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

@zzang

a few things u said concern me:

1. i am progressing through act 3 merc with none of that problems. are u playing the build properly? u know this is act 3 where almost every build gets melted? u cant run into a room curse things and drop totems expect to roflstomp without gear. u shouldnt have attempted any kind of mobs with no resist (of course piety will one shot u without lightning resist), that is ridiculous

2. and, i dont get the general dislike towards conversion traps. i am owning mobs with conversion traps, rares kill their own packs. my duration is 11 seconds, not sure about u guys

Made a separate thread here with my tree, gear and my thinking on the passive tree. Probably some of it is bad ideas, but interested what you all think.

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hypershatter wrote:

@zzang

a few things u said concern me:

1. i am progressing through act 3 merc with none of that problems. are u playing the build properly? u know this is act 3 where almost every build gets melted? u cant run into a room curse things and drop totems expect to roflstomp without gear. u shouldnt have attempted any kind of mobs with no resist (of course piety will one shot u without lightning resist), that is ridiculous

2. and, i dont get the general dislike towards conversion traps. i am owning mobs with conversion traps, rares kill their own packs. my duration is 11 seconds, not sure about u guys

to 1 you either have good gear or have perfectioned the tactic to never get hit
my energyshield now is at 1000 ES and i got 500 life enough eHP to get oneshotted for me extremely crap gear at the moment with about -10 res all in merciless
i have to add in partys my machine tend to have little fps issues but im not the only one
(Im mostly playing in party)

about 2 gonna test it some more but i already love my second beartrap for extra dps usually the mobs other than the rare are no problem for double totems i just cant see the benefit of conversion other than a kind of panic button

i PLAY IT

Like the build and working towards it
Was wondering if you could explain why critical weakness isn't used?
Just not as beneficial as the double elemental + projectile weakness?

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zzang wrote:

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hypershatter wrote:

@zzang

a few things u said concern me:

1. i am progressing through act 3 merc with none of that problems. are u playing the build properly? u know this is act 3 where almost every build gets melted? u cant run into a room curse things and drop totems expect to roflstomp without gear. u shouldnt have attempted any kind of mobs with no resist (of course piety will one shot u without lightning resist), that is ridiculous

2. and, i dont get the general dislike towards conversion traps. i am owning mobs with conversion traps, rares kill their own packs. my duration is 11 seconds, not sure about u guys

to 1 you either have good gear or have perfectioned the tactic to never get hit
my energyshield now is at 1000 ES and i got 500 life enough eHP to get oneshotted for me extremely crap gear at the moment with about -10 res all in merciless
i have to add in partys my machine tend to have little fps issues but im not the only one
(Im mostly playing in party)

about 2 gonna test it some more but i already love my second beartrap for extra dps usually the mobs other than the rare are no problem for double totems i just cant see the benefit of conversion other than a kind of panic button

I'm pretty sure you can't expect to survive with only that amount of HP and ES and negative resists (and whatever armor value you have)...that is ridiculously low.

1) Dunno why, but at level 48 the "level 50'ish" leveling guide talent tree seems to be like 10-15 skill points ahead of me for some reason. Done all skillpt quest and killed all the bandits twice on norm and cruel for another 2 skillpts.

2) Ice Spear tends to crit TONS with its +600% chance bonus in 2nd stage, plus crit from gear and a few nodes. Wouldn't it be worth adding the "Added lightning dmg" support gem to it, (when you get a 5L or 6L armor) to make it stack up the shock effect for even faster killspeed?

Im in the end of A2 Cruel currently with pretty horrible gear. Using 4L B,B,R,G boots for my totem combo and using the increased crit dmg support instead of the faster casting speed one with great success, and killspeed is good even with shizz gear. Guide is really good and I'm really liking the build. Plays almost like my old lightning sentry / death sentry trap Assassin from D2LoD <3, but with insane utility and crowd control on top.

I'm pretty sure the shock duration is dependent on your lightning damage no? So the duration would be pretty low overall unless I'm mistaken

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renroval wrote:

I'm pretty sure the shock duration is dependent on your lightning damage no? So the duration would be pretty low overall unless I'm mistaken

correct

Besides, you don't really need more damage. Those totems hit like trucks already.