Penance Brand...HOLY COW
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I just looked at the gem reveals.
Penance Brand looks completely OP. I guess it has to be OP, to make up for the delay in damage, but even so...WOW. I can see Trickster Archmage Penance Brand Ignite build, with Stormfire ring, pure lightning damage so you can use EE. 100% MORE damage with ailments per energy. 150% more dmage with hits per energy. Max of 20 energy. Not sure how practical it will be to get 20 energy in a reasonable time frame, but 10 energy should be easy. That's 1000% more damage to ignites!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last bumped on Jun 21, 2020, 6:27:44 AM
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Yeah it looks like a less clunky version of stormbind with its numbers.
I'm still definitely going ball lightning brands.. Just waiting for PoB to update to get final numbers! |
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" What are you trying to do? Get another nerf? Patch notes aren't but a day old and another major nerf as it is, no need in bringing more. They've been wanting people to start using brands and trying it out since it's basically new; just when people are starting to everything got nerfed. I rarely post, but when I do it's important. Fighting for the player, not monsters! https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/880487
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2300612 |
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Base damage is bad, but the really bad part is that it only hits once after it gains energy.
Popular builds like ball lightning hit every 0.15 seconds, thats why they work. This hits once per 10 seconds at full energy? Less if it charges up surrounding mobs in a pack but worthless vs bosses. Its like a slower divine ire. It could hit for 2 million damage a pop and still be trash. |
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" Archmage will help the low base damage. Ignites only need one hit. Penance brand has 2.5 sec duration. With level 20 swiftbrand support that gets down to .875 seconds. With cast speed, getting to 10 energy in that .875 seconds is doable. (Swiftbrand gives the same number of activations in a shorter duration.) Cast two brands on bosses for 20 energy. Yes, the mega burns wont start for .875 seconds, so it will effect clear. And you will be vulnerable from mobs for the 1+ seconds it takes for them to die from the burn. But the damage will be insane. Last edited by Odif#4251 on Jun 18, 2020, 12:32:34 AM
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" Penance for Bossing, something else for Clear. Maybe even second Penance with different supports. Anyway, looks promising. Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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I loves OP
so which class to start with? |
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It might also be worhwile to push the cast speed (or duration) to 11 activations and use Emberwake for an additional 33% more damage.
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" Swift brand nearly halves the number of activations per brand actually. And you'd need 246% increased activation frequency (or more likely - some increased duration) to get 10 triggers in a cast with Swift. Without it you'd just need 100% activation speed. |
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Yeah OP didn't do the math on swiftbrand at *all*, lol.
Swiftbrand gives 0.35 * 1.64 = 57.4% as many activations at 20/20. |
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