Flay' Flicker Finder - 800,054 DPS, 50/390MF, fast clear speeds. [New pics in MF gear/FAQs]

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Sblak wrote:

You should not use Chayula all the time. If you are afraid of being stunned on certain bosses, it is a lifesaver, but I can run almost all maps without it. If you get an amulet with Flat Physical Damage of about 10-20 and a crit multiplier of 50+, as well as 250+ accuracy, you will gain a huge boost to DPS.

You can also get a helm like you have but with Accuracy on it. That would help a little.

You can get a belt with Elemental Damage with Weapons for a tiny bit more.

Other than that, except for a 6l, the only thing to improve your dps is your dagger. It's crit base is really high, but it is only 183 dps. You can aim to save for a 250+ dps dagger with the same crit and will see a large jump.

Also, your gems are about to hit level 20. You should flip the 6 gems in your chest, making them 20% quality, and docks until they are level 8 or 10, then go back to maps. Quality on gems makes a huge difference in dps when they get back to level 20 again. This is hard, but worth it in the end. Doing higher maps will level them faster than you think.

You didn't link your shield, but I assume you have Blood Rage in there. Make sure it is 20% quality as well.

I also have to say, that if you are using CwDT with Enduring Cry, you need to put Immortal Call in there as well to help again physical reflect. I don't like enfeeble, because Critical Weakness helps us so much on bosses, if you enfeeble them you can lose half your DPS, almost.

If you want to link me your tree, I'll comment on that. Up to you.

Removing stun immunity will drastically increase your chance to die. Any direct damage can stun you, and you can be stunlocked to death almost everywhere, not only on bosses. Sure, you can still run content if you are greatly overgeared. And even if you dont die, stun makes you deal less DPS.

IF you want to use rare amulet, get Unwavering Stance.

Removing Chayula will make you more likely to be stun locked it's true. But I think MortalKombat is significantly overstating the risk. The point of a flicker strike build is to one or two shot everything. Dead mobs dont stun. If MK3 plays all the time with US, then he doesn't want to learn to adjust his play style depending on the pack type to get by without it.

I would say it is only really useful on stage 1 of a Dominus fight. That stupid lightning stream can chain stun you. I used Chayula there for a while but have outleveled the need for it, because he is now too squishy. I can solo nonmap Dominus in a out 1.5 seconds.

Its only useful when you are not quite strong enough for the content. But even then, If you learn what sort of mobs have attacks that stunlock, like void bearers with gmp and other fast hitting mobs, you can just LS that rare type of mob dead and flicker into the rest of the packs.

Chayula is only so so. I much prefer to run Grace for 50% evasion. That avoids stuns as well as damage, while with chayula you just avoid the stun but have to soak up more damage. Along with evasion, ES by its nature gives another 50% chance to avoid stun. Blocking gives another 30% chance. Since all of those multiply together to give you about 82% chance to avoid stuns on any one hit, and higher on projectiles, but lower on spells. That chance is high enough that you can take 95% of mobs without being chain stunned. The few packs that are problems are easily recognizable. Hasted rare fast hitters on maps with more attack speed can be a problem. Continue to learn the game better and you can get by.

I think unwavering stance is not worth the increased damage you take. However my build incorporates Grace. If you don't have it your results may vary. Even then I would take other defensive block nodes like Poutsos did and not take unwavering stance. Putting 6 points in block by the ranger and the shadow areas for 14% more block and 60% increased defenses from shield is much better defense for the points than US because of the minimum 8 point wasted nodes going the distance to US. If you want real defense, use a Stone of Lazhwar and Rainbowstrides and high block chance.

I don't have a Chayula any more. I sold mine and am leveling just fine. Almost 89. If you can't face the risk of death and prefer certainty to speed and risk, you shouldn't be playing a flicker at all, IMHO.

Edited shield!
I have Poutsos Tree ;)

I use Blood Rage in my Helmet and Immortal Call on another CWDT. Just swapped some gems and have to recoulor some items.
I don't want to link Blood Rage to CWDT.

@Garvil

Sorry to be slow to respond to your question about empowering/enhancing blood rage. I like the idea. It could give you a little more leech, maybe 1% and maybe 3% increased attack speed. If I were min maxing for a screenie it would be fun for sure.

Running five auras, 6l flicker, 4l LS, 3l/4l cwdt, blood rage and a curse is so many slots. I think that we need to use the last 2 gem slots for more utility. I use my two free slots in my dagger with blood rage for increased duration and smoke mine. Duration means blood rage never wears off. Flickering without blood rage is death. Smoke mine is a blind with large area as well as 9 seconds of 20% faster movement. I use that and a quicksilver pot to speed around maps. Super handy. Even though not dps. I am considering switching it for whirling blades for the same type of utility. The problem is that gem slots are just too precious.

Tested and agree, with grace aura I dont have problems with stun lock.
With full Cold Resist I have no problems with frozen status (1 flask with remove frozen is more than enought)

My Gear:

Thanks for the verification Licho. Grace is pretty awesome with aura nodes.

I like what you have done to modify the build with spectral throw and cast when stunned. The only suggestion I would make is to somehow get more max mana so you leech and regen faster. Then drop clarity for Wrath. Or more resists and drop purit for wrath. Wrath is ok tooltip dps but truly insane effective dps because of the shock stacks it creates on everything especially rares and bosses where more dps is very useful.

That said I also run anger but am considering dropping it for haste because I have dps and want to run around on maps a little bit faster. The attack/casting speed would be useful as well. But the less time running around not killing, the better.

yes, I know about Clarity.
I have just few levels less than you, so I will change points to have more mana.
Now without clarit I have problems with mana regeneration rate when leeching.

Just found con to our build :(

Joined 5ppl party doing 75 Maps for currency.
All were higher level than me.

They didnt want me in the party because I was killing everything before they could even run to monsters :(

I was running this build, because it's fun to flicker all day long.
I'm lvl 37 and i realize that the stuff is really expensive.

I could not kill dominus on normal alone.

I have the shield, but not until level 6x, but the armour... come on.
I dont read in the cons that this gear is much expensive.

I think i'm going to find an other build :(
But i will keep trying until 60 to see how mcuh energy shield i'll get.

I will put it in the cons section.

It is very expensive. However you can stay ci and use Poutsos build until you get a shavs and a crown of eyes.

Poutsos build is cheaper by far and can take you through the end game. When you get enough money you can switch to mine. And when you switch you will be able to kill better and MF better than Poutsos build.

P.S. if you are in domination I will help you out with gear or bosses to take you all the way to merciless. Just send me a pm.

Just got this cool dagger and my tooltil dps with full stacks and hatred is 1845 with 0,11 attack, not bad at all for lvl 62 x) realy looking forward higher levels haha