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

Lol....I am NOT talking about instant leech. Instant leech and the 30% lightning life leech are two completely different mods

Heh looks like you missed my point too ;) Don't get nervous, you don't need to lolish and use capslock, my intention was not to offend you by any means, actually I appreciate your & ad1ce take on the tanky version.

I was only saying that the most important thing in that flask is instant leech and it's justifies its use with voltaxic even though 30% may not work due to chaos conversion. Having VV and instant leech is more than enough I think, so you don't need to desperately chase Abyss corruption.

I already asked but you didn't answer this question, do you really need VV if Abyss should convert leech from BR to chaos? Or it does not work that way either. If 30% works for you as well by using Abyss and you got 8s flask duration then having VV seems like a waste of points, you could use somewhere else, if there is anything worth & close enough.

I feel like I'm starting to hijack ad1ce's thread, sorry ad lol. Think I will begin to be more idle heh ;p.

You don't have to agree with me. Just want to say he asked if Hungry Abyss was necessary in particular to my setup so yes it is because it is what ties my build together. I'm just saying that in my situation and opinion, before I went this route, I only justified going this way was when/if I could afford a Hungry Abyss build. My main interest was the 30% lightning leech that gets converted to chaos leech by Hungry Abyss. You need to realize how incredibly strong the 30% leech is because I can face tank many, many things. It increases my survivability exponentially. I guarantee you wouldn't be able to do that with the only very small % of leech that you have normally with instant leech. The other thing is that Hungry Abyss allows the Retch belt and Vinktar's flask to work together. The Vinktar's 30% chaos leech gives me a huge damage boost with the Retch's "200% of life leech applies to enemies as chaos damage". So it gives me both tremendous increase in survivability and dps.

You don't need to take Vitality Void. I only kept it before because I felt more comfortable with more life leech without Vinktars while I was trying to do Core. Blood Rage is not always something you want to run either especially in certain boss fights well at least for me since I've been doing twinned Colosseum's and Core's. I am sure my needs are different than most people's needs. I actually like Vitality Void. It gives me 40% increased life leech rate which is useful for me because I do a lot of hard and long boss fights where you don't always have flask up and can't get charges because no monster spawns. Normal life leech regens life just too damn slow.

I think i will not update this thread anymore. The build was finished.

At 2.2 I will play some DoT character with assassin subclass I think, so the new guide maybe will come at late March :D Anyway it would be not so good like voltaxic, but I hate to play with a mainstream skill gems :D I started my voltaxic at 2.0 and it was rare at that time, but right now its extremely popular :( So my watch is over... for this thread ;D

good luck, exiles ;)

I feel I hijacked the thread now that I posted those questions and that was not my intent since I am on standard and I am unable to get the belt anyway, etc. yet I have played around with the skills of this build a lot while trying to find a viable way to really use it in HC play down the road thats all.

I am sorry if I created a hijack atmosphere in the thread, it was not my intention at all and TY for the answers to my questions.

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ad1ce wrote:

I think i will not update this thread anymore. The build was finished.

At 2.2 I will play some DoT character with assassin subclass I think, so the new guide maybe will come at late March :D Anyway it would be not so good like voltaxic, but I hate to play with a mainstream skill gems :D I started my voltaxic at 2.0 and it was rare at that time, but right now its extremely popular :( So my watch is over... for this thread ;D

good luck, exiles ;)

Me too lol I've been waiting to play voltaxic since a long time ago I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be checking out what you do in Ascendancy. :)

What ascendancy are you going to pick when 2.2 comes? I was wondering if deadeye with chain would be viable and dropping chain gem But I am not sure at all.

Pathfinder is my choice for 2.2. Poison on hit is too good.

Hey. Nice guide, very helpful. I just got a voltaxic and really want to try this build. Can you update the skilltree for 2.2 pls? I have a few ideas about it, but dont want to mess it up while i have a passive reset. Thank you :)