TbXie's Poison Blade Vortex Assassin Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Necropolis)
Passive Skill Tree & PoB
You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.
If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, PoePlanner’s website offers you a non-PoB alternative to import the code from the above link. it is highly recommended you install Path of Building to follow builds most optimally.
Progression Advice
Since Poison mostly scales with Gem levels and Passive Points / Ascendancy, you’re going to be able to stay relatively tanky even while being lower level. The Path of Building offers steps to put you on your way for leveling.
Gem Links
Blade Vortex – Main Link (6-Link)
As we’re playing an Ailment-based build, our Awakened Gems are generally relatively cheap and extremely powerful! Don’t neglect these upgrades as they are significant but you can obviously use the non-Awakened version initially.
- Vaal Blade Vortex
- Awakened Unleash Support
- Awakened Deadly Ailments Support
- Awakened Unbound Ailments Support
- Awakened Void Manipulation Support
- Efficacy Support
Auras
Whenever you have acquired a The Devouring Diadem. In case you don’t have this item yet, you can drop the Flesh and Stone.
Withering
With the heavy nerfs to other mechanics for wither, I opted to free up some gemsockets to get an actual totem setup going. This is at the cost of some fancy other skills in the build, but is an absolutely obscene amount of damage. Drop your totems somewhere close to bosses before fighting them & keep them up.
Plague Bearer
Plague Bearer is a really strong buff which “incubates” Damage and then unleashes it over time if you pop the gem. This gives you a tremendous amount of extra clear speed and feels really nice to use. Therefore, you should try to buff it up as much as you can.