[3.25] Cheapbunny's Freezing Crit Hexblast Impending Doom Assassin | The Felbog Fang

Return of Kalandra Jewelries has made this build possible again, so I decided to update this build to 3.25, and this time with some focus on freeze because of freeze buff.

Updated to 3.25 - Settlers of Kalguur
- Replaced Timeclasp unique ring with rare kalandra ring
- Added Leveling Section
- Updated Gears/Skill Gems
- Updated POB to 3.25

Previous Version Update
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Updated to 3.22 - Trial of The Ancestors League
- Removal of Crucible skill tree on weapons
- Added POB for 3.22, no change to the build



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Introduction
This is my third build in Crucible league, and has become not possible due to the removal of Anomalous Impending Doom Support in 3.23. Return of Kalandra Jewelries in 3.25 has made this build possible again, so I decided to update this build, and this time with some focus on freeze because of freeze buff.

This build has surprisingly good damage, can take down some ubers without much issue. It also has decent defensive layers, like decent ehp/cap chaos res/cap spell supress/leech+regen/ghost dance/freeze+shatter. However this build does not clear super fast, there is a slight delay in dealing damage, as you need to wait despair to expire to trigger impending doom or cast Hexblast to trigger it.

I definitely had a (Hex)blast playing this build, hope you enjoy the build/guide.

Build Thought
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The build idea started with the unique amulet The Felbog Fang.


This amulet gives a lot of bonus, with conditions of applied curse being closed to expired. So we will need a skill that deal damage at the end of a curse to fully utilize the bonuses from the amulet. Yes, you guess it right, they are Impending Doom & Hexblast.



Because they are both chaos spell, we will use despair to trigger the bonuses and damage.



Despair has base duration of 12seconds, how to gain the bonuses from amulet almost instantly?
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The idea is to reduce Despair curse duration to below 1 second.

1. Curse Skills have reduced Skill Effect Duration from Ring
This is a kalandra ring that require reflecting mist to craft.


2. 20/20 Less Duration Support


With theses, Despair duration can be reduced to 0.6seconds, which mean we can get all the bonuses 0.45 (0.6 x 0.75) seconds after casting Despair.





The setup is done, we can get more curse effect from other source
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1. Curse Effect Cluster and Mastery


2. The Felbog Fang (No longer available)


3. Despair quality


We will get total 80% increase in curse effect for Despair, which is huge because -chaos resistance is hard to get.



Why Assassin?
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Hexblast has the one of the lowest base crit chance in the game (4%), Assassin's Ascendancy gives base crit bonus which helps a lot. Occultist would be a good alternative, it has better clear due to explosion. But I went for Assassin for more damage scaling.


Why Low Life/Hyrbid?
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There is no good damage aura for chaos spell, especially when Hexblast is already able to apply maximum shock effect to all enemy (skitterbot is not an option), so I decided to use Petrified Blood to stay low life and get 30% more spell damage from Pain Attuinment.



Besides, Petrified Blood/Low life/Hybrid has been buffed quite a lot due to Mastery change in Patch 3.21, it has become a very viable option.




Build Mechanic
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Hexblast Cast Time
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In my setup, Despair duration is 0.6 seconds and full effect after 0.45 seconds, so Hexblast needs to be casted between 0.46~0.6 seconds after casting Despair to gain all the curse expiration bonuses, you will need to find your hexblast timing sweet spot which depends on your Despair duration.



Freeze/Chill
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This build also invested into freeze/chill. Thanks to hexblast high base damage and all damage can freeze bonus, it can freeze/chill all the bosses including ubers (reducing their action speed reduced by 50%), it makes some boss fights really trivial.

This build also gains damage from freeze and chill by getting the passives/mastery below.








Defenses used in this build
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1. Decent evasion rating (11k+ before flask)

2. Around 7k+ Ehp (Hybrid Life+ES, Corrupted Soul from Belt)

3. 75% Chaos Resis

4. 100% spell suppression cap

5. Ghost Dance

6. Life Leech (from gloves implicit) + Energy Shield leech (Passive tree)

7. Freeze + Shatter

8. CWDT Steelskin

9. Pantheon
Soul of Araakali/Garukhan for mapping
Soul of Araakali/Ryslatha for bossing




Videos
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Settlers of Kalguur League


Crucible League
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Skill Tree (POB)
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Kill all bandits.
7 Sep 2024 - [POE 3.25] 98 lvl skill tree (Latest)
https://pobb.in/loWJvrZ80syg

17 Aug 2023 - [POE 3.22] 97 lvl skill tree
https://pastebin.com/d6EZSxma

7 May 2023 - [POE 3.21] 97 lvl skill tree
https://pobb.in/XHBKxGQIPYjk



Leveling
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Use Ethereal Knives in act 1 until you get Hexblast/Despair in act 3. Swap into self-cast Despair + Hexblast in act3, and try to get Blasphemy support on Despair to automate Despair as soon as possible.

My leveling tree:
https://pobb.in/JG6AQAzzHBLa

Only swap into Impending doom + Despair setup after you got the reduced curse duration kalandra ring and Felbog Fang.


Ascendancy
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Unstable Fusion -> Deadly Infusion -> Ambush and Assassinate -> Oppoturnistic


Gears
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Weapon
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Early/Mid Game
Spell/Spell Crit/Chaos damage rare wand

End Game




Helmet
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Helmet

End Game
Life/Support Gem deal more damage while on Low Life/+Level of Socketed AoE Gems/Resis Rare Helmet


(Need to have at least 1 Evasion on Helmet)
(Eldritch Implicit : Increased duration of Non-Damaging Ailments/Increased Damage per Power Charge)

Crafting Guide
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1. Buy ilvl 85/86 EV based helmet

2. Use Essence of Hysteria until you get good suffix


3. Eldritch craft prefix for good prefixes and one open prefix

4. Bench craft +1 Socketed AOE Gem




Body Armour
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Body Armour

End Game
High EV & ES/Spell Suppression/Resis/NO LIFE MODIFER Rare Body Armour


(At least 10% spell suppression is needed to reach cap)
(You can save one point on passive tree if you can get 14%+ Spell Suppression)
(Eldritch Implicit : Zealotry has increased Aura Effect/Gain a Power Charge every 14 seconds (at least))


Gloves
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Gloves

End Game
Life/Resis/Damage while Leeching Rare Gloves

(Need to have at least 1 Evasion on Gloves)
(Eldritch Implicit : Chaos Damage Leeched as Life/Chance to Unnerve Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit)


Boots
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Early/Mid Game
Movement Speed/Life/Resis Rare Boots

End Game
Movement Speed/Life/Resis/Spell Suppress Rare Boots

(Need to have at least 1 Evasion on Boots)


Belt
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Early/mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Belts

End Game



Amulet
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Amulet

End Game


(Quality : Caster Modifiers)
(Map Clear: Skittering Runes Anointment)
(Single Target: Force of Darkness Anointment + Additional Curse Corrupted Implicit)


Rings
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Rings

End Game
Life/Resis Rare Ring + Cast Speed/Reduced Curse Duration Ring


(The ring with Reduced Cures Effect Duration is a kalandra ring that requires reflecting mist to craft.)
(Try to get at least -80% Reduced Cures Effect Duration)


Jewels
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Unique Jewel



(Slot in specific jewel socket, refers to POB)

Legion Jewel

(Need to make sure the jewel does not change the allocated notables)
(Dominus Variant : Increased Area Damage per 10 Devotion/Increased Effect of non-Damaging Ailments on Enemies)
(Slot in specific jewel socket, refers to POB)

Rare Jewels
Crit Mult/Spell Damage/Chaos Damage




Gem Link
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6L Hexblast (Body Armour)
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4L Despair/Impending Doom (Helmet)
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4L Wither Totem
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2L Lightning Warp
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2L Steelskin
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2L Auras (Reserved with Life)
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1L Skills/Aura
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My other build guide


Last edited by cheapbunny on Sep 7, 2024, 9:26:23 AM
Last bumped on Sep 27, 2024, 1:16:55 PM
Update
7 Sep 2024
- Replaced Timeclasp unique ring with rare kalandra ring
- Added Leveling Section
- Updated Gears/Skill Gems
- Updated POB to 3.25

17 Aug 2023
- Removal of Crucible skill tree on weapons
- Updated POB skill tree to 3.22
Last edited by cheapbunny on Sep 7, 2024, 9:25:42 AM
this looks so cool!!!
How important is that Crucible tree on the wands ?

Those seems hard to get i belive...
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anPoulsen wrote:
How important is that Crucible tree on the wands ?

Those seems hard to get i belive...


It is not too hard to get since I only look for 1 node, but build will work just fine with other nodes. I chose to use the curse effect crucible node just because it matches the The Felbog Fang amulet's theme and almost no one find this mod useful.
Last edited by cheapbunny on May 11, 2023, 12:23:30 PM
Enjoying it so far, leveled with it no problem...

Just had to deviate up to power charges first then right had side of tree then left

Lvl 89 so far, Mostly get killed due to positioning.

One question any alt quality gems worth swapping around too? or is just better to get the 21/20 superior?
Last edited by Lavacaverns on May 14, 2023, 8:17:04 PM
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Lavacaverns wrote:
Enjoying it so far, leveled with it no problem...

Just had to deviate up to power charges first then right had side of tree then left

Lvl 89 so far, Mostly get killed due to positioning.

One question any alt quality gems worth swapping around too? or is just better to get the 21/20 superior?


what did you level it with? which gear, skills? or you just immediately started with the hexes on level 24/28?
Last edited by Gadarel on May 15, 2023, 12:16:37 AM
I was no speed runner if that what u asking...

And this aint no league starter, going to need the Basic stuff. tabula, right Militant faith for inner conviction.
Once those power charges start pumping you good. Leveled straight to 68 with a life sprig and storm prison lol.

Just follow the skills used and add gems as you come into the level with em.

Mind you i had pre-bought crafted everything before starting the build. So i had everything ready to go on level to swap too.
Finding the 20% reduced is a bit meh atm, there usually is only one and its 150c+ so snipe that shit asap


Last edited by Lavacaverns on May 15, 2023, 2:15:12 AM
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Lavacaverns wrote:
Enjoying it so far, leveled with it no problem...

Just had to deviate up to power charges first then right had side of tree then left

Lvl 89 so far, Mostly get killed due to positioning.

One question any alt quality gems worth swapping around too? or is just better to get the 21/20 superior?


Superior is better, other alt quality does not do much, and we dont want too much cast speed on Hexblast as well.
I'm newer and wanted to start this build but had a question.

How were you able to get the window of opportunity without needing to link it to the rest of the tree? I see an aura over Magebane but not sure how it works.

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