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Frenzy Stacking Frost Blades Raider - Looking for suggestions for pathing and DPS improvements

by Kaimer4 years ago10

DPS
1.44M
Effective HP
83.57K
Life
4.11K
Level
89
Min budget

Overview

Frenzy Stacking Frost Blades Raider - Looking for suggestions for pathing and DPS improvements is a Path of Exile Raider build by Kaimer, made for the Archnemesis league (3.17). It is centered on Frost Blades and plays as a dexterity, attack, projectile, melee archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 1.44M DPS with 83.57K effective HP, 4.11K life, 117 energy shield. Suited for: Mapping, Bossing. Key uniques include Mark of the Elder, Darkray Vectors.

Kaimer's Notes

Here is my build with the gear my character currently has.

This is my first attempt at a build made without a guide as a reference so I'd love any feedback. The basic idea is to stack frenzy charges so I started with raider and then went for as many sources of max frenzy charge as possible. Ice bite looked like a good choice of support gem due to the frenzy charge scaling and I chose frost blades as a result. I'm aware that it's not a particularly good skill for bossing so my goal is to get around 2-3m DPS to clear moderately juiced T16s.

A note about the gearing: the gear is the gear my character is currently wearing so assume that as a base for any potential upgrades. I'm aware there's still a good bit of progress to make (specifically with chaos res) but I wanted to make sure all of the necessities were covered first.

Notes on defense: ziz taught me that any character with grace, determination, defiance banner, and spell suppression is tanky enough. I wasn't able to fit the defiance banner but that doesn't feel like too much of a loss to me. I could be convinced otherwise but the extra reservation needed costs a lot of points. On top of that, I also chill, freeze (although I'm not certain how reliable this is on bosses/high health mobs), maim, blind, leech, gain life on hit, have elusive, stack quite a good bit of evasion via the frenzy stacking, have chill and freeze immunity, have +1 max res (and would like to get an additional +2 from the chest implicit), and run a cast when damage taken molten shell. I know the life is pretty low but I still have some points I'll get from leveling and I'm strongly considering putting them towards life. I also consider the high additional movement speed to be a reasonable defensive layer and the QOL feels amazing as well. Also not sure at all what I should use for my pantheons.

A note about the fortify on the chest: stumbled upon that by accident. If the fortify is reliable on bosses/high health mobs, it seems very worth it. I've been running T12s and it procs reliably but I recall hearing something about fortify being hard to maintain at max stacks in high tier content so if it's not worth it, I'd swap it to hatred aura effect.

Notes on offense: I know awakened gems would help but I don't want to spend all that currency yet unless it is the most efficient use of it. I don't have enough mana unreserved right now to cast the lightning golem so I'm not sure if it fits either. If not, I'm not sure what gem should take its place. I cull with my second frost blades but I'm not sure how to show that in the POB. I'm pretty sure the selection of support gems (minus the lack of awakened-ness) is the most efficient group based on my looking at other frost blades POBs on poe.ninja.

Regarding mana: I use an enduring flask to maintain my mana. If I could swap that flask for a silver flask, I would gain a lot of dps (and very much appreciate the additional movement speed as well). Is there a good way to find another source of mana regen?

Other than that, any advice on how to free up any additional points or get some extra DPS without compromising on the defensive layers would be much appreciated, especially anything glaring that I might have missed.

Gear

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Agony Talons
Ghoul Visage
Pain Guardian
Onslaught Idol
Mark of the Elder
Carrion Band
Bramble Mitts
Eagle Twine
Darkray Vectors
Brood Mark
Hollow Fang
Fight for Survival
Fight for Survival
Watcher's Eye

Skills

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Body Armour

  • Frost BladesFrost Blades21/20WMain
  • MultistrikeMultistrike21/20W
  • RuthlessRuthless21/20W
  • Elemental Damage with AttacksElemental Damage with Attacks21/20W
  • NightbladeNightblade21/20W
  • Ice BiteIce Bite21/20W

Helmet

  • FrostbiteFrostbite21/20W
  • Frost BladesFrost Blades21WMain
  • Culling StrikeCulling Strike1W
  • HextouchHextouch21/7W

Gloves

  • HatredHatred21W
  • GraceGrace21W
  • DeterminationDetermination21W
  • EnlightenEnlighten3/20W

Boots

  • Whirling BladesWhirling Blades19W
  • DashDash14W
  • Faster AttacksFaster Attacks19W
  • Second WindSecond Wind20/20W

Weapon 1

  • Summon Lightning GolemSummon Lightning Golem16/19W
  • Assassin's MarkAssassin's Mark21/20W
  • Mark On HitMark On Hit21/20W

Weapon 2

  • Molten ShellMolten Shell17/20W
  • Cast when Damage TakenCast when Damage Taken9W
  • Increased DurationIncreased Duration20/20W

Passive Tree

Passive tree 3.18
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Raider
Raider
Bandits
Help Alira

Character Stats

Level
89

Damage

Full DPS
0
Combined DPS
1.44M
Hit DPS
1.44M
With Poison DPS
1.44M
With Ignite DPS
1.44M
With Bleed DPS
1.44M
Damage over Time
0
Culling DPS
0
Average Damage
275K

Attack & Crit

Attack/Cast Rate
5.22/s
Hit Chance
100%
Crit Chance
100%
Crit Multiplier
738%
Mana Cost
23
Life Cost
0

Defence

Effective Hit Pool
83.57K
Life
4.11K
Energy Shield
117
Mana
26
Ward
0
Armour
15.06K
Evasion
28.19K
Phys Damage Reduction
59%

Mitigation & Avoidance

Block
22%
Spell Block
0%
Spell Suppression
100%
Evade (Melee)
82%
Evade (Projectile)
82%
Attack Dodge
0%
Spell Dodge
0%

Resistances

Fire Resistance
76% (+26%)
Cold Resistance
78% (+31%)
Lightning Resistance
76% (+52%)
Chaos Resistance
-60%

Recovery

Life Regen
72.09/s
ES Regen
0/s
Mana Regen
22.1/s
Life Leech
947.88/s
ES Leech
0/s
Mana Leech
0/s

Attributes & Utility

Strength
164
Intelligence
114
Dexterity
416
Movement Speed
214%
Endurance Charges
3
Frenzy Charges
9
Power Charges
3
Devotion
0