Why are so many buils behind a paywall?

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j33bus wrote:

Ok first, as a physicist, this makes me cringe in so many ways.

Sorry, I had to look up several words in an english dictionary, maybe I could express myself better in german but until that, your physics heart has to bleed.

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j33bus wrote:

Any who, you haven't ever really made it clear what you want help with. Do you want help with a good build that is viable self found?

This.

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j33bus wrote:

Either way, what builds do you think are gated behind expensive uniques?

Discharge.
Cold Snap.
Low Life.
Everything that needs Codt/IC/Duration lol I'm 20 seconds immortal setup

maybe some more.

Ok so low life is basically gated behind shav's or solaris lorica, otherwise you just die to chaos damage, but low life isn't really a build, it's just extra cheese on the pizza as it were, as it was stated by GGG sometime, I'm not gonna look for the post, what most people do with low life is die.

Discharge is easy enough without uniques, you don't need Atziri's Acuity, you just need to keep your damage in check so you don't spike yourself with crit damage.


Something like this would work, you can look up kripp's burning discharge for an idea, I don't think it's up to date on the 1.3 tree though. Just basically max health, and resists, should be pretty easily doable. Keep charges up with enduring cry at high levels.

As for cold snap, using it as a primary skill basically requires you getting a stream of power charges. I would try something like ice spear+gmp+chain+power charge on crit. That's going to be a more difficult to micromanage your charges.

Edit:

This one should work self found easy enough, doryani's toys are pretty much best in slot but you don't need em.

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CommodoX wrote:

Everything that needs Codt/IC/Duration lol I'm 20 seconds immortal setup

What? How?

Problem is leagues weren't around when the game was made so the idea was to build up a super strong character over time, take months to get to 100 ideally... i guess? I dunno. Now that people have played and busted up their game more they accelerated basically every aspect of the game except the drops

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Weed wrote:

Problem is leagues weren't around when the game was made so the idea was to build up a super strong character over time, take months to get to 100 ideally... i guess? I dunno. Now that people have played and busted up their game more they accelerated basically every aspect of the game except the drops

Drops have improved tremendously since I started in OB. Exiles, boxes, area bosses, loot pretty much rains from the sky now.

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j33bus wrote:

As for cold snap, using it as a primary skill basically requires you getting a stream of power charges.

That's why you need the unique ring for it.

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BackwoodsS wrote:

loot pretty much rains from the sky now.

And it's vendor trash in 99,99% of the times.

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CommodoX wrote:

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BackwoodsS wrote:

loot pretty much rains from the sky now.

And it's vendor trash in 99,99% of the times.

There was the same ratio of good/bad gear back then, just more gear overall now.

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BackwoodsS wrote:

There was the same ratio of good/bad gear back then

We have no drop tables, you can't say anything about drop chances for anything.

I mean sure they haven't told us anything official, but you can pretty much figure it out, even if it's just rares, basically every rare affix seems to have an even chance to roll.

Also it's not like every skill is designed to be a primary offensive skill, cold snap has got a cooldown and everything, you need to be creative to beat it. Trying to do anything that's not just a straightforward skill needs some planning, you can get power charges without romira's.