[2.2 updated, sub 5 min lab run video] low life kinetic blast by ddddddddddddddddddddime

Oh sure, I totally forgot about Acuity insta leech.
With just Maligaro you have to play way more careful and often wait for ES to recharge I guess?


If you give me your Phys Dmg and DPS and Ele Dmg and DPS I would try to calculate exact values even with armour.

I think you can get +2% increased ES by grabing the Power charge at the top of three from the top instead of from below. So you'll be able to drop the duration node below the power charge node. But I think you have more experience in crit builds than I do so maybe the duration node is a better choice :)

Awesome build by the way :)

You have a good eye on that! As you build up PC so quickly, I think 2% ES is better.

Nevertheless I would prefer dropping that 4% per PC node and getting Iron Grip.
With max 6 PC its 4*6=24% against 46% (230 STR/5)!

I just got this
Yolo exalted the area damage, does anyone know, if the area damage works with KB?

thanks

@Dolmax: Thanks for the advice, I had not thought about going up instead of down. In the end though, I think I would rather have longer lasting power charges than 2% ES as sometimes when mapping you have to wait for slowpokes, and losing your charges sucks :P.

@Aerinqq: That is a very nice jewel, and yes area damage works for boosting KB damage, however, I don't think it will boost your tooltip dps, but it should increase your effective dps while playing.

@Firnefex: You have to understand that the 24% is spell damage, which boosts my physical damage by 24% and also my elemental damage by 24% (and even chaos damage if you use that gem), while Iron Grip is only applied to physical damage. I did the test and took some screenshots, and sure enough, Iron Grip gave me around 2k less dps. I also took some screenshots if you wanted to calculate more stuff, it would hlep if you could calculate the values for 18% reflect maps (79+).

defenses : http://i.imgur.com/7Hvzn0J.jpg

damage with spell damage per power charge : http://i.imgur.com/7Hvzn0J.jpg

damage with iron grip : http://i.imgur.com/RQdyldd.jpg

Trying out CWDT with IC linked with increased duration and vaal haste. Need to test a phys ref map, but it should handle it well, I get 0.7 second duration on IC and since both CWDt and IC are level 1 they proc a lot. 0.7 second should be enough to deal with most packs as KB does damage in a relativaly instantaneous way to multiple enemies.

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stzbttln wrote:

What I mean is that the coc frst wall / kinetic blast combo relied on explosions being triggered everytime a projectile pierced a frost wall, it was their main way of dealing damage. With my build, frost wall is only used rarely, as a self cast and only to create a surface where projectiles can be stopped and release explosions to damage a single target, often a lone boss in the map. For my build, it is actually better if projectiles don't pierce the frost wall, because it seems since 2.0 frost wall doesn't proc KB explosions anymore.

Okay, I get it, just cast frost wall behind bosses and stop thinking about it.

I have another question, about tree. What about pathing to warrior's blood throught the shield nodes near lust for carnage, instead of the str/dex ones?


12% armour
6% block (and 1-2% spellblock with rainbows)
50% increased defenses from equiped shields (I'm using onslaught song)


VS

10 str
10 dex
2 extra points to get more ES

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Dulahan90 wrote:

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stzbttln wrote:

What I mean is that the coc frst wall / kinetic blast combo relied on explosions being triggered everytime a projectile pierced a frost wall, it was their main way of dealing damage. With my build, frost wall is only used rarely, as a self cast and only to create a surface where projectiles can be stopped and release explosions to damage a single target, often a lone boss in the map. For my build, it is actually better if projectiles don't pierce the frost wall, because it seems since 2.0 frost wall doesn't proc KB explosions anymore.

Okay, I get it, just cast frost wall behind bosses and stop thinking about it.

I have another question, about tree. What about pathing to warrior's blood throught the shield nodes near lust for carnage, instead of the str/dex ones?


12% armour
6% block (and 1-2% spellblock with rainbows)
50% increased defenses from equiped shields (I'm using onslaught song)


VS

10 str
10 dex
2 extra points to get more ES

That's a possibility. Personally, I am already starved for points, and I also have exactly 155 dex, which is what lvl 20 haste requires and is the highest dex requirement gem in the build. Talk about min maxing ;). If you can get dex and ES somewhere, you can definitely try it out, I' guessing those nodes will give you block, ES, resists?

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stzbttln wrote:

Trying out CWDT with IC linked with increased duration and vaal haste. Need to test a phys ref map, but it should handle it well, I get 0.7 second duration on IC and since both CWDt and IC are level 1 they proc a lot. 0.7 second should be enough to deal with most packs as KB does damage in a relativaly instantaneous way to multiple enemies.

New IC has a CD of 3s. Does the CwDt remove this and only takes his own 0.25s?

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stzbttln wrote:

@Firnefex: You have to understand that the 24% is spell damage, which boosts my physical damage by 24% and also my elemental damage by 24% (and even chaos damage if you use that gem), while Iron Grip is only applied to physical damage. I did the test and took some screenshots, and sure enough, Iron Grip gave me around 2k less dps. I also took some screenshots if you wanted to calculate more stuff, it would hlep if you could calculate the values for 18% reflect maps (79+).

defenses : http://i.imgur.com/7Hvzn0J.jpg

damage with spell damage per power charge : http://i.imgur.com/7Hvzn0J.jpg

damage with iron grip : http://i.imgur.com/RQdyldd.jpg

You posted 2x Defence pic.
Iron Grip: "...applies to Projectile Attacks as well as Melee Attacks", so it should definitely boost all damage dealt by your Wand and give you more DPS! If this isn't the case, then there is a bug or something...


Have to go now, I'm probably back in few hours. If you upload the right picture I will do the maths for that, else for Iron Grip.

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Firnefex wrote:

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stzbttln wrote:

Trying out CWDT with IC linked with increased duration and vaal haste. Need to test a phys ref map, but it should handle it well, I get 0.7 second duration on IC and since both CWDt and IC are level 1 they proc a lot. 0.7 second should be enough to deal with most packs as KB does damage in a relativaly instantaneous way to multiple enemies.

New IC has a CD of 3s. Does the CwDt remove this and only takes his own 0.25s?

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stzbttln wrote:

@Firnefex: You have to understand that the 24% is spell damage, which boosts my physical damage by 24% and also my elemental damage by 24% (and even chaos damage if you use that gem), while Iron Grip is only applied to physical damage. I did the test and took some screenshots, and sure enough, Iron Grip gave me around 2k less dps. I also took some screenshots if you wanted to calculate more stuff, it would hlep if you could calculate the values for 18% reflect maps (79+).

defenses : http://i.imgur.com/7Hvzn0J.jpg

damage with spell damage per power charge : http://i.imgur.com/7Hvzn0J.jpg

damage with iron grip : http://i.imgur.com/RQdyldd.jpg

You posted 2x Defence pic.
Iron Grip: "...applies to Projectile Attacks as well as Melee Attacks", so it should definitely boost all damage dealt by your Wand and give you more DPS! If this isn't the case, then there is a bug or something...


Have to go now, I'm probably back in few hours. If you upload the right picture I will do the maths for that, else for Iron Grip.

My bad about the wrong pic, here is the correct one :

-damage with spell dmg per power charge : http://i.imgur.com/8t0xBz6.jpg

-damage with iron grip : http://i.imgur.com/RQdyldd.jpg

Iron Grip : The increase to physical damage from strength applies to projectiles as well as melee attacks.

It phys damage from strength also applies to projectile damage. It only increases physical damage, it's not a bug.


Also did a phys ref map with CWDT and IC, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfs9IxG0j3o&feature=youtu.be

The cooldown on IC doesn't cause much problem due to the nature of how KB works. I don't think it'S essential but it helps out.