[3.14][Nerfed] Blade Blaster Assassin | 10m Sirus DPS | Zoom Zoom | Tanky | Deathless Sirus

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Hemanse wrote:

Been wanting to try out blade blast since last league, but never got around to it. My league starter this league have been very mediocre and i really dont want to invest more time into it, at least before some of the bugs gets fixed

Most of the people i saw playing this last league played a chieftain. Any big pros or cons doing assassin instead? Im just doing softcore, but obviously still want to be able to survive :)

Chieftain will be tankier than Assassin and probably have similar damage with bad gear, but worse damage the more currency you put in. Assassin will also have much better clear speed.

Assassin will still be decently tanky as we get a lot of life and have a good amount of dodge/evasion. I think it's perfect for softcore - just the right blend of tankiness, damage and clear speed.

Hi there, really keen to try this build out!

Two questions:
1) How is this build for the heist league mechanic? works well?
2) You said the build is vulnerable to physical damage. Any bosses you struggle with on this build? And do you get one shot by physical damage every so often?

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bankai1009 wrote:

Hi there, really keen to try this build out!

Two questions:
1) How is this build for the heist league mechanic? works well?
2) You said the build is vulnerable to physical damage. Any bosses you struggle with on this build? And do you get one shot by physical damage every so often?

1. Heist is basically just a normal map now that they're removing the need to be stealthy, so its pretty good at it.

2. I don't really ever have problems against any boss. Map bosses and conquerors usually die before they have a chance to fight back and bosses like Sirus/Elder/Shaper will be easy if you know how to handle the mechanics. Physical damage isn't a huge issue since we have a bunch of dodge and a pretty big life pool to recover from the occasional big phys hit.

Hey! this build is really nice, i'm playing it as starter and it works quite well! However im wondering why we are using brutality? It increases our phys damage, but we go for spell damage on the wand and not physical damage on any gear. Why is that? :D

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KroNoZz wrote:

Hey! this build is really nice, i'm playing it as starter and it works quite well! However im wondering why we are using brutality? It increases our phys damage, but we go for spell damage on the wand and not physical damage on any gear. Why is that? :D

Bladeblast is a pure physical skill and we don't have any low cost way to convert it to elemental damage, and even if we did we don't have a convenient way to get enough elemental penetration to make it worth converting. Thus, we use Brutality as it is one of the best supports for pure physical skills.

Spell damage affects all spells regardless of the type of damage they deal. Modifiers like % increased physical damage (and % increased critical strike chance and % increased attack speed) on weapons only affect attacks that use that weapon, so it wouldn't apply to this build as we use spells.

Increased physical damage doesn't really roll on many pieces of gear so it's not really something we can heavily gear into. Opting for Crit/Crit Multi, cast speed, spell damage and + gem levels ends up being the more efficient way to scale our damage.

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Offhand

You can choose to dual wield wands, but I strongly recommend a shield. Refer to the Crafting section below for a guide on how to easily craft your own. Look for a shield with some combination of:
- +1 to level of Physical Spell Gems
- Spell Damage
- Critical Strike Chance to Spells
- Cast Speed
- Life
- Maximum Chaos Res/Maximum All Res if going Divine Flesh

I haven't been able to find the +1 to level of Physical Spell Gems anywhere. Is this still possible to get?

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MrDeadman50 wrote:

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Offhand

You can choose to dual wield wands, but I strongly recommend a shield. Refer to the Crafting section below for a guide on how to easily craft your own. Look for a shield with some combination of:
- +1 to level of Physical Spell Gems
- Spell Damage
- Critical Strike Chance to Spells
- Cast Speed
- Life
- Maximum Chaos Res/Maximum All Res if going Divine Flesh

I haven't been able to find the +1 to level of Physical Spell Gems anywhere. Is this still possible to get?

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/3qvnjKZI5

It can only roll on pure ES bases IIRC

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Chazua wrote:

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MrDeadman50 wrote:

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Offhand

You can choose to dual wield wands, but I strongly recommend a shield. Refer to the Crafting section below for a guide on how to easily craft your own. Look for a shield with some combination of:
- +1 to level of Physical Spell Gems
- Spell Damage
- Critical Strike Chance to Spells
- Cast Speed
- Life
- Maximum Chaos Res/Maximum All Res if going Divine Flesh

I haven't been able to find the +1 to level of Physical Spell Gems anywhere. Is this still possible to get?

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/3qvnjKZI5

It can only roll on pure ES bases IIRC

Oh I'm sure I searched for exactly that, I guess I must have accidentally searched for somethng else. Sorry for that, but thank you!

I see many people in the league running bladefall on their helm with conc effect and opting out of cast speed to run arcane surge for one of the 4 links of the psuedo 5 link instead. What is your take on which is better?

edit: Nevermind I just remembered we are EB and cant use arcane surge nor would we be able to get +1 unleash. Alot of people running a non EB variant of this build tho so its interesting.

Heyas. Nice build. Enjoyed the leveling process so far.

What would you use in place of Empower before we can get one?

Cheers