3.13 KnusEthus's - Blade Vortex, Aurastack, CI - Facetank anything (almost) with massive dps
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Who said aurastacking is dead?
This is a continuation of my 3.12 build: Knusethus's Jugg BV Aurastacker In Ritual playing Jugg was no longer viable as there was to few nodes to reach on the tree to compensate for the clusters nerf. With scion the build works just as good as in 3.12. Auras and CI combined with Guardian and Juggernaut ascendancys on Scion gives huge survivability, and with all of the aura effect stil available, the power of Auras are still not to be discounted. Damage stacking on the tree comes from physical large cluster jewels and non-curse aura medium jewels. DPS with the right bow and gear scales endlessly, since this build does not use uniques except for Circle of guilt rings and a few unique jewels. While the build is expensive for endgame, it is possible to start out on a budget clearing maps easily and upgrade along the way. No item is "required" for it to function properly. The build should work very well with any physical spell skill. Converted or not. I choose to not convert and use Pride/flesh and stone. With Hatred and Herald of Ice, everything that is not freeze immune are frozen solid with absolutely no cold scaling on any gear or node. Added pob with current gear, it is pretty well optimized now: End of league settup DPS 27mill Shaper pds 52mill Map dps Effective life Physical 55k Elemental 70k Newest videos with high budget gear: Sirus A8, Cloud diving Cortex boss, deleted Earlier videos (starter gear): Simulacrum Wave 20 Minotaur Double Guardian Phoenix Double Guardian Uber Elder (Maven watching) Shaper (Maven watching) PRO's: Massive DPS Very tanky Chaos immune Elemental resists 85-90 No resists on gear needed Can do any map mod (need swap gear for reflect and a mana flask for no regen) Clears HotGM map Harvest Lab runner Con's: Expensive
PoB community links
High budget PoB (around 5-7k exalt) Mid budget PoB (300ish ex) PoB lvl 73, 1mill dps, clears t16 https://pastebin.com/B3dFTgkV Thanks to RagnarokFromAsgard for sharing his settup
Gear
All the visible rare gear can easily be crafted with Awaken combine and Harvest. All the pieces are self made except the bow.
- Hatt enchant is optional between any 50% aura reserve reduction - Adjust resists to level/multipliers of auras, when you get enough non-curse aura effect you can remove all resistance from gear and focus on influence stats. - Tailwind does not affect dps of BV so i dont use it, if you love movespeed go for that :) - Since this build absolutely destroys all trash content; stay clear of any "on kill" effects from gear and focus on influence stats that affects bosses. Gear priority: +lvl of gems bow>circle of guilt rings>explosion chest>lab enchant>the rest
Jewels
Uniques: Watcher's Eye, use prefered mods. There are many good ones! Rare: Stats to look for: Reserve implicit as you need it, ES>Multi>critt chance, physical damage/spell damage Medium cluster: - In the start, use as many Cost reduction nodes as needed for puritys/discipline. When your jewels have enough reserve, switch reserve to first among equals/replenishing precence. - For a huge boost in Aura effect, use Purposefull Harbringer combined with 2 or 3 Heralds. Large cluster: 3 Identical large clusters, or alternately 1 could be a cold cluster with Blast-Freeze
Flasks
Cinderswallow, Basalt flask, Quicksilver and a Diamond flask are the basic flasks. Bottled faith when/if you can afford it, and Taste of Hate is also very good.
Links
Blade vortex: - Only Unleash and Empower are required - The others can be switched depending on taste - increased AoE and Concentrated effect for example are viable Chest: Shoe: Hatt: Glove: - Auras can be anywhere, use enlighten supports as needed - Vaal blade vortex is recomended for extra dps - Alternate quality and awakened gems are not needed but nice!
Leveling
- Kill all bandits for extra skill points
- Level up using prefered leveling skill, BV is no fun at lower levels
Geting started, item priority and budget
8ex Bow Remember to get one with low Dex req, 170 max!! +1 gems, spell dmg, multicraft double dmg/support gems 1ex Rings Decent Circle of guilts 1x Less reserve/aura effect 1 Aura effect/phys dmg) 1ex Hatt enchant Pride aura is the cheapest on hubris, highly recomend crafting yourself either on a redeemer base for rmr or essence rmr) 9ex Large Cluster jewels (easy to craft yourself for much less) 3x physical: Battle Hardened, Force multiplier and Iron breaker 10ex Medium cluster jewels (craft yourself costs much less) 2x Purposeful Harbringer 1x Pure might, guile and aptitude. 2x Self Control - The rest of mediums are Replenishing presence or for budget first among equals - This is the starting settup before you have a lot of rmr, as you go along and get lots of reduction, you can start to replace self control and pures with aura effect. 6ex Amulet Agate base for Str/int ilvl 82/83 - Buy/craft RMR on redeemer - Buy/craft +1 physical skill gem on warlord - Awaken combine Fix stats in harvest now or later 6ex Unnatural instinct Very good for reduction of cost for heralds you need to utilize purposefuls 5ex Conqueror's efficiency with RMR corruption 10ex Cobalt jewels with RMR Start out with just ES/RMR, upgrade later) 10ex Chest Decent vaal regalia with explotion 5ex Boots belt and gloves These are bonus slots, they dont need any particular stat to make the build work. 1c - 2ex Quiver Multi are the most important. If you can craft crit chance/frenzy on crit even better Upgrade later 3ex Flasks Cinder/basalt/quicksilver/diamond/Taste of Hate + Bottled faith as budget alows 1ex Watchers eye with at least 1 useful stat and RMR Upgrade later Total budget about 70ex If the guide is missing something il update on request. For any questions feel free to message me twitch.tv/knusethus Last edited by knusethus#6823 on Apr 2, 2021, 4:41:16 PM Last bumped on Apr 2, 2021, 4:39:44 PM
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how much to get it ok for playing?
got around 100 ex but doesnt seem enough=[.. |
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My gear is a lot now, but i actualy did this as leaguestart.
Granted it was very rough before i got the means to start crafting. But 100ex would get you going just fine, and if you craft some of the pieces yourself even a 50ex budget is doable for a great toon! A low budget starting settup including the most important items would be: 8ex Bow Remember to get one with low Dex req, 170 max!! +1 gems, spell dmg, multicraft double dmg/support gems 1ex Rings Decent Circle of guilts 1x Less reserve/aura effect 1 Aura effect/phys dmg) 1ex Hatt enchant Pride aura is the cheapest on hubris, highly recomend crafting yourself either on a redeemer base for rmr or essence rmr) 9ex Large Cluster jewels (easy to craft yourself for much less) 3x physical: Battle Hardened, Force multiplier and Iron breaker 10ex Medium cluster jewels (craft yourself costs much less) 2x Purposeful Harbringer 1x Pure might, guile and aptitude. 2x Self Control - The rest of mediums are Replenishing presence or for budget first among equals - This is the starting settup before you have a lot of rmr, as you go along and get lots of reduction, you can start to replace self control and pures with aura effect. 6ex Amulet Agate base for Str/int ilvl 82/83 - Buy/craft RMR on redeemer - Buy/craft +1 physical skill gem on warlord - Awaken combine Fix stats in harvest now or later 6ex Unnatural instinct Very good for reduction of cost for heralds you need to utilize purposefuls 5ex Conqueror's efficiency with RMR corruption 10ex Cobalt jewels with RMR Start out with just ES/RMR, upgrade later) 10ex Chest Decent vaal regalia with explotion 5ex Boots belt and gloves These are bonus slots, they dont need any particular stat to make the build work. 1c - 2ex Quiver Multi are the most important. If you can craft crit chance/frenzy on crit even better Upgrade later 3ex Flasks Cinder/basalt/quicksilver/diamond/Taste of Hate + Bottled faith as budget alows 1ex Watchers eye with at least 1 useful stat and RMR Upgrade later Total budget about 70ex This should work perfectly and just scale better and more better as you add more better great lewts :) Last edited by knusethus#6823 on Feb 24, 2021, 11:27:11 AM
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Can I start this build with a 6 ex budget lolz
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On a 6ex budget i would start out as a regular BV, mabe with fire conversion or cold conversion. And morph into this as you gain power and currency. I started out doing this build at zero on leaguestart and it was very rough and not recomended..
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Added a working PoB for lower level, clears t16 maps easy at lvl 70+.
Soon adding a more optimized pob for endgame! |
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Exciting build ! Can't wait for end game pob !
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Added a high budget pob, there will be more changes as i develop my character.
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+1 WD
Great Guide. Looking forward to seeing End League Stats. Great job <3 |
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New pob with updated gear and skilltree: https://pastebin.com/hxfHyR7J
(Updated in guidepost also high budget pob) |
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