[1.1.1] Evantis's Permastun Build and Stun Compedium

Hey man, great vids! can u post some vids of you dealing with tough monster packs with melee splash, like a bunch of hard blues in a high map etc? that would be sweet, my frenda mara is coming along nicely, i just bought him some belts to test out



So for bosses you use Bringer of Rain + heavy strike + added fire + melee phys on full life + end charge on stun?

And for the rest of the map: heavy strike + added fire + end charge on stun + melee splash?

thanks, hopefully release will make this build even stronger because it doesnt go through the middle :D

Amazing. MDoFL with HP builds was in my thoughts, I was considering using it with ev/acro/block build, but your way works better.

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DutchRudder wrote:

So for bosses you use Bringer of Rain + heavy strike + added fire + melee phys on full life + end charge on stun?

And for the rest of the map: heavy strike + added fire + end charge on stun + melee splash?

Currently I'm using BoR + HS + AFD + MSpl + ECoS on everything (including 95% of map bosses), it gives me the highest average survivability and damage. I'm changing MS to MDoFL and ECoS (or to Stun support gem) only when I play against both Enfeblee + Increased monsters life maps, for being still able to permastun some high life bosses (76+) and/or Exiles spawning there (for random mobs this 2 affixes do not make difference in stunning). I don't need to change gems for the most of maps' bosses, even Melee splash. It does not matter if I kill boss in 10 or 20 hits, because he's stunned and doesn't do anything to me.

As you can see in the Maze Vaal video, I am already able to stun him (I had 6 Endurance charges in the end of the fight), but I do not call this permastun yet. It was a demonstration video for showing it is possible, when I manage to get another Maze maps (crazy people tries to sell them for 1ex O_o) and replace ECoS to Stun, I think my "stuned monsters collection" will be finished.

Interesting Idea with Melee Damage on Full Life / Daressos!

Edit: From the vids I see that you are still using Determination. How come? Don't the endurance charges provide you with enough armour?

Sure they do, but Determination gives me 8% physical damage reduction, so why not use it? It gives more EHP than 4% block from Tempest shield I believe. And I have no idea what could I use that mana instead.

Especially there are maps with "Enemies cannot be stunned" affix sometimes.

Makes sense :)



Also, do you wear Daressos all the time or just when tanking bosses?

I wear it all the time (2 melee range is great - especially with another 2 range from duelist tree, and 10% increased run speed is even greater for farming), except maps with affixes like "chaos damage per second" and/or "no life regeneration", because I'm always at least one point below max at average play. I switch there my Daresso's to 4% LL amulet.

Daresso's does increase physical damage very nice (like 5 nodes from tree), but it's not that big difference as with MDoFL, which has "more" and multiplies physical damage, and this bigger physical damage scales with Hatred/Added cold damage even better (real great synergy there).

On maps with "Monsters cannot be stunned" I switch ECoC to MDoFL, and if map has "chaos damage per second" too, I use Blood magic support.

So basically I have an option for any map combination. I rather don't spend chaoses on maps, usually alch is enough. I would only reroll maybe something crazy like "-20 max resistances + monsters cannot be stunned + no mana/life regeneration" on casters map (Shrine/Crematorium/Temple).

One more thing, I bought yesterday an Immortal call gem and now I have 5 seconds physical immunity for some rare situations like Vaal smash or double physical reflect. When I manage to get Increased duration, it will be 10s.

Damn those melee characters are so powerful, and people qq that they're weak.

hey love your build, im slowly starting to permastun :D
i try to gear up for maps now and buy items. what do you think of the chernobogs pillar as a shield? that +25% fire dmg sounds nice.

I checked all the unique shields and believe that only Lioneye's Remorse is noticeable for this build as common shield, and Saffell's Frame as a switch shield for fast casters (Shrine, Temple, Crematorium, Cells bosses).

Chernobog's Pillar gives you 5% chance of Enfeblee which I suppose would remove Vulnerability, which is superior curse for this build (why weakening enemy which deals no damage to you, because he's stunned?). 25% damage type migration from phys to fire is nice to have, because fire resistance on average play is much higher than physical damage reduction (armour+endurance charges), but since you can spend endurance charges for Immortal call against double phys reflect, it's not necessary.

plus converting 25% dmg to fire you lose phys dmg that gets converted to added fire gem and hatred = huge dps loss

that shield is near useless only good on some summoners

my friend is level 46 now, hes doesnt get to play much but hes enjoying the build, I think release will make this even more powerful but by the looks of it alot less life nodes for mara to get too ><