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

More terrible quality VODs for anyone thats interested: http://www.twitch.tv/teamplaguecaitlin/b/380475875

That's the 73 map "Canyon"

VOD of the 71 map "Temple" inc. Piety Kill and discussion around the Piety Fight. http://www.twitch.tv/teamplaguecaitlin/b/380760803 starts at 1:13:30.

The reason I say it starts there is because that's where I roll the map and I spent a lot of Chaos doing so to get a map that is achievable.

For anyone that doesn't want to watch it, can't cuz it shit quality or w/e here's a brief breakdown.

Piety is the only fight and Temple is the only map where I specifically edit my setup and play for a fight. She herself is just a caster but the damage her lightning spells do is insane. She the same mob from the Act 3 Crematorium so Lightning Storm and Ball Lightning. There are 3 things you want to focus on when fighting her:

Physical Damage
Leech
Crit

I use 2 Surgeons Topaz Flasks for the fight and obviously I'm resist capped before I start, make sure you swap your flasks before you get too her or else your have a empty Topaz and nothing to get it filled off of. You want to maximise your Physical Damage so the auras I use are Discipline, Purity and Haste. You want too, if you can, put Faster Casting on your Blood Rage to help keep it up and you never let it drop during the encounter.

Pop your Topaz Flasks off 1 at a time and don't overlap their durations, you need them to be 20%ed for the increased duration. Changing your rings is also good as Dream Fragments is useless here, so if your mana allows it, use a 2% Leach Ring is physical damage, accuracy, attack speed etc. Crit is important because you want to aim to get 5 charges from your Topaz flasks, that's about enough time to kill her and crit will refresh that charges.

Hope this helps some people that struggle with the encounter.

man that archon kite is sick. Why am I not rolling one of those? Well, tbh, Im really happy with what I just crafted: :D maybe I shouldnt have regaled a 143 es+25int roll but at least I got pretty much the best roll possible. Now I just need to roll the last ES% roll and 2 resistances I guess. :p

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Phonaestheme wrote:

man that archon kite is sick. Why am I not rolling one of those? Well, tbh, Im really happy with what I just crafted:

:D maybe I shouldnt have regaled a 143 es+25int roll but at least I got pretty much the best roll possible. Now I just need to roll the last ES% roll and 2 resistances I guess. :p

Hehe I love the casual honesty of this post "oh wow thats really cool, i've only got this pile of crap 600 ES shield...its nothing really" love it :P

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Necrogue wrote:

ok after 21 chromes I got the rrgg gloves then on the first chest roll I get this

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A pretty rare roll but I don't think it's useful to me. Maybe I can trade it to another build that needs it.
Cures wise I've been using crit weakness because that's what I have room for. It's good quality and says 70% "more" instead of "increased" so I'm guessing thats a lot of dmg.
I'm using this unique belt over my high es belts because the leach seems to help a lot yet nothing to go vaal pact about yet.

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Edit:With weapon elemental and anger over clarity I'm having problems with mana. Now instead of "bam bam ugh bam ugh ogh bam bam bam" it's "bam bam ugh bam wiff bam ugh uah".

Edit: I should get an Eye of Chayula. You think an exult or a gcp would get me one?

http://www.twitch.tv/teamplaguecaitlin/b/380795949

Hopefully that answer and give you some ideas :) Yes I have officially become too lazy too type :P

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Phonaestheme wrote:

man that archon kite is sick. Why am I not rolling one of those? Well, tbh, Im really happy with what I just crafted:

:D maybe I shouldnt have regaled a 143 es+25int roll but at least I got pretty much the best roll possible. Now I just need to roll the last ES% roll and 2 resistances I guess. :p

that shield, omg. highest ES shield in HC

any thoughts on the Alpha's Howl unique working with this build? I mean, +2 to discipline's lvl and a ring slot freed from dream fragments would probably more than make up for the fact that you wouldnt have an ES helm?

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Phonaestheme wrote:

any thoughts on the Alpha's Howl unique working with this build? I mean, +2 to discipline's lvl and a ring slot freed from dream fragments would probably more than make up for the fact that you wouldnt have an ES helm?

Already been discussed a few pages back. TL:DR Alpha Howl is awesome.

Ah sry I missed that. Man, I bricked my first exalt, got the last ES roll on the second but it was pretty low...
I got the stun recovery with my first exalt and es+stun recov on my 2nd. Basically the last ES roll is 31% which means its not even worth divining. I wish I had got at least 33% but I think this is still the highest ES shield in HC... but it does have 0 res and only 1 slot left.. In retrospect, maybe I shouldve waited until I find an ilvl 78 titanium and not roll a 75... xD

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Dustbinlid wrote:

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_Seze_ wrote:

Hey everyone. I'm a ground slam lvl 79 mara. I sit at ~6k hp\80 all res, 18k single target and 11k aoe dps. I can do any map, BUT i'm really concerned about phys dmg scaling with no crits and very late game viability. I see maybe 25k dps with godlike gear etc.

I don't do mage\ranged and go only melee. But I am a total noob in shadow department and thus I come to #1 thread for help. I have the ability to get any gear I need so the question is: can this(or preferably the one with hp\armor) build surpass groundslam build dps\survivability\party usefulness very late game???

Single target DPS yes, survivability no, "usefulness" is open to opinion. Is this the most powerful shadow build in game? No. It is viable at end game? Yes. Do many people succeed with this build? No.

So ask yourself this, do you want a challenge? :)

For more specifics of what it's like at end game look back in the thread to a VOD iv posted of me doing high end maps. Also read the section at the bottom of the guide entitled "Additional advice from other high level players" that will hopefully give you an idea of what this spec is about.

If I didn't want a challenge I would've went FP ot LA :P

Ok so single target dps will be higher cause of crits(I also have Conduit templar in party with 7 Power charges so my crit chance would be ~70-80%). How about AOE dps? Lightning Strike looks good in numbers when I try it, It can pierce etc, My only concern is that it's not a real aoe, it's basically a projectile althou it proly matters not.

Survivability, I lean towards hp\armor build rather then CI. Only disadvantage I see is if I use Kaoms heart I loose 6L ability... and that's huge...

Proly will wait for next patch and those melee gems and see..

You wouldn't get seven power charges unless your Shadow is capable of that number. You will gain a charge as he does until you hit your max of three.