[3.6] Triple Herald Blade Vortex Elementalist

Im lvl 81 and still die sometime to lvl 72 temple at the final boss. I feel like i don't have enough life leech with only like 30% chance of evade ( 0 armor 0 block ). I use MoM but i have only 700 unreserved mana ( people always say to have like 30-50% of our HP as unreserved mana right ? ) ... Im afraid to try the uberlab and i realy need the last 2 point to get the ascendancy.

I play with the 2x duration tree instead of using acrobate one. Should i respect the tree ?

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Im lvl 81 and still die sometime to lvl 72 temple at the final boss. I feel like i don't have enough life leech with only like 30% chance of evade ( 0 armor 0 block ). I use MoM but i have only 700 unreserved mana ( people always say to have like 30-50% of our HP as unreserved mana right ? ) ... Im afraid to try the uberlab and i realy need the last 2 point to get the ascendancy.

I play with the 2x duration tree instead of using acrobate one. Should i respect the tree ?

Personally I went the acrobatics route. I used acrobatics on my arc trapper and it felt extremely tanky so I did it with this character too. It's especially good this league because of spell dodge > snakes in incursion. I really suggest it if you have survival issues.

I don't like the 2nd duration cluster because it takes too many travel nodes to get it. Also the way I play it's really not noticeable. I charge into a pack, cast 1 stack of BV as the pack explodes, charge into the next pack and repeat so I'm constantly casting BV as I reach packs. Maybe that's wrong and you're meant to stack up BV and just run around the map for 2 minutes and clear it.

As for MoM, I have doubts about its effectiveness when reserving so much mana. It also requires a lot of investment into mana nodes to get any respectable amounts of unreserved mana which I don't really like.

https://pastebin.com/TtCEe8CK

PoB link of my char if you want some ideas for the tree I went with. Or you can check my profile. Currently lvl 95, 6.5k life and it feels comfortable to do t16s with double beyond which can't be said for a lot of characters I've made in the past.

Oh btw, for the temple boss, you can't just stand on top of him with BV. If you do that, you die really quickly to some attack he uses you can't even see. You gotta shield charge around him all the time so you can see the attacks he's using and dodge them and just clip him with the edge of the BV and use Vaal BV.

I'm level 91 now and able to do T15 maps rather easily. I wanna improve further so I can do T16 maps and possible Uber Elder at some point. Any suggestions on how to reach the next level?

I feel squishy at times but only to one-hit mechanics or otherwise sources that deal massive damage and is usually easily avoidable.

DPS feels fairly good but I think there's a lot of room for improvement.

I'm working on getting Lab Enchants, I just hate doing Lab so I do max 1-2 runs daily. I also need to rework my Skill gems since I got a warlord's mark ring. Not sure what I wanna do with that but I will look at it later, any suggestions are welcome.

Great guide btw, great build, enjoyable to play.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/mgjerv/characters

POB https://pastebin.com/nzZhjRkC

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Im lvl 81 and still die sometime to lvl 72 temple at the final boss. I feel like i don't have enough life leech with only like 30% chance of evade ( 0 armor 0 block ). I use MoM but i have only 700 unreserved mana ( people always say to have like 30-50% of our HP as unreserved mana right ? ) ... Im afraid to try the uberlab and i realy need the last 2 point to get the ascendancy.

I play with the 2x duration tree instead of using acrobate one. Should i respect the tree ?

Only my 2 thougths, but I would not go second increased duration cluster, and I would not go acro and phase acro. Use your points for damgage and life cluster (Arcane Potency and Purity of Flesh). That only feels mandatory before lvl 90+, after that you have eonugh damage and life to have no problems. T15 and T16 temples and incursions are a joke if your damage is fine, opponents are dead before they do anything. Bosses in T15 are a joke, too, even with MF and only 4.8k life ! Vaal Blade Vortex and your Blade Vortex and they are dead before doing anything. Even Kitava in Belfry T15 withoug using Vaal Blade Vortex does nothing - each phase is over before he does anything - only normal Blade Vortex !

I have 85 lvl and 4k life. Can you tell me what should I change for?

Noob question - I can go from full stacks to zero in 1 sec sometimes, is it stun that removes the stacks?

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Im lvl 81 and still die sometime to lvl 72 temple at the final boss. I feel like i don't have enough life leech with only like 30% chance of evade ( 0 armor 0 block ). I use MoM but i have only 700 unreserved mana ( people always say to have like 30-50% of our HP as unreserved mana right ? ) ... Im afraid to try the uberlab and i realy need the last 2 point to get the ascendancy.

I play with the 2x duration tree instead of using acrobate one. Should i respect the tree ?

Elder ring with Warlord's Mark on hit does wonders. It's much better thet HOT - COH because COH won't proc 100% of the time.

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Is there a reason you take beacon of ruin over paragon of calamity? I feel that the extra leech and damage reduction helps the build along better while also giving a little boost in damage.

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Noob question - I can go from full stacks to zero in 1 sec sometimes, is it stun that removes the stacks?

What stacks? Endurance? If so, Immortal Call uses the Endurance Charges when it triggers (in exchange for longer duration).

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Is there a reason you take beacon of ruin over paragon of calamity? I feel that the extra leech and damage reduction helps the build along better while also giving a little boost in damage.

I'm curious about this as well. The primary benefit seems to be the more damage from shock and proliferation, but I don't know if it's worth 4 ascendancy points since Shaper of Desolation only has about 50% useful uptime (again, shock) and in a pinch, Elemental Proliferation Support exists (costing about 20-30% increased damage from a gem).

While leveling, I've been using Liege of the Primordial with Lightning + Chaos golems (gain +4% cast speed, 6% physical damage reduction) while I find the rest of the trials for uberlab and it's been going well so far. I'll give Beacon of Ruin a shot when I hit the lab, but I could see myself going for Liege of Primordial and Paragon of Calamity if it doesn't pan out.

It's a shame the Elementalist tree isn't better TBH.