Low Life High Quality/Rarity Critical Lightning Totems Witch

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magicrectangle wrote:

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Rodvik wrote:

Right now Arc does 1500 dps, the cast speed is .54. So that makes it almost 3000 dps a sec? With two totems that's almost 6000 dps. Then you include the 70% chance to shock, shock stacking 3 times is 220% more damage? So that's 13,200 dps. Not to mention a 30% chance to crit. My crit modifier is 387% when the enemy is cursed, I use a 15% quality crit weakness gem.

/Facepalm

DPS stands for "Damage Per Second." You don't get to divide by cast time a second time, it is already in there. Your crit chance and crit damage are already in there too. You do get to multiply by 2 for 2x totems though. Shock also isn't counted in the skill DPS stat, so if you can reliably keep targets triple shocked, you get to count that too.

That gives you 1500*2*2.2 = 6600 single target DPS with double arc totems. Under most conditions it will be lower, because by the time you get 3x shock stacks the fight is almost over anyway.

Your build has pretty decent damage, but I would never do it. You might be able to survive in 6 player map groups by hiding behind everybody else at max range, with your totems way ahead, but with your incredibly bad defensive stats you have zero ability to solo maps without dying horribly.

The new unique chest opens up some new options for low life builds (in that it makes them not absurd), but you still need ES nodes if you want to do maps and not be stupidly fragile.

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Rodvik wrote:

Right now Arc does 1500 dps, the cast speed is .54. So that makes it almost 3000 dps a sec? With two totems that's almost 6000 dps.

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lurusk wrote:

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Rodvik wrote:

Right now Arc does 1500 dps, the cast speed is .54. So that makes it almost 3000 dps a sec? With two totems that's almost 6000 dps.

DPS = Damage Per Second
So no, it's not 3000 DPS because of the cast speed, as the cast speed is already calculated in the 1500 DPS.