Oh, I know it's damage can be half-decent, but any area later than The Ledge is going to involve lots of enemies that don't "cooperate" with it's ground-burn effect ;p
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Can someone PLEASE post a viable searing bond build.
Please.
It's too hard to theory craft and too much time is spent.
All the searing bond builds I've made failed soo hard.
It's like a crappy version spork
So I spent 10 minutes theory crafting.
Hybrid AB Searing Bond/LW totem build.
One skill is LW/Spell Totem/Elemental Proliferation/Lightning Pen/(Faster Casting as a 5th)
Then Searing Bond/Inc. Burn/whatever else could work with this idk Faster Casting probably
Stick Searing Bond in a Searing Touch for the +2 to it and the 70% increased burning damage.
Run Elemental Weakness as your main curse, Flammability for dual curse.
LW Shock stacks for 120% increased damage, you get 60% increased burn damage from the tree, at level 20 you have a level 22 Searing Bond dealing 430 DPS, which with the increased burn damage from the tree, support and Searing Touch goes to 191% inc burn damage (increased burn damage gets +2 from the Searing Touch staff too), netting 1250 DPS.
Which goes to 2750 DPS with Shock's +120% then -98% resists from your curses and go Elemental Equilibrium for another -50% from the LW totem hitting enemies so you get to -148% resistances on mobs, which will give you constant 4.8K DPS on an enemy that is 75% fire resistant (which is on the high end, afaik) from one totem and decent DPS from your LW totem too. Additionally you can run a cold spell on Mines (Ice Spear probably) for single target DPS which helps work into Elemental Equilibrium too. Or you could run Mine/GMP/Chain/Arctic Breath to slow enemies and Proc cold EE here too.
Alright so that's a build that needs a like 3L Searing Touch, maybe 4L if you want Totem Resist as a support, 2 more 4Ls for your other skills and Dual Curse/Static Blows/Pyromaniac as your only real passive requirements, which are all in the same area of the tree.
Welp, that's on the list of 'builds to try at some stage' now.
(Note: Vulnerability has 40% inc. damage to enemies from DoT, so it stacks with Shock damage on enemies and doesn't really give a good return compared to Flammability. Also people will like you more in groups if you Dual Curse with Flammability more than if you use Vulnerability. Also Temp Chains would also be an option for Shock stack length and slowing enemies into the beam and being liked in parties)
There's a thing I theory-crafted for a dude asking about a Searing Bond build.
Also, Arctic Breath Totem/Searing Bond is something that came to mind while doing that.
And you can use Arc/Remote Mine with stacked chance to shock for a burst damage build, dude who as asking about Remote Mine.
- any aoe-skill that opens crates, barrels and stuff (sweep, ground slam or anything)
tactic: run through maps and open chests and other stuff as fast as possible, then: portal!
Damn it! That would also work with my chosen skill "Chance to flee".
Hmmmmmm....idea: a "Chance to Flee" build for using in public map parties. You cause all monsters to flee continously until all other party members give up in disgust. Then you have the map to yourself :)
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