3.6 Synthesis Arc/Freezing Pulse Totems, easy Shaperkills with less than 1-2 Ex investment!
" Check the opening post; it details that picking up the Spiritual Aid passive node allows "increases to Minion damage and reductions also apply to you." That's why we pick up minion nodes, and that's why a Bone Helmet works for the build. " I haven't made another character or build just yet, but I comfortably stumbled upwards to level 85 with a little under 1ex investment earlier in the league; I upgraded and have put roughly 3ex total into all my gear the closer I got to level 90. You don't have to focus too much on the investment cost since the moment you get into endgame + maps, currency starts getting thrown at you. Also, as the league is several weeks in, there's a plethora of affordable equipment that will easily carry you into the 90s. I cannot speak much on the body armor as I'm using a Soul Mantle, but I can say that the choice for Maligaro's glove and Marylene's amulet are for cheap, affordable stats; the gloves give decent crit and the amulet is a cheap method to give your crits Culling Strike. As far as I know, that's basically it. If you want to invest a bit more chaos into the build, getting a better set of gloves for your resistances is a good idea and swapping the amulet for whatever stat you're missing is also a fine decision. The Culling Strike matters less when you're doing fat damages and landing crits on the regular as you'll usually blow through mobs anyway. At least, that's how I see it. |
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" Can you explain elemental focus? Wouldnt being able to shock lead to similer dmg? Also can you add some words to the wither totem setup? | |
" I'm probably missing something, but... Why righteous fire on shimmeron? |
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I can definitely say switching to Soul Mantle did a ton for me in terms of DPS. Double Kikazaru makes the curses irrelevant and Self-Flagellation increases damage too significantly to ignore. Feels like a far better setup than op's to me.
I did feel that Shimmeron with Soul Mantle was giving up a bit too much survivability. I would rather lose ~15% DPS to have much better regen. Regen was barely positive even with 5 totems down. |
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Really enjoying the build, first time with Arc Totems for me, just got myself a +1 shield to play with too and the damage increase was insane.
Something I was wondering though, any specific reason we aim for a Wand or Kris as our weapon (outside of uniques of course)? Just found this sceptre and according to PoB it gives me 17% more dps compared to my previous wand. | |
" At this point in my dmg all mobs die in 1 hit and bosses in about 1 second. So the only thing left to do is buff the dps for Shaper/Elder/Guardians. Those have so much HP you're not going to shock em for much if anything at all. So Elemental Focus is a much bigger dmg increase. For example: switching ele focus to increased crit strikes in my setup would cause me to lose 200k dps per totem. Which could only be made up if I shocked for at least 30-ish % of their HP. That's not possible against those bosses. /edit: the wither totem is used for utility. It slows bosses, plus 2 extra totems is more dmg and regen due to ascendancy. Also, the wither totem costs less mana than the arc totems, so I can use Wither totem to spam before boss fights and build up my curses for self-flagilation dmg bonus. Last edited by Fritso on Dec 27, 2018, 4:47:43 AM
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" Pop Vaal Righteous Fire on boss fights for a 7 second buff of 39% more dmg. | |
" Oh, didn't notice it was vaal RF... Thanks |
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Any ideas how to increase my dmg and survival? Thanks
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" Yes, why are you running a curse removal flask while using 2 Kikazaru rings? Dump that flask and throw a Self-Flagilation jewel into your tree for well over 200% increased dmg. |
