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PoE Builds 3.21: Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider Build

By Nancy G2023-06-23

Dear exiles, today's PoE build is about the Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider Build. This build will cost you a lot of orbs.

 

Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider Build pic

 

Equipment

 

Budget

Expensive: it cost about 1200 Chaos Orbs.

 

Item Mods

Elemental Damage

Added Lightning Damage

Added Cold Damage

Added Fire Damage

Critical Chance

Elemental Damage with Attacks

Critical Multiplier

Elemental Resistances

Strength

Life

Armour

Evasion

 

Mandatory Uniques

 

Perseverance

Perseverance is mandatory because it grants 1% increased attack damage for 200 of the lowest between armour and evasion. And since this build rocks over 30 thousand of each, that's a lot of extra damage. It also grants onslaught when fortified, which you will be all the time.

 

Yoke of Suffering

Yoke of Suffering is mandatory because it causes all your damage to shock. This allows us to keep bosses with over 30% shock (take 30% more damage). This amulet also causes bosses to take 5% more damage for each type of ailment you have inflicted on them.

 

Farrul’s Fur

Farrul's Fur is mandatory because it will keep your frenzy charges always up. It also keeps your power charges up, grants up to 100 life, 1092 armour and 1372 evasion.

 

Mandatory Boots

Empyrean Trail Antique Greaves: need at least 70 life, movement speed, elemental resistances and aspect of the cat.

 

Rare Claw

Eagle Scratch Imperial Claw: adds lightning damage, cold and/or fire damage, at least 400 elemental dps, and 7.7 critical.

Vengeance Thirst Throat Stabber: adds lightning damage, cold and/or fire damage, at least 600 elemental dps, 7.7 critical, and 1.9 attacks per second.

 

Rare Helmet

Fate Cowl Great Crown: needs some life, resistances and armour.

Damnation Peak Blizzard Crown: needs some resistances and life.

 

Rare Gloves

Wrath Fingers Slink Gloves: need some life and elemental resistances.

Agony Claw Wyrmscale Gauntlets: need some life, elemental resistances, and increased damage with hits against chilled enemies.

 

Rare Shield

Gale Badge Lacquered Buckle: needs at least 80 life, evasion, some resitances, some accuracy, and at least 30% chance to avoid elemental ailmets.

 

Recommended Uniques

The Taming

 

Recommended Flasks

Divine Life Flask

Quicksilver Flask

Diamond Flask

Jade Flask

Rumi’s Concoction

 

 

Gems

 

Armour

Flicker Strike - Multistrike - Added Lightning Damage - Nightblade - Trinity - Melee Splash / Elemental Damage with Attacks

 

Helmet

Dash - Berserk - Blood Rage - Enhance

 

Gloves

Vaal Ancestral Warchief - Ancestral Protector - Multiple Totems - Culling Strike

 

Boots

Determination - Herald of Ice - Anger - Enlighten

 

Claw

Precision (Level 10) - Assassin's Mark - Mark on Hit

 

Shield

Vaal Molten Shell - Increased Duration - Vaal Haste

 

 

Jewels

 

Jewels Mods

Attack Speed

Critical Multiplier

Maximum Life

 

Unique Jewel

Inspired Learning

 

Watcher's Eye

Watcher's Eye Prismatic Jewel: needs at least 55% increased attack damage while affected by Precision.

 

 

Skill Tree

 

Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider Build skill tree

 

Ascendancy

 

Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider Build ascendancy

 

Pantheon

Major God: Arakaali

Minor God: Ralakesh

 

 

Leveling

 

Tips

Start using Frost Blades on level 1 and change for Flicker Strike on level 78.

 

Main Skills

1. Burning Arrow: the first skill you get is Burning Arrow. Use it until you reach the first town. There talk to Tarkleigh and take Frost Blades as your quest reward. You will also have to buy a sword from Tarkleigh because we can't use Frost Blades with bows.

2. Level 8: support Frost Blades with Added Cold Damage. Create an Ancestral Protector setup. Another useful secondary skill to have is Frostbomb. Also use it on bosses to cause them to take more cold damage.

3. Level 10: activate Clarity for more mana Regeneration.

4. Level 16: activate Skitterbots for more damage.

5. Level 18: add Elemental Damage with Attacks to your setup. Replace Added Cold Damage with Melee Physical Damage and add Faster Attacks to our Totem setup.

6. Level 38: replace Momentum with Multistrike. And it’s the great time to turn your totem setup into a double totem setup. Remember to always summon both totems on boss fights. Also activate Herald of Ice.

7. Level 69: replace Clarity with Determination for more survivability.

8. Level 78: equip Perseverance and start using Flicker Strike. Now it's important to have all 6 links. Replace Skitterbots with Anger and add a level 10 Precision. You need an Enlighten level 3 to do that. If you don't have an Enlighten gem, remove Herald of Ice for now.

 

Leveling Items

Tabula Rasa

Goldrim

Lochtonial Caress

Wanderlust

The Princess

Lycosidae

2 Praxis

Lakishu’s Blade

Innsbury Edge

Fate of the Vaal

 

 

Here is the end of Daniel’s Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider Build.

 


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