Kitava's Reflector [Smith, Thorns, BLEED]

I made this guide and have been updating it as new discoveries come to light.

It's my take on a spear-wielding bleed-thorns build using a Blacksmith of Kitava! The goal here is to have fun and slay!

The core gear of this build are your usual thorns pieces like Briarpatch and Crown of the Pale King PLUS Edyrn's Tusks to allow thorns damage to cause bleeding. Saitha's Spear is optional, but great to have so our spear hits can aggravate bleed stacks.

Get hit and let thorns do the rest! Herald of Blood with Haemocrystals gets an honorable mention here for special effects. It also destroys non-rare/unique corpses which helps a lot against enemy corpse explosions.

Please see the build guide on Mobalytics and the video guide on YouTube.

Nice, but I think you’re wasting potential with the typical thorns build. There are way more effective ways now to make thorns deal damage than waiting for something to hit you.

Have a look at Quill Burst on Supercharged slam. No need to worry about what hits you’re returning damage on if it’s on your swing. Supercharged slam scales is stage amps AFTER calculating thorns on the first stage. Build the deepest spire. Dump into full enemy life nodes, cull threshold, rare+unique, and low life nodes. Put bans barbs on your manifest, put corpse explosion on your cast on hit.

I’m still working on finalizing the build, but almost done with act 3 cruel and it works better than expected on paper. the campaign has been absolutely trivial.