[1.0.5] Pohx's 1181% Crit Multi Conduit Solo/Party Trapper [Nemesis] Vids Included

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Urbnopr8r wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply! No confusion; even if you didn't recommend it, I would've kept it, and just re-spec'd later lol. I need it at this point haha.

I was reading another trap guide mentioning ice nova instead of cold snap since quality ice nova increases area of effect and that with crits you were likely to freeze, or at least chill for a long enough period to clear. What are you thoughts on it, or is it mostly preference?

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I realize I said this and it seems I haven't read the guide. My intention is to find out which you prefer, and why.

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NeOZealouS wrote:

Hmmm, let me start over. First off, let me apologize for just talking about crit chance on my first post and not getting to the root of what I wanted to say. Second, let me apologize for any offense that you take (if any) during this post.

1. I do not think your build is fully optimized for a trapper in the first place. (and I will talk about this more at the end of my post.)

2. For the sake of "I want to do Pohx's build," let's investigate what I said at the end of my lengthy post. Is it worth it to get the three crit chance nodes?

Short answer, no. Long answer, is the calculations:

(For the sake of using simplified calculations, I will be stating that you throw 1 trap every second for 60 seconds. I will also state that you use a trap that does 50 - 100 damage which equates to an average of 75 damage. I will be using 150% crit multi because it is the base of any char. I will be stating that you start at the BASE crit chance of 5%)

Ok, now what I am arguing is investing the 4 nodes to get the three crit chance nodes is LESS of a DPS increase than doing something more optimal and getting raw trap damage increase which is these.
Pohx Crit Nodes
One Option that is better
Second Option that is better

All 3 paths take up the same amount of nodes, but Pohx's route takes crit chance over taking a 9% increase in trap damage.

Now for the calculations using the numbers I stated earlier and this is all theoretical. Obviously you could get extremely lucky and crit every single hit with a base crit of 1%

The base damage before taking either route
60 traps thrown in 60 seconds
5% crit chance
50-100 damage on trap which is an average of 75 damage
150% crit multi

60 traps thrown equates to 57 traps not critting and 3 traps critting
57 traps doing a total damage (using the average of 75) of 4275.
3 crit traps do a total damage of (1.5 * 75 *3) 337.5
Total damage over 60 seconds = 4275 + 337.5 = 4612.5. Divide by 60 seconds (total time that the damage was done over) is an average DPS of 76.875

The damage after taking the three crit nodes
5% crit chance changes to 5 + (5 * (.15+.45+.15) = 8.75% new crit chance

60 traps thrown in 60 seconds
8.75% crit chance
50-100 damage on trap which is an average of 75 damage
150% crit multi

60 traps thrown equates to 5.25 traps crit and 54.75 traps not critting.
54.75 traps doing a total damage of 4106.25
5.25 crit traps do a total damage of (1.5 * 75 * 5.25) 590.625
Total damage over 60 seconds = 4106.25 + 590.625 = 4696.875. Divide by 60 seconds is an average DPS of 78.28.

This is an increase of (78.28 – 76.875)/76.875 = 1.83% DPS increase

The damage after taking one of the other 2 paths
50 – 100 damage changes to ((50 * .09)+50) – ((100*.09)+100) = 54.5 – 109 which equates to 81.75 average damage

60 traps thrown in 60 seconds
5% crit chance
81.75 average damage
150% crit multi

60 traps thrown equates to 57 traps not critting and 3 traps critting
57 traps doing a total damage of (57 * 81.75) = 4659.75
3 traps doing a total damage of (1.5 * 81.75 * 3) = 367.875
Total damage over 60 seconds = 4659.75 + 367.875 = 5027.625 which equates to an average DPS of 83.75

This is an increase of (83.75 – 76.875)/76.875 = 8.9% DPS increase

Now if you think that I am trying to sway these calculations in my favor, I am not. The higher and higher average damage you go (increase 75 damage to infinity) the increase of getting those 3 crit nodes will linearly increase to a 4.375% DPS increase compared to getting the 9% trap dmg node which will linearly increase to 11.725% DPS increase.

Now what I wanted to say about when trying to make is this:
What are we trying to accomplish with our build? (high dps, crits which will increase damage, shock stacks, freeze, etc)
What is the best char to do this to pick up the proper nodes to accomplish our build?

TLDR; The 3 crit nodes will increase his dps of an average of 1.5% and linearly increase to 4.375% while getting ONE 9% trap damage node will increase his damage linearly from 8% to 11.725%. Think about what each node is going to do and what it will do to my character.

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alt0172 wrote:

Taking Point blank isn't error, is it?

But why?
It affects projectile ATTACKS, and there are no attack gems in this build

Or am I missing something?

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safredAAs wrote:

Can this beauty roll G-G-R? Found it today :D

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