



Elemental melee builds have always been my favourite to theorycraft and play, and I've always had a serious fascination with Hyaon's fury. It's a 500 dps 1 hander with some very interesting and dangerous mods. The problem is that it synergises its base item very poorly with its mods. It's heavily based around frenzy charges, but frenzy builds usually are crit and the base crit of Hyaon's is awful. Flicker strike also makes a lot of sense with a frenzy heavy build, but again flicker builds are almost always crit and before 2.2 it wasn't possible to play a crit build with a 5% base weapon.



Suddenly with Ascendancy, a whole class of weapons and spells that were relegated to RT/noncrit builds suddenly became crit viable. I immediately set to work making a build around Hyaon's, Crit and flicker strike. This was my only build in Perandus, and I've continued it in standard during 2.3. No guide until now because, no videos, because potato.





Pros

Pros:



Great for starting a league with. Very cheap to get started mapping with, and clear speed in Dried Lake/low maps is incredible. Only >1c unique requirements for endgame being a 5L Lightning Coil/Kintsugi, (20/35c) an Essence Worm (10c/35c) (League/Standard) You can even farm cards for The Sword.



Can do any map mod aside from ele reflect and blood magic, and temp chains pretty much gives free packsize with this build.



Rather fast.



Most game content possible, t15 maps, atziri, uber lab all no problem. Haven't tried Core or Uber Atziri yet but should be possible with some tweaking. There is a lot of room to min-max this build.



Surprisingly tanky with 50%+ evasion chance, capped dodge/spell dodge with vaal grace, and fast movement speed/whirling blades. 66/40 or 50/56 dodge without vaal grace up depending on what boots you use. Physical damage is mitigated through L. Coil (or Kintsugi), Basalt flasks, Fortify and Arctic Armour. (which is always in mitigation mode as you are considered stationary while flickering)



Cons Cons:



Solo build, because it is dependent on on-kill effects and burst damage for bosses it's not recommended for party play. 1 friend can be OK, especially if it's an aurabot.



Ele reflect maps are forbidden territory, ele reflect rares can be a problem once your DPS gets very high, especially in -max resist maps.



Do not use if you have a history of epilepsy. Flicker targeting can also lead to inefficient pathing in maps.



This is not a faceroll build or “hold right click to one shot the whole map” like Oro's. It requires active flask management and frequent use of a weapon switch.



Not recommended for HC. RNG will inevitably eventually get you



crit ICS? Pfff - Critical strike chance maths:



this assumes +245% crit chance from passives and +30% from 1 diamond ring





base hyaon's 5

deadly infusion 2.5

crit calculation:

base crit 7.5

noncharged crit 28.125

with max power charges 46.875

with diamond flask 71.77734





with 100% more crit chance from Ambush/Assassinate

noncharged crit 56.25

with max power charges 93.75

with diamond flask 99.61



As you can see, using a gem slot on Increased Critical Strikes is not necessary.





Goal



101 points:



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After level 80 you want to (order is depending on your priorities) add the life/evasion nodes behind Revenge of the Hunter, the Heartseeker cluster if you need more crit, Nullification or Cloth and Chain if you need resists, and Arcing Blows and Forces of Nature for damage/penetration.



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This is my current tree:



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Ascendancy first two Ascendancy passives are Unstable Infusion and Deadly Infusion. Then go for the Ambush and finally Assassinate notables. It's perfectly fine to skip the last one, especially if you can get a culling strike corrupted Hyaon's (I bought mine for 10c) but your effectiveness against bosses/single target will suffer.



Bandits Oak, Eramir, Alira



Gems+links:



Main skill:



4L Flicker Strike + Multistrike + Melee Splash + Lightning Penetration

5L Flicker Strike + Multistrike + Melee Splash + Lightning Penetration + WED

6L Flicker Strike + Multistrike + Melee Splash + Lightning Penetration + WED + Added Lightning



Movement:



4L Whirling Blades + Blood Magic + Faster Attacks + Fortify



CoH: (can be any 3 linked sockets)



3L Herald of Thunder + Curse on Hit + Poacher's Mark



Weapon or shield slot:



3L Blood rage + Vaal Grace + increased duration.



CWDT:



2L CWDT + Enfeeble



Essence Worm:



1L: Wrath



Utility gems: (stick them anywhere)



Arctic Armour, Stone/Chaos Golem, Purity of Lightning, Purity of Elements



Weapon Switch:



4L Frenzy + GMP + Blood magic + Faster Attacks

5L Frenzy + GMP + Blood magic + Faster Attacks + Added Chaos Damage





Gear The biggest struggles gearing for this build are getting enough flat life, capping resists with Coil, and getting enough stats to equip Hyaon's and gems. 122 STR and 155 INT are necessary, 159 if you have level 21 Wrath or HoT. For rares I order the affixes from most to least important.



Weapon is Hyaon's Fury. If you can get one corrupted with Culling Strike, that is of course quite nice. However with the addition of 2 extra ascendancy points in 2.3, it becomes unnecessary after adding Assassinate. Even good rolls tend to be cheap on this weapon.



Shield: Evasion shield with life, resists, and high evasion rating. Having an open suffix to craft Leo's reduced DoT taken is great too. +Block chance not important.



Chest: Kintsugi is BiS for this build, but it is extremely expensive to get 5 off colours on. (will cost close to 3000 chromes on average. Therefore Lightning Coil is the chestpiece you want to aim for, prioritising the life, flat lightning , and EV/AR% rolls in that order.



Hat: A rare evasion helm with life, resists, intelligence, and accuracy, in that order. Getting a flicker strike damage enchant is obviously great here.



Gloves: Rare evasion gloves with life, resists, accuracy, and flat lightning damage. IAS is not really necessary here, or anywhere else for that matter.



Boots: Darkray Vectors for DPS, Atziri's Step for defence. Best corrupts are +1 frenzy charge, or dodge chance. If you instead opt for the leech enchant, you can drop the mana leech node from tree.



Belt: Rare with life, resists and WED. I go for a heavy belt here as it's a good place to stack STR.i



Amulet: Rare with life, EVA%, crit %/multi and flat lightning damage. Good place to add necessary stats also.



Ring 1: Essence Worm, with a blue socket



Ring 2: Rare Diamond ring with life, resists, accuracy, WED flat lightning damage in that order.



Weapon Switch: Quill Rain 4L or more, roll not important, with a defensive quiver - life and whatever resists you lose from your shield. Maloney's Nightfall is an option here if you don't need the resists.



Flasks:



Surgeon's Divine Life flask



Quartz



Basalt



Diamond



5th flask can be another life flask, or ideally a Vessel of Vinktar with added lightning damage.



You will want Staunching, Grounding, Reflexes and Heat as suffixes.



Jewels: I get life on all my jewels, just because it's so hard to get enough life on the right side of the tree. Then you want to get crit multi, lightning damage, and evasion. You may also need to use jewel slots to fill in resists, especially if you are using Lightning Coil.





My_gear:















My shield is also available for mirror service

My shield is also available for mirror service here.



How_to_handle_different_map_mods:



Wrath and Herald of Thunder are always on, otherwise your DPS will suffer too much. The third aura but will be swapped out based on your setup and map mods you are running:



Elemental Weakness: Purity of Elements if you are not ele weakness capped



-Max resists: Purity of Lightning to guard against reflect rares



Monsters x% damage added as fire damage: Arctic Armour for fire damage reduction



Vulnerability: AA



Monsters x% damage added as lightning damage: Purity of Lightning



Otherwise the third aura is personal choice, I personally use AA most of the time as it synergises with acrobatics and flicker so well



Other map mods:



Slower/no regen maps aren't an issue, aside from the fact that you might have to keep an eye on your HP blood rage degen effect



Enfeeble: You might have to lean a bit harder on your diamond flask than normal, but it shouldn't hurt your clearspeed too badly unless it's combined with other mods making mobs tanky



Temporal Chains: free packsize, don't worry about it.



Chaining: drop your golem and then it's not an issue



Monsters immune to elemental status effect: this one can be surprisingly annoying when it's rolled on maps with tough bosses. I ripped once to twinned village ruin bosses with this mod. Not being able to shock bosses is an effective 33% less damage making it much more difficult to burst them down.







Videos



Waterways run



Plateau



Gorge run, 2 min-ish w/ temp chains



Atziri run

I just rushed through the Atziri run and died twice on split phase because a) I was being careless and sloppy, and b) i haven't played in about a month so I am a bit rusty. This character isn't meant to be an atziri runner though, this is just to show that it's possible.



Uber Lab run

Izaro fights are linked in comments



I've made a few quick videos, if there's interest i will be happy to take some time and effort and do some harder content like uber lab and t14-15 maps. It's actually quite a good uber lab runner, if you have enough dps to burst down Izaro.I just rushed through the Atziri run and died twice on split phase because a) I was being careless and sloppy, and b) i haven't played in about a month so I am a bit rusty. This character isn't meant to be an atziri runner though, this is just to show that it's possible.Izaro fights are linked in comments



More_videos(guardians)

guardian of the phoenix fight

minotaur

General story behind the build:Elemental melee builds have always been my favourite to theorycraft and play, and I've always had a serious fascination with Hyaon's fury. It's a 500 dps 1 hander with some very interesting and dangerous mods. The problem is that it synergises its base item very poorly with its mods. It's heavily based around frenzy charges, but frenzy builds usually are crit and the base crit of Hyaon's is awful. Flicker strike also makes a lot of sense with a frenzy heavy build, but again flicker builds are almost always crit and before 2.2 it wasn't possible to play a crit build with a 5% base weapon.Suddenly with Ascendancy, a whole class of weapons and spells that were relegated to RT/noncrit builds suddenly became crit viable. I immediately set to work making a build around Hyaon's, Crit and flicker strike. This was my only build in Perandus, and I've continued it in standard during 2.3. No guide until now because, no videos, because potato.After level 80 you want to (order is depending on your priorities) add the life/evasion nodes behind Revenge of the Hunter, the Heartseeker cluster if you need more crit, Nullification or Cloth and Chain if you need resists, and Arcing Blows and Forces of Nature for damage/penetration. Mirror Service Thread: (#1 phys bow: 728 pdps/+1 arrow/1.67 aps, #1 impale/ts gloves and helm, #1 Melee Staff [978 dps], #1 wicked ward shield, #1 aurabot ammy, #1 ES stygian, and more)

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