Umbral Blades Falconer Build Guide

Killing bosses in few seconds

Fast movement

Good defense with 50+ stacks of Dusk Shroud, 80%+ dodge chance

No need to spend passive points for glancing blow or extra dodge chance

Not dependent on uniques

Requires some decent gear to active this build

Need to be sure and monitor to have at least 20+Dusk Shroud to be more tanky to not die instantly

Low HP build

MONOLITH TACTIC:

Before you start, use Smoke Bomb to proc Silver Shroud from Moonlight Bomb 2/3 node, so you have extra defense from start. After that start to spam Explosive Trap to stack Dusk Shroud. Make sure, that you always holding your left mouse buttom to constantly moving. This gives you more defense from Evasion 5/5 and Tailwind 6/6 passive tree. Use Aerial Assault anytime it's off cooldown. This recover 9% of your mana back from Refreshing Resolve 3/3 node and also proc Umbral Blades from Twilight Strike 3/3 node + gives you 6 seconds Haste and Frenzy from Falcon's Havoc 2/2.

Mostly I don't use default Umbral Blades, because Explosive Trap and Twilight Strike 3/3 node doing enough damage to get rid of all enemies around me, but sometimes when enemies have dodge/glancing blow or high HP affixes, it's good to use default Umbral Blades to kill high health enemies asap.

In this scenario I am using this tactic - use Aerial Assault while you moving forward and spam Umbral Blades in front of you, so all thrown umbral blades from Twilight Strike 3/3 will return to you. In this case enemies left behind will be damaged from recalled blades. Remember, that recalled blades are our main source of damage, not thrown blades. Regarding Falconry skill. Most of the time you don't need to use it. I am only using it to proc Wake of Wings 3/5 for movement and attack speed and If you really want to execute bosses or deadly enemies with Bird of Prey 2/2 node.

BOSS TACTIC:

This is really straight forward - spam Explosive Trap while you used Aerial Assault to get closer to boss. Stack as many shrouds as possible (50 should be fine), use smoke bomb and then use Umbral Blades to recall them = GG. In this case you should kill bosses within few seconds.

I don't think, that this build is good for leveling. I would recommend some other leveling builds.

Endgame is only experience I have with this build. It's very fast pace build with very high damage and good defense. However, you still want some HP affixes to survive some hits, which can be deadly. Try to avoid AoE, but this shouldn't be a problem with this build. You should have more than 100% movement speed from all support resources, so avoiding deadly AoE or telegraph hits isn't your problem. When you doing monoliths, try to avoid dodge affix, this is only one affix which is a bit pain, because when enemies dodge you do 0 damage and sometimes it can be a problem at high monoliths. I am at around 350+ corruption right now and killing mobs is fast and satisfying.

Regarding bosses - this is the best build I've ever played to kill bosses - you can kill T4 Julra within 5 seconds and bosses from corruption 350+ are dying in the same way even with defensive affixes like damage reduction or higher resistance.