******* THE POB HAS BEEN UPDATED SLIGHTLY TO MAKE LVLING AND TRANSITION BETTER/CHEAPER ******** HUGE thanks to my boy Nicolas277 (and other discord members, actually) for introducing me to this build and helping me out with the Path of Building and giving me suggestions... There were so many options to consider, so many ways to build this character and every single one of them seemed good, it was quite frankly annoying. But all in all, I'm happy with what I ended up with as it feels it progresses well and adds things when it needs it the most. For example, jewel sockets aren't exactly useful during leveling but are MASSIVE in the endgame! Also... Inspired Learnings are INSANE for this build AND they happen to go in the exact spot where you can spend very minimal points on "useless" stuff, can't wait to snag up a few of them early before the price goes haywire! Goodluck, this is what I'm going with, there's plenty of options out there but BF/BB is hard to look past with the ability to transition into Self-Poison at any moment AND the incredible clear which goes in tandem incredibly well with the Ritual league mechanic... I'm hyped.
@@Кулити-в7г The alternate items in the PoB listed are the endgame, totally forgot to mention it. The 2nd set of items in the PoB was where you could easily spend up to a few hundred exalts :)
Thanks for this Matth! Have been watching your vids of late and really enjoy them but always thought you were speaking another language with the high end stuff you do. This is like a breath of fresh air. I really appreciate you going thru the low end starting stuff. Subbed.
Hey man, started watching your videos since you put out the currency making methods, I've been playing PoE for years (since beta) but I've skipped a few leagues here and there, and it's a great refresher to get up to speed on what to spend time doing. Thanks!
just fyi, divine wrath and divine fury convert the phys portion of lightning and fire spells respectively, they won't convert a physical spell like blade blast. not sure if that changes the way you want to build your tree, just thought I'd give you the heads up
I ACTUALLY Decided to adjust the tree after many hours of staring at the POB afterall, going for Acro/Phase acro earlier. So thanks to your comment sir, the build got a lil better for the lvling portion of things!
I love it when people put the extra time in the pob builds. Us newer players that still need our hand held for builds much appreciates it. Or else it always gets so overwhelming so fast. And or never knowing which way your supposed to go on the tree first and knowing when you should be linking x and x skills/support gems. I also had a question about the build, you say its not a bossing build. But for people that just plan to actually finish the altas for the first time this league. Then do some bossing like metamorph/maven stuff would you think this build could still be perfectly fine? Or recommend going something else more focused on bossing?
As I understood it, there are basically two versions of this build. The one in the end with the inspired learnings is squishy af without rare mobs to steal mods from, so it's made for delirium farming with poison sextant abuse. If you want to be good at bossing and still have a good clear, you should take crit multi/life jewels instead and use that version of the build to be more tanky and stand on your own much better without the inspired learning buffs. That should work for the boss heavy maven stuff. The 2.5m DPS shown are definitely enough to do all bosses in the game right now like Shaper, Elder, Awakener, Uber Elder, Uber Atziri. Also (have not looked at the pob), you can fiddle with the build a bit when you accumulate more currency to specc into some cluster jewels to further enhance survivability and damage. Inspired learning is just for "too early to be true" 100% delirium (or juiced maps in general) farm. The regular build is cool for all content.
it's still 50% phys, since divine wrath and divine fury converts LIGHTNING spells and FIRE spells respectively.. bladefall and bladeblast are both physical skills without the lightning or fire tag so they don't get the conversion.. not that it matters that much for leveling of course..
HOLY SHIT. I'm blind, I spent too much time staring at my screen I forgot how to read! Well, you're absolutely right, but ye, it doesn't really matter once you get done with the story progression since the Phys version is way better anyways! Thanks for that, honestly hadn't realized!
Hey man you are literally the best at making POB builds. You have every Boss labeled for the skill points in the tree. No one else does that seriously fantastic.
@@NederBProductions You can try thus build with a chieftain convert fire, personnaly i just use like 50 chaos for my build to work perfectly on the first map rotation ( im only at t7/8 maps and i think i can climb up to t14 without any more investement) The tree on chieftain give it a bit more tankyness cause you take hp + armor with a shield but in the pob you have (only) 2.3 million dps. I think this version can suit you way more better than the assasin one. If you need the pob i give it to you with pleasure^^ (sorry if my english is bad i try my best to be readable)
Made the levelling smoother by utilising spellslinger for the two active skills. Dropping herald of ash and skitters. Damage maintained by utilising frenzy +hextouch +conductivity which obviously gives frenzy charge generation. This over came the mana issues in the later acts. Thanks for a great build.
Ye Spellslinger is fine here but it suffers from the same issue as all the other spellslinger builds early, lack of damage, especially here due to timing being so important, but for lvling its great, probably good in early maps even!
Hi great video. I grind WOW nonstop and just watched this video and feel pretty good prepared for the upcoming league. Ty for the great guide *Edit* I LOVE your Atlasguide :D
Good guide, eldritch battery really helps with mana sustain, the problem i see it's how to proc arcane surge when u are spending ES most of the time...
I have seen some CoC variations of this build so my question is if integrating CoC is possible for your version? I tried BB/BF build for a little in Heist, and my biggest problem were bosses. Like Conquerors/Sirus... etc... those fast and frequently moving and dodging bosses. The problem was not the lack of damage (got tons of it) but with the bosses moving/jumping away from the BF cast location and partially or completely evading the BB explosions... I think CoC solve this problem and is also a lot easier and fun playstile too as you only need to think about hitting the targets with BF and focus on dodge/kiting dangerous things mobs throw at you.
Hi Matth, hope you get the time to read this and help me with this question. :) I've started as Cyclone Max Block Gladiator and while I've enjoyed it, I'm starting to get tired of this build and I want to try something else, this time a build focused on making money for other stuff. After watch some of your videos and stream (and Grimro and talk to some dudes in his dicord) I'm thinking to try a BF/BB or BV. Now I'm not sure which 'variant' of those builds would be the best on a ~10ex budget (yes, I'm not very good at making money haha). On poe.ninja Blade Blast seems to be a better choice with 45% of Assassins playing it. And those 60% are playing a Physical version (I've excluded the ones using Spellslinger since I don't like the playstyle). But the thing is... I can't decide between: - Poison BV - Poison BF/BB - Physical BF/BB to start a new character tonight focused on making money. I know this videos is about a Physical version but not sure if things changed after a week into the league. I know Grim is playing now a Fire BV but this one needs more currency so, on a ~10ex budget. Which one would you suggest? Thanks alot (you and Grimro) for this content and how you two shares your knowledge on how to play the game on such a high level. Thanks!
Poison BV is a one button build, very cheap and you can get somewhat tanky, same goes for poison BF/BB but its 2 button build which is an absolute nuker, it does insane damage compared to even BV. The phys version is a squishier version than the poison version of BF/BB or BV, but it does WAAAAAAAAAY more damage than those two builds. It's a slower mapper since it doesn't really have explodes or plague bearer, but the damage tht build does is stupid if you can time them right
Great video and build! I played a fire version of this last league at it was really good but that means i don't want to do it again this league. I'm likely going to start your Cold Dot spell slinger as a i had a blast when I tested it. I know the Single target isn't the best but honestly im pretty sure harvest can get me to the point where it wont feel that bad even for bossing. Im more hyped for this league than the past few!
I tried blade fall + blade blast during the mayhem event and I didn't like the playstyle to the point where I ended up respeccing to blade vortex. Is there an alternative to this league starter that still uses the inspired learning jewels?
Is there any item guide for this build? the POB just links a bunch of random items that are quite basic stuff with Res/life. The damage is insane but as some others said, I'm really squishy. Lvl 70 atm with only 3k life. Damagewise I'm still oneshotting most things, but every mob hits me for 30% or more of my hp per hit. 1) Is Carcass Jack really the best body armour? 2) Is there no other wands or weapons that are better? for example cold iron point? 3) Why Herald of ash? Thanks for the help :) it's a fun build so far. EDIT: Cold Iron Point is in the video, I had forgotten that since I watched this video last week. It would still be good to know hat our endgame build looks like so we have something to work towards. Same for ideal Gem Setup. Perhaps an updated video?
Damn this looks strong as frick. Even though there were tons of nerfs, it sort of opened up the number of build possibilities and I'm struggling to choose!
Decided to test it out. Leveling is smooth af, just zoom-zoom/boom-boom, even considering how bad I am at this game it took me only 7.5h to A10 Kitava. Survivability is lacking, so just kill stuff before it looks at you too precisely and manually dodge. Perhaps if you really want to you can grab A/PA earlier for survivability but it will make leveling twice as slow. For those who are cringing about picking Divine Wrath/Fury - there's plenty of damage on the right side of the tree that we will use later anyways, so you may prefer that instead. Overall I really liked the build, smooth leveling, great damage, early maps ez, red maps with a few c of investment. Thanks Matt, great build!
Ye I swapped over to the right side of the tree when I was told that Divine Wrath/Fury weren't conversion nodes, I hadn't read it properly... Woops. The Updated POB stays on the right side and grabs accro and phase accro much earlier, around act 6 or 7, and that will make the lvling muuuuch safer
thx for build, i played similiar build in harvest and extremaly important is to improve cast time for bladfall cause you die while casting a spell, with unleash, it is doubly important ...
Do you not think, that a Brutality Build might be suboptimal for Inspired Learnings and HH, since you steal a lot of extra ele damage buffs from the mobs etc.?
I don't think you watched the whole video homie, I mentioned that ofc you drop brutality once you get to inspired learnings :) can be replaced with anything you want really, conc effect or even back to conversion if you want, it's up to you how you go from there
@@pathofmatth Oh i'm sorry, i must've missed that. But wouldn't replacing it with Conc Effect be Bad, since you want as much overlap as possible on your Blade Blast?
go under "items" and you can click any item in there and you'll see a 2nd item in every slot, those are your endgame items, damage reaches like 15mil per 10 blade or something ridiculous
Thank you so much for this build. I was aiming to play the poison BB version but after the Ascendancy changes this version looks to be far superior. Btw any chance for an updated PoB with more expensive items like Cold Iron Point x2, maybe explody chest, curse on hit ring and stuff?
That's already in the PoB, theres 2 sets of items, we go double void battery actually, MUCH better than cold iron point here. The rest of the items are pretty endgame so things to aim for, especially with Harvest coming back
@@pathofmatth PoB doesn't have a second item set, only "Default" although I see the items you mentioned on the right as (Unused). Thank you, I will use those for guideline.
Im wondering how you are hitting over 2 mil dps at lvl 80, I have almost same gear and im only reaching 700,000 dps. Any tips or advice....Im not using inspired learning, but your POB does not show the build with them active around lvl 80 so not sure where all the damage and crit chance and crit multi are coming from. Only 2 pieces of your gear have crit, not sure how you have so much.
@@lamosos Generally I use CWDT Frost Wall specifically to manage projectile hits, so it's kept relatively low (20-30% HP), where it puts wall up at a bit of distance. I don't use it to deal with direct melee hits because it just puts a wall up in my face.
Love your videos man! Any build you would recommend after Blade Blast/Blade Fall? I feel like that's everywhere and I've played that recently. I know this is a different take on it, but I would love a different skill to try and I always use your advice/videos for league starters!!
@@pathofmatth Thanks so much for the reply. I haven't played that. I'll check it out! I was trying to figure something out for the new elementalist or deadeye. I think Inquisitor will be my goto second because I think Battlemage sounds awesome, but way too confusing as a league starter! Thanks again :)
hi Path. thanks for your videos. you think thats a no-run build for a mid-end laptop ? tryied archmage ball lightning last season and well.. it was a little bit hard in heists getting dc's :/
For the super early lvling you dont need more than act 2 wand crafts (check PoB for that under Notes) and that will carry until maps, then you can just get some wands with either higher flat lightning dmg to spells + spell damage rolls (like 2-3c wands) OR stormprison if you are swapping to pure phys very early, otherwise +1 phys wands with spell dmg is legit as good as CIP but a tiny tiny fraction of the price
You can easily get over 5-6k life with jewels on the non-inspired learning tree and since you have massive strength requirement for things like pride, you actually get a very high level steelskin on your cast when dmg taken, pair that up with nearly dodge and spell dodge cap... you really aren't that squishy, even for an assassin!
Totally doable, go for a full conversion fire build with herald of ash and the clear will be quite good, damage and survivability should not be an issue on this assassin, especially for softcore but for pesky 10 bosses at a time might be better on chieftain for sure!
Do you think jugg would still be viable for this? I know it seems odd but was gonna be a boss killer anyways and with harvest coming back, getting high crit multi is gonna be easier now. And was going to switch to howa jugg like a week in once most of the gear is available/crafted, but chieftain would still be ok, but the respec would be a little annoying. Regarding the choices it would be the endu charge dmg/aoe node and then the 2 defensive ones (cannot be slowed and 5% reduced dmg taken)
Hey Matth....would love to see some Harvest crafting guides for all the BF/BB Slots from your side, so crafting noobs like me can follow them (Maybe even some cheap early crafts would be nice). :) Thanks in advance.
2 x Cold Iron Points (in the 3 link demo) does add 6 physical skill gem levels though - so that is a decent boost. i.e. it's not a true "3 link" example. That said ... this is a T16 map so yeah, decent. And a Cold Iron point was only 10c last league, so definitely achievable :)
We don't use CIP actually, the PoB shows that a rare wand with just +1 phys and crafted spell damage is 5% more damage per wand and endgame void battery is TWICE the damage CIP does
Either you go with Opportunistic for an extra defensive layer (esp when mapping) or you go ambush and assassinate for some THICC single target OR you go noxious strike if you're doing the whole poison sextant abuse :)
Thanks man the PoB is beautiful, I think Im gonna league start this. Im gonna transition to CoC at some point, do you think it will be smooth transition from this build?
PoB shows them as weak options, for lvling we aren't phys and we aren't stacking power charges, we're riding the elemental conversion wave and for that, flat ele weapon crafts are perfectly adequate! Once we swap to pure phys, PoB shows that a regular are with +1 phys and crafted spell damage is somehow even better than cold Iron Point for a tiny tiny portion of the price, pretty awesome!
Every single crit build goes for crit multi jewels to scale into late game every single league, so they are always expensive. You can try to craft your own with harvest if you wish, I think math even has a video on that if I'm not mistaken
I just got my guy to mapping and did the switch to phys version. Once you get to mapping and still running elemental damage, dont panic. once you switch to phys and 2 cold iron points, everything is deleted Edit: Just tried a tier 11 map and deleted it with a 5 link 2 cold iron points.
hey matth big fan here. i followed your guide to the latter but im 80 now and really squishy. dps is not the problem its more survivability issue. i'm at 3k health max res except chaos. i think my problem is mostly gear, any advice to be less squish?
3k max health is INSANELY low, you should be at nearly 4000 and remember to have steelskin on left click since it should be very high level, as high as you can take it with your strength. That's basically an extra 1000+ life every few seconds
What would upgrade priority look like? I’m not gonna rush the inspired learning tree but I’ll probably swap to it at some point. Or just wait for headhunter. Is it cold iron points asap? And I know conc effect helmet/faster casting gloves are pretty big. What else?
The build doesn't really have bossing... I've played a variation of blade fall blade blast in mid heist league and the boss damage was underwhelming, I quickly changed the build to caustic arrow toxic rain, caustic arrow straight up melts every boss u can think of in matter of seconds (when built properly ofc)
@@beasthaven1571 If you read back, I specified "if properly built". I'll share my PoB 2nd day of the league if u want u can see how I approach caustic arrow.
Hi man! Im really aprreciated for this build man, but i have a question bro! I have some currencies like 200c and i wanna upgrade some of my gear. now im playing with two Cold Iron Point and Carcass Jack 5l, should I change weapons for wands with spell damage and +to all spell gems? Which one will be better for me? Ty for answer.
I always like to start a league with a new character, since I dont have the need or want to haste asap to max endgame, which is kinda counterintuitive for this game, I know this might just be my league starter right there, ty
Am I imagining things or did you not have some example gear sets instead of just the one Default, in the original POB for this? Did those get left out by chance? Sorry, have been watching so many vids, I could definitely be wrong here.
@@pathofmatth For the initial POB there were definitely more item sets. I just imported the updated POB from above and no item sets but the Default. No worries. I am sure you have a ton of other stuff to worry about. Sadly I overwrote the initial so no long have the URL to the original. All is good. Enjoy the league!
how safe is this build? given that its 2 buttons, wont u die in juiced maps before blades land/before u blade blast? I just cant see this clearing deliriums even with self poison since seems glass cannony yet dmg application isnt instant and automated like bv. or are u just going to use this early and then go into bv later?
It's a league starter, this build 100% CAN farm super juiced delirious but you will need HH or at least a few inspired to carry, but that goes for most builds and 100% deli farming, personally will ride bf/bb until I hit a brick wall and then swap to most likely, as mentioned, BV
@@pathofmatth okay yeah thats what I thought of as doing as well. Strengrh of the build is strong with low investment and can scale to like mid but late game bv switch
He talks about it at 16:54 ish. He mentions if you're not going the poison abuse and sticking to this build either go Ambush and Assassinate for damage or Oppurtunistic for survivability
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******* THE POB HAS BEEN UPDATED SLIGHTLY TO MAKE LVLING AND TRANSITION BETTER/CHEAPER ********
HUGE thanks to my boy Nicolas277 (and other discord members, actually) for introducing me to this build and helping me out with the Path of Building and giving me suggestions... There were so many options to consider, so many ways to build this character and every single one of them seemed good, it was quite frankly annoying. But all in all, I'm happy with what I ended up with as it feels it progresses well and adds things when it needs it the most. For example, jewel sockets aren't exactly useful during leveling but are MASSIVE in the endgame!
Also... Inspired Learnings are INSANE for this build AND they happen to go in the exact spot where you can spend very minimal points on "useless" stuff, can't wait to snag up a few of them early before the price goes haywire!
Goodluck, this is what I'm going with, there's plenty of options out there but BF/BB is hard to look past with the ability to transition into Self-Poison at any moment AND the incredible clear which goes in tandem incredibly well with the Ritual league mechanic...
I'm hyped.
are you going to release more expensive pobs?
Let's hope there won't be any hidden changes like with totems last league
@@Кулити-в7г The alternate items in the PoB listed are the endgame, totally forgot to mention it. The 2nd set of items in the PoB was where you could easily spend up to a few hundred exalts :)
@@pathofmatth ty mate , cool work )
wooo so assassin still good, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ^^
Cool. Skrillex is playing POE now.
haha thanks, had a shit day today and this gave me a smile. Sending positive your way good Sir or Mam'
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Skrillex is a pretty prolific exile.
Lmaoooooo
yes cuz dubstep is "corrupt"
Your pob guides are improving, great content man keep it up.
The most important thing is the pob leveling guide this is what keeps me going thank you very much
Thanks for this Matth! Have been watching your vids of late and really enjoy them but always thought you were speaking another language with the high end stuff you do. This is like a breath of fresh air. I really appreciate you going thru the low end starting stuff. Subbed.
Hey man, started watching your videos since you put out the currency making methods, I've been playing PoE for years (since beta) but I've skipped a few leagues here and there, and it's a great refresher to get up to speed on what to spend time doing. Thanks!
just fyi, divine wrath and divine fury convert the phys portion of lightning and fire spells respectively, they won't convert a physical spell like blade blast. not sure if that changes the way you want to build your tree, just thought I'd give you the heads up
I ACTUALLY Decided to adjust the tree after many hours of staring at the POB afterall, going for Acro/Phase acro earlier. So thanks to your comment sir, the build got a lil better for the lvling portion of things!
@@pathofmatth Do u know if pure Phys is better than Ele conversion.. lets say Inquisitor late game?
@@pathofmatth we can convert 95% of phys to fire whith avatar of fire(50%) annoiting Magmatic strikes(20%) and gloves craft(25%), what do you think?
@@tak_nazivaemiy we dont use conversion for more than until we get wands with +1 phys, no reason to invest in it at all
I love it when people put the extra time in the pob builds. Us newer players that still need our hand held for builds much appreciates it. Or else it always gets so overwhelming so fast. And or never knowing which way your supposed to go on the tree first and knowing when you should be linking x and x skills/support gems.
I also had a question about the build, you say its not a bossing build. But for people that just plan to actually finish the altas for the first time this league. Then do some bossing like metamorph/maven stuff would you think this build could still be perfectly fine? Or recommend going something else more focused on bossing?
As I understood it, there are basically two versions of this build. The one in the end with the inspired learnings is squishy af without rare mobs to steal mods from, so it's made for delirium farming with poison sextant abuse. If you want to be good at bossing and still have a good clear, you should take crit multi/life jewels instead and use that version of the build to be more tanky and stand on your own much better without the inspired learning buffs. That should work for the boss heavy maven stuff. The 2.5m DPS shown are definitely enough to do all bosses in the game right now like Shaper, Elder, Awakener, Uber Elder, Uber Atziri.
Also (have not looked at the pob), you can fiddle with the build a bit when you accumulate more currency to specc into some cluster jewels to further enhance survivability and damage.
Inspired learning is just for "too early to be true" 100% delirium (or juiced maps in general) farm. The regular build is cool for all content.
@@anadymene Thanks
@@wildwilie What Wolf said is exactly right :)
Nice, gonna definitely start with this! Thanks for all the detailed notes on the PoB, really helps!
I really like that you keep things simple. That's what I am here for. Started with your Coldslinger build on flashback and it was really good. Thanks!
it's still 50% phys, since divine wrath and divine fury converts LIGHTNING spells and FIRE spells respectively.. bladefall and bladeblast are both physical skills without the lightning or fire tag so they don't get the conversion.. not that it matters that much for leveling of course..
HOLY SHIT. I'm blind, I spent too much time staring at my screen I forgot how to read! Well, you're absolutely right, but ye, it doesn't really matter once you get done with the story progression since the Phys version is way better anyways!
Thanks for that, honestly hadn't realized!
@@pathofmatth So we aren't taking these nodes anymore are we ?
@@pathofmatth And are we still taking phys to lightning during the leveling
This is super helpful man! i've subbed. I was unsure what to play but this seems like a very strong starter - you've made my mind up!
Hey man you are literally the best at making POB builds. You have every Boss labeled for the skill points in the tree. No one else does that seriously fantastic.
Thank god you are going to do PoB for this build, I really wanted to try it.
Thaks math, and the patreons for making your content possible :)
Im so happy that i found youe channel. Im kind of newbie player (only 400 hours) and u giving to me a lot of informations. Thanks!
Love your content man. Super clear and in depth
My body is ready for this league. I can already taste the Mirrors. Thanks Matth!
Man, you've saved my time with hesitating and plannig for the league start!!!
Huge thanks for the build! Will try it out this league!
how'd it go?
thank youuu, love the notes you left, its a small touch but its very impactful!
I’ve been playing this build for league start and noticed that the build is increasingly squishy once it reaches maps
have you found any way to fix that? im haveing the same problem and is super frustrating
@@NederBProductions You can try thus build with a chieftain convert fire, personnaly i just use like 50 chaos for my build to work perfectly on the first map rotation
( im only at t7/8 maps and i think i can climb up to t14 without any more investement)
The tree on chieftain give it a bit more tankyness cause you take hp + armor with a shield but in the pob you have (only) 2.3 million dps.
I think this version can suit you way more better than the assasin one.
If you need the pob i give it to you with pleasure^^
(sorry if my english is bad i try my best to be readable)
@@ericpayet435 thanks, i switched to some one elses guide made a few changes and the build feels like 100x better
@@NederBProductions can you link build? i'm also having problems with maps
@@NederBProductions can you link?
some high quality videos you put out really helpful for all players of poe, got my sub :D
Holy shit I didn't know you could do different stages of the passive tree! Thank you again for that and the Notes section, game changer!
Exactly what I was going to play just in a different way, thanks for the Vid!
Made the levelling smoother by utilising spellslinger for the two active skills. Dropping herald of ash and skitters. Damage maintained by utilising frenzy +hextouch +conductivity which obviously gives frenzy charge generation. This over came the mana issues in the later acts. Thanks for a great build.
Ye Spellslinger is fine here but it suffers from the same issue as all the other spellslinger builds early, lack of damage, especially here due to timing being so important, but for lvling its great, probably good in early maps even!
Hi great video. I grind WOW nonstop and just watched this video and feel pretty good prepared for the upcoming league. Ty for the great guide
*Edit* I LOVE your Atlasguide :D
Super interesting version of the build. I’m gonna give this a go forsure. Also great call on eldrich battery it’s so good for this build
As usual, a high quality content suitable for all level of players.
Good guide, eldritch battery really helps with mana sustain, the problem i see it's how to proc arcane surge when u are spending ES most of the time...
I can't figure out why its in the links either.
That is some Engineering Eternity guide building my man, thx!
I might just take this as my starter before it get’s nerfed mid league...
you don't have to worry about a mid league nerf on this....
OMG the notes are super helpful!
Wow you did a lot of work, thanks
I have seen some CoC variations of this build so my question is if integrating CoC is possible for your version?
I tried BB/BF build for a little in Heist, and my biggest problem were bosses. Like Conquerors/Sirus... etc... those fast and frequently moving and dodging bosses.
The problem was not the lack of damage (got tons of it) but with the bosses moving/jumping away from the BF cast location and partially or completely evading the BB explosions...
I think CoC solve this problem and is also a lot easier and fun playstile too as you only need to think about hitting the targets with BF and focus on dodge/kiting dangerous things mobs throw at you.
If you can make it so the little dance between BF and BB happens, you can make it work, sure
Hi Matth, hope you get the time to read this and help me with this question. :)
I've started as Cyclone Max Block Gladiator and while I've enjoyed it, I'm starting to get tired of this build and I want to try something else, this time a build focused on making money for other stuff. After watch some of your videos and stream (and Grimro and talk to some dudes in his dicord) I'm thinking to try a BF/BB or BV.
Now I'm not sure which 'variant' of those builds would be the best on a ~10ex budget (yes, I'm not very good at making money haha). On poe.ninja Blade Blast seems to be a better choice with 45% of Assassins playing it. And those 60% are playing a Physical version (I've excluded the ones using Spellslinger since I don't like the playstyle). But the thing is... I can't decide between:
- Poison BV
- Poison BF/BB
- Physical BF/BB
to start a new character tonight focused on making money. I know this videos is about a Physical version but not sure if things changed after a week into the league. I know Grim is playing now a Fire BV but this one needs more currency so, on a ~10ex budget. Which one would you suggest?
Thanks alot (you and Grimro) for this content and how you two shares your knowledge on how to play the game on such a high level. Thanks!
Poison BV is a one button build, very cheap and you can get somewhat tanky, same goes for poison BF/BB but its 2 button build which is an absolute nuker, it does insane damage compared to even BV. The phys version is a squishier version than the poison version of BF/BB or BV, but it does WAAAAAAAAAY more damage than those two builds. It's a slower mapper since it doesn't really have explodes or plague bearer, but the damage tht build does is stupid if you can time them right
@@pathofmatth alright. thanks for helping me!
have a great day :)
Great video and build! I played a fire version of this last league at it was really good but that means i don't want to do it again this league. I'm likely going to start your Cold Dot spell slinger as a i had a blast when I tested it. I know the Single target isn't the best but honestly im pretty sure harvest can get me to the point where it wont feel that bad even for bossing. Im more hyped for this league than the past few!
hey man, great video. btw, is there any way I can for me to watch the vod? it said that it's not available whenever I click the link
I tried blade fall + blade blast during the mayhem event and I didn't like the playstyle to the point where I ended up respeccing to blade vortex. Is there an alternative to this league starter that still uses the inspired learning jewels?
Could always go with exactly that, blade vortex :)
@@pathofmatth Exactly your same tree, items and everything? and will I get similar power level? Thanks my dude!
Great POB. Thank you.
Eagerly awaiting your Blade Blade build guide
Is there any item guide for this build? the POB just links a bunch of random items that are quite basic stuff with Res/life.
The damage is insane but as some others said, I'm really squishy.
Lvl 70 atm with only 3k life.
Damagewise I'm still oneshotting most things, but every mob hits me for 30% or more of my hp per hit.
1) Is Carcass Jack really the best body armour?
2) Is there no other wands or weapons that are better? for example cold iron point?
3) Why Herald of ash?
Thanks for the help :) it's a fun build so far.
EDIT:
Cold Iron Point is in the video, I had forgotten that since I watched this video last week.
It would still be good to know hat our endgame build looks like so we have something to work towards.
Same for ideal Gem Setup.
Perhaps an updated video?
Damn this looks strong as frick. Even though there were tons of nerfs, it sort of opened up the number of build possibilities and I'm struggling to choose!
I totally feel you on that one hahahaha
A really good build guide
Decided to test it out. Leveling is smooth af, just zoom-zoom/boom-boom, even considering how bad I am at this game it took me only 7.5h to A10 Kitava. Survivability is lacking, so just kill stuff before it looks at you too precisely and manually dodge. Perhaps if you really want to you can grab A/PA earlier for survivability but it will make leveling twice as slow. For those who are cringing about picking Divine Wrath/Fury - there's plenty of damage on the right side of the tree that we will use later anyways, so you may prefer that instead.
Overall I really liked the build, smooth leveling, great damage, early maps ez, red maps with a few c of investment. Thanks Matt, great build!
Ye I swapped over to the right side of the tree when I was told that Divine Wrath/Fury weren't conversion nodes, I hadn't read it properly... Woops. The Updated POB stays on the right side and grabs accro and phase accro much earlier, around act 6 or 7, and that will make the lvling muuuuch safer
@@pathofmatth Thanks man, appreciate your hard work.
What is the most efficient keybind for the BB BF combo ?
Going to be your preference, but I'm doing the same combo I use for mines which is BF on right click and BB on space bar.
thx for build, i played similiar build in harvest and extremaly important is to improve cast time for bladfall cause you die while casting a spell, with unleash, it is doubly important ...
Why am I seeing this 20 minutes before league start REEEEEEE
Damn and I thought my 6 hour fresh league start times were decent. Looks like I've got a long way to go.
It usually takes me 10 hours so...I have a lot more to improve than you. ;)
6 hours with 3 labs and skill points is plenty good youll still be in maps faster than 95% of peopel
I, for one, really appreciate the thorough PoB notes.
Do you not think, that a Brutality Build might be suboptimal for Inspired Learnings and HH, since you steal a lot of extra ele damage buffs from the mobs etc.?
I don't think you watched the whole video homie, I mentioned that ofc you drop brutality once you get to inspired learnings :)
can be replaced with anything you want really, conc effect or even back to conversion if you want, it's up to you how you go from there
@@pathofmatth Oh i'm sorry, i must've missed that. But wouldn't replacing it with Conc Effect be Bad, since you want as much overlap as possible on your Blade Blast?
Hi Matth! This video made me hyped but I have a question. Will this build running smooth considering the Mistwalker cast speed nerf?
I got some extra cast speed on the tree which you wouldn't get before to make up for that, shouldn't even feel it
@@pathofmatth Thanks a lot for taking the time to clarify!
What do you think about going Raider instead? It has more move and cast speed than Assasin. Maybe cold conversion is possible?
part of his motivations is to abuse self-poison, you need the assassin ascendancy node to do that.
This guy should start making dubstep music.
i knew i could count on you to have an insane starter
Thanks, good build. Any chance of releasing more expensive pobs? I don't see a second set of items.
go under "items" and you can click any item in there and you'll see a 2nd item in every slot, those are your endgame items, damage reaches like 15mil per 10 blade or something ridiculous
Thank you so much for this build. I was aiming to play the poison BB version but after the Ascendancy changes this version looks to be far superior. Btw any chance for an updated PoB with more expensive items like Cold Iron Point x2, maybe explody chest, curse on hit ring and stuff?
That's already in the PoB, theres 2 sets of items, we go double void battery actually, MUCH better than cold iron point here.
The rest of the items are pretty endgame so things to aim for, especially with Harvest coming back
@@pathofmatth PoB doesn't have a second item set, only "Default" although I see the items you mentioned on the right as (Unused). Thank you, I will use those for guideline.
Im wondering how you are hitting over 2 mil dps at lvl 80, I have almost same gear and im only reaching 700,000 dps. Any tips or advice....Im not using inspired learning, but your POB does not show the build with them active around lvl 80 so not sure where all the damage and crit chance and crit multi are coming from. Only 2 pieces of your gear have crit, not sure how you have so much.
Cast on Death + Portal >>>> Cast when damage taken + Defensive skill gem
How about... both? POGGERS
CWDT + Portal + Defensive skill to save a socket. Kap
CWDT + **ICE WALL** + defense skill
You would be *amazed* at how often a low level ice wall will save your ass.
@@amzarnacht6710 What cwdt level do you recommend? Obviously you wouldn't want it to proc too often?
@@lamosos Generally I use CWDT Frost Wall specifically to manage projectile hits, so it's kept relatively low (20-30% HP), where it puts wall up at a bit of distance. I don't use it to deal with direct melee hits because it just puts a wall up in my face.
Love your videos man! Any build you would recommend after Blade Blast/Blade Fall? I feel like that's everywhere and I've played that recently. I know this is a different take on it, but I would love a different skill to try and I always use your advice/videos for league starters!!
you played Toxic Rain Miner Trickster? lots of people are screaming "trickster is dead" but that's just not the case, trickster is fine and dandy
@@pathofmatth Thanks so much for the reply. I haven't played that. I'll check it out! I was trying to figure something out for the new elementalist or deadeye. I think Inquisitor will be my goto second because I think Battlemage sounds awesome, but way too confusing as a league starter! Thanks again :)
hi Path. thanks for your videos. you think thats a no-run build for a mid-end laptop ? tryied archmage ball lightning last season and well.. it was a little bit hard in heists getting dc's :/
Brilliant!!! Will it work with two Amplification Rod wands? Or we'll lost a lot of mana and sockets?
For the super early lvling you dont need more than act 2 wand crafts (check PoB for that under Notes) and that will carry until maps, then you can just get some wands with either higher flat lightning dmg to spells + spell damage rolls (like 2-3c wands) OR stormprison if you are swapping to pure phys very early, otherwise +1 phys wands with spell dmg is legit as good as CIP but a tiny tiny fraction of the price
Hee heee heeeeee. I am very happy I found a skill flying under the radar too.
You can easily get over 5-6k life with jewels on the non-inspired learning tree and since you have massive strength requirement for things like pride, you actually get a very high level steelskin on your cast when dmg taken, pair that up with nearly dodge and spell dodge cap... you really aren't that squishy, even for an assassin!
This is my starter build now , thx and a lot of extra contain on how to achive it !!! 😊😊😊
you are amazing man! keep it up!
Damn it was my idea also :D now everyone will be playing it :D Love your work Path of Math!
I was thinking of going chieftan BF/BB for this league since its more tanky and we will be fighting 10 bosses at once. What's your thoughts on that?
Sounds good. Which 4 Chieftain nodes do you prefer? Atm
Totally doable, go for a full conversion fire build with herald of ash and the clear will be quite good, damage and survivability should not be an issue on this assassin, especially for softcore but for pesky 10 bosses at a time might be better on chieftain for sure!
Do you think jugg would still be viable for this? I know it seems odd but was gonna be a boss killer anyways and with harvest coming back, getting high crit multi is gonna be easier now. And was going to switch to howa jugg like a week in once most of the gear is available/crafted, but chieftain would still be ok, but the respec would be a little annoying. Regarding the choices it would be the endu charge dmg/aoe node and then the 2 defensive ones (cannot be slowed and 5% reduced dmg taken)
Hey Matth....would love to see some Harvest crafting guides for all the BF/BB Slots from your side, so crafting noobs like me can follow them (Maybe even some cheap early crafts would be nice). :)
Thanks in advance.
yay you arent playing my build, thats pretty much all i hoped for XD #shellfish - gl on league start
has this build been nerfed i want to league start with this next league
It hasnt
I wanted to start with Earthshatter champion, but after seeing this build ... no fucking way I'll start with it:) Good job on the guide.
2 x Cold Iron Points (in the 3 link demo) does add 6 physical skill gem levels though - so that is a decent boost. i.e. it's not a true "3 link" example. That said ... this is a T16 map so yeah, decent. And a Cold Iron point was only 10c last league, so definitely achievable :)
We don't use CIP actually, the PoB shows that a rare wand with just +1 phys and crafted spell damage is 5% more damage per wand and endgame void battery is TWICE the damage CIP does
I know I’m a bit late to the video but do you happen to know what playlist you were listening to during your 4hr run VOD?
What do you recommend for the last ascendancy points? Awesome vid as always
Either you go with Opportunistic for an extra defensive layer (esp when mapping) or you go ambush and assassinate for some THICC single target OR you go noxious strike if you're doing the whole poison sextant abuse :)
Thanks man the PoB is beautiful, I think Im gonna league start this. Im gonna transition to CoC at some point, do you think it will be smooth transition from this build?
If you have the currency, yes, CoC is not super beginner friendly if you want the dmg to be decent!
@Path of Matth what type wands u would recommend to lvl +80->?
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Eldritch Battery causes Arcane surge to stop working on flame dash, your thoughts on a diff gem then in its place??
What about Stormprison or amplification/reverberation rod at act/early mapping? Build sounds good, thanks for big work at pob
PoB shows them as weak options, for lvling we aren't phys and we aren't stacking power charges, we're riding the elemental conversion wave and for that, flat ele weapon crafts are perfectly adequate! Once we swap to pure phys, PoB shows that a regular are with +1 phys and crafted spell damage is somehow even better than cold Iron Point for a tiny tiny portion of the price, pretty awesome!
SIR??? I was planning on those jewels... But now it's gonna be more expensive =(
Every single crit build goes for crit multi jewels to scale into late game every single league, so they are always expensive. You can try to craft your own with harvest if you wish, I think math even has a video on that if I'm not mistaken
@@venenifer3569 I mean inspireds
@@LnDxLeo Oh sorry, nvm then ^^
Thank you Matth!
1:10 that was exacty the same i was thinking.
Sorry if it was mentioned in video but what’s the reason behind level 1 spell cascade?
I just got my guy to mapping and did the switch to phys version. Once you get to mapping and still running elemental damage, dont panic. once you switch to phys and 2 cold iron points, everything is deleted
Edit: Just tried a tier 11 map and deleted it with a 5 link 2 cold iron points.
hey matth big fan here. i followed your guide to the latter but im 80 now and really squishy. dps is not the problem its more survivability issue. i'm at 3k health max res except chaos. i think my problem is mostly gear, any advice to be less squish?
3k max health is INSANELY low, you should be at nearly 4000 and remember to have steelskin on left click since it should be very high level, as high as you can take it with your strength. That's basically an extra 1000+ life every few seconds
Im thinking between bb+bf chieftain or assasin, whats the biggest differnce? And what would be easier for new player in your opinion? Great video btw
Assassin = clear speed + DMG, chieftain = tankier
Here we GO
Build's going very nice , but how can i improve my single target dmg?
What would upgrade priority look like? I’m not gonna rush the inspired learning tree but I’ll probably swap to it at some point. Or just wait for headhunter. Is it cold iron points asap? And I know conc effect helmet/faster casting gloves are pretty big. What else?
PoB (community fork) has been updated already
I was honestly surprised this was overlooked, even the ED-C combo got a slight nerf....
-3 range is really a slight nerf. I expect 5 -8 too not clear the half map at once
Ok that's cool and all but can you show us the bossing of the build
The build doesn't really have bossing... I've played a variation of blade fall blade blast in mid heist league and the boss damage was underwhelming, I quickly changed the build to caustic arrow toxic rain, caustic arrow straight up melts every boss u can think of in matter of seconds (when built properly ofc)
@@1Crazyguitarist1 can we put something in a totem maybe or maybe something like plague barrier idk
@@1Crazyguitarist1 what build makes ca melt every boss in seconds >.< i played ca all in heist and it still took time not seconds.
@@beasthaven1571 If you read back, I specified "if properly built".
I'll share my PoB 2nd day of the league if u want u can see how I approach caustic arrow.
Hi man! Im really aprreciated for this build man, but i have a question bro! I have some currencies like 200c and i wanna upgrade some of my gear. now im playing with two Cold Iron Point and Carcass Jack 5l, should I change weapons for wands with spell damage and +to all spell gems? Which one will be better for me? Ty for answer.
I always like to start a league with a new character, since I dont have the need or want to haste asap to max endgame, which is kinda counterintuitive for this game, I know
this might just be my league starter right there, ty
Great POB job.
Hi Math,
Does this build work in 3.14?
Am I imagining things or did you not have some example gear sets instead of just the one Default, in the original POB for this? Did those get left out by chance? Sorry, have been watching so many vids, I could definitely be wrong here.
Idk why everyone is mentioning this, when I open the PoB I totally see more than one set of gear available...
@@pathofmatth For the initial POB there were definitely more item sets. I just imported the updated POB from above and no item sets but the Default. No worries. I am sure you have a ton of other stuff to worry about. Sadly I overwrote the initial so no long have the URL to the original. All is good. Enjoy the league!
how safe is this build? given that its 2 buttons, wont u die in juiced maps before blades land/before u blade blast? I just cant see this clearing deliriums even with self poison since seems glass cannony yet dmg application isnt instant and automated like bv. or are u just going to use this early and then go into bv later?
It's a league starter, this build 100% CAN farm super juiced delirious but you will need HH or at least a few inspired to carry, but that goes for most builds and 100% deli farming, personally will ride bf/bb until I hit a brick wall and then swap to most likely, as mentioned, BV
@@pathofmatth okay yeah thats what I thought of as doing as well. Strengrh of the build is strong with low investment and can scale to like mid but late game bv switch
@@pathofmatth Do you have a BV guide somewhere? Or how to switch to BV from this build?
missing last ascendancy point 1.mistwalker 2.unstable infusion 3.Deadly infusion 4. ?
He talks about it at 16:54 ish. He mentions if you're not going the poison abuse and sticking to this build either go Ambush and Assassinate for damage or Oppurtunistic for survivability
its not letting me post the link into PoB
awesome build. two buttons are more fun than 1 button™xD
Whats your plan for the Maven content? i would assume this build will have issues. correct?