[2.4] Ballistopheles : 5 Poison Siege Ballistae Iron Commander [Atziri + Uzaro Farm + Guardians]

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Can you tell us what the dps on the tooltip should be ?

The tooltip is a lie since it doesnt look at the poison damage. I have something like 19K without charges.

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And what auras can we use to increase the dps in case we don't want to run grace/arctic armor.

I would say maybe something like haste could improve a bit your dps(+movement speed is a must to evade some attacks). You could also look at something like blasphemy + projectile weakness (this curse is a huge damage boost). Elemental auras (hatred, hoa, etc) give a huge tooltip, but it doesnt not really improve your damages since it doesnt poison.

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Btw how in the hell can we craft an amulet like yours.

I bought my amulet on poe.trade and it wasn't that costly (I dont remember, but maybe 20c).

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Also if you can do a Math overview of the total dps that would be fun please <3.

I must admit that I really dont want to do the math's, I dont like computations (despite the fact that I'm an actual mathematician haha). But the damage output is really good, you can check my failed shaper to see how much damage I do to him. I think that if I played better I could got him.

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The Hardest thing I faced with this build is I don't know how to force the totems to attack a specific target and ignore the rest Ex : Malachi Hearts, Piety in Malachi fight ..etc

This is why you need sometimes to put your ballistae strategically. In general; putting one at each side of the arena is enough because the piercing and LMP will cover the all arena, killing everything in side and damaging the boss. Piety is not a problem at all (just put the ballistae behing her). Malachai can be a pain, but not because of the minions, because of all the AoE that kill your ballistae + you can get one shot if the mods are too hard (like shocked ground). As a matter of fact, the first phase is pretty easy.

Would a Cospri's Will be a good option for this build. If so, what gem would you use instead of poison in the main damage setup?

Sure you can use a cospri to spread poison, then you can add something like free more damage, probably a physical projectile attack damage support (I dont think it double dip, but it still a good more damage). You can also try a Pierce, but it's only 20% more (but will double dip).

What are your thoughts regarding the Snakebite Assassin's Mitts in this build?

It's a bit painful to keep max frenzy, so I wouldnt recommand it.

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Gregouar wrote:

Sure you can use a cospri to spread poison, then you can add something like free more damage, probably a physical projectile attack damage support (I dont think it double dip, but it still a good more damage). You can also try a Pierce, but it's only 20% more (but will double dip).

Since poison is the theme, a void manipulation gem with 39% more chaos damage will be better, effectivly doubling your poison damage which already is our main damage as an assassin.

Sup,
do you still play this? Were you able to kill Shaper?


I've come up with pretty much the same build independently and currently derping around on Standard

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https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/vtepezh/characters

I've re-geared for 4 ballistae with more damage down from five, which seems to be pretty much the same dps and less hassle with keeping ballistae up.
I also just roll Haste Aura for mapping, since curses on blasphemy unfortunately have absolutely terrible AoE now.

Any ideas how to further significantly improve dps to feel more like them upper-tier/meta builds?

According to Path of Building (aka. when considering poison DPS) i have somewhere around 100k dps per Ballista with Haste and Ice Golem up. Add Temp Chains and Charges and its 200ish per Ballista. Which isnt bad, but also nowhere near the truly broken/meta build territory.