pabrt's Critical Mass Discharger 1.2 (molten strike coc)

What do you guys think about ele weakness (or conductivity) instead of critical weakness? And speaking about last gem in 6-linked voll's - what aboutt lightning penetration.. or may be additional accuracy ?

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Intellect wrote:

What do you guys think about ele weakness (or conductivity) instead of critical weakness? And speaking about last gem in 6-linked voll's - what aboutt lightning penetration.. or may be adition accuracy ?

Lightning Pen would add dps for sure and 0.5 dps per quality its a free 10% ele dps node. I still prefer multiplier. 150% on 20/20 is just too good to pass up if you already have the crit to back it up.

Will do some tests later :)

Accuracy is a weird stat, its not needed too much in POE as apposed to other games. I was on 88% and there was no issue, removed 3 nodes and went down to 85% and still there is no difference. You get more dps per IAS than per Accuracy node. Remember we are a Dex build in a sense thus we get a lot of accuracy from just working through the tree, so I wouldnt waste a spot in the 6L with that gem.

As for the curses I dont run anything besides enfeeble and Temp chains and they are all on CoDT.

See the build has MORE than enough dps, most people cnt match it on their best characters and things die in about 1-3 discharge procs. This is why i dont have ANY increase damage curses or buffs etc as they die fast enough.

I now focus on defence so all CoDT have things like , summon skeletons, 3 decoy totems, enduring cry and immortal call at different tiers, 2 temp chains, one enfeeble. Its a HUGE help.

-ANZurina

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Ziiyo wrote:

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redsp wrote:

Thanks for your replies guys...so the only problem here would be damage reflect? cause everyone talks about the same thing, avoiding that. xD
Also i should get a volls protector with 3 Green socks? thanks!

That is my gem setup, myself and Pabrt have chatted a lot about the multiplier Vs Firestorm and I guess its personal preference but colour scheme should be RRBBGG.

Also WHEN you get Volls Devotion, this build turns from OP to STUPILY OP! I used to use flasks in most maps above 70 but now I have slacked off due to endurance charge defence. I normally only use flaks on bosses and then from level 75 maps on wards.

Ele Reflect, I havent checked Pabrts current build but I went down to Vaals, you cannot die from ele reflect unless its a its a double ele reflect map and you dont have flasks up.

i.e. Map with 18% ele reflect + Rare Ele reflect Monster.

Vaal was the key to me breaking through a hard point in this game + those two items above.

PS: This is my current build, I created a new tree for CI but after last nights run with my friends, they conviinced me to stay HP based. I have not seen anyone in game yet (map runs) that can clear as fast as I do , or do as much dps as I do.

well that free OP endurance charges are not available here in domination haha but well, the league is ending soon so...i currently have bought some CI gear so hope it can be useful, otherwise i may sell it to buy some good gear for this build cause i love how it looks and the play style.
So everyone telling me it is possible to make it work in domination but yeah..we won't have that deffence advantage u guys do.
I will lvl up a character soon so i can test it
thanks for your time guys

Why is your Whirling blades lvl 2 and the double strike lvl5?

Increased accuracy is basically like getting a better increased critical strikes. It still doesn't really increase damage that much and offers no real utility imo.

In domination, increased critical damage is much better than lightning pen on mobs with no lightning resistance and deals fairly comparable damage to those with high lightning resist on crit. It also costs less mana. Lightning pen's one advantage is that it's a bit cheaper b/c it doesn't require quality. If you're on standard, ICD wins out easily b/c it also increases your burning damage by a lot. ICD vs. firestorm is basically damage vs. utility (potion charges), so it's a matter of personal preference.

In domination, in terms of damage on curses, crit weakness is better than elemental weakness or conductivity on most maps. Conductivity is better on maps with the +75% resist and no mobs with good innate resist or maps without that mod and lots of mobs with resist. On standard, crit weakness probably just works better everywhere unless you get mobs that are floating around 40-80% resist all. Though as noted you generally aren't that worried on standard about increasing your damage. Even on domination I'm running item rarity most of the time as my 6th link as the build is not very cull friendly.

In terms of gem progression, double strike lvl 5 and whirling blades lvl 3 so they don't cost more mana, cwdt and linked gems as you like it, and max on everything else.

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AgaresOaks wrote:

In terms of gem progression, double strike lvl 5 and whirling blades lvl 3 so they don't cost more mana, cwdt and linked gems as you like it, and max on everything else.

really? but does it make a diff when double strike costs 8 or 11 mana?

It would increase the mana cost around 27% for a negligible amount of phys damage increase.

On castwhendt, for defenssive skills, what u say?
cwdt-inmortal call - inc duration
cwdt- enduring cry- molten shell- crit weakness
and i want to change ice spear lmp gmp for other defensive:

cwdt- frost wall- decoy totem- ?

ideas?

is this dagger fine?
and what about

arent they a good choice for this build?

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reimbowl wrote:

On castwhendt, for defenssive skills, what u say?
cwdt-inmortal call - inc duration
cwdt- enduring cry- molten shell- crit weakness
and i want to change ice spear lmp gmp for other defensive:

cwdt- frost wall- decoy totem- ?

ideas?

These look fine except for frost wall, which might be annoying. try replacing it with summon skeletons?

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DerFlo93 wrote:

is this dagger fine?
and what about

arent they a good choice for this build?

That dagger is good enough to use

Maligaro's is a good lower level item, but it doesn't provide enough benefit relative to the missing life and resists later on imo.