Veil of the Night - Making a Build with it! Double Check my Theory Craft!
" A Helm that actually has ES modifiers would do quite well. Also passives. The Veil locks you into Purities only (3*40 + 60% - and that's assuming they even work which I doubt), blinds you, reduces your Resists instead of improving them, and doesn't actually grant Defences itself. All that for 20% Increased ES. Fuck yes? ----------- Running a small Life pool and Max Block also allows you to trigger CwS reliably, and gives you a vastly improved chance at surviving a blow to the face. Reflect cannot Stun you. It will trigger CwDT and Molten Shell. It's a pretty interesting idea, but I feel it might be more reliable to run with an Attacker. You'll have access to Life Gain on Hit, and more Leech in general. Easier to cope with the Reflect you'll be taking. Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Apr 11, 2014, 2:09:15 PM
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When there is 110% pure Increased ES in the tree outside of CI, 20% sounds pretty nice to me. The hybrid ES/Eva nodes can get you 72% ES and 86% Eva and hybrid Armour/ES can get you 104% Armour and 80% ES, so you could get more that way so the 20% from the helm would be a smaller increase, but then again it would also be increasing the Evasion and Armour as well.
Getting a high block chance and using Tempest Shield would complement the helmet nicely. With a level 20 Tempest Shield, you'd do somewhere between 148 - 400 and 148 - 440 lightning damage each time you blocked, not counting any lightning/elemental damage modifiers you spec'd. Cast conductivity on the monsters would help. Can Lightning Penetration be linked to Tempest Shield? Anyway, getting max block and spell block would make this proc on 75% of the hits aimed at you while also keeping you from taking damage on those hits. Sure, not as good as a 400 ES helmet, but it could work. He's just trying to have some fun with it not make the best build ever. Of course if the statement that the purity auras still work with it is false, none of this matters much. Guild Leader The Amazon Basin <BASIN>
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" I am interested, hence my question. The forum is full of grinches. What of them? |
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I'm pretty sure Auras don't work with Veil, it sets your Elemental Resistances on your Character Sheet to 0%, no matter what you may or may not have, it becomes 0%.
And with Elemental Damage arguably being the most dangerous Damage type... You really don't want to be taking quadruple the damage from that.. EA IGN: We_Have_Monk_at_Home *Burnt out and waiting for either PoE1 League or new PoE2 Classes.* Last edited by Sheriff_K#3938 on Apr 11, 2014, 4:51:37 PM
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Just tried it and purity auras do not raise your character's resistance above 0.
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" You would be taking full damage, not quadruple. |
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" For a game balanced around expecting you to have MAX elemental resists to survive but still be a challenge, you would be taking quadruple compared to what any other competent character would be taking. You'd be taking quadruple what your character is balanced around. Go into any elemental place in merciless with this unique on and try not to be killed in half a second. Paired with 75% spell block is effectively the same expected damage, but it would be significantly spikier and you'd get killed by poor RNG rolls. |
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Hi guys I'm currently "fighting" normal Oak as I type this, or rather my tempest shield/veil of night are fighting him *snicker*. The build is going great so far! I don't intend to do high level maps with this character, just run up to dominus and own him.
I already have a GG puncture ranger for end game. This is just a quirky farmer. But I have to say the veil of night isn't THAT bad. I fended off some of the reduced light radius with a solaris lorica I had in my stash that I'd forgotten about. Oh would you look at that, Oak's down. I'll update when I get to merciless. Oh yeah, consider that I don't have to worry about resists on rings so I'm wearing this:. Overall I have -5% light radius atm. Last edited by BearCares#6660 on Apr 12, 2014, 12:42:16 AM
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" At 41 you can equip Nycta's Latern. :) |
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" you're right. i could have sworn i tried it before and it did work with purity auras. that is absolutely the worst item ever. GGG actually spent valuable time to put that piece of crap into the game ? that's just tragic. |
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