[2.2] Phys Crit Iron Commander Siege Ballista || Atziri Down || Budget

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Jonmcdonald wrote:

Siege ballista has 100% Pierce chance already, so the Pierce gem would do literally nothing. Slower projectiles is brilliant, because Siege Ballista arrows already travel so fast.

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Kartikdon wrote:

to each their own as far as damage types but here is my 2 cents.

Personally I feel most Ele builds are just tooltip warrior-ing and not considering in other factors. Ele damage falls off hard after tier 10+ maps. He has more damage nodes but a very very low amount of life. We have a lower tooltip but we also have very strong bleeds and lots of stacking poison damage. We also have point blank giving us a tremendous damage boost over his. With so much projectile speed the negative is irrelevant and far shot almost makes this non-existent. The damage loss doesnt even occur till about 2 screen lengths away. In the end when you calculate everything this build does we deal more damage, have more life, more totems, hardier totems, a lot more dex. If he was a templar rolling ele damage my opinion would be totally different but that is not the case.

Endless munitions gives us 1 extra projectile per totem. This is not even needed. It won't boost our single target even by the slightest. We have no area damage so that bonus doesn't help, and being a dex stacking class we really don't need accuracy. I noticed his set up is hard stuck at 4 totems, 600 dex. For his set up it may be worth it. When comparing to this set up running 5 to 7 totems we do not need the extra proj. We have more then enough coverage. I would rather put those points into extra crit chance or poison/bleed.

His idea is a good concept but he needs to move it to templar. Slap in some int or str to dex jewels. Getting the ignore resistances on crit is the biggest boon to his build possible. Making this variation work with more life I would say would be much stronger then mine but not in its current state.

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Point Blank + Far Shot (Ascendancy)
You may have noticed Point Blank was taken in the passive tree. This is because when you pair it with Far Shot, from Deadeye, much of the negative is actually neglected. This means instead of -50% damage at max range we are only -20%. So as the projectile travels half its distance it will go from 150% to 115% and dropping to 100% at around 70% of its travel. But don't stress about this. Siege Ballista has a stupid long travel time, 3 screens or more, so the damage drop off is completely irrelevant. This is a monster boost for us.