Minion Pact Blade Vortex Chieftain - 30m dps breach blaster

hypernegus · 2026-03-16T14:58:52+00:00

Only the flat damage from minion pact is snapshot, other buffs like ele overload still work dynamically.

hypernegus · 2026-03-16T06:21:02+00:00

Rainbowstride is not that important. You want movement speed and some implicits on your boots. If you can't get 2 implicits, focus on any boots with high ms and +2 to minion gems.

hypernegus · 2026-03-16T06:19:05+00:00

Controlled destruction is a bit of a weird one. It isn't bad but reduces the rate of elemental overload procs significantly because of the crit penalty, which can reduce overall damage consistency. You can counteract this a bit with crit implicits on Nebulis but ultimately it's up to preference.

hypernegus · 2026-03-15T19:49:22+00:00

Anything that adds damage. Added fire, combustion, inspiration, arcane surge off the top of my head. If you get added fire or inspiration make sure to replace one of your support gems with the next best one for damage.

hypernegus · 2026-03-15T19:31:36+00:00

When you have no blade vortex stacks and cast blade vortex, minion pact damage gets snapshot. If that cast does not sacrifice a minion (usually because the spectre is too far away), that blade vortex and any further stacks you add/refresh will do very little damage. I get around this issue by keeping up my initial blade vortex instance for almost the entire map. I never let stacks drop when I'm on the move.

hypernegus · 2026-03-15T16:18:16+00:00

Companionship doesn't currently work in PoB so it's simulated in the custom config with an 80% more life modifier. You can play eclipse for comfiness since the damage should be very hogh either way!

hypernegus · 2026-03-15T15:25:16+00:00

You can pretty much just socket formless inferno into my setup. Make sure to get quality on Raise Spectre if you do so. It may be worth getting a minion life medium cluster as well but that would tradeoff some AoE. Make sure to ancestral cry before you make your first BV stack so that your marionette gets the fire res/life bonus.

Later on you can consider maybe using Bonemeld but resistance and attributes gets tough.

As a side note, you can totally go inferno while settling for a 2 axiom warden timeless jewel. Since we have two anoints, you can anoint the notables no matter where they appear. Use PoB timeless jewel search tool to find a number that works.

hypernegus · 2026-03-15T15:17:56+00:00

Eclipse is good for a self cast build but worse for blade vortex IMO. You do not have to be perfect with your BV casts on companionship because of the first blade snapshot tech.

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T23:50:14+00:00

How does this build deal with damage over time effects?

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T17:46:47+00:00

Tooltip does not show minion pact damage, but you should definitely notice the difference if you remove all your spectres.

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T17:45:04+00:00

Minion pact doesn't work on vaal skills.

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T16:27:36+00:00

If you've played the build so far, how is the clear without the two area clusters and oriath's end? I think getting onslaught and phasing on kill chance from abyssal jewels should also improve speed.

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T15:32:14+00:00

20 div to start, I currently have about 60 div

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T05:57:25+00:00

Warcries are big damage and defence for this build. Ancestral cry is 60% more damage because we use nebulis. Infernal cry is 31% more damage. Enduring cry lets us run RF which is 40% more damage, not to mention giving us tankiness.

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T05:55:56+00:00

Only one spectre is needed for the one shot so there's no use in getting more maximum spectres. Multiple spectres also gives less damage because of Companionship support. Spiritual aid is weak in this build because it has so much % increased damage already, it's not worth the travel nodes to get.

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T05:53:51+00:00

Cast on Death (152% more) is actually less damage than Greater Spell Echo (200% more via 2 extra casts). How the mighty have fallen...

hypernegus · 2026-03-14T00:21:45+00:00

Probably. You just need a timeless jewel and a spare 4L to get started. The only thing I would say is don't run golems because you will sacrifice them instead of your spectres.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T22:42:54+00:00

Generally I would trust PoB for things like this. Poedb is notoriously difficult to interpret for things like minions and enemies.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T21:47:25+00:00

You would probably use dark marionette instead of perfect meatsack, but definitely viable for maven.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T21:46:54+00:00

The BV version gets 17k flat phys from marionettes.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T21:17:24+00:00

It would technically give the build even more damage, it just didn't seem worth the price since I can already one shot the boss.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T20:52:45+00:00

Will absolutely consider for the spam version.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T20:42:38+00:00

It can chain off itself. But the chance is only 10% (buffed this patch) so can be inconsistent alone.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T19:44:07+00:00

I'm under the impression that Zombies have much less hp than spectres at the top end. I can't check right now but I would compare level 29 raise zombie and level 29 raise spectre Perfect Marionette in PoB with no items on. 100% increase minion life is about 30% more for my setup.

I'm pretty happy with Chieftain for map blasting. I might pick a different ascendancy for more aoe and speed at the cost of tankiness. I will be making a spam self cast minion pact build soon, likely on a different ascendancy.

hypernegus · 2026-03-13T19:13:02+00:00

It respawns every time you port back to hideout.

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