[3.20] 🌿 Devon's Blooming Flicker 🌿 | Most content viable | Decent starter | 8M DPS

3.20 Changes for this build
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- Now has Vaal version! WOOOOOOOOOOO!
- Built-in Splash damage from Tribal Fury!
- Changed the skill tree slightly
- Replaced Default Leap slam with Phantasmal
- Still needs mana leech as before (passive tree or item)

Conclusion: It's better!
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Pros
+ super fast
+ Boss killer
+ Map clearer
+ 4M+ DPS (8M+ with totems up)
+ lot of damage mitigation (phys red/suppression/fortify)
+ it's flicker

Cons
- uses 5 Uniques (3 can be replaced with rares)
- can be expensive (Farruls fur, Exquisite blade, Starforge)
- can't do phys reflect maps

THE BUILD


How does it work?

Frenzy generation explanation:

Stationary effects and Flicker:

How to play?

Damage mitigated:


Videos and Gifs

Early showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa5f5uQLTKQ

Showcase [Mapping + Chimera + Sirus]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzApjFcugsc


Path of Building - Pastabin

https://pobb.in/PkA6GYZd2kxn (updated for 3.20, 09.12.2022)
- rearanged skill points a bit
- now has in-built splash damage from Tribal Fury

Everything is inside, use this^
Alongside Normal/Cruel/Merciless/Endgame trees, to the bottom left where it says "Endgame (95)", click on that and you can swap out the trees to see what you need to prioritize. Also here you can check out the whole tree, gear, gems, enchants, damage, etc. Basically you can see everything that I used and what you should aim for.

Leveling

General tips:


Guide:



Passive tree, Bandits and Pantheon

Passive Tree

https://pobb.in/PkA6GYZd2kxn

Bandits

Recommended: - Alira - Need the +15% to all resistances, damage and regen is pog


Pantheon

BiS:
Lunaris + Shakari - even more Avoidance and Degen resistance

Alternative:
Brine King + Ryslatha - Decent survivability on certain bosses, freeze can be a pain in the ass when there are no mobs to kill around


All Links


[from most important to least, prioritize like this]

Body Armour (6L) Flicker(21/20) = Fortify(20/20) > Multistrike(21/20) > Impale(20/20) > Close Combat(20/20) > Brutality(20/20) OR Melee Splash(20/20)

IMPORTANT: Brutality for bossing, Melee splash for mapping.

Weapon (6L) Vaal Ancestral Warchief(20/20) = Ancestral Protector + Maim(20/20) + Brutality(20/20) + Melee Physical damage(20/20) + Impale(20/20)

IMPORTANT: Maim is priority on Totem as it will buff your Flicker damage on bosses too.


1st 3L+1L = Enduring Cry(20/20) + Molten Shell(21/20) + Increased Duration(20/20) | Dread Banner(20/20)

2st 4L = Pride(20/20) + Flesh and Stone(20/20) + Arctic Armour(20/20) + Enlighten(3)

Corrupted Gloves (+1 Max Frenzy) 4L = Assassins Mark(20/20) + Blood Rage(20/20) + Enhance(4) + Leap slam(20/20)

NOTE: Arctic armour can be used in the budget version of the build where you use the Perfect Form body armour. Check gear below or inside PoB by switching gearsets.


Gear

Recommended during leveling:



The best sword to have until you get a 550-600pdps rare. It maintains the frenzies porperly and provides decent damage.

Tabula Rasa or any decent yellow 5L with life and evasion until you get the Influenced rare (+10% Frenzy on hit) or Perfect Form Body Armour.

Leveling Gear


My Gear (Outdated - check PoB)

IMPORTANT: 10% frenzy on Body Armour along with a 20%Q Flicker is necessary to maintain Frenzy charges properly on Single bosses that tend to move or where you have to dodge a lot. This variation deals quite a bit more damage compared to the budget one.
ALTERNATIVE: Farrul's Fur - expensive but amazing chestpiece
Starforge - expensive but BiS

MANA: Make sure to at least have some source of mana leech. One 0.4% mana leech node or the equivalent on any item that can have it should do the trick (check my rings).

The Cyclone gem in the chestpiece I was using to swap with Flicker when delving as it was easier to delve with cyclone of course (also remember to replace multistrike if you plan to do the same).

Budget Alternative

If you have Terminus Est, Body Amour can be anything more or less since frenzy sustain wont be a problem. Remember to use Arctic Armour with this alternative. This variation is more tanky because of Arctic Armour and it has an additional skill point because of Perfect Form "Phase Acro".

Flasks


Doedre's flask recommended to start you off on bosses when you don't have any frenzy charges.


Anointment:

The best Anointments:
Frenetic - Damage, evasion, movement speed
Discipline and Training - Much needed life.

2nd best Anointment:
Tenacity

My personal current achievements with the build:

-15 Harvest Challenges
-killed a lot of conquerors
-killed Sirus (A5, died once)

Hope you guys find it interesting!

Check out what I'm playing this league and other guides:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2724153

Hi!
First of all thank your for your work. I am always happy to see flicker guides and players that likes it.
Do you think raider ascendancy and flicker gem chance to generate frenzy charge are enough to sustain flicker?
Is mana flask essential for the build? I see a mana leech node in cluster jewel section, would it be enough?
Did you ever started flicker as league starter?
Thank you in advance.

Did you try Flicker+Nature's Patience? As far as I know the vines will break as soon as you use a movement skill, even if it is one where you count as stationary. I tried to make it work with Lightning Warp, since you count as stationary, too, but it breaks the vines as soon as you use it.

Would be great if they stayed with flicker, but I doubt it.

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madgod88 написал:

Hi!
First of all thank your for your work. I am always happy to see flicker guides and players that likes it.
Do you think raider ascendancy and flicker gem chance to generate frenzy charge are enough to sustain flicker?
Is mana flask essential for the build? I see a mana leech node in cluster jewel section, would it be enough?
Did you ever started flicker as league starter?
Thank you in advance.

1.) No problem at all I enjoy doing it.

2.) Yes, it's actually precisely enough. Flicker frenzy charge generation is now: 15% chance on hit (from the gem itself) + 20% chance on hit from Raider = 35% chance per hit. Multistrike is 3 hits per attack. 65%x65%x65%= 27.5% to fail to generate a frenzy charge per attack so that means 72.5% to succeed per attack. Once you apply the 20% quality on the Flicker gem it comes to 60%x60%x60%=21.6% to fail to generate a charge. So that means every fifth attack will fail to generate a charge. What covers this is the inherent "charge" that flicker refreshes every 2 seconds. First the flickers cooldown is consumed and then the charge if flicker is off cooldown.
This is only noticable at start with bosses as the gem is still not 20% quality. Worst case scenario is we will swap the helm enchant from damage per frenzy charge to "30% increased Flicker Strike Cooldown Recovery Speed." Which will reduce the Flicker Cooldown from 2s to 1,4s.

On mapping frenzy charges will be generated without a problem as each kill has a 20% chance of generating one + the 20% from Flicker. You will hit once and kill 5 things at once anyway. Regardless, both scenarios are covered.

3.) Mana leech will be 611m/s according to PoE "calcs" section so the mana flask most likely wont be necessary. I placed it there just in case.

4.) Yes. As I said, a couple of them, one being last league even though I didn't make a guide for it.

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Firnblut написал:

Did you try Flicker+Nature's Patience? As far as I know the vines will break as soon as you use a movement skill, even if it is one where you count as stationary. I tried to make it work with Lightning Warp, since you count as stationary, too, but it breaks the vines as soon as you use it.

Would be great if they stayed with flicker, but I doubt it.

That would be heart-breaking but if that's the case I'll just find something else to compensate. *sigh*

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devon752 написал:

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Firnblut написал:

Did you try Flicker+Nature's Patience? As far as I know the vines will break as soon as you use a movement skill, even if it is one where you count as stationary. I tried to make it work with Lightning Warp, since you count as stationary, too, but it breaks the vines as soon as you use it.

Would be great if they stayed with flicker, but I doubt it.

That would be heart-breaking but if that's the case I'll just find something else to compensate. *sigh*

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Grasping_Vines

"Teleporting with any movement skill that instantly moves you (such as Flame Dash or Blink Arrow) instantly removes all stacks of the Grasping Vines debuff."

I guess it is heartbreaking.

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madgod88 написал:

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devon752 написал:

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Firnblut написал:

Did you try Flicker+Nature's Patience? As far as I know the vines will break as soon as you use a movement skill, even if it is one where you count as stationary. I tried to make it work with Lightning Warp, since you count as stationary, too, but it breaks the vines as soon as you use it.

Would be great if they stayed with flicker, but I doubt it.

That would be heart-breaking but if that's the case I'll just find something else to compensate. *sigh*

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Grasping_Vines

"Teleporting with any movement skill that instantly moves you (such as Flame Dash or Blink Arrow) instantly removes all stacks of the Grasping Vines debuff."

I guess it is heartbreaking.

Will try it out still in standard. Maybe Flicker is an exception, which I doubt. regardless I'll just place the new jewel with regen there then.

Welp, grasping vines doesn't work with Flicker. Just tried it out, guess I should've done that sooner. Kinda silly that something that utilizes every single stationary thing in the game can't use the strongest stationary thing in the game. Oh well, time to rework my thumbnail and build name :D

I will replace it with the new Fragile bloom. Gonna have that juicy 1k life regen at least. That was the alternative anyway.

Thanks for making a 2h flicker raider build! I was looking to league start with one and i guess i found it.
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edit: im dumb