is Static Strike strong? [build inside] [20k DPS milestone reached]
" This must be why over half of the active skills are useless in end-game. If you're reading this, I'm probably on another year-long ban.
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" Right, but Chunda's point is that your build is a result of being good due to Pillar + Astramentis. You faceroll everything til A3M using that with Ground Slam or Cyclone, not just Static Strike. The problem with it is that the scaling gets very poor around the time you hit A3M and you don't have enough DPS to feel comfortable doing maps. |
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" You sure about that bro? GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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" That is where you have to use and at that point, DPS will skyrocket. To be honest, Abyssus dropped in price a lot, that they are worth in the single-digit chaos range for the most part. and/or the other alternative is to get stuff like: The gloves are actually better than Meginord's vise because of flat physical damage + IAS + strength. Attack speed really scales well in this type of build. These gears I got are all very cheap to get. Hell, some of them I found on my own. Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game. - raics, 06.08.2016 Last edited by JohnNamikaze#6516 on Jan 5, 2015, 4:23:31 PM
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I've found the damage scales insanely well with flat rolls.
replacing the Doedre from OP, with added a ton of damage thanks to the flat phys and the attack speed bonus from Dexterity. so an Abyssus for this build is like a Nuclear Bomb. a holy grail of damage scaling. but an Abyssus also increases damage taken, and I can't afford that because monsters have a tendency to crit the hell out of melee towards late game. also, I'm really enjoying the 6-linked setup for Static Strike, and don't have another 6-linked chest besides the Tabula Rasa, excluding the ES one my Arc Witch is using. so as a melee glass-cannon (oh god), the best option for me is to have stuff like the rings and gloves you posted, JohnNamikaze. I'd buy them from you, if I didn't have a feeling they are crazy-expensive for me. "cheap" is relative, you know :) Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat Shadow: That was fun Last edited by johnKeys#6083 on Jan 5, 2015, 9:28:48 PM
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" They are priceless for me because they are essential to my Glacial Pillar build, so they are not for sale. As for Abyssus, as you can see, from my gem slots, I have Immortal Call. I have 6 Endurance charges, and thanks to increased duration gem, I have IC last me 7 seconds of physical immunity, and for the most part EC reduces the drawback from the helm. I only use one skill, so spamming EC+IC is not an issue (this is the only build that I use IC). Here is my entire gear set, and I roughly got about 5.2k life. My HP regen is around 400-500, so I can take a few hits here and there. For the most part, I place Enfeeble on bosses and tough packs just in case things get messy. I also got about 20k DPS from Glacial Hammer. Passive Tree I currently have a 35% chance to freeze, so it is fun seeing things shatter around me. Especially, when I have like 16% AoE from Melee Splash and like 15-16% AoE from the Pillar's Intelligence side of the mod. I can splash the damage from a fair distance, so I end up freezing stuff without some of them never getting near me. Of course, you are using pillar for Static Strike, but it somewhat applies the same with the AoE portion. Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game. - raics, 06.08.2016 Last edited by JohnNamikaze#6516 on Jan 5, 2015, 9:44:47 PM
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" Lol! Well played good sir. @OP My 84(?) non crit striker is dead but he was a beast. Very tanky, 20k tooltip dps with moonsower, clearing maps fast and strong vs hard boses. Facetank map khole, dom, jungle valley, piety etc. Died to my own laziness of not checking bloodlines mods and leaping into blue pack and nuked by lightning wave totems. Love to go out in a blaze of glory! |
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" Regarding melee skills? Obviously. Most of them are either underwhelming, synonymous with desync, or just plain serve no purpose. In the game of risk vs reward, there's no reason to play a melee. Most people play it just because they enjoy it. That doesn't mean it's efficient. If you're reading this, I'm probably on another year-long ban.
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bumped for Act 1 Merciless.
a couple changes. check out updated gear (with gem links), current tree, and planned tree. Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat
Shadow: That was fun |
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I think a rare amulet outclasses Astramentis, at least it did when i played a pillar build.
Get one with ~50 STR and flat phys and crit or crit multiplier :P Played a Glacial Hammer pillar build in rampage and with a 6L the dps was around 20k so nothing impressive (with Abyssus :P). [2.2] The Vampire - Tanky 2H Axe Slayer Duelist - /view-thread/1611662
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