1.3 The Community's Molten Strike, Face Melting Build!! 1h+shield and 2h variants available

Level 73 on invasion, playing with 1h+shield, i tried without LL with 3% phys leech from the perandus and looks ok. So i tried with conc/added fire and then faster atk ( wed ms bm ) and its a lot better for me. My tree so far

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBxthYYz38jM_2SF8_458nL-8OvJ-krPIvqBhqHtIhdudXDZHOu-33MnKpfNmsqlnzwBqQVaeEGjjsOFfid-UyiQSzFE3wH6IAZp760jbpJKoZheNqGmzz3Z7NpzAUIFBHGJEB5zboOlIyfmSjGlVhIYTvm4NT31jbhNllTUd-rK907XrvYEsFLUCgnrkhYHTxGNtbr04qKaXdDfzFZ6CHdkp9txc4liSbgIr3TVn-Vvp0QaTC

Will take more regen for blood rage, aura nodes probably and more block.

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Fearmonger wrote:

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Aedax wrote:

Just saw it was discussed on p3-4. Hm. Saw someone running Molten Strike with a 4L BoR (and GMP in it) - he also had a Soul Taker though.

Sounds like he was running something else and then just swapped over to Molten Strike when it came out, without actually optimizing his setup for it.

Yeah, that's what I thought too. Seemed pretty OK damage-wise though, he was on 15k dps around level 80. No clue about survivability. And I wouldn't buy a ST for something to be decent.

Interesting so see the versatility of the skill anyhow.

Just added Multistrike. Not sure if I like it, even if the damage is sweet.

I kind of feel more exposed with it, like I'm not totally in control. Can't escape as quick as I'd like to etc, as I'm in the middle of a multistrike. It seems I get low on hp more often, when I'm facing large packs that deal lots of damage (like Rhoas)

Anyone else experiencing this? How do you guys deal with it?

(Does the LL apply to all hits with multistrike, or just the initial? I assume just the initial, as multistrike is just a support gem?)

I've only found it an issue for telegraphed attacks (Vaal Smash), aside from that I've been able to mitigate the lengthened attack time between Granites, Immortal Call, and LGoH.

Life Leech applies to all 3 hits. Multistrike's repeated attacks function identically to if you just attacked 3 times in a row without Multistrike (but faster, because of the more attack speed).

In other news, I'm sitting at 4.1k tooltip DPS at level 57 which is pretty absurd when you consider I have a whopping 5 damage nodes (9 if you count Keystones). And it's only going to get more ridiclous: About to hit 58 where I'll get an even better weapon and 60 where I'll be able to put on my 5L Lightning Coil, and I'm also about to go through Catalyze in the Templar area.

So I'm woundering what the tool tip dps of everyones Molten Strike is using this build. I've taken a completely diffrent approuch to the skill and at lvl 67 currently have 7.6k tool tip dps.
8.3k with 3 frenzy charges up too.

8k tooltip with this build at 62 with ony the templar dmg nodes

4.4k DPS w/ 1H mace and a 4L at lv63, should be around 6k with my 5L I figure.

So I was thinking about how to take advantage of Doryani's elemental proliferation mod and it occurred to me that putting level 1 CwDT + Detonate Dead + Iron Will would probably do some pretty ridiculous supplemental AoE damage.

After playing for the last couple days I really like this build. I'm ridiculously tanky and still wreck everything very fast. I literally leap slam in, and just brawl EVERYTHING that I run into, facetanking like a boss. However after playing around with a few different things I was noticing that when surrounded in a room like that, my clear speed was slower then when I played a little more strategical. I think this is due to the damage being spread out a little bit too much in a 360 degree circle.

Lately I find what works better is to play almost like a trapper, only you are the trap. Gather up as many monsters as you can find, Flammability everything, and go to town with Shift + Click keeping the pack in front of me as much as possible. I find this focuses the projectiles a lot more and actually improved my clear speed by a noticeable amount.

So what kind of DPS numbers are people getting. I was going to try this spec out but first stuck molten strike into an elemental buzzsaw character I had. Its 28k dps on tooltip. Is this marauder spec more?