Raider Touch of Anguish Frost Blades Advice

Hi everybody. I found a Touch of Anguish claw and wanted to try out Frost Blades on my raider. So far it's working pretty well, but I seem to have hit a bit of a wall in terms of my ability to progress.

Essentially I do okay AoE damage, but my single target is terrible. I'm trying Vaal LS and it's working okay, but my low life and defenses is hurting my ability to deal with bosses.

I'm wondering if someone could look over my gear and my passives and make some recommendations to improve my build.

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yeah phys Frost Blades has shitty single target damage.

As far as i know Mpd and melee phys damage passives are not that good with proj skills since they scale only the initial hit (so you kind of waste a link in the armor and some passives).

For bosses you may use lightning strike, maybe with Call of the Brotherhood to still deal some cold damage.

ok mate, first of all i didnt wish to start this way but you pick wrong ascendancy to play with that claw.. it has to be pathfinder to maximize its potential.. ill list the reasons later,

1- your gem links are pretty wrong, melee phys dmg gem only boosts initial hit and has nothing to do with frostblades projectiles.. its kinda wasting gem slot for another dmg gem.. not bad but not ideal..

2- you have no penetration on gear, tree or gems.. you wanna use cold pen if you wanna reck some kids in poe with ele dmg.. go forces of nature asp on tree & fangs of frost. you need those nodes to make frostblades shine...

*** pathfinder has %10 ele pierce aswell*** you are missing absoulute cheeze here..

3- you are missing gg proj dmg nodes on tree, sniper&ballistic mastery&fury bolts , ranger starter 2 pts gives %26 proj dmg aspeed.. you didnt take them which is super bad choice...

4- inc crit gem is good if you have reasonable crit chance to make it worth, which you dont now.. inc crit strikes is kinda must for claws and sword crit builds.. and crit multi gem is worth on 6th link*i wouldnt even use it on 6l anyway* go inc crit strikes gem and go for fbreakers or remain with maligaros.. mali would seem better option right ? but fbreakers are better on claw builds which you lack crit multi on generic claw tree imo.

5- you lack crit multi on your amulet :)

6- running hatred seems waste to me on frostblades, you already have massive cold dmg, id just go wrath or herald of thunder&ash combo... wrath boost clear speed massively by shocking mobs ez pz aswell..

7- if you really wanna erase bosses as ele melee build, vinktars says hello from poe trade.. its like upgrading 150 pdps claw to 350 pdps claw.. differnce is massive.. and worth to spend some chaos for it

8- you lack some aspeed on tree, pathing of tree is kinda wrong.. for ele builds even they are convertion of pdps, aspeed boost dmg better than them.. so when u go claw circle, bind it from aspeed pdps claw of magpie part, and same goes for aspect of lynx part.

9- you may want to get command of steel and deflection to boost your shield node cheeze to raise your armour with lioneyes.. they are worth to grab imo for the future plans..

10- i would get primal spirit on ranger start its super underrated node on tree tbh.

11- dont like spending 2 points to reach revenge of hunted life eva cluster, better go in duelist eva ar life part

** like i said again, you need some penetration asap on your build, grab 2 penetrate cluster on tree asap and run manual ele weakness frostbite vs bosses, vinktars, aura changes, maybe finally going pathfinder will solve your all problems..

ok why pathfinder is better?
well i tested both and pathfinder is superior, esp for anguish claw

-%40 ele dmg boos while on flask
-%20 chance to freeze + shock on flask effect, %10 freeze chance from wep, %10 from belt it nets you %40 freeze chance which has super high synergy with build..
-%10 ele penetration and %100 flask charges gained vs shock freeze ignited enemy kill
-%20 aspeed while using just fucking flask without worrying to generate frenzy charges
- imm to all status ailment under flask

*** and finally massive boost to your rumi*ez max block with lioneyes*, boosting all gg flasks no need to mention names of them...

what raider offers?
- aspeed , damage? pathfinder has both without worrying about frenzy charges
- ele dmg boos? pathfinder has better boost
- phasing, onslaught? well you get them from flask junkie girl buffed flasks kinda permanently up all the time without worrying to trigger them with kill...

i tried this wep on my frostblades elementalist witch, with %90 95 crit chance you never ever freeze shit, which i didnt like at all, and tested as pathfinder and result was more than awesome..

hope it helps

cheers Stoya

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feelgod wrote:

ok mate, first of all i didnt wish to start this way but you pick wrong ascendancy to play with that claw.. it has to be pathfinder to maximize its potential.. ill list the reasons later

I disagree, it doesn't really have to Pathfinder, Deadeye works great as well. I'm currently running a dual wield touch of anguish deadeye, which gives me 3+ times chain on max frenzy, tons of projectile buffs and with rupture you get almost always bleeding enemies, which means 80% more crit chance and 40% more crit multi. And by god the extra chain works wonders.

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feelgod wrote:

6- running hatred seems waste to me on frostblades, you already have massive cold dmg, id just go wrath or herald of thunder&ash combo... wrath boost clear speed massively by shocking mobs ez pz aswell..

If you take cold damage nodes on the tree you can excel your cold damage with hatred a lot. I get 12k more tooltip dps with hatred, which is around 20k more with all frenzy charges up.

Came back to a ton of help from you guys. I'm going to play around with this advice and see if I can improve this build's performance significantly.

This was my first serious character in POE, and it was in HC no less. Needless to say, this post has been illuminating on the nuances of this game's mechanics.

One other thing you may want to look into - Ancestral Chieftain is the fix for any melee build looking to get single-target damage on an otherwise crummy bosskilling skill.

Chief > Melee Phys. (or WED, if you're doing something like Oro's Sacrifice or some other elemental weapon build) > Conc. Effect > Faster Attacks, on a random 4L. Drop it on a boss, and not only do you have something to hide behind and abuse Frost Blades' extra reach with, but the Chief will go completely bonkers on anything in his reach and deal more ST damage than you can without forcing you to stop dealing Frost Blades damage. It's both effective and hilarious, and since the Chief is a drop-and-forget skill, you can still Frost Blades or Vaal LS things for MOAR DEEPZ while the Chief is busy pounding his way to China using your enemy's head as his shovel.