[3.14] CoC Spellslinger Blast Fall/Blade Blast End game #Expensive

Salutations Exiles,




DO YOU WANT A BUILD THAT DOES MANY SHAPERS PER SECOND?
DO YOU WANT TO RUIN YOUR EYES AND YOUR GPU?
DO YOU WANT TO MELT CONTENT?
ARE YOU RICH?


If you answered yes, keep reading!

EDIT 1: I just realized I am on poe.ninja :D https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/themoongamer/HeraldOfThunderGoesBOOM but the dps if obviously wrong! We deal a lot more shapers per second :(

I have always wanted a blade fall/blast build that is zoomy and reliable, and here we go!

This is my first build guide on PoE forum, and first post speaking of which! So I will try to refine it based on your comments.

This build is not 100% original, I have been following the original Poet's Pen CoC build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2785328.

This build is fantastic and got me mid game without issues.

Being the theory crafter that I am, I wanted to make something a bit unique based on it. If you read that build, you can clearly see that we can push for more damage by going low life and stacking auras. For this reason, my version of the build is going to be more expensive and end-game oriented. If you want a league starter guide, the former build does a perfect job, so I will not cover that.

Also I will not be going into the DPS calculations, as this is already covered as well.

So let's get started!

Mandatory Items:

Low life + Auras automagically means going Shavronne's Wrapping and Prism Guardian, these are mandatory items.




Almost all of our auras will be reserved in our life pool. The Mana will be used for spellslinger.

Since we are scaling energy shield a lot, tranquility is a good annoint. However, to stack more aura, we will leave the annoint for Charisma, therefor, I have decided to go with:
and annoiting Charisma.

Thus, the best way to get Transfiguration of Soul, is to use

The helme enchant is extremely important, since we are not using Poet's Pen anymore, but rather spellslinger, our cooldown time on both spells will be worse.
Explanation:


tl;dr: We can reach 0.33 cooldown with boots + enchant.

By reducing the cooldown, we can cast more bladefalls and blade blasts.
We also still have Blade Fall on CoC with barrage, so that's that.

Even though we cast less often, we hit harder!

Using Spellslinger, have two advangtages:
- Our spells gain bonus damage from equipped wand
- We can socket them in rare items with cool mods

I have decided to socket Bladebast in Shaper gloves:

Since we always crit as assassin, the crit multi is a massive bonus. We could also use the warlord mod inc. spell damage. Notice how both mods are elevated, but that purely a luxury. The Slower Projectiles effect is completely useless, i was just lucky to hit it, it doesn't work on blade bast and it doesn't even cost us mana reservation, so just ignore it.

To benefit from the increased damage from equipped wand, we can use a rare wand with High physical damage. However, Void Battery outperforms most them (except mirror tier wands).

Still! Our bladeblast doesn't benefit from Attack Speed, and there is actually a sweet spot between the wand physical damage and the increased spell damage which comes from void battery. For this purpose, I have decided to craft a rare wand with high phys + inc sell damage + crit multi.



Crafting procedure:


Since i am using a HeadHunter (not by choice really), I have decided to get cooldown recovery speed on Boots:


PoB says 14% inc cooldown recovery is fine, but 13% is not. I am good guy, I listen to PoB.

Since we lack resistances on both gloves and boots, we help Allira to get res + crit multi.

For our rings, one is scuffed with resistances:

and the other with damage

In my case, I use a filthy because of the inc in strenght and dex that we desperately need! Using HH allowed me to save few nodes in my tree.

Complete Gear + Gems Setup:


Flasks:


Cluster Jewels:


Jewels:


Gem Quality Alternatives



GIMME PoB ALREADY


Content Done:
Videos:


Other notes:


I do stream occuasionnaly on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lunarisgamer

Finally, i urge you write feedback and any ideas to push this bad boi even furhter BEYOOOND.

Cheers!

I think you would benefit by allowing twitch to hold onto your vods. I would have liked to see how this build generally performs, but you have no videos on twitch.

Thank you for the note! I have enabled VODs now on twitch!

Really cool build /guide / author.
Answer all my question on twitch and build is REALLY what it seems when follow the guide.
Good Job ! Don't hesitate to make other guide/build guy.