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So whats the play on CoDT now. Are we keeping it level 1 and lowering the level of gems supported by it. Increasing the level of the CoDT gem? Which gems are the most effective at low level?

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Overcrash wrote:

Can you update the build for 1.01? Its now necessary to raise CoDT.

bump

Right now just to be safe till people figure out the best setup I run

Cast on damage lvl 1
Endurance cry lvl 5
Molten Shell lvl 7
Decoy lvl 8

I would suggest leaving the gem at level 31, and replacing the other linked gems with ones that match/are lower than that considering if you keep your supported gems at level 20, it would cost what, 6000+ damage in order for them to be cast. If you keep it at level 1, they'll get cast much more frequently and will still do their job, just not as effectively.

You'll want to keep Cast when Damage Taken at Lv. 1 and delevel your current gems (with Orbs of Scouring) or purchase new gems and level them to the appropriate levels.

Lv. 1 Cast when Damage Taken
Lv. 5 Enfeeble
Lv. 5 Enduring Cry
Lv. 8 Decoy Totem

And I strongly recommend upgrading the quality of Enfeeble and Decoy Totem to give the skills more of an edge.

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JohmaSho wrote:

So whats the play on CoDT now. Are we keeping it level 1 and lowering the level of gems supported by it. Increasing the level of the CoDT gem? Which gems are the most effective at low level?

Edit: My fault :( wrong info. i didn't even realize cwdt got nerfed last 2 days.

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Rozerozz wrote:

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JohmaSho wrote:

So whats the play on CoDT now. Are we keeping it level 1 and lowering the level of gems supported by it. Increasing the level of the CoDT gem? Which gems are the most effective at low level?

i don't think we have to lower the level of gems supported by cwdt. cwdt will just auto-cast whatever lv requirement other gems met anyway.

eg. if you link lv1 cwdt with lv20 enfeeble, cwdt will still auto-cast enfeeble but at lv5.

nope they wont cast at level 5
they wont cast at all

I have been leveling something similar to this, but with pvp in mind to mitigate the mass amount of crazy high blockers out there. So I have gone swords specifically, with the plan to grab all the 'reduced enemy chance to block sword attacks' nodes, which add to 55%. Also, I have been going with crit instead of RT, which I believe has a much higher damage potential, even with swords (see Poutsos flicker nuke build with 400k dps). But there are a lot of crit nodes needed, so that means less health and armor nodes, and makes Abyssus and Maligaro's a necessity, which also reduces survivability by a lot.

How would you suggest going about a build primarily for pvp? Is RT worth the damage loss for survivability?

I have of course been using dual strike with splash instead of cleave, good to see you're going that route as well. Looking forward to a dual strike high level map vid!

I would level CoDT to around level 7-8, its still triggers enough in maps

or have one low level and one high level

now is there a way to delevel gems? man CoDT why you got nerfed :(