BANANATHROW lvl100x2 proven;uber atziri capable ... (crit ele spectral mass dps and mf capable)

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Haboryme wrote:

2- I seem to use flicker less than I do, very often (at a point where it becomes exceedling upsetting) I flicker, start to throw my blades like a boss ...and I'm still 1 screen back mugging a poor wall. You can't imagine the number of times I never made it up the ramp on the sides of Palace (sometimes I would flicker on top, end up at the foot, re-flicker and end up yet again at the foot of the ramp and everything was already dead). So I don't know if it has to do with my shitty computer (internet connection is very good most of the time) but flicker is really desync-prone (in your videos you don't seem to suffer much from it).

I bet everyone using flicker or another movement skill punshed the wall/his keyboard more than once, it's of course a matter of connection and general lag, but you can do things to fight those kinds of desync.
Flubby plays the whirling blades/flicker stlye for a long while now. Ele cleave in Anarchy played pretty much the same way, with even a bit more flicker action since the area coverage was less great. So he's really used to it.

It's hard to notice, and I actually dunno if Flubby does it, but I use lightning warp a lot to resync myself in those exact situations you mentioned. If I see flicker fail, I usually lightning warp at the mob and proceed to flicker, one of both will usually succeed.
Shift attacking after/while a flicker is a must as well, especially if you target specific mobs.

In general, lightning warp (I miss you leap slam) into doorways or areas you should reach from any position of a certain room is a good idea, since you're synced afterwards and can just whirl out of it.

You probably know all that, maybe it helps someone tho.

i dont do that lw thingy i dont even use /oos. whirling blades desync gets reduced by 90% if u dont hold it down but do some ms wait between the casts. flicker is like: u have to get used to it there are structures (TREES, WAGONS SMB?) that are simply prone to desync. At some point u get that feeling that u know when the game will desync and just dont flicker /whirl then but some sec or millisec later. It may sound odd and its hard to describe but esspecially on high maps which u run 24/7 at 90 + you relaly start to know the areas that are dangeorus even befre the desync happens.

like what will desync:

pieties stairs, courtyard trees, courtyard squares in the middle of squares, taking to sharp corners on any map ( stay away from walls), palace doors, palace couches, shrine waggons, doors in general.

Just whenever you desync have an eye out what rly caused it and try to stay away from it in the future or try using lightning warp there. When doing flickers be sure to have some 1 blade break like evry 3-4 flickers. Never chain (hold down button) commands when not holding shift. Its usually something in your path that you see that you prolly could have hit, did not on your screen but server could think u did. Also stay away from other players. crossing their paths is almost 100% a desync.

hmm this gives me the idea that one should prolly create a how to avoid desync tutorial vid. iski lets do that tommorrow im bored :D.

Just how good is ballistic mastery? From reading iski's post, it seems like a must have.
I just got to lvl90 and this is my tree (108 points total, still have 1 point I can use) right now:



As you can see it's pretty standard but I didn't get ballistic yet. I was wondering if I should spec out of 3x8% spell dmg/+20% ele/+30int/mind drinker/8% aura effect and get ballistic mastery?

1200ish chromes
got pretty lucky. thanks flub

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oliverpeople wrote:

Just how good is ballistic mastery? From reading iski's post, it seems like a must have.
I just got to lvl90 and this is my tree (108 points total, still have 1 point I can use) right now:

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgABAecFfQ5ID8QQexEvEZYZ1xzcKLUqOCsKLJwspi0fLagvbzIJNAo26DdmOlI7fDvhRKtGaUZxRwZKyEyzUDBVrlYEVupW9VivWlJaplv0XIpfKl9qYIhhUmNDbEZtGW6qcFJwVnC7cmx4DXvXfeN_xoMJhmCIQohrj6aP-pAbkNaTJ5fQmhObXZ2jn8uio6crpzSomqlusZC0DLTFtfK297fWuMq5Pr46wFHBAMHFwfPC7MNt2RPbGttZ217bbtvU3MfhiOL344Tr5OwY8pfy4fPq9Uv8qw==

As you can see it's pretty standard but I didn't get ballistic yet. I was wondering if I should spec out of 3x8% spell dmg/+20% ele/+30int/mind drinker/8% aura effect and get ballistic mastery?

you definelty should. at least give it a try. id try to get it asap since it makes many many fights a lot easier and increases clear speed by a pretty large margin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYJI3VWeII almost same build as cyclone :D bye bye piety

@iksi & flubby: thanks for the advices regarding how to deal/avoid desync. I'll try that.
I do sometimes use lw to cross gap or things like that but it's so painfully slow (especially when used to use it on my caster with both reduced duration and faster casting) that i'll have to force myself to cast it more often in desync-prone areas.

Damn that was some quick piety kill, it makes me want to try it once we go to standard :D! I got a 20/20 cyclone and 20/20 conc (the quality of conc will be help since cyclone cost 3 times more than ST, outch). I'll have to remove Ballistic and grab Mana Geyser for the test, otherwise I fear I'll be too low on mana.

just a question, for a non ele crown of eyes based build, would running anger+wrath be better than hatred?. I still dont quite understand this converted attack damage system

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Sixnia wrote:

just a question, for a non ele crown of eyes based build, would running anger+wrath be better than hatred?. I still dont quite understand this converted attack damage system

Hatred adds a % of your physical damage, it would definitely work with a really high phys dagger (like 400+) but this isn't the aim of the build and you'll have to face some issues when dealing with the reflect affixe.
Both Anger and Wrath add raw elemental damage to each of your attack, they are indepedant from your physical damage.

see http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Damage_conversion for an explanation on damage conversion

edit: at 300+pdps, cold dmg added through hatred are close to fire dmg/ligh dmg added by Anger and Wrath (not accounting for +ele dmg on gear)

Love the build and the videos man ! keep it up :) just started playing this build and I love it so far. Tho I have question.

I noticed that your clarity is level 4. Should I stop at 4 aswell or go for max lvl with it ?