[1.0.6] CI Crit Dagger Shadow (30k DPS Flicker Ninja) [OB video up!]

hi, I have a question.. when can i use my es gear? when i respec to ci merciless act 2?

thank you for your kind answer..

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Dtex wrote:

Am I the only one having mana problems?
My LS mana cost is 32
Mana Regen/sec is 15.9
112 available mana

Try using warlord's mark often. You get 5% physical damage to mana with mind drinker and level 13 warlord's mark.

I'm currently running Wrath and Anger auras. What should I run next when I get the MP? Hatred or Haste?

This build is really fun to use, even at low levels.

When you reach lvl60+ though, you'll have to invest into some GOOD gear, with at least 4L for every item.

Reduced mana for auras is a MUST.

Currently lvl 65 running with about 1200hp/ 2400 ES, waiting as much as possible before speccing into CI, and wondering what auras to use.

I'm using Grace (huge mana eater), wrath and...that's about it because my mana pool is only ~600. LS is combined with mana leech but i had to give up on LMP :(

I leveled up with bows, but switched to daggers mid-30s and have had almost no problem with mana yet. I definitely keep my mana pot on cooldown at all times, but I only run one and never seem to run out of mana. I feel like I kill things fast enough with this build and with enough AOE that my one mana flask that I run fills up just as fast or faster than I can use it.

If this is not your experience, there are some other things you can do to help. You can run a low-level Clarity. Generally I can fit 2 auras right now, and I tend to use either Wrath+Hatred, or Wrath/Hatred+Clarity. You may lose some tooltip DPS, but if it's a matter of getting to spam your skills or having to revert to auto-attacking, then it's definitely worth it. Alternatively, on the way down the passive tree, a little ways below CI, there are 2 20% mana regen nodes right off the path that this build takes anyways. Those could be a decent investment, at least while leveling up, to help some of your mana-problems earlier on and then maybe you can keep them or respec out of them later.

Double-post, sorry, but I wanted to mention that I read a statement from some GGG person (don't recall which, exactly, maybe Chris) that said that the days of CI adding +% extra ES are pretty much over. That isn't to say that it won't ever receive some kind of buff, but specifically adding extra ES is probably something the node will never do again.

That makes it very unlikely that it will be buffed. I mean, nothing else fits thematically. Maybe some elemental resistances too, bat that also is a tangent.*

*I am NOT asking for a buff right now. I only wonder what sort of buff would even make sense.

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HGlobus wrote:

*I am NOT asking for a buff right now. I only wonder what sort of buff would even make sense.

I think something like a buff to your DPS, that maybe X% of the Chaos Damage you would recieve is added to your DPS in the next hit you connect to the enemy.

I'd like to see base life converted to ES. Not the life gained from gear/passives/str, just the life your character gets from being alive. Take off all your gear and subtract any life gained from Str or +Life passives and you will still have a few hundred. Why not add that to ES?

There could be other types of buffs that aren't of the flat +ES type. Adding some form of regen to CI could be nice. I mean, combining CI and Zealot's Oath into one passive probably won't ever happen, but something like "Energy Shield Recovery reduced by 75%, Energy Shield Recovery Cooldown reduced to 0s" or I don't know. In my opinion, the problem with CI isn't that we don't get enough ES, it's that our in-combat ES regen is so inferior to Life builds. Relying on lifesteal to stay afloat is so dangerous at high levels.

Or I wouldn't scoff at additional stun resist, or additional status ailment resist, or extra evasion, or really anything that they feel like giving us to be honest.

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ThirstyGhost wrote:

Energy Shield Recovery Cooldown reduced to 0s

Ooh, I like this one. It basically lets you flask with ES. And this alone is enough, there are a lot of recovery speed nodes anyway. I thought the post referred to no sort of ES-improvements from CI.

The flat (STRless, +Life/+Life%-less) life is also easy to calculate, it's 50+6*(level-1), or I guess, 44+6*level, meaning 464 at level 70.