The worst skill build challenge:4TH Edition! ITS POLL TIME TILL DEC 11TH!!!

Summon skeletons as a main skill. GO!
What is this.. 4th account? Here since May 2012.

Switching to another account for this ladder
thx to whoever Moderator that has bring back the Thread to General
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Frost Wall + Animate Weapon + Glacial Hammer + Shield Charge.
should be fun.
Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat
Shadow: That was fun
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kasub wrote:
Making a leapslam build is both viable and powerful. It's actually one of the best skills during races too. No where near the worst skill.


I didn't say it was. Just clarifying the other posters request.
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the current top 4 are all very worthy :D
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grant_m wrote:
the current top 4 are all very worthy :D
i shouldnt have put Sweep because its really really bad
I would prefer a skill that look like no other skill so i can feel like pushing it to its max
Pushing sweep to its max would be to use leap slam instead XD
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Sexcalibure wrote:
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grant_m wrote:
the current top 4 are all very worthy :D
i shouldnt have put Sweep because its really really bad
I would prefer a skill that look like no other skill so i can feel like pushing it to its max
Pushing sweep to its max would be to use leap slam instead XD


Oh no, mister. You do sweep, and YOU LIKE IT! (or no dessert) ;-)
I have a level 75 viperstriker and the aoe is outscaling viperstrike really hard. trap + mine even without any trappernodes are on the level of 3 stacks even with viperstrike in voideye.
it still kills things and triple perma curse make it solid. But I rerolled because I could not only kite all the time while playing poe. desacrate + devouring totem is really strong. if you create corpses anyway you can restore your mana as well. And it scales with castspeed. Because some skills are not viperstrike and scale :p

vote for viperstrike because we are no dragons/fish/reptiles and we need no scaleing :p

ps: dps on the dots with all the chaos and dot nodes from the tree with no binos kitchen knife or trap/mine nodes
viperstrike (17+5) 22: 362 dps
desacrate 17 + trap 17 + mine 17: 920 dps
Sorry for the long post. In the unlikely event of a short post. There sure is something I should feel sorry about anyway.
Last edited by Paulinir#1178 on Jun 8, 2014, 5:04:46 PM
Ice Shot, Cleave, SWTotem, and Elehit are not bad skills. They could use a bit more DE (or in the case of elehit, less mana cost), but they're not unusable as main skills.

Shield Charge and WB are fine for mobility, but suck ass at dealing damage. For the former, you have to make it AoE somehow. For the latter, the animation is way too long to justify the damage it deals, and alternating hands when dual-wielding makes no sense visually. Even if it did 200% DE, it would still be quite weak.

Viper Strike just has shit scaling. It's great at what it does (killing single targets really fast), but no natural AoE. Would almost be better as a support gem that you can put on any (1hsword/dagger/claw) attack to make it add chaos dot charges.

Self-cast Shock Nova is a good example of a shitty skill. The mana cost makes it unusable. It's good with LightPen+Eleprolif+AoE for spreading shock charges, but that's the extent of it.

Sweep is just terrible compared to Leap Slam or really anything else. It has not kept up with the power creep of the game at all.

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Anyway, voted Sweep.
Last edited by pneuma#0134 on Jun 8, 2014, 5:05:39 PM

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