(Outdated) 3.0 Glad Vampire: Bleed Flurry Brutality

3.1 update: QotF nerf, but otherwise should be fine. Little and myself are both playing other things this league though so don't expect much in the way of updates.

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(Note: This build guide is an active and ongoing collaboration between Little_MessPM and Bladewing_M; LMPM is natively a Russian language speaker so he asked me to create a guide for his 100% original build. All credit for the build goes to him, and the guide is written from his POV.)

Greetings, and welcome to my guide! After theorycrafting and testing this build in the 3.0 beta to great success, I was shocked when the Fall of Oriath launch ended up making it even stronger. In the first week of Harbinger league I’ve used this build to farm lab, destroy all guardians, and kill the Shaper. Oh, and the clear speed is great too. Sound too good to be true? Bite me! ^^


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Build Concept

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When I saw the changes to bleed in the 3.0 beta, I made it my mission to push the mechanic to the breaking point. After testing a variety of different skills, Blade Flurry really stood out as a powerful delivery vehicle for blood-sucking shenanigans. The build’s massive attack speed synergizes extremely well with BF’s mechanics.

3.0 also brought along massive buffs to evasion, which I wanted to abuse both offensively and defensively. Dual-wielding Dreamfeather Eternal Swords while rocking Queen of the Forest is just insane right now (please don’t nerf me!).

While evasion is great, POE’s all about defensive layers. In addition to crazy high eva, this build gets decent block chance, ~6k life, and fantastic leech. About the only things I die to are the occasional 1-shot from Shaper / heavily buffed guardians if I’m playing sloppy, but that’s the case for nearly any build these days.

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The Build

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Items:

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FAQ:


(See next post for leveling guide!)

Feel free to ask any questions about the build or make recommendations for the guide! Please keep all questions in this forum thread so everyone else can see them too.

Happy hunting, exiles!

Yo!


This build be like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgpU70MZno

Omae wa mou shindeiru!
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While I leveled this build as my league-starter and didn't use anything but random rares until 60+, just about any of the lower level unique swords will work just fine. I generally prefer leveling as a bit of a glass cannon, so if you're playing HC feel free to go a more defensive route.

lvl 1 to 28



lvl 28-66


Current setup should carry you to 66 and your Dreamfeathers.

Lvling trees -

First step:
Go to leech first!


Second step:
Go to Marauder start for some survivability.


Third step:
Swing over to Templar for life/SOE, and try snagging a bit of the Scion wheel.


Fourth step:
Respec mana flows to dps nodes, and start to grab some more DPS. At this point it's pretty flexible though.


Last step:
Take "Crimson Dance" "Presicion" and all jewel slots. First of all get Templar jewel int slot, it will allow you to lvl up you Vulnerability to 20 (if u have int ring)


There are plenty of useful uniques that can help along the way depending on your budget, playstyle, and risk-management profile.

Of course, feel free to modify as needed and take more life/dps depending on what you prefer. Don't forget to update your gear/flasks/gems as you go along.

Reserving

All guardian videos up! ^^

Going to try this one out. I like blade flurry. RIP'd on my Elemental BF Raider on A10 Kitiva earlier.

What would be the absolute gg gear for this build? Or is that not needed? Just wondering because I already have enough currency for this gear, wanted to know where to or what to do for upgrades compared to what you have now.

I'm assuming you help Kraitlyn out?

this looks great, can't wait to try it out.

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Dood, pls give Path of building Pastebin link