[0.3] 135k EHP Flicker Strike Invoker - DESTROYS All Content

EDIT: Garukhan's Resolve is likely significantly better than Elemental Armament II for the bossing setup, testing this tomorrow morning and will confirm.

If you have any confusion please reference the mapping explanation section of the youtube video guide (link is timestamped) - - If you're still confused, leave a comment on the video with your question or join the discord and @me with your question, I will get back to as soon as possible.

A singular Unset Ring is required to be able to slot in Ghost Dance (Not mandatory but helps in the pursuit of becoming nearly immortal)

Get an Ultimate Mana Flask with % increased charges to make Ambrosia really really strong.

Herald of Ash and Infernal Cry should be kept at a LOW level to avoid having strength requirement issues.

You Effectively NEED 100% Crit Chance On Flicker Strike To Make This Whole Thing Work (This is actually very easy to do though thanks to Flicker Strike getting 20% MORE Crit chance from just adding quality and Charge Regulation giving us another 25% MORE Crit Chance as well. With that in mind, all you need is to take the crit nodes on the passive tree like I did AND have a Quarterstaff with a total of 15% crit chance which is not hard if you get a Sinister Quarterstaff - If you have less crit on your weapon then you just need to invest more points into crit on the passive tree or get %increased crit chance on your helmet or amulet)

General Mapping Playstyle

Our usual gameplay loop is as follows - Start the map by killing the first couple of packs with Storm Wave. This will charge up your Reaper's Invocation meta skill very quickly (usually 1-2 packs and its at 100%) which will allow you to trigger 5 auto-aimed Profane Ritual's all at once with no cast time (this will almost always give you 7 power charges). Use your first set of 7 power charges to cast Charged Staff. Now just repeat that cycle again for an additional 7 power charges and those will be used on Flicker Strike. After using Flicker Strike just use Reaper's Invocation again for another 7 power charges to use another Flicker Strike and you can essentially repeat this process for the whole map. All the while, you should make sure to slap in a use of Charged Staff every once in a while to make sure its always active, it has a very long duration with our setup though so sometimes you only need to do this 3-4 times throughout the entire map.

HOWEVER, you will start to learn this almost IMMEDIATELY that using Flicker Strike is not always the most optimal. If you see a small clump of mobs and can clearly tell that they arent sort of "connected" to another clump of mobs you are genuinely just better off using Storm Wave to clear that pack. Storm Wave is still EXTREMELY strong with our setup, for mapping specifically not bossing, and you could safely and efficiently clear entire maps using only Storm Wave but thats boring as shit compared to Flicker Strike. ALL THAT TO ESSENTIALLY SAY, this build has a bit of a learning curve in regards to knowing when you should use Flicker Strike vs Storm Wave. The simplest explanation for it would be if you know its just a small pack of mobs that arent connected to more packs then its best to just use Storm Wave but if you are in the middle of a breach, walking up to an abyssal area, or just can clearly see that there are just a shit ton of mobs that are somewhat connected to each other then those are the optimal times to just rotate between Flicker Strike, Reaper's Invocation, and followed by another Flicker Strike and just repeat that process.

For Map Bosses, the ideal scenario is that you walk into the boss arena with duration left over on your charged staff and a FRESH set of 7 power charges so that if the boss does any goofy like RP stuff before hes actually attackable your power charges wont run out. Assuming you can pull that off, takes a little bit of practice, all you have to do from that point is whack the boss with one Storm Wave to apply shock/chill/(potentially ignite as well), then use Infernal Cry, followed by Flicker Strike and he will just flop over.

Pinnacle Boss Rotation - PLEASE REFERENCE THE BOSSING VARIANT TO VISUALLY SEE THE REQUIRED SKILL GEM SWAPS (This is ONLY necessary if you want to one shot pinnacle bosses and is NOT necessary for map bosses, assuming you have somewhat decent gear)

BEFORE THE BOSS FIGHT STARTS - Swap out your Herald of Ash and Reaper's Invocation For Sacrifice and Profane Ritual (Reference the bossing showcase section of the video guide to see some tips on how to do this really easily without cluttering up your inventory at all). Additionally, go ahead and swap your support gems on Flicker Strike, I like to keep all of my bossing support gems inside of my Raise Shield skill so that way they dont have to clutter my inventory. Unfortunately, Perpetual Charge doesnt fit in any of our other skills so you have to throw that into your inventory BUT Ancestral Call II can go inside of your quarterstaff strike and both Rapid Attacks II + Pinpoint Critical can just go inside of Raise Shield. Your Flicker Strike's 5 support gems should now be Ambrosia, Elemental Armament II, Overextend, Concentrated Area and Inevitable Critical. EDIT: Garukhan's Resolve is likely significantly better than Elemental Armament II for the bossing setup, testing this tomorrow morning and will confirm.

Next Step is to swap to weapon set 2 so that you have a bunch of Skeletal Warrior's summoned which are coming from your Rattling Sceptre, you can now use Profane Ritual on these skelly boys thanks to Sacrifice to get 7 power charges, go back to weapon set 1 to cast Charged Staff then back to weapon set 2 to get 7 more power charges for Flicker Strike.

Boss Fight Starts -

Storm Wave as many times as it takes to apply chill/shock to the boss (and ignite if you have fire damage on gear and are using Echoing Flames), this should only take 1, 2 or 3 AT MOST uses of Storm Wave. Once those ailments are applied immediately cast Infernal Cry SPECIFICALLY three times in a row, our support gems are what allow us to repeat cast it. After that use Flicker Strike and watch the magic happen.

Spirit Gems/Requirements Explained

If you are using an unset ring and making use of Ghost Dance you will need exactly 200 spirit to mimic my setup (recommended). This is relatively easy to achieve thanks to Lead me through Grace... ascendancy node. If you combine that ascendancy node with a body armour that has 1000+ Evasion AND 400+ Energy shield then you are already good to go, and I guarentee you that if you use my trade link up above you can find one for 3 divines or cheaper. IF YOU ARE ON A BUDGET - I recommend you just forego the unset ring altogether and that makes it so you only need 170 spirit and then you can also get a cheaper chest piece as well, but keep in mind that this build is not exactly "friendly" to the idea of trying to FORCE it to work on a particularly low budget (less than 10 divines). Instead you should farm up some currency with the regular storm wave setup that doesnt rely on crit or the extensive levels of defense that Flicker Strike wants.