[2.2 Video Guide] Beginner's Build: Dual Flame Totem, Blood Magic Chieftain [Atziri & HC/SC Viable]

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qTheKingNoob wrote:

If I use the Night's Hold and put a Flame Totem on it, how far can I go just using the Night's Hold before putting Flame Totem on a 4L/5L?

If you have a 4L or a 5L, level there your supportgems.
After every level up put the gem out of the Night's Hold and into the 4L/5L.
If the dps is higher use the 4/5L, else use the Night's Hold. :)

What flasks You guys recomending?

With Blood Magic, how you get life? just flasks or something leech hp?

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Lanceabbott wrote:

With Blood Magic, how you get life? just flasks or something leech hp?

At the end you have enough regeneration to heal "light" damage.
If you face crit or heavy damage you use flask.
With 4,5k+ hp you have enough buffer to tank the light and medium damage (you shoudln´t get hit).
If you get heavy damage you need anyway lifeflasks.
This are at the moment my two life flask.
I die araound every level 1 time. Only by bosses or a wrong step (trigger of many range-monster).

Nothing spezial. I am sure, there are better flasks. But if you die with this character nothing would help.

I use the lifeflasks for medium damage or if i think the next room/box could be a problem.

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome guide. I would like to clear up some doubts about it: Im currently dual wielding wands and one of them is +2 level of fire gems. I have Flame totem, Controlled destruction and faster casting. In comparison to a 4L (Adding Faster projectiles), toolptip DPS is much higher when socketed in 3L wand. Im still trying to 5L my infernal mantle but i was wondering if its even worth it. Once i 5L it, I would have:

Flame totem, Fire penetration, Controlled destruction, Added chaos and faster casting

Im currently lvl 60 with 6k DPS and 3.6k life and this is my gear



Regarding the wands, im not sure if i should craft %increased cast speed or added fire damage to spells from Catarina. Which of those 2 would give me a higher DPS?

Please let me know of any optimizations i can make as to make it better.

Thanks :)

will a 5l infernal mantle do better than a tabula rasa? i meand dmg wise since id loose like 1k dps from ironwill right now

i dont have an infernal mantle rightnow bit getting a 6l would coust like 13+ ex and thats something id never get -.-

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will a 5l infernal mantle do better than a tabula rasa? i meand dmg wise since id loose like 1k dps from ironwill right now

Well, if you don't play the chaos variant, then I think they are close. Infernal Mantle has +1 fire gem which is worth +10% dmg, and +30% fire damage, which should be something like +3 or 4% damage. The +100% crit is almost useless (because of Controlled Destruction). And finally you have the 25% conversion fire to chaos which is so-so because it weakens Fire Pen.

Tabula, you have Iron Will for something like +15% damage. Depends of your str but not much more than that. Personally, +16%, with 321 str.

(Note: here I mean end game, when have an almost complete tree, all gems 18+ and good gear. While levelling that may be different).

But if you convert to chaos (with consuming dark) then Infernal Mantle is way better. And even without conversion, you still need a defense!

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Regarding the wands, im not sure if i should craft %increased cast speed or added fire damage to spells from Catarina. Which of those 2 would give me a higher DPS?

Well, the range for crafted added fire is 12-16/23-27, so let’s say 20 in average. This will add 5 to your base fire damage ( 25% damage effectiveness). Your FT is currently at level 15, for 55-83 base damage, so 69 average. With +5, you have something like +7% damage net.

Casting speed, you can craft 9-11, so 10 in average. What you’ll get from that depends of the other casting speed modifiers you currently have (gear+tree+support). If it’s 0, then obviously you get +10% dmg. But you already have +39% from Faster Casting, plus +14% from the other wand, plus probably at least +30% from tree + gear. So it’s much less than +10% dmg. Likely you have at least +80% Cast Speed already, in that case it would be +5.5% dmg.

Apparently +Flat Fire would be better, but in fact it’s not that obvious, since Cast Speed will scale absolutely all your damage, while +Fire will have no effect with certain sources, like any other additional flat elemental (from gear) or herald of thunder. Plus, it will become weaker by 1-2% each time you level FT.

Personally, I think that your best option would be to take Casting Speed + replace Faster Casting by Fire Penetration. FP doesn’t show in the tooltip, but is worth a *more* 30% damage (replace 30 by the penetration percentage of your gem) against non resistant mob, and even more when they have some resistance.

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smeagol01 wrote:

will a 5l infernal mantle do better than a tabula rasa? i meand dmg wise since id loose like 1k dps from ironwill right now

i dont have an infernal mantle rightnow bit getting a 6l would coust like 13+ ex and thats something id never get -.-

Any 5L Chest is better than tabula rasa.
Tabula rasa is good for leveling, but horror for endgame because of no utility.
If you get a right chest you can exchange a ring or something else for mor damage/utility etc.

With a good chest you get high "res", attributes oder something else and could use usefuller other stuff for your char. Like a medium res-ring with high castspeed, for example.

You win more usability. Maybe more damage than you would get with tabula rasa and iron will.

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LordAdagio wrote:

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will a 5l infernal mantle do better than a tabula rasa? i meand dmg wise since id loose like 1k dps from ironwill right now

Well, if you don't play the chaos variant, then I think they are close. Infernal Mantle has +1 fire gem which is worth +10% dmg, and +30% fire damage, which should be something like +3 or 4% damage. The +100% crit is almost useless (because of Controlled Destruction). And finally you have the 25% conversion fire to chaos which is so-so because it weakens Fire Pen.

Tabula, you have Iron Will for something like +15% damage. Depends of your str but not much more than that. Personally, +16%, with 321 str.

(Note: here I mean end game, when have an almost complete tree, all gems 18+ and good gear. While levelling that may be different).

But if you convert to chaos (with consuming dark) then Infernal Mantle is way better. And even without conversion, you still need a defense!

what you mean with chaous variant? im using the setup from the guide. is the chaos thing better than that?