How good is Brass Dome?

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SiegfriedXX wrote:

I think the armor is underestimated.


"Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes" apllied to all damage types. also elemental.



I played with that armor and 5400 life in pre 3.0 and no monster can onehit me with a decent armor/resis and additional fortify and arctic armor.

I plan to play again with that armor in 3.0 and with more then 6k life.

Can you tell me a bit about your build, or the build you're planning? Dual wield, 2h, block? Jugg, glad?

all what you need to know is that the armor works fine with fortify and 20k armor, 5,5k life and arctic armor + max resis (76-80%)

If you add additional migrations e.g. flask, block, or MOM it will benefit sure.

You only need to leech back your life faster then someone can hit you. e.g. Flicker with attack speed over 10. Works also good with Blade Flurry or other skill gems with high amout of damage/attack speed to leech you fullife in 1 hit.

There are classes that add some def without items. e.g. Champion or Scion with Champion

Since i use Brass Dome for mapping haven't i died to pure physical damage (using it with formless inferno, Soul of steel, fortify and 3 EC). Izaro is easy, too. The next step will be PoF, PoL, PoC, all at the same time for that 4% max resistances bonus (and using divine destillate & resistance flasks if necessary).

It is a armor that does what it should: give armor.

Brass Dome only shines when playing high maps with "of Deadliness" mode, as it completely nullifies crit mult and massively lowers damage taken, which other methods can't.

Other than that, belt of the deceiver + indomitable + enfeeble, successfully provide sufficient crit mult reduction, even on bosses. And at the same time allow you to wear high HP/resists chests, or opens space for using a build defining unique chest armor.

The curve at the defense in relation to the harm no longer makes sense starts with a crit.

Without crit, its a normal line where add resis, fortify, more players or map mods can all handle with the same amout of defense. (e.g. add 1% resis, or add fortify, arctic armor and so on..) but the limit is given in the maximal mods, players and the monsterlevel. So you only need to handle the limit on your char with life, defense mechanic. If you rise that limit, you can never killed.

The crit destroy that line and your limit is to high. you need mechanics like luck (block/dodge). But thats 100% a safe option. You can die from time to time. But without Crit and enough def/life you cant die.

Interesting thoughts from everyone. I guess I'll have to just give it a try myself and see how it goes. Currency is meaningless at this point in the league anyway so I guess there's nothing to lose.



I'll shove all this shit on a Jugg and see how it goes. According to PoB, I ought to end up with 60K armor, 55% block/spell block (capped w/ brass dome), and about 200K dps with Sunder. Pretty crappy DPS, but hopefully the defense will be worth it, lol.

lol what exactly are you doing? you make a block build with an armor that reduces block chance when realistically the one thing that is useful for you on it is the crit reduction so you can stack block jewels?


dude just use a belly of the beast and take the crit reduction node, pick up granite flask .. call it a day.

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

lol what exactly are you doing? you make a block build with an armor that reduces block chance when realistically the one thing that is useful for you on it is the crit reduction so you can stack block jewels?


dude just use a belly of the beast and take the crit reduction node, pick up granite flask .. call it a day.

I'll try that next. I just really want to use Brass Dome, even if it's bad, lol.

Besides, 55% block with Surrender means half of all hits are going to heal me instead of hurt me. Seems pretty good.

Another idea to deal with crits is the Pantheon for Solaris with the Lady Stormflay upgrade:

"Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes if you have taken a Critical Strike Recently."

That plus Belt of the Deceiver and Indomitable would be pretty great overall crit mitigation.

I just want to try Brass Dome first. For the flavor. Like I said, it's the end of the league, so it doesn't really matter.

Perfect for Juggernaut melee builds. Negates all debuffs from BloodRage and giving free frenzy charges. Also you're gaining ~30-40k armour with less than 10 nodes. Block is useless with this chest imo. But if you're having fun with stupid things, who cares? Just do it.

A build made by me for Bleed+Brass idea:

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poepoe091 wrote:

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

lol what exactly are you doing? you make a block build with an armor that reduces block chance when realistically the one thing that is useful for you on it is the crit reduction so you can stack block jewels?


dude just use a belly of the beast and take the crit reduction node, pick up granite flask .. call it a day.

I'll try that next. I just really want to use Brass Dome, even if it's bad, lol.

Besides, 55% block with Surrender means half of all hits are going to heal me instead of hurt me. Seems pretty good.

Another idea to deal with crits is the Pantheon for Solaris with the Lady Stormflay upgrade:

"Take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes if you have taken a Critical Strike Recently."

That plus Belt of the Deceiver and Indomitable would be pretty great overall crit mitigation.

I just want to try Brass Dome first. For the flavor. Like I said, it's the end of the league, so it doesn't really matter.

they make good skins i hear , make you look like a turtle.