Best single target melee skill (best boss killer)?
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The use case for this question is mainly for bosses. Which skill/build has the highest potential single target boss dps?
Right now i'm running EQ which feels kinda low, getting breakpoints to match explosion with your APS is too expensive. I narrowed it down to heavy strike or molten strike, although i'm open for suggestions. Heavy strike - Highest base damage skill gem. 2-3x the heavy strike unique jewels that gives 20% chance to deal double damage. Helmet enchant with 15% AS/40% dmg is pretty cheap. Gem setup: HS - multistrike - melee phys - added fire - faster attacks - ruthless (?) Molten strike - Potentially really high dmg with added projectiles. 2-3x molten strike unique jewels that gives +2 projectiles. +3 projectiles from helmet enchant. Gem setup - Molten strike - GMP/LMP - Multistrike - Faster attacks/point blank/Physical Projectile Attack Damage/Concentrated effect/Iron grip/Added fire/fire pen/ele focus/ele damage. (Many good gems, gotta experiment which is most effective) This give molten strike potentially 15 (45 considering multistrike) projectiles each dealing 88% weapon damage. We purely focusing on the projectiles dmg. We can also further utilize Ngamahu's Flame to trigger more projectiles and increase our dps. Thoughts? Last edited by Buiaka#5922 on Aug 15, 2017, 8:12:02 AM Last bumped on Aug 15, 2017, 10:52:20 AM
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Elemental Blade Flurry is amongst the best boss killer for melee skills. Either pure elemental or phys conversion to elemental.
Demonstration: https://youtu.be/muOPQONQ9-M Last edited by DAKKONx#3689 on Aug 15, 2017, 8:26:14 AM
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Looking back at the molten strike sum up, it seems pretty strong. You can get +45 projectiles per ability potentially doing 3960% weapon damage, now all projectiles probably wont hit, but most bosses have larger hit boxes, no? (Such as Kitava). You can stack so many "more multipliers" on the projectiles it's absurd. On top of that we have a unqie weapon dedicated to molten strike.
Add ancestral protector for more attack speed and you'd be squirting balls all over the place. Last edited by Buiaka#5922 on Aug 15, 2017, 8:49:09 AM
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Logic would have you looking at single target skills... but reality is that you don't want to go there.
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" Not really, the average damage difference between a single target skill and an AoE is some ~10% (and it Blade Flurry's case, they made it outright more damaging than any single target skill), but the difference is that you can instantly support it with conc. effect, which is the single best damage support out there. For damage, nothing really beats MS but you'll notice that it is clunky AF. I suggest BF, unless you are making an exclusive bosskiller. |
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" This thread is purely about boss dps, in this case the most effective izaro killer. I guess any of the above is more than enough for uber izaro and probably overkill. I'm currently using 2h which is a downside with BF, also you can always swap MS with sunder when mapping. |
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" Whats is AF? (I have to admit, as a newbie, its hard to understand the abbrevations used here) |
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AF = "As fiddlesticks"
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That's very common abbreviation, even newbs should know these)
Btw are there any real good single target skills in spell department? FB and firestorm seem to go down the tube after patch. |
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" The best is Blade Flurry (for applicable weapons). It deals up to 343% base weapon's DPS (compare it to Heavy Strike's 200%) Molten Strike is one of the best, if you build around it properly. If you dont like EQ, use Sunder. It may have ~15% less DPS than Heavy Strike, but it's ranged, AoE and deals much higher damage against clustered enemies. The only situation where Heavy Strike is superior, is when you absolutely need single-target to NOT kill adjacent enemies (Vorici missions, Lietenants in lab, etc). If you have space for 2-nd skill, better use Sunder + Ancestral Warchied. Sadly, this combo is far superior to using a dedicated single-target skill. IGN: MortalKombat Molten Strike build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1346504 There is no knowledge That is not power Last edited by MortalKombat3#6961 on Aug 15, 2017, 10:54:28 AM
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