[2.6] CI HoWA ST - Uber / Shaper / Guardians Down - Budget Friendly?

Quartz infusion and avatar of the veil give you a decent damage boost, phasing - which allows you to run through mobs even when whirling blades gets hung up on some tiny little obstacle, and, most importantly, immunity to elemental effects. So you don't need a flask to thaw from freezing, you can't be shocked, and you don't need a fire extinguisher flask.

Shapers touch can be damn near anything. We have some decent flexibility with our slot colours, so as long as the set you pick up are 4 linked, you can probably work around them.

I'd buy the Wise Oak right away - and the Shaper's Touch, then I'd save for the Vinktar's. good chest and helm are going to be multiple exalts, so those are likely last.

Corrupt with elemental weakness on hit ... well, if it's not BIS, it's damn close.

Hello ! Thanks for the build, i'm having fun with it.

I don't know which part of my gear I should upgrade first, can you please take a look at this :



Thanks :)

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Shinro28 wrote:

Hello ! Thanks for the build, i'm having fun with it.

I don't know which part of my gear I should upgrade first, can you please take a look at this :

Thanks :)

First, some flask changes.
- Vinktar's should be lightning penetration variant
- Switch the Rumi's for the Wise Oak, ensure lightning resist is your highest resist for the extra damage boost
- The silver and mana flasks have bad mods for this build. You are immune to freezing as long as you have completed uber lab, and having the bleed on a mana or health pot means it stops giving you bleed immunity as soon as your mana or health is full.

Other than that, I'd upgrade the helm and boots until you can afford to run shaper's touch for gloves, which will take care of your accuracy. Lastly, I'd upgrade or 6L your chest.

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Breach comes with a number of unique items that fill various roles in builds. We are happy with most of these, though we will be making some adjustments to the Hand of Wisdom and Action, and the Hand of Thought and Motion that leads to it. The added lightning damage of these weapons will no longer be global, and will instead only apply to each specific weapon.

The values of the flat lightning damage will also be increased given their new restriction, to "1-5 lightning damage added to attacks per 10 intelligence with this weapon" on Hand of Thought and Motion, and to "1-10 lightning damage added to attacks per 10 intelligence with this weapon" on Hand of Wisdom and Action.

So if I understand this correctly the claws will get a 16% nerf as each one will only boost the damage of itself and not both.

Of course this is the least of the problems for this build in the future. Leech is the major one, lower ES is another and of course low availability of breach uniques.

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Aias_o_Telamonios wrote:

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Breach comes with a number of unique items that fill various roles in builds. We are happy with most of these, though we will be making some adjustments to the Hand of Wisdom and Action, and the Hand of Thought and Motion that leads to it. The added lightning damage of these weapons will no longer be global, and will instead only apply to each specific weapon.

The values of the flat lightning damage will also be increased given their new restriction, to "1-5 lightning damage added to attacks per 10 intelligence with this weapon" on Hand of Thought and Motion, and to "1-10 lightning damage added to attacks per 10 intelligence with this weapon" on Hand of Wisdom and Action.

So if I understand this correctly the claws will get a 16% nerf as each one will only boost the damage of itself and not both.

Of course this is the least of the problems for this build in the future. Leech is the major one, lower ES is another and of course low availability of breach uniques.

That sounds suspiciously like it could be even worse. Are they referring to the damage from *attacks* with this weapon, or limiting the bonus damage to only gems socketed in these weapons? If we have to drop to a 3L setup, that will absolutely murder this build.

That would indeed completely destroy the claws.
But I don't think it's what they mean. They say "lightning damage added to attacks... with this weapon" so it applies to attacks with the claws, not the gems socketed in them. The only difference with the current situation is that the claws don't buff each other.

Anyway, as I said without leech the build is dead. What could save it is if they decide to make some changes to what they have announced and give us something like ES gain on hit or some other way of reliably filling up ES. Going life is very difficult for intel based builds and hybrid sucks (especially since you can only leech life) unless they make changes to help it.

We'll have to wait and see. With the current announcement ES will be much worse than life is now so there is hope that will change in the beta.

Level 100 with this awesome build, i'll post my final thoughts just for info and for those who dont check Aixx's thread and need some help / info.


Current stats in ho with auras ( HoT + Discipline + Wrath ) + Lightning Golem

Dps with GMP : 73'5 k / 95% chance to hit / 4.85 aps

Dps with SP : 125 k

Resistances : 143 /143 / 143

Mana : 1901 / 247(free)

ES : 11.202

Dps Fully buffed with auras , golem , totem, vaal haste and flasks : 289 k with gmp , 493 k with sp.

"Theorical" improvements I could make : better left ring = +2 k dps
Eyes of the greatwolf ammy with % atributes + % lightning damage = +insane gain of dps ( 5-6 k dps? maybe more)
- discipline + empower 4 = +3'5 k dps ( I tried this one but I lost 1'8 k ES so not worth it with my gear, maybe with insane 950 ES Regalia + 500 Hubris it would be best option )
40% spec throw enchant = + 4 k dps? . This option is only viable if u dont use discipline aura

So my guess is that with perfect gear + perfect quad gems this build could get around 90-95 k dps , but I dont have the patience to test it out considering the big nerfs that are coming.

If someone wants to ask something about my particular HoWa build i'll check this thread , u can check my profile or u can pm me ingame.

The way it looks, they will completely kill a large chunk of ES builds. If this is the case, I'm giving up this game. I'm not going to spend another 3-6 months clawing my way to a end game viable build only to get nerfed into oblivion again and again.

This is just a ridiculous cycle of work being crushed out of existence, over and over.

Have fun guys, but to me, it's pretty much over at this point.

Btw I was wondering about elemental overload, is 6% critchance enough to proc it?

or should i get more critchance on jewels?

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Intervation wrote:

Btw I was wondering about elemental overload, is 6% critchance enough to proc it?

or should i get more critchance on jewels?

When clearing trash you almost always have it on bosses is trickier especially when there is no trash to help you proc it its your call really. It gives you a very high damage boost but as i said on bosses its hard to proc it. It's 5 points after all but there isn't much else to put your points into unless you spec into Heart of Thunder cluster which will give you about 40% of proc'd elemental overload (sorry for the lack of sense in this sentence, very tired)