[0.11.0] Eldritch Battery/Armour Crit Dagger Shadow (Based off the CI Crit Dagger Shadow concept)

Why at lev29 i have only 31 points? (im after Vaal now)

i feel like i'm hitting a wall and leveling a lot slower, i'm level 41 and in act 2 cruel. my gear isn't amazing, but i have a somewhat modified version of this build and right now i'm only behind in a few int nodes (i went south from shadow, picked up the 3 %hp nodes, and the %mana nodes) so i can run all my auras. anger/wrath/clarity/hatred/discipline and still have 180 mana left

my lightning strike does like 260 dps and i feel like that's pretty low, but my dagger is pretty good

is there just a small wall around this level?

Oh! I have 420 DPS on my LS and i felt underpowered ... at level 46 in act 2 cruel.

Build is awesome. Just have a question why you don't take mind drinker earlier?

I am around same level as you guys,LS ~400dps and i kill mobs faster with whirling blades and fire trap.I think LS need really good gear to be more efficient

Do you guys focus more on armor or do you have a mix of armor and evasion?

How do you guys have so little dps? I was at like 1.2k lightning strike at 50

I'm 46 wielding a level 41 weapon, not too good either. And i only have LMP on my LS, and the cost is quite high already. And somehow i neither have Wrath nor Anger, just Hatred.

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Daze wrote:

Adder's Touch seems like a great passive, to bad it's not viable as the very last skill points though =(

Do you still spec out of Nullification later? That's the only place I found where you used refund points in your build plan.

You can actually take it earlier if you want to! :) There's no need to follow the structure of the build to the letter. It is how I would build my character but then again I've always valued survivability over DPS in the earlier stages.

Yup I only picked nullification because of the resistance bonus. Once I can pick body and soul, I just respec out of nullification in favour of B & S.

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BARARA wrote:

Build is awesome. Just have a question why you don't take mind drinker earlier?

Thank you! With regards to that, it's because mind drinker which leeches a percentage of your physical damage back as mana won't be that effective earlier on anyway because most players tend to not deal so much physical damage that earlier on to make it worthwhile. If you are however dealing alot of DPS then sure go for it! :)

With regards to Lightning Strike, I understand the problems that you're having with it guys. The DPS can vary because of the dependency on gear. For those of you finding it tough to clear mobs with lightning strike, my advice would be to keep leveling your freezing pulse gem and to use freezing pulse linked with LMP early on in the game. I actually used Freezing pulse + LMP all the way to Cruel Act2 and it served me fine.

Lightning Strike tends to be very good AoE later on in the game but is pretty weak before it and only picks up around the middle.

As a rule, I usually stick to FP + LMP until:
1. I find a decently linked gear with sockets RGG to allow me to link LS with Pierce and LMP
2. My tooltip DPS for LS is at least 1.5x my tooltip DPS for FP x 3.

With regards to the skillpoints at level 29, thanks for raising that up! Will change that.

With regards to mana problems, make sure you don't double click your mana flasks guys. It's a common mistake to make coz most ppl think that it increases your mana recovery but it doesn't. Use your flasks wisely.

With regards to the auras, you should keep leveling your auras but there's no point in having any other aura other than wrath OR hatred (not both!) on in the early stages.

also identified some FAQs and updated the FAQ section in the OP. hope it helps!