[3.11] Cold BV PF Indigon ft. RF | All content done in HC! | Fast mapper, safe boss-killer

ok so ive been working on my amulet - i managed to cap my chaos res elsewhere and got a free suffix now. what would u guys go for? i think the best optoins are either "%phys dmg reduction" or "cast speed". other option would be getting chaos res on amulet and freeing up a suffix on the shield for either #% chance to Avoid Physical Damage from Hits or #% chance to Evade Attack Hits. what do u guys think?





also did any1 try using natural affinity cluster jewel and just facetank every boss? is there something that would still kill us? :D

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Probably wrong place and not the best question to ask but still the majority of the players using assassin for bladevortex. Compared to assassin what could be the differences? Less dps but more qol/survivability i guess?

Maybe I have not been looking at the best assassin PoBs out there, but it seems like the damage is surprisingly similar. In fact, the bossing DPS probably goes a lot higher on PF with enough mana sustain to really push Indigon, but then of course assassin has the benefit during maps that its damage is 100% constant.

PF is definitely a lot tankier. This is comparable to a HoAg jugg in terms of hard mitigations, and it's got nice pool and sustain.

Outside of elusive, the movespeed seems to be similar, but then assassin gets a lot faster with its insane badge of brotherhood elusive effect.

I'm not sure which of the two scales the explodey chest the most. This build can scale the base 3% up to 60%, but no idea about assassin.

For AoE, the assassin PoBs I saw definitely scaled it a lot more than my own character, but there's an easy 50% increased AoE I could snatch right there on the tree to spec more into mapping.

Assassin has the benefit that it's a lot easier to put together initially, and is probably miles ahead as a league-starter, although it's probably more expensive to min-max than the PF, with stuff like badge of the brotherhood costing 40+ ex (I've read some debates, but I'm not enough of an assassin connoisseur to know whether or not that item is actually worth it)

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ok so ive been working on my amulet - i managed to cap my chaos res elsewhere and got a free suffix now. what would u guys go for? i think the best optoins are either "%phys dmg reduction" or "cast speed". other option would be getting chaos res on amulet and freeing up a suffix on the shield for either #% chance to Avoid Physical Damage from Hits or #% chance to Evade Attack Hits. what do u guys think?

also did any1 try using natural affinity cluster jewel and just facetank every boss? is there something that would still kill us? :D

Out of those 4 options, I personally like the cast speed or phys damage reduction better.

Natural affinity is pretty funny, and it should fit quite well on this build as it's ultra melee. It's a bit gimmicky, but why not.

Would love to see how you handle Vaal temple trio for example. With my gear they are currently impossible.

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Planisphaerium wrote:

Ive done every end game boss, countless conquerors and guardians, fully juiced maps, s(+1 watchstones, 100% delirious maps etc, the op got to level 100 in hc) and the survivability is quite good. Can i sit still and face tank everything in the game? No, but the tools are there for me to do all of the content quite comfortably. And im still lacking + res gear on my shield. (working on it)

Getting build to 100 is extremely easy in today PoE.It is not indicator that build is "safe". I am glad you stated that it cannot facetank stuff (which is the case)

Dead again - this time in T14.

Link to death: https://youtu.be/KMlqGWqN_h4

did u upgrade pantheons?
your life seems a bit low.
don't hide map mods, how should we know if it was hard or not?

This build looks fun and I'm excited to try it :)

Quick question:

I was curious why you opt for 15% of physical damage taken as lightning on your chest, rather than 15% of physical damage taken as cold, considering you run a pumped up taste of hate I'd assume the second would be better and just as easy to add, no?

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Synchro69 wrote:

Dead again - this time in T14.

Link to death: https://youtu.be/KMlqGWqN_h4

Do you not have a warding flask while mapping?

Your alchemist's granite flask of iron skin ran out and you molten shelled for 700. I'd recommend a chemist flask if you can't sustain it. A better belt with flask mods would be a big upgrade.

I don't know what else to tell you. I've face-tanked a lot and never had a close call. Stuff like vaal temple is trivial with this build (unless you leave the double-striker for last and have to deal with thorns).

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I was curious why you opt for 15% of physical damage taken as lightning on your chest, rather than 15% of physical damage taken as cold, considering you run a pumped up taste of hate I'd assume the second would be better and just as easy to add, no?

Correct, cold is objectively better. I didn't have cold augments or cold seeds when I crafted that chest, so I went with lightning. I kinda wish I hadn't hit 100 so soon, because there's a lot more min-maxing I needed to do across the board.

Hi!

So a few days into this now. I made one slight adjustment to the tree, made another medium cluster with vengueful on it and put it in between the large and the fettle small. I had to rob a few % life nodes. Still sitting at almost 6k hp though so feel pretty tanky still.

I am not sure I can squeeze much more dps out of this build except for maybe double corrupting my chest (not THAT hard to make so maybe?). Maybe an Opal ring and get some spell damage on it since resists are so much easier to get in this league....

The only deaths I have had are completely stupid mistakes on my part. This is easily one of the higher dps builds I have played that is tanky AND fast. Rare combo in this game.

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Inseinity wrote:

Hi!

So a few days into this now. I made one slight adjustment to the tree, made another medium cluster with vengueful on it and put it in between the large and the fettle small. I had to rob a few % life nodes. Still sitting at almost 6k hp though so feel pretty tanky still.

I am not sure I can squeeze much more dps out of this build except for maybe double corrupting my chest (not THAT hard to make so maybe?). Maybe an Opal ring and get some spell damage on it since resists are so much easier to get in this league....

The only deaths I have had are completely stupid mistakes on my part. This is easily one of the higher dps builds I have played that is tanky AND fast. Rare combo in this game.

Glad to read that! Yeah, a second medium cluster is really good. Either what you described, or a second flask cluster with liquid inspiration+distilled perfection for even more sustain.

Double-corruption is huge for sure. The list of good mods is really long, and hitting stuff like +1 to socketed gems is a game-changer when empower 4 can bump out lesser support gems, give more damage and more base radius to BV.

Ok Made this ring, gotta perfect it, but a nice little 72% damage is a nice boost