* Add Flame Dash as an extra movement skill for lab or rough terrain when you need to jump which you cannot do with whirling blades or shield charge.Īim to have at least 70 life on every rare piece of gear.
PATH OF EXILE SHADOW BLADE VORTEX BUILD FREE
* Link heralds to Enlighten support to free up a bit more mana for MoM. * Link golem to CWDT to have it automatically resummoned. It also greatly reduces enemies life regen which is useful against high regen targets. It adds 25% cold penetration when triggered and we do deal quite a big deal of cold damage.
PATH OF EXILE SHADOW BLADE VORTEX BUILD HOW TO
There are no hard and fast rules on how to use these extra slots, here is a few possible ideas: If you have the Warlord's Mark curse on hit ring, you can remove Warlord's Mark gems, opening up a few slots. You can use blood rage if you can sustain it (have enough regen). Gloves: Herald of Thunder - Blind - Curse On Hit - Warlord's Markīoots: CWDT (10-12) - Immortal Call (12-14) - Increased Duration - Warlord's Mark (12-14) Helmet: Whirling Blades - Faster Attacks - Fortify (+ Blood Magic with MoM) Weapon2: Herald of Ash - Herald of Ice - Golem Weapon1: Orb of Storms - Arcane Surge (5-6) - Power Charge On Crit Level 12 appears to be a good balance, although you may keep it lower early on. You don't want to keep your CWDT too low level as you don't want your endurance charges to be consumed every time someone looks at you funny. The latter is required in single target situations (bosses) where the curse cannot be applied by the heralds. This setup serves two purposes: it triggers Immortal Call to prevent all physical damage for the duration, and also casts the Warlord's Mark curse. This will however reserve a lot of mana so you will need to either switch to Watcher's jewel based mini-MoM or unspec MoM altogether which would have a negative impact on survivability.ĬWDT (12) - Immortal Call (14) - Increased Duration - Warlord's Mark (14) Herald of Ice - Ice Bite - Innervate - Increased Critical Strikes
If you have Inpulsa's and want to clear even faster you can use this setup borrowed from the autobomber builds: Herald of Ice - Culling Strike - Onslaught - Ice Biteĭo not use this setup with Inpulsa's armor as it steals herald's kills most of the time. Herald of Ice can be used on its own, however if you have enough spare links and mana you can try the following combination, it works great if you don't have Inpulsa's armor yet: The fourth link is going to be Blind - our chance to evade jumps to over 50% against blinded enemies. This doesn't reserve any extra mana and reliably curses enemies around you while exping. Herald of Thunder is going to be linked to Curse On Hit - Warlord's Mark gems.
Herald of Ash doesn't hit and doesn't trigger any on kill events, so just leave it alone and use as is. Here is how we are going to utilize them: We use all three heralds: Ash, Ice and Thunder. Allows to move faster with whirling blades or shield charge as well as spin up vortex blades quicker. Lightning golem is the best for this build. Important: keep Arcane surge low level so it gets triggered by a single cast of orb of storms. If you are already using PCoC with Blade Vortex, replace it with Blind here. And you also get power charges when it crits. Arcane surge gives 13% more damage, extra cast speed to spin up the blades faster and some mana regen on top of that. Orb of storms - Arcane Surge (level 5/6) - Power Charge on Crit If using MoM replace Culling strike with Blood Magic. If using shield replace Whirling Blades with Shield Charge if you like it better. Whirling Blades - Faster Attacks - Fortify - Culling strike Use Conc effect on tough bosses, and a support of your choice for mapping. Replace Added Fire Damage with Hypothermia once you get the Beacon of Ruin ascendancy node. Minor: Gruthkul (phys damage reduction) or Shakari (poison immunity)īlade Vortex - Added Fire Damage - Controlled destruction - Physical to Lightning - Increased Critical Strikes - Efficacy / Power Charge on Critical / Increased Critical Damage / Concentrated Effect Pendulum of Destruction -> Mastermind of Discord -> Shaper of Desolation -> Beacon of RuinĬrit multiplier, resists, mana regen - the lot, everything is useful for this build. Use Concentrated Effect if your dps is lacking. Everything gets chilled, shocked and frozen and then just explodes.Ĭan't leech - heavy flask work, consider rerollingĭrop orb of storms to get arcane surge going, spin up to max blades, pop flasks and go to town. Simply keep on spinning and whirling blade into packs while popping flasks. Have to be in melee range to deal damage Blade vortex mechanics may feel clunky to some + Scales exceptionally well in the end-game. + Fairly cheap to gear, not gated behind rare/expensive uniques. This build is fairly cheap to gear, not gated behind rare/expensive uniques. The renewed Elementalist ascendancy offers a good synergy with the Blade Vortex skill and the heralds.
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