Path of Exile

Jabberwhacky said:

Is Spellslinger gonna be SSF friendly at all? Being SSF 4 lyfe I've never got to dabble with Poet's Pen, so I'm wondering how far the gem could feasibly get me (roughly speaking).

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Well it seems to hold on its own tbh, I don't know how easy/hard it is to craft wands nowadays but since this is kind of a mixed damage archetype(your attack damage is added to the spells supported by spellslinger and your caster mods on the wands obviously affect the spells that are triggered), it probably would work more than fine yeah. And since they had to nerf it before it even launched, it stands to reason it was pretty fucking strong in alpha already and so it should remain strong(they just made it a bit more annyoing to use instead of reducing power). Since it's going to be largely spell scaling too(can scale the attack but don't have to), it'll be strong early on since all you need are gem levels. And since it works off separate triggers it won't REQUIRE a 6L right away like a cast on crit setup would. Although you'll probably want to farm tabula and get that 6L spellslinger going asap.

So yeah should be fine.

You can only support the base rune laying skill with totems, the 2nd active can't be tied to a totem you have to channel yourself. So it can't be done as a pure totem build.

You vastly underestimate how Archmage works.

First it checks the BASE cost of the spell. So in that case, it compares 6% of your unreserved mana to 5. Obviously 6% is going to be higher in most cases unless you reserve everything. Then once it picked 6%, that's the BASE cost of the spell, not the final cost. Now you apply all your supports to that 6%. Since your final mana cost example was 20, that means you have for example 1.3, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.1 and 1.2 as support(I just typed random numbers until I got 20 it's technically a 7L but fuck redoing the math). Now you apply that to 32, so your spell now costs 159mana. *1.27 is 203, so it adds 210-337 lightning damage or an average of 273 damage.

So it's not THAT good in that example, but 500 unreserved mana is absolutely not a good comparison case. If you were to build for archmage, you'd aim for a much bigger amount of unreserved mana, especially since you can use that mana with arcane cloak too so it's not "wasted". A better example would probably around 2000 unreserved mana, and now you're at 600mana cost, adding 870 lightning flat damage per spell. Which is a fucking substantial amount. There's obviously the logistics of generating the cost back to spam, but it's a lot of damage. It'll be best on spells that do damage for minimal cost like brands and orb of lightning(cast once then just wait).

Derkon said:

Thinking league starting necro animate weapon. If it ends up feeling too clunky I can easily respec to spectres and try out anything new there.

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Biggest concern so far I have with AW is the mana cost. It's high(not retarded like live, but still), and you kinda want to reserve a lot cause so many good auras. I think for mapping it won't be so bad since you can "ramp up" but for bosses it's gonna be quite messy to summon 15+weapons(assuming it keeps scaling but even if not 14) when you need 2secs of mana regen per summon. The mace is going to be a big must have for this shit, but it's going to be expensive as all fuck since it's super rare(tempest league item).

Could use Chains of Command but you're capped at lvl 20(when without you'll probably get like lvl 25+, maybe more depending on how you build and how the scaling goes) and it has its own quirks with writhing jars and all that shit. Spellslinger would require too much mana and between the support and the lack of auras I doubt it'll be that good, leaves hmm, maybe that bow that summons minions, although that requires a somewhat complex setup(probably need to run ele with ele focus to prevent dots, since phys would have vuln bleeds).

I'm not 100% convinced how I'm gonna fix the issue so far, just kinda seeing how it'll go. I guess EB could be an option, although it's kinda expensive to get. So far I've replaced Multistrike by Deathmark and have gotten some mana cost reduction stuff so it costs "only" 33mana, which is nice enough. Maybe a -15 body could help too, but that shit's gonna be costly.