Advise needed - VD Spellslinger keeps dying

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J3003 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/VLgFHL0v


Best of luck to you and you definitely can turn your toon around!!!

Thanks :)
I'll be checking this out for sure :)

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Darthbones wrote:

A few things:

1) You have a big hole in your flasks. You don't have a bleed immune flask. Get this, it is the most important one to have.

I noticed that too, only too late :) That was probably the reason I died in the Canals

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Darthbones wrote:

2) Attack setup, you don't have one. Frenzy + Barrage Support + Combustion, you should be using this as your main attack to fire off all the other spells.

I'm using the standard attack to trigger the spellslingers, because I ran out of sockets

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Darthbones wrote:

3) Inspiration is not needed at this point in your character's career. You can reincorporate it later when you get better gear. For now, replace it with something else, like elemental focus.

That's what you get when you try out the builds from the pro's, and not understanding the reasons/prerequisites/drawbacks/benefits/synergies etc :)

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Darthbones wrote:

4) What are you trying to do with the CWDT in your gloves?

that was a later addition, but CWDT has to level up a bit before it will do anythin. But it was my intention to fire Enduring Cry whenever I was hit hard .. At this time its not triggered yet, and I use it manually

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Darthbones wrote:

5) I would recommend dropping Wave of Conviction and use Detonate dead. If you want to continue to use WoC, then cast it manually until you get a trigger wand.

See, that's confusing, because I had DD before, and dropped it because other people in this thread suggested I'd better be off with Wave of Conviction

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Darthbones wrote:

6) Ascendancy - Respec out of Mistress of Sacrifice and spec into Corpse pact. Doing that and using Detonate Dead + frenzy setup should be a big damage boost for you.

Same confusion here. It was suggested I'd take Mistress of Sacrifice



There are so many possibilities, and to pick the right combo is hard.

Thanks for the comments though :)

You shouldn't need Enduring cry in a CWDT setup. Enduring cry should be on your left mouse button spot. That way, as your character moves around, they will fire off Enduring cry periodically, automatically. Call To Arms Keystone is what makes this possible.