2.3 Fakener (budget fake Mjölner) build - Trickster Version

I regaled 98% crit chance for spells on my Vagan Royal Skean the other day and I'm not sure what I should do with it.

Should I go ahead and multimod with crit chance, spell damage, and something else (adds fire damage to spells?) for a pretty decent dagger? Or should I try and sell it and use the currency to make some upgrades to the rest of my gear?

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alvuimil wrote:

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About the life/nodes in Melding wheel if u go CI u might need in the jewel slot close to it. Damage is high enough, that jewel + the nodes will give u around 500 extra ES

I second that emotion! (yes, i'm OLD)

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Perrydtf wrote:

Alvuimil I think you're missing the part where arctic armour gives you no damage reduction unless you are stationary; when cycloning you are moving and not getting any benefit from it other then the slow it leaves behind.

u are right lol, i should read green descriptions on gem aswell...well I guess it would help if u get stun then :/

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alvuimil wrote:

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Perrydtf wrote:

Alvuimil I think you're missing the part where arctic armour gives you no damage reduction unless you are stationary; when cycloning you are moving and not getting any benefit from it other then the slow it leaves behind.

u are right lol, i should read green descriptions on gem aswell...well I guess it would help if u get stun then :/

i made the same mistake also.. though when i realized i kept it and justified it by the amount of times i was being stopped by a twig or rock mid cyclone, standing there looking around amazed that i just chewed thru 150+ mobs in an instant(possible exaggeration).. and then a twig takes me down to a stand still and then mobs take the chance to whale on me while im standing there looking dumb..

in fact it became such a frustration i put lighting warp in my cwdt so it would re-position me lol.. not ideal and not a great idea by any means.. the thought came to me later to try flame dash instead.. it was at least close to an instant cast... but i dropped this thought for a more careful approach

i get by now keeping a better eye out for the threat that tiny twigs and rocks pose.. and now prefer herald of ice for its cold damage (cold ee -as i use warlords-blasphemy and also saves me putting cold on a piece of gear) and even tho ee gives them rez to cold.. if they happen to shatter (wich they still do often) they explode and spread the cold damage, giving me what seems to be that little bit extra reach.

I have so much trouble with ranged melee mobs =\ Like those rapid firing mobs, I get shredded before I even touch them, add on if they slow or something its like trying to break a brick wall with a dead fish =\

As I was saying earlier, quicksilver flask helps immensely with Tar and Temporal chain. Make sure to always target cyclone at your feet to not get locked in a long and obsolete trajectory. This Flasks has so much virtues and it improves your clear speed even more.
This is a flask build so always have surgeon mods on them. You can even slap on The Magnate, Feastbinder or a rare belt with flask gained. Before you get in a pack, pop your granite (surgeon + %increased armor during flask effect), your topaz and your ruby (sapphire is very rarely needed). This should give your 10+ res in lightning and fire, 45% phys reduction and bleed/shock/freeze immunity making you near immortal.
It is also a good thing to have a Surgeon Amethyst until you manage to get to 100+ res chaos at it is truly the only thing that can kill you.

So i repeat the process for pack clearing : pop all your flasks (besides HP flask), whirling blade into the pack, move on to another pack and repeat.

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Bubonlubrique wrote:

As I was saying earlier, quicksilver flask helps immensely with Tar and Temporal chain. Make sure to always target cyclone at your feet to not get locked in a long and obsolete trajectory. This Flasks has so much virtues and it improves your clear speed even more.
This is a flask build so always have surgeon mods on them. You can even slap on The Magnate, Feastbinder or a rare belt with flask gained. Before you get in a pack, pop your granite (surgeon + %increased armor during flask effect), your topaz and your ruby (sapphire is very rarely needed). This should give your 10+ res in lightning and fire, 45% phys reduction and bleed/shock/freeze immunity making you near immortal.
It is also a good thing to have a Surgeon Amethyst until you manage to get to 100+ res chaos at it is truly the only thing that can kill you.

So i repeat the process for pack clearing : pop all your flasks (besides HP flask), whirling blade into the pack, move on to another pack and repeat.

Granite is not really needed if u have a cwdt+immortal call+inc duration (With volls or warlord)

Also a nice way to get into packs is changing ur whirlwing blades into this:


And if u are hybrid just carry an Atziri Flask instead an amethyst.

Well, if you don't link it to life leech, I actually find it dangerous to have that setup. I'd rather have Fortify. I do use a cast when stunned setup with life leech though. Pretty funny.
Also, Rex doesn't have Voll's Devotion else he wouldn't have problems with packs. Granite is always up and you don't need a 3 red setup. In general, I still find Granite to be more dependable than immortal call, especially without Voll's Devotion.
About the amethyst, while Atziri is great, it doesn't have the surgeon mod. Especially useful on bosses such as Voll. And you can run curse immune on it to do bosses such as Academy.
It's all about preferences I guess.

Yeah forgot to say that i use that whirlwing setup for dried lake farm. Anyway, everyone without voll's devotion should be running warlord mark. immortal call sustain, higher discharge damage, u could even drop LL on ur chest.

This is my normal setup:


Isn't cast when stun somehow a bit wasted setup? i mean, i practicaly dont notice stuns, besides rocks. Getting a high lvl cwdt wouldn't be more advantageous?

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Forgot to say that im talking on the CI side, no need of an amethyst flask though.

Still just getting wiped out on a regular basis. Managed to get some chaos res, but now anything spiky just one-shots me. What do I need to work on with my build/gear?



Maybe lvl66 is just too low? Are there specific gear items or things I should be looking for?