[2.2 Korago's "Budget" Life based Mjolner - No Voll's required, updated for Ascendancy!]

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KageKami wrote:

I'm running this build right now, and while i like it some of the choices you made in the passive skill tree make absolutely no sense to me.

1) You pick up Catalyse which is pretty worthless imo. 90%+ of your damage is going to be coming from the Mjolner procs so i don't understand why you'd ever waste points trying to increase molten strikes/lightning strikes damage.

2) You pick up Studious Combatant and Sleight of Hand. Again, wasting stats on Molten Strike when the dps increase from those nodes (aside from the attack speed) is going to be minimal. Path of the Warrior also is an iffy node to me.

3) You don't spec into the elemental damage nodes at the shadow start point. You get +56% elemental damage across 5 nodes, which would give a far bigger damage increase per node than the Studious Combatant and Sleight of Hand node trees you speced into.

4) The general lack of armor nodes and not picking up Sanctity. With this build you're most likely going to have around 4k base armor and not picking up any real amount of armor nodes seems like a waste. Sanctity alone would give you 800 armor (not to mention int and str), and you could easily spec down into the Marauder start (possibly instead of some of the other random life nodes you took like the extra Barbarism node, and the Hired Killer tree)

5) You most likely waste a skill point on either +10 str or +10 int at the jewel socket near the elemental tree.

I'm no expert at this game, but unless i'm missing something i really don't see the reasoning behind some of these choices (most notably the melee dps nodes like Catalyse, Studious Combatant and Sleight of Hand).