[3.24] 🗡The Nightblade🗡 Unholy Might : 100% phys converted to chaos

Hey, thx to you all for the million views !
I deeply appreciate it, as a recognition for my work on this build all this time (4th birthday of the build coming up next week !)

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Current PoB in Sanctum :
https://youtu.be/IA8L3BglkIU
Level 77
Alternate full cold dmg setup, with the White Wind dagger and Hrimsorrow gloves.

An efficient and very cheap setup, specially designed for the Sanctum. Since usual defences are useless, you quickly max chill and freeze enemies, by dropping a juiced Frost Bomb at their feet, then you backstab them with BF.

> Frost Bomb + Bonechill + Inc AoE.

I'm going full Evasion stuff, hoping it can help to evade some attacks in the Sanctum.
Also, the White Wind + a cluster on the tree allow for an easy 100% Spell Suppression, saving several nodes on the tree (no need to path to Magebane).

(* Thx to Kitsunea for the idea of 100% cold conversion.)

Here is a demo in the Sanctum, when I was level 40ish with just the Mightflay or Widowmaker daggers :

One Good Stab !
With the bosses of the first two floors.

Hope you like it ! Thanks again for your interest and have fun :)

As I'm slowly progressing in Sanctum league, I'm devising an elemental-based setup for the build. I'll call it :
The High Voltage version of the build.

PoB level 88 : https://pastebin.com/iDWdsAsf

This setup is quite experimental. But I like to test new things.
It relies on a number of very cheap uniques items (most of them <10c ) that have a satisfying synergy.

First, we need to chill and freeze Guards in the Sanctum. So we convert 100% phys to cold with the Hrimsorrow gloves.


Then, we add a well-rolled White Wind for massive cold dmg + spell suppression :


I had a natural drop of the Heatshiver. I didn't know the helmet tbh, and this is where things become interesting.


We get a lot of cold as extra fire dmg against chilled and frozen enemies.

We add Yoke of Suffering amulet = all elem dmg can shock.

With 40% inc effect of ailments on a elem mastery, I can reliably get 25% shock effect.

Then High Voltage anointment grants 100% inc crit chance against shocked enemies. This anointment is quite cheap : amber - indigo - indigo.

We get a lot of elem res with these uniques, but not much life. It doesn't matter too much in the Sanctum, as the goal is to avoid hits.

For the guards in the Sanctum, I use Ancestral Warchief totems + Frost bomb to deal dmg while I keep moving. This is especially useful in this room with the two skulls that spit a fire beam.

CONS
I've begun red maps, and I'm quite weak. For the moment, I don't have enough life, nor Fortify nor CwDT + Steelskin...
I will test the Pyroshock belt.


With a perfect roll, you take 30% of phys as elem. Of those 30%, you take only 25% = 8% (rounded up)
Total : you take only 78% of phys dmg. 22% less phys dmg taken is huge !

All this seems promising. I'll keep you in touch once I'll have further tested this setup.

Good luck and have fun ! :)

I've never gotten to them before, but why do you say the build is not Pinnacle boss (Uber, I think?) viable? Looks like the damage is very high right?

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Twistntie wrote:

I've never gotten to them before, but why do you say the build is not Pinnacle boss (Uber, I think?) viable? Looks like the damage is very high right?

Maybe I can do Uber Cortex, with some training.
I've tried Uber Eater and I insta-died from his beam. Never tried the other so far.
Gotta get better, I guess ;)

oh! It's a defensive issue, I gotcha. How are you enjoying the new league, the builds look really cool!

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Twistntie wrote:

oh! It's a defensive issue, I gotcha. How are you enjoying the new league, the builds look really cool!

The rewards are not amazing in the Sanctum, compared to what we got in leagues like Ultimatum, Ritual, Archnemesis etc. I guess we are spoiled children now ;)
But the Sanctum itself is really good. One of the best content of the game.
The ambient and design are top-notch. It really feel gothic and mysterious, like PoE should always be. The guards and bosses are cleverly designed, with very telegraphed attacks. If you get hit, this is your fault.

I hope it will go core, one way or another.

I'm still working on a new version of the build. It is the 4th birthday of the build on december 23rd, so I'll have something ready.

December 23rd, 2018-2022 : 4th birthday of the Nightblade !

Cold-based version of the build in Sanctum.

PoB level 91 : https://pastebin.com/W9taT6ge

The idea is to go full cold dmg with several cheap uniques that maximize elem dmg.
In a league where the Divine orbs are worth almost 300 chaos, this build is very cheap and efficient. The uniques cost 10c or less.

Current stuff :





Features :
* 100% cold dmg (gloves)
* Gain cold dmg as extra fire against chilled/frozen enemies (helmet)
* Elem dmg can shock (amulet)
* 120% inc effect of non-damaging ailments = stronger chill and shock (boots + tree)
* Divergent Blade Flurry (40% inc elem dmg)

* 100% spell suppression (dagger + tree)
* Convert up to 30% of enemies phys dmg to fire and lightning dmg (belt)
* 10% of phys dmg taken as fire (Lethal Pride jewel)

From then on, improving the build will require fine tuning, like :
* A Loreweave (but it's not cheap to get 4 green sockets on it)
* A Watcher's eye with Hatred and/or Precision mods
* Good Eldritch implicits
* More chaos res
* Catalysts...

Here's a new video in Sanctum league, featuring some farming, then a fight against the boss of the 3rd floor in Sanctum. Be prepared to face the...

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Hope you like it, good luck and have fun :)

I'll do my best to continue improving the build for its 5th year !



Always up for an adventure with the bros !

Hello. Still a beginner here i wanted to ask can anomalous BF turn into anomalous vaal BF
and is it realistic to do it to my gem to try and turn it into the vaal version?

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HXAIV wrote:

Hello. Still a beginner here i wanted to ask can anomalous BF turn into anomalous vaal BF
and is it realistic to do it to my gem to try and turn it into the vaal version?

Yes, you can get an Vaal Anomalous gem, or any other Vaal + alterate quality. But this is gonna be expensive. I don't know what are the odds of getting the Vaal version outcome. They are no better than 1/4, that's for sure.
You have to buy the Anomalous gem before and it costs at least 50 chaos :
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/dZk8YePFJ

And there is no Vaal Anomalous for sale at the moment.

My best advice would be : go to a vendor, buy several level 1 BF and then slam Vaal orbs. If you want some more AoE, use Increased AoE support or Pulverise support, or get some AoE on the tree.
Vaal BF will cover the whole screen anyway.

Good luck and have fun !

Two variants of the Blade Flurry Assassin

I regularly check Poe.ninja/daily to discover what variants of the build some players have come up with. It's always a pleasure for me to find new variations.

1- Psych0sh00ter has gone full psycho with a Ming's Heart setup. The ring reduces life and ES by 25% but grants 69% of phys dmg as extra chaos ! (with catalysts)

His character wield two cool 400+ DPS daggers.
A very good amulet with phys dmg as extra cold and lightning dmg.
On top of that, he has Devoto's helmet with "+1 max BF stage" enchant.
And a remarkable total of 680 DEX, as well as 75% chaos res.

The only thing that seems useless is the Diamond Flask as the Inc Crit Chance support already raises crit to 100% (not to mention the bonus from Ambush And Assassinate).

PoB : https://pastebin.com/QU1FcQeJ

2- Combatwombat666 has made a poison Blade Flurry Assassin that is just superb. He has chosen the legendary Bino's Kitchen, who has been buffed in 3.20.
The Covenant body armour has been reworked in 3.19 and now grants a level 29 added chaos dmg support, which is massive.
Just compare the numbers :
Level 20 grants 154 to 213 chaos dmg (183 average), while level 29 grants 377 to 565 (417 avg) !

The Impossible Escape jewel is cleverly used to get 4 nodes around Conduit at the center of the tree.
The Forbidden jewels allocate Born in the Shadows from the Saboteur, to blind enemies and take reduced dmg from them.

The Asenath gloves allow for cool physplosions + Temp Chains, while the Burden of Truth belt grants a good chunk of ES and life flasks applying to ES as well.

If one day I go back to Bino, I'll be sure to copy/paste this build, and watch the enemies die in a Perfect Agony.

PoB : https://pastebin.com/wUWRmGiU

Of course, both of these builds use Vaal Blade Flurry. Because you just need to blast the screen.

Good luck and have fun !