Hyaon's Fury - Make it work!

I may give Cyclone a try (the lightning madness of LS already starts to annoy me ^^), but the high mana cost seems pretty brutal (30-36), without mana leech on gear.

Thats why you need EB and good mana regen. This way you will always have enough mana to cast cyclone.

I use Aegis Aurora, so EB sounds pretty legit. ;)

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I'm atm heavily considering to drop the Frenzy charges.

I lose:
* +72% lightning damage
* A bit of shield block, as I wouldn't go near Ranger
* Attackspeed, both from frenzy and Ranger zone

I gain:
* Instead of Blood Dance, I can wear shoes like this:

* Skipping the Ranger zone and the frenzy charges gets me about 30 skillpoints. These would go into all kinds of WED, elemental damage, lightning damage. iE near templar. I'll be pretty close to the lost 72%.
* The drawback is nonexistent now.

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Peterlerock wrote:

I use Aegis Aurora, so EB sounds pretty legit. ;)

You don´t have to use it, otherwise just use a bm gem then.

Yeah, seems like a softcore sword to me. A death wish in hc for sure, and also seems another badly designed unique overall ... just a higher maximum roll on lightning damage but still terrible minimum damage, without high base crit or aps to compensate. Increased damage per frenzy charge is whack at 6% per, and it would MAYBE be justified had the damage per charge been a more wording, not increased. And life on kill ... what a joke affix. Even if you find a way to offset the damage taken, I cannot see any build racking up headturning numbers with this in the dps department. Or else, they would have to become insane glass cannons with 3/4 of the tree dedicated to dmg, that in addition to the dmg taken / charge = squishy sc only build.

Now that I reached a point where I'd say "totally playable and enjoyable", I wrote a little guide:

Hyaon's Lightning Melee Witch Guide

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just a higher maximum roll on lightning damage

The sword has ~400 Elemental DpS (if you ignore the frenzy stuff alltogether), that sounds pretty legit.

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Peterlerock wrote:

Now that I reached a point where I'd say "totally playable and enjoyable", I wrote a little guide:

Hyaon's Lightning Melee Witch Guide

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just a higher maximum roll on lightning damage

The sword has ~400 Elemental DpS (if you ignore the frenzy stuff alltogether), that sounds pretty legit.

No I mean if you played lightning builds, like arc and storm call in my case, you know its not the same as 400 dps with a range of 100-300 at 2 aps, for example. Dps doesnt necessarily mean you get the average drawn out multiple times in a second, when I tried arc I would hit stuff for 2-3 seconds sometimes doing no dmg to them almost. Frustrating.

That is one thing I dislike about lightning damage, the high roll could be 1000, the minimum roll is still 1.

This sword could have some decent to good base crit and aps to make up for it.

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

That is one thing I dislike about lightning damage, the high roll could be 1000, the minimum roll is still 1.

But tis is actually something you can deal with.
Sometines you are lucky and onehsoot a couple of monsters, sometimes your attacks are wasted, and most of times it is something in between.
It's not that horrible to have a huge span in damage.

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Peterlerock wrote:

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

That is one thing I dislike about lightning damage, the high roll could be 1000, the minimum roll is still 1.

But tis is actually something you can deal with.
Sometines you are lucky and onehsoot a couple of monsters, sometimes your attacks are wasted, and most of times it is something in between.
It's not that horrible to have a huge span in damage.

Different people have different tastes, I hated that about lightning

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Peterlerock wrote:

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

That is one thing I dislike about lightning damage, the high roll could be 1000, the minimum roll is still 1.

But tis is actually something you can deal with.
Sometines you are lucky and onehsoot a couple of monsters, sometimes your attacks are wasted, and most of times it is something in between.
It's not that horrible to have a huge span in damage.

Technically with arc you can deal with that kind of spikiness since it's non-target good range spell (which means allowes you to kite very effectively), while with thsi sword you are in melee (unless ST, but pure ele dagger ST would be million times better, or LS, but physical weapon is better with it). So yeah, it is not a very good weapon, they really went overboard with teh drawback, it didn't need such a massive one.