[2.6] CRIT HoWA BF/ST Raider [13k ES, 60k BF/265k GMP ST DPS, Stun-immune] [4 sec Chayula kill]

As requested, stats are as follows:

Based on Level 93 and a 6L of:

BF (21/20)
LP (20/20)
Incr. AOE (21/20)
Incr. Crit Strikes (21/20)
EF (21/20)
WED (21/20)


Based on a 6L of:

BF (21/20)
LP (20/20)
Conc. Effect (20/20)
Incr. Crit Strikes (21/20)
EF (21/20)
WED (21/20)



Disclaimer: do take note that my charged up damage is also slightly boosted by my boot enchant (+ cold damage when hit). It adds about 1.6k to my tooltip DPS. Been trying to get the 10% penetrate elemental resistance enchantment to no avail and got the cold damage enchantment with my last lab run of the day. Will try again when I stockpile more offerings + twice enchanted.

Edit: also experimented with replacing elemental focus with conc. effect so that I have both Incr. AOE + Conc. Effect in the same 6L. DPS with charges is 36.5k and you get to shatter mobs. The resulting AOE is also much more playable than if with conc. effect alone but I still kinda prefer Incr. AOE + EF.

That is unreal dps. I went ahead and grabbed 1 jewel costed me an exalt. I didn't go full dmg but attack speed crit multi max ES and resist. And to be honest didn't see much of a buff at all 200dps just from the multi. I'm gonna go ahead and hope to find some better army rings and see how this works out I'll report back to the fort here once iv completed some more gearing

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rectOOOr wrote:

That is unreal dps. I went ahead and grabbed 1 jewel costed me an exalt. I didn't go full dmg but attack speed crit multi max ES and resist. And to be honest didn't see much of a buff at all 200dps just from the multi. I'm gonna go ahead and hope to find some better army rings and see how this works out I'll report back to the fort here once iv completed some more gearing

damn dude, don't pay 1 exalted for a jewel like that! just be patient, use live search and wait for bargains imo. My rare jewels all cost me 20-25c each.

I've got an old ammy i can lend to u to experiment with. U can decide later on whether or not you wish to buy it.



hit me up in game if you'd like to borrow it. the rest of my old jewellery have already been snapped up unfortunately.

Yeah I felt it was a bit overpriced.... but I had to have that Es and resist was a must otherwise I'd be uncapped. She's a struggle capping res. high ES multi res gear is not cheap... ES is 10.5k which is low id personally like 11.5+ Which might be something I'll have to accept without a 900+ chestplate. Might be doable if I can find some nice +ES jewellery. But then I'll be respecing out of the ES part of witch and I'll be back to where I was like you mentioned above. Might not be a huge concern neither if I hit harder will have to see when that time comes. I'll take you up on that amulet I'd appreciate that man, it'll give me an idea of what to expect anyways. As for buying it I may just wait as I feel its a bit low on the int side for me. Which I was thinking that's where you got a nice chunk of dmg from your 1200+ as I currently just breaking a 1000. Might have to pick up some high roll HOWA and check out that colbalt wit jewel you're rocking for a 10% overall increase may help me out also.i tried experimenting with a crit multi gem instead of strikes and the overall multi was 400 plus but tbh still felt choppy compared to the strikes. I also rock a extra power charge as initially when the char was built I went for the power charge and haven't regret out of it yet I think I may just leave it. As I moved some gems around last night for a Vaal haste. Which I find really nice, it's only a 5 second buff. But popping it on a boss is all you need. Plus it's easy to keep up pop it in breaches also which is really effective.
I'll shoot you a friend request later this afternoon just currently at work for the day.

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rectOOOr wrote:

Yeah I felt it was a bit overpriced.... but I had to have that Es and resist was a must otherwise I'd be uncapped. She's a struggle capping res. high ES multi res gear is not cheap... ES is 10.5k which is low id personally like 11.5+ Which might be something I'll have to accept without a 900+ chestplate. Might be doable if I can find some nice +ES jewellery. But then I'll be respecing out of the ES part of witch and I'll be back to where I was like you mentioned above. Might not be a huge concern neither if I hit harder will have to see when that time comes. I'll take you up on that amulet I'd appreciate that man, it'll give me an idea of what to expect anyways. As for buying it I may just wait as I feel its a bit low on the int side for me. Which I was thinking that's where you got a nice chunk of dmg from your 1200+ as I currently just breaking a 1000. Might have to pick up some high roll HOWA and check out that colbalt wit jewel you're rocking for a 10% overall increase may help me out also.i tried experimenting with a crit multi gem instead of strikes and the overall multi was 400 plus but tbh still felt choppy compared to the strikes. I also rock a extra power charge as initially when the char was built I went for the power charge and haven't regret out of it yet I think I may just leave it. As I moved some gems around last night for a Vaal haste. Which I find really nice, it's only a 5 second buff. But popping it on a boss is all you need. Plus it's easy to keep up pop it in breaches also which is really effective.
I'll shoot you a friend request later this afternoon just currently at work for the day.

Personally, if you want to get the most out of your character, I would suggest getting resists on gear that don't usually spawn with crit multi mods. In other words, aim for resists on rings/belts/armour. Jewels and amulets are the only gear which can have crit multi mods on them (excluding essences) as such, you should always try to aim for double crit multi mods on jewels as far as possible.

Don't be too disheartened with regards to gear etc, they'll get cheaper with time. My gear half a month ago back when I was experimenting with optimal jewel combinations wasn't that great either! Your stats which you mentioned earlier are already better than the majority of HoWA users and your dps is also higher than all but the godly-geared non-crit HoWA users so there's that.

Yup don't worry about having to buy it. It's just to give u a taste of how powerful it is to have an ammy with both WED and crit multi on it. Although I agree that my 1200 INT makes a big difference to ES and DPS to your 1000 INT (if you had 1200 INT with the same dps gear u'd hitting 23k average damage), there are situations where dex also comes in very useful in terms of providing accuracy and attack speed (especially as we'll be dropping faster attacks). If you look at my amulet, it also has a lot more dex than INT, so don't be too dismissive of dex. Pure INT alone on an ammy without dex won't be as good as having moderately high INT and high dex on an amulet considering we won't be stacking dex on any other gear.

Yup I wouldn't replace incr crit strikes with incr crit dmg. Incr crit strikes is integral to getting >60% crit chance which is what we're aiming for. High crit multi without decent crit chance is useless. Same with having high crit chance and low crit multi. Our aim is to achieve decent amounts of both - crit chance via tree and gem, crit multi via tree, jewels and amulet.

A frenzy charge actually provides a lot more dos increase (and QOL increase with the higher movement speed) than a power charge does, so once ur geared up I would advise respeccing that power charge to a frenzy charge.

Vaal Haste is great and I really should probably get that at some point.. I have enough redundant gem sockets to implement it into the build for sure.

All in all, your stats are more than good for someone newly converted to crit. Don't worry too much about trying to match my stats so quickly, after all I did have a month and two level 90+ characters worth of time to experiment with and optimize my gear and jewels. If you haven't already used it, I would recommend using path of building to help you optimize your character and help u decide what gear to buy before actually spending the currency to buy it.

I'm keeping an eye out for some new jewellery starting with an amulet. As for rings it may be a struggle to find exactly what I need/want. Did you craft much of you're gear? I did go ahead and find a nice 2 mod multi jewel which did bump a me 1kish in damage but lost some resist which put me uncapped unfortunately. Min maxing the jewellery is going to be tough resist wise as I'm using my suffix for int or dex. We'll see how it turns out. Might be able to find a decent amulet with some extra res to bring me back up. Otherwise I might have to take the hit on light res and run HOT and purity. But I'm hoping I won't have too it would be like taking one step forward and two steps back

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rectOOOr wrote:

I'm keeping an eye out for some new jewellery starting with an amulet. As for rings it may be a struggle to find exactly what I need/want. Did you craft much of you're gear? I did go ahead and find a nice 2 mod multi jewel which did bump a me 1kish in damage but lost some resist which put me uncapped unfortunately. Min maxing the jewellery is going to be tough resist wise as I'm using my suffix for int or dex. We'll see how it turns out. Might be able to find a decent amulet with some extra res to bring me back up. Otherwise I might have to take the hit on light res and run HOT and purity. But I'm hoping I won't have too it would be like taking one step forward and two steps back

A friend of mine just managed to grab an ammy with the stats I mentioned for 7c which was a dps upgrade over astramentis. My gear was semi-crafted. I looked for rings with the basic stats I wanted and crafted them from there.

Focus on just int for your suffix then followed by res. dex won't be so necessary. get dex on ur ammy instead since high int ammys are bound to be expensive.

Ya, just be patient and wait for the right gear imo :)

In the meantime, here's another vid:
Shaper, Uber Atziri and other Guardians

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Invalesco wrote:

Hey flubby! That's a pretty ingenious way to test out ur hypothesis! I forgot to let u know that u were right. I found this post by mark:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

I've worked out what's wrong with Blade Flurry's evasion testing, we'll get that fixed for a future patch.

It appears that BF did ignore evasion before, but presumably they've now found out why and it'll get fixed sometime soon. For now, if you would like to find out what ur toon's average damage is when ignoring evasion you can try out path of building.

Edit: typos

what a pity there :> . the funny thing is im down to 60% chance to hit now and use chayula. Reflect is like non existent since 60% versus any kind of evasion yields like 1 reflect hit every 10 hits or so so by abusing this the char is basically reflect immune atm :!. From what i understand it would work with unwavering as well though i cant find anyhting on that.

Guess i should make sure to read future patchnotes before i sink this one after the fix :D

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Flubby wrote:

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Invalesco wrote:

Hey flubby! That's a pretty ingenious way to test out ur hypothesis! I forgot to let u know that u were right. I found this post by mark:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

I've worked out what's wrong with Blade Flurry's evasion testing, we'll get that fixed for a future patch.

It appears that BF did ignore evasion before, but presumably they've now found out why and it'll get fixed sometime soon. For now, if you would like to find out what ur toon's average damage is when ignoring evasion you can try out path of building.

Edit: typos

what a pity there :> . the funny thing is im down to 60% chance to hit now and use chayula. Reflect is like non existent since 60% versus any kind of evasion yields like 1 reflect hit every 10 hits or so so by abusing this the char is basically reflect immune atm :!. From what i understand it would work with unwavering as well though i cant find anyhting on that.

Guess i should make sure to read future patchnotes before i sink this one after the fix :D

Damn, that really sounds broken lol. Have fun abusing it while it lasts flubby! :p And yes make sure u read the patch notes before you go all happy on a reflect mob and rip to it after the fixhammer hits :p

a simple question


if you can afford astra is still better option than a rare amy with WED , int , res , etc ?


i ask this because you say is too way expensive but if i can buy one is really better than a rare amy ?


Regards.-