Perz' Reave Shadow

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

It's a hard decision when it's a permanent reward, and there doesnt seem to be real numbers crunched on 8% ias vs 18% physical.

http://wolfr.am/1agygIQ

That compares the percent damage increase between the two rewards with 69% attack speed from passives (which is how much the final build link in the OP has), 4 frenzy charges, and 44% attack speed from a level 20 Faster Attacks. The break-even point is 424.25% increased Physical damage; if you have less than that the Phys Damage is more DPS, if you have more the attack speed is more DPS.

So with 292% increased physical damage from passives and 76% from level 20 Reave, the physical damage is about 18% more effective than the attack speed.

Edit: That doesn't account for flat ele damage bonuses, but it does account for ele damage via physical conversion (eg Hatred). It also doesn't account for armor curving (bigger slow hits do more damage than faster smaller ones).

Difference is probably small enough that you can pick either without worrying about it too much. As mentioned before, phys has the benefit of more effectively increasing your leech, while attack speed is a tiny bit safer against reflect and gives a little smoother damage.

Small update.

Lvl 82 here with decent gear.

Using a dagger since i couldnt find a similar claw, and although the leech isnt THAT bad, i'm somewhat struggling when doing 71+ maps (solo).

Might be due to the fact that i dont have Alpha's howl and globally low evasion.


Regardless, i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong with my skill tree.

Comparing my own skill tree to the lvl85 tree in the first post, there's 2 skill points that i'm missing.

Keep in mind i've got two unused orbs of regret and a somewhat useless +30 Int node.

lvl82 (me)


lvl85 (OP)


So, by reaching lvl 85 and taking off that +30Int node, i should be able to reach Ondar's Guile, and both avoid stun/ avoid chill.

Problem is: i cant. I'm short of 2 skill points.

Any idea ?

Thanks for that Fear.

I am pleased with my decision actually.
A faster claw becomes less relevant than one with more phys dmg, the more IAS you have. ( or so im thinking), because I had a claw with less phys dmg, but faster and it was a dps increase.
I took 8% IAS, and now the slower one with more phys dmg is better.

Hello,

Very nice build mate. I was wondering if there's a possibility to build this on Nemesis league? Thanks in advance.

I'm kinda frustrated atm. Dying at every large group because of desync. I go there, start hitting, I see my Reave spreading all over but hitting nothing. Then I try to move, got teleported back, everything hits me and I'm dead. All the time. I'm not getting stunned or anything, I'm staying close to all of them and I see my Reave animation and the animation of them getting all hit but they don't get any dmg for a few seconds. I really don't know what to do anymore it's really frustrating.

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Feoras wrote:

I'm kinda frustrated atm. Dying at every large group becuase of desync. I go there, start hitting, I see my Reave spreading all over but hitting nothing. Then I try to move, got teleported back, everything hits me and I'm dead. All the time. I'm not getting stunned or anything, I'm staying close to all of them and I see my Reave animation and the animation of them getting all hit but they don't get any dmg for a few seconds. I really don't know what to do anymore it's really frustrating.

I've had it happen...it can be concerning.
I'm a little worried about end game ( at 47 atm) but it's not often...so I don't know.

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Feoras wrote:

I'm kinda frustrated atm. Dying at every large group because of desync. I go there, start hitting, I see my Reave spreading all over but hitting nothing. Then I try to move, got teleported back, everything hits me and I'm dead. All the time. I'm not getting stunned or anything, I'm staying close to all of them and I see my Reave animation and the animation of them getting all hit but they don't get any dmg for a few seconds. I really don't know what to do anymore it's really frustrating.

Mostly happens because either you or the mobs are desynced and aren't where you see them on the screen. You can mitigate most of this by back or sidestepping as soon as you notice one of the mobs in your cone isn't being hit.

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Fearmonger wrote:

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Feoras wrote:

I'm kinda frustrated atm. Dying at every large group because of desync. I go there, start hitting, I see my Reave spreading all over but hitting nothing. Then I try to move, got teleported back, everything hits me and I'm dead. All the time. I'm not getting stunned or anything, I'm staying close to all of them and I see my Reave animation and the animation of them getting all hit but they don't get any dmg for a few seconds. I really don't know what to do anymore it's really frustrating.

Mostly happens because either you or the mobs are desynced and aren't where you see them on the screen. You can mitigate most of this by back or sidestepping as soon as you notice one of the mobs in your cone isn't being hit.

Well I'm 51 atm in act 3. It happens at every large group which in this areas is quite often. If it happens I usually try to back up, and go in again but mostly with the same effect. So I back up again, but then I get teleported back and I'm surrounded by all monsters which hit me and I die.

I even tried to lvl up in areas 5 lvls under me but it still kept happening and I'm just dying all the time. If those desync problems don't appear I don't have so much trouble. But right now no matter how careful I am I'm making minus exp right now. It's really annoying and I don't really know what to do anymore :/ I didn't had this much desync until act 3 but now it's unplayable for me. I were able to deal with it if it happened sometimes but it's way to much atm. And without any leech I die. So I dunno if there is anything I could do about that or if I just need to wait until they do something about that. It was really fun to play before but that really killed my mood now.

make a /oos macro. If it's really that bad, take 10 min, and make the /oos command into a macro and bind it to side mosue button or somesuch

Best of luck.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

make a /oos macro. If it's really that bad, take 10 min, and make the /oos command into a macro and bind it to side mosue button or somesuch

Best of luck.

Okay I'm gonna try that, thanks! Also made a thread in the support forum here

Will let you know if it helps since this build makes a lot of fun to play :) Just wish I would have VP already that will be a bit though until then.