[3.1][ASC] Blade Flurry Scion Full Abyss Gear - Shaper/ Red Elder down

EDIT for 3.2 : The build stays the same, Shroud of the Lightless is even cheaper on Bestiary.


Hello everyone, i just wanted to share a build i had a lot of fun with this league. I wanted to kill Shaper with all the Abyss gear, with that done, i think the build has done its job.

It features all the Abyss uniques(except the belt, but you could use it with appropriate jewelery) and a lot of Abyss jewels, so it fits the league very well.






Although the items i propose are quite expensive (The Shroud Body Armour is already around 10ex and more but that's the priciest), you can run it on a budget really well and if you don't like Blade Flurry, you can use Molten Strike or Frost Blades : we stack lightning damage on jewels, so all those attacks are strong anyway.

You can get the items i listed for about 15ex, and this is almost my only character, so i made them from scratch with this build.

Short list of pros and cons :




The PoB Pastebin :

Just the PoB to my character



The Skill Tree :

This tree is for lv90. To me it's a reasonable amount of xp to say your build is maxed.

We go Slayer for the overleech and Raider for Frenzy charges and Onslaught against uniques. This choice ensure us to get a good DPS vs Bosses. You could go Assassin to get more critical chances and free Power charges while mapping (because you get free frenzies with Blood Rage on kill anyway). This choice is overall better for mapping, but you will struggle to get frenzies on Shaper for example.


The tree is basic, around crit and lightning damage : We get the Lightning nodes and crit next to Assassin, and the Crit/Sword nodes starting from Slayer. We grab all the jewels we can at 2-node distance. You could take more, but you'll loose life or crit IMHO.

For Bandits, we can take 2 skill points to get jewels early or Alira for more EleRes and CritMulti.


Tree :




Gear :


With the "all abyss gear" constraint we must use :










Those items do some work for the build :

- Lightpoacher is a very good boost to our clearspeed. If you don't want to use that, a 4-Link Frostblade in a Starkonja is a really good option.

- Shroud of the Lightless gives us free elemental penetration, and Shade Form. I used a 2 Abyss socket one (4-Link) because they were cheaper, and killed Shaper with it, so DPS isn't capped at all. We also get up to 22% life with the jewels.

- Tombfist gives us Intimidate with a Murderous Eye jewel in it, so 10% increased DPS. The attack speed is nice too, and the Abyss socket of course.

- Bubonic Trail is nice for the move speed and the 10% damage for each type of abyss jewel we use. However, we only use Murderous and Searching Eye jewel for the stats we need on them.



The rest of the gear is straightforward, as we want to cap our elemental resistances, get the stats we need for our gems and get some Crit/FlatDmg/Life. We also want a Stygian belt for the socket.

Those are my items, you could get whatever item you want as long as they give you the stats above :




We use a sword for this build, so we need a Rapier with Flat elemental damage, Crit chance, Crit multi, and elemental damage with attack skills. I found this one for 2ex, not the best but does the job :



As it's super hard to cap res, get life AND get accuracy, we get rid of the accuracy problem with Lycosidae. Again, if you don't use Abyss gear, you can can all these stats a bit easier, and get a good Shaper/Elder stat-stick to get insane damage with Blade Flurry, but we want the Abyss gear.





Gems :


For our Blade Flurry we use :


To support the Spirit Burst from Lightpoacher we use :


We use Shield charge as our movement skill :

The buff we use are :

On the defensive side we use :


Jewels :

We have more than 10 jewels, and they are really core to this build. We are taking Abyss jewels because they combo with the Shroud and flat lightning damage is insane.
The stats we want are :





The jewels i have were around 10C at the time i bought them, most are ~5c. You can look at those on the PoB or the pieces of gear i linked.

They are some very good jewels on the market for 1-2 ex, and they increase our DPS quite a lot.


Flasks :

No question for this build, we get cheap and effective ones :



Lion Roar is an option too for mapping, but it makes you run after bosses.

Pantheon :

Major God :

Minor God :



Remarks :
- The build is not cheap, but not that expensive either. You can really start with 20c of gear and building up currency to upgrade it : That's almost my only character this league, i started Molten Strike, then switched to Blade Flurry once i had Lycosidae and the sword.

- As i said earlier, you can switch Blade Flurry with almost any melee skill : Frostblade, Molten Strike, Reave, the list goes on. Just replace the appropriate gems.

- The build was made around the Abyss uniques, but you can do something very similar without them. You can surely upgrade your defences without them, maybe even your DPS.

- The DPS in the PoB is not a lower bound, but you can clearly go to something like 2M DPS with better jewels, weapon, jewelry, and a 5-link Shroud.

- For leveling, you can go Molten Strike with Ancestral Call if you find Blade Flurry to slow before Lightpoacher. After, it should be fine.


Conclusion :

This build is quite potent, and fun to play, as you will Shield Charge trough maps with Lightpoacher and few Blade Flurry hits to clear, and kill Bosses with swiftness. You will look cool as duck without any MTX and beat Shaper's ass.
Hope you had a nice time reading that and have a nice day !