The Headbang Gang 2.0 - Raging Spirits madness - now with cheap version + leveling guide

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swiftdonkeyy wrote:

Hey awesome build! I was wondering if I should follow your current skills and gems that you posted on page 17, or if I should try to following the OP Wand and Shield guide?

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Scarletsword wrote:

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Madcow1120 wrote:

Yeah, I asked about the coil vs cloak because if you add the 2 purities then your leftover mana may not be worth using MoM on the cloak. It may become more efficient to use the coil. Especially since with atziri you do want the 2 purities for extra max resists.

The cloak could be used if you have about 3k+ total mana, level 20 reduced mana and if you think MoM+higher AA and about 7-10% evasion is better than grace/hatred + ~40%phys from coil.

Sure, you get more manaregen which lets you use another amulet but you only profit from using that manaregen with AA and that means you would have to either corrupt an item for +1 to gemlevels and snapshot it with level2/3 empower(still only AA level 22-24) or you would use a +3 cold gems dagger/wand/scepter and a shield just so you won't waste all the beautiful mana but instead lose the awesome staffdps. You could get the +1 to gemlevels on your chest for your spirits, too but at some point it's just getting to expensive. I mean vaaling 6l-cloaks, really?

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Madcow1120 wrote:

Toss arc in there to proc EE and also because you'd have a spare blue gem spot. You could leave faster casting in there if you think it's needed. OR you can put spell echo in there. It won't effect leap slam and I would assume it'd dual cast desecrate. Would need to see how long that takes.

I've spec'd out of EE because my dps is high enough for every singleplayercontent in the game except uberatziri which I don't care about. I'll probably try to see if quality on warp, red. duration and faster casting are enough to make it useable(against atziri's flameblast) because i think it's faster than leap slam + faster attacks with a staff and faster casting is the reason why I put desecrate in the same link. If the warp won't work for me because of the incr. duration nodes below scion, i'll just use ms on a quality AA and my boots.

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Madcow1120 wrote:

Cool cool. Yeah, I was just wondering if you had that setup for atziri or in general. I haven't had much time at all this week to try the coil. Been looking at it (while at work) to figure how I'll set it up once I do.

I would never, have never made a build conditional on corrupts. I think it's silly some people do. It's more of a thing you build around if you get it not something you try to get.
But the suggestions you made for IF one kept cloak with MoM vs Coil are not the direction I'd go. As you said you get a different amulet than the foible. Then, you swap one ring for Voideye and put arctic armor in there. +5 AA.


I had toyed with the idea of inner force. Also, I looked at IR. I'd have to remove minion damage nodes or aura nodes (or combo) to spec into either (i'm lvl86) and I don't think I want to do any of that.

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Quality on reduced duration is the first thing I'd get if I were you and had a choice. It'll help the most to counter the passives. LW uses cast speed first then distance of warp 2nd. Part 1 is easy since you have faster casting and cast speed on tree. Part 2 is the duration which works against you. Again, haven't had time so haven't tested that vs leap slam.

A lvl 9 20% reduced duration is = lvl20 0%qual reduced duration. It's worth the gcp recipe if at level 20.

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DackBradshaw wrote:

Something to try...

Dom Blow - Cast on Kill - SRS - Duration - ???