[2.5] Tempada's Dreamfeather Lightning Flurry Raider: Acro, Alpha's/Blood Dance/QotF, 200k+ DPS

Bit worried about Life Leech as well, with the newly placed Vaal Pact it might just be worth picking that up. Can't get AOE on jewels? Or is it only Area Damage?



Slightly different tree around the acro/ondars area - more life, less atk speed and frenzy charge duration - but right next to brutal blade/slashing comeback, acuity and ondars, and gets vaal pact. also only has 1 jewel socket - potential for TONS of attack speed with those

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dandan88 wrote:

Bit worried about Life Leech as well, with the newly placed Vaal Pact it might just be worth picking that up. Can't get AOE on jewels? Or is it only Area Damage?

I dunno about Vaal Pact... I tend to think of that as a node for crit characters. Is it worth giving up 3.6% life regen? What about the extra 6-8% regen you can get with Blood Dance + Blood Rage + Frenzy Charges? I think it's best to ignore Vaal Pact and rely on a combination of regen and leech.

Are you going to link your attack to Blood Magic or Mana Leech? If damage numbers are higher than I expect, I'll drop damage nodes and invest in mana instead so neither gem is needed.

I'd love to hear how it goes if you try out the phys build in beta.

Oh, and I don't think you can get increased AoE on jewels (outside of the unique unarmed one), just increased area damage.

You're probably right about Vaal Pact, between potions, regen and evasion/dodge the leech nerf shouldn't be enough to warrant VP. I will probably run Blood Magic until better gear/high levels. I'm trying to level in the beta at the mo but having instance loading issues..

Also... Ice Crash?

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dandan88 wrote:

Also... Ice Crash?

:O

Ice Crash sounds very nice. It allows you to wield a crap Dreamfeather in your off hand and no Multistrike means an extra gem slot. Lightning Strike and, to a lesser degree, Spectral Throw work too. Hooray for variety!

In past posts, you said that a Spectral Throw version of the build was doable and had the skill tree linked but emphasized the need to go crit with ST but the tree has barely any crit. Is this still relevant?

My girlfriend was inspired to try the ST version and I will admit most of our stuff is self found/cheaply bought sub exalts but she was only achieving 1.9k with ST-LMP-WED-Faster Attacks-Added lightning as a five link at lvl 74. Obviously the 6th link is missing there but I was unsure if there were better alternatives based on lack of your own testing and such. I didn't know if there was any advice on how to push ST higher as we were unsure if elemental based was the way to go at this point to still aim for in gear or if crit needed to be involved. I saw that you were reaching 11k with your testing and it seems like a long ways off to even start mapping with her character in comparison. Certain regen rares and such take forever even in docks.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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PleiadesBlackstar wrote:

In past posts, you said that a Spectral Throw version of the build was doable and had the skill tree linked but emphasized the need to go crit with ST but the tree has barely any crit. Is this still relevant?

My earlier thoughts on ST are not still relevant. ST stinks in live unless you go crit dagger (and even then it's not worth it unless you have killer gear).

Dreamfeather's getting a physical damage boost in The Awakening, and I think Dreamfeather Spectral Throw will be "viable" there with Frenzy Charges + Blood Dance + Blood Rage (plenty of regen and leech to sustain ST linked to Blood Magic) and heading into the Duelist area... But honestly it's far from the best choice. Cleave should be best in terms of tooltip damage, Reave will be excellent thanks to a buff and its gem color, Ice Crash is looking good, and Lightning Strike will probably be up there too. Spectral Throw could really use a buff.

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Tempada wrote:

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PleiadesBlackstar wrote:

In past posts, you said that a Spectral Throw version of the build was doable and had the skill tree linked but emphasized the need to go crit with ST but the tree has barely any crit. Is this still relevant?

My earlier thoughts on ST are not still relevant. ST stinks in live unless you go crit dagger (and even then it's not worth it unless you have killer gear).

Dreamfeather's getting a physical damage boost in The Awakening, and I think Dreamfeather Spectral Throw will be "viable" there with Frenzy Charges + Blood Dance + Blood Rage (plenty of regen and leech to sustain ST linked to Blood Magic) and heading into the Duelist area... But honestly it's far from the best choice. Cleave should be best in terms of tooltip damage, Reave will be excellent thanks to a buff and its gem color, Ice Crash is looking good, and Lightning Strike will probably be up there too. Spectral Throw could really use a buff.

Thank you very much for the reply. After my girlfriend got home from work yesterday she decided that it was too much of a hassle to attempt so many changes but still wanted to do something a little different. We ended up switching colors for Molten Strike and she is happy with the 7.5k it currently does. She is looking at Ice Crash for post-patch potentially.

Hello all!

I am following this guide with my first toon and I am pretty satisfied with it. It is fun to play, fast and I didn't have many problems with most maps I tried. I still haven't tried Crematorium (Crematorium from Zana's daily, which is lower level, is pain the ass already :D) and lvl 78+ maps. I once encountered Death and Taxes map (from Zana in another map) and killed only 1st form (I was attacking frost form on his way to 2nd portal - only to later realize he's immune to damage between forms...).
So, what I am wondering is: it is possible to clear maps like Death and Taxes, Hall of Grandmasters or kill Atziri with this build? I have read that it's not recommended to try Atziri on 1st page of this thread, but I assume many things have changed since then.

Oh and my gear (I am lvl 88):

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Wadao wrote:

I am following this guide with my first toon and I am pretty satisfied with it. It is fun to play, fast and I didn't have many problems with most maps I tried.

Yay!

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it is possible to clear maps like Death and Taxes, Hall of Grandmasters or kill Atziri with this build? I have read that it's not recommended to try Atziri on 1st page of this thread, but I assume many things have changed since then.

I've never entered Hall of Grandmasters, it probably depends on the exiles you encounter, but the other maps and Atziri should be doable. Atziri especially is a mechanical fight, and I feel like most high level builds can take her on with some practice.

Thanks for fast response! I guess I need to lvl my gems a a little (currently around 29.5k dps) more and take a shot or two :D