[3.5] Death by a Thousand Cuts - Frost Blades & Blade Flurry Raider

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

uh...we're talking like 2 pages back. This whole thread is out of date, but w/e

This whole thread is out of date because the league just started, and this build has gone through some significant changes, so not many had actually gotten a chance to try this build as it's stated here yet.

So yes, please do actually read. You're basically repeating what the guide's already said.

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CynthiaCrescent wrote:

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

uh...we're talking like 2 pages back. This whole thread is out of date, but w/e

This whole thread is out of date because the league just started, and this build has gone through some significant changes, so not many had actually gotten a chance to try this build as it's stated here yet.

So yes, please do actually read. You're basically repeating what the guide's already said.

then...oh, i don't know, edit and update it. I'm not going through 13 pages of noob questions.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

then...oh, i don't know, edit and update it. I'm not going through 13 pages of noob questions.

No one told you to read the thread, just read the guide. It's been updated a week ago. You should hold off on commenting on things you haven't actually read. Just a tip.

POB: https://pastebin.com/bm7jNrGK

Everything has been going super smooth up until about red maps. I still absolutely delete red map trash, and only die if I'm zoning out during an Abyss or something.

The biggest issue is red tier map bosses, and some high yellow bosses. Once they are shaper/elder influenced and regain their health or something halfway to me killing them, I have a really hard time staying alive. It's also not unpopular for depending on the mod (Enfeeble, etc) for the boss to just straight up one shot me if I happen to not get Fortify back up instantly, have my res flask up, etc.

Obviously get good in terms of keeping my defensives up, but I think it's a build issue as well possibly in the tree or gear. I'm level 88 with 5.1k life, and I guess I can see where I can get *more* life on certain pieces, but I don't have the currency yet.

Edit: Made a slight edit to my build since this post - I got a new helm with tri-res, so now I am 75% in all res before flask except Light which is 72%, but that works out for Wise Oak so w/e. I know fire would be better but it is what it is.

I also changed around my gem links and got Vaal Grace w/ Increased Duration.

Hi, can anyone link the correct skill tree for this build ? the one in the first post was for 3.0.0

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Thanks a lot :)

The skill tree is up-to-date, it's just that PoB export defaults to the old version for w/e reason. Either way it should now use the 3.1 tree now.

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decyphier wrote:

The biggest issue is red tier map bosses, and some high yellow bosses. Once they are shaper/elder influenced and regain their health or something halfway to me killing them, I have a really hard time staying alive. It's also not unpopular for depending on the mod (Enfeeble, etc) for the boss to just straight up one shot me if I happen to not get Fortify back up instantly, have my res flask up, etc.

You can compare your tree with the tree in the guide. Your having no Phase Acro, 2nd Wildfire jewel, Wise Oak, Quartz Flask, or Constitution is making the difference. There're still a lot of things you could do to make the build more defensive.

Added Abyss gear.

I've been running this build and found it to be exceptionally good. Pretty much all bosses and trash melt, have pseudo 6 link gloves for frost strike. I've pretty much maxed out my gear, every upgrade is above 5ex in cost.

I am currently very low life, around 4.3k, which can definitely be improved. but I'm also sitting at 10 frenzy charges with an extra 20% dodge from the darkray vectors, not to mention my MS has culling strike and is around 2.7m ST if all the balls hit.

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CynthiaCrescent wrote:

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decyphier wrote:

The biggest issue is red tier map bosses, and some high yellow bosses. Once they are shaper/elder influenced and regain their health or something halfway to me killing them, I have a really hard time staying alive. It's also not unpopular for depending on the mod (Enfeeble, etc) for the boss to just straight up one shot me if I happen to not get Fortify back up instantly, have my res flask up, etc.

You can compare your tree with the tree in the guide. Your having no Phase Acro, 2nd Wildfire jewel, Wise Oak, Quartz Flask, or Constitution is making the difference. There're still a lot of things you could do to make the build more defensive.

Hey OP, thanks for reply. Really appreciated. It's my first "endgame" evasion based char, so I am pretty new to how I am supposed to build its defenses.

Comparing my skill tree vs. your skill tree currently, I made a lot of changes and will test.

1. Regarding Phase Acro, it's an extra 10% dodge and 30% spell dodge, but we already have 10% from Veil during Phasing. You really feel those extra % are worth? I can try but I'd like to see what you think.

I also changed my Onslaught flask to a Quartz and picked up Wise Oak - so actually now that I think about it, with phase acro, we have 50% chance to avoid spell damage. That's pretty good, but I'll wait and see what your opinion on phase acro is still.

2. I noticed you didn't take these nodes:


So I removed them, giving me 9 points to use. With these points, I was able to grab the 2nd Molten gem slot/equipped it, and hit the Constitution life wheel and got that as well. I also noticed that I had an extra 4% max life node taken, so I took that away and added it to one of the 5% in the life wheel.

I also took these 3 nodes away:


and moved them to get Will of Blades. I lost 60% crit so I am under 40% without flasks or buffs, but is that still okay for now?