FIRE AURA VOID SPELLBLADE?! - Last Epoch Build

Last Epoch - Time to tackle the melee-mage of Last Epoch, the Spellblade!
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[@HoopstaYT]

My first character ever was a Spellblade that runs a similar setup but doesn't care about Fire Aura at all. The base idea is you spam Manastrike, which has a chance to proc Frost Claw that you convert to lightning, and then you wield a Unique Dagger that has a chance to proc Lightning Blast on Frost Claw hit. So you spec Manastrike, Frost Claw, and Lightning Blast, but all you do is spam Manastrike. I can't say whether it's the best or worst character out there but I'm pushing into 200 corruption and it's still pretty strong. It's a very lazy build. Very low APM as you just basically hold down right click and delete the screen. Clears trash easy. Kinda slow on bossing. Insane survivability for HC. He's practically immortal. For now. It's fun.

[@fartloudYT]

that is a good build, but i wouldnt exactly call it 'similar'. also if you replaced the word 'spellblade' at the start of the build and said 'runemaster', it would be even stronger. that is the sad part.

[@arangor82]

I was actually thinking of making a void spellblade myself, but because of another unique, which is "Lament of the Lost Refuge", which converts Volcanic Orb to void damage and actually gives you a potentially high damage void skill. The item also gives a stacking flat void damage buff for getting hit by Orb Shrapnels.

[@freedman6590]

volcanic orb is a pretty shitty high mana cost skill? is it not, I have tried it in multiple builds and it just felt and looked useless. There is some specific relic unique that buffs volcanic orb, maybe with it, it is not so much trash.

[@spuryaas]

@@freedman6590 If combine with high attack speed manastrike you can spam orb constantly (especially because of CDR from melee hits from this unique)

[@arangor82]

@@freedman6590 yeah orb seems to be pretty niche, but combining the high mana generation of manastrike with the CDR on this unique and potentially combining it with Eye of Orexia for even more CDR it could work

[@dodang_9147]

@@arangor82 there is a node in fire rush that auto-casts volcanic orb.

[@Michael-wn3rn]

@@freedman6590I tried void volcanic orb. It's not good. Volcanic orb isn't good enough, the staff can't rescue it.

[@slickwilly691]

Your builds are so creative

[@austinwagner3897]

This is badass man!!

[@hilding2063]

Wow, you can come up with some very unique builds. Great addition to the LE community. ❤

[@Afura33]

That's some really cool build, I like builds that don't need much clicking.

[@itskhro]

My left ear enjoyed the lightning ASMR.

[@grandlancer]

I really enjoy watching your build videos. You do a great job breaking everything down.

[@zemo32]

amen to that brother...he really does

[@goransekulic3671]

Congratulations on creativity! When I got Beacon, I was like "yeah, this is like an upgrade of Dreamthorn(2H Sword) ; time for a VK!". I didn't think even for a moment about creating a Spellblade or anything like it. I mean, Beacon(and Thorn) are ideal VK weapons, so ... yeah. KISS, huh? :)

[@MitchellWinning]

Thanks crippy!

[@buc991]

Love your builds Kripp! I hope you'll make some for warlock.

[@osmosisjones86]

Can you slap on a self ignite belt and use flamereave (arcane severance and lingering embers node?)

[@itschoiboi]

I wait for kripp to bring discharge content with static. The potential between static idols generating stacks and what makes it very tempting to try. Possibly the hardest hitting spell in the game

[@KlabauterManiac]

What this game does for me is it intrigues me to find out this kind of stuff for each of the classes. Hell I've done 2 different forge guards just because i wanted to test some shit out. It's what is most fun for me.

[@Afura33]

Same here, made a cold minion beastmaster and right after it made a poison minion beastmaster only because I wanted to know how well the minions work if I focus on poison instead of cold damage.

[@Chris-zg7ty]

Damn Kripp still blastin LE! I still haven't even gotten 1 character to 100 yet!

[@Jaguar2kicks]

Thanks Krip for playing skills/builds that no one plays. I appreciate it. LE has a lot of cool things but is being overshadowed by wards and bugs. 1000 corruption is only normal due to ward/bugs. Normally 600 to 800 is the ceiling.

[@Cennix_1776]

I have a very similar idea for a spellblade that uses Gaspars Will set for the void cleaves. Not so much based on fire aura but being a low key “void spellblade” but due to how Gaspars set works it would really be more of a “elemental + void” build. Also… Gaspars has some unfortunate slots that prevent you from using it with some choice uniques, which sort of means it probably won’t be able to be a great build, just more of a fun side project…

[@wanderdota]

i think Flame Reave with lightning+fire conversion node could definitely be studied. I was going to do it but I ended up just going shatter strike.

[@christianmoser5848]

Tbf that node reads exactly like how it actually works: "each second if [...] you have a chance to cast a fire aura" Regardless that does not ignore the fact that the node is useless and needs a buff :D

[@sparkz6381]

Will you check out divine bolts healing hands?

[@a.m.valera6806]

Was building a Sorcerer Lightning Aura + Static with movespeed to quickstack Static's charges for Zap to Lightning Blast procs and just running around watching things die with you just walking. Kinda sad that the Spellblade passive node that gives you a chance to create a Fire Aura when you move is per second and not per unit of movement

[@mlhaynes44]

Dude, please keep making different builds for LE .. its really entertaining seeing your brews

[@p3rp351]

Classic example of finding a unique or two on one character and then eureka I gotta try this other class this combo just seems crazy. Amazing design, EHG just needs to show some love to their bugged and imbalanced skill trees. I’m constantly getting baited and it’s still hard to test if something’s working properly even with the target dummy.

[@mcjudilla774]

The lightning hits in the background was irritating in trying to listen to you intently.

[@Chugi]

Made a Forge Guard cuz I thought it looked neat, only after that did I start hearing everyone saying it's not that good lol

[@toukoenriaze9870]

Spellblade is insane ... The only problem with it is that since its the only melee ascendancy in a spell base char it has almost no synergy with any of the other paths

[@mithicash1444]

Looks like you do most of your damage as hit void dmg that is buffed by the void dmg per aura on the chest? If that is the case, why not dual wield the 1h void sword?

[@DarkBlackGod14]

The idea is great, but i believe you can get more buck for it, if you go with lightning fire aura, completely forfeit void element and go with either 2piece lightning set, or exalteds. Focusing on lightning basically. This amount of auras will instantly do 10 stacks of shock and do shitload of damage. Also this alows for you to specifically stack ligtning as a single source of damage, whitch will grant more damage at base.

[@marwin7863]

Can you try it ? You really think lighting aura doing better dps ?

[@DarkBlackGod14]

@@marwin7863 I'm gonna, in a few days. Didn't had spell blade yet, this might be fun. Firebrand builds are kinda boring, judging by the looks of it

[@dodang_9147]

@@DarkBlackGod14 i tried doing fire aura build and i think they're a trap for fire builds & lightning builds. they're only good for ice frostbite stacking builds. Ice shatter strike has easiest form of uncapped attackspeed. even smallest amount of attack speed breaks their mana pool but ice aura costs nothing for ice build. You can just spam mana strike -> shattered strike and have a lot of ice aura's. Lightning builds are better with critical chance. You can get way more damage stacking frost claw, elemental nova and lightning strike from mana strike by stacking crit muti and raw crit chance. Since everything is lightning damage, shock debuff can be applied to all those spells as global damage modifier and you can stack shred chance because all those spells have like.... so many muti-hit procs that shred becomes an infinity scaler. Fire builds as crit is pointless because your casting firebrand and then pressing flame reaver once alongside surge. Flame reaver as ignite build has no spell points to buy flame aura nodes because runemaster tree, elemental warrior node and node in mage tree is like 350% ignite chance. You have to get flame caller node in flame reaver for double-hit and then you get prompted to run right or left side of flame reaver. Left side has flame aura chance but right side has -Cost reduction for flame reaver which is needed to counter-act double hit node. It is essentially not worth it to invest 30 spellblade points in flame aura & go into left side to ignore right side of the tree that reduces your mana cost on flame reaver by so much. that tree also gives free proc of fireball & more range/AoE/damage on the spell. Currently, I am running a spellblade with Flame Reaver, Frost claw, Enchanted weapon, Flame rush, Mana strike that stacks 300 ignite then i cast flame rush to get 10,000 ward, then all my other ignite stacks get proced on enchanted weapon. Mana strike is like back-up spell if I run out of mana, mainly only needed for boss fights. Finished regular monoliths as level 87. Now I need to see if this build can go to +600 monoliths.

[@DarkBlackGod14]

@@dodang_9147 well, thanx for a lot of food for thought and usefull info. I'm currently trying to figure out my main, who started as disintegrate sorc and later changed into a lighting crit sorc. I'm trying to implement lightning set with int scaling+meteor belt, bus at current time it's either damage lacking or Mana. With skills with little amount of hits like lightning blast I proc meteor very few times, but with frost claw I have a good clear but a chance in long fights to instantly drain Mana if unlucky. Currently trying to craft good chest piece witch scales manareg out of lightning resistance and see if it will fix things, but something tells me it won't. For a class who's passive is literally "expensive shit are stronger" Sorc really doesn't have shit in terms of resource management, and that's kinda sad. Lack of items doesn't help. Something that gives Mana on crit in future patches would be so neat

[@brillanty7091]

There is a unique that makes you transfer 100% of your mana to ward when you get to full mana. Maybe it's good if you spam mana strike anyway ? Idk it's just an idea

[@Explivious]

isnt that a weapon?

[@brillanty7091]

I didn't know what type of item it was but you are right, I found it yesterday xD @@Explivious

[@JinxedGhoul]

My experience with spellblade has been pretty positive so far. I ran Firebrand Stacks + Shatterstrike with double swords to guarantee giant crits while starting out. Shatterstrike with a fully stacked Blade Weaver passive and Firebrand Stacks pretty much oneshots anything until empowered Monos. Even after that everything went down quick. Stacking even more Ward generation with uniques and pivoting to Mana Strike + Shatterstrike while taking the attack speed nodes after I hit 100% crit with a new set of gear made the build almost immortal when timing fire shield to big incoming damage. The 240% crit multiplier and 75% bonus attack speed nodes on Shatterstrike scale really well with the ward on hit nature of spellblade. Curious how far i can push it after slamming some good affixes into the uniques. I do feel like Spellblade lacks some build diversity as there are only a few worthwile roads to go down. It would help a lot if there was more unique support or more nodes converting melee damage to spell damage. Outside of Frost Claw and Spark charge builds with Static there really is not that much potential with the base mage abilities due to spellblade not having a lot of incentive to itemize for spells instead of melee. Im sure there are still many builds to discover that are not immediately obvious on first glance tho. The high attack speed nature of spellblades makes DoT application very interesting although i feel like the kit lacks obvious avenues to go down for that. Might be fun exploring the class more with a more hybrid build using something like a bladed staff.

[@kunou4527]

For DOT you are usually going Frostbite/Ignite conversions with Elemental Damage Over TIme and attack/cast speed stacking. Amusingly the best Ignite build is Sorcerer with Binary Star System and enough points in Spellblade for Enchant weapon so you can Conflagrate the Ignite stacks off like a Destruction Warlock from WoW.

[@Orcao]

Is that how spell damage works? I was under the impression that +void spell damage only applied to spells that already did void damage/had the void tag.

[@dwain194]

Jokes on you, I did build a fire aura spellblade for my first character, but I like the void concept

[@IgorCassel]

I wanted to play this build ;(

[@Imkaje]

Kripp: 20% chance on hit to gain fire aura, and 4 attacks per second=80% to get a fire aura per second Also Kripp but 10 seconds later: If you MAX this you only get 80% fire aura per second?!?! Thats terrible! They're literally identical only difference is that if you max flame walker, not ALL of your stacks fall off by the time you get to the next mob. It doesn't literally double your fire aura stacks, but it does keep them from wearing off moving from mob to mob. So you have 100% uptime on your damage, AND the ward that the fire aura's produce so you're not immediately one shot by something off screen. Its actually more impressive that he managed to clear any late game content when his setup requires he runs up into melee range with no ward, and doesn't get any until his melee attacks start rolling. lol

[@seth5778]

Spicy

[@Roiddz]

Fire Aura isn't able to apply ignite correct?

[@sumnersmash7485]

How high can this push do you have any gameplay in 500-600 corruption? Hard to judge if this will be good.

[@Kripparrian]

it's a bit hard to say. The build is quite strong once it gets going. It may get to 500+ corruption, but I doubt it would do significantly more without insane gear

[@Kaiserin669]

Thanks, I have a question, how does void damage adds damage to this build? I didnt understand that, i mean, how does that void dmg is converted to ice o thunder dmg?

[@Kaiserin669]

I get the part that the armor and weapon stack up a bunch of void dmg, but i didnt get what that has to do with the skills you are using

[@GerriFuryman]

@@Kaiserin669weapon gives SPELL void dmg, that means every skill will deal bonus void dmg, the idea was to stack fire auras, each will gives 40-50% void dmg from body unique, and you will have ~2000% increased void dmg. That’s how he was planning to deal massive void dmg using fast spells

[@Kaiserin669]

@@GerriFurymanThat actually makes sense, i thought that somehow these skill's dmg was getting converted to void, but instead void it's added/bonus dmg

[@Noah-hz9cx]

I think I missed something. What skill does void damage? All I see is Cold and Lightning?

[@kristijannikolic307]

Also wondering? how is fire aura dealing void damage when nothing is there to scale off the void specific increases ?

[@cordenon]

Same, not getting how he is using void damage

[@Vodboi]

He has added void damage from his weapon. He mentioned it quite a lot.

[@kristijannikolic307]

Yeah okay? and whats your point? his skills scale off int and spell damage not "void spell damage" @@Vodboi

[@Vodboi]

@@kristijannikolic307The added void spell and melee damage from his weapon applies to all his skills. That part of the damage is scaled by the %increased void damage from his chest.

[@Imkaje]

Why not use decimate? There is actual synergy here for serious scaling.

[@sawyerthesir8455]

Enjoy the video, everyone!

[@danielb4480]

I'm a simple man. I read Blackflame, I press play.

[@jonathanthomas4498]

Can you do a rogue poison build

[@pedaleou]

you can do it

[@austinwagner3897]

How are you autocasting enchant weapon?

[@RM_3D]

there's a passive skill node that just makes it cast when its off cooldown automatically

[@austinwagner3897]

@@RM_3D thank you

[@moosecat00]

Not enough "More" modifiers for Void.

[@skzorgtm_games]

Fire aura broken)) i try flame waves with fire aura node, but 40% chance work not good, how i expected)) maximum 4-5 (firenzy buff, magic weapon),

[@pp_hermy4854]

all this forge guard slander. animate guardian can do some good single target with shield throw node and the funny crit multi boots. still though generally speaking yeah forge guard needs some buffs

[@bvbxiong5791]

i played a spellblade once...once.

[@1m1337noSh1t]

Lol try making a shaman if you think spellblade is a bad class

[@Xasukis]

hi Kripp

[@martinsch]

"Spellblade might be the worst class in the game" Meanwhile I'm blasting through 600 corruption with Vessel of Strife Flame Reave. Yes it's not Runemaster, but come on. Spellblade is above average right now.

[@danielarcher369]

Flame reaver build.....

[@danielmihal9671]

Sorry Krip, but it just shows you don't know what you're talking about. Literally 4 different builds (SS cold / SS+claw cold ; Flame Reave fire/ignite burst focused ; Mana Strike Surge shock focused) Spellblade builds, which have no problemo going 250/300/500c corruption (in this cycle) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGKxdqWIhJeFnrM kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3vZgmitnch-f9k kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4LCgZx8pahlgLM kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZuudaqId5VojJI + Now your 5th mediocre aura build hitting numbers on dummy which other builds hit in empowered monos... Spellblade - Class which have easiest ward generation without any lowlife OR %hp>%ward abuse ; versatile in clearspeed of echoes or facetank bosses WITH ONLY Spellblade-available skills even - is weakest class after forge knight??? - If I omit Marksman Detonating Arrow abuse with Traps (came with Falconer), what another variation Marksman have which are even "viable" in 100c monos? - How many build variations have Shaman which doesn't fell off hard in 200c+? Spriggan totems maybe? Whatever build with gathering storm/tornado procs, etc. is just early destroyer which fall flat later.

[@bluerversion]

Cool idea spellblade is very underwhelming in general even outside of fire aura. They have all yhese dual wield nodes but they are mostly useless especially the surge spark charge node. They have static nodes on surge but they give u no way to sustain static mana and generate charges. Its one or the other. Its pretty much go pure melee or bust. Where bust in this case is playing a really janky and or low f damage build.

[@Deloxor]

static costing mana when procced by surge is new in this patch. Before 1.0 you could just autocast it and it would not cost anything, I don't really see why they have changed it tbh. The skill also just says you cast static on arrival, and normally all skills that are triggered and cost mana state that they cost the mana cast this way, which static doesn't even do.

[@bluerversion]

@@Deloxor I see them making it cost mana make sense but if that's the case give mana strike ability to generate static charges not just firebrand. Not taking the mana dump on static makes it lose out too much damage to justify.

[@Deloxor]

@@bluerversion the best way to generate charges is in statics tree where you get charged for every single crit hit after casting static. You just need to get as many critical hits in the surge cooldown time. Mana Strike has the Lightning Procs for example that all can crit or autocasting frost claw that than can crit and so on

[@bluerversion]

@@Deloxor yea it sucks on single target though even 4 attacks a second over 3 seconds x2 isn't close to full 200. Using frosclaw is an option but when u go frost claw u have to forgo lightning blast when it comes to specialized skills. And on top of that the spellblade passive tree gives almost nothing for scaling spells. I've completely abandoned static in favor of spark charges scaling off firebrand and frostclaw/lightning blast procs.

[@albertozabeo77]

@@Deloxori have reported as a bug the first time i logged in after patch ...

[@Sastank08]

ZDPS

[@UncleJay69]

Lament of the Lost Refugee convert volcanic orb to void, Kripp is cooking something nice here :))

[@HiImRawr]

idk this build sucks lol

[@lostny76]

another crap krip build.