Smite Armour Stacker very fragile

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Orbaal wrote:

Tinkered with your build a bit just for fun.
All I did was getting a Skin of the Lords chest

thank you.
Tested it myself yesterday. But since the chest itself even lowers my ES i forgoe the idea very quick.
As i see it the only options for significant ES are just the rings and helmet or a complet different tree.

Im not sure if i want to invest that heavily in a "custom" build, when 90% of the guides work with doriyanis prototype. which i dont like that much since i prefer the tanky lifestyle. Right know im playing with a tree more focussed on the left side including energised armour and divine shield.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

This is a confusion of terms here. .

im always confused, you know me ;)

I mean that helmet is trash, if it wasnt for the implicit...

Like always in this game: You either go all in or you dont even bother.
If you want to go CI, you HAVE to scale ES and in order to do that, you need a good chunk of flat ES as a starting point.

A good ES helmet provides 300+ ES.
A very good one provides 400+ ES.
Yours got less than 60 ES...

You are missing at least about 250 ES just in this slot.
Doesnt matter how much %ES you are trying to gobble up on the tree, if the basic numbers arent there, because the gap between what you have and what you should have is only going to increase.

Your current tree provides 35% inc ES and Skin of the Lords would add another 100%. Thats 135% inc total. Helmets base value: 57
Total would be: 57 * 2.35 = 134 ES
A proper helmet with 300 ES: 300 * 2.35 = 705 ES
Difference: 705 - 134 = 571ES

ok, f**k it.
Skin of the lords + Glancing blows + 3.6k ES = Feels better.
Did magic T16 Mesa 20% simulacrum. Died the second i activated the mirror.
After that it was fine. Although damage is meh.

Cant think of less than 150 div to make this build really great.
- Forbidden Flesh combo at least 70 div
- Great rings 5-10 div each
- good helmet 10 div
- alternate defiance / determination 15-20 div
- cluster 8 div
- corrupted dreamfeather 5-10 div
- aegis 5 div
- watchers eye 10-15 div
- 3 node Voices 45 div

Not sure yet if its worth it or if the Doriyanis Prototype variant is better.
I let youtube inspire me.