Mathil's Voltaxic Crit LA/Blast Rain - Cruise control the entire game. Uber Atziri Viable 2.2 ready

With the current amount of talent points spent, I think the optimal passive tree for you should be this one.

It gives a good mix of offense / defense, full frenzy charges and very good damage.

If you can get acuity in the future you will save 7 passive points and go for even more damage / utilities.


Powerful precision is good for the increased critical strike chance on par with pierce chance. I wouldn't take the pierce passives out for this reason, because you really need full pierce at the maximum distance possible to optimize the far shot ascendancy.

Hi djnat. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I will adjust my tree with the one you provided me since I do feel like I lack defenses.

I wish I could get acuity in the future. Haven't been lucky with finding mortal hope fragments. Only have one mortal set and I am looking for a uber service in std to run it as I do not dare to try it myself and lose it.

Hi,

i am thinking about doing the lightning arrow-frost wall build with the assassin.

1. Is there a big damage-difference between assassin and deadeye? Anyone who played both?

2. Theroretical i can play the la-fw build with every ascendancy? All i need is 100% pierce, right?

Thanks for reply.

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A7X89 wrote:

Hi,

i am thinking about doing the lightning arrow-frost wall build with the assassin.

1. Is there a big damage-difference between assassin and deadeye? Anyone who played both?

2. Theroretical i can play the la-fw build with every ascendancy? All i need is 100% pierce, right?

Thanks for reply.

I think Assassin is a very good choice in 2.3 for this build.

You have an easy game reaching the crit cap with Assassin's Ascendancies, and power charges are pretty self-sustained even without a dedicated CoH setup.

Plus, you add "free" poison damage to the mix.

It should be great.

What do you think of the 2 additionnal targets enchantment (helm) for the FW LA combo ? Does it add anything ? Or is it better to aim for 40% damage ?

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Saranghaeyo_ wrote:

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Zgurf wrote:

What do you think of the 2 additionnal targets enchantment (helm) for the FW LA combo ? Does it add anything ? Or is it better to aim for 40% damage ?

+2/+3 is probably optimal, more additional hits is nice because you're piercing walls very frequently to generate the additional hits for Phase II LA to seek out.

40% LA is what I would "settle" for. But you get a ton of value out of the former.

What he said. It's basically equivalent to the EQ reduced duration.

The phrasing was not obvious to me. For example, can the 3+2 so 5 hits hit all the same target ? If not, it's equivalent to have 3 or 5 hits when dealing with a single target no ? Or do the walls count as targets ? I am confused. Plus, the AOE is the rha range at which it looks for targets in the phase II right ? There is no AOE linked to the actual damage, to my understanding, so if a frost wall is hit by phase II it wont deal damage

edit : not sur if i was clear but i meant for single target dps

I want to give Raider a shot, but I am a bit confused in respect of ascendancy points. What way should I take besides Avatar of Veil? - Avatar of Chase, Avatar of Slaughter or neither?.

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tutuz wrote:

I want to give Raider a shot, but I am a bit confused in respect of ascendancy points. What way should I take besides Avatar of Veil? - Avatar of Chase, Avatar of Slaughter or neither?.

I'd go for Avatar of the Veil + Avatar of the Slaughter, and would run a Chemist's Silver flask with 24-25% charge usage reduction to have 2x 6 seconds uses.

Really love this build. The power for farming maps and Atziri is great. I am running the Crit LA / Frostwall version.

Some notes to myself during leveling to 92 (and this is by now means criticizing the build or other peoples comments - more so my own experience in game):

- you have to play either vaal pact node or with acuity
- I did not enjoy acuity at all. (besides the cost of 17ex, I did respec into the acuity tree, and lost over 12k of damage. Which at that time was more then 20% dmg lost)
- I am not a fan of blood rage (even when I had acuity), hence creating frenzy charges is tricky
- I rather use power charges for more dps (also more crit chance, as I am not maxed out on crit)
- I was farming Atziri over 100 times (for challenge), and it was pretty easy (just the first couple of times I died, as I had to get used to the fight itself)

AFTER farming Atziri over 100 times, I went for max gems (21/20 etc.) and +1 Arrow Drillneck.

I was not able to kill UBER Atziri itself (trash was easy, duo okay, trio stressful, but Atziri one shot killed me).

- After that I sold my max level gems, my +1 arrow drillneck, and keep farming maps, levels, prophecies etc.

Summary:

- Amazing build, would totally recommend it
- did not find the UBER ATZIRI fight easy at all (actually not even doable with my game skills)
- the build is rather on the squishy side, and I would not recommend it for HC or UBER LAB.
- still not sure if GMP or LMP is better
- Dont know how to get more damage out of this build, without spending a lot on new jewels.
- Drillneck had always the better sheet dps, then crazy good rolled Rare Quivers.

My chars are visible, if you want to check it out for your own guidance or input on how to improve the char.