[2.1] Voltaxic LA by ad1ce (Talisman Rank 3)

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ovogancho wrote:

Cherrubim increases your Life Leech Rate, not your Life Leech. That means you get the same amount of life, but twice as fast (or 30% faster in legacy version).

First - "Increased life leech rate" reduces life leech duration NO MORE in 2.0. It still increases life leech gained per hit instance, of course.
Second - life leech cap in 2.0 remains unchanged with "Increased life leech rate". You still leech no more than 20% HP per second. You just leech more per hit and reach leech cap with less number of hits. Latter hardly matters for Voltaxis, with its attack speed and number of hits. So, essentially, "+100% increased life leech rate" with 1.6% life leech will be equal of getting 3.2% life leech.

Ofc any Voltaxis build MUST use Hungry Abyss. There's absolutely ZERO reasons not to do so.


Snakebite essentially gives the same stats as rare gloves with good evasion base and 4 mods:
Life
Attack Speed
Accuracy
%Evasion

And poison, which is quite negligible ATM.

But rare gloves dont have any drawbacks, give full bonuses at any time, and can have up to +2 extra mods (for example, also +lightning damage and resist).

Thunderfist's stats are even worse.

So I'm confused about something in the original build... It uses Immortal Call, but I don't see anything in the setup that generates endurance charges. What's going on there?

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Panini_aux_olives wrote:

It is still useful to prevent spike damage from leapers, porcupine shards, etc.

You get brief physical invulnerability even if you don't have any endurance charges? And now I know.

Going to run this for the five week. Non HC though.

When do you think its viable to start using LA?
What skill do people recommend for levling? :)

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BergErs wrote:

Going to run this for the five week. Non HC though.

When do you think its viable to start using LA?
What skill do people recommend for levling? :)

As soon as you can?

I've been working on a Voltaxic character in the one month and started using LA as soon as I got it, although I had a Tabula from another character, so that helped with damage (mana/life management was a pain for a while, though).

I hit a wall with leveling while in the 40s or so. I think the op said he used Storm Cloud into Merciless, but the damage on that begins to really suck far before Merciless. Switch to a rare elemental bow when that happens. Then Voltaxic at level 64 and all is good in the world... Except if it's your only character you won't have the currency to buy Voltaxic for quite a while, so I guess you have to grab a cheap rare bow and hope for the best.

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Tempada wrote:

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BergErs wrote:

Going to run this for the five week. Non HC though.

When do you think its viable to start using LA?
What skill do people recommend for levling? :)

As soon as you can?

I've been working on a Voltaxic character in the one month and started using LA as soon as I got it, although I had a Tabula from another character, so that helped with damage (mana/life management was a pain for a while, though).

I hit a wall with leveling while in the 40s or so. I think the op said he used Storm Cloud into Merciless, but the damage on that begins to really suck far before Merciless. Switch to a rare elemental bow when that happens. Then Voltaxic at level 64 and all is good in the world... Except if it's your only character you won't have the currency to buy Voltaxic for quite a while, so I guess you have to grab a cheap rare bow and hope for the best.

Kk
Well ill be playing day1 of the five week. I doubt ill have currency for a Voltaxic on 64 or have found one (64 will be like late day1, early day2 iirc). Probably also quite limited amount on market first days :p
I hope to have one around lvl80.

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Tempada wrote:

I hit a wall with leveling while in the 40s or so. I think the op said he used Storm Cloud into Merciless, but the damage on that begins to really suck far before Merciless. Switch to a rare elemental bow when that happens.

I've compared DPS from Stormcloud with bow 225 eDPS and 1.55 aps and stormcloud was better (in my setup, cause high APS). BUT, you need gear with good flat elemental damage for use that bow. And maybe Added Lightning Gem in tabula.

also u can try to use Wake of Destruction boots ;)

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ad1ce wrote:

also u can try to use Wake of Destruction boots ;)

Alberon's Warpath will be better choice due to 20% movespeed and extra str (HP).