[2.6] [SC] Siege Ballista Critical MF Culler Assassin [Get rich - Pure damage version added]

Seems nice build.

How is your clear speed?

For example on a Shaped Strand map T11. How many minutes to clear?

well,im now lvl 44. Switched to ballista.
Got skirmish and harp.
4L = SB + Added lightning + GMP + FA
And levelling is a disaster.
Damage is average but totems dies like in 2 seconds.
Its ok on trash mobs packs and magic.
But any rare mob is fckin nightmare, ballista hits like 1-2 times and dies.
P.S. dont saying build is bad, i also tested it on standart. But its really hard to level it now on the start of the league without currency and items.

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neuropr wrote:

Seems nice build.

How is your clear speed?

For example on a Shaped Strand map T11. How many minutes to clear?

I did upload of a video (look the section) with a legacy Springs map (T11) with Oak boss (wat? :P ). Level 86. I dont have much practice with totems builds, because this I was a bit slow (and I lost time at Oak, I thought it was Alira, lol) and I have not been very efficient in some parts. But overall the build works well for your proposal: be a magic finder and have decent damage to do maps, with due knowledge and care, as it is not a build optimized for damage (replacing base damage for IIQ and IIR), so naturally it will be weaker, slower and you should be more careful.

Against blues, rares and uniques use Projectile Weakness to facilitate clear speed.

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JizaBol wrote:

well,im now lvl 44. Switched to ballista.
Got skirmish and harp.
4L = SB + Added lightning + GMP + FA
And levelling is a disaster.
Damage is average but totems dies like in 2 seconds.
Its ok on trash mobs packs and magic.
But any rare mob is fckin nightmare, ballista hits like 1-2 times and dies.
P.S. dont saying build is bad, i also tested it on standart. But its really hard to level it now on the start of the league without currency and items.

I'm still leveling my character in the Legacy SC (level 21, act 2), I do not know if the leveling guide I created works well (I've created it based on other builds it already does), it may be the type of build that only works well with Lioneye's Glare and Skirmish, but I'm playing, as I progress I'm putting updates. :)

Did you ever tried deadly infusion over assassination? We already got culling linked frenzy and with another 2 points on the tree we would have 4th power charge(another 4 points for 5th charge), it means 7% or 7.5% base cr chance and i think its better than just more crit chance on full life assassination node. But not sure tho. For power charge generating i dont know unstable infusion works or enough for us but we can add PCoC to frenzy for 6th link or swap Chain with PCoC. Whats your tooltip crit chance with siege ballista btw?

Watched your video. It seems really slow in t11 map but i really interested in siege ballista and i wanna mf in legacy league so i already started but after watching the video im a little bit frustrated.

All in all i think its a great idea but need some upgrades. I'm gonna edit this after taking lioneye glare tomorrow. Thanks for the sharing btw.

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Drvi34 wrote:

Did you ever tried deadly infusion over assassination? We already got culling linked frenzy and with another 2 points on the tree we would have 4th power charge(another 4 points for 5th charge), it means 7% or 7.5% base cr chance and i think its better than just more crit chance on full life assassination node. But not sure tho. For power charge generating i dont know unstable infusion works or enough for us but we can add PCoC to frenzy for 6th link or swap Chain with PCoC. Whats your tooltip crit chance with siege ballista btw?

Watched your video. It seems really slow in t11 map but i really interested in siege ballista and i wanna mf in legacy league so i already started but after watching the video im a little bit frustrated.

All in all i think its a great idea but need some upgrades. I'm gonna edit this after taking lioneye glare tomorrow. Thanks for the sharing btw.

According to the path of building it is worth taking the nodes to Assassinate.

You're right, the demo video showed that damage was not as good, but consider one point: this my level 86 character has no Toxic Delivery. According to the Path of Building this last node makes a big difference in the final damage. If you have currency to pay or can make a party to kill Uber Izaro will help a lot.

Let's say at level 91 that it is fireproof for this build in T12+ maps. At this point you can have almost all the main nodes and Toxic Delivery. But in fact, as I said earlier, I do not think this build is viable Guardians. But this is to be expected, MF builds are considerably weaker than pure damage builds and even not killing guardians think the ultimate goal of it, which is to make the most of the content with high IIR and IIQ is achieved.

BTW, leveling here, level 47 with Bladefall (BF > IIR > Added Cold> Culling Strike) no ascendancy, act 3, cruel. For now I buyed only Aurseize and Perandus Blazon. Because of JizaBol's report I will use Bladefall until the level 66 (which is the level of using Lioneye's Glare).

Is there any reason you didn't go for Iron commander? I picked up one of these and thought it might be pretty useful but, I don't think the current build gets enough Dex to make it useful. What do you think?

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chozandrias76 wrote:

Is there any reason you didn't go for Iron commander? I picked up one of these and thought it might be pretty useful but, I don't think the current build gets enough Dex to make it useful. What do you think?

The problem with Iron Commander is that you need much dexterity for the build to be efficient so that you can put 5 or more totems at the same time.

The problem is that this build is a Siege Ballista MF, then you need use items with IIR and IIQ.

With this tree you have 478 dexterity in the level 100, which means 4 totems.

Increment enough and allow to use 5 totems or more have to use several items that increase in % (percentage) dexterity: Black Sun Crest, Brawn, Briskwrap, Emperor's Mastery or The Perfect Form. All of these items occupy "space" for IIR or IIQ.

4 totems with Siege Ballista with this tree cause less damage that this using Ancestral Bond, Skirmish and Lioneye's Glare. Sadly. :/

BTW, progressing here (leveling with Bladefall, poison, IIR and echo spell), tomorrow I get level 66 and start using the items to test the build. Now level 63, act 3. My tree at level 66 will be this:

Level 66

So far so good. Found a 6l body armour few hours ago, used shrieking greed on it and it's useful for now. I got one question after your edit. You swap minion speed with Herald of Ash. Its a offensive chance so I like it but we're using Void Manipulation, If we swap with Rapid Decay wouldn't be better? It doesnt effect our initial hit like vm but it will effect bleed and poison together and like void manipulation it doesnt reduce our herald of ash dmg. Did you tried this before?

Going for hp nodes right now. I have 34% hp nodes left and have 2.9k hp right now. It will be a problematic but as u said its a mf build and we got lots of defensive mechanics. I didnt die after i fully linked my ballistas. It's a good sign lol.

I changed my ascendancy setup tho. Started with Toxic Delivery. Im gonna go for Deadly Infusion. I helped Alira in merc for power charge. I never liked Assassinate i dont know why

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Drvi34 wrote:

So far so good. Found a 6l body armour few hours ago, used shrieking greed on it and it's useful for now. I got one question after your edit. You swap minion speed with Herald of Ash. Its a offensive chance so I like it but we're using Void Manipulation, If we swap with Rapid Decay wouldn't be better? It doesnt effect our initial hit like vm but it will effect bleed and poison together and like void manipulation it doesnt reduce our herald of ash dmg. Did you tried this before?

Going for hp nodes right now. I have 34% hp nodes left and have 2.9k hp right now. It will be a problematic but as u said its a mf build and we got lots of defensive mechanics. I didnt die after i fully linked my ballistas. It's a good sign lol.

I changed my ascendancy setup tho. Started with Toxic Delivery. Im gonna go for Deadly Infusion. I helped Alira in merc for power charge. I never liked Assassinate i dont know why

I'll use Herald of Ash for the Siege Ballista to do more damage. This will also help a lot against packs, because of Assassinate (100% more critical chance against enemies on low life - 95% of critical chance) the chance of causing an very good overkill damage is very high and this will spread to the nearby enemies, this will probably help a lot to improve the clear speed. Another option is Herald of Ice, but Ash it will increase damage as you get physical/bow/projectile damage nodes.

Hey,

About HoA, do u have it liked with iir gem? coz woulnt it steal the kills ?