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POE 3.20 One Divine Challenge Series - Bladefall Blade Blast Occultist

Mar 20, 2023

Welcome to the second one-Divine challenge. 

Intro & Gear Purchases

Today’s build is the fully automated triple curse, Bladefall Blade Blast Occultist

First, you should purchase some gear and kill some monsters. And, today I’m going to show you a take on the build that’s slightly different from others where I’ve opted to sacrifice a little damage for more quality of life features.

POE One Divine Challenge Bladefall Blade Blast Occultist

One of those features comes in the form of a fully automated triple curse setup. The three curses this build automates are Temporal Chains, Despair and Punishment. They’re automated via either on hit mechanics or Blasphemy Supports and this lets me focus on fear buttons while mapping. So, I can just sit back, relax, turn my brain off and enjoy the sweet explosions Occultist has to offer.

Another quality of life choice I made is to go for a wand (Rare Profane Wand) with high cast speed as the weapon. There are several low budget options that provide significant damage for this build, such as Cold Iron Point or Obliteration, which are perfectly reasonable by the way.

POE Cold Iron Point

But I’m willing to sacrifice some of that raw DPS for more cast speed, which makes the two button casting of Bladefall Blade Blast feel much less clunky.

In this case, I purchased a wand with a cast speed implicit. It also had a cast speed suffix and an open suffix that I could craft chaos damage over time multiplier.

If you can’t find one on trade for a good price, craft on yourself by getting a profane one base and using any tier of Essence of Envy until you have an open suffix for chaos damage over time multiplier. The crafting cost for this should be no more than 20 Chaos Orbs in total.

For those who don’t know, Bladefall Blade Blast used to be a very meta skill back in patch 3.13 Ritual League. But it received a couple of nerfs and in patch 3.15, it received a huge nerf to the AOE radius of the Blade Blast explosion. This really turned off a lot of players to the skill since now it has much less consistent AOE overlap without heavy investment. 

Gear Recap & Gem Links

However, with the overall buffs to curses and patch 3.20, poison builds using Temporal Chains and Despair is a pretty decent success and that’s exactly why we’re here.

As always, once you’ve gotten your mandatory gear, spend whatever leftover POE Currency you have and what I like to call cleaning up your gear. That means using Jewels, Orbs of Fusing, Blessed Orbs, the crafting bench, etc to make sure that your character is up and running.

Once the gear is finished, make sure you get the proper flask, set up for your liking and purchase or self-level any gems that you need.

For our ascendancy, we’re first picking Void Beacon and Withering Presence to lock in huge boosts to our chaos damage. Third, we’ll take Profane Bloom for those juicy explosions and finally we’ll take Unholy Authority to lock in that extra curse.

POE Profane Bloom

Sill Tree

Our skill tree focuses on solidifying three major things: 100% chance to poison, 100% chance to suppress spell damage and all the mana reservation efficiency we can reasonably get our hands on to make sure that we can support all the auras that we’re running.

After that, we spend the rest of our points grabbing as much damage over time multiplier and maximum life as we can in our path.

Playstyle Demonstration

The general playstyle of this build for mapping is that you’re only casting your spells to inflict poison damage to charge up your Plague Bearer and then activating your Plague Bearer and Shield Charge through the whole map.

Once the Plague Bearer is depleted, do more poison damage and repeat the process. 

Now again, you’ll notice we’re only casting our Bladefall Blade Blast on two or three packs of monsters until our Plague Bearer is charged. At the top left corner of your screen, you can see that the Plague Bearer is fully charged.

Now, we activate it and zoom around the map with Shield Charge, triple cursing and exploding everything we come in contact with. Notice that we don’t cast spells during this time. So, there you have it. 

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