POE 3.7 Assassin Most Popular Build - Vaal Ice Nova, Vaal Blade Vortex + Herald of Ice Proliferate Guide
INTRO:
We use Hatred and phys>Cold conversion for Blade vortex, which results in all three of these skills conveniently scaling off mostly the same types of damage where it counts, but to really make it easy, we are playing assassin and mostly scale our damage via crit chance and crit multi.
1. Herald of Ice
Back before the Beacon of Ruin nerf, Elementalist had some fun interactions with a series of specific skill combos that enabled them to chain Herald of Ice explosions across packs, meaning killing just 1 monster in a pack proceeded to delete the whole pack.
Tonnes of fun, but it got nerfed.Well. It's back baby. This time we pull the trick off in a much less silly and much less indirect way. How? Simple, we make Herald of Ice have a 100% crit chance, and do enough damage to one-shot trash. Or at least 1~3 shot trash.
This is tricky because Herald of Ice actually has a base crit chance of 0%, so we need a decent chunk of +% base crit chance. Luckily, Assassin's Deadly Infusion passive gives us +2% base. We also use Critical Strikes support for another 1.9%, and finally Farrul's Bite for an additional 1%.
Theoretically, we can also use a Hatred Watchers eye for another 1~2%, which totals us up to 5% base crit chance, or about 7% with a good hatred watchers eye.
Second, Assassin's 'Ambush and Assassinate' Passive grants us 100% more crit chance vs full life monsters, so we actually only need to pull off 50% or so with Herald of Ice. With 7 power charges, that's not too hard to hit. The result is a respectable damage Herald of Ice that also has a very very high chance to freeze on hit (100% with perfect gear and hatred watcher's eye), which will proceed to also kill that monster and chain the beautiful explosions you can see in my gif above.
2. Vaal Ice Nova
This skill pretty much speaks for itself. Scaling our HoI above encourages us to take tonnes of Area of Effect everywhere we can get it, which conveniently synergizes well with Vaal Ice Nova. This skill we already know is amazing for popping Legion encounters, so it pretty much speaks for itself.
3. Blade Vortex
The final piece of the puzzle that brings it all together. Blade Vortex is some of the best single target spell damage in the game, and it also scales well with the other two abilities above. Vaal Blade Vortex also provides some amazing burst damage for burning down bosses, and we should be able to pull into the 3mil shaper dps realm with top-end gear and three Vaal Blade Vortexes up at the same time.
PROS & CONS:
+ Easy to get into, low requirements to start, Can probably start blowing up glaciers on a budget of like 20~25 chaos, then self-fund and cyclically upgrade.
+ High top end for gear, plenty of nice pricey upgrades can really push this build to some impressive heights for DPS and survivability
+ One/Two-shot Legion encounters
+ Extremely considerable single target damage
+ Incredibly fun and very fast
- Suffers a bit from piano finger syndrome, as this build leans heavily on multiple 'temporary buff' effects from flasks, Vaal Righteous fire, etc to pop legions and bosses.
- It might get nerfed at some point as GGG realizes the proper call is to slap "Cannot inflict Freeze" onto Herald of Ice. Here's hoping they let us have our fun for at least a league or two though :p
ASCENDANCY:
1. Ambush and Assassinate
2. Opportunistic
3. Unstable Infusion
4. Deadly Infusion
BANDITS:
Kill them all.
PANTHEON:
Major God - Soul of Solaris
Minor God - Soul of Shakari
GEAR:
Weapon 1: Dread Pillar, Eclipse Staff
Weapon 2: None
Helmet: Farrul's Bite, Harlequin Mask
Body Armour: Carcass Jack, Varnished Coat
Gloves: Atziri's Acuity, Vaal Gauntlets
Boots: Entropy Track, Slink Boots
Amulet: Phoenix Idol, Lapis Amulet
Ring 1: Mark of the Shaper, Opal Ring
Ring 2: Empyrean Eye, Two - Stone Ring
Belt: Doryani's Invitation, Heavy Belt
Flask 1: Panicked Eternal Life Flask of Warding
Flask 2: Dying Sun, Ruby Flask
Flask 3: Atziri's Promise, Amethyst Flask
Flask 4: Soul Catcher, Quartz Flask
Flask 5: Alchemist's Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline
Socket #1: Watcher's Eye, Prismatic Jewel
Socket #2: Efficient Training, Crimson Jewel
GEMS SETUP:
Main Skills (Body)
Vaal Blade Vortex - Vaal Ice Nova - Power Charge on Critical - Hypothermia - Cold Penetration - Added Cold Damage
Auras
Hatred - Flesh and Stone - Enlighten Lv 2+ - Maim Support
Herald of Ice (Gloves or Feet)
Herald of Ice - Increased critical Strikes - Power Charge on Critical - (optional) Cold to Fire - (or) Culling Stikes
Phase Run + Vaal Righteous Fire
Vaal Righteous Fire - Phase Run - Enhance Support - Increased Duration
Vaal Blade Vortex (Weapon)
VBV - Unleash - Intensify - Concentrated Effect - Hypothermia - Increased Critical Damage
POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/w21FZ6Y3
SKILL TREE: https://tinyurl.com/yyvhve6l
We use Hatred and phys>Cold conversion for Blade vortex, which results in all three of these skills conveniently scaling off mostly the same types of damage where it counts, but to really make it easy, we are playing assassin and mostly scale our damage via crit chance and crit multi.
1. Herald of Ice
Back before the Beacon of Ruin nerf, Elementalist had some fun interactions with a series of specific skill combos that enabled them to chain Herald of Ice explosions across packs, meaning killing just 1 monster in a pack proceeded to delete the whole pack.
Tonnes of fun, but it got nerfed.Well. It's back baby. This time we pull the trick off in a much less silly and much less indirect way. How? Simple, we make Herald of Ice have a 100% crit chance, and do enough damage to one-shot trash. Or at least 1~3 shot trash.
This is tricky because Herald of Ice actually has a base crit chance of 0%, so we need a decent chunk of +% base crit chance. Luckily, Assassin's Deadly Infusion passive gives us +2% base. We also use Critical Strikes support for another 1.9%, and finally Farrul's Bite for an additional 1%.
Theoretically, we can also use a Hatred Watchers eye for another 1~2%, which totals us up to 5% base crit chance, or about 7% with a good hatred watchers eye.
Second, Assassin's 'Ambush and Assassinate' Passive grants us 100% more crit chance vs full life monsters, so we actually only need to pull off 50% or so with Herald of Ice. With 7 power charges, that's not too hard to hit. The result is a respectable damage Herald of Ice that also has a very very high chance to freeze on hit (100% with perfect gear and hatred watcher's eye), which will proceed to also kill that monster and chain the beautiful explosions you can see in my gif above.
2. Vaal Ice Nova
This skill pretty much speaks for itself. Scaling our HoI above encourages us to take tonnes of Area of Effect everywhere we can get it, which conveniently synergizes well with Vaal Ice Nova. This skill we already know is amazing for popping Legion encounters, so it pretty much speaks for itself.
3. Blade Vortex
The final piece of the puzzle that brings it all together. Blade Vortex is some of the best single target spell damage in the game, and it also scales well with the other two abilities above. Vaal Blade Vortex also provides some amazing burst damage for burning down bosses, and we should be able to pull into the 3mil shaper dps realm with top-end gear and three Vaal Blade Vortexes up at the same time.
PROS & CONS:
+ Easy to get into, low requirements to start, Can probably start blowing up glaciers on a budget of like 20~25 chaos, then self-fund and cyclically upgrade.
+ High top end for gear, plenty of nice pricey upgrades can really push this build to some impressive heights for DPS and survivability
+ One/Two-shot Legion encounters
+ Extremely considerable single target damage
+ Incredibly fun and very fast
- Suffers a bit from piano finger syndrome, as this build leans heavily on multiple 'temporary buff' effects from flasks, Vaal Righteous fire, etc to pop legions and bosses.
- It might get nerfed at some point as GGG realizes the proper call is to slap "Cannot inflict Freeze" onto Herald of Ice. Here's hoping they let us have our fun for at least a league or two though :p
ASCENDANCY:
2. Opportunistic
3. Unstable Infusion
4. Deadly Infusion
BANDITS:
Kill them all.
PANTHEON:
Major God - Soul of Solaris
Minor God - Soul of Shakari
GEAR:
Weapon 1: Dread Pillar, Eclipse Staff
Weapon 2: None
Helmet: Farrul's Bite, Harlequin Mask
Body Armour: Carcass Jack, Varnished Coat
Gloves: Atziri's Acuity, Vaal Gauntlets
Boots: Entropy Track, Slink Boots
Amulet: Phoenix Idol, Lapis Amulet
Ring 1: Mark of the Shaper, Opal Ring
Ring 2: Empyrean Eye, Two - Stone Ring
Belt: Doryani's Invitation, Heavy Belt
Flask 1: Panicked Eternal Life Flask of Warding
Flask 2: Dying Sun, Ruby Flask
Flask 3: Atziri's Promise, Amethyst Flask
Flask 4: Soul Catcher, Quartz Flask
Flask 5: Alchemist's Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline
Socket #1: Watcher's Eye, Prismatic Jewel
Socket #2: Efficient Training, Crimson Jewel
GEMS SETUP:
Main Skills (Body)
Vaal Blade Vortex - Vaal Ice Nova - Power Charge on Critical - Hypothermia - Cold Penetration - Added Cold Damage
Auras
Hatred - Flesh and Stone - Enlighten Lv 2+ - Maim Support
Herald of Ice (Gloves or Feet)
Herald of Ice - Increased critical Strikes - Power Charge on Critical - (optional) Cold to Fire - (or) Culling Stikes
Phase Run + Vaal Righteous Fire
Vaal Righteous Fire - Phase Run - Enhance Support - Increased Duration
Vaal Blade Vortex (Weapon)
VBV - Unleash - Intensify - Concentrated Effect - Hypothermia - Increased Critical Damage
POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/w21FZ6Y3
SKILL TREE: https://tinyurl.com/yyvhve6l
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