[IN DEPTH] 2.2 Crit LA/Blastrain Voltaxic - Hardcore/SC Viable

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Rubinjo wrote:

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Thisisnotsully wrote:

For a six-link I believe Void Manipulation may be the best, but I have not been able to test this out. I think that the reduction to elemental damage occurs after the conversion to chaos, which means it will only nerf your non-lightning converted damage (if you have flat fire/cold anywhere on gear), but I have not been able to test this yet. It seems to work fine on Blast Rain though.

Has this been discussed here yet? I believe the elemental reduction of Void Manipulation unfortunately happens before conversion to chaos. I have significantly lower damage with 25% reduced elemental / 35% more chaos than 28% more Slower Projectiles. (Only a minor portion in my calculation is physical, other part is pure lightning/chaos.)

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Thisisnotsully wrote:

From what I've tested, I don't believe this is the case, but I will attempt to confirm tonight. If you look at your tooltip, your chaos damage should be higher with void manipulation, but I could be wrong.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

This IS the case, but VM is still a GREAT gem, unless you have something like 100% increased total damage (and in that case, your DPS just SUCKZZZZZ anyway).

Poison gem can also greatly improve single-target damage, cause you dont use single-target skills to oneshot things....

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Rorinko wrote:

What about full yolo with Rat's Nest and Maligaros?

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inn0s wrote:

I'm a bit confused. Why do you get Master Of The Arena? Are bow attacks considered as melee physical attack dmg? Or do you just want to get the 1% extra life regen and strength?
I assume it's about the life reg, right?

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Virthuz wrote:

Allright. All working well. But how to gain power Charges ? Cheers