[2.1] - Updated- 52k dps Crit Shocking Cascade - Double Curse with Pyre and Three Dragons (VP+Acro)

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dpchaos wrote:

I will post a defense screenshot as well once I'm back home, my current defenses are only 40% Dodge and 30% Spell Dodge, and a lvl20 Arctic Armor.
Now to be honest, Arrow Dancing (if you're following my skill tree pathing) costs only 2 points and gives that 40% more evasion which is very nice.
But that's not very good with a Tabula, so if you manage to find a 5L ES/EV Hybrid and manage to stack some Evasion on other gear, then it's pretty good especially with a Jade Flask.

If you want to stay with Tabula, just use Arctic Armour and stack HP on gear.

I'm using this right now



made a test with fire% and cold% increase, fire made my dps higher than cold, but both of them are a 18% dmg node, why? shouldn't cold be better? or at least the same + amount on tooltip? and about damage for spells, cold scales better than fire?

Projectile is not a problem anymore but sometimes it hurts lol, zombies are too weak without minion nodes.

thks =D

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koalito wrote:

made a test with fire% and cold% increase, fire made my dps higher than cold, but both of them are a 18% dmg node, why? shouldn't cold be better? or at least the same + amount on tooltip? and about damage for spells, cold scales better than fire?

thks =D

Fire % nodes or Cold % nodes are 100% same value, however Elemental Dmg % nodes don't 'double', so you end up with ( E-dmg = Cold dmg = Fire dmg ).
The reason for that tooltip difference might be some flat fire dmg on weapons somewhere? I'm not 100% sure though. Don't trust the tooltip numbers, they're only there to misguide you! Our dps is 2x the tooltip dps AT LEAST.
I'm glad you're finding this build nice, keep me updated with whatever info you have and feel free to PM me anytime :).

EDIT: I noticed you have flat fire dmg on your wand, *only* in case of flat E-dmg on weapons, try looking for Cold flat dmg, since it uses both Fire and Cold nodes, while Fire flat dmg only uses the Fire nodes, hope this helped!

New screenshots, new gear, Atziri down (not deathless)

Nice Build dude,i thinking of changing the cast speed nodes for spell damage.

I was wondering if you could repost your hardcore passive tree? xD I'm doing this in HC atm and im level 55 on my witch. followed most up til now. Loving it a lot btw! Glacial Casecade is amazing along with the Shock Nova.

Running it on the talisman league, pretty decent so far.
Those new uniques really shine with the double dipping.

gear:



Was playing 4l in the 3-drag. until the 75's. 5l dropped today, nearly 20k deeps.

Thanks for sharing this. :)

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monsteir wrote:

I was wondering if you could repost your hardcore passive tree? xD I'm doing this in HC atm and im level 55 on my witch. followed most up til now. Loving it a lot btw! Glacial Casecade is amazing along with the Shock Nova.

Hi, glad to see it's still doing good in 2.1!
HC tree would prob be similar to this:

Specced out of Acrobatics, went for Armor nodes in the Templar area, Jewel slot for Energized Armor, I think this is about +100% Armor, can acquire more HP+armor nodes at the expense of dps. I'm a SC player though, so I can't really tell the sweet spot between dps and survivibility.

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Itches wrote:

Running it on the talisman league, pretty decent so far.
Those new uniques really shine with the double dipping.

gear:

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Was playing 4l in the 3-drag. until the 75's. 5l dropped today, nearly 20k deeps.

Thanks for sharing this. :)

Thanks for the feedback! those new items look extremely good for the build!
Did you explore the option of getting rid of Shock Nova for the sake of Blasphemy? or the Shock Nova cursing still decent?

Hey, I have a few questions about the build. I'm a little new (just started this week), so please bear with me! :)

I'm somewhat confused about the Pyre Ring + Three Dragons - Pyre Ring converts all of the cold damage to fire, so does this mean that Glacial Cascade will not freeze anymore? Likewise, does equipping Three Dragons still allow Glacial Cascade (after being converted to fire damage) to ignite?

Lastly, I was wondering if Hypothermia could possibly be used as another support gem (if Glacial Cascade can still freeze, that is).

Thanks!

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Ready_Player_1 wrote:

Hey, I have a few questions about the build. I'm a little new (just started this week), so please bear with me! :)

I'm somewhat confused about the Pyre Ring + Three Dragons - Pyre Ring converts all of the cold damage to fire, so does this mean that Glacial Cascade will not freeze anymore? Likewise, does equipping Three Dragons still allow Glacial Cascade (after being converted to fire damage) to ignite?

Lastly, I was wondering if Hypothermia could possibly be used as another support gem (if Glacial Cascade can still freeze, that is).

Thanks!

Pyre changes GC cold damage into fire (why he takes fire pen and not cold), and three dragons makes fire damage shock enemies, so GC will end up shocking enemies. This also goes for herald of ice. However both your shock nova and herald of thunder will now do the freezing as well as apply the curses.

Because of HoT adding lightning damage (which freezes due to three drags) to spells you could theoretically freeze. Though you're better off increasing GC damage with the gems in the post and using shock nova to freeze enemies.

nice guide and I like this skill gem but unfortunately the clear speed is not very good and as you mentioned atziri kill is not the easier due to poor mobility/defense i assume.
I'd love a way to cast multiple GC at same time in multiple direction. Someone did that with some traps but I really don't like this playstyle.
Sucks that multiple projectile doens't apply to GC, because it's not... a projectile :)