Lv96 Poutsos' Flicker Nuke - Outdated

Thank you for your response - I was mostly aware of the issues you mentioned it is just that, supposedly, nothing but the mana leech stacking (duration) changed with the update in connection to this issue and I certainly did not have this problem before with my current stats/gear. Though, with your pointers, I am starting to suspect I did not copy my previous passive tree perfectly (forced resets ftw) so my tree at this moment is not as optimized as it was before. Anyways, thanks again for your opinion.

Guys,i ll stop updating.After further testing,i realised that the build after all is no more viable.Even I,with over 160K AoE DPS,i cant leech efficiently to deal with haard maps,when there is enfeeble,and of course reflect is more dangerous than ever.For CI melee in generall,now VP is not viable,unless u are a claw user.Either ur DPS is not efficient to keep u alive,or u wont survive reflect :/ Plus i corrupted almost everything and some did turn out well,i destroyed my shield.Thats it for now,i am sorry

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Poutsos wrote:

Guys,i ll stop updating.After further testing,i realised that the build after all is no more viable.Even I,with over 160K AoE DPS,i cant leech efficiently to deal with haard maps,when there is enfeeble,and of course reflect is more dangerous than ever.For CI melee in generall,now VP is not viable,unless u are a claw user.Either ur DPS is not efficient to keep u alive,or u wont survive reflect :/ Plus i corrupted almost everything and some did turn out well,i destroyed my shield.Thats it for now,i am sorry

Well, that was expected.
I already made a Claw build to replace dagger. However, some time ago good claws were relatively cheap, and now their price will skyrocket, most probably.
IMO, PoE is going into wrong direction with LL nerf. They nerfed LL to boot, but remained reflect untouched.

As for corrupting.... never corrupt items you arent ready to part with :)

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

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Poutsos wrote:

Guys,i ll stop updating.After further testing,i realised that the build after all is no more viable.Even I,with over 160K AoE DPS,i cant leech efficiently to deal with haard maps,when there is enfeeble,and of course reflect is more dangerous than ever.For CI melee in generall,now VP is not viable,unless u are a claw user.Either ur DPS is not efficient to keep u alive,or u wont survive reflect :/ Plus i corrupted almost everything and some did turn out well,i destroyed my shield.Thats it for now,i am sorry

Well, that was expected.
I already made a Claw build to replace dagger. However, some time ago good claws were relatively cheap, and now their price will skyrocket, most probably.
IMO, PoE is going into wrong direction with LL nerf. They nerfed LL to boot, but remained reflect untouched.

As for corrupting.... never corrupt items you arent ready to part with :)

Well reflect wasnt even my biggest issue.My issue was that with enfeeble,even with so high DPS i could not leech efficiently,which resulted in deaths,on situations that i was breezing through before.But then,with reflect,i was right on the edge,which means that if i increased my DPS,to deal with less leech,then i would have serious problems with reflect.Of course i could permanently use life leech gem,but then again,the DPS would drop and it would be hard to maintain frenzy charges.All in all this build got wrecked.My initial testings were pretty hopefull,but after playing hard 78 maps like i did before,i realised that it is not worth it anymore.

As for corrupting,i was ready to part with them,thats why i did it :).Dont forget that i had quited the game before patch,and now i will quit again,until the shadow changes,and by then,hopefully,the new content,which is gated behind bullshit RNG,will be more easily accessible(as in,the puzzle pieces will be cheap to buy)

I actually began to wonder if it would be possible to spread damage between Flicker and CoC spells to negate some reflect issues

pouts, why dont you use leech on jewelry and use the new flasks and evasion to deal with stun?
and why did u use enfeeble? doesn´t the reduced accuracy help against reflect?

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thenewapollo wrote:

pouts, why dont you use leech on jewelry and use the new flasks and evasion to deal with stun?
and why did u use enfeeble? doesn´t the reduced accuracy help against reflect?

Leech on jewelry will be cut-off by 60% too. And it isnt aesy to obtain such jewelry with other good stats.
Evasion stil doesnt guarantee stun-immunity, you still can be stundesynced to death. Oh, and BTW, evasion does nothing with spells, and they can stun too.
Enfeeble does NOTHING with reflected damage. It decreases damage, that enemy does to you, but it doesnt decrease your OWN damage (reflect is your own damage, with all your stats applied). So, you should enfeeble yourself to make it help agains reflected damage, but, why dont just replace some DPS items in that case? :)

but doesnt enfeeble lower your accuracy if you use it on relec monsters?
and i thought the quartz flask was anti stun too but i could also be wrong here.
so far i´ve been successful against reflect with 6 leech from jewelry and 15 from bloodrage, 6k es 3k evasion and 81% accuracy. if i flask evasion and armour reflec does absoutely nothing but i dont want to depend on flasking.
i did get killed last night by lightning storm. i flasked really late and my resist isnt max yet.
i hope you can confrim my 2 doubts.
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It is not that the build is not working.It is,however it is just a shadow of its former self.However it would be more powerfull than ever with these new gloves

http://imgur.com/a/iatME

Sadly,i dont see them costing any less than 200 ex.BTW,this is my latest build(so far used around 40 regrets on testing :P




7.5K ES,180K AoE DPS.If i hadnt destroyed my shield with vaal orb,i d be over 8K ES,so stat wise i d be much better than before,1.1.Still the VP nerd is huge
These gloves,not only allows you to play without VP,but EVERY leech applies istantly,meaning that we d never have mana issues again....

those gloves are absolutely op. game changer id say.
imho they should never get into the game