[3.16] Ashriel's Flaskoholic Poison Bladevortex Pathfinder

It is actually a really simple concept:
-Activate Blade Vortex
-Run with 150km/h through enemys
-See them dying to crippling poison while running in slowmotion and infecting their allys when they die
-Notice your left hand slowly recovering from clicking overload
-Profit

Pros:
-low budget entirely possible with enough option to evolve into budget and very smooth progression while at it
-Very good mapping and clearspeed
-no glasscannon
-Very op Health Flask
-No cheese mechanic to trick you into playing this, it actually works :D
-Moving while attacking
-You don't run out of Flask Charges while bossing if done right
-Spreading Poison is simply satisfying
-you can keep Flasks checked in Pob ;)
-no expensive core unique

Cons:
-Meele
-Many might have played Poison BV before
-Bossing is more than possible, but there are better options ((only) 1,5 Mil non burst dps)
-Main sustain comes from Healthpots, if you dont like using these, this build isn't for you :)
-Attributes need to be compensated through gear

kill em all!

Major: Soul of Solaris
Reduced Damage taken, only get critted every 4 seconds, its literally broken

Minor: Soul of Ryslath
Since this build is all about Flasks this is a nobrainer

Many tend to ignore Pantheons, but they are mandatory defensives for this build so make sure you upgrade your Pantheon

1. Natures Boon
Flask Charges are your lifeline and the reduced Elemental taken is a sweet bonus

2. Master Toxicist
Poison Prilferation is so so good

3. Nature's Adrenaline
This is just a step inbetween, MS is a sweet Candy and attackspeed helps with Fortify generation

4. Master Surgeon
This is a really sweet one. Basicly blood and corrupted blood immunity and you regenerate 6% life whenevery you gain charges. During mapping this happens so often it would be a waste to not take.

Body armour:
Vaal Blade Vortex - Unleash Support - Efficacy Support - Unbound Aliments Support - Void Manipulation Support - Deadly Aliments Support

Gloves:
Divergent Plague Bearer - Anomalous Withering Step - Increased Area of Effect Support - Enhance Support

Of course you can drop the alternate Quality and Enhance Support till you got the money.


Boots:
Immortal Call Level 15 - Cast when Damage Taken Support Level 13 - Increased Duration Support - Lifetap


Weapon 1/2:
Temporal Chains - Blasphemy - Increased Area of Effect Support


Helmet:
Anomalous Petrified Blood - Divergent Herald of Agony - Enlighten Support - Malevolence

Of course Enlighten Support is not needed, just Quality of life and can be dropped first. dont use Malevolence without enlighten 4 and Charisma on tree later tho.


Weapon 1/2:
Portal - Flame Dash - +1
Yeah just take here what you want :) possible even linking sth and taking a mana potion, dunno yet gotta test it out!

This build has 4 Core uniques, none above an exalt and you only need 10c weapons to start, mostly not even these.

First of the Uniques:
Weapons:

Ignore the Corrupted mods for starters and they are really cheap even at league start and a nobrainer for this build.

Necklace:

This item provides us with a huge duration increase buff while mapping aswell as a free temporal chains aura.
You don't need to have these stats, i just started to minmax a little recently.
Also a huge buff if you get your hands on a headhunter. 20% more headhunter buff duration is HUGE.
(Old Annoint tho)

Gloves:

Aspect of the Spider works really well together with Temporal Chains and is therefor a good addition to this build.

Unique Ring:

For this ring look for these stats, since it will give you most of your chaos res and a good damage boost. However as with the necklace, dont try to get exactly these stats and the implicits, since i minmaxed a little.

Now for the rares:
For boots/belt/second ring and body armour there is a general rule of thumb:
Get hp on it and use it to cap resistance. To cap chaos resistance you will need to have 1 halfway good chaos res mod on one of the rares.
Once you got there you are good to go.

However there are some things you can play around with:

Getting Despair as Suffix on a Ring will free up a valiable flask slot.
I also like to cap my Attributes with a craft.


A standart choice to cap resistances. However a Leatherbelt will do the trick for starters.


This is a standart boot choice. Look for movement speed and a free suffix for this to get aliment Immunity or at least closer to it for now.
I won't got for Tailwind boots for this build since you got enough movementspeed already and it decreases your Flask and Bladevortex Duration.

This ones are good starter boots i highly recommend to get the additional Curse from start.

For helmet, im going to update some good mods, just make sure you take a dex helmet :)


Another crazy good item, i crafted it myself this League. Both mods "+1 Curse" and "Endurance Charges when hit" can also be achieved elsewhere however I choose to but these here.

Again, dont replicate these Items, look for what you want, get life and resistance on them and the rest is optional.

look below for my gear progression guide for more detailed information.

Eternal Labyrinth Enchants to go:
Helmet:
"Withering Step inflicts 3 additional Withered Debuffs"
I know Bladevortex is the main skill, still withering is far too powerful to overlook

or

"Plague Bearer Buff grants +20% to Poison Damage over Time Multiplier while Infecting"
20% Multi is op

Gloves:
Dont enchant, either corrupt them or leave them.

Boots:
"80% chance to Avoid being Stunned if you've Killed Recently"
makes you 100% stun immune during mapping combined with skilltree

Belt
"Enemies Withered by you have -6% to all Resistances"
Skip the Resistance Catalyst. This is a huge dps boost

Annoints:
Necklace:
"Serpentine Spellslinger"
Relativly heap and huge Damage boost.
If you go for Withered 15 Stacks or so (Enhance level 4, Helmet Enchant and +1 glove corrupt), instead go for "Corruption"

or

"Whispers of Doom"
If you cant get the additional Curse elswhere

Now we talk about the important stuff, when to equip what.








Endgame Flask Setup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpr_EMQsNNs

This is a random Hydra run. It isn't scripted in any way, i just Alched the map and ran it. By accident there were damage reduction Rituals on it.
Please notice, that due to the nature of poison, we start stacking from new each time Hydra spawns again. If she wouldnt disappear at start the fight would last about 10 seconds at absoulte maximum :)

Sadly my PC is lagging due to recording aswell, so sorry for that and the poor quality :D

Shaper Beam outheal footage
https://youtu.be/cFeS2AH9Jo8
(Yes these pots are really op)

Firstly, take a bow any arrow you like and shoot em all up.
Just test around with bow gems, take what you find most fun for you so it doesnt get boring.
Take chance to poison support for leveling tho, as you need it later.

Level 12: Now you have 3 ways to actually level. First of all you can go for the kinda lackluster bv leveling till 38.
the other 2 are: Poisonous concoution or Toxic rain, both with chance to poison and lesser mult. projectiles.

Level 38: Buy unleash support from other player, your game begins now. stack chance to poison and damage over time as much as you can.

Yes thats all for leveling guide, maybe in the future i will post some good leveling uniques.

Since Cold Iron Point is kinda expensive this league i give you a guide for making a small substitude you can make yourself till you get there.

-First do this vendor recipe for +1 phys spell gems:
-Normal Rune Dagger/Sceptre/Staff/Wand
-2 or more quality Skill gems with a combined total of 40% quality & the
Physical tag

The craft Damage over time or Chaos Damage from crafting bench.
finished