[2.4] How to smash Heads. Extremely detailed guide about the Facebreaker gloves and builds!
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Just leveled up from 1-65 and have started mapping and just wanted to say thanks for the excellent guide. It's very well written and covers pretty much every issue that came up along the way. A couple of observations:
1. I would recommend leveling to about 20 with 2h sweep or similar aoe attack, using facebreakers with infernal blow at 16 is very tedious, wait until you can link melee splash + multistrike, then it's much more fun. 2. There isn't much competition for gem space, so I'd recommend carrying around purity of lightning/fire/ice and swap those in when needed, using determination otherwise (although you'll need your reduced mana gem levelled up a bit before you can run both determination and hatred) 3. I find amplify to be really good, I get it and the two 4% increased area of effect nodes next to it early because it makes leveling a lot less tedious. 4. Holy moly abyssus is powerful, make sure you get it. My dps went from ~5.5k to over 14k simply swapping in this one item. 5. I never had enough mana to not use blood magic gem. To use it off mana I would have had to drop one aura and constantly chug pots, too much of a pain (even with 2% mana leech) - so make sure you have a 5L for levelling. Using mana will likely be a lot easier at ~60 because with abyssus you're doing tons of damage, and reduced mana gem is higher level so your two aura's don't take up as much of your pool. |
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" You can't use both determination and hatred and run ib on mana leech. You simply don't have enough mana remaining of your mana pool to sustain it. I think this is in the guide somewhere too. You have two choices as i see it. Either run ib on blood magic and 2 auras of your choice OR run ib on mana leech and run only 1 aura. Like korgothbg says in the guide you don't really need anything besides hatred anyway. And you always have the choice of replacing one of your red gems for a red blood magic gem to run a second aura at any time. I never needed purity auras. I found saffel + fire/lightning/cold flasks were enough. But that's a good idea i guess if you have room for them. Last edited by kompaniet on Jun 1, 2014, 3:09:15 PM
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It's true that all you really need is Hatred.
But it's not true that you can't use 2 auras and use IB on your mana, it is absolutely doable. With 19-20 level reduced mana gem you should end up with 82-84 unreserved mana ( enough for one cast ) and with enough damage + the nodes that i've already spoken about + mana leech from gear + a mana flask for extreme situations you'll leech enough mana to cast again and again and again as long as you are hitting something you'll be ok. But i want to say this again - The previous statement applies ONLY if you have close to my gear and stats or better ( i can guarantee only if that's the case because that's what i've tested! )! I've never really needed Purity of Fire/Lightning but they can indeed be very useful for extra safety vs some bosses. "I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
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HOW TO RUN 2 auras and no Blood magic.
have to pick up a few reduced aura passives, but sitting at 16k armor, 4500 life, 48-49k dps only form of mana leech. http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAAdwFLQz3Fy8ZLhoyG_odFCXfJy8n7SjFMZ4yCTWSNuk8LT0PPfxAoEGHR35KyEw1TeNPfVFgVcZV1lhjWfNeE18_YEthIWTnZU1mnmebbEZuaW6qcH1ybHKpdO12f3gNeu982X31gFaApITZhO-I8YqvjM-PRpkrnleeuaC0ogCkGaZXqW6plavFrKqsr69stfK3Pr2Bvoq-p8APwBrDhsS4xPbFisauxtjKkM9l0NDSTdSP1fji6uNq45_kUeeR6dXvDvAf8wb2SPno-tL7qv4K_o8= | |
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This is a good and safe way for sure although i don't have ANY reduced mana reservation nodes and i still have enough mana ( as explained in my previous post )
"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
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yeah, I like being able to throw 2 sets of punches without popping a pot. I only use one on my person, and save other slot for armor flask.
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I also use only 1 mana flask :)
"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
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with my internet and the lovely desync almost a must for me to run reduced auras, if they fix desync maybe drop it. just made a 21/20 reduced mana!!!
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I use no mana flasks. I use this instead Adds almost 10k damage for me if i remember right. Should be more for you lot with abyssus and 6 links.
Great vs those exiles and bosses you want dead as fast as possible. Those flasks are really cheap too. Only 1 chaos on standard and they double as chaos res too. Yes you can run 2 auras with ib on mana leech but 1 swing when desynched and you are out of mana and you have to listen to your charachter say insufficient mana all the time. Also you have to waste a flask slot for a mana flask. Just to run an aura you don't need. It was not worth it for me. | |
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Desync can be terrible and gamebreaking that's why i'm so happy that i have close to no desync :)
btw these are my flasks:
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"I'm going to show you pain you never knew existed, you're going to see a whole new spectrum of pain!!!!! Like a RAINBOW!"
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