Pain Attunement builds

What is the best way to make a pain attunement build?

What skills should I go for I have 40 skill points I havent used yet on my shadow after the last reset and am thinking I might want to do pain attunement. level 34 shadow right now.

I am not a fan of low life builds at the moment. 30% spell damage seems like a puny bonus compared to the risks your taking. I would think that you would either need a ton of life to be viable or incredible DPS to kill everything before they can hit you. Until they change the game I will not attempt to make a low life build.

Well it is a multiplicative bonus, a pretty heavy boost, so why wouldn't he try for it. You have several other builds using low life procs in other skills.

yeah, definitely the wrong spot.... i tested a BM mard recently and found it very, ridiculously, strong. i had no problem clearing stuff in merciless. you just need to be careful of flickers and goatmen, they'll destroy you before you know what's happened (also crits can be a pain).

this is my build if interested


i also tested using pain attunement from crown of thorns but found defenses to be more worth it. (also you get LARGE BONUSES from running on low life to rarity and damage)

glhf, hope this helps!

it says 'increased' dmg instead of 'more' dmg..
you sure its multiplicative?

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yeah, definitely the wrong spot.... i tested a BM mard recently and found it very, ridiculously, strong. i had no problem clearing stuff in merciless. you just need to be careful of flickers and goatmen, they'll destroy you before you know what's happened (also crits can be a pain).

this is my build if interested

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i also tested using pain attunement from crown of thorns but found defenses to be more worth it. (also you get LARGE BONUSES from running on low life to rarity and damage)

glhf, hope this helps!

I've been told that 2 redbeaks dont stack their damage. why are you dual wielding them?

Of course 2 Redbeaks stacks damage. They provide 100% increased Damage (all types) each when on low life. You can replace them with 100 spell damage wands or ones with cast speed after not too long. Because it's all forms of damage it's the only good way to increase chaos damage and it also raises the damage on Shockwave Totem and Bear Trap (which can lead to some fantastic 30k+ single hit bear traps which take out vaal oversoul in a single shot).

Pain Attunement is fun but it's a bit of a joke. There's no way to reduce chaos damage and you're going to die to a poison arrow cloud that you didn't see fast enough or a multi-proj construct around a corner.

You can of course use totems and kill everything off-screen, though that sounds sillier every time I say it. "Play the game by making sure never to see an enemy and just pick up loot and/or get bigger numbers."

yeah it stacks, i've checked. yes totems are strong but i don't like the idea too kill off screen so i try not too if i can. also this setup allows me to quickly switch my totem spell from arctic breath to fireball or to spark which makes it versatile. poison arrow can't kill me either btw cause of my hp regen per sec is so high from uniques and passives (multiple projects is pain too fyi)... oh and it's also worth mentioning that the reduced mana from the iron gauntlets is negligible due to BM!
(totally going to try bear trap now) :D

glhf

seems like ive been lied to.. damn