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[3.17] Nightblade Spectral Helix Champion, Sirus Showcase



3.17 Archnemesis

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Watcher's EyeMedium Cluster JewelForbidden FleshViridian JewelViridian JewelForbidden FlameMedium Cluster JewelLarge Cluster JewelNoble ClawSovereign Spiked ShieldReplica Farrul's FurThe FledglingWyrmsignDiamond RingTwo-Stone RingAmber AmuletDarkray VectorsPerseverance
Divine Life FlaskGranite FlaskRuby FlaskTopaz FlaskSapphire Flask

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With my shield crush pathfinder farming about 3-4 Ex an hour in T16 -> Delve rotations with a 1Ex budget I started to accumulate currency pretty quickly despite the rather casual play. It was now time for me to pick a scaling build that would allow me to clear all content and allow me to complete the league challenges solo.

Having seen the new ascendancy jewels I really wanted to try fitting in Masterful Form on a Champion or Gladiator just because I've always loved the concept of charge stacking even from closed beta.

Bought the jewels for <1ex total early and started figuring out how to maintain permanent max frenzy and endurance charges and settled on a replica Farruls fur (12 ex at the time of purchase seemed like a steal for an item usually 20 ex and above).

Knowing I'll be pathing ranger side I had two choices, either go bows in which case I can go bleed bow with Olesya's, Impale Ballistas or claws with Claw Champion (either Impale or Elemental works for Champ).

I really wanted to try out some Nightblade + Elusive abuse mechanics ever since I saw Jungroan's league starter videos and settled on going phys claw thinking that Master of Metal will be able to carry my damage as claws usually dont have much phys flat on them.

That left me with two skill choices that were reasonably strong. Flickerstrike and Spectral Helix.

I really liked the idea of Flickerstrike... but after going to delve to level with the ridiculous attack speed of claws I nearly went blind, so I swapped to Spectral Helix.

This build is incredibly strong with how it just easily scales damage off Master of Metal, Frenzy and Endurance charge stacking along with its synergy with Armor and Evasion stacking.

With mastery on the passive tree (8% evasion per frenzy charge and 8% armor per endurance charge and an additional 9% evasion per frenzy charge you'll be able to stack up to 80,000 armor AND evasion WITHOUT having to scale a significant amount of aura effect.

With 1% for each 200 of armor or evasion (whichever lowest) from Perseverance unique belt we get about 400% damage to attacks.

Couple with about 5k life, 100% spell supression, 20 fortification, 10k Molten Shells, Flagellant Sapphire/Ruby/Topaz flasks, and 28% avoidance from elusive we have a VERY tanky character that can do pretty decent DPS.

Stacking 9 charges for both can be done easily. With 3 coming from passives, 1 coming from Masterful Form, 1 from the Wyrmsign glove corrupted implicit and the remaining 1 from Darkray Vectors.

All in all, you should be able to get 9 charges easily under a 5ex budget. The main cost of the build is mostly the Replica Farruls to maintain permanent charge uptime and a decent pDPS claw but you should hypothetically be able to do this cheaply with an enduring composure cluster and some frenzy on hit mechanics.

Currently my remaining goal is to find some way of stacking chaos res to deal with DOTs, after which this build shouldn't have much problems and I'll start trying to do Simulacrums.

Let me know if you've any questions! :)

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Life

5044

Mana

12.8

Energy Shield

68

DPS

13M

Effective Hit Pool

164.35K

Chaos Res

-15

Fire Res

75

Cold Res

75

Lightning Res

75

Armour

83K

Evasion

83K

Block

24 | 0

Crit Chance

96%

Crit Multi

614%

Rage

0

Strength

163

Intelligence

120

Dexterity

239

Ward

0

Item Quantity

0%

Item Rarity

0%

Movement Speed

157%

Inspirational
Inspirational
Unstoppable Hero
Unstoppable Hero
Fortitude
Fortitude
Master of Metal
Master of Metal
Art of the Gladiator
Art of the Gladiator
Bannerman
Bannerman
Blood Drinker
Blood Drinker
Bloodless
Bloodless
Bravery
Bravery
Champion of the Cause
Champion of the Cause
Claws of the Hawk
Claws of the Hawk
Cloth and Chain
Cloth and Chain
Disciple of the Slaughter
Disciple of the Slaughter
Entrench
Entrench
Fervour
Fervour
Frenetic
Frenetic
From the Shadows
From the Shadows
Golem's Blood
Golem's Blood
Herbalism
Herbalism
Inveterate
Inveterate
Lethality
Lethality
Marked for Death
Marked for Death
Master of the Arena
Master of the Arena
Savagery
Savagery
Thick Skin
Thick Skin
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