[Ultimatum] PoE 3.14 Assassin Herald Blade Vortex Shadow Cheap Build
This PoE 3.14 Ultimatum Assassin Herald Blade Vortex Shadow build is a fast mapper for a Budget of around 10 Ex or less (depending on the market). You can of course push this further, but this will be enough to farm quickly and have some BV and Herald Fun!
Quick Jump
Pros & Cons
- + BV needs to be recasted (as always)
- + Not everyone likes to be close to an enemy
- + There do of course exist stronger BV Builds
- + 2 Uniques are required so not cheap at league start
Skill Tree
Ascendancy: Mistwalker->Ambush and Assassinate->Unstable Infusion->Deadly Infusion
Pantheon: Soul of Lunaris and Soul of Tukohama
You can switch Major God Lunaris to Solaris if you want it easier at Bosses. Make sure to upgrade the Pantheons you use.
Bandit: Kill all
Passive Tree & PoB
Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/gRHL06ym
Gems Setup
Body: Vaal Blade Vortex - Elemental Penetration - Physical to Lightning - Inspiration - Energy Leech - Unleash
Helmet: Herald of Purity - Herald of Thunder - Herald of Ice - Herald of Ash
Aura: Zealotry - Enlighten - Summon Flame Golem
Movement: Flame Dash - Faster Casting - Arcane Surge - Second Wind
Curse: Frost Shield - Assassin's Mark - Empower
CWDT: Immortal Call - Cast when Damage Taken - Increased Duration - Vortex
Gear Setup
Allocates Discord Artisan
+24 to Dexterity and Intelligence
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+36% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier
+100 to maximum Life
Gain 6% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage
0.31% of Lightning Damage Leeched as Energy Shield
Zealotry has 20% reduced Mana Reservation
Required: Replica Alpha's Howl, Unnatural Instinct and rare Crusader Amulet ↑
Recommended: Inspired Learning, Bottled Faith, Glorious Vanity in the name of Doryani (for Corrupted Soul)
Inpulsa's Broken Heart, Mark of the Shaper with rare shaper ring, Atziri's Promise
Roll good tier on weapon: "#% increased Spell Damage", "#% increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells","+#% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier"
Glove and Boots: life, resistance, movement
Cluster Jewels
We use 1 Large Cluster Jewel with 10% increased Elemental Damage with 8 Passive Skills
Minimum Itemlevel 68 or higher
Large Cluster Jewel
- 1 Added Passive Skill is Doryani's Lesson
- 1 Added Passive Skill is Prismatic Heart
- 1 Added Passive Skill is Sadist
We use 2 Medium Cluster Jewels with 10% increased Damage while affected by a Herald with 4 Passive Skills
Minimum Itemlevel 68 or higher
Medium Cluster Jewel
- 1 Added Passive Skill is Empowered Envoy
- 1 Added Passive Skill is Endbringer
We use 2 Small Cluster Jewels with 4% increased maximum Life with 2 Passive Skills
Small Cluster Jewel
Minimum Itemlevel 75 or higher
- 1 Added Passive Skill is Fettle
Other stats for Jewels which are helpful are Resistances (elemental or Chaos), Attributes or Life. Ideally you want Life and Chaos Res on a Itemlevel 84+ Jewel.
For Crafting please check https://www.craftofexile.com/. It was not so expensive, except the large Cluster Jewel can be hard, I actually had to use Harvest Life Augment to get Doryani's Lesson on it.
Leveling
Feel free to use the leveling trees. Those may or may not require you to use refund points (either of Orbs of Regret or quests).
Gear wise it is up to you, what you have and the same with the skills to level. However, since you can use Blade Vortex with Level 12, you should switch to it as soon as you can get it (Merveil) or at least in Act 2, after you get the Heralds.
Recommended Leveling Gear:
- Tabula Rasa, Honourhome, Worm's Molt, Wanderlust
- Rings with Resistances and Attributes
- Amulet for Attributes (Onyx, Jade, Turquiose BiS)
- Axiom Perpetuum or +1 Phys Gems Wands/Sceptres (Note: You can't use Wands and Sceptres together)
I recommend to add Physical to Lightning with level 18 or as soon as you can get it.
If you have you can add Unnatural Instinct very early to have even stronger Heralds early. This may also enables the 4th Herald earlier.
Once you are in Act 2 and you freed Helena, use Honourhome Helmet with +2 Level of socketed Gems and Enlighten Level 2. This enables you to use 3 Heralds and have enough spare mana left.
In Act 2 you will get Trinity Support. Use it instead of Elemental Penetration if you don't have one.
Use Increased Duration after Library until you can get Unleash in Act 4 (Level 38).
With Level 45 you can use Enlighten Level 3. If you want you can stick with Honourhome or switch it to Goldrim or another helmet for life/Attributes/resis.With 62 dual wield Singularity if you don't have anything better.
With Level 64 you can equip Replica Alpha's Howl (Huuuge Damage Boost). You want the Uber Lab Enchant Blade Vortex Duration or Area of Effect for smoother Mapping. If you want more Damage you want Crit Multiplier per Blade instead.
With Level 68 Equip Inpulsa's Broken Heart. Please watch the video guide.
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