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

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Schweist wrote:

I don't understand the purpose of including Herald of Thunder in this 4-link. Increased duration brings up HOT's mana(life) usage to 35%. What's the benefit?

Increased Duration increases the duration of the on-kill effect of HoT. I believe that is the only benefit.

A stupid beginner question. Could not find answer in google. What exactly selfcasting mean? How you do it? Is it like some special setting in key bind menu or what? Once again sorry for that stupid question.

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gregorbasse wrote:

A stupid beginner question. Could not find answer in google. What exactly selfcasting mean? How you do it? Is it like some special setting in key bind menu or what? Once again sorry for that stupid question.

self casting means you have to cast the skill yourself since its not triggerd by cwdt gem in the case of enduring cry so you have to manualycast it th get its effect

Oh wow, I thought it was something like in other games, where you can for example cast a heal on ally, but if you press alt+spell it automatically casts it on yourself. Thank you.

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LordAdagio wrote:

Damn, for a "New user", your gear is amazing! Did you drop a Mirror on the beach, just when you entered the game? :/

Been playing 5 months now and i got 2 friends with me and we share wealth so things do go ALOT faster with abit of luck

Do Mirrors even exist ?! :p

so what about the dagger The Consuming Dark wich convert the rest of our fire dmg to chaos and make our chaos dmg poison would that work or we would lose all our ignite and stuff

I've bought three wands with similar stats to yours (not as good but close) and all but ONE did more dps by only 50. The other two decreased my DPS but like 500 and 700. 2 of them had at least 80% spell damage(one had 74%) , 15% fire spell damage, 10% cast speed, added fire damage(one had lighning) etc.
I assume your wand is better than Apep's? But I don't understand how. How good do the stats have to be, to be better than my apep's rage? Like what are the minimum percentages? This is my wand:


And these are the other three

I don't know if you are aware that "Add X Fire damage" applies only to Attacks. For spells, you need "Add X Fire damage to spells".

Even with that, I would have said that all 3 wands should have been significantly better than an Apeps. It depends also on your gear/tree mods, and on your gems. For example, if you have less cast speed than normal from tree, or if you don't have Faster Casting, then the +30% from Apeps adds much more. Same for the flat Add Chaos if you have Void Manipulation. You should switch to the standard gems when you equip the wands. Can you post your FT setup?

Also, your Apeps has very good rolls, for sure.

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so what about the dagger The Consuming Dark wich convert the rest of our fire dmg to chaos and make our chaos dmg poison would that work or we would lose all our ignite and stuff

Consuming dagger works very well, and there is little to do: just take the dagger, then replace Fire Penetration by Void Manipulation (which are equivalent from a DPS point of view), then Flammability by another curse (if you are using it), and you are good to go. The only thing a little bit annoying is that FP and Void Manip. are not the same color, so you can not switch like that for free. And it’s rather expensive on Infernal Mantle, since it’s red and green.

Nothing else changes. All your damage mods to Fire still apply, since it’s a conversion. However, you are talking of ignite, which of course won’t work any longer. Ignite is not really a strong point of this build normally, but if you have invested in it, then maybe the switch won’t be that good for you.

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LordAdagio wrote:

I don't know if you are aware that "Add X Fire damage" applies only to Attacks. For spells, you need "Add X Fire damage to spells".

Even with that, I would have said that all 3 wands should have been significantly better than an Apeps. It depends also on your gear/tree mods, and on your gems. For example, if you have less cast speed than normal from tree, or if you don't have Faster Casting, then the +30% from Apeps adds much more. Same for the flat Add Chaos if you have Void Manipulation. You should switch to the standard gems when you equip the wands. Can you post your FT setup?

Also, your Apeps has very good rolls, for sure.

Dammit I didn't notice that. . . Derp. Here's my FT setup