[3.26 U/C] 💥💫 The Blade Blast Unloader 🗡️🔪🔫 - Screenwide 30m-55m Pinnacle DPS?

Hello fellow unloaders,


BBoU has always had a soft spot for me since it first came out.
Noticing prices were cheap I wanted to try the abyss version of the build, abusing all the new Merc techs:

Generating spirit charges/sec with Hale Negator tech,

Doryani tech, lightning damage into the stratosphere,

Coiling whisper tech, getting insane attack and cast speed makes mapping and bossing a breeze. One arcanist brand with max soul stacks generates 10 BVs as fast as I can cast BBoU.


2Soc Lightpoacher, 3Soc Shroud and a decent Darkness Enthroned plus a ton of jewel sockets on the tree carried my damage. To maintain spirit charges I went CI, archmage + lifetap in helm to force Spirit burst to cost life - makes it impossible to cast with CI


Convert all physical to lightning with phys to lightning, 40% on the tree and 10% on ring/gloves.


The biggest issue is gem socket pressure - had to craft a 3L wand although with recombs the craft was quite cheap, I landed it on second try with total cost of ~12d.


Next issue is staying alive as we are basically melee, so I leaned heavily into %ES on block and block clusters. ES overleech and instant leech kept me topped up when a hit goes through.


Pob: https://pobb.in/t17ME9rn4p8X


I haven't added any Doryani -lightning res into the pob, but it'll quadruple the damage depending on your setup.


Another cute interaction, you can give your Merc a Squirming terror ring to spawn worms - this allows you to always have on kill effects/leech/spirit charges.

Just a note if you are using doryanis, lightning exposure doesn't do anything for you because it lowers lightning res but it will be fixed by doryanis.

Guys, I think, I found it.

AOE ✔️
Damage ✔️
Charges generation ✔️
Decent defensives ✔️ (damage + AoE is decent defensive 😃)
Headhunter viable ✔️
Mageblood viable ✔️
Fun allowed ✔️

Cool story bro:

I was unloading for few leagues, but using different archetype - Slayer charge stacker, Ralakesh Impatience nerf also destroyed my unloader.

I was looking for something to unload myself this league. I tried multiple builds, one of my favorite was Wave of Conviction of Trarthus miner. After a countless farming of Elderslayers invitation, I found that the life stacker Rathipth globe + Archdemon Crown should be decent for unloader, so here I am.

Budget: ~100div (HH version)

I added both plain (no Merc buffs) and Doryani's Prototype abuse (only -140% lightning res, which is already beefy).
Doryani's abuse can be tricky because of our AoE, but that amount of DPS is needed for single target.

If you feel clunky with brands use medium brand cluster (default in HH version).
If you feel ok with brands you can use 4th AoE cluster instead.

POBs are far from optimized (eg HH timeless jewels are prob to remove). Feel free to optimize and share.

Flasks are free to choose in any version.
I use Oriath's End for fun - seeing explosions ahead is fun.

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Galll1#3467 เขียน:

Guys, I think, I found it.

AOE ✔️
Damage ✔️
Charges generation ✔️
Decent defensives ✔️ (damage + AoE is decent defensive 😃)
Headhunter viable ✔️
Mageblood viable ✔️
Fun allowed ✔️

Cool story bro:

I was unloading for few leagues, but using different archetype - Slayer charge stacker, Ralakesh Impatience nerf also destroyed my unloader.

I was looking for something to unload myself this league. I tried multiple builds, one of my favorite was Wave of Conviction of Trarthus miner. After a countless farming of Elderslayers invitation, I found that the life stacker Rathipth globe + Archdemon Crown should be decent for unloader, so here I am.

Budget: ~100div (HH version)

I added both plain (no Merc buffs) and Doryani's Prototype abuse (only -140% lightning res, which is already beefy).
Doryani's abuse can be tricky because of our AoE, but that amount of DPS is needed for single target.

If you feel clunky with brands use medium brand cluster (default in HH version).
If you feel ok with brands you can use 4th AoE cluster instead.

POBs are far from optimized (eg HH timeless jewels are prob to remove). Feel free to optimize and share.

Flasks are free to choose in any version.
I use Oriath's End for fun - seeing explosions ahead is fun.

Headhunter

Plain https://pobb.in/86wBKFwqW4vp
Merc Doryani's abuse https://pobb.in/sG5ESZzCxn_5

Mageblood

Plain https://pobb.in/201PDk02uReU
Merc Doryani's abuse https://pobb.in/9AFnUB0qFcsx

video？ T16.5 OR t17?

I switched to Elementalist to solve some trivial problems, looks more clunky, less dps, but definitely more tanky (added Progenesis).


Video with 54% more life, 73% extra energy shield and full Ultimatum (including Trialmaster).
I guess is good enough for any content (for sure deaths there and there, but doable).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QigfpxXSCU
Sorry for video quality, not doing it very often.

Still far from optimized.

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Verdioze#1169 เขียน:

hey just found something interesting, i don't usually post here but you might find this interesting. In the last patch 3.26.0d they fixed this "Fixed an issue where the Novamark Runegraft wasn't working with Blade Blast Skill variants.".
I tried after the patch and if you mark an enemy all of the explosion is on him.
I also tried to put a assassin mark and blade vortex linked with arcanist brand and it happened that you just need to cast the brand on the enemy to generate bv stack and mark then pressed BBoU and annihilate him. don't really know how you could make this works but just found this interesting.

This runegraft will stop your casts from following you when you shield charge or frostblink with no marked targets. Could still be okay if you just want to farm bosses. Clear very much dies however.

@primaeva#0673 Can you add the pob of the final version of the build?