[3.6] Vowel's Crit Storm Brand Elementalist - Flaskless Uber Elder

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Quintessence wrote:

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BarnacleBillX wrote:

Many thanks for the prompt advice, will have a play with your suggestions over the next few days.
Have not had any problems with killing anything, went deathless thro t11 to t15's (never ran reflect maps), ran away a lot while dropping decoy and traps behind me while I got my fingers sorted, am 63 and they are not as flexible as they used to be :) saving t16's for the weekend, thanks again

Witch doesn't care about Reflect damage after ascendancy

Except this build doesn't take paragon of calamity. It's not a bad option, if you use a malachai ring + flame golem instead to drop resists. It's just a slightly different build.

Yeah it's a pretty safe build. None of what I suggested really matters for mapping (Though as mentioned, I really like running the cinderswallow flask), it's only really if you are tackling t16+ content.
I rarely level above 90, but have stumbled my way to a few % off 94, which will be my highest ever, and I have been running shapers, guardians elders etc on the way (No uber yet)

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pavlosd wrote:

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Basically got this neck from some syndicate corruption, it has a lot of + dmg but lacks the leech.

Is this viable or is the leech an absolute must?

Pretty nifty. You can get away without running leech if you run warlords mark. Or you can try and just rely on atziri's promise + boot enchant.

Or respec to take paragon of calamity.

noob from xbox trying to follow this guide. Just wondering if it is worth it to run a essence worm with wrath, or would i be better off with a good dmg ring

I dont really understand how everyone struggles so hard without leech amulet ?
I have only mana/life leech on boots, and that is 250% enough for pretty much any situation. i run T16 UGS with it and never die if I have some mobs around to leech. i dont even use those dodge passives anymore (acrobatics, phase acrobatics). I have put everything into DPS. and i use magic find gear, mire fire resistance is not even capped :D

so what I want to say is, NO, you do NOT necessarily need that life leech on your amulet. boots is totally fine in my opinion.

but maybe its just my playstyle... i dont care much if i die, i just try to be as fast as possible and just manually dodge/position a lot.

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Banev wrote:

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demesm wrote:

What to change aside from getting 21 gems? I feel like my damage is severely lacking on bosses...


Your gear is fine. This is not a build who can rush bosses in no time, it can however endure a long fight with the movement skills, positioning and you do damage all time, don't need to stop and attack. Also your gloves got wrong support gem mod. You need "supported by trap and mine damage".

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Carlovski wrote:

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demesm wrote:

What to change aside from getting 21 gems? I feel like my damage is severely lacking on bosses...


Until you get to extreme levels of minmaxing, the brand single target damage isn't spectactular. To pump it up you need to try and squeeze in damage where you can. You haven't got any damage on your jewelley at all, that's potentially 100-150% increased damage (on top of the rest of your damage of course, so not 150% more!) and cast speed. Possibly conversion and penetration too.

Thanks for the info ill work on changing some things up

I dont suppose I can get a gear check? I'm in SSF and want to try and push to Uber Elder if I can before the league ends.

FYI I have a loreweave, just trying to 6L it at the moment, but it's taking time.

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Vickery wrote:

I dont suppose I can get a gear check? I'm in SSF and want to try and push to Uber Elder if I can before the league ends.

FYI I have a loreweave, just trying to 6L it at the moment, but it's taking time.

I was about to say pretty decent gear. Then I noticed you are SSF, so that's pretty amazing gear really!
You have more eHP than me, and damage is pretty decent.
Switching your weapon for my multimodded one is barely a dps improvement.

You will probably struggle to get the tools to really push single target damage as ssf - mark of the shaper is pretty nice, but you need to beat uber elder to get one! As are things like Fenumus weave. Wise oak is handy, and I guess chancable/get from bestiary, but balancing resists SSF is tricky.

How did he get 71% of lightning dmg in his weapon ?

Any reason to use Carcass over Loreweave on boss fights?
I got both of em 6L but i am having a hard time weighting the pros n cons.
I am also assuming that Inpulsa is better than both at clear speed but worse than both on boss fights, correct?