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" Regarding the builds, I simply threw together some very VERY basic builds, more of a guidelines, hoping to get people to move away from the "I MUST FOLLOW THIS BUILD EXACTLY" mentality that plagues a ton of new players while still providing a path so they don't feel lost completely. The way this is done is by making a build that is "squishy", hoping players notice this and decide "I could make this build better by taking x node here and dropping y node there." I agree with the throat seeker being not too great, but I still believe that one bloodthrist node (NW) is not worth it, once again its all opinion based. I will most likely switch around the builds. My opinion on armor was rushed, as I had a few moments so I decided to change some things around, I WILL make a section on armor and its pro's and con's if I have time. Like I said, I will be updating the post when I can, and the support gem section was one of the "higher priorities", however that being said, I doubt I will touch on blood magic and iron will too much, as this is a "newbies guide". Considering this a "newbies guide", I have to work under the assumption that players do not have the funds for quality gems. EDIT: Also threw your build into "The build" section, under hybrid builds. With acknowledgement of course :P. IGN-Shibloble Got some spare time? Come check out my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Shibloble?feature=mhee Last edited by shibloble#2675 on Feb 18, 2013, 2:31:26 AM
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Trying to find out what support gems I like most. My mana is awful right now, so I'm keeping that into consideration.
Freezing Pulse Faster Projectiles(no quality FP yet..) LMP Added Lightning(any other good suggestions?) Increased Critical Strikes(just switched out faster casting since it sucked) I use Frostbite on everything, would cold penetration still increase my damage enough, or is it not worth using over crits/lightning? IGN: xBilldozerx
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OK Freezing Pulse is your main nuke? In that case support it as follows:
a) Faster Projectiles: no brainer, it almost doubles the effective range. This gem is a MUST-have b) Cold Penetration > all for boosting the damage of any Cold spell. Unlike abilities that % reduce cold resistance, Penetration is a flat subtraction, and can go below zero. Hence if you have 30% Cold Pen and the target has 10% Cold resist, your normal cold damage is boosted by 20%. That 20% more Cold damage when your cold damage is already super-boosted by your passives > any other extra Damage you could tag on such as 3-60 Lightning. I've tested this and the only other support that can come close in dps terms is Added Cold Damage itself (because it gets boosted by your passives). Furthermore, the more Cold damage you deal, the longer things stay frozen, so diluting or reducing your Cold damage is always bad. c) LMP , GMP if you want, I dislike them on FP though Other Contenders Elemental Proliferation is decent, but works MUCH better on Cold Snap Increased Critical Chance (flat DPS increase). Good but not as good as Cold Penetration Life on Hit (though very costly in mana) As for the curse to use....Frostbite only when you are facerolling / no danger of dying anyway. When things get genuinely dangerous you probably want Enfeeble or Temporal Chains instead. Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress. Last edited by GhostlightX#1022 on Feb 18, 2013, 8:59:47 AM
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" Just an addon here, you know that you can use cold penetration linked with frostbite? that way every cold skill benefits from it (totems etc) without it actually being linked to those skills IGN: Gahrlaag
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Are you sure about that? I read elsewhere that curses can only be supported by Increased Area of Effect and Reduced Mana and that no other support could boost them?? If this works it could be interesting. As I said I swapped out of using Frostbite some time back because Enfeeble or Temporal Chains is plain safer, but if Frostbite + Cold Penetration works, then Enfeeble + Cold Penetration should work as well, right? Anyone?
Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress. Last edited by GhostlightX#1022 on Feb 18, 2013, 9:40:20 AM
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" You are actually right, my bad! IGN: Gahrlaag
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Bummer.
btw Increased Duration works with curses as well. Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress.
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" Wouldn't Hex Master be a better alternative? IGN: yelz
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" imho no, cause you're gonna kill everything within those ~20 secs curse time anyway.. IGN: Gahrlaag
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" I wouldn't suggest using it, I was simply pointing out that I was wrong 2 posts above when I claimed only 2 support gems worked with curses. Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress.
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