[2.0] Full Elem Wild strike SC + Tempest Templar + leveling

Projectile works with Icy wave but not arcing bolt or explosion. Doesn't work really well (your bonus only apply to a 1/3rd of your damages).

Just ripd on my firetrapper, plan on rolling a templar WS with the endurance charges and CWDT IC. Ill tell you how it goes for leveling on my end and if I find anything that may be improved upon. Was wondering how it has been going for anyone else.

Got a few planned trees but on vacation for about 2 wks with no laptop :(

Got the shakes

Okay I'm lvl 85 on tempest league using wild strike.

I spent 7 chaos. 1 chaos for Geofri's Crest, 1 chaos for the chest, 5 chaos for a q20 lvl 18 wild strike. Rest is self loot/craft.

I am currently using a 4 link, that's why I'm not using Vaal pact. I went for more armor and life regen instead. I'm using fortify on leap slam and self cast enduring cry and curses.

I choosed Wrath + Herald of Thunder + Arctic Armor over Wrath + Anger because I'm playing tempest. My dps would be higher with Anger.












Right now my current tree is set up for Alpha's Howl. Using an Alpha would open a lot of setup depending on the mobs/boss/penalty you are facing, just because you can run 3 auras with it (2x50% + 25 or 35%).

Here are the possibilities :
Wrath + Anger + Herald of Thunder : clear speed
Wrath + Anger + Arctic armor : safer physical/fire facetanking
Wrath + Anger + Purity of Lightning/Fire/Cold : Against +% elemental damages maps and elemental bosses
Wrath + Grace/Determination + Arctic armor : against heavy physical bosses

If you swap 1 jewel for Conqueror's Efficiency (quest reward) it also allows you to run :
Wrath + Purity of Fire/Ice/Cold + 2x Herald's or Herald + Arctic Armor.

Bosses
I did up to lvl74 maps, not higher because I don't have the maps. I'm avoiding Desert (68), Pit (68), Quarry (70), Museum (70), Phantasmagoria (71), Temple (73), Jungle Valley (74), Labyrinth (74), Torture (74) bosses.

With Alpha's I would probably try Phantasmagoria, Temple and Torture bosses.

Monsters
Fire ranged Cannibal (act1) -> tends to hit me hard
Giant Skeletons (act3) -> keep endurances charges up + iron flasks
Rakango (act4) -> Check for mods before going in
Pocked Miner (act4) -> deals WAY TOO MUCH DAMAGES
Rooster Demon & Pitbull Demon (act4) -> Take care of chaos dots
Revenant (act4) -> f**k this

Rest is pretty much ok unless they have terrible mods.

Seems fun but very dangerous for HC.

Currently trying the build since I need the templat achiev' but I'm afraid about going melee without any defence past armor.

I'm using fortify, endurances charges, granite and arctic armor. I've soloed the whole content until now (except merciless lasts bosses that you don't need to kill).

But yes you need to rely on your (instant) potions. Just keep spamming them while clearing packs. Sometime you have to pull monsters apart.

I don't consider myself as a pro player so I guess if I did it, you can do it :)

For sure Wild Strike isn't the best melee skill and melee (I mean facetank melee, unlike cyclone) isn't the best for Tempest but still it's doable.

Good luck

Just remembered I had that somewhere in my stash in Tempest.
From 700 to 3k dps.

Edited:
I feel like i should post progress of my version of this build.
I just finished a couple of maps.
I'm in tempest level 76 atm. I made an armour/block character version.
It's going well now, but leveling was a fucking bitch.
I moved over to reave for a bit before i switched back. I was lacking damage, lacking life.
Once you get into merciless shit is starting to get nice, but around act 3-4 cruel it was really hard for me for a while.

Nice shield^^ I've never played a block based character but yours seems nice.

What's your current dps btw ?

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3olf wrote:

What's your current dps btw ?

10.5K atm.
I got 4k life with 6.7k armour.
I have 2 flasks which put me between 14-30k armour.

I'm working on getting my life and block up now. (37% block chance atm). I need to get more nodes :D.

edit: 41% block now :D