[2.1] Hyaon's Fury Lightning Strike / ST || 85k DPS + Light Pen, Budget, Insane Defences, HC Viable
 2.1 TREE
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Shadow Templar Bandits: 40 Life, 8% Attack Speed, +1 Frenzy 2.1 NOTES
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There were some changes to the tree on the right hand side, but overall little to no difference. Static Blows got changed and I highly recommend picking it up. Also since Blood Dance got nerfed, some ES gained on hit will be nice from your jewels as well (2-4 is enough). Also try to get Life on your jewels as well.
Note: Take the jewel socket nodes that need 3 travel points last (such as the one that gives 4% elemental, 4% elemental, jewel slot). Spectral throw itself got buffed by around 16.7% DPS. Another note, link whirling blades with Blood Magic, it helps your ES recharge on the move. The new Vinktar's Vessel is a great flask for this build and should allow you to face-tank everything for 5 seconds, but it is quite expensive. Try to get the lightning penetration or added lightning version. Also use it with a grounding flask so you don't get shocked. If you are running this in HC, be careful. Don't run maps that are too difficult. Skip some bosses if necessary. If your ES is too low, retreat and wait for it to regen. Get heaps of life on jewels. Try to get 5k Life and 1.5k+ ES by level 85-90. 2.1 LIGHTNING STRIKE EDITION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLz6O-crKQ Lightning Strike - Added Lightning - Lightning Penetration - Multistrike - WED - (Faster Attacks) 2.1 FROST BLADES EDITION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARyL5OYLae0&feature=youtu.be Frost Blades - Added Lightning - Lightning Penetration - Multistrike - WED - (Chain / Faster Attacks) BUILD FEEDBACK
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" " " " " _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.0 STUFF New Video Demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FCL2UDFLoc Intro
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Hyaon's Fury Spectral Throw / Lightning Strike / Frost Blades So I wanted to test out something different and Hyaon’s Fury was always one of those items that intrigued me which led to my attempt in making a Pure Lightning Hyaon's Fury Spectral Throw build. I also wanted to make a budget build worth something close to 10-15 chaos, as I would only be able to play this league for around 4-5 days. I also had to make this build as tanky as possible to survive the All-Mods weekend (with Beyond, Rampage, Domination, Torment, Bloodlines, Onslaught etc.) This build is distinctively different from standard Ele-Buzzsaw builds; since we are focused primarily towards a single element, don't use BM and take advantage of Lightning Penetration. Although this build was typically unviable back in 1.3, a number of successive buffs have made this build surprisingly strong. Notable changes include the damage buff to Hyaon’s Fury, the reduced damage taken from Frenzy Charges, buff to Frenzy Charges as well as the introduction of jewels. DPS
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At level 90, my DPS is 20k with LMP and Lightning Penetration. No Flasks, No Vaal Haste.
 Lightning Strike with Lightning Penetration and Frenzy charges (Replace ST and LMP with LS and Multistrike)  Buffed Lightning Strike  Buffed Frost Blades with Lightning Penetration and Faster Attacks  Pros and Cons
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Pros
- Really Cheap, takes only 10-15 chaos to put together - Hardcore Viable - High DPS - 30% Damage Mitigation from EB/ZO/MOM - Shield Block - High Mobility and Good Clear speed - Fun to Play - Atziri Viable - Arctic Armour Cons - Low Armour (Depending on Gear) - Low Evasion (Depending on Gear) - Can't run BM/Ele-Reflect maps - 12% increased Damage Taken from Hyaon's Video
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Level 75 char, running a level 72 Underground Sea map with Beyond, Onslaught and Rampage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtZRUzMKnM Gorge Run with Level 86 Character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FCL2UDFLoc Bow Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8jjKlS0Hk= T-10 Bazaar map with: - 21% more monster life - desecrated ground - 3 additional projectiles - monsters have stun immunity - 80% extra damage as lightning - Monsters gain 2 power charges every 20 seconds https://youtu.be/eCWO6rCiowc For the record, I don't recommend doing any map involving Avian Retches + GMP + Extra damage + Crit. I just did this for demonstration purposes. Gear
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Updated Perfect Gear (For Lightning Strike)
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Reasoning Behind Gear
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This is my current gear at the moment. Most of the items here are worth around 1-3 chaos except my 5L lightning Coil. I was very lucky with some drops and managed to get an Alpha’s Howl and some other decent items that allowed me to make 2ex and afford this item. Up til around level 70 or so, I used this chest piece to moderate success.
Hyaon’s Fury is my main weapon and I managed to get this decently rolled one for 3c. Try to get a high attack speed roll. The DPS is insane and can be a lot higher with more frenzy charges. However, since I didn’t want to go overboard with the increased damage taken, I only run 4 Frenzy charges which gives me 12% increased damage taken which isn’t too big of a deal. I’m running Blood Dance boots for the Frenzy charge generation since the degen from Blood-rage is quite dangerous, especially when all my life regeneration is applied to my Zealot’s Oath + Eldritch Battery + MoM combo. I use a Lightning Coil as my 5L chest piece. Lightning Coil provides a strong defensive boost and synergises very well with Mind Over Matter. This item can be substituted for a decent 5L Armour/Evasion chest. Daresso’s Defiance and Belly of the Beast are also great options. Ideally, on your jewellery, you generally want flat lightning damage, Life, Resistances and WED if possible. Gloves you want flat lightning damage, attack speed, life and resists. For Shield and Helm, you want resistances, Life and ES if possible. Also try to get Dexterity on your gear, since the tree doesn’t grab a lot of Dex. Skill Tree - Templar Passives Progression (Templar)
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Passives 1-30
Passives 30-60 Passives 60-90 Passives 90-100 Skill Tree - Shadow Passives Progression (Shadow)
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Passives 1-30
Passives 30-60 Passives 60-90 Passives 90-100 Reasoning Behind Skill Tree
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This is my final skill tree for around level 80, since I don’t want to run Blood Magic, I path across the Witch section for the EB/MoM/Zealot’s Oath combo which brings a lot of survivability for my character. This also grants me access to several powerful lightning nodes as well as 4 jewel sockets within easy reach. I mostly skip out on all the less efficient elemental nodes.
Get Resolute technique when your accuracy starts dropping, at around level 50-60. Pick up the EB/MoM/ZO nodes at around level 40-50 (when you can equip your immortal flesh). After level 80, grab all the additional Jewel nodes as they provide a substantial DPS boost as well as more life. Also grab Static Blows for the Shock chance. Templar and Shadow are both great options, Templar has an easier start with access to nice nodes early on. Shadow is slightly more efficient and more damage oriented, but the armour and ES from Templar will help with sustaining your EB drain and become a bit beefier. For Bandits, go with 40 Life, 8% Attack Speed and Frenzy Charges. Jewels
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Jewels are going to be a primary source of damage, since attack speed nodes are quite scarce and elemental damage nodes are quite weak. On your jewels, you generally want (prioritise attack speed):
- Lightning Damage - Projectile Damage - Increased Damage - Attack Speed - Attack Speed while holding a shield - Attack Speed with Swords. - Attack Speed with One-handed Melee Weapons - Attack and Cast Speed - Projectile Speed (For ST/FB only) Any combination of these 3/4 affixes will provide an insane DPS boost (try to prioritize attack speed over damage). You can also grab Life or resistances if necessary. ES on hit is also a nice option to have. I wouldn’t recommend any unique jewels though. Although Static Electricity seems like a potential option for this build, there is no pathing through dexterity and the flat damage from the jewel will be weaker than grabbing increased lightning damage and attack speed instead. Luckily, since combinations of these affixes aren't that popular, you can get these jewels for quite cheap at 1-5c. Links
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For Spectral Throw, my links are:
Spectral Throw – LMP – WED – Lightning Penetration – Added Lightning Damage – (Life Leech / Faster attacks) If you go for a 6-L, I would recommend Life Leech since your DPS is already insanely high, although Faster Attacks will provide a very significant DPS boost. Gem setup for Lightning Strike is (Lightning Strike - Added Lightning - Lightning Penetration - Multistrike - WED - (Faster Attacks)) and Frost Blades is (Frost Blades - Added Lightning - Lightning Penetration - Multistrike - WED - (Chain / Faster Attacks)) I also run a single-target Double Strike setup consisting of: Double Strike – WED – Lightning Penetration – Added Lightning / FA / Multi-strike. For my Auras, I run Herald of Thunder – CoH – Conductivity, Wrath and Arctic Armour. Curse on Hit conductivity provides a solid DPS boost and the higher shock chance allows you to destroy bosses very easily. For Utility Skills, I use Whirling Blades – Faster Attacks – Fortify – Blood Magic. You need to link blood magic with the setup, so that you can recharge your ES on the move. I also run CWDT – Tempest Shield – Enfeeble, for the extra survivability boost and block chance. For the golem, I use a Chaos Golem + Minion Life, to provide further tankiness. So all in all, defensively we have: - Block Chance - Lightning Coil damage reduction - Mind over Matter damage reduction - Arctic Armour damage reduction - Chaos Golem damage reduction - Enfeeble Damage reduction - Ranged - Whirling blades + Fortify + ECOMs. Which makes it extremely hard to die. Levelling
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Levelling might be a little annoying early on. I pretty much used Lightning Trap/ Fire Trap to level from 1- 30. I then switched to ST and used a Fedilitas’ Spike from level 30-62 until I was able to equip my Hyaon’s Fury.
I got Immortal Flesh at level 50 and it made my levelling a lot smoother since I could entirely forego mana flasks. After getting around 1200-1500 ES (or 800 ES for the bow version), I suggest switching to a belt with high ES/Resistances/Life if possible. Notes
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This build can handle most map mods except Blood Magic and Elemental Reflect. Carrying a Topaz flask will be great for reflect mobs. Lightning resist / EE maps are doable since your DPS is high and you have lightning penetration. I would avoid Chilled Ground/ Temporal chains since they are just annoying to play with.
In total this build is extremely budget and affordable. Even with my crappy gear, I was able to get to level 85 without a problem and complete all my challenges in less than a week. Without the Lightning Coil, the gear would be worth around 10-15 chaos total. As with most ST builds, use your mobility and range to your advantage, don’t jump into packs recklessly, ID your Strongboxes etc. Thanks for reading! Last edited by cookees on Jan 15, 2016, 11:14:47 AM
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Uh... might want to post your whole link for the tree, dude.
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Ah whoops my bad
Last edited by cookees on Oct 22, 2015, 1:22:25 AM
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Played a similar build before 2.0 but abandoned it because it sucked.
ST didn't increase ele damage back then, frenzy charges didn't have more dmg mult, no jewels, Hyaon had double the damage increase on you than it has now. From what I can see from the vid however it looks only slightly better than what it was before. The only redeeming quality is that it is super cheap to build. One thing I don't get - why aren't you taking Static Blows? You aren't crit so your chance to shock is extremely low (which is made worse by slow attack speed), you don't deal a lot of damage so shock duration is also low. Static Blows is +15% shock chance and +50% duration. Increasing Field of View in PoE: /1236921 Last edited by Shajirr on Oct 22, 2015, 4:50:33 AM
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Supreme, you can level up your Tempest Shield gem to level 7. You can also level up your Flame Golem gem to level 2.
The chance to Vaal +1% maximum resists on an amulet is less than 1/300.
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@Shajirr
Hey shajiir, thanks for the response. Yeah Hyaon's fury has been buffed a lot recently but I was disappointed that no one was running it with ST so I decided to try and make a build out of it. I think it clears quite well. The beyond mobs slowed me down a bit, but I felt its clear speed and DPS is actually better than some ele-buzzsaw builds I made back in 1.2 and 1.3. I remember ZiggyD's 1.3 buzzsaw had around 7k DPS at level 78, while this gets around 13k minimum at a lower level, factoring in lightning penetration. My gear isn't great since I started a few days ago, but if you've got the currency, upgrading jewels, getting high level and quality gems, way better jewellery, corrupted frenzy charges, better gloves etc. will easily double this DPS. About the static blows bit, I actually thought about getting static blows for a while. Ultimately I decided that the 15% shock chance wasn't worth 4 nodes. i already get around 15% from my tree and conductivity adds another 15% too. I felt that if i used those 4 nodes to grab 2 jewel sockets, it would be more efficient since jewels can roll shock chance as well as provide a large DPS boost. In the end its based on personal preference. Even though the BAT for Hyaon's is low, i get around bonus 120% attack speed so that increases the proc chance of shock a fair bit. But yeah, static blows is a decent cluster if you want it. @Daresso Yeah sorry I'm a bit lazy haha. Ideally I should be leveling those gems but since I'm only using tempest shield for block chance and the golem for increased damage I just left them at level 1. I'll probably level them up later. | |
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Updated with current gear
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Final Update (Added a Voltaxic Rift Tornado-shot bow version)
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Sorry but I can't find your bandit choices~ But i plan to do resistances (normal), attack speed (cruel), Frenzy charge (Merciless)
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Hi! Im currently playing your build and relly enjoy it! The defences are insane, especially with legacy coil. I think it's one of the tankiest budget builds ever cause of 30% damage absorbtion from legacy coil and 30 from MOM (ofc max block incinirate is tankiest, but it's not as fun and stylish ^^).. Im just lvl 68, but already enjoy this build. LVLing process was quite hard, and i can advice to use
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Want to ask you about absorbtion of damage, i don't completly understand what works 1st - MOM or Coil? And also what about using Devoto's devotio? Isn't it better then rare helmet if u can cape your resists ? got luckily, so got enough energy shield and resists! |
