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All i can say about the 55th unique is your gonna have to work harder than just farming to obtain it.
Trust me on this :)

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Sauronsatan wrote:

All i can say about the 55th unique is your gonna have to work harder than just farming to obtain it.
Trust me on this :)

are you the creator? is there any tips? any riddle?

Yes i am. I cannot offer any guidance as im unsure how to obtain it.

Wait, so you made it and you requested a weird method to get it, but nothing specific? I respect that.

@Sauronsatan: I hope the Unique item is related to your avatar, because your avatar looks badass :O

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Vipermagi wrote:

Next question adghar, why would that build ever want to use Skin of the Lords? Slap Disc wherever, put on a Heretic's Veil. Be stronger. Better off without that thing.

4B2R Avatar of Fire

I imagined you could save a few nodes on reservation reduction thanks to +1 to Enlighten, and maybe a gem slot/extra cost of 2nd Enlighten/extra reservation reduction by having Discipline there. Plus, I'm pretty sure you save quite a few passive nodes pathing to Ancestral Bond from Shadow/Witch start. Haven't done the strict math though :P

Thinking out loud:

4B screams a Spell build, and Avatar of Fire in current game version has a bit of a liking for Crit due to easier Ignite double dips. We also would ideally avoid Templar, Witch, maybe Marauder for the "but why not just take the Keystone on the passive tree?" factor - Ranger would be ideal for that. It's too bad Deadeye has an Attack focus... but maybe it can still work?

On second thought, why not start Shadow and path down to Ranger area? We'll avoid Assassin because Assassin is good with pretty much everything.

Why not Saboteur for fun? I'm not a big Traps/Mines fan, but I believe you can get 64% generic increased damage from Bomb Specialist with zero trap investment if you use Cluster Traps Support and throw your traps onto empty ground. Obviously, Explosives Expert for the extra fire damage and penetration, and the Blind path for damage reduction, generic damage, and some Evasion-side defense.

My heart screams, "madly powerful Ignites from Ethereal Knives." We just need 50% phys -> fire conversion and we'll be good to go! As a bonus, we can tack on Hatred if we're a DPS addict, which we are, and put on Pyre for full Hatred effect instead of halved Hatred effect.

Problem: Vipermagi gave us no green sockets. Solution: Frostbolt, which has pretty frickin' insane base damage??? Wow, did not realize that. We can, of course, use Vortex on a separate link for crowd clear.

Let's give this a shot:

Frostbolt - Controlled Destruction - Increased Critical Strikes - Critical Strike Damage - Fire Penetration - Empower. Oh, that is some sexy single-target damage. We path down to Ranger, because we want to save travel nodes to Avatar of Fire, for some token OP Projectile Damage double-dip. We can use The Signal Fire for our conversion, and a defensive bow, or ... Quill Rain would make Frostbolt more "clear-speed-meta-y." Nuro's Harp would cause some mad slows to go on with our Vortex, as far as I know, though it kinda subverts Nuro's theme :| Xoph's Inception is a natural modern choice. Xoph's Nurture, on the other hand, would allow us to drop Signal Fire in favour of Drillneck for that sweet, sweet 100% increased projectile damage. Overall, some pretty good choices, especially thanks to Breach.

Naturally, we need to sort out our Vortex setup, which I would personally put in Voidbringer gloves, or, if that cuts too deep into our defenses, maybe into the bow as a 5L or 6L.

Vortex - Controlled Destruction - Fire Penetration - Concentrated Effect would be my personal choice, although subs for Conc or 5th/6th links could be: Increased Area of Effect, Empower, Increased Critical Strikes, etc.

Naturally, since we're probably going to have at least 10% phys added as fire, we might as well use that for our Trap setup. Ethereal Knives - Trap - Cluster Traps (- Fire Penetration - Added Fire Damage)

We skill up spell crit and projectile damage in skill tree, of course.

Don't forget Pyre.

What of defense? Hybrid Life/ES is one of the more underrated defense methods out there, and Shadow excels at it. Similar to my Melee Poison Trickster, we could skill up Ghost Reaver and get some Life Regeneration. Maybe even run Vitality since our damage already looks to be flippin amazing.

But how to use Ghost Reaver and Spells? We would probably want to stick Life Leech either in our Vortex or Frostbolt, which cuts into damage a bit (but of course, we can use Hatred as a big damage boost to our Traps as necessary, or Anger which is... less than ideal.

Anything else I should cover in this build? I hopped in game testing Frostbolt, expecting it to be lame, but really its only weakness is projectile speed, which, of course, Quill Rain will boost to high heavens.

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Sauronsatan wrote:

All i can say about the 55th unique is your gonna have to work harder than just farming to obtain it.
Trust me on this :)

Is that a secret? DO I SMELL A SECRET??? It's been a while since we had the last one :D I love stuff like this! Can you at least tell us what kind of item it is, maybe even the equipment slot?
I feel like I'm asking for too much with this...

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Sauronsatan wrote:

All i can say about the 55th unique is your gonna have to work harder than just farming to obtain it.
Trust me on this :)

BRING OUT YOUR FISHING RODS BOYS AND GIRLS!

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Vipermagi wrote:

Skin of the Lords.
Heretic's Veil/Alt Veil.
With the same Gems, the Veil comes out slightly cheaper on Mana (alt Veil). Either way you're looking at a whole bunch of Reduced Reservation, and the Skin setup costs you a 6L. I still strongly disagree with that first Skin of the Lords setup being even marginally worthwhile. Ancestral Bond is real close to the Whispers of Doom -> Sovereignty highway anyways.

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I am questioning why there's three Skills in play? Frostbolt and Vortex for everything, plus EK Traps for ?things? No Shield and no body, which will cut into both Life and ES a whole lot. This one seems marginally more likely to be useful, but still... A bit strange. Good job on it though. At the very least, I'm impressed. :P

3G/2B/1R Acro ("most terrible Keystone roll" has to be either Acro or Blood Magic :P ).

Good call on the 6B AB build, gotta admit I forgot the Veil had native reservation reduction. While I was playing POE though, it hit me/an alternative replacement build clicked - Minions. 6B would be perfect for minions, except that I never play summoner, so I have absolutely zero experience there.

Summon Spectre - Minion Life - Minion Damage - Minion and Totem Elemental Resistance - Minion Speed - (not sure, but ACD sounds good, as does either of the crit gems, or even ALD, or depending on the spectre, Elemental Focus, Controlled Destruction, Spell Echo, etc.)

This would be more preferable on a hipster summoner or a Necromancer rather than a Guardian, since Templar is close to AB anyways.

Of course, you use the other sockets for your totems :P

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On the AoF build, the logic that led to three skills being at play:
1) I personally really like involved builds. I played SC2 before POE, and having been forced to learn to dance around the keyboard at mach speed, I've gotten to find such things fun.
2) I wanted to avoid OP Assassin, which would make practically anything workable. This meant Saboteur or Trickster, and Saboteur seemed the better choice for some reason.
3) As a result of 1) and 2), you drop 8 Traps on the ground to sit dormant, granting you 64% global damage, which, I believe, gives you juicy, juicy double-dip.
4) Ideally they would actually deal more damage than any of the other skills used, so that you would have the tactical play element of opening with traps, and then throwing your last 8 to be dormant buffs, and then while the traps are on cooldown, you whip out your icy burns. But this is unlikely to happen the way POE gear/skills work, so the damage from the traps is more for "just in case there's no empty space to grant myself a 64% damage buff" or "just in case wandering enemies trip my traps and I lose out on some of my damage buff, it's not all bad"

Thanks for indulging me, btw :) If nothing else, Skin of the Lords has given me the joy of wrestling with these combos.

EDIT: BTW, the lazy answer to your new one would be, take a normal Acro build, ignore the fact that the chest has Acro, and go ham. (example: Tornado Shot - GMP - Pierce - Crit Strikes - Crit Damage - Life Leech for an archer build. Or something. It's been a while since I've played archers. I... don't have much variety in my build types lately @_@)

But I would like to theorycraft something the "proper" way (i.e. why would I use a Skin of the Lords with Acro instead of just Skin of the Loyal?)

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Sauronsatan wrote:

All i can say about the 55th unique is your gonna have to work harder than just farming to obtain it.
Trust me on this :)