My facebreaker @ 153k dps

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Azloki wrote:

The build just sacrifices too much & which makes it less efficient.
Unless GGG releases more P gears, the build for now is very limited in my opinion.

The build does have pretty specific gear needed to make it work well, all facebreaker builds do though, this specific one is pretty exact I agree.

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siliconlife wrote:

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nikkofromchico wrote:

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siliconlife wrote:

Shield sucks donkey balls. Why need 3% LL if you have like 40k physical damage? Get a manly shield like lioneyes.

meh lioneyes isn't doing anything for me except 20 more life and some defense, which I don't need. with 5 endurance charges and molten shell pretty sure I'm hitting 90% defense.

Nope. Defense is a lie.

5 endurance charges are 5*4%=20% less physical damage.
The rest, 80%, are THEN mitigated by your armour. Lioneyes can have 2k armour, and more with shield defense nodes.

So, a 4k hit will be 3,2k hit, and this will then be mitigated by your armour. Armour effectiveness is ofc based on hit-damage. This means, endurance charges are good, endurance charges and armour is imba. Additionally with abyssus, the 4k hit is a 5,6k hit.

Anyway, for other awesome unique shields:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/487068

I admit I haven't actually tried any other shields ever I don't think lol, and after giving that link a read maybe I'll grab something with spell block for those pesky ele caster maps with additional projectile mods. Thanks for the info, that's exactly what i wanted

Just changed things up and hit 101k dps. I'm not sure, but I may be the first facebreaker build to do it

Darkray Vectors bring about a playstyle change.

Things become frantic and you find yourself sprinting and killing and killing and sprinting to keep the stack up.

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Shunyata000 wrote:

Darkray Vectors bring about a playstyle change.

Things become frantic and you find yourself sprinting and killing and killing and sprinting to keep the stack up.

It's true, they make things frantic, especially because with multistrike I don't gain a frenzy charge every hit, but rather every attack, so I need 24 hits to gain 8 frenzy charges, which not only usually requires more than one stack of enemies, but a bit of time since my attack speed is a bit slow without the charges. Plus once charges expire after less than 9 seconds (as opposed to 14 seconds without the boots) my run speed drops to 2% which sucks after it was just 42%.

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I'm impressed with the amount of raw dps you've been able to squeeze out so far.
Could you perhaps write a bit about what kind of maps you ran so far, what to look out for and what the biggest challenges for this build are? I'd like to try out something similar to your build as I now have most of the gear to pull it off, but I'm thinking about taking a bit more defensive route and using aegis aurora with some block nodes. Replenishing your energy shield on block helps melee damage on full life because you'll stay full more often, and it also helps with the abyssus downside.

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kolton wrote:

I'm impressed with the amount of raw dps you've been able to squeeze out so far.
Could you perhaps write a bit about what kind of maps you ran so far, what to look out for and what the biggest challenges for this build are? I'd like to try out something similar to your build as I now have most of the gear to pull it off, but I'm thinking about taking a bit more defensive route and using aegis aurora with some block nodes. Replenishing your energy shield on block helps melee damage on full life because you'll stay full more often, and it also helps with the abyssus downside.

I've ran most if not all maps up through 75. I haven't run too many higher than that simply because there aren't often parties hosting higher maps and honestly the last few weeks my ping has been almost unplayable
My biggest challenges are ping spikes, comast is the best but the worst :(
For reals though as long as you stay on top of everything with grace and 5 endurance charges and some well timed granite flasks I can tank colonnade brutus without issue, pretty sure the map vaal boss will 1 hit smash me though but that's easy to dodge. Even without grace or any charges I don't think there are any amount of normal mobs that can kill me. In a 6 man party I can solo rush a huge room and I leech so much life so quickly there isn't an issue.

Actual things that do kill me are being frozen. I've adjusted my flasks to include dispelling frozen and chilled though so that should help. Map mods with more projectiles and alchemists can do me in since I'm -60 chaos resist. It's nearly impossible to find gear to help. I need 3 specific high value prefixes on my jewelry (physical damage, life, life leech) which alone are very difficult to find together so adding chaos resist to that is even tougher, and helm/boots/gloves/belt are all unique so no chaos resist there.

A lot of the build is just closing the gap to enemies to you can hit them and keep hitting them. So long as your leech doesn't stop usually things are fine. I do struggle with temple piety, she does insane damage plain and simple. The shock and horror boss, also insane damage. There is a fire based boss on a higher up map that is super tough. Residence dominus is a beast, but if you can work out avoiding his ground smash I can solo him sometimes.

I have thought about trading my chest for a nice armor/es mix, I think carnal armor but that might be the dex/es, can't remember. Anyways with 500es off that and the es from the aegis aura even without any nodes it's a decent es and still very high armor to buff it with, but it's an expensive experiment.

sorry to hijack.. sick build
im selling a pair if any of you need
10 chaos standard league
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updated to a shieldless variant with party auras for fun. bump