[2.0] Firefly - Elemental Reaver

Soundtrack: Firefly Theme

In short:
*Gemini Claws are a godsend, Doryani's Catalyst is amazing, and Rallying Cry is great.
*4 Jewels = 2 Static Electricity (at least until very high levels), 2 Rares.
*Chest = Carcass Jack
*Head = Starkonja's Head. Yes, I mean it. Sure, others will have more DPS, like Alpha/Rat's - but you don't lack for DPS, you lack for HP, especially in maps. And 50% Increased Evasion on low-life is actually far from useless when you think about it.
*Boots = Windscream (Curse with Ass Mark + Ele Weakness)
*Belt = Good Rare, or Dyadian Dawn if you're stuck with a 5L (use CwDT + Arctic Breath + GMP + Chain/Increased Duration to manage a very effective Chill).
*Weapon = Gemini Claw (or another base with Mana on Hit), High Speed, High Crit, as much Ele DPS as possible.
*Off-Hand = Doryani's Catalyst (use rares or uniques like Relentless Fury until 75. Death's Hand doesn't work for Elemental Damage, sadly).
*Gloves = Maligaru's / good rare (mine are Life/tri-res/Ele Weakness on Hit).
*Rings/Ammy = Life/Res/WED/Flat Ele/Crit Chance/Crit Damage/Accuracy.
*Fun fact, by level 85, you're at 95% crit including the curse. No need for a Rat's nest, or crit chance on gear at that point.

Links:
*6L = Reave / WED / Faster Attacks / Multistrike / Crit Damage / Life Leech.
*4L = Whirling Blades / Leap Slam / Blood Magic / Fortify
*4L = HoT / CoH / Ele Weakness / Ass Mark
*4L = Wrath / HoI / Enlighten / Ice Golem
*3L = CwDT / Ele Weakness / Ass Mark
*3L = Increased Duration / Rallying Cry / Vaal Grace.
There's room for Vaal Reave, I just forget to use it, so I removed it - doing just fine without it. Feel free to use that instead of Vaal Grace if you're keen.

Beta Stats (level 76, with 2 Static Electricity Jewels):
Life = 4200
Tooltip DPS with 5 Power Charges = 45K (actually do more because tooltip is wrong for Reave with Dual Wield).

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Level 76 - Rare Jewels, Different Tree pathing, all the Life Nodes + Life Jewels:
Life = 4850
DPS = 40K

To clarify, my beta gear, while ok, had no WED or Crit on any pieces but the belt and the Catalyst, so it's not even close to max DPS. As you can see, the pathing is somewhat different when you stop using Static Electricity, since there's no need to path through as much DEX, ending up saving you 1 point.

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*Currently have a 6L, so my CwDT also applies curses (no need for Chill as much, and it kills my FPS).
*HoI / Culling / Ice Bite sorta works if you wanna go that way, but not worth it, overall.
*The 0.2% Leech from Catalyst works even with Reave with your Claw. I think. Seems to work. Maybe? :D
*Anger instead of HoI? Possible with Enlighten and Alpha OR Passives. Otherwise, stick to Charisma. HoI is great for clear speed, even if less DPS. There seems to be no real point to using Alpha unless running Anger, and even then it's iffy.

Credits: Joss Whedon, Summer Glau, Sonny Rhodes and whoever made that lovely image. ;)

Why are you using 6L for CODT gems? That should be reserved for your main attack. Why arent you using a golem and blood rage? Melee NEEDS fortify if you don't want to die. At least link it to whirling blades or in your case w/ doryani's w/ leap slam.

I'm doing something similar but I will be leveling w/ elemental molten strike w/ dual claws. I plan to switch to physical reave + Soul Taker Siege Axe to eliminate blood rage. I might use a good claw or that dagger everyone talks about i forget the name at the moment. I'll be playing hardcore so my build will have significantly more hp / defenses than yours.

eek double post.

What are you even talking about? I use Reave as my 6L... CwDT is only taking up a 4L at most.
I have Whirling Blades / Blood Magic / Ice Golem / Fortify on my boots.

Really torn on Blood Rage. I can use it, but I have VP, and it feels like I'm bleeding to death with it. VP seems to help me more overall...

Nice, looking forward to seeing it in action :)

Do you think evasion/Acro characters can get away without Endurance Charges? I've been trying to find ways to put them into my Dreamfeather build, but there's no good way unless I use Warlord's Mark (unreliable and I'd rather use a curse like Enfeeble, Temp Chains, or even Conductivity) or self-cast Enduring Cry (not an option if I need Rallying Cry for mana). I'm concerned how my build will function with limited leech (only through Atziri's Promise) and without Endurance Charges or Arctic Armour.

Yeah, you'll be fine. But LL gem plus VP feels much safer. The flask is more or less useless for Leech now except for packs.
And if you join the beta this weekend, I'll show you.

I think I got about as far as you can get with gear on the beta, on live I'd maybe add Acuity to top this up on INT and free some gear for higher Life rolls and such (totally BiS for this build, despite Vaal Pact being 1 point away, but probably not by enough to be worth the silly price). Reflect isn't even a slight issue with this build, especially with VP later on.

If anyone wants to try it on Live or the 4-day beta, I suggest it fully. You can even do Ele Reflect maps with no issues at all.

are you going to update the tree for 2.0?!

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xenochaos1 wrote:

are you going to update the tree for 2.0?!

This is the 2.0 tree.

atziri viable?