[2.6] THE NEW FAKENER | DISCHARGE | SUPER FAST STRANDS | Cospris Malice | 9k+ ES | STILL GREAT AOE

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Surari wrote:

On topic of Assassin vs. other ascendencies, the biggest problem I faced as Occultist was single target DPS. If you run cyclone in the 3.5 gloves, this means you can't run Blade Vortex on Crit for charge generation on single targets.

After many different attempts, I've improved single target DPS a lot by having less max charges, but significantly improving damage per charge. I'm not sure how this would apply to Assassin or other ascendencies, but it's interesting to share.

By taking 5/5 charges instead of 7/6, I've saved 9 passives. I've invested all those passives in extra spell & elemental damage as well as Throatseeker. Tooltip damage in hideout is now 2k and with 5/5 charges I get 75K tooltip damage. Add to that the extra damage from Assassins Mark, as well as 10% extra damage from Profane Bloom and the DPS is quite good.

Less charges, but higher damage per charge means your DPS is less dependent on perfect charge generation. This has helped quite a bit to improve single target dps.

I don't believe it was a vs discussion, my only reply to Dicemanx was regarding the crit gloves with he stated would be necessary to craft early on. I would say they are as important as the Eleron rings for mana i.e both can be managed with alternatives but it's best to have to them at some point.

Talking about your Occultist. I can't say if reducing your charges was a smart move or not yet but something you could probably use:

1. Most of our damage comes from jewels, getting crit multi for both fire and lightning in equal proportion and also spell/area/increased damage jewels.
Can you state your crit multi and spell damage modifier stats.

You are not only missing some jewel slots but they lack damage jewels in them,e.g
I see you still use the ES jewel which I would say is a waste of jewel slot. You are better off using it for a damage jewel and managing the lost Es on other jewels or restructuring the points around it towards pure ES nodes.

2. If you really feel you are missing on charge generation coz of no vortex setup in cyclone. I would suggest that you move shield charge to your gloves and use cylone in your chest along with coc & vortex. You would be able to pull it off since you don't have to worry about flask charges during boss fights and lucky flasks would make the crit chance constant even without the gloves. If you can manage mana issues you can scrap the crit gloves for Voidbringer which will help your discharge crit rate.

Looks like this build is getting a huge AOE nerf in the 2.6 patch. :(

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Xasthur228/characters
Problems with mana : (

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Xasthur228 wrote:

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Xasthur228/characters
Problems with mana : (

You are an assassin.

Remove voidbringer for Normal Es gloves.

You have no elreon rings.

If you want to run voidbringers and no elreon rings you need to be a trickster.

The aoe nerf... will hit the build a lot

"The aoe nerf... will hit the build a lot"


No, i run strand in 30 sec with conc effect.

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Hoaxsterdam wrote:

"The aoe nerf... will hit the build a lot"


No, i run strand in 30 sec with conc effect.

Sure, but you won't be clearing it like that in next patch.

How big aoe% you got on Discharge?

I said with conc effect, not inc area. I'm pretty sure Inc area will still be bigger than a conc effect next patch, i mean, we will see.

Can't tell how big is my aoe % now on my discharge cause i gave away my gear but you can check my skilltree on the assassin 93.

big problems with survival :(
what to do?

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Hoaxsterdam wrote:

I said with conc effect, not inc area. I'm pretty sure Inc area will still be bigger than a conc effect next patch, i mean, we will see.

Can't tell how big is my aoe % now on my discharge cause i gave away my gear but you can check my skilltree on the assassin 93.

From the looks of things, the current build will basically be like playing without the 2 AoE clusters. I haven't played this build so I'm not sure how impactful that is, but I'd love to hear others thoughts as I was looking forward to trying this in 2.6.