[2.6] CI HoWA ST - Uber / Shaper / Guardians Down - Budget Friendly?
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What about Skyforth? Isn't it somewhat rly nice to have?
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" mathil tree is fine, int is fairly low without astramentis and some int missing on your chest, wrath is lvl18 only. Dps will raise when you reach lvl20/21. I'm a 5th Link as well. I think my gear is pretty decent, my gems are finally lvl19/q20 and I was lucky with a lvl21 wrath roll. Which leaves me with 30k+ H/O dps. I was very unlucky with 6L tries on my chest by now and think of using master services to finally run 6L. |
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" no, because: 1. it's a noncrit build so we dont need power charges 2. we need the resists on our boots |
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The biggest problem for me is caping resistance without loosing too much damage. Right now I have 133% Fire, 180% cold and 135% Lightning.
Without high dmg I can't leech enough mana and life which is important with my ES pool(7500). I can do red maps and kill boses mostly without any problems even if I have only 14k GMP in HO (on lvl 80). At lvl 90 it should look much better but I need to get better gear with more ES (gloves and helm) so I can have at least 8.5k ES. I really do not know which part of my gear should be upgraded first. I can't give up on my amulet because of nice ES and resistance. Gear with 2x t1 res + Int cost plenty of exalts... I know that at lvl 90 situation will be much better (24% more AS and 48% more light dmg). Maybe instead of gear I should buy 19-20% quality gems (ST, Ele Focus, WED) or maybe I should get better gloves (with 150 ES+) and Helmet with 350 ES+ (can be expensive...). Is it worth to drop WRATH and use Purity of Elements so I can give up on resistance and focues on DMG and ES? Gear:
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Last edited by zaboleqqq#3245 on Jan 12, 2017, 6:10:27 AM
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" You'll be missing a 40% more damage from Elemental Overload if you do that. That's huge. You'll gain ~10% more damage by going to 100% hit chance, but that's not closing the gap. Also, pathing to RT costs you a lot of points, wasted into strength node, useless for us. |
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I convert most of them in intelligence with a brute force jewel.
30% is a lot, maybe i'll try to respec a little but with zero accuracy on my gear i will get at best 88% chance to hit. |
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I think 88% is really good. You would need shitload of accuracy on gear to hit 91% + and later when you outlevel content (lvl 90+) accuracy is neeed really needed I think.
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" belt and rings are shit. Most of the stats are wasted on your rings. All the stats on your belt are only mid-tier. Look for something like: 110+ resistance on a belt is very easy to archive. Even 120 is possible with fairly low budget. I would rather miss that 30 int and 100ES on the belt instead of losing 10% res on this slot. Ring should have 70+ total res. Res + Int are the primary stats. + flat ES is only a little bonus. You can upgrade a lot of rings with flat lightning damage for a nice buff on a small budget. WED doesnt make a huge difference if your base damage is low. If you find a nice ring you can add %ES which is a huge boost later on. I dont have res on my helmt and still capped my res (all very tight, but still...). Did you choose + all res as bandit reward, Jewelery can also help with resistance while you are gearing up. Missing leech is the result of a defensive skilling in early levels. to avoid this focus on damage nodes until lvl 80 and start going for ES at the point where you have decent damage. in addition a lvl 2 enlighten helps to create a larger manapool and to stabilise a bit. Last edited by hunTShoo#6713 on Jan 12, 2017, 8:21:58 AM
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Ok but base DMG comes from INT and I have INT (between 31 and 50) on every part of my gear so I think base damage of claws is ok. Int boost lightning damage of HoWaA and then we have bigger boost from WED/EleFocus/lightning damage nodes. I thought that we should focus on +WED on rings/amu instead of pure lightning damage(as it state in this guide and almost every other guide for HoWaA ranger).
Ring like this one could be better? +25 to maximum Life +39 to Intelligence Adds 2 to 43 Lightning Damage to Attacks +34 to maximum Energy Shield +14% to all Elemental Resistances +30% to Fire Resistance I agrree that belt is medicore one. Better one with 3x res + Flat cost cost 20c+ but that one ring with Accuracy + %accu rating and Int + WED give me nice dmg boost(because of accuracy). I do not know which level of accuracy (how many %) is enough for this build to sustain leech. I agree that second ring can be much better. I wanted to see your character gear but it looks like it is not allowed ;). |
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" You can check my gear for what to aim for. I recently replaced some gloves with accuracy with Atk speed gloves due to over-leveling the accuracy checks. If you are sub 90 i would still aim for at least 250 or so on one piece of gear at the minimum.
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