TbXie's Poison Blade Vortex Assassin Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Settlers of Kalguur 3.25)

Path of Building – Passive Skill Tree

You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building, which is maintained and updated in a much more regular fashion than the original one. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.

If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, you can check the link in PobbIn. However, we heavily advise you to use Path of Building for which we have a Path of Building Guide

Awakened Gems

A lot of gems nowadays in Path of Exile have Awakened versions. These version will generally be a lot more powerful than the widely available Regular versions. Therefore the should be purchased whenever you can afford them. When the gems listed down here mention Awakened Gems, you are supposed to use their regular versions until you can afford the upgrade.

For most people, leveling these Gems up takes way too much time so you’re generally offered two choices.

• You can just buy a leveled version.
• You can buy the Wild Brambleback beasts and use the Menagerie craft to upgrade Increase the level of non-Corrupted Awakened Gem by 1.

Gem Setups

Gem Links

Blade Vortex – Main Link (6-Link)

1. Vaal Blade Vortex
2. Awakened Unleash Support
3. Awakened Deadly Ailments Support
4. Awakened Unbound Ailments Support
5. Awakened Void Manipulation Support
6. 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.

1. Grace
2. Malevolence
3. Flesh and Stone
4. Herald of Agony

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.

1. Wither
2. Multiple Totems Support
3. Spell Totem Support
4. Faster Casting Support

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.

1. Plague Bearer
2. Enhance Support (Level 4)
3. Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support

Optional Movement Skill

1. Dash
2. Shield Charge
3. Faster Attacks Support

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