[Help]Mahuxotl flicker strike

Hello all, been browsing poe.ninja for flicker build ideas and saw this person https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/Belirs/RaiderWashedUpStrand using Mahuxotl's shield and tempered by war. I've never thought to use this shield on a flicker build so I decided to spec into it and see how it feels. Prior to this, I have been following this guy's https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/qhe61416/Ten_FrenzyFlicker build.

This is my 2nd league, so would like to ask more experienced players about the costs of going mahuxotl's shield


I'd like to ask

1. Is it possible to improve the dps with this build? The player doing this has 1.6m dps @ lvl 100

2. according to PoB,

-I have 210k EHP against elemental dmg

-131k ehp against chaos dmg

-27.7k EHP against physical dmg

-is this worth giving up going for lots more dps with darkscale vectors boots?

3. I assume this build is more for general mapping/not suitable for bossing, am I correct?

4. Are the playstyles any different?

5. I would like to do as much content with flicker as possible, which build allows me to do that better?

6. According to PoB. I'm not losing much dps changing to this build. Perhaps I should use this build to level first, before respeccing once I have better items?

My PoB: https://pastebin.com/Y8DZL1Qp

PoB contains a model build I was following, my mahuxotl build, and my items/tree before switching to the mahuxotl build.

Thank you for your help:)

That build is a great idea but you should know that he has at least 100ex invested into that build. For 2M damage it is hard to justify. I am sure survivability is through the roof.

Greetings,

i didnt expect anyone to try out the wonky build i respeced into yesterday!

to answer some of your questionst :

1. I rerolled 1 day ago and im currently still pobing/lvling up gems and trying to figure out the right ballance between offence and survivability. The dps is deffinetly improveable !

2. For general mapping i dont feel like i need more damage currently so im focus on survivability.

3. I made the build out of boredom and to try out new gems and game mechanics. Sirus 8 / t14/16 mapping without any issue.

4. For bossing i would play a different skill since flickerstrike on bosses like sirus or maven is kinda wonky / has a high chance to get you killed.

5. the forum guide you linked seems suiteable to clear all content .

6. a generic flicker strike build would most likely be more effective at clearing content especially concidering the ammount of currency i invested so far. I lvld to 100 with a scourge arrow pathfinder then rerolled out of boredom trying to make the shield work.

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Belirs wrote:

Greetings,

i didnt expect anyone to try out the wonky build i respeced into yesterday!

to answer some of your questions :

1. I rerolled 1 day ago and im currently still pobing/lvling up gems and trying to figure out the right ballance between offence and survivability. The dps is deffinetly improveable !

2. For general mapping i dont feel like i need more damage currently so im focus on survivability.

3. I made the build out of boredom and to try out new gems and game mechanics. Sirus 8 / t14/16 mapping without any issue.

4. For bossing i would play a different skill since flickerstrike on bosses like sirus or maven is kinda wonky / has a high chance to get you killed.

5. the forum guide you linked seems suiteable to clear all content .

6. a generic flicker strike build would most likely be more effective at clearing content especially concidering the ammount of currency i invested so far. I lvld to 100 with a scourge arrow pathfinder then rerolled out of boredom trying to make the shield work.

Oh wow, it's RaiderWashedUpStrand! Didn't expect to see you of all people. The build seemed so interesting I just had to try it, but I felt really slow, so I specced back out of it...

Thanks for answering my questions! I didn't realise it was just an experiment and thought it was a 1000IQ strat. Personally I tried your build out, and definitely felt tankier. I asked around about opinions on the build but the consensus was that with flicker strike, it's best to kill before you are killed.

I felt like I had comparable damage to your build yesterday but still struggled with some map bosses. Though I must say I'm not very proficient at using PoB yet, maybe I had less damage than I thought.

I have never successfully killed sirus 8, last time I tried had zdps and lost 6 portals. Can your build really kill sirus 8?

Looking forward to see the future of this build! :)