Blade vortex guardian!
by jscott185973 years ago3
- DPS
- 4.16M
- Effective HP
- 156.79K
- Energy Shield
- 5.04K
- Level
- 96
- Min budget
Overview
Blade vortex guardian! is a Path of Exile Guardian build by jscott18597, made for the Ancestor league (3.22). It is centered on Vaal Blade Vortex and plays as a critical, dexterity, spell, area archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 4.16M DPS with 156.79K effective HP, 1 life, 5.04K energy shield. Suited for: Delve, Mapping, Simulacrum, Delirium, Essence. Key uniques include Nebulis, Rumi's Concoction, Replica Dragonfang's Flight, Taste of Hate, Aegis Aurora.
Build Video
jscott18597's Notes
So right now my guardian is the deepest guardian in the league. Not that i'm super deep, but it means people have seen me and are asking questions. I thought I'd just answer what I can here because this build, although a pretty quick mapper, isn't a "mapper" like you would expect blade vortex + herald scaling.
https://poe.ninja/builds/ancestor/character/tubei/tubei?i=47&search=type%3Ddepthsolo
The core concept is getting the 3 auras from the new guardian ascendancy. Use the mana you would usually reserve for auras with heralds. Now use a physical spell and convert it through to fire via call of the brotherhoods. You are now getting the full benefit of all 3 auras and all 4 heralds. hatred and wrath give something like 40% more damage each anger is ~10% and then the heralds do like 40% more -15% more depending on which one.
I also turn every int travel node into +4 stats until I can do the 155 dex for blade vortex and 155 strength for determination, then every single int node left I do 5% herald effect which is ~2% more damage each travel node.
Basically, I built this build with the defenses before the offenses. It's very tanky, it was designed to be. I'm scaling herald effectiveness as much as possible and running 4 heralds along with 90 max res and a nebulis. It still has pretty good damage, but I don't want people to assume it's some 20 million dps thing.
Here are a few videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeOD5T3Y1I
T16 strand with a deli mirror and I do all the essences. That is my farming strategy btw, I get sulphite speccing all the delve, essences, and delirium nodes. As you can see the damage isn't overwhelming, but I also am never in danger of dying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFwS2F6R3ac
This build was built to farm delve. Here it is doing a harbinger node with some pretty nasty stuff at around depth 600. Harbinger is maybe the hardest type of node in delve. Either that or beyond. I am only in danger when I can't get away from a mana siphoner for a couple of seconds. Luckily aegis did some work.
I'm now going to finish farming my mageblood so I'm done with upgrades for awhile. If you have any questions feel free to reach out.
Gear
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Skills
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Passive Tree


- Bandits
- Eramir (1 Passive Skill Point)
Character Stats
- Level
- 96
Damage
- Full DPS
- 0
- Combined DPS
- 4.16M
- Hit DPS
- 4.04M
- With Poison DPS
- 4.04M
- With Ignite DPS
- 4.16M
- With Bleed DPS
- 4.04M
- Damage over Time
- 121.16K
- Ignite DPS
- 121.16K
- Culling DPS
- 0
- Reservation DPS
- 0
- Average Hit
- 539.15K
- Burst Damage
- 1.18M
Attack & Crit
- Attack/Cast Rate
- 3.1/s
- Hit Rate
- 7.5/s
- Hit Chance
- 100%
- Crit Chance
- 3%
- Crit Multiplier
- 100%
- Mana Cost
- 33
- Life Cost
- 0
Defence
- Effective Hit Pool
- 156.79K
- Life
- 1
- Energy Shield
- 5.04K
- Mana
- 80
- Ward
- 0
- Armour
- 23.58K
- Evasion
- 20
- Phys Damage Reduction
- 73%
Mitigation & Avoidance
- Block
- 64%
- Spell Block
- 41%
- Spell Suppression
- 0%
- Evade (Melee)
- 0%
- Evade (Projectile)
- 0%
- Attack Dodge
- 0%
- Spell Dodge
- 0%
Resistances
- Fire Resistance
- 90% (+26%)
- Cold Resistance
- 90% (+45%)
- Lightning Resistance
- 90% (+22%)
- Chaos Resistance
- -60%
Max Hit Taken
- Physical
- 10.24K
- Fire
- 51.69K
- Cold
- 51.69K
- Lightning
- 51.69K
- Chaos
- ∞
Recovery
- Life Regen
- 0/s
- ES Regen
- 0/s
- ES Recharge
- 5.04K/s
- Mana Regen
- 64.3/s
- Life Leech
- 0/s
- ES Leech
- 1.03K/s
- Mana Leech
- 0/s
Attributes & Utility
- Strength
- 156
- Intelligence
- 228
- Dexterity
- 175
- Movement Speed
- 27%
- Endurance Charges
- 3
- Frenzy Charges
- 3
- Power Charges
- 3
- Devotion
- 0