[2.1.0] Grocery's Boss Destroyer BLAST RAIN Compendium! Phys2Ele Build!

So...steadily working on the master quests..which is going to take forever..Chaos'd a Harbinger..tiny bit better dps, and played with some gear as well. Still confused on the gems, I have been to the front page...many many times. Essentially following almost to a "T". Do I use added fire, what herald(s) do I use..if any? Little information that gear just cant tell me. Hate to be a bother.

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xRogue7x wrote:

So...steadily working on the master quests..which is going to take forever..Chaos'd a Harbinger..tiny bit better dps, and played with some gear as well. Still confused on the gems, I have been to the front page...many many times. Essentially following almost to a "T". Do I use added fire, what herald(s) do I use..if any? Little information that gear just cant tell me. Hate to be a bother.

We use Herald of Ice and Hatred.

For gems, on the main front post by Grocery if you scroll near the bottom he has Gem Setup spoiler called "Gem Setup and Reasoning" where he explains his gem setup for different links etc.
In your case specifically, see spoiler.



Because you have a 5 Linked Harbinger bow you have reached the 4L milestone so you should have

Blast Rain - Weapon Elemental Damage + Physical Projectile Attack Damage + Added Fire.

However, because you have a 5L you now get to choose to either add in Faster Attacks or Phys To Lightning. So your bow should now look like

Blast Rain - Weapon Elemental Damage + Physical Projectile Attack Damage + Added Fire + Either Phys to Lightning or Faster Attacks

The choice of the two gems depends entirely on what your preferred playstyle is.

If you prefer to have a fast playstyle where you're constantly on the move and attacking quickly then stick to Faster Attacks, however your flat damage output will be slightly lower, though this is made up for with more Blast rains being fired out.

If you prefer a slower attack type that hits very hard, go for Phys to Lightning as your 5l option, this will make you fire off Blast Rain quite a bit slower but the damage boost you gain from Phys to Lightning will mean you have to fire off less often anyway.

In the end, the sheet dps and clear speed are pretty much identical regardless of which one you pick it just entirely depends on whether you prefer to hit fast but low or hit slow but high.

TL;DR - Replace either your Phys to Lightning or Faster attacks with Added Fire.

Hi Sir Grocery Master Build Guide :)

what a nice build. I am level 44 at the moment and have SO MUCH FUN.
Starting to use point blank now, the bosses melt away :)
but ok, its only cruel, let us see how I do in hardcore !

I have one problem with your gem Kombination Cast on hit - Assassins Mark - Herald of Ice

I used this combination ( Act 2 Cruel ) but I can´t get no profit out of it.
No power charge or maybe 1 charge / 100 enemies. No chance to keep 3 charges running.
I can´t even see the enemies being cursed!?
Am I doing something wrong?

At them moment I am using blasphemy together with Assassins Mark, with this 3 charges up nooo problem. But I miss the additional damage of herald of Ice :)

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Tobi123Tobs wrote:

Hi Sir Grocery Master Build Guide :)

what a nice build. I am level 44 at the moment and have SO MUCH FUN.
Starting to use point blank now, the bosses melt away :)
but ok, its only cruel, let us see how I do in hardcore !

I have one problem with your gem Kombination Cast on hit - Assassins Mark - Herald of Ice

I used this combination ( Act 2 Cruel ) but I can´t get no profit out of it.
No power charge or maybe 1 charge / 100 enemies. No chance to keep 3 charges running.
I can´t even see the enemies being cursed!?
Am I doing something wrong?

At them moment I am using blasphemy together with Assassins Mark, with this 3 charges up nooo problem. But I miss the additional damage of herald of Ice :)

Hey Tobi. Taking a look at the gamepedia (http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Frozen) "A hit of damage that has a chance to freeze is capable of inflicting freeze. Critical strikes inherently have a 100% chance to freeze."
The herald of Ice has a chance to inflict frozen on enemies due to the cold damage it brings to the table, but this chance is quite low, however once you bring up a bit more crit in your build, you'll be critting most packs and freezing the initial mobs and the AoE from the shatter will spread the curse to the rest and you should be able to sustain your power charges between most packs.

Leveling up your Assassin's Mark will give you 30% chance at level 20 to gain a power charge and taking it to 20Q will give it a further 10%.

it can be good with this buiild?

ok, the missing crit notes... how could I forget that :-)
thank you for that quick answer.

Then I will use blasphemy until the crit notes will come :)
At the moment the damage and clear speed is high enough, even without herald of ice running.

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dejs96 wrote:

it can be good with this buiild?

That is better with pure ele builds. All of our elemental damage comes from a base of phys damage, increasing the phys damage, then converting to ele by using %of phys added as ele or pure %conversion to ele.

Hey, great build having a lot of fun with it, but I have beginnerish(is that even a word?) question about gems. Should I level all of them as much as possible? Because recently I leveled my Ice golem +1 and it stopped spawning on damage taken. Probably missed something in guidelines. Thank you! :)

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Roofz wrote:

Hey, great build having a lot of fun with it, but I have beginnerish(is that even a word?) question about gems. Should I level all of them as much as possible? Because recently I leveled my Ice golem +1 and it stopped spawning on damage taken. Probably missed something in guidelines. Thank you! :)

Check how cast with damage taken works. It only allows a certain level of spell to be cast. This level increases as you level cwdt. I manually cast ice golem sometimes and sometimes I link with cwdt.

Right now I self cast. Both work but with cwdt you will want a lower level golem and cwdt.

one more question Sir :)

in your guide you mentioned "herald of ice" works slightly better than "herald of ash" together with cast on hit and assassins mark. Can you tell me if herald of ash +cast on hit +assassins mark will work with high crit chance too? or is the chance with herald of ice + cast on hit +assassins mark that much higher / better?

Why I ask that? Because with herald of ash I can deal "a lot more damage", compared with herald of ice.