[3.8] The Zoominator - [Blade Vortex] [All Content] [Top 25 Lab Speed Runner][League Starter]

PROS

350%+ movement speed (400%+ is possible with a few gear changes)
Able to evade most attacks due to the extremely high evasion rating we have while flasks are up
Able to do all content in the game (have not tried Uber elder yet though, should be doable with proper flask management)
Basic leveling gear is cheap even at the start of the league
Almost 100% flask up-time
Able to do all map mods except reflect (ele and phys)

CONS

Low health pool comparative to other builds (4k Health, 1k unreserved mana for MoM. However, our hybrid flask fills these two very fast when your low on either.
Won't 1 shot bosses, even with optimal gear it still takes a few seconds.
Getting the exact colors for the armor can be quite difficult (I have provided a few different methods and alternatives to the colors I suggest in the gem section below)

Mapping: Charge up your blade vortex to 10 stacks, run into pack, hit all flasks (except health pot). Cast orb of storms in packs of enemies to get power charges. Stand there until blade vortex murders the enemy (typically you can run through white mobs and they die in 1 hit). If its a boss swap out your inc aoe gem for conc effect. Use vaal blade vortex during mapping for hard rares, and of course for the boss. If you are feeling squishy at the time, use charged dash to get fortify up.

Lab: Prior to entering lab, swap to running gear. Enter lab. Pop smoke mine and detonate it, hit phase run and then pop all your flasks except the health pot. Run to the exit of the area hitting your flasks and phase run as required to keep your speed up. As while mapping, using fortify can save your life, use it when you feel squishy.

Izaro fight: Position yourself as close to Izaro as you can. Swap back to your damage gear. Charge up your blade vortex to 10 stacks. Before izaro hits you, pop all your flasks. Cast orb of storms to get arcane surge up. If you are particually squishy, use charged dash to dash through izaro ending up beside him. Typically you will be able to dodge his attack, if you can't we have enough health pool with life + mom to mitigate 1 hit. Sometimes you will just get 1 shot, this doesn't happen very often to me. Perhaps once in 20 runs, if that. You still need to dodge huge attacks, this character isn't invincible. BEWARE OF THE REFLECT LIEUTENANTS POSITION AT ALL TIMES. You will end up 1 shotting yourself.

FULL OLD VIDEO GUIDE HERE --- NEW GUIDE COMING SOON

Please see the gearing explanation section below for a full breakdown of the gear and why I chose what I did.

This gearing explanation is based off my final gear in 3.8 Blight League.

Main Weapons (For boss killing):


Ideal Weapon Stats: 2 X of physical damage as X mods, spell damage, spell crit added X to spells, cast speed.

Ideal Shield Stats: +1 level of all physical gems, critical strike chance for spells, and any resistances required to be capped using main weapons.

Switch Weapons (For running from point A to point B):

These two items are used for running throughout the lab when you are not attacking Izaro. Phase run gives us an extra 15% movement speed. An alternate to the allure claw and shield is the Gryphon. I did not go this route though as I didn't want to rely on killing anything to gain the bonuses, but it will give you more movement speed overall.

Helmet:

Devoto's for this build is a must as we zoom zoom everywhere and need all the movement speed we can get. Enchant wise I chose Smoke Mine Grants an Additional 30% movement speed. However, any enchant that directly affects the skills we use will be beneficial such as Blade Vortex Damage/AoE/Duration, Smoke mine, or phase run.

Armor:

Queen of the forest is essential as most of our movement speed comes from our evasion rating. Coloring this armor to our ideal colors(3B2R1G) can be quite difficult and expensive. It is NOT necessary to have these exact colors, I have provided alternate colors in the gem setup section.


Belt:

Life+Resistances+Reduced Flask charges used. Reduced flask charges used must be at 20% so that our 2 use flasks will now have 3 uses.

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For extra ZOOM ZOOM!

and of course for mapping, nothing beats

or for some extra sexyness


Gloves:

The new maligaro gloves are amazing! At least a 100% crit multi increase vs. what we would normally have. The additional crit chance is great as well. These are however "league specific" gloves now to legion league. However with the addition of scarabs, this isn't really an issue. The vulnrebility on hit is not necessary at all, I just purchased it for 1.5ex and couldn't let it go (very good deal).


Boots:

Huge evasion rating, Life, Spell Dodge. For the enchant try to get movement speed if you haven't been hit recently.

or

For extra zoom zoom you can use (ignore the gems in it please)



Rings:

Essence worm is used for our 50% mana reservation grace aura. For the 2nd ring I chose to use an unset ring as there was no other place to put herald of ash into my gear. The ideal ring would have life+resistances+cast speed+ X of physical damage gained as X (Last one is not necessary, but would be very nice damage wise if you can accomplish it).

Amulet:

With the addition of the 300% constant crit multi gloves, the negative effects on this ammy are negated. Gives a ton of crit, life, mana, and even some stun recovery. Excellent!

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For extra ZOOM ZOOM!

Flasks:

In my opinion this is the most important part of the character. For the health flask you want a Catalysed Hallowed Hybrid Flask of Staunching as this refreshes your health and your mana in a pinch. With the extra flask effectiveness for life flasks we have, the gain is more then our life pool. The overflowing chalice allows us to gain flask charges while we are zooming around due to our ascendancy choices. The remaining flasks are fairly self explanitory. Movement speed because zoom zoom, and any way to increase our evasion rating so we can hit the cap of 45,000 for queen of the forests maximum potential. Be sure to quality your flasks all to 20 when you can get enough baubles.

Jewels:

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Alira for the mana regen, crit multi, and of course all elemental resistances.

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with aoe gem in main links using main weapons


with conc effect gem in main links using main weapons


using all movement speed gear


lvl 100 skill tree


5th place in lab

If you need a 3.8 leveling skill tree. Load this up in Path of Building. Go to "Tree", then go to the bottom by the reset button. Click "manage trees" and a menu should appear with all of your options featuring my lvl 90 character.


https://pastebin.com/m0iH72qS
The skill trees below have been updated as of patch 3.8.1

These are just my personal preference and reasoning behind by choices.

Normal Lab - Veteran Bowyer
Damage pen, extra damage, and flask charges? Yes please!

Merciless Lab - Nature's Boon
Chance for flasks not to consume charges, flask charge gain which combined with Overflowing Chalice is insane, reduced ele dmg taken. This is amazing for lab as the majority of the time you will be at full flask charges by the time you get to Izaro. Even killing a tiny pack of monsters should net you full flasks.

Merc Lab - Master Alchemist
Immunity to elemental ailments during flask effect, Extra elemental damage, 20% to cause ailments during any flask. Helps a bunch with getting flask charges again as we gain charges on ailments.

Uber Lab - Nature's Adrenaline
Extra movement speed for end game mapping and labbing.

Major - Fully upgraded Soul of Lunaris:
Up to 8% phys dmg reduction, up to 8% movement speed, projectile avoidance, some dodge, and avoiding projectiles that chain. All amazing stats for this build making it even better at maps and lab.

for more movement speed
Minor - Fully upgraded Soul of Garukhan:
Chance to evade attacks and more importantly movement speed if we haven't been hit recently.

OR

For some extra tankyness when stationary
Minor - Fully upgraded Soul of Tukohama:
Physical damage reduction up to 8% and life regen when stationary up to 2%

Guest videos perhaps? If you have played this build in 3.8 and have video of it and would like to share it here, PM me.
If you have any requests of a specific fight or gear set you'd like me to try, please let me know.

My Level 90 character in Blight League doing Uber Lab in 3 min 51 sec

My Level 90 character in Blight League doing a Tier 16 Hydra map /w 1 dumb death

Jelbishi for his older speed farming guide. You can check that out Here

see the gear showcase section for 3.8 for current gem links for now until i finish this section

here is what i have so far for leveling guide, i want to make this more comprehensive so its down here at the moment.

Caustic arrow to level 12
miarage archer, caustic arrow, pierce
buy a vaal blade vortex if you can, makes bossing much easier
Blade vortex + 2 other supports. I used Increased Crit and added cold until i could get added fire (your ideal links would be vaal blade vortex + increased critical strike + added fire + spell echo
get 2 axiom perpentiums if u can
once u get to act 2, use all 3 heralds, you will need to utalize a mana flask until ur regen out regens ur bv costs. The mana sustain gets better over time once u've gone throughout the tree a little bit
at level 38, get spell echo
use spell echo + vaal blade vortex + added fire dmg + increased critical strikes
use charged dash or flame strike
act 6 boss really really sucks now in 3.7, careful
Acquire a tabula (farming blood aqua/channel or via trading)
Acquire atziri's steps 16% evade if you can
Acquire essence worm
Upgrade all other gear to have resistances capable of the act you are in
Acquire hrimsorrows or maligaros gloves
Acquire ungil's harmony
Acquire 2 divinarus
Acquire a devotos devotion
Acquire remaining rares that max your resistances

more to come, this is as far as I can remember.