[2.6 LHC] Cheap Tanky! self cast Scorching Ray, Tri-curse 250k+ dps
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Hello everyone,
2.6 Update: Get a legacy soul strike and you will be invincible! Been playing the game for quite some time now and wanted to share my love for Scorching ray with everyone. As everyone knows Scorching Ray (SR) is one of the new channelings skills in breach and ive become a huge fan of the playstyle. I just love melting mobs. How did this build come to life? From the start of breach league i've been playing around with SR. Now the builds didnt had the results i was looking for i kept searching for solutions. Now as SR is a channeling skill you obviously have to facetank most of the mobs, so we definetly need some tankiness. As burning damage can't leech, and i do like to play it as CI, we fall back into ES regen. My first builds were as a inquisitor inspired by Mathils LL SR build. Still it didnt reach the goals i was looking for. So i came up with the following. Now i play this build currently as CI. Its also possible to go low life, i've tried that myself but switched back to CI. Low life has slightly more dmg but i lost some tankiness and felt kinda squishy. LL might be better when u can reach 10K+ ES tho. Pro's: - Can be very cheap, tho lots of improvements possible when using some currency - Can do any map mod (might have some issues with "no mana regen" maps) - Over 4k+ ES regen/second - decent clearspeed - Super tanky - 11k+ ES - E Z Uber lab farmer - can possibly kill shaper (havent tried that myself yet) - Potentional lvl 28 SR - Can probably only die to one shots if played right - Did uber lab solo at lvl 70 Con's: - Can't use the Opieop movement skills, cause we are using a bow. - Hexproof maps give us a set back in defenses and damage wise. - If you want a +3 bow u need to invest. (tho not the most expensive if u know a lvl 8 crafter) - mana management can be harsh Gear
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Required items
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This item gives us our main tankiness. Quick start of energy shield regen and due to our ascendancy we can keep that regen running while getting hit for the next 4 seconds. As we are focussing a build around soul strike quiver we can use a +3 bow. I recommend you craft this ur self with essences. Just buy a 6L/5L bow (for example a crude bow) and craft it with . Now u want to look for a craft where u have 2 suffixes so u can craft lvl 8 cata mod on it for the +1 recipe. a +3 bow gives us the potentional of reaching a lvl 28 SR skill and some insane burning damage. As beign CI we might wanne have some stun immunity. While our ascendancy does give us stun immunity when on full ES this might still be a problem when for example getting swarmed in breaches. As mana management is a problem for us we kinda want Elreon rings. Now this problem is also solved by running a decent level clarity (for example if ur going low life). In that case i'd switch the elreon rings for some nicely rolled Rings with + fire % dmg and if possible cast speed. Usefull items
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Heretics veil is not necessary but free's up some skill points for us to use elsewhere. If you are using a heretics veil you'll also need a lvl 3 Enlighten gem. Till you have malediction (last ascendancy we take) you can't run 3 curses. Till then i recommend this or just using 2 auras till then. This flask not only gives us the vulnerability curse aura but also gives a huge amount of damage over time boost. And since we are using a high lvl SR this damage increase is very noticable. Now you will find yourself in some situations where you just can't find the few miliseconds to get your ES recovery started. In those cases this pot helps alot to sustain. Due to our high ES pool the % ES regen we get from consecrated ground is quite good actually and can get us out of tricky situations. It also gives us a damage boost. My current Gear
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Gems & Links
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Gems are listed in order of priority Bow: Scorching Ray - Elemental Focus - Controlled destruction - Faster casting - Empower(lvl 2+)/Rapid Decay If you don't have a lvl 2+ empower go for Increased Burning till you have an empower. Helm: If heretic's Veil: Discipline - Enfeeble - Fammability/Temporal Chains - lvl 3 Enlighten If rare helm: Discipline - Enfeeble - Fammability/Temporal Chains - Blasphemy Chest: I use my chest for a mixture of gems this also means we dont need a 5L/6L vaal regalia!! xD Blink arrow - Lightning golem - Decoy Totem Orb of storms - Increased critical strikes - Increased area of effect Gloves: Cast when damage taken(lvl 3) - Immortal call (lvl 5) - Increased duration (lvl 20) - Vortex (lvl 6) Boots: Increased duration - Vaal Haste - Vaal discipline - Vaal lightning trap Bandits
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Kill all - Alira - Kill all Skill tree
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Without Heretic's Veil: https://goo.gl/J8qghz With Heretic's Veil: https://goo.gl/G9BV7p Low life: https://goo.gl/Z2JpNr Ascendancy
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Listed in priority Wicked ward - Vile Bastion - profane bloom - Malediction Leveling
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I recommend leveling as life and picking life nodes along the way. Use a wand or sceptre while leveling. I switched CI and bow + soul strike at 68 (when i could wear my chest). Example passive tree at lvl 42 https://goo.gl/Vv6tzA My Stats
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Offensive SR dmg without Buffs/Flasks: 16823 SR dmg with Buffs/Flasks: 28287.5 Now this dmg is without maxed out gems. The dmg can be multiplied by 8 if you want the max dmg out put on bosses 16823 * 8 = 134584 28287.5 * 8 = 226300 This dmg is obviously without factoring in the resistances of mobs but neither our curse effect. Effectively we might even deal more dmg when factoring in our curses. Defensive 10.717 ES 4179 ES regen/second 143% Energy shield recharge occurance modifier 80 mana regen/second 1314 Evasion, 13% chance to evade These stats are without vaal skills. Videos
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Rippy Quay Map Pretty rippy enfeebled quay map at lvl 85 without stun immunity! https://youtu.be/2mLv_VmeURY Facetank Voll T11 Afk facetanking Voll on Wasteland (Tier 11 map) Map mods: Increased lightning dmg by 107% (shock) and hexproof so no enfeeble! You will also see a bit of map clearing without curses, dmg is still good tho the curses help alot. https://youtu.be/gQkTr6L40G8 Beefy Maze Map T14 Insane Maze map with Enfeeble, 48% monster life, 35% boss life, double reflect, at lvl 86. https://youtu.be/ZGEIhzSCBFs More coming soon! Hope you enjoy this build and let me know what you think! you can pm me in game (pussypiet) if you have questions Regards Last edited by lolindor on Mar 17, 2017, 12:17:40 PM Last bumped on Aug 17, 2017, 1:26:03 PM
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I haven't played SR yet but how bad are the mana problems? If you have damage to spare would it be worth going into the templar area to pick up righteous decree? Like this maybe
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" The mana problems aren't THAT big, if u sacrifice one potion for a mana pot its also sustainable. Tho im quite sure the solution you posted will work aswell, can't really say how much dmg u will lose tho. The dmg ull get from shadow area is quite big. if i could not afford decent elreon rings i think i would go for al those reduced mana reserved nodes in the tree and just run Clarity like this: https://poe.mikelat.com/#x=IWzu/MYT-b.e ull need a lvl 2 enlighten tho | |
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Is it easy getting the right colors on the bow? almost busted on Chromes so dont want to start a new build where i need thousands of chromes.
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" Well that depends on what bow ur using. If you got a crude bow (which have no dex requirements or what so ever) if will roughly take you 25 chromes. you can calc the avg chromes prices at https://siveran.github.io/calc.html | |
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What kind of weapons should we be using for leveling?
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" Till i was able to use my bow i leveled with wands/sceptres, it might actually be best to just to that till you can use soul strike at lvl 64 | |
" I'm looking at starting a similar build. Mainly as someone traded me a lvl4 Empower for a chest, and want something to make good use of it. There were no affordable 6l crude bows around, so I grabbed a short bow for 25c. There is a big difference between low dex requirements and no dex requirements though! I rolled reduced requirements before chroming so it's only 21dex required. Still over 200 estimated chromes to roll, and I've not been very lucky as I've used over 400 and not hit it yet - hit 4b 2r and 4b 2g though. But with the currently high cost for ready linked crude bows, might still be the cheapest option. I'm a little concerned by mana reqs though, hate having to roll/buy elreon rings. Might have to push and try and make it low life (Would need to liquidate my other char first) - though with no shield, would need pretty good gear to get a decent es total. Then more expense as I'd really want a presence of chayula! | |
" Well LL is definatly a option but if you want to avoid Elreon rings i'd suggest taking the reduced reserved nodes plus a lvl 2 enlighten -> https://poe.mikelat.com/#x=IWzu/MYT-b.e cheaper solution.... besides the mana problems aint that big, if you run a mana pot the problem is mainly solved tho i just hate depending on a mana flask xD Last edited by lolindor on Jan 16, 2017, 12:34:03 PM
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" Cheers, Presumably that's a couple of enlightens, unless we dedicate a 6l chest to it, which seems a little extravagant! I've got a lvl 3 sat around I can use anyway. Or use Heretics for curses plus clarity (needs to go somewhere) and use the enlighten on discipline elsewhere. |
