Although with CI one only has 1 HP this is considered to be full life, therefore all the "on low life" effects wont work anyways. Further more I don't think that LS is regarded as a spell.
You should look out for effects on items (uniques mostly) that have effects "when at full life" because those will always be active with CI!
i tried a caster CI frost fire Shadow till lvl56 and a crit Bow shadow. so now i m trying this meele build to see which i like the most. do advise on the 2 builds ty
Last edited by xjeromex#3845 on Aug 16, 2012, 5:42:41 AM
This spec isnt going to work nearly as well as it could if Weapon Ele Dmg is not linked to Lightning Strike! LS will kinda suck without it, at any level. !!!
LMP is a mana hog. Take it out & see for yourself.
Make sure to do dps testing of gear/weapons with all your auras up.
Make sure all your mana flasks are instant recovery.
Blood Rage (once you have CI) helps make up for slower weapons. It is a must on maps with temporal chains & +cold dmg modifiers.
Double Strike is awesome. This is another good one to link a mana leech to.
I've already said in my posts that I am cannot link weapon elemental to my LS yet (as you could see from my chest piece).
I have also said that I personally think LS is useless without LMP, as without aoe functionality I might as well use literally any other melee attack and make it better than LS. As for the mana, right now with mana leech linked to it I get 3% leech which more than keeps my mana full.
I have CI, and if you looked at my gear can see I'm already using Blood Rage. Once I can get enough jeweller's/fusings I am going to link it and my curse to longer duration and hopefully that will help.
This spec isnt going to work nearly as well as it could if Weapon Ele Dmg is not linked to Lightning Strike! LS will kinda suck without it, at any level. !!!
LMP is a mana hog. Take it out & see for yourself.
Make sure to do dps testing of gear/weapons with all your auras up.
Make sure all your mana flasks are instant recovery.
Blood Rage (once you have CI) helps make up for slower weapons. It is a must on maps with temporal chains & +cold dmg modifiers.
Double Strike is awesome. This is another good one to link a mana leech to.
I've already said in my posts that I am cannot link weapon elemental to my LS yet (as you could see from my chest piece).
I have also said that I personally think LS is useless without LMP, as without aoe functionality I might as well use literally any other melee attack and make it better than LS. As for the mana, right now with mana leech linked to it I get 3% leech which more than keeps my mana full.
I have CI, and if you looked at my gear can see I'm already using Blood Rage. Once I can get enough jeweller's/fusings I am going to link it and my curse to longer duration and hopefully that will help.
LoL, its not useless, if you know how to posicionate yourself to get all three lightning hitting monsters. Its not an easy build to master, i thought that also, but once ive learnt the way the projectiles spread themselves through the screen, i could get it working pretty good. Without LMP.
This spec isnt going to work nearly as well as it could if Weapon Ele Dmg is not linked to Lightning Strike! LS will kinda suck without it, at any level. !!!
LMP is a mana hog. Take it out & see for yourself.
Make sure to do dps testing of gear/weapons with all your auras up.
Make sure all your mana flasks are instant recovery.
Blood Rage (once you have CI) helps make up for slower weapons. It is a must on maps with temporal chains & +cold dmg modifiers.
Double Strike is awesome. This is another good one to link a mana leech to.
I've already said in my posts that I am cannot link weapon elemental to my LS yet (as you could see from my chest piece).
I have also said that I personally think LS is useless without LMP, as without aoe functionality I might as well use literally any other melee attack and make it better than LS. As for the mana, right now with mana leech linked to it I get 3% leech which more than keeps my mana full.
I have CI, and if you looked at my gear can see I'm already using Blood Rage. Once I can get enough jeweller's/fusings I am going to link it and my curse to longer duration and hopefully that will help.
LoL, its not useless, if you know how to posicionate yourself to get all three lightning hitting monsters. Its not an easy build to master, i thought that also, but once ive learnt the way the projectiles spread themselves through the screen, i could get it working pretty good. Without LMP.
I don't think you get what I'm saying though. LS has good DPS, but if I take LMP off of it I could easily replace it with any melee skill and do the exact same thing. LS really has no advantage over most of the other melee skills except that it has the potential for aoe through its projectiles.
The fact that this thread has reached ten thousand views is zomg awesome. Many thanks to all the pplz that have contributed, even those that dont listen lol.
I LOVE pvp. Keep a lookout for 0.9.12 notes on cold-blooded annihilation & sadistic win using this spec. I expect it to be fking brutal. I also expect alot more ppl to be using Stun linked with Shield Charge & Viper Strike & Vulnerability to deeeestroy anyone not using CI. Plus adders touch rofl. Im tingly with anticipation.
I started about a week ago with PoE and i have been hooked playing A LOT in this week. Now i am a lvl 56 Shadow going more or less along this guide (mixed a bit with the other dagger ls ci guide out there). I am in the middle of Act1 merciless right now and just killed Brutus. I received a major boost today since a friend gave me about 7 gcp which I spent on a 5L chest (120 chroms spent to get 2 red sockets linked, no more chaos orbs left to reroll) and a weapon.
Anyways. Now I am feeling super strong but I am afraid that this might be an illusion regarding the endgame. Therefore I would like to ask where I should go next regarding passives and which upgrades I should prioritize.
Here is my gear currently:
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And this is how my tree looks like (heading for adders touch right now?):
Skills that I use are LS and Flicker strike. I don't have elemental weakness yet but I should probably get that and switch for vulnerability right?
Auras that I always use are Wrath, Grace and Discipline. The Rest of the skills in the items are mainly to fill the slots. Don't know what to actually use there yet!
I like it! You will have more survivability with all the shield block & will certainly benefit from the hawt 30% shield defenses. Id ditch the 40% Block Recovery & get ES Delay. Id put the next 2 into ES Delay. Then finish adders touch. I like this build, certainly more safe.
LS is so damned OP Im constantly nerfing my gear for rarity.quantity. You might have found a great balance with defensive toughness.
Mana leech on rings is great to have.
Ele wpn dmg on your belt is awesome, find one with more stats. You have alot more freedom for various gear with having Mightx2.
The fact that this thread has reached ten thousand views is zomg awesome. Many thanks to all the pplz that have contributed, even those that dont listen lol.
I LOVE pvp. Keep a lookout for 0.9.12 notes on cold-blooded annihilation & sadistic win using this spec. I expect it to be fking brutal. I also expect alot more ppl to be using Stun linked with Shield Charge & Viper Strike & Vulnerability to deeeestroy anyone not using CI. Plus adders touch rofl. Im tingly with anticipation.
Only untill you face me off, lol. Im gonna beat the shit out of u, stun-freeze lock u so hard with my LS Shadow that you will have to call your parents to bring u back, just kidding, at the parent's part, hehehehe.
Only untill you face me off, lol. Im gonna beat the shit out of u, stun-freeze lock u so hard with my LS Shadow that you will have to call your parents to bring u back, just kidding, at the parent's part, hehehehe.
