3.12 VB Assassin Caster/Any spell | Crackling Lance 21M dps A8 Sirus down | Videos |

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Xiaobear6 เขียน:

Big thx to OP for great build. Here is my Bladefall version:

Compared to Purifying Flame, Bladefall has a bigger AOE but you need Awakened Spell Cascade. It also has higher maximum single target DPS, around 20 million DPS, but it's heavily reliant on intensity stacks. At 0 Intensity stacks, the DPS is only around 6 million.

This isn't a problem for Metamorphs, Conquerors, Sirius. The only place I found it be a slight problem is Uber Elder. You just need around 3-4 seconds of casting without moving to deal enough damage to kill/phase anything in the game.

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Astarift เขียน:

I use concentrated effect during fights like sirus or uber elder, where you gotta be on the move 95% of the time. Intensify is pretty bad on movement fights where you can burst things down immediately

My issue with bladefall is that its hard to determine how and where the damage overlaps for awakened spell cascade, but its pretty great you made it work

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Xiaobear6 เขียน:

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Astarift เขียน:

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Xiaobear6 เขียน:

Big thx to OP for great build. Here is my Bladefall version:

Compared to Purifying Flame, Bladefall has a bigger AOE but you need Awakened Spell Cascade. It also has higher maximum single target DPS, around 20 million DPS, but it's heavily reliant on intensity stacks. At 0 Intensity stacks, the DPS is only around 6 million.

This isn't a problem for Metamorphs, Conquerors, Sirius. The only place I found it be a slight problem is Uber Elder. You just need around 3-4 seconds of casting without moving to deal enough damage to kill/phase anything in the game.

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Astarift เขียน:

I use concentrated effect during fights like sirus or uber elder, where you gotta be on the move 95% of the time. Intensify is pretty bad on movement fights where you can burst things down immediately

My issue with bladefall is that its hard to determine how and where the damage overlaps for awakened spell cascade, but its pretty great you made it work

I did some testing with a friend. Got 100% poison and cast Bladefall in various support combinations and asked my friend to report how many poison stacks he got. This is what I found about how Bladefall works.

The total number of blades is fixed. Increases/decrease to area of effect does not affect the AOE of each blade, but rather the area of the whole. This means less area = denser blades = more overlap and more hits on a single target.

So Concentrated Effect and Intensity not only adds damage per blade, but also how many blades hit a player sized target. A larger hitbox will also mean more hits. With just Bladefall-Awakened Spell Cascade, I got average of 2 hits per cast. Adding Concentrated Effect, I got 2-3 hits per cast. Adding Intensify with 0 Intensity, I got 2-3 hits per cast. At 4 Intensity, it rises to 5-7 hits per cast, average of 6.

If you assume on average, the hit is on the 3rd wave, then you discount the damage by 12% due to 6% less damage per wave. So at max Intensity, you'll have a 5x multiplier of the PoB DPS.

In actual gameplay, I've found this to be correct. Comparing to your videos of conqueror kills, Bladefall is noticeably faster. The Conqueror dies before casting its first ability. But the limitation is you must be able to prestack the Intensity. For Metamorphs, Conquerors, Sirus, you can start casting while they spawn and be at 4 Intensity as they start taking damage, then they will die/phase in around 2 seconds.

Uber Elder was the one fight where I couldn't prestack after the initial phase. If you have to dodge all the time, you cannot stack Intensity and DPS will be low. The other downside compared to Purifying Flame is that Bladefall does many smaller hits instead of 1 big hit. Although the area of effect is larger, it does not kill as cleanly. Sometimes stragglers outside of a pack will survive a single cast and you'll need to clean them up.

And the last thing is Bladefall is very graphics intensive so you'll need a good graphics card or suffer lower frame rate/graphics quality. I just really like the aesthetics of it and the very first league I played was the one they introduced Bladefall. Ever since then I've been wanting to play a LL Bladefall build, but never got around to it. Thank you for this build allowing me to Make Bladefall Great Again. :D

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aowamplfiy เขียน:

Hey I am confused why flesh and stone is used. Can someone mind explaining to me why it's worth using over another aura? Thanks. Loving the build btw, absolutely melts bosses and the clear isn't too bad!

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aowamplfiy เขียน:

Also I only am able to get up to 10m dps in PoB which seems low to me but I could be doing something very wrong as I've just started playing this league and it's all still a bit confusing to me. Don't mean to bother you but if you wouldn't mind checking out my PoB I would happy to give you a few exalts in game if you want :D

https://pastebin.com/7AWn9k6U

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aowamplfiy เขียน:

Cool thanks for all the help mate, appreciate it! Got the ES much higher with the catalysts and a few more points in the tree and yeah I was actually missing a couple of the passive points. I will also be missing 2 from bandits because I helped alira with my cast on crit build initially but no big deal, leagues almost over anyway.