Oni-Goroshi Molten Strike + Reave Chieftain [2 Million+ DPS, Easy Bosses]
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Figured i'd share a fun build I've been playing for most of the last few weeks of Bestiary.
I've played a ton of "high DPS" builds in the past several leagues, including pre-nerf HoWA, Wanderfinders, Cyclone Ngamahu, Bladeflurry, BladeVortex, Frost Blade characters... and I personally would say Molten Strike DESTROYS all these other abilities in overall Damage/Tankiness/FUN factor. (Minus the lack of pre-nerf VP, of course!...) PROS:
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- FLAMING BALLS EVERYWHERE - Huge Boss DPS - High HP due to ability to use Kaom's Heart - Maintains excellent mapclear with no gem/gear swapouts, besides weapon swap. - Low budget, high effectiveness, and can scale very well with exalt investments - Not another Jugg CONS:
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- Need to hit things to leech - No regen/Less regen are still doable but much more annoying, and I personally have to use a 2nd life flask - Relatively low physical mitigation - Probably better as a Champion... Cause Champion OP PATH OF BUILDING:
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Why OniGoroshi? I wanted to try something else besides another Brutus Lead Sprinkler build, and OniGoroshi seemed like a fun concept. I actually borrowed a lot of ideas from Nathan Boulton's build, the OniGoroshi Blade Flurry Chieftain, credit to him! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evaJOWcjbEc Unfortunately I simply did not like BladeFlurry and the lower HP in his build, so I made some changes to switch to Molten Strike and grab more life nodes. A big benefit of OniGoroshi over a BLS build is it counts as a 6-L 2 hander... which means... KAOM'S HEART! With level 92, somewhat average gear (spent total around 13-15ex), pretty shitty jewels, I'm currently sitting at 7900HP. So you can easily break 8k+ HP without GG/50Exalt/Mirror gear. It's a great change of gameplay for somebody like myself used to playing 5k HP Raider/Pathfinder FastPewPew builds. Benefits to Chieftain: + Covered in Ash (20% More Damage!) + 10% Fire Penetration + 10% Strength (More life!) + Built in 50% Physical -> Fire Conversion, means you don't need Xoph's Blood or Avatar of Fire + 10% Physical Dmg taken as Fire Dmg + 100% Fire Resist (Completely ignore Fire Resist on gear! Makes capping easy, and can focus on more DPS stats on jewelry.) And my personal favorite... Ngamahu, Flame's Advance -> "Every 10 seconds, gain 70% of Physical Damage as extra Fire Damage for 3 seconds" This is, almost, DOUBLE damage for 3 seconds every 10 seconds. You really feel this when you're beating on something like Minotaur and his life suddenly goes from 50% to 0% in 3 seconds. CURRENT GEAR [BSC]:
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KAOMS is a big pro to using an OniGoroshi - since you don't need the 6-L in your bodypiece, you get a nice +500 Flat HP (and unlike most builds, the 40% Fire Damage on Kaoms actually HELPS YOUR BUILD!) Starkonja is, obviously, always a great helm choice. But it's NOT REQUIRED. In fact, a well-rolled Armor helm with the +3 Projectile enchant is just as good if not better (easier to cap resists, so you can focus on more DPS stats on rings/amulet/jewels etc.) I would just grab whatever you can afford with +3 projectile enchant. I initially grabbed a +3 Abyssus for first cheap (like 1ex) but was dying quite a lot more on bosses... It's absolutely fine on trash or if you don't mind exploding occasionally, and if you are on a budget, but I would change out the helm ASAP. Boots/Gloves are FLEXIBLE. You can use Kaom's Roots if you want more HP / Ignore Temp Chains, etc. I personally prefer Tombfist - I LOVE these gloves. They are very underrated. 1) Permanent INTIMIDATE on your target. This is a flat 10% MORE damage multiplier, which you normally won't have. This STACKS with Covered in Ash for 30% MORE total damage. 2) Permanent MAIM on your target. Has no actual DPS benefit... but... keeping everything slowed helps kite/keep it away from you. I sometimes swap out Atziri Flask for Lion's Roar on trash/mapping, and trash never really even reaches me with Reave knocking it all away/maiming them. 3) 2 more Abyss Jewels - Self explanatory... Abyss jewels are OP. Get +Flat Life & DMg Rolls 4) Still has % Max Life and % Attack Speed... two of the most important mods you want on a rare glove, anyway! MATHS:
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Going to keep this section short, may expand on it later. MOLTEN STRIKE ON SHAPER/BOSS DPS: Each ball does 55,130 average hit damage. I throw 10 balls per hit (or 12 with Dying Sun) I attack 4.12 times per second That's about 41 balls per second (or 49 with Dying Sun) With a THEORETICAL assumption that all 41 balls hit the boss, this is: 2,260,000 DPS + 319,000 DPS Melee Hit of Molten Strike TOTAL: 2.58 Million DPS Obviously this is the high-end extreme, since it's unlikely every single ball will be hitting your target... but against a nonmoving target, a good amount will hit. Even if HALF your balls don't hit, you are still putting out nearly 1.5 Million DPS - plenty for all content. CLEARING MAPS?
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I use Reave and it works very well. I farm T15/T16 maps and trash is not a problem. I still switch to Molten Strike for stuff like Abyss cracks, to down the rares quick - or rare/red beasts.
I imagine any skill you want for trash will work fine - Trash dies fast anyway, so use what skill you enjoy - the majority of this build's damage is from OniGoroshi, so ANY skill will likely work. Suggestions: Frost Blades Spectral Throw Wild Strike Sunder? May add more info/post some videos next weekend if there's interest and time permits. Hopefully this gives some people a fun build to try or helps provide some thought into your own build(s). Cospri CoC Cold->Fire Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2576559 Divine Ire Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2459778 Last edited by KooperT on Mar 27, 2018, 7:24:37 PM Last bumped on Apr 16, 2018, 5:26:34 PM
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Hey, I got level 70 tday, i'm really enjoing playing it so far, appears to be a really got single target build.
It's really powerfull. Yesterday I completed Solo Uber Lab level 63 ( https://prnt.sc/j65kh2 ). Just wanna know some tips. It's really easy to get out of mana if you don't kill an enemy and spamming Whirling Blades. And how to get a higher dps? and What should i focus on jewels? Really good build! |
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