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The ES chest will only be useful for builds which use Zealot's Oath. It's basically a ZO keystone chest. Without ZO and without CI, you'll cringe when you get viper striked because your ES won't be able to recover on it's own until after 12 seconds, during which 4 viper charges can melt you.

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Invalesco wrote:

The ES chest will only be useful for builds which use Zealot's Oath. It's basically a ZO keystone chest. Without ZO and without CI, you'll cringe when you get viper striked because your ES won't be able to recover on it's own until after 12 seconds, during which 4 viper charges can melt you.

emergency rejuv totem to the rescue

I think that the chest(the ci one) is a good step in the right direction. It allows more builds to be accomplished.
Just hopefully they keep making more unique's that do this.

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heyyous wrote:

I think that the chest(the ci one) is a good step in the right direction. It allows more builds to be accomplished.
Just hopefully they keep making more unique's that do this.

It's important to draw the distinction that this isn't CI, or even close to CI.

It's radically different and requires different planning.

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anonthefelon wrote:

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heyyous wrote:

I think that the chest(the ci one) is a good step in the right direction. It allows more builds to be accomplished.
Just hopefully they keep making more unique's that do this.

It's important to draw the distinction that this isn't CI, or even close to CI.

It's radically different and requires different planning.

I would like to point out that this does not require different planning at all.
If you get this armor all you need to do is keep all the CI gear you have, take that one point out, and run the blood magic aura/pain attunement/RF combo to be a million times more effective. You run into chaos mobs in maps once in a blue moon and I'm pretty sure going from 300-400% base spell damage to 1000%+ base spell damage is worth adding some chaos resist to your gear. You can itemize for chaos resist with ES gear but you will never get even a fraction of that spell damage.

If you are going for a high INT build with ES armor pieces you are making an incredibly inefficient tradeoff now if you go CI instead of low-life build with this armor. It doesn't replace CI but it sure makes it one of the most unattractive options on the tree now if you can get this armor.

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EndlessRambler wrote:

If you are going for a high INT build with ES armor pieces you are making an incredibly inefficient tradeoff now if you go CI instead of low-life build with this armor. It doesn't replace CI but it sure makes it one of the most unattractive options on the tree now if you can get this armor.

The tradeoff is that you are using this chest instead of a high end rare with 500+ more shield and triple resists, and alchemists will still kill you.

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RushSecond wrote:

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EndlessRambler wrote:

If you are going for a high INT build with ES armor pieces you are making an incredibly inefficient tradeoff now if you go CI instead of low-life build with this armor. It doesn't replace CI but it sure makes it one of the most unattractive options on the tree now if you can get this armor.

The tradeoff is that you are using this chest instead of a high end rare with 500+ more shield and triple resists, and alchemists will still kill you.

I have never seen a 1k+ ES armor piece since closed beta, and I don't know about any of you other CI users but I am ridiculously overcapped on resist because we have so few stats to itemize for at the moment.

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Zealflare wrote:

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BRavich wrote:

Then you can slap on a prism guardian and run THREE 40% auras at no consequence, pick up pain attunement, and bam: Combined with righteous fire, you're doing around 130% MORE damage than any other build without those perks.

Again, people seem to make the same mistakes with MORE/LESS. MORE/LESS mutiply off each other, they do not add to each other like "Increased" does.

Your spell damage (100% base + other "Increased" sources)*1.3*2.05.

You are wrong. 1.8 (righteous fire) x 1.3 (pain attunement) = 2.34. hence why I said 130% MORE damage.

Edit: I have no desire to argue on the internet with people who refuse to use logical arguments.

RushSecond knows whats up. I side with him.

It's a great chest piece though. Worthy of trying to build for if I find one.

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Honch wrote:

Pretty sure this is a new rare...didn't see it on any sites yet.

I feel like CI was just pooped on with this chest.