Veil of the Night - Making a Build with it! Double Check my Theory Craft!

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Vipermagi wrote:

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BearCares wrote:

But I have to say the veil of night isn't THAT bad.

Yet.

Does GGG plan to nerf an item that is useless?

I didn't think so.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Incandescent_Heart

25% of elemental damage taken as chaos.

If you used this with the build it would help decrease the elemental damage taken when you don't block because you still can stack chaos resistance (or even go CI)

Still not ideal, but it's the beginning of a late game plan.

That chest could make it more interesting. If CI, it'd be like having 25% resists.

I was looking through the other uniques and came across the Immortal Flesh leather belt. The negatives are -40% elem resists and -10% max resists, both of which would be completely negated by the helmet. It has a lot of life, -40 to -50 physical damage taken, and 40% increased Armour when not ignited, frozen, or shocked.

Couple other items might be good too. Titicus' Span shield has +25% projectile block which I think would work for spell projectiles also (but not sure). Rainbow Stride boots and Stone of Lazhwar Lapis Amulet both give spell block.

Yeah, in theory craft I thought I'd go evasion, but I am starting to think that going armor would be better with a ton of life. And counting on a 20% vulnerability to give me stuns when I need them and yes I have been getting a lot of life and mana.

Incandescent heart would be great idea. Maybe I aught to spec into CI later on. But for now I have to go for life because it's much easier to manage considering I'm locked into my gloves and helm and finding good ES boots and chest along the way isn't guarenteed. Maybe I'll get life AND ES for the time being because I'm set to replace that unique shield it's kinda sucky other than MF, because I was thinking increasing the duration of curses would be handy but just casting it again is just as easy (lol).

When I fight bosses I enfeeble them and it's still enough damage to stun me so having lots of life isn't stopping the stuns atm.

The plan is to have like 6 spells go off whenever I get stunned. I'm noticing that shock nova isn't too reliable so I'm probably going to get arc + something else with knockback to keep foos off a me.

The build is going okay, I'm half way through act 1 cruel. Just need to get some links.

This is my current passives @ level 33, is this the way YOU would have gone about it =p

Don't really know how I would build this character so no advice on the skill tree. But if you find yourself getting stunned too much, there are a couple of items that give stun immunity and a node, and a couple of nodes that give some avoid chance to it in the Ranger area. Heart of Oak gives 30% chance to avoid and another node gives 8% between ranger and dualist. And remember that having any amount of Energy Shield gives you 50% chance to avoid it. Keeping ES up might be hard though with as much raw damage as you'll be taking.

Hey guys. Just stopping by to say I've spent some more time on the character and have gotten her up to level 53 and... ... ... ... It's a working great so far even in merciless! My Drillneck build may have 10x the deeps making killing bosses a LOT faster, but this build shines at clearing out the trash mobs due to shock stacks, degen from searing bond, and lots of crits. Veil of Night is a great helmet when you build around it because it frees you up to use the sort of gear that I'm using which you can see below. My two rings are pretty much budget maligaro's ^^. Also I could never get away with using the shield I'm using or the belt if it wasn't for dat helm yo.

Reminder: the purpose of this build is to have fun and to simply do Dominus runs really fast.

Here is the current gear: dem boots doe. Would replace them with Rainbowstrides if I had them. Also I swap out the Stone of Lazwar if I'm not facing a spell heavy area and I use a crit multi amulet I found instead.
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Loving the build so far. Arctic armor is NEEDED to stop explosive arrow from owning you. And generally you'll want to enfeeble bosses rather than cast vulnerability on them.

Current Passives:

number of deaths so far?

Looks like you're going somewhat similar to what I would have done, but I would focus more in life than auras.



or mabye:



Regardless, note the 2% block node by Vaal pact. You're already ready to take it.