[3.X] SPECTRAL SHIELD THROW DeadEye (100% phys and 90% ELE. 1,5-2M DPS REALISTIC GEAR non-crit!)

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Bolentine wrote:

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Angry_Roleplayer wrote:

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Miazga wrote:

just got a quick question, why no one thinks about using brutality? its "more physical damage" and nowhere on it does it say melee so, it should support SST as it is a "projectile,attack" skill.
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Brutality_Support

I was thinking to just go phys and use:
SST - FA - PPAD - Brutality - Maim - Pierce

as per wiki pierce would still work giving the more damage to the skill too.

Brutality = no elemental or chaos damage. Will not work with the build )

What do u think about going cold pen over cold to fire?

I feel like damage on low resists mobs is more than fine, but it really becomes an issue on cold resists or overall chaos and elemental damage resistant mobs (specially bosses)

Going for cold pen over cold to fire might be a more significant increase in clear speed

Cold Pen is not as good now. I would even say the glorious day of Pen are gone. It's a great boost if you have no other sources of damage buffs, but if you have a lot of massive dps gems like in our case, cold pen is not very effective.
According to PoB, dropping Pen is 7-8% dps loss. Dropping any other gem is 18-35% dps loss. Just math here.

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Angry_Roleplayer wrote:

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Nizreb915 wrote:

I slotted faster attacks along with Ewar's and Gloomfang. It is pretty awesome when tailwind kicks in, and you start machinegunning mobs with SST and it chains all over the screen throwing shard projectiles everywhere.

Faster Attacks is less damage than any of the gems i have in the 6l of the build. Why? First of all it just buffs attack speed, and even though you attack faster you are doing not as much damage as a solid 40% increased damage gem. Secondly = with enough attack speed on the tree and especially with tailwind up, attack speed is not really a problem. You need to hit harder to kill fat mobs. Hitting more often = depleting mana faster as well :)

Yeah, I only have a 5 link right now, and am only in white maps, I will switch it out with cold o fire when things start getting rough.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Nizreb915/characters

Also thanks for the advice! I am running low on mana on boss fights.

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Nizreb915 wrote:

Also thanks for the advice! I am running low on mana on boss fights.

Using Clarity is not a bad option btw. Of cause you won't be able to run Blasphemy and hatred with clarity, but if killing speed is not an issue then just run Clarity for smoothness and QoL.

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Angry_Roleplayer wrote:

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Nizreb915 wrote:

Also thanks for the advice! I am running low on mana on boss fights.

Using Clarity is not a bad option btw. Of cause you won't be able to run Blasphemy and hatred with clarity, but if killing speed is not an issue then just run Clarity for smoothness and QoL.

I may try that. I'm not running blasphemy, I do curse on hit with whirling blades, and run hatred and herald of ash.

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Nizreb915 wrote:

Also thanks for the advice! I am running low on mana on boss fights.

Vaal Clarity, is better than clarity.

That 8 seconds of no mana use on skills, allows you to spam when you need too. Then you will regen some back.

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Cryxx wrote:

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Nizreb915 wrote:

Also thanks for the advice! I am running low on mana on boss fights.

Vaal Clarity, is better than clarity.

That 8 seconds of no mana use on skills, allows you to spam when you need too. Then you will regen some back.

Cool! I will try it out. Thanks! Also, I found it is better to slot elemental focus before cold to fire, it gives more damage, and the herald of ash still ignites everything.

UPDATE 09/03/2018: Filled all link slots. Added Vaal Lightning Trap as well as tricky setup with CWDT Ice Spear to keep up the buff of Elemental Overload (for ELE version only). Added Enlighten for auras, this way we can have over 150 free mana to spam Shield even with insane Attack Speed and Tailwind Buffs. Switched to ELE on Attacks Steel Rings as they give slightly more DPS that flat phys rings (for ELE build). Dropped Obscurantis for Starkonja with +40 damage enchant. This is WAY MORE realistic because getting Obscurantis with Shield enchant is nearly impossible. Almost noone enchants Obscurantis, but it's still GG for damage if you ever find it.
Dropped Shield Charge for Whirling Blades.
Also i went with attack speed over projectile damage very early on the way Ballistic Mastery. A little more DPS and more speed for Whirling Blades.
Inserted magic Onslaught flask.
I also added Empower to a 4l setup with Golem and Protector, this is more towards a very end-game setup.
Overall everything is done here and what is left is mostly min-maxing rings, boots, resists and such. The best DPS increase would be crafting lvl84 shield with Essence of Dread. This is it. For a non-crit build reaching 1.4 million seems good TBH.

It's pretty tricky to get Elemental Overload with no crit chance at all. At first i just ran "as is" and EO procced very seldom. Then i added Diamond flask and managed to get EO all the time. But it's wasting a flask slot after all just for the EO, since we have no crit multiplier. So i started looking for a way to perform a crit strike and remembered the old trick from the day of 3-4 years ago when i played FLame Totem and used manually casted Ice Spear to get power charges. :) It still works! But we don't have to cast it at all since i just filled it into CWDT setup. Now with this trick we have EO buff all the time without pressing a single button and with literally zero crit chance :)

Can anybody tell me what order to take the ascendancy nodes? I was going to do: Fast and Deadly -> Far Shot -> Richochet -> Gathering winds.

Looking at some of the posts here though it seems like I should swith Fast and Deadly with Gathering winds though?

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Phenaxkian wrote:

Can anybody tell me what order to take the ascendancy nodes? I was going to do: Fast and Deadly -> Far Shot -> Richochet -> Gathering winds.

Looking at some of the posts here though it seems like I should swith Fast and Deadly with Gathering winds though?

Far Shot-> Gathering Winds-> Richochet->fast and deadly.