[3.10] Molten Strike Jugg (Thread restored for historical purposes)

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corosou wrote:

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Sierra_117 wrote:

Hey everyone! I have a kinda dumb question. The title says "Army knife" so does that mean that apart from the gear-socket-skillgem setups(which is different for each build listed), the rest of the stuff(passives, bandits, etc) is the same for all? So, I can hotswap between the different skill-setups listed here according to my preference on the same character? Thanks in advance!

Hi, so, it’s not a dumb question, but the question itself does tell me a bit about how experienced you are with the game, and looking at all your characters, I see your highest is 75, so I’m going to assume you are a fairly new or casual player; so, let me see if I can answer your question and not confuse you ;)

In short, the answer is “yes, and no”. All the variants have things in common, but not EVERYTHING in common.

If you look at the list of variants, you can see, for example, Blade Flurry/Cyclone/Reave are grouped together. This means these skills are all interchangeable with little modification.

Unfortunately, this cannot possibly be the case for all skills. Molten Strike, for example, requires specific “projectile” related nodes that no other skill needs. Elemental hit and Barrage are bow skills, so they have some things in common, but are, of course, not interchangeable with melee skills.

Regarding 3.5, I am currently working on a Glacial Hammer/Tectonic Slam variant. These two skills are very similar, except for some of the support gems they use. So, although pretty much the entire build is exactly the same for both skills, the gem slot colors on your chest piece are not the same, so you won’t be able to swap between them, without recoloring. The best you could do is carry around two body armors each colored to match, should you wish to swap between the two on the fly. I wouldn’t do this personally, I would just pick whichever I liked the most, as both have fairly similar damage output.

In the end, the best suggestion I can give you is to learn to use Path of Building, so that you will be able to answer these questions yourself. This does have a steep learning curve, but the reward is that you’ll be able to try out any skill you want, as many builds made for a particular skill can easily be modified to work with another.

Hope this helps! GL!

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Sierra_117 wrote:

Hi!^_^ Thanks for replying! One last question, I was feeling to play Molten Strike Juggernaut, is it possible to kill the hard bosses with it? Like the ones you showed for Ele Hit, Double Strike etc.

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ssoulcrusher wrote:

sorry if it's a noob question but why do you choose more cold, crit nodes for tectonic? other builds i've seen choose endurance charge nodes. also since tectonic converts some damage to fire, wouldn't it be better to choose fire nodes?

thanks for your guide btw, it's helping me learn how to navigate poe mechanics

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kadukt wrote:

The bow build with barrage still viable?