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

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Saranghaeyo_ wrote:

I haven't played in a while...

Tried this build yesterday and I thought it was incredibly strong. Finished up my Ascendancy runs earlier today so I went with Raider (Ranger) and it's such a huge mobility/damage spike. Very smooth gameplay. DPS looking pretty good, with some cobbled together items and starting with no 20Q gems (atm everything is Level 19).

Doesn't BR poison on hit automatically/initially if you have a poison gem in links. Just curious on the thought here since LA is still OP and poison on hit is somewhat useless with LA since 1 or 2 shots and everything drops anyway?

I've done normal / cruel labyrinth and spec'd into Deadeye. Got through to +1 chain and removed the chain gem. Replaced poison with Increased Crit Chance and chain with Increased Crit Chance.

With charges (7 frenzy / 3 power) it's doing about 100k LA and 90k BR.

Missing some gem levels, rip'd a few gems with vaals, no WED on my amulet, poor WED on my belt, and a lame sauce quiver.

I'm still torn between raider and deadeye. Can you tell any different with just the +1 chain vs +2 on the gem? In talisman I would take chain off and run with just rigwald quiver for the fork and of course it did alot more damage but the clear speed of packs was lower without chain

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stephenp1983 wrote:

I'm still torn between raider and deadeye. Can you tell any different with just the +1 chain vs +2 on the gem? In talisman I would take chain off and run with just rigwald quiver for the fork and of course it did alot more damage but the clear speed of packs was lower without chain

I haven't seen any difference, really.

The massive tooltip increase has offset it completely, as far as I can tell.

I do not think you will notice a huge difference yet I have not tested yet I had to get my TS/Puncture trap chr set up first. LA is like a 1 to 2 shot anyway yet the real change is the crit chance gem rework if I read it correctly which can get the bow with charges probably way up on the crit chance % and with that said the real question is with the nerf to the poison gem which still works fine BTW how will it compare to crit chance gem on the end game bosses. I will also throw the +1 chain in and remove chain gem and also remove poison gem in BR to really test it out since a voltaxic with huge crit chance and BR with huge crit chance seems to hard to pass up now with the nerf to poison gem. Time and testing will tell.

+1 chain is MORE than enough. You have no less dmg penalty, no mana penalty and free gem socket. Its pure evil.

Thanks for the input guess I will go with deadeye

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RicoKGB wrote:

+1 chain is MORE than enough. You have no less dmg penalty, no mana penalty and free gem socket. Its pure evil.

exactly

I tried increased Crit chance gem in sub for poison. It may be me yet it seems poison gem did a whole lot. I have to test some more yet even the higher crit chance seems not to be as good as the poison gems effect. Anyone else do some testing on Poison gem vs increased crit chance for BR?

Thing is you aren't just losing 1 chain, but also a 4 point ascendant bonus you could have used for something else.

If you add up 1 chain vs 2 chain with less multiplier the total damage may be similar but really you are trading the gem slot for the 4 point asendancy. going assassin you would end up with more crit and damage that would also fully apply to blast rain as well ( chain does not do shit for blast rain).

I think mathils comments hit the spot. Assassin if you can stand the micro of keeping charges up or asszerker if you are lazy.

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Splift wrote:

Thing is you aren't just losing 1 chain, but also a 4 point ascendant bonus you could have used for something else.

If you add up 1 chain vs 2 chain with less multiplier the total damage may be similar but really you are trading the gem slot for the 4 point asendancy. going assassin you would end up with more crit and damage that would also fully apply to blast rain as well ( chain does not do shit for blast rain).

I think mathils comments hit the spot. Assassin if you can stand the micro of keeping charges up or asszerker if you are lazy.

I guess I am new at this patch. How are you getting a choice of asszerker or assassin - they are not even in the ranger subclass option (deadeye, ranger,pathfinder). If you mean go scion I fully understand yet some of us are using a ranger. What did I miss. Is there a way to be a ranger and start at a different tree converting the character to a scion without starting a whole new chr?