[2.2] Elemental Minigun - Melt the screen for 1 Exalt - CoC Quill Rain

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Mothren wrote:

Please do not throw numbers at people from your mind.

This build cannot reach over a million dps, it has accuracy to factor in, it cannot get over 10 procs per second for single target (I also played many bow coc builds this league and if you can record a quick t12 boss kill, you'll see that the boss won't go down as fast as a 1 million dps reave build).

Cast on Critical Strike has a 50ms cooldown so getting 60 procs per second, even with a room full of mobs is impossible, even with 3 spells, due to the fact that you have to bypass 70% chance to cast on critical strike, accuracy and 95% critical strike chance.

I am not counting the fact that barrage spends 40% of the attack time charging up, then the 60% of the time firing arrows. So you lose 40% of your attack time EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ATTACK.

It is elemental based, therefore prone to damaging bosses which have 50% all resist in high tier maps. Mobs also have around 20-40% resists. Plus there are map mods that grant elemental resistances.

We all want to post BIG numbers to impress people and get them to play our builds, but a new player might easily be misguided by your claims in the build. Please calculate appropriately and post real numbers.

Otherwise, appreciate your efforts, and post some videos if you can! Good luck.

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Pewzor wrote:

I am playing this on a newly created scion on PSC.

I'd say this isn't very beginner friendly.
I am have a hell of a time clearing Lab on level curve so you either pay for lab carry or you completely out level it by a shit load and run blast rain with a high dps bow until you get all 6 of your ascendancy points.

The ascendancy passives is really what makes (and breaks) this build. Before you get all 6 of your points you might as well play as an underpowered archer (with very low max life on top of that). Without Assassin, Quill Rain's crit is not viable, and without Deadeye, for the piercing % as well as projectile damage bonus with drillneck your spells are insanely weak.

But overall it's interesting build and i love spamming quill rain (but i hate explosive arrow) and everything explodes and looks cool as fuck, but I'd suggest people who decide to do build on a temporary league to pay for lab carry and get all your ascendancy points as soon as possible. This build doesnt work without BOTH of Assassin and Deadeye.

Or you overlevel the shit out of it as a shitty bow build that has very little life as a full life build (using high dps harbingers ect)... then convert after you got ALL your ascendancy. The build simply doesn't work before full ascendancy.

I had a hell of time soloing lab "on curve". I did norm lab at 31, cruel lab at 55 (died on last izaro a few times and then I had to run enfeeble because if izaro gets any damage buffs or if he gets vulnerability on you, you can die in 1 hit) and so on... it wasn't easy for a new player... at least not gonna be easy without getting lab carries or overleveling.



But it's a very satisfying build I gotta say.
The single target damage is decent but not 1 million dps... not even close. But they do work well enough... but it's just cool... love seeing quill rain getting in on the crit action and not some lame ass EA or CA build.

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Vaalamity wrote:

CoC can absolutely reach 60 casts per second, and regularly does. Here's why. Each barrage is crit calculated once, then accuracy checked then, CoC checked. My barrage fires 4+1+1+1+4 arrows (Volley Fire jewel and +1 projectiles from Dead/Sin) for 11 arrows per barrage. They also all pierce and have 92% chance to hit. On a large pack, this is a ton of crits on a single cast.

Let's assume the Barrage rolls crit (74.25% chance; 85% with Assassin's Mark with 20% increased effect) and fires 11 arrows. Remember now that if a Barrage rolls crit, all arrows in that volley are all rolled crits. If each arrows hits only 3 mobs (which is conservative on a large group) then the math would be 33*(hits).92(chance to hit)*.92(chance to truly crit)*0.69(chance to actually cast) = 19.27 Casts on Crit per a critical Barrage.

I fire 5 barrages per second (more actually, my attack time is .19). Obviously, not all of them will roll crit but it would only take 3 of the 5 barrages to roll crit to fire the cap of 20 of each spell per second (60%) but my crit chance is 85% (after golem, 5 power charges, +1% base crit from Dead/Sin and 20% increased effect Assassin's Mark).

This means that on any medium or larger pack we are getting close to or hitting 60 casts per second. On a large pack we are actually over the crit cap. On a lucky roll or with Diamond flask we can even reach this 60 spells/second cap on even smaller groups of monsters.

As to your concern for windup, it's irrelevant for this calculation as the hits are still staged and won't overlap the CoC 50ms cooldown. The windup time is already taken into account in the attack time and unless the enemies are positioned in a perfectly straight line relative to the Barrage the hits will still be staggered.

I also never claimed 1 million dps single target. That is completely impossible for this build; that part you're right on but I never made that claim (though I suppose people are usually talking about single target, aren't they?). I suppose I could calculate the single target and see what I get but for now I think I'll just remove the specific number from the build; I did some AOE calculations at 60 spells per second and the numbers were INSANE, though.