[1.3] HvR's Crit Shockwave 3M Beyond Witch - Beginner Friendly - Atziri Down

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Final Beyond Char Stats
Level 96
4159 HP + 1400 Unreserved Mana (5559)
75 All Res
Level 22 AA
267.1 Mana Regen
33.3 Life Regen
221 IIR (278 Flask & 18 IIQ) No Rarity Gem

DPS:
58K DPS Per Totem with a single Voidbattery and one 5chaos wand
48K DPS Per Totem with dual 5chaos wands
32.5K DPS Per totem with dual lifesprigs
(These numbers are with Maligaros and a 21swt, its around ~2-4K dps less with aurseize. Also Keep in mind the stats are using the 1.2 Skill Tree)

Keystones:
Ancestral Bond
Eldritch Battery
Mind over Matter (from Cloak of Defiance)









Gear
Look at my character(s) progression and see what I use/do at various levels for assistance.

LINKS



4L
SWT - FASTER CASTING - CONC EFFECT/ADDED FIRE - INC AOE/ADDED FIRE

5L
SWT - FASTER CASTING - CONC EFFECT - INC AOE - CRIT DMG/ADDED FIRE

Feel free to swap the above links to suit your needs (more dps, more rarity, more aoe, etc).
Added fire will be better early on when your crit chance is low, but you will eventually want to swap to Crit Dmg for optimal clear speed.

Use Vulnerability while leveling but swap to Assassin's Mark later on in maps once you start getting your crit chance up and can maintain power charges via ice spear.



Recommended Auras
Clarity + Hatred + Herald of Thunder when using a Cloak of Defiance
Consider adding Herald of Ice and Herald of Ashe along with taking Sovereignty in the passive tree for even more DPS if you are using a non-MoM chest such as carcass jack.

BANDITS: OAK OAK ALIRA



FAQ:

Q: I'm a total noob can I do this as a beginner?
Yes, its very beginner friendly and is a great introduction to game mechanics.

Q: Where do I go first as witch?
Go for Dual totem first than get EB. Level with SWT/Searing Bond/Freeze pulse until you get it.

Q: Can I do this as another class?
I believe witch is the most optimal but shadow and templar aren't too bad either.

Q: What affects my SWTs damage?
Spell damage, Physical Damage, Global Critical Strike Chance, Spell Critical Strike Chance, Critical Strike Multiplier, and Increased Cast Speed.

Q: Do I need to go crit?
No, you can scale SWT without it but crit is a very small investment for a huge increase in damage. Every time you go non crit swt I die a bit inside.

Q: How are you doing 48K DPS with 5 chaos wands and I'm stuck at 5K DPS per totem?!?
SWT, like any other spell, scales very well with gem levels and the character levels because there are a lot of solid damage nodes in the tree. If you have the extra cash and want damage now, you can purchase a level 19-21 SWT to bump your clear speed. From personal experience on both of my characters, I believe I've had a "day" where I was sitting around 4-5K DPS per totem and ended the day at around 17-20K+ DPS. The following days my damage usually increased by large amounts as well.

Q: How are you using Ice Spear with the Ancestral Bond Keystone? What is Ice Spear's purpose?
The wording on Ancestral Bond is: "You can't deal damage with your Skills yourself". That does not mean I can't use skill's myself, I can use any skill I want it just won't do any damage (traps are an exception). Ice spear has a really high base crit chance of 7% with 600% increased critical strike chance in it's second form. Due to it's high rate of critical strikes (which do 0 damage), in combination with GMP (so I don't have to be super accurate), faster casting, and Power Charge on Crit (69% Chance to gain a power charge on critical strike at 20/20) it's a prime candidate to increase my critical strike chance and my spell damage (4% Increased Spell damage per Power Charge node above Instability in Witch).

Q: If your Ice Spear does 0 damage, how do you freeze and shatter stuff?
One of the ways status ailments are applied is through critical strikes, however, you must do enough damage to meet or surpass the minimum duration for the status ailment to take effect. My Ice spear does 0 damage so it will never meet the minimum duration to freeze a target.
However, hatred adds a % of your physical damage as cold damage. With large amount's of critical strike multiplier you can easily surpass the minimum duration to freeze mobs and shatter everything.

Q: Why Cloak of Defiance?
Cloak of Defiance = Eseentially 40% dmg reduction vs hits that do not 1 shot you if you have enough mana regen. Excellent vs smaller hits, weaker vs bigger hits. Work's against both ELE and PHYS damage.
Lighting coil = No MoM, EB is debatable to gain extra es = less mana regen. More ehp vs phys, less ehp vs ele. Good for physical one shots and small damage. Doesn't help too much against ELE damage (However since we no longer have the MoM keystone we can run purity of lightning now).
Carcass Jack = DPS Chest with the 20% inc aoe. No MoM, getting EB is debatable to gain extra ES however you will have less mana regen. Weakest in terms of defence with my tree in my opinion, however in theory should provide the highest clear speed. If there were no beyond mobs, I would consider this chest.
Note: I'll most likely be using a 20+ AA and CWDT + IC + Inc Duration with a self-cast Enduring Cry for frequent 3-5+ Seconds of Physical Immunity. I believe with the correct play style and these forms of mitigation Cloak of Defiance is the best choice for the most EHP vs Beyond Mobs which allows an aggressive play style for maximum clear speed.

Q: Dual wield wands or wand/dagger + shield?
Dual wield wands / dual wield divinarius for maximum dps. Use a shield for survivability. My personal opinion is that you won't need to use a shield till late end game (75+ Maps). However if you do use a shield, I recommend getting spell damage on it. I'm chaining 77+ Maps solo with dual wands and I'm feeling fine. DPS is a strong form of survivability.

Q: Why don't you run Herald of Ash?
I lose around ~540 Mana for a couple thousand dps boost. The trade is not worth it all since Mana = Life with the Mind over Matter Keystone and the increase in clear speed is negligible.

Q: How is the mobility without a quicksilver?
20/20 Lightning Warp + 20/20 Reduced Duration is all you need to move extremely fast. You can combo this with faster casting and the cast speed from your tree/gear for Enigma-esque movement. A thought experiment if you're debating a quicksilver vs another flask. Would you take 10% Maximum Resist or 70% Movement speed?

Q: How do you live without a Granite?
Cast When Damage Taken + Immortal Call + Increased Duration with a self cast Enduring Cry is all I need for physical damage. This setup gives me 3-5+ seconds of 100% physical immunity on a regular basis. I don't think self casting enduring cry is a waste of time since there is a small downtime while you are waiting for your totems to kill stuff.

Q: Is this build expensive?
You can play this build 100% self found. The only items I bought are Cloak of Defiance (for MoM keystone, costs around 1.5-3ex unlinked), divinarius (1.5-2.5ex - this item is NOT mandatory*), atziri's foible (2-5c), and maligaros (7-15c).

*I'll repeat it again, divinarius is not mandatory. Divinarius has 0% cast speed, you can get up to 22% on a wand, cast speed is really important for the build. You can craft your own wand by transmuting white wands until you get either spell damage or cast speed and add the other via Catarina's crafting bench. Once you have a basic spelldmg and cast speed wand you can repeat the process and add spell critical strike on your wands.

Q: Can I go MF with this?
Yes, I played an mf variant with an IIR gem and aurseize at the start to acquire currency.

Q: How nice is this build?
It's a NiceBuild™

nice build

is this build viable for beyond solo play? :)

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Discotank wrote:

is this build viable for beyond solo play? :)

I'm solo 80%+ of the time, yes it is.

Do you think that is Atziri capable?

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vrez wrote:

Do you think that is Atziri capable?

Capable? Yes.(?) Optimal? I doubt it but I haven't reached a high enough level to see how it fares end game.
Fight 1 would be saffels + puritys.
Fight 2 should be a joke with AA, mom, cwdt ic.
Fight 3 again should be doable but without armour the spears will chunk for a lot of damage. Also I have to dodge most abilities instead of a character that can just facetank. Another character is probably better for this.

Dropping my offhand for defense sucks because it is a huge source of damage for the build and I would prefer not too.

Can you tell me about your clear speeds compared to other builds?

NICE，Build

ripped to vaal molten shell monkey totem crazyness, rerolling this Nice Build, so far so good! <3 you

I'm using this build and I love it so far. I recommend you change the order on your 4L, increased aoe is much better at lower levels than conc effect


Very Nice.Build!!