2.2 Crit Shockwave Totem Assassin - 625k+ DPS - Ez Atziri/All Maps - UBER DOWN!!

nice build need more movespeed

Im in the process of trying this build. Could you provide the jewels you are geared with? Thanks

First off totems actually don't stay on full life, and you are readying the ability wrong. Ambush says 100% "MORE" critical strike chance on enemies that are on full life. Unless I am not understanding something I assume thats what you meant by when totems are on full life they always crit.

even 100% more isnt 100%, just 100% MORE, so if your totem has 40% crit, then 100% more is another 40%, for total of 80% crit etc..

WHere are you getting that totems always crit on full life?

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Paragon1 wrote:

First off totems actually don't stay on full life, and you are readying the ability wrong. Ambush says 100% "MORE" critical strike chance on enemies that are on full life. Unless I am not understanding something I assume thats what you meant by when totems are on full life they always crit.

even 100% more isnt 100%, just 100% MORE, so if your totem has 40% crit, then 100% more is another 40%, for total of 80% crit etc..

WHere are you getting that totems always crit on full life?

I never said the totems have to be on full life. I'm just not precising that it's the monsters that need to be full life since I'm assuming people here have already read the ascendancy class nodes. Enemies are always going to be on full life when you place the totem because you can't deal damage with anything else.

Second, I'll well aware of 100% more being double my actual crit chance. My crit chance is over 50%, so that's guaranteed crit (95% cap, but that's basically guaranteed).

Thanks to Saranghaeyo_ for the +1 carcass jack.

That just bumped the dps up from 500k to 624k. Completely nuts lol

So what is actually scaling damage here? Saw this and it looked awesome to try on the 2 week league, so I took an old level 65 standard character to try it on a 5l. The tooltip dps is only 5k and it's just doing hardly any damage. I'm pretty certain im doing something wrong here because I can get more damage on leveling skills with no passive points dedicated to them.

On top of that, can you post desired stats on jewels along with like a level 40 tree, 60, 80 etc?

Thanks.

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Simplesim45 wrote:

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Paragon1 wrote:

First off totems actually don't stay on full life, and you are readying the ability wrong. Ambush says 100% "MORE" critical strike chance on enemies that are on full life. Unless I am not understanding something I assume thats what you meant by when totems are on full life they always crit.

even 100% more isnt 100%, just 100% MORE, so if your totem has 40% crit, then 100% more is another 40%, for total of 80% crit etc..

WHere are you getting that totems always crit on full life?

I never said the totems have to be on full life. I'm just not precising that it's the monsters that need to be full life since I'm assuming people here have already read the ascendancy class nodes. Enemies are always going to be on full life when you place the totem because you can't deal damage with anything else.

Second, I'll well aware of 100% more being double my actual crit chance. My crit chance is over 50%, so that's guaranteed crit (95% cap, but that's basically guaranteed).

If you can hit over 50% crit as is, why not just run deadly infusion and have cap crit all the time, not just on the initial hit.

Ambush is nice, but it is only going to give the higher crit chance on one hit, where as it would be easy to get 95% crit all the time.

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bobveka wrote:

So what is actually scaling damage here? Saw this and it looked awesome to try on the 2 week league, so I took an old level 65 standard character to try it on a 5l. The tooltip dps is only 5k and it's just doing hardly any damage. I'm pretty certain im doing something wrong here because I can get more damage on leveling skills with no passive points dedicated to them.

On top of that, can you post desired stats on jewels along with like a level 40 tree, 60, 80 etc?

Thanks.

I'm also experimenting with the build. There is a steep ascending curve for the damage related to the level of the totem gem but I have also noticed that Cast Speed seems to have a strong effect on the damage. The OP has 60% Cast Speed from objects...is that the real trick?

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Paragon1 wrote:

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Simplesim45 wrote:

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Paragon1 wrote:

First off totems actually don't stay on full life, and you are readying the ability wrong. Ambush says 100% "MORE" critical strike chance on enemies that are on full life. Unless I am not understanding something I assume thats what you meant by when totems are on full life they always crit.

even 100% more isnt 100%, just 100% MORE, so if your totem has 40% crit, then 100% more is another 40%, for total of 80% crit etc..

WHere are you getting that totems always crit on full life?

I never said the totems have to be on full life. I'm just not precising that it's the monsters that need to be full life since I'm assuming people here have already read the ascendancy class nodes. Enemies are always going to be on full life when you place the totem because you can't deal damage with anything else.

Second, I'll well aware of 100% more being double my actual crit chance. My crit chance is over 50%, so that's guaranteed crit (95% cap, but that's basically guaranteed).

If you can hit over 50% crit as is, why not just run deadly infusion and have cap crit all the time, not just on the initial hit.

Ambush is nice, but it is only going to give the higher crit chance on one hit, where as it would be easy to get 95% crit all the time.

That's the whole point tho. That 1 hit. It'll either 1 shot the packs or bring them low life if it's a tier 14+ blue pack.

I didn't build this around tooltip DPS. I built it around quality of life. Drop a totem and the first hit takes care of everything.

If I wanted DPS, I'd be getting power charges (having to use a secondary skill to slow me down), I'd change the crit gem to faster casting, etc. There's a miriam of ways to build SWT. You can go full ele, hybrid, full phys, non crit, crit, ... I chose this because from playing with it, it does exactly what I want it to on bosses and while clearing a map; The laziest possible playstyle. Hell I even put my golem on CWDT cause I don't wanna be bothered to recast him lol.

You drop a totem, run AT the monsters because they're gonna die or freeze and move on. Pop flasks when needed. There's literally no micro management.

For you guys concerned about the damage, when I first slapped on a mid level SWT gem, I had about 8K dps.

The damage comes from the empower/added fire, the phys to lightning, the hatred aura, the gem levels, the jewels and the crit multiplier. I have cast speed on gear because I wanted to avoid having to use faster casting gem. Obviously cast speed is gonna help DPS a bit but its nowhere near what other things bring.


I'll add a section about the jewels on the main post shortly.