[2.6/3.1] Shaper down on budget 5-link - The Debuffing Pizza (Tri-Curse CI Elementalist Flameblast)

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Wermine wrote:

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Scipion75 wrote:

Level 65. Soon switching to CI and so much fun so far.
BUT ... I die a lot in breaches, overwhelmed, no time to make pizzas before being slaughtered.
Isthere a particular way to treat breaches, especially the crowded ones ??
Thank you.

I used Stibnite Flask, which creates smoke cloud on use (blinds monsters in it, chance to hit lowered by 50%). Decoy Totem helps too. Once your golems are elemental immune, they are indestructible in elemental breaches. Cast speed also helps a ton. I just cast Decoy, open breach, start channelling Flameblast, pop Stibnite Flask. I keep channelling until monsters get close and then pop the Flameblast. After that you have to use FB more strategically, using smaller stacks whenever needed.

Breaches are very hard if your damage just isn't there. If you can't kill the monsters, they will overwhelm you. So if you can't handle them with this strategy, just farm more equipment and levels. Eventually you will be able to handle any breach in any map. Also breach domains.

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tm10067 wrote:

Just put Energy from within jewel on Medling sector slot.

Fragments ring is shit, I was dead being frozen only once when triggered ice tempest on uber-izaro with darkshrine, in most situations you still have whooping ES buffer to react with flasks.

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Scipion75 wrote:

Thank you. I'll try Stibnite too.
Just wanted to tell you that my golems (fire and lightning) have elemental immunity, and they still die in breaches, very fast ...

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Deadbringer wrote:

So i took the paragons of calamity cause i lvled using another build which would make me rip from reflect. Playing hardcore .. Is the paragons of calamity useful at all on this build? Say i dont use it,is there a possible,minimal chance i 1 hit myself on a full 10stack flameblast vs breaches?

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Wermine wrote:

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Scipion75 wrote:

Thank you. I'll try Stibnite too.
Just wanted to tell you that my golems (fire and lightning) have elemental immunity, and they still die in breaches, very fast ...

I checked your char. You have barely any ES in your gear. I'm wondering how you are surviving at all. Replace Tabula with 5-link 500 es chest (~10c), get 350 es shield (1c), 300 es helmet (3c) and better boots and gloves. Then respec into CI.

I linked both golems to my Cast When Damage Taken setup so they get constantly resummoned. When your killing potential grows, they rarely die since you kill everything before they can do anything. You can check my char from breach league: FlamoEksplodo.

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Scipion75 wrote:

Thank you for your time and advices.
Its done I am CI and its much better now.

Btw, I noticed you dont use Doryani Scepter ?

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Wermine wrote:

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Scipion75 wrote:

Thank you for your time and advices.
Its done I am CI and its much better now.

Btw, I noticed you dont use Doryani Scepter ?

Thanks. You still have some life nodes, respec those out and take Essence Surge cluster (northwest from CI cluster). Grind to level 79 asap and get Crystal Belt. Get those better boots and gloves. Are you having problems with stuns? If so, get Eye of Chayula amulet. How about mana issues (you might after getting new wand)? You want Elreon ring with -7 or -8 to mana costs. You can even replace Doedre's Damning. As said before, enemies far away will have Flammability and Elemental Weakness, enemies closer will have one of those replaced with Temporal Chains.

Doryani's Catalyst has 132% damage, 10% cast speed, 40% crit chance. My rare sceptre has 62% damage and 66% non-double-dipping-damage (tota 128%), 17% cast speed, 5-61 lightning damage to spells, 34% crit and had a free slot for +41 mana craft. That sceptre was quite cheap and very comparable to Doryani's. So it doesn't matter that much which one you get (Doryani's or very good rare), Doryani's doesn't offer anything unique to the build, just raw stats (albeit very good raw stats). You can get Doryani's for about 5c, if you wait for a good deal with live search, go for it. But I did use your current wand for a long time. It makes the build safer with huge ES replenish and takes care of mana problems while clearing trash (but not bosses). It doesn't have much damage, though.