Molten Shell / Elemental Equilibrium lvl 60 Templar build (video)

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tpapp157 wrote:

Very cool build. Thanks for the video. Best of all, your character looks awesome when you have all the effects running at the same time (phase run, molten shell, tempest shield). It's like some TRON shit.

Agreed, I love these vibrant new effects Russel is producing. Might look even better blacked-out instead of transparent?

I really think they look way too fucking busy and make the game seem a lot less visceral. Not to mention blurring the silhouette makes feeling exactly where you are a lot harder. TRON actually left the outlines of the characters alone. :P

There's a time and place for fancy crazy shit (bosses attacking, for example), having it as your bread and butter is a bit much.

After I realized that my Power Siphon/Molten Shell/Tempest Shield Templar sucked in Chaos...I aimed for Elemental Equilibrium with my (at that point) lvl 46 Ice Nova/Blood Magic Marauder (if that build would have been the aim from the start, I would have alternated the build a bit I guess)



on 56 he is Chaos-viable already (although his gear is rather average yet, get some nice items on 58 and 60)...in the moment I'm using those supports

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pneuma wrote:

I really think they look way too fucking busy and make the game seem a lot less visceral. Not to mention blurring the silhouette makes feeling exactly where you are a lot harder. TRON actually left the outlines of the characters alone. :P

There's a time and place for fancy crazy shit (bosses attacking, for example), having it as your bread and butter is a bit much.

What if your bread and butter is currently a combination of Infernal Blow and Molten Shell? Its hard to get more visceral then that. Whatever you hit just explodes into gibs, regardless or if they even have gibs (love that btw), up until the point where your shield explodes and just gibs everything else.

The effects on Phase Run could be a bit better though. Sometimes it looks more like the textures are screwing up then the character becoming phased.

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Btah wrote:

After I realized that my Power Siphon/Molten Shell/Tempest Shield Templar sucked in Chaos...I aimed for Elemental Equilibrium with my (at that point) lvl 46 Ice Nova/Blood Magic Marauder (if that build would have been the aim from the start, I would have alternated the build a bit I guess)

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on 56 he is Chaos-viable already (although his gear is rather average yet, get some nice items on 58 and 60)...in the moment I'm using those supports

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That is quite the interesting path up to Elemental Equilibrium!

Any plans to focus on molten shell and ice nova and move ice nova to your gloves? Linking molten shell-increased area of effect-increased critical damage-life leech in chest, and ice nova-added lightning damage-life leech-increased critical strikes in gloves. Maybe faster casting instead of inc. crit strikes, and use a diamond flask or two for big groups or pesky regen rares.

I found that tempest shield was awesome while leveling up (sometimes 1-shotting trash mobs on a crit) but really lost its punch in chaos. Maybe link it with increased duration if you have the slots somewhere, but I think focusing on your rotation spells, you will see tremendous kill speed increase.

Your path is connected already to lots of nice AoE and cast speed nodes, I'd be interested to see how you take it if you push past 60. If I revisited a molten shell build, I would definitely include enduring cry and immortal call even with just the basic two endurance charges. Since you are in the dex/int start area if that was something you wanted to try, grab those 30% buff duration nodes and hook it up with inc. duration and tempest shield.

Sucks your power siphon build was a bust, I leveled a witch to be MP power siphon/ power charge/ firestorm but lost interest after a few chaos runs (too fragile and blew myself up on ele reflects walking into the firestorms).

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Lo4f wrote:

That is quite the interesting path up to Elemental Equilibrium!

Any plans to focus on molten shell and ice nova and move ice nova to your gloves? Linking molten shell-increased area of effect-increased critical damage-life leech in chest, and ice nova-added lightning damage-life leech-increased critical strikes in gloves. Maybe faster casting instead of inc. crit strikes, and use a diamond flask or two for big groups or pesky regen rares.

I found that tempest shield was awesome while leveling up (sometimes 1-shotting trash mobs on a crit) but really lost its punch in chaos. Maybe link it with increased duration if you have the slots somewhere, but I think focusing on your rotation spells, you will see tremendous kill speed increase.

I guess after some testing I will use my respec points and already was thinking about using Tempest Shield with less support...will give an update after the tests and being 60 ;)

@ Progammer: your build link is no longer viable after the patches, can you update it ?

hello, any1 can say why i cant see this build in skill tree?

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krotki wrote:

hello, any1 can say why i cant see this build in skill tree?

... hi, please look at the date the thread was created,
or click the video link for a hint!

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