Hamsterbaby's [1.0.4] Dual Crit / CI Flame Blast Totem Build with Videos.

Pure ES or ES / Armor or ES / EVA
your choice to be honest , since this is a Pure CI Build go for as much ES as possible.

Important Mods for Chest Piece.

1. High ES
2. Dual or Tri Resists.
3. Intelligence mods.

for 5 Linked Chest. Go for R-R-B-B-B

for 6 Linked Chest. Go for R-R-B-B-B-B OR R-R-B-B-G.

The important gems are Spell Totem / Faster Casting / Flame Blast / Increased Aoe / Increased Burning Damage or Fire Penetration / Elemental Proliferation.

The Last slot if you have a 6 Linked Chest. you can either go for

If Blue Socket

1. Elemental Proliferation
2. Concentrated Effect
3. Item Rarity
4. Chance to Ignite


IF Green Socket

1. Culling Strike ( Quality Cull gives extra 9% Cast Speed )
2. Blind

Personally I would have went for a Blue Socket because I want to get the Elemental Proliferation Gem.


My Current Gem Set Up and Chest Piece.

Pure ES Helm , Preferably Hubris Circlet

Mods to Look out for

1. Huge ES.
2. IIR
3. Dual Resist of Your Choice.

4 Linked

G-B-B-B

The Important Gems are Power Charge on Crit > GMP > Ice Spear > Faster Casting.

Remember to get level 1 Ice Spear so you can spam as much as possible to get your Power charges up.

Usually with 2 - 3 Spam and you are up with max power charges.
Thus giving you extra critical strike chance and extra spell damage.

My Current Gem Set up and Head Piece

If Rare Gloves
Mods to look out for.

1. ES
2. Dual or Tri Resist.
3. Mana Mods

If Unique Gloves

1. Auresize.
2. Maligaros.
3. Void Bringer

Personally I would just go for Auresize for Magic Finding. IIR and Resist pretty good mods.
If I would like to have more damage , I would go Maligaros.

Void Bringer is good but the 80% extra Mana Cost really annoys me.

4 Linked

G-B-B-R

The Important Gems are Fire Trap > Increased AOE > Concentrated Effect and Fire Penetration.

You can feel free to play around with the Gem setup for Fire Trap. Doesn't matter how you want it, you can also put in Chance to Ignite or increased burning Damage .

Whatever that makes you happy.

This setup however is perfect for me though.

My Current Gem Setup and Gloves.

Pure ES Boots or Unique Boots.

IF Rare, make sure it is Pure ES.

Mods to look out for.

1. High ES
2. Tri or Dual Resist.
3. 20 Plus Movement Speed.

If Unique.

1. Windscream (Optimal for Dual Curse)
2. Rainbow Stride.
3. Goldwyrm
4. Sundance
5. Sin Trek

4 Linked Final

R-B-B-G

However due to certain passive that I haven't reached at the moment.
Currently I am using a Conversion Trap in the Blue Socket before I switch to my final build.

4 Linked Current.

R-B-B-B

The Reason Why I Suggested R-B-B-G is because on my final build I will place

Reduced Mana > Clarity > Discipline > Haste or level 10 or more Arctic Armor.

Why Haste or Level 10 or More Arctic Armor.

Haste Explanation.

With Haste Aura I will get extra

1. 9% Movement Speed at lvl 20
2. 16% Cast Speed at lvl 20
3. 16% Attack Speed at lvl 20


All these mods are extremely useful for me to try to hit 0.25 Cast Per Second with Dual totems.

Currently I am only doing 0.27 Per Cast.

AS for Attack Speed and Movement speed, it will be beneficial to my Raised Zombies and add a little extra movement speed to my Witch.

Arctic Armor Explanation.

Arctic Armor is extremely useful when countering titty bitches and Void Bearers.

Even a lvl 10 Arctic armor is extremely effective during end game maps and significantly reduces the damage taken from these guys.

Will use Arctic Armor if I can find enough Mana Regeneration and Mana to use it.

My Current Gem Setup and Boots.

3 Links

R-B-B

OR

B-B-B

Important Gems for Dual Curse.

For 3 Blue Links

Elemental Weakness > Flammability > Increased AOE or Faster Casting.

For 1 Red and 2 Blue Links

Elemental Weakness > Flammability > Reduce Mana or Increase Duration.

Important Gems for Single Curse.

For 3 Blue Links

Flammability ( For Chance to Ignite if Quality ) > Increase Aoe > Faster Casting

For 1 Red and 2 Blue Links

Flammability ( Must Have ) > Increased Aoe or Faster Casting > Reduce Mana or Increase Duration.

Rare Weapons will be optimal

I will split it into 3 Categories.

1. Wands
2. Scepters
3. Daggers

Wands and Scepters

They are similar , so nothing much to explain.
Important mods to look for and must have.

1. High Spell Damage.
2. Faster Casting ( Preferably 15 FCR and above ).

As I said before you can survive up to lvl 75 maps without a problem therefore the above mods are the most important.

Obviously if you can afford a better Wand or Scepter it will be great. However, personally I like to write a guide for people who will find gear affordable and yet playable in end game maps.

Bonus extra Mods on Wands and Scepters to look out for and depending how you mix and match with the above stated mods. You can do the below.

1. Critical Strike Chance for Spells.
2. Global Crit Multiplier
3. Fire Damage
4. Mana Regeneration
5. Mana.

Daggers.

With Daggers, it is a little tricky. Although it lacks the FCR mod, in return it provides a huge amount of critical strike chance.

Prefered Daggers to use.

1. Copper , Golden and Platinum Kris. ( Because it has a base 80% Critical Strike Chance Mod).
2. Any daggers that have a base Global Critical strike chance of 60% mod.
3. Daggers below base 60% Critical Strike Chance mod, it works well as well, only if you can't afford the good ones. Generally Daggers are ok no biggie.

Important mods for rare daggers, a must have.

1. High Spell Damage
2. High Critical Strike Chance for Spells.

Bonus Mods, not a must have.

1. Global Critical Strike Multiplier
2. Fire Damage
3. Mana
4. Mana Regeneration
5. Intelligence.

Unique Items.

Feel Free to use Unique Wands or Daggers.
However at the moment there is no viable Scepter for this build.

Unique Wands.

1. Moonsorrow ( Nice Lightning DMG, 10% Chance to Blind , Cast Speed )
2. Void Battery

Unique Daggers

1. Divinarius ( Aoe, Spell Damage , High Crit Strikes . )
2. Heartbreaker ( Culling Strike , Spell Damage , Some Critical Strike Mods and Awesome Mana Mods. )

Personally if you are using a unique weapon, I would suggest Heart Breaker being the optimal Dagger to use.

However uniques can never be compared to a Godly Rare.

My Current Gem Setup and Weapon.



Here are some examples of Rare Weapons that you can consider using.

3 Link

B-B-B

With Shields , we can go 2 ways either Pure ES Shields or ES / ARMOUR Shields.

Important Gems

Raise Zombies > Minion Life > Minion Speed or Minion Damage or Conversion Trap.

Zombies are great for distracting monsters and gives you more survivability. If i managed to get enough Mana and reduce mana for my Auras to maintain 3 Auras I will take out Conversion Trap from my Boot and replace it in my shield slot.

Rare Shields Pure ES

Important Mods. ( Should Have )

1. High ES
2. Increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells.
3. Resist All


Bonus Mods.

1. Spell Damage
2. Mana Regeneration
3. Single Resist

Rare ES / Armour Shields

1. High ES
2. High Armor / ES Mods
3. Resist All
4. Intelligence
5. Single Resist Mods.
6. High Armour.

Whatever Combination is fine. I prefer Pure ES Shields though.

My Current Gem Setup and Shield.




Here are some other suggestions of Pure ES Shields and ES / Armour Shields that you can consider using.

Pure ES Shields



ES / Armour Shields

Personally I use a Perandus Blazon Cloth Belt. Because it gives me IIQ and Pretty good Stat Boosters.

However you can chose to use a Sunblast ( Boost your Fire Trap Damage ) or Rare Stun Belts

Mods to look out for in Rare Stun Belts.

1. High Armour
2. Tri Resist or Dual Resist.
3. Base Max Energy Shield
4. Physical Damage Return to Attacker

My Current Belt.

For this section. It is really whatever that makes it work for you.

I use Rare Rings and Amulets and no uniques.

For rare Amulets preferably Onyx Amulets or Gold Amulets.

Important mods for amulets you should have.

1. Spell Damage
2. Faster Casting
3. Resist All.

Bonus Mods Good to have.

1. All Atributes
2. IIR
3. Global Crit Multiplier
4. Global Crit Strike Chance.
5. Mana Regeneration
6. % to Max Energy Shield.


For Rare Rings you have more options , Moonstones , Diamond , Gold or Prismatic Rings.
Whatever that makes you happy.

Important Mods you should have.

1. Resist All
2. Mana Regeneration
3. Attributes.

Bonus Mods Good to have.

1. Fire Damage or Lightning Damage
2. Max Manag
3. IIR
4. Cast Speed

If you are to use a Unique Ring. I would think the below would be good options.

1. Dream Fragments
2. Berek's Respite
3. Bereks's Pass
4. The Taming.

My Current Rings and Amulet that I am using.

Use 2 x Granite Flasks with Critical Strike Mods and Increase Armor Mods

and 3 x Quicksilver Flasks with Critical Strike Mods and Increase Movement Speed.

Have 3 x Granite Flasks with Critical Strike Mods and Remove Bleeding Ready in Stash in case you want to do Dominus Runs.

Current Flasks Setup



Flask Setup for Dominus Runs.

Merciless Piety Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cePKdRIGs&feature=youtu.be

Merciless Dominus Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewUcGEPz3iY

lvl 67 Wharf Map Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x4oYaksAZk

lvl 68 Reef Map Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTEbG_gGpw

lvl 69 Promenade Map Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLRCSBDKlI

lvl 70 Pier Map Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJe4u6DQyEk

lvl 71 Rare Colonnade Dual Unique Boss Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDwollC1SDw

lvl 73 Canyon Map Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sOjojqhk4&feature=youtu.be