[3.13] CoC Bladefall | Screen-wide 40m+ DPS | 10k+ ES | High defense | Any content | Very expensive

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xserper wrote:

How is purifying flame going compared to blade fall?

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xserper wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, I'm slowly starting to craft most of the gear just wanted your thoughts before I moved on to jewels since the rest of the gear seems to work with any spell.

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Airhwhip wrote:

I just hit 96 and am having an absolute blast with this build. My question besides the obvious of no bottled faith and weapon speed. Where am I really missing out on damage? Comparatively to the source POB, I'm off by a factor of nearly 10. Any advice would be appreciated.

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mgarin wrote:

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Airhwhip wrote:

I just hit 96 and am having an absolute blast with this build. My question besides the obvious of no bottled faith and weapon speed. Where am I really missing out on damage? Comparatively to the source POB, I'm off by a factor of nearly 10. Any advice would be appreciated.

I peeked at your gear - you've got quite a few things you can upgrade.

The biggest one is CDR (cooldown reduction) mod on belt (20% max), boots (15% max) and Awakened Cast on Critical Strike (22%) - that would give you a maximum total of 57% CDR which basically allows you to proc roughly 57% more Bladefalls per second.

Obviously you will need to match your attack speed with the cooldown of the Bladefall for it to be useful - to put it simple you need to have .01s more attack time compared to the Bladefall cooldown to make it perfectly fit (in buffed state, with all flasks up etc). So if your Bladefall cooldown is 0.12s for instance - your Cyclone attack time needs to be 0.13s, if Cyclone attack time is 0.12 or lower - you might be missing up to half of your potential damage. So it's very important for you to optimize your attack speed accordingly whenever your cooldown reduction changes due to switching passives, gear, gems or flasks.

Some other upgrades you can do:

- You're still missing Militant Faith legion jewel for Inner Conviction keystone - that will give you a 20~30% damage boost straight up. Check the updated PoB in the main post (one under spoiler) - it includes the jewel.

- Bottled Faith - It's a huge upgrade for this build and well worth the money. Without it you will struggle capping out critical strike chance at 100%.

- Helmet with +1 Maximum Power Charge, Nearby Enemies take 9% increased Physical Damage or both. Either of mods shouldn't be too hard to get on either Warlord or Elder influenced helmet, but getting both will be hard this season.

- Rare shield with +1 Level to all Physical Spell Skill Gems or Spell Damage. This is a good option if you have a bigger budget.

- Better weapon with +1 Level to all Physical Spell Skill Gems, more Spell Damage or extra physical as chaos. Will also be pricey.

- +2 Level of AoE or Duration Gems implicit from corruption on Shavronne's (or both!) - This is a rather expensive (~30ex+) item to get, but it will give you a lot of extra damage due to Bladefall gem having both AoE and Duration tags and scaling it's damage pretty well with levels.

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afonsosp wrote:

Thanks for sharing your build, I`ll try it, just a question regarding CDR, I have the Awakened CC and Boots, Im using HH, does this CRD still working well?

I decided to starting this build yesterday, if you can take a look in my build for some advices, will be great.

It`s really strong build, I`ll work in the min-max very soon.

Thanks

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mgarin wrote:

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afonsosp wrote:

Thanks for sharing your build, I`ll try it, just a question regarding CDR, I have the Awakened CC and Boots, Im using HH, does this CRD still working well?

I decided to starting this build yesterday, if you can take a look in my build for some advices, will be great.

It`s really strong build, I`ll work in the min-max very soon.

Thanks

About HH - I recommend you to check two sections in the main post:

- Build explanation
- Headhunter

They should explain CDR and whether or not you should use HH with this build.

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I quickly glanced at your build, overall seems that you have a solid starting gear, but you're missing a lot of ES everywhere. And some utility & stuff.

A few notes:

- Replace Prism Guardian with rare Titanium Spirit Shield as soon as possible, it will give you a lot of extra ES and damage if you find one with spell damage or +1 to physical skill gems. If you can't fit in all the auras - you're probably missing some -% reserve nodes on the tree

- Get at least +1 power charge (warlord) or 9% phys damage (elder) mod on helmet, power charge one is preferable as it scales your damage in many ways

- Your weapon crit chance is low (6%) since you don't have attack crit mod on it, this might be hindering your Cyclone crit chance - you certainly need to cap out your Cyclone crit chance at 100%, otherwise you're missing a lot of damage

- You can upgrade to double-influence rings later to have %ES mod from crusader influence (+18% max ES with catalysts), this will give you a lot of extra ES

- Unnerve on gloves is a big damage increase. I personally don't like culling which you can also get along with unnerve on gloves, but it's also an upgrade if you have enough currency for double influenced high-ES gloves with both mods

- You have way too many unique flasks and missing curse immunity at the very least, I recommend removing Cinderswallow since you don't have any source of fire damage for igniting enemies to have the extra 10% damage benefit from it. You will be missing some crit then, but that's why I said before that you need a weapon with higher base crit chance. With your current setup - you can remove Cinderswallow and grab Blood Rage to compensate aspd to the exact number you need. You'll have to double-check it in PoB though.

- You're missing two ES nodes on the right side of the tree, near +1 max power charge (Soul Thief node) - I recommend grabbing that one instead of some cluster nodes maybe.

Overall - I don't know if you feel fairly tanky or not, but I personally don't feel safe until I get 9k+ ES on any of the ES builds, so I always focus on that first. That makes dying from one-shots pretty hard, even on bosses & sketchy maps. So on your place - I would focus on maxing out ES & then focusing on more damage.