Video Showcase A8 Drox

This is one of those builds that I just couldn't stop thinking about. Bladestorm is one of my favorite melee skills. It is one of the few skills I consider to be "well-rounded".

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Core Mechanics:

Voidforge: Elemental conversion, decent life, allows for rotating elemental damage

Trinity: Truckton of damage if you can hit with different elements.

Secrets of Suffering: Allows the use of alterate elemental ailiments (Scorch, Brittle and Sap) at the expense of not being able to freeze, shock, and ignite.

Brittle: Pretty broken as it is right now. 15% base crit when active. And yes, we're always getting the full 15%. Brittle is responsible for more than half our damage. No brittle, No damage.

Sapped: 30% resistance reduction (We get full effect of this as well).

Marylene's Fallacy: Due to already being crit capped from brittle, we can afford to abuse yet another broken unique. This item, when qualitied (the crit catalyst), adds 288% crit multi to this build, as well as giving our crit strikes culling strike.

Abyssus: Provides a lot of damage for this build, due to already having high crit chance and patches the low base damage of voidforge.

Rage Vortex: Without brittle, this build only has <20% effective crit chance. And the chances that the hit that crits does cold damage is very low (6.6%). To fix this, we throw everything we've got at the boss. Rage vortex has very high dps and hit rate (7.4 in my setup), so this along with bladestorm's attack and storm sees to it that it doesn't take more than 2-3s to apply max effect brittle.

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This is a very important part of the build. It ensures that we get max ailment effect against virtually any monster.

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Why is it so cheap? I don't know either.

6L voidforge 2ex,

6L Replica Loreweave 1ex,

Gloves 2ex (this was a damn steal),

Rares 50c,

Clusters 50c.

Misc 50c.

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"This looks super squishy, no way I'm playing this"

Yes on paper this looks like a very squishy build, but it's not that bad, trust me.

With Grace aura, Raider ascendancy, and blind from sand storms, this build has a very high chance to avoid attacks. And with 95% spell suppression, it is not weak to spells at all. This build also has no problem maintaining 21 stacks of fortify. Having a trail of bladestorms behind you, 200%+ movement speed, and perma phasing makes this build excellent for mapping. It really excels in tighter maps.

If you really want, you can swap out Replica Loreweave for an Evasion chest, or a kintsugi, but good luck trying to color that.

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Important notes:

Make sure you get both life and mana leech from somewhere. I'm getting life leech from a cluster notable, and mana leech from Divergent Elemental damage with attacks.

Frenzy charges are important. Don't hesitate to wep swap for and get your charges in. You are incredibly slow without them. And slow = death.

You don't have to use my exact gear. I made it as cheap as I could. Rare boots and gloves will make you a bit tankier, both those are up to you.

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Dangers:

Ele reflect, No Leech, Less Recovery. But all of these can be fixed with gear, pantheon, and gem alterations.

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This has been a blast to play so far. Hope you like it!

PoB from video (https://pastebin.com/mVwxjhB7)

Expensive Gear PoB (https://pastebin.com/UHM0UJG1)