Shade of Solaris

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zSavage wrote:
@Nssheepster

My first post was assuming you were going to do OoS to proc EO.

But if you read the mods on the item:
"Gain 20% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage"
"Critical Strikes deal No Damage"
"120% Increased Spell Damage if you've Dealt a Crit Recently"

Key line in bold.
Again, the lowest you can get your crit chance with any skill without removing it entirely is 5%.
So if you used the item in say, a flameblast build, and were proccing EO with OoS as assumed, you would have a 5% chance to 'whiff a flameblast' -> aka the 5% chance for the flameblast hit itself to crit and thereby do no damage.


I see. That makes more sense then what I thought you meant.

Even then... for 240% Spell Damage? I'll whiff 5% of my spell casts.

That said...I'd probably NOT use these for Flameblast. Ignites mean too much to Flameblast to remove them, or make them 0 damage.

Personally I'm thinking fun things like Freeze Pulse. Or perhaps Storm Call. Firestorm with Elemental Focus could probably drop the Orb setup by itself, simply because of how much it hits, and Elemental Focus would make the lack of ignites feel just fine.


- Sheepster
What about running this with cast when channeling?

The goal would be to either use something else to price the crit or cast fast enough where you can trigger it every handful of seconds. Something like that right?
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laxcrazy wrote:
What about running this with cast when channeling?

The goal would be to either use something else to price the crit or cast fast enough where you can trigger it every handful of seconds. Something like that right?


It would be handy, but in the end, you're losing two support gems, and you could just use Orb of Storms. I might try it for ease of use, but....Orb would be more optimal.

Also, we don't really know how Cast When Channeling, if that even is what it's called, will work....It might only trigger on full stacks, or at Channel start or something, and that would render the idea moot.


- Sheepster
Hm. I wonder how Cast when Channeling would work for Blade Flurry if you also used Cast on Crit and Cast on Melee Skill. BF, CWC, COC, COMK, and then Inc Crit and like Bladefall or something, and maybe it'd trigger a TON, like old COC. Could be funny.


- Sheepster
I've seen this Cast When Channeling mentioned several times before but when and where was it announced? I knew a new support gem was being released for channeling spells but I don't recall them announcing exactly what it'll be. D:
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Dendail wrote:
I've seen this Cast When Channeling mentioned several times before but when and where was it announced? I knew a new support gem was being released for channeling spells but I don't recall them announcing exactly what it'll be. D:


Reddit...As always, the Forums are second class. Sigh


- Sheepster
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Nssheepster wrote:
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Dendail wrote:
I've seen this Cast When Channeling mentioned several times before but when and where was it announced? I knew a new support gem was being released for channeling spells but I don't recall them announcing exactly what it'll be. D:


Reddit...As always, the Forums are second class. Sigh


Aw lame... Guess I'll try and seek that out but thank you for the reply!
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Dendail wrote:
I've seen this Cast When Channeling mentioned several times before but when and where was it announced? I knew a new support gem was being released for channeling spells but I don't recall them announcing exactly what it'll be. D:


https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1770220

Here.

It triggers every period of time, and it has a built-in "less".
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no800407 wrote:
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Dendail wrote:
I've seen this Cast When Channeling mentioned several times before but when and where was it announced? I knew a new support gem was being released for channeling spells but I don't recall them announcing exactly what it'll be. D:


https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1770220

Here.

It triggers every period of time, and it has a built-in "less".


Not seeing it on that page. If you were trying to indicate that the Podcast mentions it...Saying that may have been more effective than a link to that page.


- Sheepster
Cast on channeling is on the main discussion page. Looks like at level 20 it'll cast a spell every .55 seconds. Could link ConChannel with laser spell + 3 spells and some damage amplifier. It might proc a crit enough to keep the wand damage amplifier.

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