[1.3] Fiery Snare -Firetrap (Bloodlines 87)

I have overcapped my resists for two main reasons:
- Elemental weakness curse on maps are a free mod.
- Sudden curse & damage can get you killed if you drop from 75% to 40% resist.


Linksetup.



-Elemental Proliferation
-Fire penetratrion
-Concentrated effect

links 5+ Options:
-Empower
-Crit chance
-Crit damage
-Increased area of effect
and ofcourse for noncrit you need chance to ignite.
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Offskills:
Vaal lightning Trap
This wil shock bosses. To be really effective it needs increased duration link.

Vaal Summon Skeletons
In some situations 1 decoy totem (SB) is not anough. Increased duration is nice, but not needed. I don't have minion skill nodes, so the help dies quick. Alive long anough to make a difference though.


Searing Bond
This is your decoy totem that hurts. Since you have so many Fire / Elemental skill nodes, its decent damage.

Arctic Armour
Saved my life countless times. My Mana regen is just a tiny bit lower then the mana degen when moving. Currently learning how to move with Lightning Warp, but it takes time. I notice when things get dangerous I automaticly switch to normal movement to avoid trouble. Old habbit. When i do a low map I can use it effectively. It even shocks target.

Gave up on the idea to go for the 20+ levels. I want my mana pool while moving. So it can drain down a little while moving, but I cannot go dry on mana. Tried level 17/18 and decided to stick with level 17. So many indoor maps i keep on having to run short distances. That is what made me make this choice.


Immortal Call
Cast when damage taken setup. Basic life safer against packs that charge / Leap and fast hitting bosses.

Elemental Weakness
Assasin's Mark & Flamability would be excellent choices as well. Currently using elemental weakness to increase the shock duration. Will try out assasin's mark when i picked up power charges & power charge duration near the templar.

currently level 85.
Will soon update this
Life/Armor gear to levelup
5.218 L / 9.463 A (26.695 A with granite)
resist cap + elemental weakness buffer.
Mapping.
-Lacking crit gear, so shocking with some % chance to shock skill nodes.


Level 80 Tree [1.3] Bloodlines

1) Arctic Armor & Lightning Warp; how usable is that?
I had a tough time using this. Yes I havent played a lightningwarp character much, but for firetrap i like to "Herd the Cows" with precise movement. Couldn't do that with lightningwarp perhaps if I get more experienced with it. So I'm gonna drop a high level Arctic Armour, perhaps ill use a very low one for the freebee defense.

2) Are the +3 max power charges worth it? might be better off with some base crit nodes.
Dropped the witch power charge node in favor of clever construction. Reworked the skill tree because i didnt need that much str anymore. Lost 40 ish crit multiplier doing that... and I kinda want those multipliers back somehow.


3) Use ES shield and no second dagger to be able to drop the aura discipline.
Done, but now i got some more ES... im thinking why not get more and run both?


4) LifeLeech on herald of thunder & Ghost reaver; how much regen will that give? anough for reflect? anough for burning ground maps?
Reflect maps and burning ground are really annoying. You'll have a hard time to keep your ES maxed out. Tested reflect (vid posted) and it looks alright. Double reflect is not a killer, unless the map and the rare are both extra damage as well. Will have to find out what that looks like.

Besides that, lifeleech on the herald is a nice auto leecher. definitly has a place. Lost reduce mana gem in the setup, so perhaps will need to drop curse on hit depending on what aura's we'll end up with.

5. Crit multi was low... how is playstyle with High crit multi & Discipline?
Even with full power charges and 45-50% crit chance its still highly irregular crits. Whole packs with assasins marks dont get crits.. i gues it doesnt work like the previous version critical weakness curse anymore. In that one 9% chance to curse crit chance was calculated seperately. Swapped to conc effect for piety. But did not get any good crits on her. Needed trash mobs to do some real damage. Non crits don't really proliferate shock... even lightningwarp does a better job at shocking then a non crit trap. Ignite duration was rather short on piety. Aah well, crit multi got nerfed severely in 1.3 so this is never gonna get reached im afraid.



6. Armor: you got alot of armor from templar body and soul... but 3.5k armor is nothing with a spike to 10k with granite. Is it possible to get some more armor somehow? gear / determination. As in 8k armor and 20k with granite.
got an armor helm (800) but it aint doing much. Gonna need a shield 1500 armor too. that'll drop my es... so if i wanna go armor ill be needing discipline & determination. That means aura nodes.



7. can i run 2 aura's & herald if i take some aura skill nodes?