[3.6] Triple Herald Blade Vortex Elementalist

First time playing Blade Vortex and i kinda like it. For you experts out there, any recommendation as to upgrades? For the link im using big quality of life supports to make mapping more enjoyable. Without spell echo though, i feel like im stacking blade vortex up to 10 really slowly. Am i missing some cast speed?

got 2 divinarius, much better, thank you !

finally i got my helm enchantment :)
any advice on what to work on next?:
also 2 other question: i have a mod on my amulet and my weapon GAIN X% to COLD DMG,
is this ok? or should i have only one item with %gain of the same element?
and where does it take all this physical dmg if im a caster?

is this any good for the build?
what can i do with it?

not really. you can't attack with elemental focus ever with this build. so that mace is just a 3link with a lot of unneeded modifiers. The 100% damage 100elemental damage and 70crit chance are all good rolls, although they'd be better on a dagger, personally this build has so much dps I'd just use a brightbeak+shield, unless I had a good dagger to go with that mace in a dualwield?

you could try selling the mace though, for a non-elementalist that could be a useful 5link 1handed weapon which might be worth a pretty penny?

edit:
while I'm at it, what's better? a cheap 5link inpulsa's broken heart with bad dice rolls? or a random 6link chest with mediocre defensive stats http://poe.trade/search/hamotokikotaku

as a stop gap to run maps until I can afford 4-5ex for a real 6link inpulsa?

This build has been a blase



T15 Elder was cake, though a roided out minotaur did curbstomp be 6x in a row.
Here's hoping I can get through guardians + shaper

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redlefthand a écrit :

I'll work on recoloring my inpulsa's to socket hypothermia and getting some better flasks. Thank you so much for bringing all of the stuff I forgot about to my attention. After the new flasks and socketing hypothermia, is there anything else you could suggest?

Edit: I socketed Hypothermia and my tooltip DPS went down. Is that normal?

The lower ingame tooltip DPS is completely normal, since it doesn't take the "x% more damage against chilled enemies" into account. In fact, the ingame tooltip is notoriously inaccurate for pretty much every skill, so if you want to compare something, always use PoB (make sure to check the "Is the enemy Chilled?" option in the "Configuration" section for correct Hypothermia DPS numbers).

Some other suggestions on what to upgrade: Vaal Blade Vortex instead of BV (20/20 is fine), Taste of Hate, Warlord's Mark Ring + Mark of the Shaper (big DPS boost + some free sockets, might need some resistance rebalancing), better/more Jewels.

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SkeletonRing a écrit :

Because heralds "hit" anytime that you hit something, it's not important what herald you link to the curse on hit with warlords mark, this should be mentioned in the build.
Edit: This also means you don't need to do the thing with CWDT for bosses. This'll also save a lot of currency, since you don't need off as many off colours on the gloves, since you can just use herald of ice

That's simply false. HoA doesn't hit at all and HoI and HoT only hit with the explosion/lightning bolts respectively. Both of those only trigger on shattering/killing a shocked enemy, which is not reliable against most bosses. I also don't see how getting off colours can get expensive for the standard setup of this build - Hrimsorrow have a super low Dexterity requirement, making it quite easy to get 2B1G1R on them.

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IllestRolla a écrit :

Imported it to a fresh build, and I see the same thing you do now. Thanks for the help. Edit: Looks like my POB wasn't the most updated version. All good now

Ackchyually ... those numbers aren't 100% accurate either. mrob4vt's PoB pastebin has the "Is the enemy Shocked?" option checked, which still slaps the old 50% more multiplier on top of your damage. The "true" more multiplier is 20% (base from Beacon of Ruin) * increased shock effect. You can either calculate this manually every time or edit one of your flasks (adding a "x% more Damage" line) to save it with your PoB build.

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AleXTC a écrit :

also 2 other question: i have a mod on my amulet and my weapon GAIN X% to COLD DMG,
is this ok? or should i have only one item with %gain of the same element? and where does it take all this physical dmg if im a caster?

Blade Vortex is a spell, but it still deals physical damage (just hover over the gem). Multiple "Gain x% of Physical Damage as extra <Elemental Damage>" mods don't conflict with each other and these mods are in fact one of the best options to scale your DPS.

hey can someone tell me whether this is good for this build

Can anyone recommend a good levelling dagger so I can get whirling blade up and running? Level 38 at the moment. Have the blade vortex 4 link and 3 link orb of storms, but not using whirling blade at all right now.

Guys, I kindly ask you to give an advise regarding the weapon choice.

Right now, I play the character with these two daggers:



I also got some weapons with shaper mods:



should I continue to use my current daggers, or a dagger in combo with one of the stat sticks would be more preferable?

Thank you in advance!