Azmodael's Rain of Chaos build (11k+ EHP 800k+ boss DPS)

Please excuse the potential noobness of this question, but ive been following pewpewpews build which is from a witchs perspective, any real difference between being witch or shadow? Just wondering if I should reroll or not. Thanks

It is the starting nodes. The witch nodes give spell damage, while shadow gives chaos/physical damage.

For the Firestorm effect itself the damage doesn't matter (increased chaos and increased spell damage work exactly the same), but the increased chaos damage will also apply to poison inflicted by the Consuming Dark dagger.

If everything else is the same (using the same tree bar the starting nodes) the damage of poison will be:
Witch - 106% more damage
Shadow - 128% more damage

If you are still low level witch i recommend that you re-roll.

so what Im reading is this may be ther perfect build for this sweet ass neck I found. Not sure if its the case or not, so what do you guys think, should I roll up a witch to take advantage of this sweet fire damage es crit neck?

You don't need to be a witch to benefit from the crit nodes.

That fire amulet is nice, but its not good enough to base an entire build on it :)

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azmodael wrote:

You don't need to be a witch to benefit from the crit nodes.

That fire amulet is nice, but its not good enough to base an entire build on it :)

Ah ok thanks, any idea on how I should price it if I wanted to sell instead? Im thinking my next build should be some sort of atizri clearer and for that Ill probably need to save up to 15ex so every little bit helps.

Bought this one for 2ex. I'd say yours is 10-20chaos orbs.

Thanks!

Hi, noobie here, first char. This build is serving me well atm in cruel act 2. I was wondering though, for leveling up, would you suggest using flammability instead of wither for spell totem until I get some of those higher end pieces? Do you have any suggestions for beginning content rather than end game content as I work towards this build? Some of the skills center around the ability to convert fire to chaos damage, it seems to me. So, just wondering if you have any tips, since I don't yet have the currency to buy some of these items (but I've found 3 c over the last day!)! Thank you!

Yes, you can use flammability. You can also use the starting shadow elemental nodes, because the physical/chaos damage do nothing until you get Consuming Dark.

Best advice for starting character is to farm the Acqueduct area in all difficulty for humility cards or buy a cheap tabula. In addition get the 2 minion clusters next to Templar, as well as the Witch minion cluster. The zombies become decent in Cruel and amazing in Merciless and they'll fit in as a damage sponge when you don't have good ES.

Getting a tabula should be your first priority - after tabula you should acquire the COnsuming Dark and the Infernal Mantle. Use Tabula until you are able to obtain 5L mantle.

This might be a nooby question, but I just recently started up poe again and don't know how everything works yet. How does Ghost Reaver help us? Where do we get the life leech from? Is it only from Whirling Blades or do we also leech from somewhere else? And if it's only WB, does that warrent spending points to get GR, is the leech that much?