[1.0.5] Pohx's 1181% Crit Multi Conduit Solo/Party Trapper [Nemesis] Vids Included

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Fondeesha wrote:

First off, I'd like to admit I'm fairly new to the game and even newer to trap builds. In general, I've only been playing a total of 2 months. However, I've been roughly following your non-crit build and would like to thank you for all the information you've provided thus far.

As my currency is very minimal, I just bought my first major piece in a 5L Carcass Jack, I am not at liberty to experiment with certain ideas. Ideally, in the near future, I'll be transitioning into the crit build and, as such, I've been thinking about certain aspects.

Namely, I've been trying to determine if your current method of shock stacking is the most efficient. According to your crit build section, you have LT with ele prolif, added lightning, and multi trap.

Would it be more efficient to use Storm Call, trap, multi trap, ele prolif?

Now, LT with an added lightning yields more damage than Storm Call at level 20, but for shock stacking purposes would Storm Call be a better fit?

The reason I ask, Storm Call gains 4% increased crit chance per 1% quality. At 20% quality you'd be looking at 80% more crit chance on that base 4% or basically 7.2% crit chance on SC.
However, with a 20% quality added Lightning, you're looking at an additional 10% increased chance to shock.

So I guess the real question is, would a base 3.2% increased chance to crit outweigh 10% increased "chance" to shock?

Thanks in advance

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matkaselka wrote:

I was wondering how viable non-crit trapper is, when you are at the point of moving to endgame maps? Are you able to solo them with decent speed or farm untill you have enough funds to switch crit build? What is the clear speed difference between the two? And lastly do you NEED lvl 20traps and 5-link before entering 70+maps? :) Really appreciate your guide and hope you keep up the good work!

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Fondeesha wrote:

First off, I'd like to admit I'm fairly new to the game and even newer to trap builds. In general, I've only been playing a total of 2 months. However, I've been roughly following your non-crit build and would like to thank you for all the information you've provided thus far.

As my currency is very minimal, I just bought my first major piece in a 5L Carcass Jack, I am not at liberty to experiment with certain ideas. Ideally, in the near future, I'll be transitioning into the crit build and, as such, I've been thinking about certain aspects.

Namely, I've been trying to determine if your current method of shock stacking is the most efficient. According to your crit build section, you have LT with ele prolif, added lightning, and multi trap.

Would it be more efficient to use Storm Call, trap, multi trap, ele prolif?

Now, LT with an added lightning yields more damage than Storm Call at level 20, but for shock stacking purposes would Storm Call be a better fit?

The reason I ask, Storm Call gains 4% increased crit chance per 1% quality. At 20% quality you'd be looking at 80% more crit chance on that base 4% or basically 7.2% crit chance on SC.
However, with a 20% quality added Lightning, you're looking at an additional 10% increased chance to shock.

So I guess the real question is, would a base 3.2% increased chance to crit outweigh 10% increased "chance" to shock?

Thanks in advance

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PinkFury wrote:

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Fondeesha wrote:

First off, I'd like to admit I'm fairly new to the game and even newer to trap builds. In general, I've only been playing a total of 2 months. However, I've been roughly following your non-crit build and would like to thank you for all the information you've provided thus far.

As my currency is very minimal, I just bought my first major piece in a 5L Carcass Jack, I am not at liberty to experiment with certain ideas. Ideally, in the near future, I'll be transitioning into the crit build and, as such, I've been thinking about certain aspects.

Namely, I've been trying to determine if your current method of shock stacking is the most efficient. According to your crit build section, you have LT with ele prolif, added lightning, and multi trap.

Would it be more efficient to use Storm Call, trap, multi trap, ele prolif?

Now, LT with an added lightning yields more damage than Storm Call at level 20, but for shock stacking purposes would Storm Call be a better fit?

The reason I ask, Storm Call gains 4% increased crit chance per 1% quality. At 20% quality you'd be looking at 80% more crit chance on that base 4% or basically 7.2% crit chance on SC.
However, with a 20% quality added Lightning, you're looking at an additional 10% increased chance to shock.

So I guess the real question is, would a base 3.2% increased chance to crit outweigh 10% increased "chance" to shock?

Thanks in advance

I recently did a re-spec on my Scion (currently at level 66) for this build. I've been trying a few adjustments, and this one in particular seems to be working really well:

Spoiler

I replaced Concentrated Effect with Added Lightning Damage for a couple of reasons:

• Concentrated Effect reduces not only the radius of Fire Trap's initial explosion and burning ground effect, but also the trap's trigger radius. This was a slight nuisance for me, as I could lob a Fire Trap into a pack of monsters and many of them were able to simply walk around it.

• Although swapping Concentrated Effect for Added Lightning Damage will slightly lower Fire Trap's tooltip DPS, it (from what I've observed) actually adds a significant amount of damage in the form of burning DoT. With an insane amount of crit multiplier, landing a crit with Fire Trap will proliferate not only ignite's burning damage, but also shock, which translates into 30% more burning damage.



With that said, if you're able to land 3 crits in a row with Fire Trap: the first shock will give 30% more damage to the next Fire Trap, resulting in an even higher amount of burning damage. But that second Fire Trap also crits and leaves another shock stack for 60% more damage, applying to the third Fire Trap which, after being boosted by the previous traps, deals 60% more damage on the initial explosion, then delivers a third shock stack, increasing the final burning damage by 90%. With the Fire Penetration support gem and the High Explosives notable, even bosses with high elemental resistance will melt from multi-crit-shock Fire Trap.

Sorry if my explanation and wording on that last paragraph was a bit difficult to understand, but hopefully you get the jist of it. I'd like to see Pohx try this out as well, as I'm still not at a high enough level to test how this would all scale with the new DoT passive groups, Entropy and Growth and Decay.