[outdated] King of the Forest (Crit version)

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john258doe wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking to go for my next big upgrade and was deciding between a +2 Devoto or a Dying Sun (Currently at 9 arrows 6L barrage with Reach and +1 Drillneck).

Which one of those two would you recommend first?

• It gives +2 to Barrage projectiles while active.
• It also gives +2 projectiles to LA, which helps clear speed a lot.
• The lightning strikes from LA also benefit from the increased AoE it provides, boosting clear speed even more.
• It's cheaper - by quite a lot.
• Finally, although less important, if you decide to create an alt it can be used on a wide variety of builds. +2 to Barrage is only going to be useful on builds that use Barrage, obviously.

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Miyavi wrote:

Can Barrage be replaced with Tornado Shot for single damage?

I'm finishing Merciless difficulty, and I just swapped to the main attack, and although Tornado Shot says it has a higher DPS, I actually feel Barrage might be doing more damage.

Could I have some insight on it, please?

Also.. how do you sustain mana? Is the mana leech node enough?
I don't feel I'm running out of it, although I have a mana potion, just in case.

Should I use GMP if I got Death's Opus and no +1 Drillneck?

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Thaya wrote:

Sooooo. I hit lvl 97. Had a few boss deaths due to misplaying and a disconnect death or two, but ever since I got 6.7k hp and Taste of Hate (exact reasoning/thought process can be found in my post history - only posting in this thread recently), I've had NO silly random oneshot deaths. I did roll my maps a bit more aggressively too however, avoiding things like Vulnerability, minus Max Resists, or basically anything rippy. This is fair game in my mind as dying at level 95+ is really, well, painful; thus I don't mind investing currency into map rolling, and was even considering to just run my t14/15 maps blue. I decided to be greedy though and ran them all as rares till the very end. Was running at 20-22mil xp/h in Shaped Quay (T15) spam for level 96->97 totally safe in that map and that boss, in fact generating currency whilst doing it (selling T16 maps being the main money generator). Quite satisfied with that result and could probably keep doing this all the way to 100.

I've also hit 40/40 (finally did the map tiers - only took 97 levels on one char with xp-focused play! no skipping directly to bosses etc) and decided to Vaal my stuff as a way to celebrate. Ended up creating this beauty:

Not what I was after, but still, I feel quite fucking fortunate

I'm done. (For now)

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Thaya wrote:

However, 87% crit is still 87% crit... and not 95%. I could get a crit chance mod on my necklace, but that's about the only thing I can think of for boosting base crit. Maybe get a 21/20 (or 20/23) crit gem, and I recall there's another easily available power charge somewhere in the tree. But that's all I can think of.

If anyone has any more cool ideas to increase crit, let me know.

Edit: just tried 6 power charges. It puts me at 93.5% crit, which is perfect, but it does cost 3 passive points and has a ramp up time (getting the charges). I'm gonna run it like this until I find a desirable amulet with crit, crit multi, life, chaos damage...