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

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Eregoth wrote:

I'm doing 78 reflect maps without Rise/Saffel's. I can see it helping with the spike damage, but I just play around the fact.

Rise becomes more necessary as you grow in levels. At level 80, death is "meh", at level 95 death is at least a whole day of play down the drain, and at level 99 it is about as bad as a level 90 hardcore death.

The higher your level becomes, the more you want to protect yourself against outliers, stupid mistakes, errors from party members and the one time you forget to play around it and hit a reflect group on a reflect map. I have blown myself up several times before I got Rise.

Additionally, this build has quite lot of leeway as its basic gear requirements are quite simple to meet:
- 75 all res
- lots of mana regeneration
so it can easily accommodate Rise of the Phoenix.

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Eregoth wrote:

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mayainverse wrote:

how needed is rise of the phenix? i dont see any other self cast fire builds use this shield how do they get around reflect? is trap support worth doing?


edit: does the health of the corpses spawned by desecrate scale with more players in the party too?

I'm doing 78 reflect maps without Rise/Saffel's. I can see it helping with the spike damage, but I just play around the fact.

Edit: Desecrate corpses' health does scale (they're still mobs) but Detonate Dead does NOT scale with party health increases. It deals the same damage as if you were solo.

Edit #2: Yay, sources! (also, read the wiki, it has so many answers)

Desync and random has caused reflect to hurt me enough where I refuse to part with my Saffels. Might get a Phoenix sometime instead.

Either way, running end game maps (75+) easily even with reflect. I just switch up my curses and play safer.

Do you guys have some improvements for me?



What unique's should I get?, I'm currently looking for high %armour/evasion and energy shield Gear and +max energy shield; is that a good thing to do?

Thanks

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Byunjin wrote:

What unique's should I get?, I'm currently looking for high %armour/evasion and energy shield Gear and +max energy shield; is that a good thing to do?
Thanks

Get rid of those gloves. The rest of your gear is actually really good. If you want some MF, get Aurseize gloves, otherwise just get hp/ev/es gloves.

Get a Saffel's/Phoenix when doing ele reflect (IMO).

Get quality on Elemental Prolif, Chance to Ignite, and Flammability if/when you can. Increasing the duration of ignite (and thus having it spread to other monsters) is a huge keystone of the dd-burn build. The vast majority of the monsters I kill are from the ignite, not the dd explosion.

how do you guys deal with the Labyrinth map boss?

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Trickery70 wrote:

how do you guys deal with the Labyrinth map boss?

i try to 1 shot it on the blue pack placing myself in melee range + vaal molten shell but it's like a 50% chance of success =D

So after I saw the new unique Doryani's Catalyst I cant just stop thinking how awesome it would be for this build.It really makes it viable to trash the chest setup and just go for the DD setup in the sceptre. Any thoughts on this? (if I only had the 16EX it's listed at...)

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Dkodr wrote:

So after I saw the new unique Doryani's Catalyst I cant just stop thinking how awesome it would be for this build.It really makes it viable to trash the chest setup and just go for the DD setup in the sceptre. Any thoughts on this? (if I only had the 16EX it's listed at...)

It would indeed be VERY good for DD, but reflect will murder you. When/if I get one, I'd still keep my +3 wand for the more dangerous maps and reflect.

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Dkodr wrote:

So after I saw the new unique Doryani's Catalyst I cant just stop thinking how awesome it would be for this build.It really makes it viable to trash the chest setup and just go for the DD setup in the sceptre. Any thoughts on this? (if I only had the 16EX it's listed at...)

I'd use it for Dominus farming or fighting non Reflect bosses only really. Map monsters/bosses melt with my current weapon. I'd prefer having a higher level AA to using that.