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

After changing back and forth a bit on my tree, I finally make a final version for level 90. I play in TSC and try to balance out between SC version and HC version since I don't want to die that often and I also want fairly high dps withnot insane gears. If I want to gain a few more levels I can get more crit and more life. So far I have 5600 life which together with Taste of Hate is enough for most cases.



I choose method to the madness instead of fatal toxins since I am using a rare glove instead of snakebite. I pick Primal Spirit instead of Druidic Rite because it has 20 int... and with this I have exactly 159 int. So far I have atk speed, accuracy and resist on my gloves, perhaps I can get another one with atk speed, int and resist or double resist so I can get int from ring, then I can pick Druidic Rite. Without accuracy on gloves I still have 88% which is high enough.

I feel that survival is a big issue. Ranger need to use flask a lot to gain survivalbility. So far instead of life and quicksilver I have the following setup which makes me almost immortal during flask period.

Checking video from @dezahp, I see the usage of decoy totem. So far I am using mirror arrow to attract mobs.

About gem setup, I see most of players are using self casted golem, how do you feel it? I use cwdt for ice golem simply because I found it died often and most of the time I just don't remember to cast it again.

I like decoy totem far more than mirror totem. I was testing out utility gems while reworking my utility setup. Decoy totem to me is hands down one of the most useful utility gems especially for me cause I like to do a lot of boss fights.

Also, I've stopped using a cwdt setup for a pretty good while now. But when I was using it, I did try ice golem with it and just personally felt like I didn't like it. Also, you don't get the max bonuses from your golem at max level if you were to use it for CWDT cause you'd have to keep it at a really low level. I've gotten pretty used to self casting my golem now.

core malachai :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsUyv6VjRRc

i was doing so well up to 2nd heart and then started dying consecutively afterwards :(

Hi,im lvl 92

Some tips for my gear/tree ?

My tooltip in LA with 6 frenzy chargers and atziri flask is 24.2k, i guess i should have more, for play solo its ok dmg but in party of 6 its not enought in my opinion





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Thanks!

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Uferr wrote:

Hi,im lvl 92

Some tips for my gear/tree ?

My tooltip in LA with 6 frenzy chargers and atziri flask is 24.2k, i guess i should have more, for play solo its ok dmg but in party of 6 its not enought in my opinion

Well from a quick glance, I see that your gems aren't 20/20'ed. Jewels also make a big difference in your dps.

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dezahp wrote:

core malachai :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsUyv6VjRRc

i was doing so well up to 2nd heart and then started dying consecutively afterwards :(

You have some impressive video's. I am not new to the build overall yet wanted to ask a couple questions since I see this thread goes for fatal toxins. I think you have me curious on running some tank setups like you have done and testing the differences out since your ideas and setups are HC viable,

If you could answer a couple of questions that would be great since I want to run some tests on my standard character as soon as I reach my next level where dying is not an issue on losing some exp lol.

1) Are you all using fatal toxins and seeing a huge benefit in the poison/bleed type effect not just on Blast Rain but also on the 10% chance to poison on hit with Lightning arrow. The reason I ask is IC you do not engage porcupines on those video's much and it looks like the poison/fatal toxins on LA are crushing them after spamming one volley and just moving away. I guess I am not sure why so many are going with Fatal Toxins unless its due to having to give up a large amount of damage to make the build tanky with around 6k HP. So I am curious here.

2) with just auras on (no pots or charges) what is your LA and BR damage numbers for comparison numbers?

3) Is your variation set up around hungry abyss as a must have?

Your video's are very impressive for this build and I just wanted to give you a kudo's on a nice build.

@NewbieDOTcom
1. I'm using Fatal Toxins to increase my single target dps for Blast Rain since the bulk of my single target dmg is poison. That's what it simply is for me. I don't really ever worry about porcupines cause my of LC and ToH so I just kill them as normal.

2. My paper tool tip DPS numbers are low compared to others. Unbuffed with auras I am sitting at 15k for LA and 17.2k for BR.

3. If you want to try and follow my build, then yes Hungry Abyss is necessary. The main stat that I care about from my my build is the 30% lightning damage leeched as life from Vinktar's. Since we're using Voltaxic, that stat completely does nothing for us since all lightning damage turns into chaos so Hungry Abyss is used to be able to use the flask. Having basically Vaal Pact and +30% chaos dmg leech is just really insane. I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the really hard content that I do if I wasn't using Hungry Abyss + Retch + Vinktar's

hi dezahp, you're wrong unless i didn't get what you said.

Vinktar's flask works flawlessly without Hungry Abyss, you don't need that at all, give it a try. What Abyss gives you is that life leech from blood rage will now be based on the chaos dmg instead of physical dmg, that means you will have more life leech pool. However, if you're using the Abyss jewel then I think getting Vitality Void is kind of redundant/waste based on the blood rage since life leech from the blood rage might be enough.

On the other hand if Vinktar's flask works fine then getting Abyss might be redundant/waste if we decide to get Vitality Void. You could use dmg jewel instead and do not risk corruption of your precious items.

What's more you could even drop Vitality Void in both cases whether you use Abbys jewel or not since Vinktar's works just fine and you can relay purely on flasks (which should be fine having Retch means 8s flask time)

No it doesn't. Not sure where your logic or reasoning is coming from. Vinktar's flask clearly states "Lightning Damage Leeched as Life during Flask effect". We do NO lightning damage at all so Hungry Abyss converts all life leech based on chaos damage instead.

Ok, i will then record a video if you don't want to try it yourself. Instant leech just works fine.