Crit Dagger CI || Herald of Ash Flicker Prolif ||

The idea
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A max level HoA with Increased Burning Damage will deal 250% of overkill damage in proliferated ignite. This allows me to throw out melee splash and put in another damage support or life leech while giving me even better pack killing ability than before! Not only that but it helps vs reflect as you will be only hitting 1 target at a time (instead of say 5-8) which gives you enough time to react and flask up if you are taking too much damage.


My 100 point passive tree


Items needed/highly advised for this build
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One unlucky stun and you find yourself in the middle of a large rare pack. It becomes hardcore porn at this point.

Freeze is basically a stun that lasts longer but can be removed by flasks. Untill you can allow yourself to replace a ring slot with this use


Maligaros, the bread and butter of most crit builds. If you have a dagger with enough crit chance (9-10%) and high enought multiplier as it is you can use any other gloves you like though.

A dagger with enough damage and crit chance is always required, especially in a flicker build. Priorityze one that has a bigger hit damage over attackspeed though.

Gives very high crit multi and added phys damage, what not to like? But is very heavy on your survivability, use only if you are sure you can handle it.

Considering HoA adds fire damage you could replace PCoC if you generate it by another way (e.g. you use Victario's Acuity or use an off skill like spec throw with PCoC to get power charges.). using this with prolif will net you better damage overall but I use abyssus because generating power charges with another skill is quite tedious.


Trigger setup
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CWDT+Warlords Mark+IAoE use this for the extra leech and endurance charges. This + enduring cry keep make my immortal call always have 3 charges ready, making phys reflect a non-factor.
CWDT+Enduring Cry+ IAoE(I have another Warlord's Mark due to Haku feeling generous and decided to roll with it :D)
CWDT+Immortall Call+Increased Duration
As you will notice I have no armor besides my chest because I don't really need physical defence. Warlord's mark and Enduring cry give me a constant supply of endurance charges which allows my Immortal Call to give 3 second all the time. And all the attack speed makes me flicker so fast mobs never land a physical hit on me.


Auras & Buffs
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Hatred+Reduced mana doesn't really need explaining.
Clarity so half regen maps don't hinder me.
Herald+Reduced Mana+ Elemental Proliferation+Increased Burning Damage This makes Herald reserve 29% mana. The best addition of 1.2.


Flasks
I currently have

My new addition are the two Doedre's Elixirs. You can lose your charges before reaching the next pack sometime (or many times some maps frigging mazes) and having some starting charges ready can be vital.
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This an old setup, when my flickering was suspencible to stun/freeze.

but I only use the Freeze removal and Atziri flasks. The Jade/Granite are there for the full on #IAMPANICKING experience. The atziri Flask is really powerful damage amp and gives free leech as well, everyone should have one of those :D.


My gear

I now use this in place the dagger in the spoiler. Bino's is by far the best weapon for this build barring a Mirror Worthy dagger. The Poison Aoe adds to the overall AoE DOT we make as well as having that sweet, sweet 30% increased damage over time which buffs both ignite and the poison.
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These gear were used before I got bino/dream fragments. I sold the old saintly and bought a slightly (not much) worse one to afford the aforementioned uniques.


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Notice the 3 red sockets on my pure ES shield. #PraiseHaku (only wanted 2 reds but he felt like throwing a 3rd as a brodeal).




Videos
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKXbzrJZfsA
A Colonnade map, yeah I know it's easy, don't judge ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcy2UXsdXI0
A Temple map where you can see me dealing with Phys and Ele reflect(ele is map mod)

IGN: Smegacore
Last edited by battled on Sep 2, 2014, 3:07:59 AM
dat wrath fang
I had this exact idea for a build (HoA instead of MS for Flickerstrike), grats for making it come alive mate
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TomRaidcrash wrote:
dat wrath fang

Yeah pretty nice, got it for a bargain :D and then master'd the crit
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I had this exact idea for a build (HoA instead of MS for Flickerstrike), grats for making it come alive mate

Yup HoA is pretty awesome. Surprisingly this build seems to desync less then it did before HoA. Currently only problem I face is the dreaded no charges vs a single boss and a rare freeze. I'm thinking on perhaps incorporating 2 doedre's elixir flasks for the first situation once I can sacrifice a ring slot for a Dream Fragment. Once that is done I'll be able to keep holding RMB vs everything.
IGN: Smegacore
Last edited by battled on Sep 1, 2014, 3:44:02 PM
Updated gear. Will look to make a better video tomorrow. (The first test one is a torture to watch :S)
IGN: Smegacore
Last edited by battled on Sep 1, 2014, 8:14:30 PM
Please include gear for lvling, lvling progress
Hows the desync
IGN: Melo_mania
Ok, so... Which bandits should I kill? (I'm leveling this spec and I really need to know if I need to kill them all every time or if there's a change.)
Last edited by AIMLVL101 on Oct 21, 2014, 9:18:16 AM
What is you optinion on rare daggers vs bino ?

what to look for with rare daggers?

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