Passives to Increase Searing Bond Damage

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respwnd wrote:

Well since I might have Mark's attention, any words about DoT influencing SB?

You don't need a confirmation for that, it's well-known that it does.

I was unaware. Is it a direct correlation? eg; 18% increased DoT = 18% increased Searing Bond damage?

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respwnd wrote:

I was unaware. Is it a direct correlation? eg; 18% increased DoT = 18% increased Searing Bond damage?

It's exactly the same as 18% increased fire damage, burning damage or totem damage.

5 link searing + burn dmg nodes and dot nodes next to MoM and some neaby totem nodes = 10k dps combine that with dualcurse and EE and you melt bosses in no time

in your high 80 low 90s you can travel to entropy

overall one of the safest builds out there 5s link is empower so 4l is enough till you leveled a lvl 2 empower by that time you will have a 5l :)

colonade kole just kills himself dragging the totem :)

Passive skill tree build

Nice. My current build is Templar to pick up the early elemental damage, While I am considering reworking it a bit to look like this (eventually);



I fear there isn't enough life to be viable, but I get almost as much SB related damage increase as possible, including Entropy in favor of Growth & Decay (+45 DoT > +36 DoT).

Also, I have been using scepter (20% elemental damage) and shield for getting more armor which means I lose out on 4-6 link options if I choose to continue that route.

I want to work up to a scepter with +2 to fire gems, +1 to gems, +20% fire damage (i believe this can go to 30%?) socketed with SB+IBD+empower should be more or less the same as using a searing touch, or so I have seen discussed in other threads.

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respwnd wrote:

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Don't forget 3x 10% increased Elemental Damage at Shadow (better than some of the fire nodes you've taken).

I missed those, thank you!