Oh I see. Well I see crit is recommended on gear but yeah, just wasn't sure. Is there a clear winner between going full crit or semicrit/spell damage?
Also getting closer to 5k hp now. Got a new body armour and ring!
If you're talking min/max'ing, crit will always scale higher into the endgame. I minmaxed the shit out of a toon a few leagues ago and got burnt out...now, I'm playing for fun, and crit is unbelievably satisfying to play. BV hits multiple times per second, and each hit has a chance to crit. Since crits deal x% more damage, you have a higher chance to freeze...and boy, do I love those sweet, sweet shatters.
Your new gear is a good start. Ditch Esh's mirror and get a good rare shield with life, res, %spell damage and %spell crit and/or %crit multi. Esh's mirror has good synergy with the build on paper, but we're not really hurting for dps. Drop the scepter for a dagger or foil with %phys as x element, and switch to whirling blades for movement. That should solve your "i'm way too slow" problem. Then ditch devoto's and either get a dope rare helm or set up a watch on poe.trade for a super-well rolled Stankonja's.
Finally, until you hit 6k hp or so, scour your CWDT and linked gems down to trigger sooner. I usually keep mine at 15% of my raw hp, so in your case, around 800 hp. You'd probably be fine at level 6 (897hp) or 7(1003hp).
As a rule of thumb, to reliably do red maps you need 6500-ish effective hp (HP + MoM pool + ES). Juggs and super-high dps magic find builds can be an exception, but this build is neither.
I'll look at your tree in a bit. If you have EO, though, I'd recommend dropping it in favor of going crit, even if paper dps is higher. Freeze + shatter will often save your life.
Really good tips!
One thing I must admit is quite confusing to me is the different types of Crit damage.
Crit for spells
Global critical strike chance
Global critical strike multiplier
Which of those 3 stats should I focus on for the crit build? Or should it be a mix of the 3? Thanks again!
has anyone killed uber elder? I just spawned it but not sure if I expect to kill it myself with this build. I cleared shaper and red elder deathless. What do you change from normal mapping build?
I know the fight pretty well so I probably just try it the next time I have time to play.
@dirtydot
Thanks for an awesome build so far!
I have a few questions that i have a hard time figuring out.
For your gems, it seems like the one you suggest in your "gems and links section" and the onces both you and other ppl are using are different, could you please confirm witch 6 gems are better to use?
Also for weapons, i see lots of ppl still using 2x daggers, but is it correct that you now sugest a dagger / fail with a shield?
Hey, very cool build and very fun to plsy. I am trying it on 3.5 and i would like to know how to improve its survivability because i feel quite squishy. ( I HAVE ALREADY DONE WHAT THE THREAD SUGGESTED)
Thx
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