Vaal ice nova / flameblast assassin map show case

This build makes use of several ways to scale damage and tank.

Vaal ice nova This skill is amazing for clear. I use vaal temptation together with the chaos bloodline with shepherd of souls to enable fast recasts. The single target is very meh when there are no other enemies around. All damage is converted to fire to make use of emnity's embrace

Vaal flameblast Decent clear and a ton of single target. Works pretty nice in the vaal caress gloves

Indigon I use indigon + a very potenent mana flask + bladefall of trarthus to get my mana spend and my life degen mitigated since I will recover as much life as I do mana. The most important part is that my mana flask should never fill my pool, this way all the flasks consumed keep up stacking in the queue. Note that the tides of time belt synergizes very well with this since it gives a ton of mana recovered through flasks

Everlasting sacrifice We have 6 corrupted items to enable this keystone from the chaos bloodline. The problem is that we degen a ton, so the only way to get it to proc is to make use of some evasion, the gain life instead of energy shield from armour items mod, some es from the ring and ghost shroud

Crit We get our crit and damage from the following items:

• Wands (2)
• glove corrupt
• forbidden flame / flesh jewel
• sublime vision (precision)
• 7 power charges
• elegant hubris jewel
• rare jewel
• bound by destiny

Emnity's embrace We stack a bunch of fire resistance with jewel, gear and cloak of flame. to penetrate 200% fire resistance with both flameblast as well as ice nova.

Conclusion In the end this build can feel quite clunky, we cannot use movement skills since the cost would be way to high. Waiting for your loop to start again when you enter new zones can be a pain. Same for waiting for souls to accumulate. Still, vaal ice nova feels awesome and it is a decent mapper.

POB: https://pobb.in/nmAJgQrQc6LK