Sire Of shards and molten strike
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I was wondering if it could make a build to use sire of shards instead of grelwood shank.
It doesn't seem that the nova downside of sire of shards impacts a lot the way the projectiles hit the ground wiith molten strike and the projectile damage bonus is pretty nice. I tried to search but no one ever did a molten strike build with this item is there a reason ? Last bumped on Jan 21, 2019, 11:55:12 AM
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Even assuming you can get the extra projectiles, you are now using a weapon scaled skill with a downright horrid weapon. You'd be better off with just about anything else.
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i tried it for the extra projectiles and it works. I though that the extra projectile damage number on it would compensate for the lack of base weapon damage.
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Hmm, the main issue is that the more base projectiles you have, the more diminishing returns you get from additional projectiles. Molten strike builds generally have a lot of projectiles already.
That being said I am hella curious to know what "Socketed gems fire in a nova" does to molten strike, might need to test that out when I get home today :P Souls along a conduit of blood, from one vessel to the next.
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It doesn't do much i have trouble noticing differences between the regular molten strikes et the one "in a nova" maybe the balls are more organised and form like a circle but it's hard to tell.
I don't think there is a diminishing return in having more balls, the more balls you have the more chance tu get to hit multiple times with a ball in single target and molten strike doesn't feel as good as it used to be since we lost a jewel in the betrayal patch note. But yeah i think the damage range of the weapon is to low to make viable. |
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Someone did a Sire of Shards MS build a long, long time ago. I remember seeing it somewhere here in this forum.
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What do you remember of this build was it interesting ?
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It was expensive as shit due to minmaxing (standard with legacy gear), and even then the damage wasn't anything to write home about.
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i see thanks for the reply
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" Hmm, the best way to describe it is like this. If you have a skill that fires 1 projectile vs a skill that fires 10 projectiles, adding 4 additional projectiles is more useful to the skill that fires 1. So, adding 4 projectiles to molten strike which fires 7 projectiles with the current optimal setup only provides a theoretical damage increase of 57%. If you lose an equal amount or more of dps by using sire of shards over an actual good weapon then it means it isn't worth it. Souls along a conduit of blood, from one vessel to the next.
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