[Trickster] The Bleeding Heart

The Bleeding Heart

“So great was the Sorrrow, Even the bones bled”
The Bleeding Heart.

Build Concept
This build capitalizes on Dots now being able to crit. The concept of this build is to apply as many bleeds as Humanly possible. It’s a very easy rotation of abilities. To much surprise there is actually very large amount of supporting gear for this build. I found the build to take a bit to get to level 30. After Level 30 this build really accelerates. This was partially because i was avoiding any distribution of stats into phys. My goal of this build is for it to be 0 phys , 100% cunning.

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The Rotation
Wendigo Totem, Blade Trap, Phantasmal Blades, Ring of Steel, Devouring Swarm, Bloodbath (Slaughter Relic)
With this rotation i was hitting for 13k dot ticks at level 50. At Level 58, The build gets a little crazy with individual items contributing 5k per a tick.

Video’s Of the Build

Required Gear
Surprisingly enough, None. This is a great build for a new char or a self found player.

Suggested Gear

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Weapons = Bloodsong | Butcher of Burrwitch | Brutallax
Helm = Clairvoyant’s Hat | Whisperer of Secrets
Chest = Korvoran’s Chestguard
Pants =
Boots = Windshear Greaves
Gloves = Grasp of Unchained Might
Shoulders =Vileblood Mantle | Wildblood Mantle | Bloodfury Spaulders
Amulet = The Peerless Eye of Beronath
Rings =
Belt = Blade Breaker Sash | Empowered Bloodbathed Links | Wildblood Girdle
Relic = Slaughter
Medal = Direwolf Crest | Empowered Gutworm’s Bloody Seal
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Suggested Leveling Path

Level 10
Level 20
Level 30
Level 40
Level 50
Level 60
Level 70 - Pull out of PB to assist mastery pts.

Suggested Devotion Path(s)

1 Point Yellow Crossroads
5 Points Crane - Remove 1 Point yellow Crossroads
1 Point Red Crossroads
3 Points Jackle - Remove 1 Point red from Crossroads
1 Point Purple Crossroads
5 Points Falcon - Skill Bound to Blade Spirit
1 Point Green Crossroads
7 Points Huntress - Skill Bound to Wendigo Totem - Remove 1 Point green Crossroads
4 Points Empty Throne
5 Points Shepherds Crook - Skill bound to any passive wepon skill (doesn’t matter)
3 Points Lion
4 Points Harpy
5 Points Oleron - Skill Bound to Savagery
6 Points Unknown Soldier - Skill Bound to Phantasmal Blades
2 Points Hawk

Reserved
Space reserved for more room if needed.

Build is complete enough to Put it out there. Enjoy Guy’s

Ohhh, another bleed build? You’re really in love with blood, eh? I’ve honestly been pretty interested in bleed lately, now I don’t know if I want to try your pet build or this build more. Probably just going to give both a whirl eventually, I’m an altoholic.

On a side note, I just discovered The Birthday Massacre thanks to your video. I always appreciate finding new music randomly on the internet.

I started this build which actually inspired my La Magra Summoner. Summoners needed a fresh look … same old build doing the same old thing for too long. I will say this build started with looking at all the bleed gear i was massing up and though welp… looks like the next char is a bleed spec. I expect once i hit level 75 to crack 80k bleed ticks. I just had the hard look at which would be better the Clarvoiants hat or the Wispers helm. Over all though the build is coming along quite nicely… Tons of damage… I find it hard to find bosses that i can even get a full rotation off on.

The thing that has always made me nervous about bleed is that when enemies resist bleed, they resist the hell out of it. Are any of those enemies a problem?

The build is sporting -83% bleed. not to mension it has a Massive amount of peirce in it… honestly speaking it doesn’t need the bleed. You can see in the video’s that it melee’s for 2-4k’s at level 68. Interestingly enough Everything can bleed. I’ll put a video together of Ark Undercity. After a full debuff even ghosts bleed for 50%ish of the damage. The summoner build i have has -133% which is crazzzy.

Edit: Also with me hitting 40k ticks. I am sitting at 1167% bleed. At level 75 this build gets Bloodsong <3 … Bloodsong at my current gearing is 16,000 over 5s. Currently Brutalix is 30,000 over 15s… Now the game doesn’t add in durration increase. Currently i am at 180% increase durration. So when i get reflected… Brutalix stays on me for 38.2s… yes… 38.2s of bleed… it’s annoying. I cannot wait till i get Bloodsong.

Added More Video’s … hit level 71 Did some SoT and Old Archovia.

Made the Dead Bleed!

Right now i can get the dead to bleed for 17k/t

Don’t forget to add a Empowered Bloodbathed Links

adding a Fresh Cronley’s Den vid… hit 60k ticks. If he lived longer i think i could have gotten a 70 tick out of him…

This is pushing my projected max out… I fear i might be able to hit a 100k tick at level 85.

Video will uploaded soon.

Will add now, Already had the other belts so i didn’t bother looking.

It’s surprising the amount of gear to support this build. It’s kinda crazy.

You want to steal the show and take the burden of writing a guide?

With bloodsong, brutallax, emp. bloodbathed links and vileblood mantle the build is hardly not gear dependant. Sure, it can work without them, but the amount of flat bleeding damage you get from gear is huge.

-80% res is not much for bleeding damage when some mobs have 150% resist, I had 180% pre nerf, 130% currently.

Wildblood mantle is all nice, but Vileblood Mantle has that very important proc and is tailored for trickster build. If you want some recommendation for pants you can add empowered legplates of valor - the build needs bleed resist to survive reflect. Another option is a rare with stonehide prefix.

I don’t know if i would say i want to steel the shown or anything. I knoticed that a guide was missing for this type of charicter on the compendium. My Alts are determined by how much of what gear i have lol =) As it sits i am looking at a druid or Sorc next. Thanks for the info thou. I didn’t even know about Vileblood Mantle… that thing is specially tailored to the build.

Any particular reason for not going Shaman 1st and leveling with Devouring Swarm? Would that not be much faster?

No reason really.

Just in case you missed it, we have an ongoing discussion on bleeding builds where all that gear, devotion and other things were discussed.

Havn’t gotten Vile Blood Shoulders yet but with out them i hit 97k dot ticks.

So this might be my lack of experience talking, but how exactly do you kill stuff using the suggested leveling path (which is, basically, masteries and a bunch of 1-ofs all the way up to 40+)? Am I missing something, like crafted stuff or components from other high-level chars?

Just max devouring swarm as fast as you can it melts everything. Attach falcon devotion to it and then later Rend and it continues to solo content.

I seem to have a small issue with the leveling guide/suggested path. At no point does it show you maxing Nightblade to get blade spirit, but in your Lvl 60 video, it shows that you have it on your bar. The issue stems from not being able to attach falcon to it at any point if following your build guide to the T.