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Vampirism isn't super helpful for you since most of your damage is ranged. I would have even went cursed dagger tbh the crit chance can really stack up like it would be a very reasonable amount here. I also would have tried for more mana orbs probably? Pretty decent damage and lets you scale/get to invulns and lifesteals easier. The only other thing is your armor placement isn't great. You aren't getting any extra regen from having holy items nearby and that definitely adds up especially if they have no saw blade. Actually, on that note, you missed out on shield of valor too. Especially since your opponent is running a quite stamina inefficient version of this build with no 0 stam weapons it would have boned him pretty hard. Putting them on "your crossblade scaling doesn't matter as much because you have to wait for stamina regen anyways" asap is actually a very relevant wincon vs. the build. Consider also not running manathirst when you already have magic staff up and running. In this specific case it was almost certainly a detriment. It was probably doing very little damage per swing and running into thorns for no reason. 1 mana every 1.4 seconds is also just whatever and I can't imagine the lifesteal was online often with holy books to drain your mana. Second staff or even simply forgoing mana thirst would have been better here imo. Weird amount of empty space as well. I get being a neat freak even when it comes to games but you can't say it's one of your best builds ever made when you're placing items for looks rather than function at least some of the time (like not just filling that space in with random food or herbs(or also the obvious patterns you were going for)). When I get done with a really strong looking build it will be a couple solid structures that piece together and then a mess and food and stuff that I spent far too long finicking with like a jigsaw puzzle. And even then maybe it was your best build regardless but it definitely could have been better. Sorry for the rant I'm not trying to be mean just hoping you pick up some things.