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Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 99 Crit Frost Blades of Katabasis Slayer3.25

Life: 4,060151%
ES: 31
Mana: 31
eHP:
89,355
Resistances: 76%/76%/76%/50%
Evade: 71%
Armour: 16,365
Evasion: 18,136
DPS: 8,796,357
Speed: 6.02
Hit Chance: 98%
Crit Chance: 61.35%
Crit Multi: 385%
Config:
Pinnacle, 25% Shock, Frenzy, Power, Custom Mods
Bandit: Kill All

Gear

White WindHeatshiverTriumphant LamellarSouthboundDarkray VectorsAgate AmuletAmethyst RingThe TamingPerseverance
Granite FlaskQuicksilver FlaskDiamond FlaskQuartz FlaskDivine Life Flask
Viridian JewelViridian Jewel

Gems

Frost Blades of Katabasis
Ice Bite
Multistrike
Endurance Charge on Melee Stun
Inspiration
Elemental Damage with Attacks
Mark On Hit
Assassin's Mark
Lifetap
Whirling Blades
Faster Attacks
Power Charge On Critical
Frostblink
Determination
Molten Shell
Cast when Damage Taken
Frost Bomb
Summon Skitterbots
Bonechill
Blood Rage
Enduring Cry

Tree Preview

Accuracy MasteryAccuracy Mastery
  • Dexterity's Accuracy Bonus instead grants +3 to Accuracy Rating per Dexterity
  • +500 to Accuracy Rating
  • -2 to Accuracy Rating per Level
Attack MasteryAttack Mastery
  • Non-Vaal Strike Skills target 1 additional nearby Enemy
Charge MasteryCharge Mastery
  • 3% increased Damage per Endurance, Frenzy or Power Charge
Cold MasteryCold Mastery
  • Enemies permanently take 5% increased Damage for each second they've ever been Frozen by you, up to a maximum of 50%
Critical MasteryCritical Mastery
  • +25% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Unique Enemies
Elemental MasteryElemental Mastery
  • Hits have 25% chance to treat Enemy Monster Elemental Resistance values as inverted
Life MasteryLife Mastery
  • 15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifiers on Equipped Body Armour
Mark MasteryMark Mastery
  • 10% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge when you Hit your Marked Enemy
Rage MasteryRage Mastery
  • +7 to Maximum Rage
  • Inherent loss of Rage is 20% faster

Notes

Tytykiller x Ruetoo Frostblades of Katabasis Slayer
Guide & Campaign Leveling VoD: 

PoB has multiple setups, make sure to switch skill sets, gear sets, and skill tree when looking at each setup :3

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Levelling gems and comments

Regex to check vendors: 

-\w-.-|r-r-g|r-[rg]-r|g-r-r|nne

This shows 4 links, RRR, RRG, and 10% MS boots - if you would like to make your own regex you can do so at poe.re
When you get to a vendor you can press ctrl+F on your keyboard to search items then ctrl+V the regex to paste the regex to look for specific items

Act 1
Frostblades + Ancestral Call + Added Fire (or Momentum based on colors) - Take Ancestral Call out for single target 
Double Strike + Chance to Bleed - Your brutus will kinda suck if you only use Frost Blades, keep this gem and use it on the vaal corruption temple in Act 2 Vaal Ruins
Frostblink (use Dash before you get int, typically you have to buy a Lapis Amulet)
Leap Slam + Faster Attacks + Momentum
Precision (Keep this at a low level)

Act 2
Herald of Ash
Herald of Ice
Blood Rage
Poacher's Mark

Act 3
Hatred (Replace both Heralds with Hatred)

Normal Lab: Bane of Legends

Act 4 - your setup should look like this
Frostblades + Multistrike + Added Fire - Elemental Damage with Attacks (Swap out Ancestral Call for Multistrike once you get Tribal Fury on the passive tree + the Attack Mastery for +1 strike)
Leap Slam + Faster Attacks + Momentum
Frostblink
Precision (Keep this at a low level)
Hatred
Add Frostbomb in Act 6

We take 2H and Axe nodes because these provide the best weapons & passives while leveling - respec them later

HOW TO RESPEC TO CRIT -
Don't swap to crit until you have 
1. White Wind
2. Backstabbing & Heartseeker notables on tree

After that, refund Precise Technique on the tree and equip a Diamond Flask

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Why Slayer? Why not Trickster?

Cull and More Damage solve a lot of the single target problems that Frost Blades inherently has. Slayer has both of these, alongside Attack Speed, Overleech, and Endurance Charges.
Endurance Charges are the biggest reason why we choose Slayer, as instead of 4% elemental resist, they now provide 4% damage reduction to elemental damage.
Coupled with the fact that Determination and Grace got nerfed, builds need an extra form of damage mitigation. Slayer gets Endurance Charges from Endurance Charge on Stun Support and the Discipline of the Unyielding passive.

What 5Link do you run?
Frost Blades + Multistrike + Elemental Damage with Attacks + Ice Bite + Endurance Charge on Stun