The guide is already updated with Herald of Thunder.
On a side note: I obtained a 20/20 HoT and reached almost exactly 3 million DPS now (see spreadsheet). Normal atziri is an almost guaranteed one-shot from 100 to 0 now. :)
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Last edited by Tom94#4433 on Oct 26, 2014, 3:22:13 PM
Just thought I'd post and share a very viable alternative setup to acuity's for those of us on Rampage (where they are practically unattainable) I'm sure Vaal pact has been mentioned before, but here's my setup, and my DPS loss is pretty minimal. (relative to just switching to acuity's. Since I'm running this on rampage, most of my gear still needs work.)
You could think of this as a mid-range shatterchuck setup. Not cheap, but not 400+ex (besides the Shav's, the rest of my gear is about 10ex lol)
Alright, so without acuity's you run vaal pact. With Vaal pact you have to run life leech gem in chest AND get about 5 life gain-on-hit to cast barrage. (i have 3 on my wand and 2 on a ring, Could also go with 2-3 lgoh and an eleron ring or ammy)
The problem is obviously dropping a link for life leech. Instead of dropping a spell like arc, i dropped PCOC. To make up for this, I run a power charge generation setup on my gloves (Barrage-COC-Arc-PCOC). I'm currently testing different power charge generators, but like this so far. Per Cast, I get a charge for each barrage cast (1) and for each COC arc (generally 2). I attack ~4 times a second, so usually i get full charges in 1 second. TO maintain these charges, I just need to weave in an attack every ~14 seconds (or use a doedre's elixir and weave an attack every 28 seconds)
**note/edit I've tried the Herald curse on hit Assassin's mark for power charges. Didn't like it as much. Didn't have complete control over generating power charges and for atziri would need to find a different solution.***
So, to run the PCOC generator U need to drop some gem's and/or run unset rings (unset rings would use Blood rage/Righteous Fire) Yes you lose some crit, BUT if you look at the Skill tree, I make up the lost crit by grabbing the best nodes for this build on the entire tree....Eagle eye, conveniently located by....vaal pact.
With these changes, I still can run Herald of Ice, Herald of Thunder, Discipline, all purity's, and haste. I also kept my Immortal call setup. I still empower my purity of fire and Discipline (for 97% fire res). I had to drop an enhance'd bloodrage and cast bloodrage from my unset. However since you grab Berserking (18% ias) I have a net increase in IAS even after dropping enhance. (about 6-10% ias depending on ur enhance gem level)
I hope some of you find this helpful. Don't despair if you can't/don't have God-mode Gloves. Vaal pact is still very viable but you need to make some sacrifices.
Here's some of my gear links
Spoiler
dude so good build and nice mid expensive version I think total cost like 6l shav + 10 ex. Did you try uber and can you post your dps? (artic breath /ice spear/arc whatever you use)
I also wondering you are using bm and you took mana nodes from tree(witch start) instead of es?
Last edited by BigJobless#2492 on Oct 27, 2014, 11:11:02 AM
I dont understand how you reach more critical chance with barrage when using wand and shield.
Because void battery got Global critical and for the wand/shield its spell critical...
Something i missed ?
I absolutely adore this build. Thank you for taking the time to write this up. I just finished acquiring the gear I needed for this build after weeks of saving. I still don't have the Atziri's gloves but it is working great without them. It's gonna take another few weeks of saving to get the gloves.
Just thought I'd post and share a very viable alternative setup to acuity's for those of us on Rampage (where they are practically unattainable) I'm sure Vaal pact has been mentioned before, but here's my setup, and my DPS loss is pretty minimal. (relative to just switching to acuity's. Since I'm running this on rampage, most of my gear still needs work.)
You could think of this as a mid-range shatterchuck setup. Not cheap, but not 400+ex (besides the Shav's, the rest of my gear is about 10ex lol)
Alright, so without acuity's you run vaal pact. With Vaal pact you have to run life leech gem in chest AND get about 5 life gain-on-hit to cast barrage. (i have 3 on my wand and 2 on a ring, Could also go with 2-3 lgoh and an eleron ring or ammy)
The problem is obviously dropping a link for life leech. Instead of dropping a spell like arc, i dropped PCOC. To make up for this, I run a power charge generation setup on my gloves (Barrage-COC-Arc-PCOC). I'm currently testing different power charge generators, but like this so far. Per Cast, I get a charge for each barrage cast (1) and for each COC arc (generally 2). I attack ~4 times a second, so usually i get full charges in 1 second. TO maintain these charges, I just need to weave in an attack every ~14 seconds (or use a doedre's elixir and weave an attack every 28 seconds)
**note/edit I've tried the Herald curse on hit Assassin's mark for power charges. Didn't like it as much. Didn't have complete control over generating power charges and for atziri would need to find a different solution.***
So, to run the PCOC generator U need to drop some gem's and/or run unset rings (unset rings would use Blood rage/Righteous Fire) Yes you lose some crit, BUT if you look at the Skill tree, I make up the lost crit by grabbing the best nodes for this build on the entire tree....Eagle eye, conveniently located by....vaal pact.
With these changes, I still can run Herald of Ice, Herald of Thunder, Discipline, all purity's, and haste. I also kept my Immortal call setup. I still empower my purity of fire and Discipline (for 97% fire res). I had to drop an enhance'd bloodrage and cast bloodrage from my unset. However since you grab Berserking (18% ias) I have a net increase in IAS even after dropping enhance. (about 6-10% ias depending on ur enhance gem level)
I hope some of you find this helpful. Don't despair if you can't/don't have God-mode Gloves. Vaal pact is still very viable but you need to make some sacrifices.
Here's some of my gear links
Spoiler
wow i was there flipping pages trying to find out if anyone has a solution w/o acuity. And i cant believe it was at the near end of the page lol! So i see you dropped vitality right? By getting mods like +3 lgoh on rings, or maybe -5 or 8 mana cost on rings or watsoever to sustain barrage's mana cost. Correct me if i'm wrong. Nicely done, exactly what i'm looking for.
However, i already bought a failed corrupted lvl3 enhance gem...well that will be a waste of ex, but what done is done. And erm, i'm just wondering, is it viable to run the build w/o any changes with total 2% cold leech w/o acuity gloves? And my wand only have like around 9.52 local crit...but 84% spell dmg and 24% lightning dmg and 66% spell crit...so far cant find any wand better than that..
The 2nd one can also get the elemental leech mod. The build feels a lot less squishy with 2% leech vs 1% especially without acuity vs relect mobs. 2% leech and an ok ES shield is better than double void batteries for normal mapping in my opinion. Much cheaper as well.
hmm, so 2% leech is ok to go with normal build w/o acuity? okay imma go ahead n try
