Best skills to clear out 100% Legion monsters ?

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MrWonderful99 wrote:

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vio wrote:

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Th3c0r3ok wrote:

You guys are for real?

Obviously it's ED + Contagion. This shit is made for it.

contagion is triggered OnDeath, i think you will have to hit every enemy with ed then, good luck

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I played ED & Contagion in Synthesis. Yes you have to kill one mob and then the screen (and a half - if you spec for it) blows up. So unless your initial hit with ED doesn't kill the mob (this shit is made for it as Vio somewhat crudely stated). The likelihood that a well geared player can't kill a normal mob with one ED application has been zero - so unless the battlefield dudes have 5x the hit points.......

The problem being we won't "kill" those inital frozen monsters, just lower them to 0% life. No corpses, no on-kill effect I think ???

Bane will probably be pretty nuts for it, especially up until mapping considering how strong it is in acts.

My guesses will be SRS, any properly build projectile spell that has auto pierce, flicker strike with splash, probably the new chain melee skill with splash, cyclone, and maybe even sweep if it finally gets some love. And earthquake.

Pretty much anything with a large inbuilt aoe to be honest, or something that will attack independently of your character.

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Autopsea wrote:

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MrWonderful99 wrote:

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vio wrote:

contagion is triggered OnDeath, i think you will have to hit every enemy with ed then, good luck

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I played ED & Contagion in Synthesis. Yes you have to kill one mob and then the screen (and a half - if you spec for it) blows up. So unless your initial hit with ED doesn't kill the mob (this shit is made for it as Vio somewhat crudely stated). The likelihood that a well geared player can't kill a normal mob with one ED application has been zero - so unless the battlefield dudes have 5x the hit points.......

The problem being we won't "kill" those inital frozen monsters, just lower them to 0% life. No corpses, no on-kill effect I think ???

In the latest baeclast, Chris specifically stated that on-kill effects like ED + contagion DO work on Legion Monsters. Only corpse effects do not work which doesn't matter for ED + contagion.

Time for slayer, zerk and champ to shine. WITH BOWS LOOOOOOOL

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lolbreeze wrote:

The real question here is, what's the best melee skill to break them free?

Something that acts as a ranged skill :D

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TheBagman wrote:

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deimudda69 wrote:

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BlaqWolf wrote:

And, for every other build (minion, pure melee, ect) a mere 2 link with BL & LMP will 'tag' everything, even if the damage is negligible. If you have to do a certain percentage of total target life before it 'triggers', however, it won't be so good.

You dont "tag" anything. You need to kill them like normal mobs. You cant just spam a 500 dps skill around. If you dont enough dmg nothing will come out.

This. You have to kill them twice; it's horrible.

Ah, indeed, this is a pretty sad state, then. So it's insane ranged and insane DPS, nothing else. Speed meta taken to the extreme.
Prolly another league I'll toy with for two weeks and walk away from. Synthesis was hands down the worst league since game release (except for high end crafters, I guess). This one is another breach - it'll be overtuned to the hilt for the first month, then softened up once they've got the feel of how the larger player base is managing them.

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Th3c0r3ok wrote:

You guys are for real?

Obviously it's ED + Contagion. This shit is made for it.

I really doubt contagion spreads ED, It seems like a bit of a make or break but they only have two outcomes from it.

you break free everything, or you break free nothing.

Hopefully the damage threshold will be low enough you can just do it with contagion, but on the very low chance that ED does work with it i'm definitely onboard for some setting free

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insilopeh wrote:

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lolbreeze wrote:

The real question here is, what's the best melee skill to break them free?

Something that acts as a ranged skill :D

So, all the melee skills except double/dual/heavy strike then.

The king of the melee ofcourse, CLEAVE!

Ignite proliferation?