What build are you playing for 3.21

Going Holy Relic Flicker Strike of my own making, as I do for the last... idk how many leagues.

This time around, not many changes and its pretty polished out so I expect a smooth road. Should be on par with most meta league starters in terms of early power and scales well into lategame.

I should play a safe build but I'm totally going to make a ranger and have a horrible experience because I didn't follow a guide correctly.

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Corsair545 wrote:

SRS, not sure Guardian or Necro? Can someone lay out the pros and cons? Guardian slightly tankier and more QOL after first lab and Necro slightly more damage?

The rework of Severed in Sleep makes it totally viable stopgap replacement for United in Dream. The DPS remained the same too despite all the so-called nerfs. Surprising.

Anyways,

Guardian
- Stun immunity (from Bastion of Hope)
- Perma onslaught for both minions and you (from Radiant Crusade)
- Nearly curse immune (from Time of Need)
- Life regen (from Time of Need)

Necro
- More damage
- More tanky with Bone Offering also affects you (from Mistress of Sacrifice)
- Minions more tanky with 30% inc. all resistances (from Commander of Darkness). You gain from it too.
- SRS lasts longer because of 40% inc. skill effect duration (from Mistress of Sacrifice)

Anything can change with the combination of passive tree adjustments, bone rings and other items, so the above is just a summary of what you get straight out of the ascendancies. Guardian can choose to forego Bone Offering and just go for Flesh Offering too, if not planning to use any permanent minions (i.e. doesn't matter if minions die), whereas the choice of offering used by Necro directly impacts her own tankiness since it also affects her.

Personally, I find necro more balanced and consistent buffs (not timed/conditional). The perma onslaught has no benefit to the summoner when wearing The Stampede.

something totems for easy league start

Varunastra Glacial Hammer Slayer looks VERY fun

https://youtu.be/B8ckELw7bCI?t=1712

This league the process was weird AF, I decided on the first build I saw on youtube: Fire Trap/ Frostblink Ele by subtractem.

Looks fun, kinda zoom, big bosser if invesment and I will probably curse my days while trying to farm for skin of the lords.

including Standard, that will be... none

CArn's Boneshatter Slayer. Lvl 80 in HCSSF by accident in my testrun. woop woop.

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Ignite Elementalist...

Been meaning to try cold DOT ele for a long time but never had the motivation nor the time to do so, so this league will the the one to.