[3.2] Scionic Flametank "16k ES ed." (ES-CI-ZO-GR, SR-CWC-FS, extensive guide)

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DiamondSnake wrote:

Hey,


Nice build, very good guide to it :)


Now I have played this build to lvl 44 I have some points I would like to share:


- to lvl this build takes a bit longer
- ES is weak in early game


And one really interesting point for me:

Why Vitality ? We have alot of problems because of Vitality:
(no mana, skill points for Ghost Reaver, mana leech gem, warlordsmark instead of temporial chains)

We get 1.5% more Regen..it seems a very bad deal ? Or Im wrong ?



If we drop Vitality we can use Temporial Chains 2nd curse, I think it would be awesome
for boss monsters and big packs. Less dmg taken= more ES. Better then 1.5% Regen or not ?


At the end we have 1.5% less regen but much easier handling with the whole build,
stats, skill points, equipment, gemslots, mana..


What do you thinking ? (Pi2rEpsilon and all others in this thread^^)

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Pi2rEpsilon wrote:

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Thyra wrote:

Maybe add a Video section? :) And a Leveling Tree each 20 points or something :)
im going to play your build. just would like guidince on where to go first n all.

I am old and slow and... Lazy. Hence this build. ;) I haven't got around to playing around with videos, but I guess I might.

As for providing a leveling tree, I have not tried leveling from scratch under 2.0, but... with that said, and given that I'm thinking standard here where the occasional death is acceptable, if I were going to be leveling a new Flametank my plan would be something like this... and undoubtedly modified for the rude shocks I encountered along the way! My own guideline back when I was leveling in 1.3 as a new player, which is undoubtedly still good, was not to go CI before I was able to clear a zone without using a health potion.

21 pts
41 pts
58 pts
82 pts
96 pts, core build completed, pick what you want from here

In 1.3 my advice was to build the whole regeneration aspect to 11.1% before going CI, picking up many of the ES nodes later after CI, but with the increased damage of 2.0 having a higher total ES during the early leveling is probably wiser even if it means less total regeneration during that phase.

Fundamentally, don't pick up CI until you can take that and the three nodes that are gated behind it in one go AND you are capable of dealing with enemies without using health potions. I've put it in as "something to do before 82 pts when you'll also be speccing out of the Discipline & Training", but if you don't feel comfortable taking it then, don't do so, but wait.