Dual Totem Dual Curse EK Witch level 83 6.1k dps ( Video and Guide )
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Great Build!! Playing it right now and its so much fun. I have a question though.
You skilled those crit chance passives (Asassination e.g.) and also Doomcast. I thought as soon as you connect EK with Spelltotem its considered a spell?! So why should normal non spell crit note work with it?! Am i getting something wrong here?! Thanks Emwega IGN: Emwega
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" umm, assassination doesn't mention not affecting spells, and doomcast only affects spells - so why wouldn't EK be affected by both? Even before connecting EK to totem it's considered a spell anyway... So I don't really understand what your asking. Last edited by ritualzz#3303 on Mar 7, 2013, 5:48:35 PM
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Edit: Sry got it now. I thought the normal Crit nodes are only working for Skills that are not considered as "Spells" like EK (its affected by Attackspeed so i guess its not a spell). So I thought that the moment you combine EK with Spelltotem it becomes a spell and so normal crit nodes wouldnt affect the totem anymore.
But I think i got it wrong. Asassination works for both while doomcast ONLY works for spells. Got that now. Ty ;) IGN: Emwega Last edited by otacon87#2282 on Mar 7, 2013, 6:10:28 PM
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" EK is NOT affected by attack speed, but by cast speed. EK is a spell. A spell spell, no strings attached, simply a spell. Just like Fireball or Freezing Pulse. |
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Great guide, i want to follow this one, but i have a question. Why did you chose a life build and not a CI one and do you think it would be possible to make a CI version of this build? Or would mana be an issue because you would not be able to take Eldritch Battery?
I dont want to be a tank, but i dont want to instantly die to flicker strike mobs in merciless either. How to achieve this best, a pure life, CI, or life/ES build? |
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" I don't think this build would be efficient with CI. If you are going for CI, obviously you want to choose pure ES chest but you are gonna need 3x red and 2x green sockets for the ethereal knives and it's supports. I don't know if it's possible having that sockets on pure ES chest. Even if ES chest supports that sockets, it will cost you tons of chromatics. And there are mana issues, EK with spell totem's mana cost is already huge, you gonna need some mana pool and regen for that. It could still be doable with CI but, it won't be as efficient as having Eldritch Battery. All in all, if you have more than 2.5k es or life, 500 mana pool left for ek, and 70+ mana regen you will be good to go. This build may seem a bit glass cannon but with 2x totems, you will have great distraction. Just put 2x totems, run for a while and mobs are dead in no time. The only mobs that I sometimes struggle with were Rhoas in maps because they come out of nowhere with great speed. I don't even have more than %50 all resistance, I don't have any armour or evasion. I have only 3.6k hp which could be considered too low for some. However, between level 70 and 83, I didn't die more than 5 times. And those deaths happened because I didn't care too much since I don't play hardcore. |
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Ok, thanks for the answer. I didnt know that different kinds of armour had different probabilities of having a particular colored socket on them, but it makes sense i guess.
Another question though, is the cold damage provided by the hatred aura enough to freeze enemies? Or can i not count on that kind of crowd control? |
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" Well , my dps is too high that when I crit I usually kill mobs in 1 shot. Mobs freeze and shatters at the same time :) I don't count on freeze much, slowness from Temporal Chains and knockback from Projectile Weakness is doing the job quite well. |
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Since you don't plan on updating this anymore, could you do one last update of your gear/gem combinations so they are the most recent ones?
IGN: Dmillz
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" I'm currently working on a ci build. only lvl 50 right now and dont have enough es to spec CI. The damage would be less. Honestly it's less efficient to play it as CI when I think about it because you need to take mana nodes and have max mana on gear in order to run 4 auras. Even if you obtain that your 4 auras are going to be purity/hatred/disc/clarity. You won't be able to run clarity max level. You'd wear a dream fragments which will help a lot, but you will lose out on dps because of not running haste. Also, this means you have to run fork on your totem instead of chain. Another small dps loss. I think ci's survivability if you wear chayula's is better than an hp build, but it would be very very gear dependent and costly. I think by the time I spec CI i'm just gonna to dual spark or dual incinerate anyway. The build for both of those and dual ek is pretty much the same. |
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