Maligaro's Restraint: What's the Verdict?

Now you can be the ball lightning

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Bendyboy wrote:

Now you can be the ball lightning

yea that's the idea



It's really happening ^^

I think the final 5L will be Flicker->Melee Damage-> Cast on Melee Kill -> Flame Surge -> Frost Wall (or detonate dead)

Frost wall is pretty good with flicker strike you can block some projectiles with it, at least I think they are blocking. Hard to tell when you are flying around the map like that.

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JakeAlmighty wrote:

If they make the bubble bit transferable... then I will skin it onto my belt to look cool.

no hp crap

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Based_Nito wrote:

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mammoth_hunter wrote:

The belt is for lld crafting along with prismweave. To compensate for the removal of hybrid master mod.

lld at level 44? lol

You gits don't even understand



That is how it is supposed to be used.

There! So I did it!

Level 70 CI marauder, with Incandescent Heart and Maligaro's Restraint

It may be only my imagination but it seem that elemental damage is a lot lighter than it used to be. However... I have a pathetic ES total of 2k once I move some points around. I can do 66-67 pretty easily, but struggle with anything more than that and I don't see where any extra ES is going to come from any time soon =p (Omgosh, we need a 2H axe that provides ES! GGG dun fuq'd it up! >.<).

Anyway leveling this build was fun and surprisingly profitable due to its fast clear speed. I felt like a dragon warrior spewing flame surges all over the map. It's really pretty with ice nova and Maligaro's Restraint ^^ . There is some nice synergy as well with cast on melee kill since you also get buffed spell damage. I think. I need to check that. But I assume it's also getting buffed.

But the truth is that this build doesn't get the most out of Maligaro's Restraint. In order to do that I would probably have to be a bow user with Maloney's Quiver and lots of chaos damage for what +200% chaos damage or something with passives not to mention the shock, 350% chaos damage with curses? Who knows. Or maybe it works with spork totems. But I'm not interested in testing that.

Bottom line, this build fails to get the most out of Maligaro's Restraint. I had a feeling it wouldn't. But I had so much fun with the Onslaught effect + flicker etc that I figured I'd go all the way with it.

He's still a fun farm character. And I was so impressed with Herald of Ashe -> Cast on Melee Kill -> Flame Surge that I think I'm on the doorstop of a build that is at least 3x better than this one.

Final Gear:

50% increased damage taken sounds like a horrible price to pay for 60% *increased* damage and 15% move speed. If you want to go glass cannon, wouldn't it be more efficient to just take a few extra damage passives and skimp a bit on defence?

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Damiono wrote:

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JakeAlmighty wrote:

If they make the bubble bit transferable... then I will skin it onto my belt to look cool.

no hp crap

haha funny

HP is that thing that poor people stack to survive, right>?

@BearCares: you're using a 2 hander CI build with your only source of ES being your Helm and and your Chest, and the Chest doesn't do much in that department either. Not to mention you're using a freaking Carnage Heart. it's a Miracle you reached 2k ES at all.


@the Belt: I wonder if it's possible to do Scold's bridle + Lightning coil for constant shocks to yourself? that could probably be used in totem or trap builds that way I guess.

I use the belt when I need to stack the extra dmg on my low life ele crit TS build. It pops me to something like 105k gmp TS on torment, and with evasion i dont need to worry about the reflect, and can easily rip bosses left and right, but i'm over geared as fuck, gotta love vaal'd shavs and windripper 3 weeks into a temp league

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enveratise wrote:

@BearCares: you're using a 2 hander CI build with your only source of ES being your Helm and and your Chest, and the Chest doesn't do much in that department either. Not to mention you're using a freaking Carnage Heart. it's a Miracle you reached 2k ES at all.


@the Belt: I wonder if it's possible to do Scold's bridle + Lightning coil for constant shocks to yourself? that could probably be used in totem or trap builds that way I guess.

Average shocks to self last for about 20 seconds so there's really no need to do anything special to stay shocked when it counts. The main way I see this belt as useful I think is with Maloney's Quiver, totems, for chaos damage builds, or for cast when stunned leech builds as far as I can think. You basically want to use the damage increase in areas where it's harder to get increases because cast speed doesn't make cast when stunned stronger.

Otherwise it's as people say you can just replace some defense nodes/gear with offense ones.