[1.0.4]Scion - Incinerate Tank - Mind over Matter, EB, almost Max Block | Facetank a lot of stuff

Er, I should have used better acronyms

Is Faster Casting better than, say, Fire penetration?


e: Also, I got this recently:




Do I absolutely need to get the lightning coil or could I potentially do maps/farm end bosses without one?

This built is pure sexiness!

Hello,

What is your opinion of this tree?



This is a mara start with much more resistance, life and energy shield. There are less damage and cast speed and mana regen.Would this work better in Nemesis?

Thanks

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Eep wrote:

Er, I should have used better acronyms

Is Faster Casting better than, say, Fire penetration?


e: Also, I got this recently:

Do I absolutely need to get the lightning coil or could I potentially do maps/farm end bosses without one?

I don't think Fire pen will be better than Faster Casting especially if you use flammability.

It might be possible to do maps and farm bosses without the Lightning Coil but you will probably have to a lot more careful.

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CNwhitenight wrote:

Hello,

What is your opinion of this tree?

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This is a mara start with much more resistance, life and energy shield. There are less damage and cast speed and mana regen.Would this work better in Nemesis?

Thanks

I wouldn't recommend that build since cast speed is really important for Incinerate to be good.

I would probably do this build on Nemesis.

If I had the right gems, I'd really wanna test this one out. It plays a lot like me EK build, except you have more Block and melee-damage, I have more Life, Damage and Range. Beautiful concept!

Incinerate is also one of the better looking skills, too.

Just came in to post that I'm currently running a similar build and it's certainly viable without Lightning Coil (I'm using Infernal Mantle for more dps and mana) though I suspect Lightning Coil would work wonders against bosses with very high spike damage (i.e. Brutus variants).

I'm also using a Cold Snap + Ele Prolif + Multitrap + Trap set up to freeze mobs while I ramp up 3 stacks for Incinerate. I highly recommend it to anyone who have the sockets spare.

Finally, I haven't picked up Unwavering Stance just yet so I can still take advantage of Enfeeble's accuracy debuff as well as blind which has been useful against tough bosses. I've also found that while I get stunned, it hasn't been long enough to reset the 3 stacks.

How well does this do against chaos damage? Does it have any weaknesses you can think of for nemesis? I'm thinking since Incinerate attacks so frequently it would proc corrupt blood like hell and kill you very easily due to the low HP pool?

EDIT: If you were to do this on a budget (i.e. no 6 link) what would you do? Rathpith is quite expensive .. How important is it really for the build to work?

Im doing this build since a few days now. Still trying to 6L Coil but with Mom, AA and high block the defensive part is still pretty solid.
I really like it a lot. The problem is, dps wise in full party high lvl maps is a letdown. I expected this to happen since I ran a non crit EK back in CB, hp based so its almost the same: great solo but thats it.
I might try replacing mana leech with maybe fire pen and see how it goes.

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Izuria wrote:

How well does this do against chaos damage? Does it have any weaknesses you can think of for nemesis? I'm thinking since Incinerate attacks so frequently it would proc corrupt blood like hell and kill you very easily due to the low HP pool?

EDIT: If you were to do this on a budget (i.e. no 6 link) what would you do? Rathpith is quite expensive .. How important is it really for the build to work?

As long as you can leech life it does fine against chaos and bleed damage, you need a remove bleed flask for dominus since 6+ stacks will kill you in seconds.

I wouldn't kill corrupted blood mobs since you will get to 20 stacks really fast with incinerate.

Rathpit is probably not viable for a lot of people in the new leagues since it drops in maps only now, its not really important but it have stats that work really well with this build.
A rare shield with some spell damage and resists should be a really good alternative.