[3.6] Triple Herald Blade Vortex Elementalist

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Vaindolf написал:

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siegfriedchampion написал:

After 3 Shaper set, I finally able to kill the end game boss, Uber Elder. It could be deathless if I didn't rush to kill Elder at the end of the fight. (Sorry for the low quality of the image, I play on a potato laptop.)

Thank you so much for the fun build. I will definitely go with Ele BV in the new league.

Did you use Kaoms root's and or other gear on that fight?

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Nevzat написал:

Hi all. I am thinking of playing this in the new upcoming league. I have a few questions for those of you who have played this build before.

1) Do you think this build will do well in Delve league? Since we are sticking close to our cart I guess this is an advantage of having a close range aoe attack.

2) Are the mechanics of the build annoying to play? I've previously played builds like ED/Contagion which I found draining in terms of concentration needed to play, again with wander having to constantly monitor your flasks I didn't enjoy. Is this build simpler to play without requiring too many extra clicks? I.e does it become second nature to just recast your BV's or do you need to pause for a long time to get the stacks up every few packs or can i do a little click here and there without thinking so it is seamless? Are there any other things you need to constantly juggle or keep an eye on, or is it fairly straightforward?

3) How is the leveling process? I have never played an elementalist before, will it be painful or can i comfortably get through acts 1-10 without too many deaths?

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ExoduSS_ написал:

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Nevzat написал:

Hi all. I am thinking of playing this in the new upcoming league. I have a few questions for those of you who have played this build before.

1) Do you think this build will do well in Delve league? Since we are sticking close to our cart I guess this is an advantage of having a close range aoe attack.

2) Are the mechanics of the build annoying to play? I've previously played builds like ED/Contagion which I found draining in terms of concentration needed to play, again with wander having to constantly monitor your flasks I didn't enjoy. Is this build simpler to play without requiring too many extra clicks? I.e does it become second nature to just recast your BV's or do you need to pause for a long time to get the stacks up every few packs or can i do a little click here and there without thinking so it is seamless? Are there any other things you need to constantly juggle or keep an eye on, or is it fairly straightforward?

3) How is the leveling process? I have never played an elementalist before, will it be painful or can i comfortably get through acts 1-10 without too many deaths?

I did not follow this guide but I thought I would post here cause builds are similar enough.

I got to incursion as 100 this build, u can check my char for gear. For belt I used headhunter. It is pretty much best in slot for this build.


1) It is one of the best mappers out there. The build map really well and really confortably up to elder t16 maps, even with double beyond(very safe because you are freezing every beyond boss that pops up - be careful with %avoid elemental status ailment map mods). For delving itself, I am pretty sure this build can do up to lvl86 delve content (top monster level will be lvl86) but I'm not sure on how far it will go down. Defences are much more important than damage for this build, because you can push the damage very high, especially since you can use a real weapon instead of brightbeak for delving (stat sticks are insane for the build) and conc effect. That being said, the build pretty much only has 6.5K life and warlord's mark as defenses against big hits. Mobs don't get close to you because you have a big AoE on Blade Vortex and u are freezing/chilling everything but delve bosses might be a bit hard on deeper levels.

2) The build definitely becomes second nature when ur playing it at high levels. You only need about 3-4 blade vortex stacks for comfortable mapping and I was doing that up until elder t16s, which I maintained like 8 for double beyond maps. U just cast blade vortexes once in a while and keep ur flasks up (this goes for any build)

3) leveling is very easy with this build

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mic01851165 написал:

Well, it'd be very unlikely in Delve that arc trap/ BV elementalist/ elemental hit does not get a huge nerf cuz the usage and class percentage is just so imbalance.
POB Ninja shows that this league skill usage/ class usage distribution is way worse in Incursion compare to Bestiary league, with near 100% usage of arc trap and bv ele on the respective class, on top of those 2 classes contribute to near half of the player-base.

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DirtyDot написал:

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mic01851165 написал:

Well, it'd be very unlikely in Delve that arc trap/ BV elementalist/ elemental hit does not get a huge nerf cuz the usage and class percentage is just so imbalance.
POB Ninja shows that this league skill usage/ class usage distribution is way worse in Incursion compare to Bestiary league, with near 100% usage of arc trap and bv ele on the respective class, on top of those 2 classes contribute to near half of the player-base.

Blade Vortex as a skill is in a good spot right now.
Elementalist ascendancy is a bit underwhelming if anything.
What pushes this build into the meta territory is the Inpulsa's armor so I expect it to get nuked in Delve. My best guess is they will change it so its explosions no longer self chain and that only enemies you kill directly explode. This is how the "Enemies killed explode dealing #% of their Life as Fire Damage" shaped weapon mod works anyway.

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Monti_Jones написал:

On that note: The clearspeed without Inpulsa is ok, but not great. Do you have ideas for this build should GGG break the Beacon of Ruin/Inpulsa combo up? Maybe a linked Herald of Ice?