PoE Bladestorm Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The Bladestorm skill in Path of Exile offers a versatile and powerful melee playstyle, combining high damage with unique mechanics through Blood and Sand stances. This guide provides a comprehensive look at how to build around Bladestorm effectively in the 3.25 patch.

Key Features of Bladestorm

Bladestorm (Level 20):

  • Attack, AoE, Duration, Melee: Bladestorm performs a spinning attack, damaging enemies around you and creating a bladestorm matching your stance.
  • Mana Cost: 14 mana.
  • Attack Speed: 70% of base.
  • Attack Damage: 291.9% of base.
  • Effectiveness of Added Damage: 291%.
  • Weapon Requirements: Requires Level 70, 98 Strength, 68 Dexterity, and a Sword or Axe.
  • Stance Mechanics:
    • Blood Stance: Stationary bladestorms cause bleeding. 108% more damage with bleeding while in Blood Stance. 12% more attack speed while you’re in a Blood Bladestorm.
    • Sand Stance: Moving bladestorms blind enemies and grant 38% increased movement speed.
  • Duration: Base duration of 3.00 seconds.
  • Bladestorm Limit: Maximum of 4 bladestorms at a time.
  • Damage Reduction: Bladestorm deals 50% less damage with hits and ailments.

Building Around Bladestorm

1. Weapon Choice:

  • Swords or Axes: Choose high-damage weapons with added physical damage, increased attack speed, and critical strike chance to maximize your damage output.

2. Passive Skill Tree:

  • Focus on nodes that enhance melee damage, attack speed, critical strike chance, and bleeding mechanics. Specific clusters to prioritize include those near the Duelist, Marauder, and Ranger start areas.
  • Consider pathing to nodes that increase life, resistances, and critical strike multiplier.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Gladiator:

  • Blood in the Eyes: Increases chance to cause bleeding and grants blind on bleeding enemies.
  • Gratuitous Violence: Increases damage with bleeding and causes bleeding enemies to explode.
  • Arena Challenger: Grants Challenger Charges for increased attack speed and movement speed.
  • Outmatch and Outlast: Grants Frenzy Charges on kill with main hand and Endurance Charges on kill with off hand.

2. Slayer:

  • Headsman: Increases damage and grants culling strike.
  • Bane of Legends: Grants increased damage against unique enemies and culling strike.
  • Endless Hunger: Grants life leech effects that continue past full life.
  • Brutal Fervour: Enhances leech effects and grants immunity to stun while leeching.

Support Gems

1. Main Skill Setup:

  • Bladestorm: Primary attack skill.
  • Support Gems: Brutality, Melee Physical Damage, Multistrike, Fortify, Bloodlust, and Maim.

2. Secondary Skill Setup:

  • Ancestral Warchief: Totem skill to enhance melee damage.
  • Support Gems: Multiple Totems, Melee Physical Damage, and Brutality.

3. Utility Skills:

  • Leap Slam: For mobility.
  • Steelskin / Immortal Call: For defense.
  • Blood and Sand: To switch between Blood and Sand stances.
  • Precision: For increased critical strike chance and accuracy.

Armor and Accessories

1. Armor:

  • Body Armor: Prioritize armor with high life, resistances, and physical damage reduction. Consider options like Belly of the Beast for increased life and resistances.
  • Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Look for items that boost melee damage, attack speed, life, and resistances.

2. Accessories:

  • Amulet and Rings: Focus on items that enhance physical damage, life, resistances, and critical strike chance. Look for mods that increase bleeding damage and duration.
  • Belt: A Stygian Vise with life, resistances, and increased physical damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

  • Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

  • Quicksilver Flask: For increased movement speed.
  • Basalt Flask: For physical damage reduction.
  • Jade Flask: For increased evasion.
  • Atziri’s Promise: For additional chaos damage and life leech.

PoE Bladestorm Build 3.25

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

  • Switch between Blood and Sand stances based on the situation. Use Blood Stance for stationary targets and bleeding damage, and Sand Stance for mobility and blinding enemies.
  • Use Bladestorm to create multiple storms, maximizing damage and control.

2. Utilizing Ascendancy Passives:

  • Leverage the Gladiator or Slayer passives to enhance bleeding damage, survivability, and clear speed. Use Gladiator for a focus on bleeding and explosions, and Slayer for leeching and culling strike.

3. Managing Buffs and Debuffs:

  • Maintain high uptime on Blood and Sand stances and leverage the increased damage and control provided by each stance.
  • Use your flasks to boost damage, resistances, and survivability during combat.

Example Builds

1. Gladiator Bladestorm Build:

  • Focus on bleeding damage and explosions.
  • Utilize Blood in the Eyes and Gratuitous Violence to maximize bleeding effects.
  • Use support gems that enhance bleeding damage and attack speed.

2. Slayer Bladestorm Build:

  • Focus on leeching and culling strike.
  • Utilize Headsman and Bane of Legends to increase damage and survivability.
  • Use support gems that enhance physical damage and leech effects.

Conclusion

The Bladestorm build for Path of Exile 3.25 offers a versatile and powerful playstyle for melee enthusiasts who enjoy combining high damage with unique stance mechanics. By focusing on maximizing damage, attack speed, and bleeding mechanics, players can effectively dominate both single-target and group encounters. Proper gear selection, passive skill tree planning, and strategic use of ascendancy passives will ensure that you unleash the full potential of this powerful skill. Equip your weapons, prepare your flasks, and wreak havoc on the battlefield with the devastating power of Bladestorm.

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