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Penance

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Yea i wouldn't want to push boneshatter to ubers, but with minimal investment you can complete atlas and have a great mapping character. The only mod i don't do is reflect phys and that's only because I'm too lazy to spec into it. If i was doing 100 maps at a time I'd group all my phys reflect into one but I just alch and go and I'd rather reroll the map. The clear and speed for investment really is S tier for starting.
 
ronne

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Yea I shelved the trauma jugg after a few more hours leveling. It's just not gonna be worth the squeeze in the end, and basically having to use frostbreath means your base attack speed is so bad it's never really gonna feel good.

Raider time it is. Maybe rakiatas? Probably lightning strike? Maybe molten strike depending on how lightning strike feels, but it all scales basically the same way.

I'll probably try reave for a bit with that weird heist sword I found doing full conversion but I'm pretty sure that's gonna be awful.
 
Slaanesh69

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Deathwing said:
The ramp is definitely painful(get it?). I wouldn't recommend any serious bossing with boneshatter nor trauma support. The stun pulse chaining on boneshatter is pretty fun though, reminds me of old explodey chest.

I'd say boneshatter is popular because it's probably the best skill for hitting shit with a stick while being tanky. Most people league start it but don't take into serious bossing, so it doesn't have pushed to the limits where most melee builds show their weaknesses.
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I started to feel the boneshatter creep of melee pain starting at 80 and slowly went back to my EA totem build. I have enough divines now to invest in better gear for both, but I am leaning towards a third build of some sort lol.

Melee is really shit in this game.

Edit - ronne ronne spends his life every league trying to find something redeemable in melee. I respect the fortitude.
 
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Slaanesh69

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Also, what's eveyone's preferred dominant mechanic for Atlas boosting? I have been doing Ritual but the rewards have been garbage so I am going to spec into something else.

I will do Blight for a while to get enough oils to make my amulet, but aside from that I tend to default to Expedition.

Edit - Expedition with a side order of Harvest usually.
 
Penance

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ronne said:
Yea I shelved the trauma jugg after a few more hours leveling. It's just not gonna be worth the squeeze in the end, and basically having to use frostbreath means your base attack speed is so bad it's never really gonna feel good.

Raider time it is. Maybe rakiatas? Probably lightning strike? Maybe molten strike depending on how lightning strike feels, but it all scales basically the same way.

I'll probably try reave for a bit with that weird heist sword I found doing full conversion but I'm pretty sure that's gonna be awful.
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Maybe CI jugg with the new keystone tatoo?
 
lost

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made a poison spark occultist and its wreckin sanctum. just bouncing sparks off the walls to hit mobs, plus 72% evasion doesnt hurt.
 
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I do delirium, abyss, breach. Just kind of mow down tons of shit and sell off jewels and belts
 
Aazrael

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Decided to try a Skellington mages as a second build. Following Ghazzy or whatever he is called. In the PoB no items have resists but somehow it shows over max resists on the stats window. When I bought a few items my resists went up to like +54% without me knowing why.

Is it something in the Tree that does it? Too overwhelming to try looking myself.
 
Penance

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You can go to calcs in POB hover over the resists and get a breakdown of where they come from
 
Arbitrary

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Aazrael said:
Decided to try a Skellington mages as a second build. Following Ghazzy or whatever he is called. In the PoB no items have resists but somehow it shows over max resists on the stats window. When I bought a few items my resists went up to like +54% without me knowing why.

Is it something in the Tree that does it? Too overwhelming to try looking myself.
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If you're looking at Ghazzy's starter build with stock placeholder items he just assumes fixed resists. You can see in the configuration he's added +100 to all of them.
 
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Arbitrary said:
If you're looking at Ghazzy's starter build with stock placeholder items he just assumes fixed resists. You can see in the configuration he's added +100 to all of them.
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Ah thanks, guess I just got spoiled by Phox guide that listed everything. But I'm not sure why my shield gives tons of resists when I equip it, they all go to like 54%.
 
Penance

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Arbitrary said:
If you're looking at Ghazzy's starter build with stock placeholder items he just assumes fixed resists. You can see in the configuration he's added +100 to all of them.
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Good call forgot about that

Ah thanks, guess I just got spoiled by Phox guide that listed everything. But I'm not sure why my shield gives tons of resists when I equip it, they all go to like 54%.
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Import your toon in pob and check calcs
 
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Aazrael said:
Ah thanks, guess I just got spoiled by Phox guide that listed everything. But I'm not sure why my shield gives tons of resists when I equip it, they all go to like 54%.
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Some nodes have "X modifications to your pets also effect you", not sure if resists is one but I know there was an attack/attack speed (?) one.
 
Aazrael

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Thanks for the help! I imported the character to PoB and some were from Skill Tree and noticed a "condition using shield" for some of the resist!
 
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So I know I'm totally lame when I say this. But I'm almost up to getting the first full armor set from the achievements. Quite pleased by that since I own zero complete armor sets.
 
Khane

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Goddammit, every day I play I make a bunch of currency, and think I'm that much closer to finishing this build with a mageblood, and every day the price of mageblood goes up by like 20d. What the fuck?!
 
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ronne

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Khane said:
Goddammit, every day I play I make a bunch of currency, and think I'm that much closer to finishing this build with a mageblood, and every day the price of mageblood goes up by like 20d. What the fuck?!
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Yea with sanctum/trials printing divines like they do you have to buy up mirror cards or apothecaries or some similar card to not get absolutely crushed by inflation daily.
 
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Deathwing

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Especially since the people printing divines are a significant portion of the playerbase that wants a mageblood.
 
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