The worst skill build challenge:4TH Edition! ITS POLL TIME TILL DEC 11TH!!!

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EomMage wrote:

has anybody mentioned searing bond yet?

Not yet, after 8 pages of posts you are the first one. Good idea bro.

Where is our update OP how goes it?

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Edradour wrote:

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AnimalChin wrote:

Portal.

Good luck!

easy:

stack movement speed, life and resists on skilltree and gear.

link: 20% portal+faster casting.

support skills:

- defensive auras (grace, purity, vitality, determination, discipline) + haste (for faster casting & running)

- decoy totem (maybe even dual decoy totem)

- 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!

Kinda hard to level up though.... ;)

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AnimalChin wrote:

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Edradour wrote:

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AnimalChin wrote:

Portal.

Good luck!

easy:

stack movement speed, life and resists on skilltree and gear.

link: 20% portal+faster casting.

support skills:

- defensive auras (grace, purity, vitality, determination, discipline) + haste (for faster casting & running)

- decoy totem (maybe even dual decoy totem)

- 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!

Kinda hard to level up though.... ;)

yeah, but you can have other skills -- nobody's in endgame with one skill on teh bar.

primary skill = portal

secondary skill = burning discharge on 6L searing touch

this would be a CI char, ofc.

Bed time

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T_Reich wrote:

Here's a few challenges for ya:
-Shockwave Totem as primary DPS source
-Punishment (with no summons if possible)
-Puncture
-Full-on trapper/miner (only w/ self-made traps, no Fire and Bear Traps!)
-And maybe something gimmicky with Cold To Fire

:P

Puncture's been done by Ghudda. He got to 100% Pierce chance and ran Crit. With 0.11 the damage was usable, but not ideal.

Kripp did Shockwave Totem back before it got buffed from 0.9 sec cast time to 0.75. So he'd have gained ~15%+ DPS, as well as increased defensive use from the knockback being tied to cast speed.

I posted earlier that Arc/Remote Mine is great in a party.

Kripp actually uses Cold to Fire on his Discharge build, and Ghudda could work it into his Unreliable Burn Wander build if he had a 5L.

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DAYLEET wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

searing bond is far worse than arctic breath because it cant be supported by anything but increase burn dmg

and Sweep is ok... it just needs some love from dev because as it is, its always in the shadow of Leap slam and cyclone

Searing bond isnt a skill... You don't use it actively it's passive. thats like saying Shockwave totem is a skill, it's not it's a totem.

And sweep for main would be terrible.

Use Searing Bond + LW Totem for shock stacking. Run Ele weakness since Vulnerability's damage boost is only additive with shock stacks. Throw in Flammability too. There you go.

Also for Sweep:

HELICOPTER

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nkwow04 wrote:

Corpse Explosion

Perfectly doable, quality Detonate Dead can net you up to +60% cast speed, which is huge. Just run in a party or with a decent single target attack (fireball probably since you're scaling fire). Additionally the fact you can use a level 1 Detonate Dead and work off the corpse explosion damage means that you have very few mana problems, even with a 6L.

You'd probably be best scaling Burn damage with it, since you deal 18% of a Monster's life as base, Conc. Effect to 30%, increased fire/spell damage to double that to 60%, if not higher. Then you get increased burn from the tree, Increased Burn Damage support, and maybe a Searing Touch too to get that to ~190% increased burning damage, which with the 1.33 multiplier from burning length works out to ~270% of a mob's life dealt as burning damage, which can be proliferated out. Additionally, Chance to Ignite and quality Inc. Burn Damage gets you a 54% chance to proc ignite on enemies.

So yeah, great gear and high level you can make DD work. Might be a bit awkward solo and against bosses is all. Although you can just Shotgun with Fireball for that.

Do an Ancestral Bond shockwave totem build!
I dare you

Lol i was too busy for last 3 days at work to even have time to play but i was ready to bring the char to endgame tomorow but with the new patch coming i dont know if it would be more logical to wait the changes before allocating my points

Can we get some sort of compounded update + links to build and future build :)? i sort of enjoy minigames like this.

I'd try going for something else instead of chain for the arc so that you can shock more easily, I think qual added lightning is the best choice.

I'm doing this now, with a duelist of course :p (tempest shield sucks as main lol)

Tanky Searing bonder for the lols.