[2.6 / 3.0] BLADE VORTEX OBLITERATION

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jabberjabber2 wrote:

Can someone please take a look at my character? I only have 5.6k life, not sure where else to get life from. Character name hiddenmagicvortex.

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lallalaus wrote:

There's not much more you can do about it, you can buy jewels with 7% and finding a bit more life on your gear (like 80+ on boots), but that's usually pretty expensive. With few more levels, taking the last few life nodes you have available, you should aim for 6k. You cannot really push it much higher than that while using Devoto's.

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HQuality wrote:

addin 50 cents for HC:
instead of obliteration can go something like innsbury edge which is obviously slighly worse in terms of dps, but instead have phys-chaos conversion and a little bit of extra leech which is good for reflect issues + a good shield that way u can shield charge fortify and realize your insane as, or just 2x inssbury with whirling and fortify, for speed clearing just use abyssal cry - iaoe - void manipulation, op as fck

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Norky wrote:

Thank you to lallalaus for the guide, this has been a very enjoyable build to play. I'm only level 80 in softcore Breach so far, but crushing content.

I'd like to report good success with MoM and the damage taken gained as mana when hit mechanic. I'm using Rallying Cry with two Spirited Response. Rallying is up all the time due to ~30s duration, and it gives me approx 30% generic increased damage (scaling with number of nearby enemies), mana regen, and 20% damage taken gained as mana when hit, added to the 8% from a Praxis ring, for a total near 30%, i.e. the same that MoM takes.

With a 5K life pool and almost 2K mana pool (unreserved for Clear Mind jewel) I have almost 7K effective hit points.

If I take a hit of 6000 (after mitigation), 4200 is taken from life, leaving me at 800 life, 1800 is taken from mana. Even if mana is 0 at the time, the damage taken gained as mana when hit will replenish it first, before MoM takes it away again. It's a very powerful synergy. (It can be taken to absurd extremes with over 70% of a character's life being backed by MoM and over 80% of damage topping up mana - but that's getting off-topic). Either way, I've felt very tanky so far, and haven't picked up a lot of life nodes yet, or even Vaal pact, there's also lot of room for improvement in

my gear

My character is Kroyn

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jabberjabber2 wrote:

Having a hard time picking between flasks, which 5 of these flasks should I be using for boss fights (uber atziri, shaper, guardians)? Should I drop witchfire brew and cast vulnerability as an aura, which would mean giving up herald of ash.

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lallalaus wrote:

You should definitely drop herald of Fire, the damage it gives you is negligible. I would drop the life flask or the basalt, depending on the boss fight. If it's an heavy physical damage fight, like Atziri's trio, I would use the basalt (crafting it with remove bleed). Most of the time I do not think it's worth using life flask atm, they cannot compare with the utility ones.