[v1.7] 39k+ DPS with INFERNAL BLOW, +239% life, +6.8% regen, +145% armor, TRIPLE curses + blinds!

Where's your total Armour sitting with that gear? :D


Thanks for the thread btw, i think I'm definitely going to have to do some respecing after checking this out.

Also,mind me asking how much those sweet boots cost ya? :)

Got me some boots to start things off. Not as close to a perfect roll as yours, but not too shabby either :)

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SpiritualMachine wrote:

Where's your total Armour sitting with that gear? :D


Thanks for the thread btw, i think I'm definitely going to have to do some respecing after checking this out.

Also,mind me asking how much those sweet boots cost ya? :)

My natural armor without molten shell is 3124, giving 28% reduction on L70. Certainly not too high and without the endurance charges it would be a pain to play. Endurance charges give me a flat 30% damage reduction (0.7 multiplier) with 6 charges to any damage that comes through your defences.

Grace, my main tool for evasion, gets me to 2019 evasion (17% evade), which helps a bit too.

I don't really care the armor roll on the Windscream, just wanted the 15% all res. I had 11% ones first, which I got or around 3 gcp. These 15% ones, I paid 7gcp BUT I sold my old for 5gcp on same minute.

I feel sorry for your orb of regrets, but I think I found a better version of your build:

MUCH more HP and a bit more regen. You were stacking more armor but I don't think that is worth it because armor has diminishing returns against big hits while HP does not. I am pretty sure my build would result in a much higher EHP.

For players just starting this build, you probably want to do marauder instead of templar. The early four +phys damage nodes would be better spent on survivability. The extra 4 points would also let you help oak 3 times. The 15% phys damage from oak would be better efficiency than any of the early templar +phys nodes.

The changes were inspired by RHOX's 2 hand marauder build. He was very high on HC ladder before he died.

This build and my lightning strike version of it has me very excited just because of how strong it will be. The damage is insane, the survivability is insane, and the utility is insane. Most progression groups already are stacking shock-based abilities and now this has temporal chains, elemental equilibrium and two more curses to further amplify everyone damage.

EDIT: Your gear is godly O_O. Just needs more chaos resist.

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DeltruS wrote:

I feel sorry for your orb of regrets, but I think I found a better version of your build:

I didn't use regrets, but the quest respec points. And the reason for the respeccing is losing INT and DEX nodes + few elemental damage nodes near templar start to get the 3rd curse.

I would definitely go with picks like that in hardcore, but as we are talking softcore here, survival isn't all in all.

Berserking + armor mastery are both fine picks, which you'd lose there.

It's certainly an option to drop the ~7 combined AR&ES nodes (with one of the +20/+20% with +10 all res nodes) to head for that 1% regen node with some life around it.

Can I ask what the purpose of spell totem arc is?

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Kaoculus wrote:

Can I ask what the purpose of spell totem arc is?

Mass blinds, with suberb reach and occasional shocks too.

Although the shocks are very short, you might get lucky. Temporal chains increases the duration by 50%.

But yeah - blinds. One more real debuff. 75% miss chance for blinded targets.

Erf. Too drunk.

Okay. Hangover = gaming!

Okay. Big changes again.



Equipping that now for the fire damage (infernal blow explosion) - lost 200 hp while taking it, and lost my fire + lightning resists while doing it. Now I am way too high on cold resist, at least 35% overkill.



Bought this to bump me up back to 80% fire resist, but sad 41% lightning now.

Weapon elemental damage isn't that great, so I prefer finding that fire % instead, just to get that infernal AoE explosion to hurt even more.

Might be time to let this baby go... c/o is 8 exalted. :P



Would need similar with fire % instead of weapon elemental, need the dex - and lightning resist instead of cold. Top that with high life and chaos resist, and I am happy.

I also managed to buy SO mad 2h weapon (468 avg. DPS)

My old was, or well currently is (408.7 avg. DPS):

Burned at least 40 chaos worth of fusings on it already to hit the 5L, but no luck yet. Losing the 2% life leech is nothing, since I am basically dealing no physical damage with infernal blow anyways.

Now that I took Hrimnor's, I might actually repsec to get those life nodes instead of berserking + armor mastery. DPS isn't the issue, at all...