PoE Blade Vortex Build Assassin, Support Gems

Blade Vortex Blade Vortex (often referred to as BV) is a spell that creates an ethereal blade that spins around the caster that deals physical damage, each blade lasting for the minimum duration of 5 seconds.

This spell creates ethereal blades which orbit in an area around you, dealing damage every 0.6 seconds to all enemies in their radius. As more blades are added, the damage becomes greater and more frequent.You have blades in a Blade Vortex around youYou have blades in a Blade Vortex around youYou have blades in a Blade Vortex around you

Critical, Spell, AoE, Duration, Physical. Level: 1–20. Cost: 6–16 Mana. Cast Time: 0.50 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 30%. Radius: 14. Requires Level 12.

  • Deals (3–128) to (5–191) Physical Damage
  • Base duration is 4 seconds
  • +(0–2) to radius
  • 35% increased Hit Rate for each blade
  • 35% more Damage for each blade
  • Can have up to 10 active spinning blades
  • 10% increased Critical Strike Chance for each blade

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Blade Vortex(0–10)% increased Area of Effect50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelDexterityCostDeals 3 to 5 Physical Damage# to radiusExperience
1123363, 5015,249
2153964, 6041,517
3194875, 8081,983
4235687, 110147,968
52764910, 150250,557
63173913, 190405,086
735811016, 250447,718
838881120, 301615,318
941941124, 361834,639
10441001229, 4311,570,760
11471061235, 5211,633,987
12501131341, 6212,151,030
13531191349, 7412,812,189
14561251458, 8815,099,360
15591321469, 10429,400,731
16621381582, 123215,273,366
17641421592, 138226,286,582
186614616103, 154262,890,590
196815116114, 1722212,046,017
207015516128, 1912
217217142, 2142
227417159, 2383
237618177, 2653
247818197, 2953
258018219, 3283
268219243, 3653
278419270, 4053
288619300, 4503
298820333, 5004
309020370, 5554
319120390, 5844
329220410, 6164
339321432, 6484
349421455, 6834
359521479, 7194
369621505, 7574
379721531, 7974
389822559, 8394
399922589, 8834
4010022619, 9294

Skill functions and interactions

Blade Vortex's base damage is boosted by Physical Damage, Spell Damage, Area Damage, and Damage.

Interaction w/ Blade Blast: When targeted by Blade Blast, the blades will detonate in sequence, increasing in AoE with subsequent detonations. The damage from these detonations scale solely from the Blade Blast skill.

Physical Damage: Because Blade Vortex deals physical damage, it can be boosted by supports and skills that are more commonly used to modify attacks, such as the Added Fire Damage Support gem and the Hatred aura.

Spell Damage: Despite the fact that it does physical damage, Blade Vortex is a spell and not an attack. It does not utilize weapon damage in any way. Blade Vortex is one of several skills that work in this manner. The others include Ethereal Knives, Bladefall, and Shockwave Totem. Its damage can be amplified by Spell Damage on items and passives from the skill tree, as well as support gems that increase spell damage.

Leech: Leech effects that apply to Spell damage and to damage types dealt by Blade Vortex (Physical by default) will work as usual. Note that leech effects which apply to attacks do not apply to Blade Vortex because it is a spell, not an attack.

Area of Effect: Increases and decreases in to Area of Effect from support gems, passives, and equipment will augment the radius in which the skill deals damage (e.g. Increased Area of Effect Support, Concentrated Effect Support and Carcass Jack).

Cast Speed: Faster Casting Support, Spell Echo Support, and Cast Speed from passives and gear will increase the rate at which blades are generated.

Duration: Increased Duration Support, Less Duration Support, and duration-modifying passives and equipment will affect the duration of the blades (including Temporal Chains on yourself.) It is possible to have multiple blades active at the same time, up to a maximum of 10 blades. Once the limit is reached, creating a new blade will simply remove the oldest existing active blade, similar to Summon Raging Spirit.

Poison: As Blade Vortex deals physical damage, it can easily scale poison damage.

Visual effect: Blade vortex's visual effect does not scale with Area of effect modifiers. Instead, to give a rough indication of radius, there are several versions of the knife effect, each rotating at a different radius. The skill will always try to have one knife using the largest-radius effect that's not larger than the actual radius of the skill, but that skill results in discrete visual changes where you need to reach a certain threshold before the next wider effect can be used. The full radius is always used mechanically.

Multiple casts: When Blade Vortex is linked to Unleash Support, the damage is defined by the initial cast and does not inherit the less damage multiplier. This behavior includes the Greater Spell Echo Support from Pledge of Hands.

Calculating DPS

Blade Vortex's in-game tooltip DPS gives the average damage of one hit from one Blade Vortex instance, multiplied by casts per second. This value is misleading primarily because Blade Vortex can hit more than once over its duration, thus not cast speed must be used, but hits per second (rounds per second, spin rate), over the duration of the stacks.

Item acquisition

Blade Vortex can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.

Recipes

Blade Vortex can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1
Nessa
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Blade Vortex.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Blade Vortex Crit Multi Per Blade 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Blade Vortex has +2% to Critical Strike Multiplier for each blade helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Crit Multi Per Blade 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Blade Vortex has +3% to Critical Strike Multiplier for each blade helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Blade Vortex Spell Damage helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Blade Vortex Spell Damage helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Duration 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 20% increased Blade Vortex Duration helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Duration 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 30% increased Blade Vortex Duration helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Area Of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 16% increased Blade Vortex Area of Effect helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Blade Vortex Area Of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 24% increased Blade Vortex Area of Effect helmet 75
default 0

Alternate skill effects

Blade Vortex has the following alternate skill effects:

Item Effect(s)
Demonic Blade Vortex Your Blade Vortex becomes a black and red demonic vortex.
Illusionist Blade Vortex Effect Your Blade Vortex becomes an Illusionist Effect.
Sawblade Blade Vortex Your Blade Vortex becomes a Sawblade Effect.
Transcendence Blade Vortex Effect Your Blade Vortex becomes a Transcendence Effect.

PoE Blade Vortex Build

1. Character: 100 Assassin

Life: 3492 Strength: 64
Energy Shield: 250 Dexterity: 193
Mana: 920 Intelligence: 163
Evasion Rating: 2038 Charges: E: 3 / F: 3 / P: 3
Armour: 228

2. Main Skills Build

Main skill: Blade Vortex Blade Vortex. DPS: 52k.

Damage types:

  • Physical: 55%
  • Chaos: 45%

Blade Vortex Support Gems:

  • Awakened Unleash Unleash Support(Blue): 73%
  • Awakened Increased Area of Effect Increased Area of Effect Support(Blue): 45%
  • Awakened Controlled Destruction Controlled Destruction Support(Blue): 45%
  • Vile Toxins Vile Toxins Support(Green): 37%
  • Empower Empower Support(Red): 35%
  • Awakened Unbound Ailments Unbound Ailments Support(Blue): 34%
  • Inspiration Support(Red): 33%
  • Awakened Deadly Ailments Deadly Ailments Support(Green): 33%
  • Awakened Void Manipulation Void Manipulation Support(Green): 27%
  • Unleash Unleash Support(Blue): 24%
  • Power Charge On Critical Power Charge On Critical Support(Blue): 24%
  • Awakened Elemental Focus Elemental Focus Support(Blue): 18%
  • Controlled Destruction Controlled Destruction Support(Blue): 15%
  • Physical to Lightning Physical to Lightning Support(Blue): 10%
  • Poison Poison Support(Green): 9%
  • Hypothermia Hypothermia Support(Green): 6%
  • Awakened Fire Penetration Fire Penetration Support(Red): 5%
  • Concentrated Effect Concentrated Effect Support(Blue): 4%
  • Intensify Intensify Support(Blue): 3%
  • Energy Leech Energy Leech Support(Blue): 3%
  • Increased Critical Damage Increased Critical Damage Support(Blue): 2%
  • Awakened Cold Penetration Cold Penetration Support(Green): 2%
  • Unbound Ailments Unbound Ailments Support(Blue): 2%
  • Deadly Ailments Deadly Ailments Support(Green): 2%
  • Lesser Poison Lesser Poison Support(Green): 2%

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3. Skill Gems Build

These are the support skill gems for it:

Boots: Aspect of the Spider (Aspect Skill) (20), Withering Step (Green) (21 / 23), Precision Precision (Green) (5), Cast when Damage Taken Cast when Damage Taken Support (Red) (1), Immortal Call Immortal Call (Red) (3), Immortal Call Immortal Call (Red) (3), Precision Precision (Green) (5), Cast when Damage Taken Cast when Damage Taken Support (Red) (1), Aspect of the Spider (Aspect Skill) (20), Withering Step (Green) (21 / 23), Aspect of the Spider (Aspect Skill) (20),

Body Armour: Vaal Blade Vortex Vaal Blade Vortex (Green) (21 / 23), Vile Toxins Vile Toxins Support (Green) (21 / 23), Awakened Deadly Ailments Deadly Ailments Support (Green) (6 / 20), Awakened Unbound Ailments Unbound Ailments Support (Blue) (6 / 20), Awakened Void Manipulation Void Manipulation Support (Green) (6 / 20), Awakened Unleash Unleash Support (Blue) (5 / 20),

Gloves: Plague Bearer (Green) (21 / 23), Blood Rage Blood Rage (Green) (21 / 20), Despair Despair (Blue) (21 / 23), Awakened Blasphemy Blasphemy Support (Blue) (5 / 20),

Helmet: Flesh and Stone Flesh and Stone (Red) (21 / 23), Herald of Agony Herald of Agony (Green) (21 / 23), Enlighten Enlighten Support (Blue) (4), Malevolence Malevolence (Blue) (21),

Weapon: Wither Wither (Blue) (21 / 23), Spell Totem Spell Totem Support (Red) (21 / 23), Multiple Totems Multiple Totems Support (Red) (21 / 20),

Offhand: Whirling Blades Whirling Blades (Green) (21 / 23), Fortify Fortify Support (Red) (17 / 20), Faster Attacks Faster Attacks Support (Green) (21 / 20),

4. Passive Skill Build

Blade Vortex Build

5. Equipment Build

Body Armour: Maelström Hide Triumphant Lamellar

Weapon: Cold Iron Point Ezomyte Dagger

Offhand Weapon: Cold Iron Point Ezomyte Dagger

Helmet: The Devouring Diadem The Devouring Diadem Necromancer Circlet

Gloves: Asenath’s Gentle Touch Asenath’s Gentle Touch Silk Gloves

Boots: Sorrow Urge Nubuck Boots

Belt: Grim Twine Stygian Vise

Amulet: Impresence Impresence Onyx Amulet

Ring: Circle of Nostalgia Circle of Nostalgia Synthesised Amethyst Ring, Agony Eye Two-Stone Ring

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