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Poison General's Cry Bladestorm

by iv_is2 years ago6

Effective HP
13.46K
Life
1.85K
Level
87
Min budget

Overview

Poison General's Cry Bladestorm is a Path of Exile Ascendant build by iv_is, made for the Kalguur league (3.25). It is centered on Bladestorm of Uncertainty and plays as a strength, attack, melee, area archetype. Defensively it sits at 13.46K effective HP, 1.85K life, 369 energy shield. Key uniques include Wilma's Requital, Ashes of the Stars, Mokou's Embrace, Cospri's Will, Mokou's Embrace.

Build Video

iv_is's Notes

This build is not particularly strong the way l've made it, but l'm posting it here because l think it has some neat interactions and l wanted to share it.

https://pobb.in/fc89V28mBoTn

The core idea is to use General's Cry to bypass the active Bladestorm limit, allowing us to scale dps with both attack speed and duration. Generals can deal damage with Ancestral Bond allocated, allowing use of Wilma's Requital to scale attack speed. Dual wielding Mokou's Embrace rings then gives a total of 160% (192% with catalysts) increased attack speed. The rings enable self-ignite via Forbidden Rite of Soul Sacrifice (which scales its self-hits off energy shield only, thus causes significantly less self-damage than the base gem) triggered by Battlemage's Cry. There is also an Assassin's Mark in the Battlemage's cry, which appears to get better uptime on power and frenzy charges than when using mark on hit. This is a Perfect Agony build; as PA makes most poison nodes on the tree pretty bad poison chance is obtained from Cospri's Will, with its condition being met by a glove corrupt. Against tanky enemies Stormbind totems to spread runes on the ground for a 50% hinder to aid storm stacking. Defensive layers are movespeed (100% uptime of the 91% increased move speed buff from Smoke Mine, plus flasks and tree nodes) and Life Gain on Hit Support with enough hit rate to instantly fill the life globe after any damage. PoB doesn't give useful damage numbers for this skill - to get any numbers at all you need to edit Wilma and remove the 'Ancestral Bond' line, as it's bugged for this build, then for comparing items it may be helpful to disable the General's Cry gem so that changes to attack speed will be reflected in DPS.

Example gameplay: https://youtu.be/hXcB6Qy3hZk - notice that self-ignite has near 100% uptime; adding another spell to the Battlemage's Cry link would reduce this uptime as only one spell is cast per exerted attack.

Gear

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Pain Spiker
Wilma's Requital
Cospri's Will
Ashes of the Stars
Mokou's Embrace
Mokou's Embrace
Mind Touch
Vengeance Cord
Corpsewalker
Blight Gutter
Enthralling Orb
Impossible Escape
The Light of Meaning
Forbidden Flame
Forbidden Flesh

Skills

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Body Armour

  • Bladestorm of UncertaintyBladestorm of Uncertainty21WMain
  • General's CryGeneral's Cry21/20W
  • AutoexertionAutoexertion21/20W
  • Awakened Unbound AilmentsAwakened Unbound Ailments2/20W
  • Awakened Added Chaos DamageAwakened Added Chaos Damage2/10W
  • Awakened Deadly AilmentsAwakened Deadly Ailments1/20W

Gloves

  • BladestormBladestorm19/23W
  • Life Gain on HitLife Gain on Hit20/20W
  • Culling StrikeCulling Strike2/20W
  • Withering TouchWithering Touch20W

Boots

  • MalevolenceMalevolence21W
  • AutomationAutomation20W
  • Detonate MinesDetonate Mines1W
  • HasteHaste21W

Helmet

  • Forbidden Rite of Soul SacrificeForbidden Rite of Soul Sacrifice1/19W
  • Battlemage's CryBattlemage's Cry20W
  • Assassin's MarkAssassin's Mark19/20W
  • Enduring CryEnduring Cry20/23W

Weapon 2

  • StormbindStormbind1W
  • Whirling BladesWhirling Blades20W
  • Spell TotemSpell Totem21W

Weapon 1

  • Smoke MineSmoke Mine20/23W
  • More DurationMore Duration20/23W
  • EnhanceEnhance3W

Gloves

  • Temporal ChainsTemporal Chains1W

Boots

  • Corpse Walk20W

Passive Tree

Passive tree 3.25
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Ascendant
Ascendant
Bandits
Eramir (1 Passive Skill Point)
Pantheons
Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Shakari

Character Stats

Level
87

Damage

Full DPS
0
Combined DPS
0
Hit DPS
0
With Poison DPS
0
With Ignite DPS
0
With Bleed DPS
0
Damage over Time
0
Culling DPS
0
Reservation DPS
0
Average Damage
0
Burst Damage
0

Attack & Crit

Attack/Cast Rate
1/s
Hit Chance
100%
Accuracy
3.25K
Crit Chance
100%
Crit Multiplier
100%
AoE Radius
2.6 m
Totem Limit
2

Defence

Effective Hit Pool
13.46K
Life
1.85K
Energy Shield
369
Mana
64
Ward
0
Armour
3.3K
Evasion
10.71K
Phys Damage Reduction
35%

Mitigation & Avoidance

Block
70%
Spell Block
8%
Spell Suppression
17%
Evade (Melee)
64%
Evade (Projectile)
64%
Attack Dodge
0%
Spell Dodge
0%

Resistances

Fire Resistance
75% (+84%)
Cold Resistance
75% (+38%)
Lightning Resistance
75% (+3%)
Chaos Resistance
-10%

Max Hit Taken

Physical
3.14K
Fire
9K
Cold
9K
Lightning
9K
Chaos
1.77K

Recovery

Life Regen
107.2/s
ES Regen
0/s
ES Recharge
369/s
Mana Regen
15.1/s
Life Leech
0/s
ES Leech
0/s
Mana Leech
1.44/s

Attributes & Utility

Strength
165
Intelligence
125
Dexterity
317
Movement Speed
252%
Endurance Charges
3
Frenzy Charges
3
Power Charges
4
Devotion
0