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So, one of my main problems every league is that whatever build I pick, I seem to lack damage to compete come Yellow and Red maps.
To experiment, I duplicated your PoB and equipped a 6L with the suggested gems.
Tooltip shows me 25k DPS after buying a level 20 arc and proccing arcane surge.
For the rest of the gear I slapped on some basic rare pieces, as well as catalyst for a weapon and the res shield.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Firewalker/characters?characterName=Moldoth

Are the hundreds of thousands of DPS coming only from more optimized gear, the last 15 skill points and my one missing ascendancy from this point?
Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding how this build and apparently the game works?

So we are going with 2 daggers in Betrayal?

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Enki91 wrote:

Good to see the build is mostly unaffected by patch notes. I'm a little bit sad about a consequence of the stat stick nerf, if I understand it right it means we can't use Whirling Blades with Sceptre + Dagger which was the planned setup for 3.5, but i've ran the numbers and made some testing and found a good compromise.

Is there any specific reason why the build is giving up on the shield and will the shield version still be viable in 3.5? I'm asking this because I really enjoyed the build in Delve and was planning on playing it as my starter now, but I hate stat sticks :D

I’m a total n00b and this will be the first season I play in so bear with me here. In the leveling guide for this build it said to keep arcane surge at level 1 for now. I read ahead and it did not mention when you should start leveling that gem. So I’m curious when you should start leveling arcane surge?

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tygeezy wrote:

I’m a total n00b and this will be the first season I play in so bear with me here. In the leveling guide for this build it said to keep arcane surge at level 1 for now. I read ahead and it did not mention when you should start leveling that gem. So I’m curious when you should start leveling arcane surge?

In act 2, you link Arcane Surge to Orb of Storms. From that point on, you can level it, as long as its mana threshold is less than the cost of OoS (whatever it says the mana cost is in your action bar). It should be lvl 8 at most (when OoS is level 20).

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Firewalker wrote:

Are the hundreds of thousands of DPS coming only from more optimized gear, the last 15 skill points and my one missing ascendancy from this point?
Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding how this build and apparently the game works?

Tooltip DPS in this game is fairly worthless for most builds. If you want a better idea of your characters damage you can import your character into path of building.

Here is the gear I am currently using for this build. I have a helm and amulet with proper stats on them for more challenging content, buy I have been using the Devoto's and Bisco's for general mapping.

What are my weakest pieces of gear that I could easily upgrade? I have about 20ex that I could potentially spend, which items could potentially have the largest upgrades, and what stats should I look for?

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bloos_ wrote:

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tygeezy wrote:

I’m a total n00b and this will be the first season I play in so bear with me here. In the leveling guide for this build it said to keep arcane surge at level 1 for now. I read ahead and it did not mention when you should start leveling that gem. So I’m curious when you should start leveling arcane surge?

In act 2, you link Arcane Surge to Orb of Storms. From that point on, you can level it, as long as its mana threshold is less than the cost of OoS (whatever it says the mana cost is in your action bar). It should be lvl 8 at most (when OoS is level 20).

Thanks for clearing that up. What would happen if the mana cost of arcane surge was greater than that of orb of storms?

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tygeezy wrote:

Thanks for clearing that up. What would happen if the mana cost of arcane surge was greater than that of orb of storms?

You don't get the Arcane Surge buff with a single Orb of Storms cast.

Will this build still be real good for 3.5?