[0.5] Whirling Assault Martial Artist - Starter to Endgame / Farming Strats

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One of the most promising and fun league starter in this league. I planning to use the new martial artist ascendancy and Hollow Form Technique notable with Whirling Assault. You will need constantly generate power charges to able to use this because every second of channeling you will consume one charge.

Farming Strategies

All of these is very cheap and profitable!

Ritual: Video

Abyss: Video

Breach: Video

What Martial Artist give us?

• Hollow Form Technique (you can use almost any attack skill with this)
• Way of the Stonefist. Your gloves will transform in to a much powerfull item. Currently the modifiers unkow which one transform to what.
• Hollow Focus Technique. Ghost bells this one is cullable and stunable. Good for sustaining charges, rage
• Hollow Resonance Technique. Another bell, everytime you deal a crit this bell will damage around you. Good for utility! Blind, exposure, shock and rage build up as well.

Ascendancy order

1. Way of the Stonefist
2. Hollow Form Technique
3. Hollow Focus Technique. Ghost bells
4. Runic Meridians

When can i use whirling assault?

This skill is the very end of the campaign and even after avaible its not that good early on and you would need to swap around to much. Just complete the campaign with the leveling setup! When you have a good weapon you can swap to Whirling Assault.

How to generate power charges?

In the early and mid game: Devour you can gain full power charges almost instantly after you kill a pack of monsters!

Lochtonial Caress with Way of the Stonefist. Look for 9-10% to grant a power charge on hit to you allies.

Mana fix

1. On amulet Well of Power
2. Use Lavianga's Spirits flask
3. High mana pool (800-900)
4. Mana regen on your ring (s)

Leveling rotation

Clear

1. Freezing Mark you only need to do this every 20 second (huge extra damage)
2. Frozen Locus near a pack
3. Glacial Cascade to blow up the pack

Single Target

1. Freezing Mark
2. Tempest Flurry for shock
3. Frozen Locus
4. Glacial Cascade for huge damage burst

Endgame rotation

Clear and Single target

1. Killing Palm on Hollow Focus for Power charges and Blazing Critical
2. Press Rend when you have power charge to gain the 50% extra damage buff
3. Hollow Form till the end