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

The above quote is about the gear I'm using at the moment, I'm only using a different amulet and chest now:



It's more of a placeholder until I get something better. Same can actually be said about both rings, the belt, the chest and the dagger. It's all mediocre stuff sadly, threw about 15 chaos on my chest to reroll it, only got mediocre rolls. So this is my chest now:



I am probably going to reroll it again if I have 15+ chaos orbs. I want one with about 1200+ armor, 80+ life and dual res (anything but lightning will do - chaos would be nice but I don't really need it and 6L would be veeeerrrrryyyyy nice).

If you're wondering about the other stuff, I am going to exalt my prismatic ring and hope to get either of these modifiers: +life/+lightning damage/+attack speed - Probably going to look for a similar one in my other slot depending on my accuracy rating.

Dagger needs a serious upgrade but I'm very picky when it comes to that, I want it to have decent (1.4+) attack speed, +crit chance (not global), +accuracy and at least 280 phys dmg.

Belt definitely needs weapon elemental damage but I'm probably going to trade for one or craft one myself rather than exalting the current one.

Exalting my Helm is also one of the things I put on my to-do list. So many things to do, not enough currency to do it all :'(

I think I can double of those numbers with 3k hp+ when I'm getting the gear I have in mind.

Things I don't intend on changing atm: Shield, Gloves, Boots (will be changed but low priority), Helm.

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Sebash6 wrote:

My dmg still doesnt grow up. I hit 37lvl and again same DPS..

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you get any bonus stats when leveling up. Those bonus stats come from your passive point (the +5 to stats from D2 for example) and the leveling of your gems (see it as a skill point).

Your dmg going down is probably because of your accuracy going down. The higher your lvl is, the more accuracy you need to keep the same lvl of hit %. Lower accuracy should result in lower DPS but I'm not really sure if that's the case or how it is calculated.

My shadow is lvl 51, have been build him for CI path. I got Ghost Reaver but not CI yet since do not have enough ES for it.

My question is if it is possible to switch to this build now.

I finally broke 3k dps on LS with dagger upgrade. DPS is pretty sick right now but mana issue are still there - despite having 4% mana leech. I believe 6% mana leech and quality LS are minimum needed in order to maintain LS spam

i have a question... whats the general opinion on

is the increased attack speed, life on hit considered, worth it over the loss of armor/es?

I'm having a very hard time leveling alone right now.
I'm level 45,
My LS isn't dealing much damage, and survivability is becoming a problem. Act 2 Cruel is kicking my ass since I can't keep up the LS spam. I have to chuck potion every little fight.
My gear is sub optimal and I'm not sure if I should even link them.
Do you guys have any advices on leveling until I get strong enough and have sufficient mana leech to keep up LS?

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BombaLuigi wrote:

i have a question... whats the general opinion on

is the increased attack speed, life on hit considered, worth it over the loss of armor/es?

I would only even remotely consider them in a CI build. Maybe a Claw CI build with Ghost Reaver and Vaal Pact. The problem for this build is that the bonuses only apply on Full Life, when you're using CI you're always on full life, this build is not however.

The problem in a dagger build is that there are better alternatives if you want to change your gloves to something more offensive, Maligaro's Virtuosity for example. A dagger build is more reliant on critical hits than it is on attack speed/life on hit.

So in conclusion, no those are not viable in an EB/armor/HP shadow build.

lvl 39 Act II cruel, with mostly bad gear, doing just fine.
Unless an area has many different elemental damage dealers (of different types), I can solo it. The biggest problem so far is the lack of resists and therefore huge elemental damage taken.

With wrath+hatred on, LS has around 350 dmg, which is not a lot (as I can get Dual strike to 700+ damage), but enough to dispatch 1-2 groups of enemies, which should give you enough flask charges to compensate for mana.
Using double strike or whirling blades leeches health quite fast, plus sticking a rejuv totem helps.

Not tested against bosses solo, probably will get 1-shotted, but again I see zero reason in soloing bosses in cruel or normal.

BombaLuigi
Since you don't have ES, you are 99.9% of the time not of full life, and attack speed bonus requires full life.

Most pblems come from the fact that you outlevel your gear quite fast without finding better alternatives, which leaves you with poor resists and low dmg. Crafting is not worth it at med levels, so the only option left is to trade.

Man I've been searching through the forum shops for 2 days now trying to find HP+Chaos Res Amulet. NOTHING. FML.

Hey!
Can you check my gear and tell me if it is fine?

I am only 37lvl in cruel act 1 and i use this build, never missed anything
But im not that good in items, should i go for more resist or try to craft my gear or dagger to make it better? Please help me. For now i dont have problems with killing mobs but i wanna know ur opinion



Also i dont have enough sockets to use my support gems:
Life gain on hit gem,
melee physical damage gem.
life leech
anger

So thats why i ask u for help, should i waste my orbs to upgrade my gear for now?
What would you do with my items?