Flicker Strike

Flicker Strike lives or dies on Frenzy charges — every use consumes one, so the entire build is engineered around refilling them faster than Flicker Strike drains them. The early-mapping setup leans on Replica Farrul's Fur as the sustain engine: "Gain up to your maximum number of Frenzy and Endurance Charges when you gain Cat's Agility" triggers on kill via Aspect of the Cat, which the chest reserves for free. Every pack kill refunds the full charge bank. Darkray Vectors adds a max frenzy charge and scales evasion + movement per charge, and Blood Rage generates more on kill as a secondary feed. The main 6-link lives in the body armour: Flicker Strike + Multistrike Support + Melee Physical Damage Support + Elemental Damage with Attacks + Trinity + Bloodthirst.

The weapon is Voidforge — an Infernal Sword that converts all physical to a random element each hit ("Deal no Non-Elemental Damage," "Gain 597% of Weapon Physical Damage as Extra Damage of a random Element") — which pairs perfectly with Trinity's cycling elemental resonances. Ascendancy at this tier runs Masterful Form + Impact + Bane of Legends, and the tree grabs Savagery, Weapon Artistry, One With Nature, and Destroyer. A Lethal Pride under Rakiata in the Karui cluster and The Adorned amplify magic jewel effects. Sheet DPS reads 677k.

80% spell suppress via Masterful Form is the backbone, backed by 47% physical damage reduction and a full 8 endurance charges sustained by Endurance Charge on Melee Stun. Bane of Legends hasn't yet unlocked full Overleech — that arrives once Brutal Fervour replaces a filler ascendancy point — but Petrified Blood spreads hit damage over time so leech and regen can catch up. 5.6k life, 49k EHP, and Replica Farrul's Fur's permanent Onslaught via Cat's Agility keep clear tempo up.

Flesh and Stone in Blind stance blinds nearby enemies, Steelskin on Cast when Damage Taken eats a spike hit, and all four elemental resists sit at 75% with chaos capped via amulet and belt rolls. Brine King as major pantheon stops freeze/stun chains on a skill that cannot afford to be interrupted.

This is the fastest skill in the game, and even at this tier mapping is a blur. You leap into a pack with Leap Slam, land one hit to prime Frenzy charges, then Flicker Strike chain-teleports through the entire screen. Replica Farrul's Fur's kill-refill means charges never run dry on a map — the whole clear happens inside a single sustained flicker train. Multistrike Support fires three hits per chain, and Bane of Legends's culling strike corpse-explodes kill chains forward. Bosses break the loop slightly since there's nothing to kill for charge refill — Blood Rage plus Endurance Charge on Melee Stun bridges the gap. Camera barely catches up.

The endgame reference weaponises a mechanical oddity: Doryani's Prototype ("Deal no Non-Lightning Damage") plus Dawnbreaker in the off-hand ("20% of Cold Damage taken as Fire," "20% of Lightning Damage taken as Fire") while the body armour's line "Nearby Enemies have Lightning Resistance equal to yours" broadcasts the player's own -193% lightning resistance to every nearby enemy. Enemy lightning resist craters into deeply negative territory, and every Flicker Strike hit — now pure lightning — lands with massive resistance-pen damage amplification. The main 6-link lives in the chest: Flicker Strike + Multistrike Support + Added Lightning Damage + Increased Critical Damage Support + Volatility Support + Inspiration Support.

Frenzy sustain gets a second engine: Ralakesh's Impatience grants "Count as having maximum number of Frenzy Charges," so charges are permanently satisfied — Flicker Strike still consumes charges on use but the "count as" floor makes the consumption invisible to damage scaling. Forbidden Shako adds Innervate Support for on-shock lightning damage. A secondary Frenzy of Onslaught setup in the helmet handles boss-priming. Headsman adds culling-strike + 25% more damage against enemies you cull, and the tree now includes Vaal Pact (instant leech), Divine Flesh (transformed from Unwavering Stance, 50% ele-taken-as-chaos), and Versatile Combatant for spell block. Notables add Headsman, Fatal Blade, Dismembering, As The Mountain.

The defensive math flips entirely. Divine Flesh converts 50% of elemental damage taken into chaos, then chaos resist sits at 80% so those conversions get heavily mitigated, and Dawnbreaker converts a further chunk of cold/lightning/physical hits into fire — where resist IS positive at 84%. Armour climbs to 10k with Determination, 82% physical DR, and Brutal Fervour finally online for Overleech + ailment immunity. EHP 74k.

Block sits at 70% attack / 65% spell via Dawnbreaker + Versatile Combatant, adding a third mitigation layer on top of conversion + leech. Tempest Shield (now the dominant aura in the tier at 59% usage) scales block chance higher and adds reactive lightning damage to blocks.

Screens disappear. 12.3 attacks per second and 54% crit with 530% crit multi mean every Flicker Strike chain deletes everything the cursor points at, and Doryani's Prototype's shared-resistance aura means an entire room of enemies is effectively shredded at -193% lightning resist the moment you enter it. Replica Farrul's Fur still refills frenzies on kill, Ralakesh's Impatience guarantees the charge floor, and Brutal Fervour's Overleech means life regenerates through sustained damage. Boss fights shift to the Frenzy of Onslaught helmet setup for charge generation on a target that can't die for refills, but on anything smaller than pinnacle the Flicker Strike chain simply doesn't stop.

At apex: 6.5M DPS, 49.8% crit chance, 419% crit multi, 7 Frenzy charges permanent via Replica Farrul's Fur + Darkray Vectors's extra charge. The claw (Hate Etcher, a rare Fleshripper with "+1 to Level of Socketed Gems") holds the 6-link: Flicker Strike + Multistrike Support + Fortify Support + Endurance Charge on Melee Stun + Close Combat Support + Brutality Support. Brutality's "59% more physical damage" on the cost of dealing no non-physical works because the weapon is pure phys — no conversion, no elemental add-ons, just raw crit hits. Pride aura adds another "39% more physical damage" layered on top.

The Slayer ascendancy tree is fully realised: Headsman + Brutal Fervour + Masterful Form + Bane of Legends. Tree notables stack claw/axe multipliers — Savagery, Tribal Fury, Titanic Impacts, Harpooner, Forceful Skewering. Carnage Heart amulet adds 35% increased damage while leeching + 1.87% physical leech, which combined with Brutal Fervour's Overleech means the leech buff is always active during combat. A Watcher's Eye carries Determination phys-reduction + Precision blind-immunity + Pride impale-duration. Berserk layered with Lifetap Support adds on-demand burst, Blood Rage keeps Frenzy charges sustained even on bossfights where no kills refill the bank.

90% physical damage reduction hits the cap through 17.6k armour + Determination + 7 endurance charges + Fortify Support's 20% less damage taken. Brutal Fervour's Overleech + ailment immunity while leech-active is the Slayer signature — damage-taken-while-leeching is a non-event because leech keeps refilling life past the hit. All four elemental resists cap at 75% with 39% chaos overcap.

EHP sits at 28k — noticeably below the tier median of 185k, because this reference commits flask and jewel slots to damage (Lion's Roar for 10% more melee phys, Diamond Flask for crit). A Transcendent Spirit is picked for dex-scaled movement/accuracy rather than defence. Immortal Call on Lifetap Support and a Sulphur Flask with Consecrated Ground fill in reactive mitigation. Brine King + Tukohama pantheons block freeze and provide stationary regen.

This is the apex Flicker feel: unkillable forward momentum. You leap into a pack, one swing primes Frenzy charges, and then Flicker Strike teleports through the entire zone faster than the client can render corpses. Bane of Legends's permanent Onslaught plus the kill-explosion turns map clear into a continuous blur — the screen doesn't update, it strobes. Headsman's culling strike instantly removes low-HP rares, and Overleech means sustained combat refills life faster than anything can drain it. Bosses run a Berserk + Double Strike of Impaling priming combo to stack impales, then the Flicker train returns at 500% crit multi and closes the fight in seconds. Nothing else in the game moves this fast.