[3.24] 🗡The Nightblade🗡 Unholy Might : 100% phys converted to chaos

Hi,

congrats for Phoenix !

I've made guides for the bosses in the first msg.

For Minotaur, you gotta be very careful when he dives underground. He will reappear where you are at the instant when he dives.
If you pass through the electric barriers, it will shock you and slow you down a lot. It is possible to avoid touching the barrier with Whirling Blades, but it's a bit tricky.

I've tried HoI in the past yes, it's good for farming (with a Taste of Haste flask) but it does not work for bosses. In this case, HoThunder is better.

For Whirling Blades, you can try to put Lifetap level 1 instead of Fortify (since you already got it on your BF). It will grant you 20% inc recovery from life flasks.

Gl & hf !

Hi currently building up the character, was wondering on you ult pob you are using Despair on hit on your Shaper's Touch why ? is this intended or not ? Cause for me it' not the best curse (vulne is better no ?)

Hi! I've downloaded CommunityFork and manually crafted my brutal restraint jewel with the mods it gives. Can't figure out how to apply the elder mod on my helmet to calculations, neither how to know if vulnerability is applied too.

Here is the pob link:

https://pastebin.com/ggknFD6a

Any suggestion?

Saludos!

"

iks0r34 написал:

Hi currently building up the character, was wondering on you ult pob you are using Despair on hit on your Shaper's Touch why ? is this intended or not ? Cause for me it' not the best curse (vulne is better no ?)

Hi,

there is a slight difference between Despair and Vulnerability, the latter being a bit better.
I've bought these Despair gloves because they were much cheaper, that's all.

Good luck and have fun :)

"

josiasss написал:

Hi! I've downloaded CommunityFork and manually crafted my brutal restraint jewel with the mods it gives. Can't figure out how to apply the elder mod on my helmet to calculations, neither how to know if vulnerability is applied too.

Here is the pob link:

https://pastebin.com/ggknFD6a

Any suggestion?

Saludos!

Hi !

For the Brutal Restraint, you can also put the jewel in PoB, then right click the notables in radius and select the bonus in the list. But well, it's almost as long as writing them manually as you've done.

Yes, Vulnerability is applied. Go to Socket Groups, there you can select your skills and check/uncheck them. Currently, your Vulnerability gives you 23% more dmg.

Your Elder mod on the helmet also works. I know, because if I manually edit your helmet and remove "enemies take 9% inc phys dmg", you lose DPS.

In Configuration, you can add :
- Withered Stacks : 6
- Enemy Intimidated
- Enemy on Consecrated Ground
- Is The Enemy a Boss : Sirus.
- Add some Rampage kills.

There you go :
https://pastebin.com/rkVAg6Ue

¡ Hasta la vista !

Thx mate ! Currently lvl 66 im enjoying so far ! Acutally following the ultimatum version with dagger and shield

Great work !

Thanks !

Here are some news of the build :

I haven't played a lot of Ultimatum with the Nightblade.
The variant I've used had nothing very original nor outstanding. At first, my goal was to do a full cold version, but it's simpler to just do phys + cold, since you can chill/freeze the same.
I have tried a bit of General's Cry + BF, as I had done in Harvest. It works well to clear the Ultimatums.

The only thing I'm sure to keep for future league is the Sinvicta's Mettle trick to proc Rampage. This is really a cool feature.
(For those who don't know yet : put Sinvicta's Mettle 2h axe in a weapon swap, with Cyclone or Sweep, it will proc Rampage on the first kill -even though the counter won't appear before 25 kills. Kill just one enemy then go back to your main weapon setup.)

This league, I was more focused on my Pestilent Viper Occultist. After doing some Ulti in T16 with her, I gave up the league. I really dig the Trialmaster character, the mechanics itself is ok, though a bit close to Ritual. I didn't have the patience to grind dozens of maps in the hope to encounter the Trialmaster.I have seen very few encounter lasting more than 7 rounds.
So it quickly became repetitive. (So far, my favorite league is Blight. I can't enough of Cassia, however obnoxious she may be !)

What I prefer in this game is tinkering with builds and characters. As I usually do after one month of league, I've gone back to Standard where I spend 90% of my time, and I have worked on other builds. I have improved my White Wind Raider with Lightning Strike Trinity. I have made a cool Ice Golem Elementalist, by following this build : https://poe.ninja/ritual/builds/char/PinkerShtain/Висёлые_Скилетики

As always, you can see these characters in action, as well as others, on my YT channel.

I still have some videos to publish for the Nightblade before the end of 3.14. One of my goals was to defeat the Feared, but after 6 or 7 defeats, I think I'll have to give up for now.

Next league launches on July 23rd, but I'll be in vacations at this moment. I'll begin 3.15 in the first days of August at best. The teaser indicates that this league will be heavy on new skills, so we'll see what we can add to the Nightblade.

Good luck and have fun !

Hi Exiles,

here is my penultimate video for 3.14 :

#8 : Delve 770 - Kurgal, the Blackblooded

Hope you like it !

In the 700's depths, I have crossed several Aul and Ahuatotli encounters, but they are way too hard for me now.
It's already a huge achievement to make it to these depths with this build. Petrified Blood helps a lot, as I've shown in my previous video.

Next time, I'll wrap up this season with Delve 800.

*

By the way, you may be interested in this new video with my Caustic Arrow Occultist, which shows my first victory against The Feared !

*

Back to the Nightblade : I'm waiting to get more infos to make a post about the changes for 3.15. We know too few things yet. Well except the tsunami of nerf that is going to hit us !

I won't start the league before August 1st at best, but I'm impatient to go into my first expedition !
Because frankly, unearthing the dead with chain explosions, what more can you ask ??
It seems very unethical a job, even for Wraeclast.

See you around Exiles ;)

So after the 3.15 Manifesto, things do not look so bad for us :

- The nerf to the Diamond flask is bad, really bad. Other unique flasks will be nerfed too.

- But we'll have an orb to enchant the utility flasks with a lot of increased duration. Really good for bossing.
Increased effect can also be good.

I've always been bad at the piano flask, so I won't miss the perma flask effects.
(The nerf to flasks can't affect you if you don't use flasks in the first place !
#gif of the genius that taps his forehead)

- Nerf to melee phys dmg support : it will now come with 10% less attack speed. That's 10% less dps. Ooch.
We might have to find a replacement (Pulverise ?). The awakened version will still be good thx to Intimidate on hit.

- To compensate, Melee skills are getting buffed.

- Nightblade support is buffed !

- Multistrike support can now be used with Ancestral totems ! Come to me, O Mighty multistriking Vaal Warchief !

- The new Ambush skill fits thematically. It is a free instant movement and blind. But it doesn't work with BF, since a channeled skill cannot be exerted.

- I'll begin the next league one week late. I'm thinking about a new variant for the build.

See you tomorrow after the patch notes !

Exiles,

I'm not gonna lie to you : between the nerfs to the support gems and to the flasks, we'll lose at least 50% of our DPS.
I think it won't be noticeable before red maps, but will hit hard in endgame.
But today, everybody is in the same boat. Or rather : was on the same boat that sank and now has his nose in the sand.
I can't imagine any build being spared.

What can we do ?

- Enchant the utility flasks with the new Enkindling orbs to get a lot of increased duration. This way, we'll have weaker flasks for a longer duration. Very convenient againt bosses.

- For the 6-link, we can test the few supports that have been buffed :
* Nightblade
* Increased Critical Strikes
* Increased Critical Damage

- Rely on our Ancestral Totems, which have been buffed and can now use Multistrike support.

* Defense-wise, we'll have Ambush to blind enemies and the new Ward defensive stat, which has a good synergy with Evasion, Dodge and Wind Dancer (the hits that pass can be absorbed by the Ward).

Gl & hf :)

Hi Exiles,

For the league start, I've found this very convenient build by RadianceTM :
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3063150

He starts with Caustic Arrow and Ballista Toxic Rain, then evolves towards Blade Fall / Blade Blast.

He has an excellent Googledoc with a step by step guide for the acts, to optimize your journey : when to go back into town, where to place your portals, in which order to do the quests etc.
I'm very bad at this, so I'm sure his guide will save me more than an hour of levelling.

I'm in vacations with no access to the game, I won't start the league before august.

*

Here is a quick PoB with the new best supports for BF and the new weaker versions of flasks :
https://pastebin.com/C5xrhKjw

BF - Nightblade - Increased Critical Strikes - Fortify - (Awakened) Melee Physical Damage - Vile Toxins

With the buff to Nightblade support, using an Anomalous gem makes it even easier to reach 75% spell dodge.

The nerfs to Diamond, Atziri's Promise and Lion's Roar (now Lion's Meow as someone said on Reddit !) are huge. On the contrary, the new version of Bottled Faith is as good as the legacy one.

*

And here is my last video for 3.14, where I reach depth 800 and go even deeper.
This time, I'm using Petrified Blood, Abyssus helmet and Awakened Inc AoE.

Watch that Brinerot encounter at depth 803 !

I've done these delves before knowing the nerfs in 3.15. I'm not sure I will do it again soon. So I was right to entitle this last episode :

#9 : Depth 800, Dead End

Hope you like it,
good luck and have fun !