Arctic Anvil Ranger 0.11.6 Compatible! (AuxTheUnvincible) [Onslaught]

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Liagos wrote:

When I repeated this method on your build it had 2628 mana and 250.5 mana/s regen. Significant mana losses were from fewer ES nodes (-109) and fewer Shield Defense nodes (-233).

The rerouting I did on Aux's build was to get slightly more life and armor, along with picking up the mana flows cluster.

Yes, the 30% defenses nodes do have a big impact for Aux's gear (and the build in general) due to the high ES he has on the shield. Its not as though you can't pick up those nodes though. Although, it seems that you forgot to apply mana % passives onto ES. The devs confirmed that BOTH mana % and ES % would affect the converted base ES when under EB.

Lets see here.



Now, on to calculating the amount of mana reserved:



As you can see, there is still sufficient amounts of mana (200) for Aux to cast his 5L EK. 284.1~ mana regen is actually more than enough for lvl 20 Arctic Armor as well, so he is actually able to just use a clarity at a lower level (18/19), maybe swapping it with Purtiy so as to expand his casting mana pool even further, while having more than enough mana regen for AA.

EDIT: actually, 278~ mana regen or so is enough to sustain Arctic Armor with inner force now. So if Aux is able to get to it somehow, he should be able to sustain it.

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arual wrote:

Is the 8% Reduced Mana Reserved from the Alpha's Howl global or local? Also how does the Reduced Mana Reserved attribute interact with Reduced Mana gems, additive or multiplicative? Unfortunately I haven't had chance to use either yet.

It is global since there was no specification of (for gems in this item), unlike the one stated for the +2 gem lvl.

EDIT: Forgot to add in es % from int. Sorry aux, not going recalculate everything for your amulet change =P

Updated Gear and Statistics spoiler to possibly help with the mana discussion.

As people have stated, the spec is very plastic. Shield defense nodes and mana % nodes generally end up being the more powerful than ES % nodes, but they all work nicely together. As items change, the spec follows, just make sure it works for your gear set.

Well ES % is generally the weakest boost (if you have decent amount of ES on your shield) for EB users since it only affects the ES pool. Mana% affects both mana and es, while shield defense% only affects the es on the shield, but would generally comes in much larger amounts. Based on your current level/gears. an 8% mana node provides roughly 93~ additional mana compared to 8% es (55) and 30% shield defenses (116).

Depending on the ES on your shield vs your overall ES amount, the the higher your shield ES gets, the more valuable 30% shield defenses will be, whereas the lower it is, the worse it gets compared to your other options.

Lets say from example:

Total base mana: 450
Total base ES: 700
400 ES shield
150 ES armor (hybrid)
50 ES boots
100 ES accessories


8% ES provides 700*0.08= 56 mana
8% mana provides (450+700)*0.08 = 92 mana
30% shield defenses provides 400*0.3 = 120 mana

Now, lets change this up.

Example B
Total base mana: 450
Total base ES: 700
250 ES shield
300 ES armor
50 ES boots
100 ES accessories

8% ES provides 700*0.08= 56 mana
8% mana provides (450+700)*0.08 = 92 mana
30% shield defenses provides 250*0.3 = 75 mana

16% mana (mana flows/mana geyser) provides (450+700)*0.16 = 184 mana (regardless of Example A or B)

In reality, the value of each 30% shield defenses greatly depends on the ratio of your shield's ES compared to the total ES (for 30% shield defenses vs 8% es), or the ratio of your shield's ES compared to the total base ES + mana pool (for 30% shield defenses vs 8% mana)

So no matter what, in terms of mana gain (ignoring the additional defensive gains from a hybrid shield) 8% ES will always be weaker than 8% mana, but it might surpass 30% shield defenses if your shield's base es only contributes to less than 26% of your total base ES pool.

8% es vs 26*0.3= 7.8% es

I myself plan to use Rathpith Globe instead of a rare shield because I believe it to be better overall. You get up to 60% of your block as spell block, you get 10% hp to compensate for the hp you can get on hybrid shields, a decent amount of spell damage (up to 60%), some lightning resists AND 280-310+ ES. I also plan to throw in some crit here and there as well, to compensate for the generally low DPS, since reflect isn't that much of an issue in this build. Critical multipliers will be kept low, of course.

thanks for sharing your build! it looks really great and i decided to try it with my next char!
i do have some questions, though:
- i'm only playing anarchy/standard, so how would you adjust the bulild/tree to squeeze out a bit more dps (assuming lvl85)
- if you had a 6L chest available, how would you link EK?
- is there any particular gear (unique) you aim for (="endgame gear" or whatever you wanna call it)?

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feuerbach wrote:

thanks for sharing your build! it looks really great and i decided to try it with my next char!
i do have some questions, though:
- i'm only playing anarchy/standard, so how would you adjust the bulild/tree to squeeze out a bit more dps (assuming lvl85)
- if you had a 6L chest available, how would you link EK?
- is there any particular gear (unique) you aim for (="endgame gear" or whatever you wanna call it)?

You could probably stand to drop some block nodes and possibly even some of the mana nodes and just run a bit lower level Arctic Armor and then you can always pick up some nice crit nodes or something. Even dropping Determination is viable as the defenses don't matter that much on softcore ruleset.

If I had a 6L I would add Iron Will

The only unique that is mandatory is Alpha's Howl. You can't run all 6 auras, plus Tempest Shield, plus Arctic Armor without it.

Thank you very much for this guide Aux! After the covenant/alphas nerfs I was a bit sad and disappointed from my EK but thankfully to this thread I doubled my armour pretty much and realized the power of block/blind. ;pp
Now my Ek is sitting at 4.5k dps on a 5.8k hp char with 16k armour and 40% block. Not using The anvil tho, but the difference is still huge.
Cheers.

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Aux wrote:

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feuerbach wrote:

- if you had a 6L chest available, how would you link EK?

If I had a 6L I would add Iron Will.

Iron Will is usually the better option but Culling Strike is a good alternative. Also if you are just farming somewhere like Docks and already have enough damage you might be better off using either an Item Quantity or Item Rarity.

hi, since the latest patch you can only use 1 bear trap. what do you suggest now?

invincible*

Nice build, not as powerful as AA build though, bet this doesnt fair well against stuff like -res extra boss dmg shrine / temple / crematorium bosses, which AA build just eats up.

Nice overall though, well done.

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mvm199 wrote:

invincible*

Nice build, not as powerful as AA build though, bet this doesnt fair well against stuff like -res extra boss dmg shrine / temple / crematorium bosses, which AA build just eats up.

Nice overall though, well done.

AA build?