[2.4] CI CoC Discharge by Rico (barely reanimated)

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Are Discharge / Blade Vortex considered melee skills?

Nope. But Cyclone and Whirling Blades are. Still "10% on melee critical strike" and "12% on kill" for 11 points are not worth it. Mechanics behind Volls Devotion is to gain endu charges equal to the number of power charges that expired or were consumed, meaning for every power charge lost via Discharge you gain endu charge. This happens in-between Discharge's blasts rendering maximum number of endurance charges ready for every next Discharge. This is basically 100% chance. 10% chance to gain on crit, with your dagger you will have around 60% chance to crit with proper gear, meaning you will have 6% chance to gain power charge on hit. Thats LOW. 12% chance on kill is also LOW. Also generating charges via Endu Cry will give charges only for the first blast, you should spin with your cyclone for the rest of the fight, If you dont do that you're doing it wrong.

If you dont have Volls Devo you dont use endu charges. Simple as that. For 11 points go for 7th Power Charge and more spell dmg / elemental dmg and use nice spell dmg + crit multi amulet. This way you will be doing plenty of dmg and this will be MUCH better than your attempts to emulate Volls Devotion.

Why not Templar Inquisitor?
"Critical Strikes ignore Enemy Elemental Resistances" aren't just huge?

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_lerby wrote:

Why not Templar Inquisitor?
"Critical Strikes ignore Enemy Elemental Resistances" aren't just huge?

Because this is strong CI build with great offence and defence not GlassCannon. Damage is allready huge without that and Inquisitor doesnt have ANYTHING to support CI's defences.

Inquisitor might be good with life version but for that Trickster might be even better.

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_lerby wrote:

Why not Templar Inquisitor?
"Critical Strikes ignore Enemy Elemental Resistances" aren't just huge?

Inquisitor will make all monster resistances == 0. But, not all bosses have 50% ele resists. Equilibrium, on the other hand, will subtract 50% from their resistances, bringing them into negative range == even more damage than with 0 resists. And, as RicoKGB said, Templar dont have anything other useful. So, you will be sparing 1 skill point to gain worse version of elemental equilibrium. Getting Trickster for its free cyclone and ES or AssZerker for free global leech and base crit is much more better. Scion will even give you 2 bonus skill points.

I managed to save 10 ex now.

Should I buy the 6L or the Amulet first?

Thank you

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reditus7 wrote:

I managed to save 10 ex now.

Should I buy the 6L or the Amulet first?

Thank you

I'd go for amulet first. It will give you very nice boost to damage and also improve survilability by providing endurance charges for IC. I did a bit different tree and can respec to 6 power and 5 endurance charges. This will improve my damage like 1.7 times. Any 6th link wont give such boost to damage and utility. At least as I'm aware.

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Should I buy the 6L or the Amulet first?

Definitely go for Volls amu first. As NetBurst explained it adds both to damage and survivability.

Hey, first of all great Build! I really enjoy playing it.

Got any advice on what to get after lvl 92?
I thought of going towards Faith and Steel and grab the charges via intuitve leap.
Any thoughts on that?

Cheers Blood :)

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Got any advice on what to get after lvl 92?
I thought of going towards Faith and Steel and grab the charges via intuitve leap.
Any thoughts on that?

There are basically 2 options: more defence or more dmg.

As far as more defence goes you can grab more ES or go Whispers of Doom for double course setup. This way you can incorporate Warlords Mark alongside Enfeeble for additional leech and effective way of dealing with reflect.

In terms of dmg there's Throat Seeker for additional 54% crit multi or another Power / Endu charge.

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FnTsTiC wrote:

Are Discharge / Blade Vortex considered melee skills?
Cuz there is a node in the passive tree that says "10% chance to gain an Endurance charge on Melee Critical Strike" which is only 6 points away from your pathing, there are also 3 nodes which give you 12% chance to gain a Power / Frenzy / Endurance charge on kill in total.
With 11 passive points (and using Enduring Cry) you can sorta replace Voll's devotion and then use another amulet to replace the lost stats from those passive points, right?

Voll's Devotion adds so much damage as discharge releases all charges, and at 95% crit you wanna be able to regain charges instantaneously. that's why it's so powerful with blade vortex. the charges replenish instantly after discharge. I'm debating however, if it's worth doing anything over 6, because it displaces n replaces so fast, it's rare that i see 7 power charges with my 7 max.