3.23 - A10 Pts+Lab - Frost Blades Slayer - 3h08m32s

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Deathless Frost Blades Slayer A10 Pts+Lab Run in 3h08m32s. I've always really liked Frost Blades as a clear skill for campaign as its comfortable and has some nice QoL with the in-built strike range and projectile coverage. However, single target has always been a bit of an issue with it. This run was an attempt at solving those issues as best I could in the context of a speed run. Frost Blades was used as primary single starting in A2 after getting the +1 target strike mastery. Ultimately the damage ended up feeling good, but the single target portion was carried in the second half by the double totems. The damage in the first half was carried by rage support and warlord's mark for generating full rage quickly for upcoming single target encounters. Precise Technique and the fire mastery were also used to help juice single target capability early. If I had to do the run again, I'd probably delay the fire mastery for a bit and do a Hatchet Master rush after grabbing PT through the Golem's Blood node. I feel like this run is definitely sub 3-able with some further optimization especially as it relates to pathing/preventing some attribute issues that crop up at various points. Originally this build was intended to be a trauma style frost blades build, but trauma turned out being a bit too heavy to get going during the campaign run and felt like it was slower than just setting up good frost blades clear and mobility with totems for single target supplement. If I were to continue on I would probably start to prepare the transition for trauma. While trickster frost blades has gained a lot of popularity recently, I chose to run this on duelist/slayer as in a campaign context, it works better out of the box as the duelist base class gets more tools to make the run style work while shadow requires some longer mules/library trips/just more overhead to make work. Further, a shadow style run would be a DW run/flat ele run most likely and that wasn't quite how I wanted to take the character in the campaign. I might try a shadow frost blades run at some point, but it will not be in 3.23.

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Because this is more of a straight speedrun rather than a campaign speed leveling video like some of my other runs I have on YT, I will just be linking the PoB of Char Gear and Tree at the end of run rather than going into a full break down of leveling process like I do with some of the speed leveling videos I have done in the past.

PoB of Char Gear and Tree at End of Run: https://pobb.in/BFXUGBnBFDHh

Table of Contents: 0:00 - Act 1 21:45 - Act 2 40:31 - Act 3 and Normal Lab 1:07:00 - Act 4 1:26:10 - Act 5 1:43:28 - Act 6 2:00:29 - Act 7 and Cruel Lab 2:21:06 - Act 8 2:39:02 - Act 9 2:53:29 - Act 10 and Merciless Lab

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