Tornado Blade Vortex Autobomber - Automation League Starter
 Introduction This is my take on a fast autobomber with great scaling! The build revolves around using Automation to trigger a 100 mana cost Plague Bearer which triggers spells in Kitava's Thirst. League Start POB: https://pobb.in/ASA5mr1jx1xm Delirious Forge of the Phoenix League Start: Will update after 3.27 patch notes Pre-Mageblood Endgame POB: https://pobb.in/Ooexv5ncekVn Pre-Mageblood Endgame 16-Mod t17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZe5OT3s534&t=7s ________________________________________________________________________ Pros & Cons + Very fast mapper + Autobomber with explosions! + League starter + High scaling potential + No temporary league power is used in any of the showcases (see tab for league specific suggestions) - Not SSF viable (requires Kitava's Thirst) - Not HC viable - Squishy (especially early on) - Have to level as something else (guide included) ________________________________________________________________________ Mercenaries of Trarthus League Specific
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For mercenaries I recommend either a Manyshot with Hatred (swap your Hatred for Zealotry) and Grace or a Bladecaster scaling Aspect of the Spider, making sure they don't use a curse that overwrites yours. Then for itemization I recommend capping their resistances with rares and either a rare helmet with good damage modifiers (nearby enemies take increased cold damage/have reduced cold resistance) or blood price.
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Plague Bearer Automation
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This build is constructed around constantly triggering a 100 mana cost Plague Bearer to trigger skills in Kitava's Thirst. Plague Bearer is an instant skill, which means we can support it with Automation to trigger it everytime it comes off cooldown! Since Plague Bearer costs 100 mana (see Scaling Mana Cost), that means Kitava's Thirst has a 50% chance to trigger all the skills socketed in it without us having to cast a single skill ourselves! On top of the smoother gameplay, this lets us have permanent Phase Run for even faster mapping.
Scaling Mana Cost
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Plague Bearer by default has a very low mana cost (13 at level 20), which means we need to scale it quite a bit to cost 100 mana for Kitava's Thirst. The first way we scale the cost is via support gems. Plague Bearer can be supported by a handful of support gems, but all of them (outside of Automation at 150% and Concentrated Effect at 140%) have cost multipliers of 130%. This means in a six link the mana cost is 13 * 1.3 * 1.4 * 1.3 * 1.3 * 1.5 = 59, which means we need to increase the mana cost even more.
On league start we continue to scale the mana cost with Fevered Mind, which is a jewel that causes notables in a small radius to be replaced with 20% increased spell damage and 10% increased mana cost. Since we need to get a 59 mana cost to at least 100, we need at least 59/100 = 59% increased mana cost. So we need to allocate either 6 notables in a small radius of Fevered Mind or 5 and take Forethought. After league start we can free up the jewel sockets and passive points by using reflected mist rings and amulets with the inverted modifier Non-Channelling Skills Cost +# Mana (make sure it's this specific modifier when searching on trade, its a different name than the non-inverted modifier). These rings and amulets are often cheap, since for other builds these are often failed reflecting mist outcomes. Non-Channelling Skills Cost +# Mana is applied after support gem multipliers but before increased mana cost (note that the game rounds down after the support gem multiplier calculations). This means with Forethought we need a total of 28, since ceil(100/1.15 - 59) = 28, of Non-Channelling Skills Cost +# Mana (can also get some effective + mana cost by increasing Plague Bearer s level via Empower/Corrupting/+ gem levels). Mana Recovery
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Now that we've got Plague Bearer spending 100 mana per trigger, we need a way to sustain our mana. Since we're scaling mana cost, the spells in Kitava's Thirst and in our second utility Automation setup cost quite a bit of mana and depending on the stage of the build works out to spending 300-400 mana per second on average. Since mana costs fluctuate heavily second to second it's important to have a decent amount of mana unreserved to act as a buffer (I recommend at least 250).
To sustain our mana we rely on our Lightning Golem and the extra mana sustain from Mastermind of Discord. We scale golem buff effect with Liege of the Primordial and Golem Commander (and eventually quality on the gem) and mana regeneration rate on the tree and gear (can be rolled/crafted on jewelry, wands and shields). Even with all these sources it's important that Blade Vortex has a higher socket priority (highest priority is top left then descends via the same path as sockets connect) than Tornado of Elemental Turbulence in Kitava's Thirst, since if we do miss a cast due to insufficient mana it's preferable that it's Tornado of Elemental Turbulence since maintaining maximum tornadoes is significantly easier than maximum blades (see Skill Choice and Duration and Cooldown Recovery). Skill Choice
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Kitava's Thirst has a 50% chance to trigger all socketed spells every ~.5 seconds (see Cooldown Scaling and Duration). This is a relatively high average trigger rate of 1 cast per second but has high variation, frequently going multiple seconds without triggering skills, making non-persistent skills unreliable for clear. Since Kitava's Thirst triggers all spells, we want to run at least 2 spells in it since the second spells is effectively a 100% more damage support if they both scale the same (a third is effectively 50% more damage, but mana cost and scaling differences make it a less obvious decision). Luckily, Blade Vortex and Tornado of Elemental Turbulence are both persistent skills and can be scaled similarly (physical to elemental conversion).
Duration and Cooldown Scaling
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To maximize Blade Vortex and Tornado of Elemental Turbulence damage we want to have 3 tornados and 10 blades up as much as possible. Unfortunately since Kitava's Thirst doesn't guarantee a trigger every time we spend 100 mana, we can't guarantee 3 tornados and 10 blades. But by scaling cooldown recovery rate and duration we can get our average tornados close to 3 and blades close to 10.
We scale duration on the tree via Potency of Will and Exceptional Performance and the mastery for 10% more duration. Cooldown recovery we get primarily from the belt and boots(eldritch implicit). The relevent breakpoints for cooldown recovery are 2%, 9%, 17% and 27% (note that it's often worth sacrificing breakpoints in exchange for power elsewhere e.g. Mageblood). Rathpith Globe and Dissolution of the Flesh
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Note that this section only applies to mechanics introduced partway through build progression (see Upgrades).
Rathpith Globe lets us scale our damage with our maximum life, with the drawback of sacrificing life every time we use or trigger a skill. This is a great way to scale damage and defenses simultaneously, but we trigger skills extremely frequently, making it very difficult to sustain the life we're sacrificing. Fortunately, if we also use Dissolution of the Flesh we convert all incoming damage to life reservation, essentially meaning our current life no longer matters only our unreserved life. Since sacrificing can't ever reduce us below 1 life, we can safely sacrifice all our life! Since we're always at around 1 life, we can also allocate Pain Attunement for even more damage! Dissolution of the Flesh only lets us remove life reservations when we haven't taken damage for 2 seconds, which makes degens very dangerous. To deal with them we use Stormshroud and two abyss jewels with 50% chance to avoid shock (eventually flask modifier post-Mageblood) to become ailment immune, use a flask to remove bleed and corrupted blood (eventually abyss jewels post-Mageblood, also lets us be poison immune) and Pantheon to become immune to Burning Ground. Overlapping Unnatural Instinct and Light of Meaning
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Note that this section only applies to mechanics introduced partway through build progression (see Upgrades).
Light of Meaning is a jewel that causes all passives in a large radius to also grant 8% increased physical damage alongside their original bonuses. While this is nice, it's often impractical to allocate large numbers of small passives. However, by overlapping Light of Meaning's radius and Unnatural_Instinct's radius, which grants the bonuses of all unallocated small passives at the cost of not granting allocated small passives, we can get a large amount of increased physical damage along with all the other bonuses of the valuable small passives nodes in the area to the left of the scion start, including duration, area of effect and mana regeneration! ________________________________________________________________________ Starter Gear
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Mandatory Items:
Kitava's Thirst Fevered Mind 6-link Hrimsorrow Tornado of Elemental Turbulence Recommended Items: Medium Cold Damage over Time Cluster Jewel with Blast Freeze (or freeze spread eldritch glove implicit) Mark of Submission General Rares: Make sure you are resistance capped. Then look for life, strength, dexterity and chaos resistance in that order. Flasks: No required flasks, recommend Life Flask with Corrupted Blood/Bleed immunity, Quicksilver Flask and Diamond Flask ________________________________________________________________________ League Start Skills
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Note: Make sure Blade Vortex is in a higher priority socket than Tornado of Elemental Turbulence (see Mana Recovery) Kitava's Thirst Blade Vortex - Tornado of Elemental Turbulence - Increased Critical Strike Chance - Inspiration Body Armour Automation - Plague Bearer - Concentrated Effect - Arcane Surge - Efficacy - Increased Area of Effect Curse on Hit Frostbite Mark Assassin's Mark Auras Hatred, Flesh and Stone Movement Frostblink - Bonechill Golems Lightning Golem - Culling Strike , Stone Golem, Ice Golem , Flame Golem Utility Automation Automation - Phase Run - Steelskin ________________________________________________________________________ League Start, Leveling and Transition
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Leveling as cold DOT, which is always excellent on league start. We use Freezing Pulse into Creeping Frost before we get all the cold DOT gems. Don't forget to buy the gems from the Skills section from Lily in act 5 and leveling them in your off hand (note that most gems don't need/want to be high level)!
Leveling POB: https://pobb.in/QkR1t0pc5Xz3 ShakCentral Cold DOT Leveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyl3uclL6A Transition when you have enough currency to afford the mandatory items (shouldn't be more than ~10c day 1) and have hit at least level 75. Don't worry about swapping immediately on reaching maps, cold DOT is a strong build through yellow maps with minimal investment. I swapped in early yellow maps and it felt smooth before and after. Recommended items should generally be your first upgrades. ________________________________________________________________________ Upgrades
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Upgrades
1. Upgrade to a corrupted Kitava's Thirst with +2 level of socketed duration/AOE gems 2. Upgrade to a 21/20 Blade Vortex (usually cheap), 20/20 Lightning Golem, 20/20 Automation (just for the one supporting Plague Bearer) and quality up Tornado of Elemental Turbulence as much as possible 3. Get a Taste of Hate 4. Equip rare gloves with % of physical damage converted to any element (preferably 2/3 of these being cold) as an explicit (optional but preferred), crafted and eldritch implicit and take the mastery for % of physical damage converted to cold and other good modifiers including high tier life and roll freeze spread as an eldritch implicit (drop the medium cluster) 5. Upgrade boots to have high tier life, movement speed, resists, strength and dexterity and good eldritch implicits (cooldown recovery and brittle ground; aim for the 17% breakpoint with crafted belt modifer and Automation gem) 6. Get rings/amulet with a total of +28 of Non-Channelling Skills Cost +# Mana (make sure your looking for this specific modifier on trade, the non-reflected version of the modifier has a different name) and drop Fevered Mind and all notables except Instability and use free passives for Disciple of the Forbidden (and the next two upgrades) 7. Upgrade wand to a better rare or a poorly rolled Grace of the Goddess (depends on prices) 8. Socket Unnatural_Instinct in jewel socket left of scion start and unallocate Potency of Will cluster, drop Enduring Bond, anoint Potency of Will and allocate the Exceptional Performance cluster(make sure to take the 10% more duration mastery from the Exceptional Performance cluster) 9. Socket a Militant Faith converted by Dominus near Mind over Matter and allocate Inner Conviction, ideally with one that doesn't replace Quick Recovery 10. Socket a Watcher's Eye with + to critical strike chance while affected by Hatred 11. Get a body armour with a tier 1 enemies have a chance to explode crusader modifier and decent other rolls and optionally swap Winter's Embrace to Glacial Cage or High Voltage (still taking the physical converted to elemental mastery) 12. Socket a Light of Meaning jewel the grants increased physical damage to small nodes below the scion start 13. Get a Cinderswallow Urn with Malediction 14. Well rolled quicksilver flask with increased movement speed and a suffix that helps flask sustain enchanted with "Used When Charges Reach Full" (make sure other flasks have this enchantment too and are qualitied) 15. Equip a stygian vise with high tier life, resists, strength and crafted cooldown recovery rate (aim for the 17% breakpoint) 16. Equip Rathpith Globe, socket Dissolution of the Flesh and path to Pain Attunement, drop Stone Golem and Ice Golem for Chaos Golem and a second Lightning Golem, make sure your life flask has bleed/corrupted blood immunity (optionally a second with poison immunity) 17. Socket Stormshroud and two abyss jewels that combine for 100% chance to avoid shock (can be an explicit and a corruption/synthesized implicit) 18. Socket a large 8-passive elemental damage cluster jewel with Corrosive Elements and 2 other good notables (preferably including Sadist), drop Breath of Rime and cold exposure mastery 19. Equip a double corrupted Kitava's Thirst prioritizing +2 level of socketed duration/AOE gems, +1 maximum power charges and +2 level of socketed cold/lightning/fire gems in that order 20. Get a reasonably well rolled Grace of the Goddess and swap Frostbite to Elemental Weakness 21. Get a Bound by Destiny with increased cooldown recovery rate while two equipped items are shaper influence and make sure two rares are shaper influenced (doesn't matter which/if any modifiers are shaper modifiers) 22. Upgrade rare gloves, boots and belt to have higher tier modifiers on better bases (armour/evasion but make sure attribute requirements aren't higher than gems) 23. Upgrade rings to still have with a total of +28 (can be slightly less now if you use Empower/level 21 Plague Bearer ) of Non-Channelling Skills Cost +# Mana with other good modifiers including high tier life 24. Get an amulet with high tier life and +1 physical and all spell skill gems and other good suffixes (consider at least a crafted increased mana regeneration rate) 25. Support auras with Enlighten (at least level 3) and add Herald of Purity, swapping mana mastery to increased mana reservation efficiency 26. Upgrade to a 21/20 Tornado of Elemental Turbelence 27. Upgrade other relevant gems to 21/20 28. Upgrade Watcher's Eye to have a second Hatred modifier 29. Upgrade to a very well rolled Grace of the Goddess tempered to have increased effect of physical modifiers 30. Upgrade body armour still with enemies have a chance to explode crusader modifier (better other modifiers, elevated modifiers, double influenced, better base, etc.) 31. Corruption hunt on uniques 32. Socket Forbidden Power Forbidden Flesh and Flame 33. Mageblood with good flasks (at least 1 with high tier avoid shock and increased effect) 34. Get abyss jewels with avoid poison/bleed and cap avoid chance with tattoos 35. Craft custom ring with reflecting mists and mirror it with Kalandra's Touch 36. Stranglegasp corrupted to rare anointing Overcharge, Infused and Potency of Will ________________________________________________________________________ Other Autobomber Guides
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What are your thoughts on creating this on a scion? Maybe adding in a Headhunter as well? Just need a fast mapper as I already have a bossing character.
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