[3.25] Splitting Steel Gladiator - All Uniques, Cheap League Start, Explody Mapping

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corosou wrote:

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corneredreality wrote:

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Ye, the STD prices are pretty crazy, though the +1 to socketed gems is way more impactful than the +2 projectile (you double dip with Empower and the dmg bonuse you get from the +2 on vicious projectiles really diminished going +1% more for each additional lvl), at least according to PoB the difference in damage is insignificant. Even now without the armor I'm still melting everything in 1 shot in T16 juiced maps (heck I can just stand and watch the reflections melt everything) and boss hp drops so fast that in a few seconds the phase is triggered (where it applies). Having returning projectiles is worth it when your hit dps is lower but at 230m DPS with hit DPS of 30m it probably isn't really noticeable (though I'm gonna try vengeant cascade to see). Windshriek is nice but at this point I think being more tanky is more beneficial. As for the reflect you can easily do them with the sextants, unless you wanna farm Atziri.

Another thing I'm actually not entirely sure of is the actual interaction with the projectile shattering. Does it pierce and not do its AoE in a small shotgun in front, but rather behind the target? Also returning projectiles do a fraction of the initial damage due to travel distance (point blank), if I'm not mistaken. In fact I think awakened GMP does greater damage on bigger targets (despite PoB showing less dmg) because you can instantly hit 8 projectiles for max impales on the first attack. When I'm playing it feels like all the hits at once on top of the aoe shatter dealing both proj and aoe cone. Kinda hard to tell when everything melts xD

Edit: Also realized that the 15% to get power charge on the armor I have was pretty huge as well (uptime is almost 100%). Forgot to turn it off when comparing with Lioneye. When I did it was almost -40m dps. Lioneye at that point is +4% dmg (230m v. 239).

Glad the build has worked out well! You obviously know what you're doing. Good job :)

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corneredreality wrote:

Cheers!

BTW, check out Anomalous Molten Shell. With Ashes of the Stars, you get 22% of armour, so you can get a lot more out of it without having as much armour (ie u need only 25k armour at moment of activation to get the 5k shield instead of 50k!) :)

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sirswears wrote:

Looks great! Been enjoying this build considerably and haven't been this engaged/invested in years thanks to it.

I'm still struggling with survivability issues but think it might just be game play related honestly.

Out of curiosity, what pantheon choice are specced into?