[2.6] The Unethical 18.6m dps molten strike /w PoB links and comparisons

https://poeplanner.com/AAgAAPkAByELAHnG2FhjPfyMz_ZIXz8UIO8OUEfBBHloqW534wHchNlHfr02ZU2-p3XL6mLNmI1-QzHawXTtBS1670CgIWB08SmlGNsUdaTCLiOTmbuewBp4DbXycmxsRjIJbzs1kti9_o9N46ZXOuH-CvJFbqpKyD8nKk1H4iLipDl9W6xHUUzKSl-wm7WExcM6Kjgkiw-rFr8mlWHiVUu00cgMdoK1SIng5liTH0kTIuoyAbIZz3ph63pT62MRLysKXfIDHh9BNj2dqmyMYqwOSBGWBx6VLvDVSVEuU9NvX5hZbc8yiq-QEXvDvwgkNxbpmFf4X1_QIZDqEAAAAAAA

molten strike - multistrike - added chaos - conc effect - void manip - slower proj

spec throw - gmp - added chaos - faster attacks - void manip - pierce

spell totem - wither - faster cast

shield charge / whirling blades - faster attacks - fortify - *blood magic* 3L or 4L, player's choice

grace - arctic armour - vaal lightning trap - flame dash

cwdt - firestorm - iron will - cntrl dest - max them

lvl 1 cwdt - lvl 3 imm call - lvl 3 flame golem - use this BEFORE cloaked in savagery + vaal pact

lvl 1 cwdt - lvl 4 bladefall - iron will - cntrl dest - use this AFTER cloaked in savagery + vaal pact

https://pastebin.com/52aU0WjY
I absolutely hope someone checks my numbers, if there's a mistake, I want to know.
http://imgur.com/a/fgZzP


So you may look at that and wonder WTF, this idiot said 18.6m and that clearly says 1.86m, and you're right, it does say that, but that number is per ball, and there's 10 balls, so if all 10 hit the same target, and on large hit box mobs that's possible, the 1.86m per ball x 10 balls = 18.6m dps. But wait! That's still not right because bosses take less damage! Yeah, but fuck it, everyone else puts the biggest numbers theoretically possible in their shit too, at least I'm upfront about it.

Also, this is with the worst motem it's possible to roll, when I set it up in PoB, I set all the variables for the weapon to minimum, and all other uniques I left them at average, so it's absolutely possible to actually get this higher.

If you look at the other images in the album under you can double check these but I'll do a breakdown here. I'm going to go with the assumption that 5 balls can hit the average mob, and let's say 7 for bosses and 10 for shaper / guardians.

~18.6m at full OPness
~9.3m vs trash
~9.03m vs boss
~5.49m vs minotaur and phoenix (hydra and chimera can't be poisoned)
~3.94m vs shaper (he can't be shocked)

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Wildfire x 2
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Mortem_Morsu
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Lycosidae
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Belt_of_the_Deceiver
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Witchfire_Brew
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Atziri%27s_Promise
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Cherrubim%27s_Maleficence - more dmg
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Belly_of_the_Beast - more life

Mathil did a great BLS ms build. His video https://youtu.be/agg_X85WlBI. His tree https://poeplanner.com/AAgAAPcAByELAHgB3AN1BLMF-QthEYEUIBR1FSAVUBXwFm8ZtBo4GmwiryLqI_YkqicvKU8qOCzpLYMx-zIBMok26DbpOFM6szrYPC09_Ed-TZJQR1ZIWGNYr1uvXwRfP2OnZU1mVGebaPJvO3XLdud343fleWh9dYKbg1-DzITFhNmFe4ZghrOMz419kFWRK5XMmyabWJu1na6iAKOKpMKnCKlurj6vbLc-vTa-p8AawGbBBMM6xq7G2M3q037YJNi93Q3dRuFz42rkIuRR6NbqYuw47SDtP-4O7w7vevAf9kj2o_lj_gr-uhbpIZAkN1_QmFe_COoQ-F8AAAAAAA==

He has pretty much unequipped that character, so I used his tree, and what gear he still had on, and imported remaining gear from Lifting's BLS zerker to finish dressing him, to get his PoB numbers.



So 6m at full OPness

PoB code:https://pastebin.com/gU7J3rZD

CaptainWARLORD did a great ms build with hyaon's fury. His guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1897627 His tree: https://poeplanner.com/AAgAAPMAByELAHYA7gSzBbULYQ-rEYEUIBR1FSAWvxo4IuIi6iP2JIsmlScvKjgqTSzpMHwyATIJMoky0TWSOtg8LT38PydFR0V8R-JKfUrITZJQR1FHVEdVS1ZIVvpX4lhjW69d8l8_YeJjp2ebZ6Bo8mxGbqpybHfXd-V4-X7dfyuCm4Nfg8yExYazh3aMNozPjX2NuY2_kFWXl5smm7WexKIApDmkwqa-pwiuPq9sshm0OLXytz7AZsM6w-bGrsbYz3rYJNi93Q3dRuFz45_kUeUZ6Nbr7u0g7w7wH_ZI-_X9bv4KFukhkCQ3X9CYV78I6hD4XwAAAAAA



So 6.2m at full OPness

PoB code: https://pastebin.com/pch3r2TC

I've been playing this game for a while, sometimes I use what other people have made, sometimes I make my own, and sometimes I draw inspiration from others. At the start of this league, the 2nd character I made, I copied Mathil's mortem morsu spectral throw assassin. I thoroughly enjoyed it and had a great time. A lot of my friends played various Brutus' Lead Sprinkler builds, various totem, spectral throw, molten strike shenanigans. I saw Lifting's BLS shaper kill video. Then I saw Mathil do his spin on the BLS thing, and both were nice but I didn't care for having to get strength on everything, and trying to stack enough accuracy to be viable, and keep str on everything and I just didn't feel like doing that.

Then I saw a molten strike build using dyadus axe and lycosadae shield. I liked that because it took advantage of molten strike's boss killing potential, and budget items, and got rid of the need for strength stacking, and the need for accuracy was gone.

Then I saw a molten strike build using hyaon's fury and lycosadae. It was similar in concept to the dyadus one, but more damage. More importantly he addressed what I felt was a weakness of a lot of the molten strike builds, comfortable general mapping. He put a voltaxic with split arrow on weapons swap. May not sound like much, but it was the last piece of the puzzle that fell into place to spark my idea for this currant build.

What I liked about the BLS, dyadus, and hyaon builds were their boss killing. Every one of them pretty well just delete bosses. It's kind of ridiculous. But mapping with molten strike, while not bad, is not great. What other budget weapons could I use for molten strike ... motem is cheap ... hmmm molten strike is op, poison is op, zerker is op, vaal pact is op, and if I stack chaos dmg, proj dmg, that wouldn't only work for ms, but st as well, and since I'd alrdy done motem morsu st I knew that worked, and zerker's dmg is global ... fuck me this shit might just work!

That was essentially my thought process when going into this. It was an idea sparked by various other builds, that lead me down a path of let me see how many op things I can pile on top of one another. I think the only thing I'm really missing is that it's not ES based.

I know there are lot of molten strike builds out there, but I've not seen any using mortem morsu and/or poison. All the molten strike builds I've found were focused on elemental damage. Nearly all the motem morsu builds I found were spectral throw.

My plan was to have the molten strike setup in my 6 link belly, and the spectral throw setup in my 6 link cherubim's. Currently what I've been doing is using my cherub's st full time and just running with a 4 link molten strike, but I'm also only lvl 71 as of the time of this writing and if it works, fuck it. Once it feels like the 4 link is falling off, I'll start carrying around the belly and swapping.

I'm a decent player, but by no means great. I've killed all the guardians multiple times, but never shaper. I've tried, I've just always gotten overwhelmed in the last fight. I'm not ashamed to admit that there is simply too much shit going on for me to keep track of it all. I'm hoping that this one might just be idiot proof enough, via high dps and instant leech that even my pleeb ass can kill shaper once I get this lvl'd up enough.