Dan's Scion

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biggerboom wrote:

One thing to note about maps in general is that regardless of how strong your character is, there are a couple that are hard with certain mods - no matter what -

These maps include:

Academy
Residence
Temple
Palace
Torture Chamber
Crematorium

On these maps, if you have -max resists, the likelihood of you dying is ridiculously high unless you're running with 10k + ES (WITH enough life leech to back it up). With the build, Academy, Residence, Palace, and Torture Chamber are easily do-able, even on -max resists, but because of a lack of spell block, temple piety on -max resists and crematorium on -max resists is hard to do safely. Piety can be done if you're lucky because you pretty much kill her in 4-5 seconds, but the crematorium boss on -max resists is a very.. luck based proposition. You'd need a good setup of ruby flasks with surgeon's to be able to that her on in a -max resist map.

Pain Attunement gives me 30% MORE damage. Currently, it's giving me about 8-9k tooltip dps.

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ballsonfire wrote:

I did the same with reave a few days back, http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/644479 , and i have a few comments.
First of all reave dps would be much higher especially with that dagger and shield. I have just rerouted my build a little, and sit at 50 k dps without power charges, and 5.5 k es at lvl 79, still have 6 es nides ahead of me. When i try some low es high spelldmg shield it goes up by 5-7 k i think. Anyway ..

I watche d your video and posting defensive stats with granatine flask is a little misleading, in your video you have 6k armour. It makes a difference in reflect maps especially.
I can upkeep flask charges easy enough with high crit chance too, but that is not the point. It makes it all the more clunky to play if you have to rely on that imho.

Spectral throw has greater range then reave and sure is safer, but given how our gear is extremely similar in most ways i just do not see how reflect is not a problem at all, especially since you seem to rely more on crit spikes then i do ( i run concentrated effect+incresed aoe for more comsistent dps)

I have not been able to tell fromyour video, but i for example had to invest a few nodes in reduced mana reservation to run clarity on blood, because otherwise i had trouble with keeping up mana pool. Even though leech is doing more then enough, alot of time you desync into hitting mobs which are already dead, so you waste mana for nothing and have 0 befor moving to next mob. Also with 2 auras on mana it helps to have more mana readily available for use, i feel much better with a bigger mana buffer for now. Potion is another option i guess. I wonder if you have any observations regarding mana.

Spectra throw vs reave, you probably have a point, but reave is just as safe in most situations (fir vaal i can hild shift i think), except for ones where ST has a hard time too. Mult proj -res extra damge, whatever mean modes you can think of, Piety will still destroy anyone before you even see her.
My personal preference is with reave bacause it has much higher dps, simple as that, and it has a huge single target advantage too if you swap increased aoe for crit mult, and if you swap conc effect with crit mult and keep increased aoe you get insane area range, and i have same es, more armour.


Edit: i just watched your vid again, you seem to rely on mana flask, i dont. Your mana pool is too small for slow regen maps imho too, like i mentioned i had to up it just for that, and since you are looking for consistency, i am 100 sure no regen or slow regen maps are an issue unless you dprop an aura. It seems insignificant when facerolling dominus, but makes a huge difference in maps.

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biggerboom wrote:

I'm going to roll a -max resist, physical reflect, and ele-reflect map and run it just to show you guys how this build performs. :P

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biggerboom wrote:

My mana drops to 0 If I don't hit anything and attack the hair. As long as I'm hitting something, I can sustain my mana indefinitely, unless it's on a no-regen map. :]