[Strongest Solo Variation: Projectile Madness Spectres] LMP/GMP Ice Spear 2x Totem 2x Curse 3x Traps

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Ziellos wrote:

Icy, both builds are the same, pretty much follow classic to 50 then switch and follow the other.

I can't find a 5l chest for the life of me, so I guess I have to go 4L chest. Now that leaves me with spell totem, gmp, ice spear, and the last slot being reduced mana or faster casting?

If you could pick i would say faster casting. Your DPS goes up and you tend to clear faster. I am now addicted to cast speed and trying to get it anywhere i can. Yes it does make that much of a difference. I guess it really depends if you get a red or blue slot :)

Just want to say I just switched over to the spectre build to give it a shot. This build is OP, especially when you use skeletons with minion speed and faster casting. Clearing 70 maps easily nothing gives me a problem and i have 2 animation healthpots so they don't die. Pretty fun. Currently lvl 77 witch.

I will post the healing station mechanic for spectres later

that'd be great they do sometimes day in higher level maps with a ton of range champs slapping them i do pull them back frequently with a quicksilver flask of adrenaline, and try to heal them up, but u know, looking forward to the healing station info.

its a bitch to heal the mobs, especially when dealing with high dmg mobs (or chaos dmg that bypasses ES). so definitely focus on prevention first by having skele and totems block all the threats if possible like a wall.

i´m lvl 31 and got with spell totem + ice spear and lmp 40 dps it ist normal for this lvl on this build?

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Gnomen_Kind wrote:

i´m lvl 31 and got with spell totem + ice spear and lmp 40 dps it ist normal for this lvl on this build?

you really shouldn't worry about spell totems til later in the game. just leech that xp in groups and use freezing pulse to lvl

once your ice spear is high level and you have a bunch of cast speed nodes/crit nodes you'll have a much higher damage on your totems

Anyone knows if we still get exp if we do run at maps which is 10 level or lower than our current level? What happen with the drop rates?

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firgoe wrote:

Anyone knows if we still get exp if we do run at maps which is 10 level or lower than our current level? What happen with the drop rates?

There is no penalty to drop rates. The currency drop rate penalty considers your level to be max 68, so you won't get a penalty to currency drop rates in a level 66 map.

You will however get an experience penalty if you are too high level. The safe level difference is 3 + (Your level/16), so if you are 76 that would be 7 which means you can run anything from 69-76 without penalty. Lower monster level than that yields a penalty which can be quite large. You'll have to use the formula to see how much though.

Some comments regarding the Iron Will variation- i managed to find a 5L yesterday (got lucky while Fusing) and managed to plug an Iron Will gem. I had an approximate 220% rise in my dps, although it should be noted that i had been building my passives towards a hefty amount of STR. My build is this, please comment away.
As far as the last modification of the OP, the Spectre build, i'm sorry but i have to point that what sets this build aside, is the double-totem thing. Bringing summons into the equation, albeit slightly, makes this a summoner build. This is NOT to say, that summoners are bad, but just that it's an entire different build. The whole carebear factor of summons and the prospect of having to heal them (or else go back to Temple3 or whatever to find new ones), goes against the care-free-plonk-two-totems mindset. Just my point of view.

PLONK AWAY, TOTEM-COMRADES!