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If you leave effects on, he does big damage, but otherwise he doesn't seem too scary. Also fairly easy to avoid.
Best defense is offense though, I did him earlier on merc with my summoner, he died after doing one move(he jumped which was easy to avoid). With the new Necro spec you can get 50 SRS up before he spawns, which basically melts him in seconds.
Also trap builds are super squishy in general? No leeching, need a lot of points invested in trap nodes+pathing, they tend to be very glass cannon, even more so than most casters, only positive thing for survivability is they're immune to reflect since dmg is reflected to the traps.
Best defense is offense though, I did him earlier on merc with my summoner, he died after doing one move(he jumped which was easy to avoid). With the new Necro spec you can get 50 SRS up before he spawns, which basically melts him in seconds.
Also trap builds are super squishy in general? No leeching, need a lot of points invested in trap nodes+pathing, they tend to be very glass cannon, even more so than most casters, only positive thing for survivability is they're immune to reflect since dmg is reflected to the traps.
Nirgon
Log Wizard
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Can leech with Dolyani i think but prob not entirely necessary
I'm going to play groups and just throw detonate dead and desecrate traps + as many curses as I can (enfeeble/chains)
Smoke mine is also awesome for HC, never ran it before and multiple trap bear trap shreds cc
Should be enough outs
edit: vaal fireball from a trap is retarded single target dps, every fireball hits whatever is on top of it
I'm going to play groups and just throw detonate dead and desecrate traps + as many curses as I can (enfeeble/chains)
Smoke mine is also awesome for HC, never ran it before and multiple trap bear trap shreds cc
Should be enough outs
edit: vaal fireball from a trap is retarded single target dps, every fireball hits whatever is on top of it
I wish they would make it so you could try and throw some loaded dice for your helmet enchant. I need to get some some sort of Reave enchantment on my Rat's Nest and it is just such a huge pool of enchantments it can pick from its really, really hard to get the one you want.
I haven't played this in a long while, so I picked it backup with some friends that have been playing on Perandus league.
I got to say playing melee has never been more enjoyable. Been rolling with an Earthquake build and having a blast with, especially with a Marohi Erqi.
I got to say playing melee has never been more enjoyable. Been rolling with an Earthquake build and having a blast with, especially with a Marohi Erqi.
I have to agree with you on this one. Getting increased flame shot arrow damage or ice shot damage a few times, feels kind of diminishing after doing multiple Lab runs.
Nirgon
Log Wizard
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Found this iron commander bow... switching builds cuz I solo a ton 8)
Cannot imagine having 4+ of these up just running thru areas and dropping them. I had an 8 qual siege ballista I found too.
Also have an 8 qual glacial hammer if anyone wants to start one of those builds/chars
Cannot imagine having 4+ of these up just running thru areas and dropping them. I had an 8 qual siege ballista I found too.
Also have an 8 qual glacial hammer if anyone wants to start one of those builds/chars
Nirgon
Log Wizard
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Drill neck gives damage based on pierce chance. Ballista is already 100% and I bet if you have pierce support added to the ballista that would add another massive amount of damage even if over 100% pierce is pointless.
Drill neck also good to science with a vaal orb I bet too. Need to see what quivers can get.
Drill neck also good to science with a vaal orb I bet too. Need to see what quivers can get.
Caliane
Avatar of War Slayer
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yeah, drillneck was a no brainer.
static electricity jewels are GG for it.
you want attack speed. last season everyone went elemental seige ballista. WED,slow proj,faster attacks, auras, just scaled better. iron commander has no elem on it directly though. and, since you don't have to go all the way over to AB, you aren't near templar elem nodes. so, more variance in build.
Because it scales with your bow stats, the totem specific nodes are rarely super useful. although the ones near scion life node are worth it.
Scion would be fine. duelist champion fine. or any of the standard rangers, slaughter raider, pathfinder, or farshot/+1proj. SB has an insanely high range as well.
old build used AB, which removed all secondary attack damage. you can still get damage from blink/mirror arrow with iron commander, as well as frenzy, coh+chain
static electricity jewels are GG for it.
you want attack speed. last season everyone went elemental seige ballista. WED,slow proj,faster attacks, auras, just scaled better. iron commander has no elem on it directly though. and, since you don't have to go all the way over to AB, you aren't near templar elem nodes. so, more variance in build.
Because it scales with your bow stats, the totem specific nodes are rarely super useful. although the ones near scion life node are worth it.
Scion would be fine. duelist champion fine. or any of the standard rangers, slaughter raider, pathfinder, or farshot/+1proj. SB has an insanely high range as well.
old build used AB, which removed all secondary attack damage. you can still get damage from blink/mirror arrow with iron commander, as well as frenzy, coh+chain
My poor man's headhunter build is pretty much complete on my Raider. Its alright but doubt I'll ever roll it again. The ability steal from Yellows is novel at best but mostly you can never fully predict your toon's power level which I find somewhat tedious. But I'm running 7 Frenzy charges and the Ascendency where I gain Onslaught on-kill and +3%MS/IAS per Frenzy charge. So even without stealing something like faster attack my self-buffed IAS is ~300%. Then Reave just mows through everything. I still need to 5L my body armor and get a Reave enchant on my helm.
I also don't really like evasion builds in this game. Sometimes you can "tank" a fuckton of damage and other times you just die in a blink of the eye. Its somewhat annoying.
I also don't really like evasion builds in this game. Sometimes you can "tank" a fuckton of damage and other times you just die in a blink of the eye. Its somewhat annoying.
Mostly through the keystones on the right side which allow you to dodge projectiles and spells. Those are your real threats. You shouldn't really be standing toe-to-toe too often with melee mobiles. But like I said sometimes RNG will just fuck you and you die anyways.
khalid
Unelected Mod
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So went with two extremes this league. A low-life crit spark scion and a max block/spell block static striker templar. Really having fun with both and end up switching back and forth. So many kickass ascendency classes.
The only thing I dislike about the ascendency classes is how it makes me feel a bit pigeonholed in some builds into starting with some classes over others. In the past I felt you had more leeway in this decision.
The only thing I dislike about the ascendency classes is how it makes me feel a bit pigeonholed in some builds into starting with some classes over others. In the past I felt you had more leeway in this decision.
Xequecal
Trump's Staff
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Evasion isn't random, if you have 50% evade you evade every other hit exactly. You can't take a bunch of rng hits in a row.
What is a good spell to use with CWDT/Curse on Hit to apply max level curses that won't also get you instakilled by Lightning Thorns? I used ball lightning and lost my last HC character to the promenade boss setting it off, I gibbed almost instantaneously as soon as the lightning ball got in range of her.
Zaphid
Trakanon Raider
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Didn't they change that in 2.2 ? I remember it being a pain with Blade vortex last league. Would something like frost nova work ?