[2.4] low life Mjolner supertank done right by Rico

@redix27 very nice, you make that look so easy :)


Hey guys, it's been a little while since I've posted. I've been testing out the dual curse build for a month or more and been trying to min max everything. Here's my current set up and where I think I'm going with it.

I'm loving dual curse with enfeeble and ele weakness. The biggest issue so far is lack of dps, and as redix keeps mentioning, flask refill. To fix this I've switched to a non-RT, elemental overload build.

First thing I did was switch my molten strike setup into my 6l shavs and added curse on hit with ele weakness to it to get rid of one of the blasphemy aura reservations (this ended up allowing me to add HoT to my setup for free, I would use this even if I was staying RT).

shav links - molten strike, multistrike, faster attacks, curse on hit, ele weakness, lightning strike. (I switch out lightning strike for additional accuracy on bosses).

My alphas has 20% reduced discipline reservation and has all three of my purity auras and discipline in it.

I am running 10 auras and dual cursing:
Herald of Thunder, Discipline, Purity of Fire, Purity of Ice, Purity of Lightning, Arctic Armour, Haste, Grace, Wrath, Enfeeble (blasphemy), Ele Weakness (curse on hit), inspirational (champion ascendancy).

I have 87% chance to hit with MS and additional accuracy against bosses. Over my old RT build I've gained Elemental Overload and flask refill from surgeons flasks.

Once I hit 95 I have a few choices. If I put my 3 points into the witch ES nodes I will be at 7.4k ES. Or I can grab celestial judgement for the dpu increase.

My current favorite though is going tri-curse. I can grab the +1 curse and get some corrupted repentance gloves with ele weakness on hit. Then I will switch out my ele weakness for something like poachers mark. This will give 100% increased flask charges gained, 40% less evasion to monsters (making non-RT that much easier), life on hit, and chance to gain frenzy charge. With surgeons flasks and the 100% (40% against bosses) increased flask charges gained sustaining flasks will be much much easier. Or I could add warlords mark and switch life leech out of my mjolnir for controlled destruction. As I've tested before though warlords mark is underwhelming by itself. Maybe with this huge damage increase it will be equivalent though (hexproof are still annoying).

Redix and I are also talking about taking out repentance for voidbringers. I'm not sure how much of a dpu hit we'll take here though. We would gain a lot of crit and almost 100 ES. Will need to test this.

Another thing I've been doing a lot is using saffells. I lose 1.4k ES (going down to 5.5k) but my resists are 88/88/89. For elemental reflect maps I dont notice reflect at all, and for elemental bosses it's a drastic difference. Makes Atziri easy as well. Situational.

I'm wondering if I should go 4/6 with power/endurance charges since I'm doing non RT.

Anyway that's my update. I'm going to be testing it out a lot over the next few weeks and need to grind to 95 to see about tri curse.

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Passive Tree

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Alturas wrote:

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Interesting variant, looking forward to the results.

Also, flare discharge mtx on sale today for 80points if someone was on the fence.

@Alturas that might be very intresting. Looking forward to it!

@Redix added your Guardians vids with RF to the guide - thx!

Slowly leveling, much of my time's been on the recent shadow warrior 2 release, and now watching hockey games, but I finally made it to 80 and things are finally starting to steamroll.

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Oh, and jeeze, there needs to be a better way to go through turning on all your auras, such a chore.

@Alturas

Very nice build!

Squeezing Lightning Strike and molten strike together is much more easier in your set-up.
(I am trying to get + molten Strike projectile on an Alpha's Howl and squeeze LS with MS, but it is too rare to buy or find one myself).

As you dropped GMP on molten strike, is it easy to get 5 power charge?

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fidhell wrote:

@Alturas

Very nice build!

Squeezing Lightning Strike and molten strike together is much more easier in your set-up.
(I am trying to get + molten Strike projectile on an Alpha's Howl and squeeze LS with MS, but it is too rare to buy or find one myself).

As you dropped GMP on molten strike, is it easy to get 5 power charge?

He might just swap gmp in and lightning strike out when fighting a boss.

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shield2057 wrote:

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fidhell wrote:

@Alturas

Very nice build!

Squeezing Lightning Strike and molten strike together is much more easier in your set-up.
(I am trying to get + molten Strike projectile on an Alpha's Howl and squeeze LS with MS, but it is too rare to buy or find one myself).

As you dropped GMP on molten strike, is it easy to get 5 power charge?

He might just swap gmp in and lightning strike out when fighting a boss.

Checked the text Alturas swap accuracy for lightning strike during boss.
I've tested a bit on my RT Character. In single boss with no mobs available, 4.68aps + RT can't really hit 5 power charge quite often with no GMP. In non-RT I don't think I will go 5/5..

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fidhell wrote:

Checked the text Alturas swap accuracy for lightning strike during boss.
I've tested a bit on my RT Character. In single boss with no mobs available, 4.68aps + RT can't really hit 5 power charge quite often with no GMP. In non-RT I don't think I will go 5/5..

Non RTs should go 4/6.

Hey, Rico. Thanks for the build. I'm having a blast with my toon. Using Alpha's Howl variant, I choose to equip Grace + Determination for 50% MORE armor. Tanking physical slams has never been this easy. Unbuffed I have 32k armor (73% est phys dmg reduction), buffed with flask and end charges, it goes over the rooftop to 67k armor (90% est phys dmg red).

Mjölner nerf was devastating, but I think your build makes Mjölner great again !

Edit for gears

T13 corrupted Scriptorium Boss

Mods
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EW
105% extra lightning damage
Unique Boss deals 35% inc. damage
Unique Boss has 20% increased life

Note: that drops in my bar is due to reflect, this boss cast a barrier that reflect phys and elem. so it´s a bit dangerous.