[3.3] PWAR's Vaal Double Reave Slayer/Champion - Fast Clear Speed / Insane Boss Killer

Both are good classes. Champ provides better upfront defense and single target damage, especially with adrenaline. Slayer provides better aoe and the leech sorta really helps out, and enables you to be able to run damage on full life gem comfortably unlike champ. Can't go wrong with either, it's just one provides better clear, one is a better boss killer, if you work in adrenaline.

The build incorporates the newly buffed Vaal Double Strike, which is basically now going to be auto-include in practically every melee build that can bleed. The damage of 4 dudes shreds practically everything in under 5 seconds (even without you attacking, for standard bosses) with flask up. Because of this, this build focuses on SKILL DURATION to extend the duration our gang is out for prolonged gangbang sessions. Most things die long before that, but for tougher bosses with phases it does help out not being left with just Reave/Double strike to tickle the boss down, as well as generally making clearing even faster.

With a modest sacrifice of 3 pts and 2 jewel sockets, you practically double vaal double strike's dmg since they stay out for near twice as long (11.1 sec), which is helpful in some (important) situations as mentioned. Haste also last near 10 sec which is nice. With the prolonged skill duration you can (almost) go back to back vaal uses if you kill fast enough, as the skill duration extends past the actual soul gain prevention window.

Double strike also got a similar buff (added phys against bleeding enemies), and is fairly crazy too. And vaal double and normal double being on the same gem now helps a ton with gem management. However, clear wise, it still felt a bit lagging behind even with slayer and ancestral call, which is why I incorporate Reave into the build as our clear instead, which melts the entire screen with increase area of effect gem. Now you can just run this build as a 6-link Reave + 4-link VDS, or you can do two gem swaps to vaal double strike for full 6-link VDS deeps against the important bosses like shaper/guardians. And since we're Slayer, even if you gem for single target only, you still get some splash to handle ads.

So up to you if you want to be lazy and stick with reave for everything (swapping to Conc effect against bosses), or want to swap VDS in your six link.

Really just aim for the PoB gear, since the league is still new I have only so many hours into the char so stats can definitely be better, just gotta grind that $$$. If you were to buy everything, prolly under 10 ex total for the gear. But most people don't, so you'd probably pay under half. Most expensive thing I payed for was tombfist, which was 55c at the time. Everything else that looks expensive, I got insanely cheap, then either re-rolled or linked myself. Sword was only 4c, used an annul, got lucky with removed prefix, than crafted phys. Now the sword is worth at least an ex or 2, so this is how you can cheat around prices. Luck. Lol. axe/mace statsticks go for less than swords/sceptre's so you save a bit of money there.



BTW you need an axe/mace offhand for Reave to only attack with main-hand. Runic or Behemoth are best. Runic gets double elemental gains, behemoth only gets one (so 30-40% less dmg) HOWEVER, it gets enemies explode for 5% of their life, which may help with clear speed. Dmg is already pretty insane, so I suppose it's up to you. Behemoth is cheaper tho.

Main stats to look for on mainhand, in order of importance
-1.8-2~ APS
-240-350+ pDPS
-Crit multi
-Crit chance

Dragoon or 35% crit mult foil are best bases. Dragoon for consistency, foil for deeps.

DS/VDS add lots of phys dmg per attack to bleeding enemies, so fast attack rate is vital to dealing insane damage with them.
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Mark of the Elder seems to give the best dmg, so end-game is that and a shaper ring with assmark to gain powercharges. If you absolutely need resist than two diamonds works, they're just less damage.
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Everything else, get resist/life/accuracy. Some int let's you lvl up blue gems all the way. New temple life chest offer near similar life as belly but can get more resist, which helps cap stuff out. Belly should offer more life though even with max rolls on temple chest. Up to you which you want to use. Use jewels to cap res if you need to till you can cap res with just ring/belt/ammy.

Recommended Leveling Gear
-The Princess
-Prismatic Eclipse
-Haemophilia
-40%+ ele res String of servitude helps out with resist until you can craft or buy a good rustic or stygian triple res+life belt.
-Upgrade main hand with pdps every 10 lvl to keep dmg up when leveling. again, aim for fast aps

All this crap is under 3c by now, so definitely affordable and gets you into early mapping with a 230 pdps 1.7+ aps sword for example, which are also cheap.

Bandits - Alira

Slayer - Impact > Endless Hunger > Brutal Fervour > Headsman

Pantheon - Soul Of Arakaali+Abberath
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Gear Enchantments
Helm - Double Strike has a 15% chance to deal double damage
Boots - Corrupt for +1 Frenzy / 12-16% increased Attack and Cast Speed if you've Killed Recently
Gloves - Corrupt for +1 frenzy or crit chance / ehh idk, any non-elemental enchantment
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For leveling go down left lane in Tree to get Razor's Edge and Blade master as soon as possible, the bleed chance will help. the proceed to the right of tree to get vaal pact and crit nodes. Again for the tree use the PoB Link right under the cover image of this post.

CWDT - Summon Ice Golem in tomb fist. cwdt removes the need to constantly summon it. lv16 to both gems.

Leap Slam - Faster Attack - Blood Magic - Fortify = Gain fortify for dmg reduction. Blood magic allows you to spam it since you want to move fast without worrying about running out of mana. You might think BM goes against Damage on Full Life gem, it does, however by the time you leap slam into a pack of mons, you'll leech back your missing life lost instantly and be at full life in time for your reave/double strike to gain the gems dmg bonus.

Likewise with Blood Rage, we supposedly lose life, but if you attack a bunch of mobs, due to the overleech from Slayer's Brutal Fervour, we go to full life and stay at full life, out leeching the degen of blood rage. I've check the tooltip to make sure and I'm basically counted at full life even with leap slam and blood rage active for most of the time. The only time it drops a bit is long stretches of no mobs. Blood rage provides attack speed, frenzy charges, and even 2% life leech, so it's a perfect fit for the build.

Need to get 3R/1G in starkonjha to use 4-link VDS, annoying to color.

Vulnerability = 30% chance to bleed @ 20/20
Razor's Edge nodes provide 25% chance
Dragoon = 20% chance

So you'll have 75% chance to bleed with a dragoon sword, 55 without. Since you'll mostly be using Reave, you can run bloodlust for VDS in 4-link for more dmg for your clones.

Here's a Waterways Run with Enfeeble+Double Boss as a Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEyYgyyNkZc&feature=youtu.be


I haven't gotten far into maps since my map pool has sucked (barely got to red maps the day of posting this), but I'm sure there's been enough footage by others to know that vaal double strike is insane, as with a LOT of new stuff from 3.3. I'll update with more vids and stuff at a later time to showcase, but be assured the damage is real.