Thanks for sharing this build. So far i have been playing by your guide, and currently i'm level 87 farming to get 6l bow...
I have a question about, why you are using Herald of Ice and not Herald of Thunder? Is it because of INT requirements? With all this lightning damage i thought damage wise herald of thunder could benefit more? Or i miss something.
Also so far, dodge is a very dodgy build ehh. You can get hit in very moment you really dont want, and melee blows can really rip you apart if going in careless. Currently running Tier7-12 maps depending on which ones i drop. Haven't tried endgame lab yet, kinda only 4,2k health so far, things are getting really expensive at this point for upgrades.
Thanks for sharing this build. So far i have been playing by your guide, and currently i'm level 87 farming to get 6l bow...
I have a question about, why you are using Herald of Ice and not Herald of Thunder? Is it because of INT requirements? With all this lightning damage i thought damage wise herald of thunder could benefit more? Or i miss something.
Also so far, dodge is a very dodgy build ehh. You can get hit in very moment you really dont want, and melee blows can really rip you apart if going in careless. Currently running Tier7-12 maps depending on which ones i drop. Haven't tried endgame lab yet, kinda only 4,2k health so far, things are getting really expensive at this point for upgrades.
Thanks and good luck.
herald of ice will give you more damage
again you are wrong in your own guide :p herald of ice damage is much lower because of 2 factors :
1 - damage added to attack is bigger with hot
2 - which is most important 20q hot gives 15% increased lighting damage (global increase - like in jewel) which is must have for any voltaxic.
only reason for going hoi is when you can get some ice damage outside of gem (like phys bow + hatred) and be able to freeze porcupine packs so they dont shoot back. but that can be countered with cwdt + ic.
so going hot is much better option now especially when u need 155 int for wrath anyway
only builds which benefit hoi are phys bow with hatred (because of the same reason - hoi gives 15% cold damage when 20%)
Last edited by soilwork3r#6178 on Sep 21, 2016, 3:28:10 AM
So i am kind of planning to play a similar variation of your build on HC. Some clarifications though if you can help me.
1) You have tried this with the nerfed Voltaxic right mate ? it still works fine ?
2) IMPORTANT: Why not go Chain from Deadeye, use a GG rare quiver and use a different gem than pierce ? something like slower projectiles (LA has no problem with that). Would you consider my variation better or worse ? In case it is worse is it viable ?
3) Is Arcing Blows cluster worth for voltaxic build ? I also went there to grab some more life that is up from there
So i am kind of planning to play a similar variation of your build on HC. Some clarifications though if you can help me.
1) You have tried this with the nerfed Voltaxic right mate ? it still works fine ?
2) IMPORTANT: Why not go Chain from Deadeye, use a GG rare quiver and use a different gem than pierce ? something like slower projectiles (LA has no problem with that). Would you consider my variation better or worse ? In case it is worse is it viable ?
3) Is Arcing Blows cluster worth for voltaxic build ? I also went there to grab some more life that is up from there
1) its super fine with nerfed voltaxic - reflect is still not an issue, poison still op because of double dipping. its not godlike like it was, but still good in terms of dps//reflect handling.
only slightly changes are needed in tree (less focus on chaos damage) in comparison with standart voltaxic
2) its matter of preference - i use regular chain + raider (for mapping speed (ias//movespeed)) with gg quiver
still dps wise there is no need to change anything with la (packs are 1 shooted anyway beacuse of low chaos res) blast rain gems are biggest concern (to maximize dps vs hard bossess)
3)arcing blows is not that good it was ok for pure physical builds with ptl, with volt lighting is only 40% of damage so that penetration is not needed, and you can easily get high amounts of + weapon ele damage from gear (i got around 150%).
its better to get other damage nodes.
and last but not least dont do that build for hc, you will rip for sure. as it is in current meta if you want to play smooth hc u need es//tons of life especially with new content on high tier maps which can easily one shoot you
and last but not least dont do that build for hc, you will rip for sure. as it is in current meta if you want to play smooth hc u need es//tons of life especially with new content on high tier maps which can easily one shoot you
Aint 5-6 k hp shooting from offscreen safer than the 10k ES with no pots going stupid BV melee ?
Thanks for sharing this build. So far i have been playing by your guide, and currently i'm level 87 farming to get 6l bow...
I have a question about, why you are using Herald of Ice and not Herald of Thunder? Is it because of INT requirements? With all this lightning damage i thought damage wise herald of thunder could benefit more? Or i miss something.
Also so far, dodge is a very dodgy build ehh. You can get hit in very moment you really dont want, and melee blows can really rip you apart if going in careless. Currently running Tier7-12 maps depending on which ones i drop. Haven't tried endgame lab yet, kinda only 4,2k health so far, things are getting really expensive at this point for upgrades.
Thanks and good luck.
herald of ice will give you more damage
again you are wrong in your own guide :p herald of ice damage is much lower because of 2 factors :
1 - damage added to attack is bigger with hot
2 - which is most important 20q hot gives 15% increased lighting damage (global increase - like in jewel) which is must have for any voltaxic.
only reason for going hoi is when you can get some ice damage outside of gem (like phys bow + hatred) and be able to freeze porcupine packs so they dont shoot back. but that can be countered with cwdt + ic.
so going hot is much better option now especially when u need 155 int for wrath anyway
only builds which benefit hoi are phys bow with hatred (because of the same reason - hoi gives 15% cold damage when 20%)
Thanks for clarifying that. i will see how herald of thunfer is with survivability
Intigrated it into the build now works perfectly fine with LA @ 87% crit chance. Finally able to spam LA now due to getting the mana back straight away. Another upside is the int on it allowed me to get better rings (double cript chance rings..) with high ele rolls and flat lighting damage. Also it makes respecing into the life node circle unnesseary really the 5,8k life with the old tree. Seems to me that just going for 7% life / 12% projectile / 16% lighting / 10% damage only problem is getting them so far managed to get 2 and each cost me 3 ex+;( but with 4 jewels that you get thats 28% life for way less points then that respect you did for life.. add the fact that each also gives a flat 38% damage there is no competition..
