[Guide][HC] Fite's Detonate Dead Build (Scion/Templar/Witch)

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Flapdrol wrote:

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Caessa wrote:

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kenx wrote:

so can someone explain how I should handle reflect mobs like what can kill me?

"The best way to counter reflect is to only det. the small mobs. The burn is more than enough to 1 or 2 shot bosses so no worries about lack of damage.

Alternatively, use Concentrated Effect, but do not use the Increased Area of Effect gem and/or too many Increased Area of Effect passives (remove all the +4%). Your Detonate will hit smaller groups (thus lessening the Reflect), yet the Elemental Proliferation burn will take care of the entire group.

If you want to be cheap, get a 4L Rime Gaze (which gives you the Concentrated Effect for free), and you can run your entire offense from a 4L, freeing up your chest

My exact setup!

I also don't use IAoE. Still dangerous if you're fighting a pack of beetles (they kinda stack on each other) and det a large corpse.

hello fellows corpsexploders .. I would like to talk of another topic ... how are you managing your single target dps? I feel that spamming desecrate+DD against rares and bosses is quite inefficient ... well it's not that bad , but probably the lack of proliferation and the double cast (desecrate+ DD) for one damage make me think we can find something better. (but maybe i'm wrong!)

Fite suggests the use of searing bond, but even if it's a huge dps increase , it seems quite inefficient too, because the totem dies fast against bosses, and the placement makes it often troublesome to mantain the damage. I think it's a great utility for the build (sort of decoy totem with high dps) but not for the purpose of the single target issue.

I used a lot flameblast, with mixed feeling .. sometimes seems great, sometimes too long to build up (we don't stack a lot of cast speed) and even with faster casting linked i'm not entirely sure if that 2 seconds to build up a 10 FB is worth it...

maybe fireball+lmp+concentrated effect+ fire penetration for shotgun purpose?
maybe firestorm ?
flame totem?
fire trap??

share some thoughts!! :)

im still only running about 170 mana regen I don't kno what else to do there is a few nodes near the witch tree im gonna pick up but I need another 6 levels or so

^ uhm most of the time isn't a big problem, I just move the boss over a blue pack and it just melts or ye just using searing bond + dessecrate, it's a bit slow.

I only use flammability, the extra curse ele weak it's something I have to try.

The only boss I can't kill acutally with my current setup is the laby chimera, maybe just a searing staff in offhand is enough to oneshot stuff.

My gear


Passive

hey also what are u guys sitting at for resists? are u caped?

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kenx wrote:

hey also what are u guys sitting at for resists? are u caped?

85/81/81

What I did was cap all my other resists and had my fire be a bit low. Then I used Purity of Fire to make up the rest.

Have you considered picking up Vaal Pact? You are only 2 nodes away, and it seems like the way to go to be really safe vs reflect.

how did you get to 81 for ice/lightning?
elemental adaptation gives 2% max resist so it would be 77%

right now i am struggling at level 64 with 2.5K hp using clarity, grace, purity of elements.
i guess my gear is sub par. in order to use AA, i would need to discipline aura in order to get mana regen high enough.

maybe at 75, i'll be a bit better with another 10 points

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Caessa wrote:

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kenx wrote:

hey also what are u guys sitting at for resists? are u caped?

85/81/81

What I did was cap all my other resists and had my fire be a bit low. Then I used Purity of Fire to make up the rest.

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S2K2003 wrote:

how did you get to 81 for ice/lightning?
elemental adaptation gives 2% max resist so it would be 77%

right now i am struggling at level 64 with 2.5K hp using clarity, grace, purity of elements.
i guess my gear is sub par. in order to use AA, i would need to discipline aura in order to get mana regen high enough.

maybe at 75, i'll be a bit better with another 10 points

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Caessa wrote:

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kenx wrote:

hey also what are u guys sitting at for resists? are u caped?

85/81/81

What I did was cap all my other resists and had my fire be a bit low. Then I used Purity of Fire to make up the rest.

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Drunner wrote:

Have you considered picking up Vaal Pact? You are only 2 nodes away, and it seems like the way to go to be really safe vs reflect.

I don't speak for others. But the fact is Vaal Pact does nothing for this build. There is no leech. And if you don't play like a derp reflect poses no threat. It'd be a waste of 2 skills to get Vaal Pact.