way to generate endurance charges without the annoint is probably Redeemer's boots, but you can also consider the Red Nightmare jewel in the Scion area, or running Enduring Cry (not as good as it once was, unfortunately).

Hey thanks for this great guide.

I'm thinking of trying out flicker raider since i'm kinda disappointed in my scion flicker. I am dying way too much on it and i see no way of getting tankier.

How big of a difference do these 95% evade do for survivability over the 50-70 that non-raiders have?

Also wats a comfortable leveling up setup until 67?
I'm currently in act 6 with a tabula and a rigwald's charge leveling with a 6link fliker but its a little rought the dmg is kind of low (but its even lower with frost blades).
I didn't find in the guide a 6link setup for leveling.

Also would u ever consider not taking the left ascendancies at all (avatar of slaughter). The middle and right ones look so juicy to make the character invincible + the middle one gives you some dps boost with the exposure. And the frenzy charge generation is kind of useless once you have an oro.

I'm lv86 now following this build, doing mostly yellow maps but moving to red when possible.

Question, what anoints are you guys using? I think I saw mention of Frenetic being used as anoint, then abandoning the nodes on top right, but I'm not sure.

EDIT: Sorry I missed the posts about anoints right above mine. I swear they didn't show up at first :^)

Would something like an explosion chest replace melee splash (and be replaced with fortify)?

Hi, I'm a flicker strike slave.
Last league I played flicker impale gladiator,

for this league I want to play raider sooo bad.
is this build still going ok without Impresence?
assuming for clearing red tier map,
because I play ssf in ritual league
already got my oro