Build of the Week Season 3 Episode 11: Lightning Tendrils Crit Scion

No offense to player, but what is special about that build? You can replace LT with any random skill and it will still work at least as good (if not better). It is a good functioning build, because it has access to 20/20 gems with 6L. Without them it would be subpar to most builds in forums.

But if I am missing out on some smart game mechanic used here pls do tell? Nothing I see in the build was new or innovative (unlike arcane archer build which was damn so smart)
Was that a large chest at the end of the video?

SPOILER-HYPE!!!!!!!!!!11111
That large chest would be in a map called Coward's Trial. It's a unique 69 Overgrown Shrine Map in game for over a year now.

Sorry again for being so negative. I don't wanna poop on your build Madcow1120, it's just a poor BotW choice imo, esp. because this build would be slightly better as a witch.

Kudos for your mannered reply!

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Madcow1120 wrote:
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Sa_Re wrote:
Echo with tendrils is a no-go for me, esp. with a crit build. Tooltip DPS is not all.

From judging the courtyard vid in build thread, my LT build performs better, with a 5l.

Sorry for being negative here but a meh build with a 6l cloak is disappointing for me.

e: And why Scion? The buildmaker respecced but the build would be better as witch. No biggie but a bit disapointing for a BotW.


Ok. Why not echo?


Because it just raises tooltip DPS. From my experience, everything dies to a crit, with or without echo. So echo locks you in place longer but whites and most blues are dead anyway before the additional hits from echo occur. If you don't crit and have echo, it takes longer before you have the chance to do the next crit.

In groups the additional damage from echo matters, but you have to be quick as a melee to even hit stuff before the ranged crit monsters kill everything around you. Echo makes this more difficult.

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Madcow1120 wrote:
I'm all for constructive criticism to help make this better for me and for everyone else. Also, I don't claim that this is the end all be all.


I posted my LT build in skill feedback: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1092969/page/7
It's not fully optimized and I changed a few small things since I posted it. No 20/20 gems, no 6l, etc.

The thing is, my build was cheaper than your armor alone and performs similar, maybe even better at mapping. Yours should vastly outperform mine at Atziri though. Not saying they should have chosen mine instead, I didn't even post a guide and it would be a poor choice for BotW. It's just when I compare our different approaches, I think that LT still has a lot more potential than we currently get out of it.
Last edited by Sa_Re#3411 on Nov 11, 2014, 4:53:48 AM
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symban wrote:
No offense to player, but what is special about that build? You can replace LT with any random skill and it will still work at least as good (if not better). It is a good functioning build, because it has access to 20/20 gems with 6L. Without them it would be subpar to most builds in forums.

But if I am missing out on some smart game mechanic used here pls do tell? Nothing I see in the build was new or innovative (unlike arcane archer build which was damn so smart)


yea its classic caster crit life build :s
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iamnotspock wrote:
STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAMESPOT !!!!!!!!!!!

I go through the build thread now, GS is a bunch of BS
Since start I'm going tired more and more of it so now i have a request too :

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AkamuCZ wrote:
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iamnotspock wrote:
STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAMESPOT !!!!!!!!!!!


BTW thanks for all your great job GGG !
Really ? nothing special here, one of the worse tendrill build i saw, the dmg is really low 40k at high lvl with a 6L ?!
no movement skill, really low crit chance...
Last edited by Dazoul#5456 on Nov 11, 2014, 7:19:54 AM
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GodlyMe wrote:
Not even going to watch the video.

From now on I refuse to watch any videos GGG posts on gamespot.

Just thought I'd let you know.

Maybe GGG will take the hint and stop hosting on gamespot.


You are ridiculous along with all the others that ask something like this. Posting in Gamespot is good for POE for a lot of reasons and if you fail to understand a simple marketing move like this you need to grow up asap
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle
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Dalnor73 wrote:
Most weeks you see bitching that the build is to expensive. This week theres bitching that its to easy. And theres always bitching about Gamespot. I guess ppl just like to bitch.


No shit:P
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle

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