[3.7] Rake's Tectonic Slam Equipment Guide - from League Start to Endgame

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BigBlappa wrote:

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Haklis wrote:

First time melee build, second league ever :D

Can't get past lvl 88 and getting constantly oneshotted in T10/T11 maps. 5.7k life but dunno, just feels bad. Atm i have like 1-2ex to spend. What to upgrade?

Try a level 1 wave of conviction/CWDT because we want it to trigger constantly, any time we're attacked. Right now your wave of conviction is basically only proccing when you're getting two shot by enemies, which should be very rare. All we care about from conviction is the exposure, which doesn't get better with a higher level gem (always -25%) but your CWDT is 3100 damage instead of 700 to trigger.

You could also try changing your immortal call to a CWDT setup, which is what I've settled on (I made it from 92->93 without a death.) I ended up setting my CWDT to 1200 damage which feels like pretty good protection against many of the instakill ranged enemies hordes that are everywhere in Legion.

This game has a lot of things that feel like one shots, that are really getting hit by several attacks in like 0.1s. Unless you have godly prediction skills, or play very slow and very safe, these are impossible to deal with with manual cast because even if you've got world record reflex speeds, the delay from the server will still cause you to die.

Manual cast is better if you're trying to facetank things, or countering true one shots like Shaper slam, but I think with the new changes to rares we can't afford to facetank anymore unless you're playing an 8k life/10K ES build with layered defenses.

Much of your gear is as good as mine, and a few pieces are definitely superior, so I don't think you're being held back so much by your gear. You could definitely try and save up for some better weapons, but I think at this point in the league they are going to be around 2ex each for a solid upgrade.

I'm going to try Shaper today and probably UElder tomorrow, so we'll see how my gear holds up.

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Lifesdiseases wrote:

Hey newer to the game, was wondering why to put passive still points into smashing strikes when its focused on staves, thanks for any input!

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Sonectro wrote:

i don't know if i'm talking bs but wouldn't it be nice to put in pulverize and rage and skip conc/increased area and go for 6 reds? no gemswapping and easier to deal with both clear and 1v1

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Nephentus wrote:

Guys i crafted foil 160% phys and t1 flat phys... What better craft for multi?

I think hits cant be evaded bad choice cause we can get flat accuracy from rings or gloves and it would be 100%...

I was thinkinga about double damge... its have 2 versions on focus and simple...

So i have 3 empty slots what better to do?

1. - elemental res 15% 2. attack speed 16 18% 3. and double damage but wich one focus or not?))

or another setup

1. critical chance 25 % 18% 2. - elemetak res 15% 3. attack speed 20%

or like this

1. attack speed 16 18% 2. 50% fire damage (how it works on foil?) 3. - 15 elemental res...

Who can explain what would be better?) double damage or 5% per endurance charge.. its bad solution?

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an4x15 wrote:

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Nephentus wrote:

Guys i crafted foil 160% phys and t1 flat phys... What better craft for multi?

I think hits cant be evaded bad choice cause we can get flat accuracy from rings or gloves and it would be 100%...

I was thinkinga about double damge... its have 2 versions on focus and simple...

So i have 3 empty slots what better to do?

1. - elemental res 15% 2. attack speed 16 18% 3. and double damage but wich one focus or not?))

or another setup

1. critical chance 25 % 18% 2. - elemetak res 15% 3. attack speed 20%

or like this

1. attack speed 16 18% 2. 50% fire damage (how it works on foil?) 3. - 15 elemental res...

Who can explain what would be better?) double damage or 5% per endurance charge.. its bad solution?

Consistent dmg is the best.
critical chance 25 % 18% 2. - elemental pen 15% 3. attack speed 20%

Double dmg is inconsistent, 5% per endurance is bad cuz you burn the endurance charges constantly with tecto,fire dmg only not scale well enough.