[3.x - Discontinued for now] Burning Spectres - Torch the Atlas - HC Shaper, Elder, Uber Atziri
" I have been using the fire version of them because i have elemental equilibrium. But so far they are the same as solar guards :) When you raise spectre the risen vaal advocate, you will summon 1 of 3 versions of them. Fire, choas or lightning. You can tell by what colour hands they got. Don't know if they better then solar guards yet, i haven't got them yet. Edit- just got solar guards....., i find solar guards are better and alot less laggy. Vaal advocates firestorm and fire balls with gmp can get laggy. Last edited by JT008#6932 on Jun 3, 2018, 5:01:44 PM
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" I'm using 4 of them right now at Lv.74 trying to compare them to SG's with the standard SG links. So far general mapping feels pretty good with them and they kill just as fast as SG's and the carpet bombing of firestorm is neat, but killing map bosses and doing incursions feels noticeably worse. I only have a 4L though so maybe with more/different links they'll show to be viable/better than SG but I don't know nearly enough to find out. They are awesome for leveling though that's for sure. Edit: After a while testing them against each other in a few settings and with a few different links SG still blow them out of the water. Last edited by Erisian#7559 on Jun 3, 2018, 5:15:44 PM
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Last edited by trackrrb#3028 on Jun 6, 2018, 6:52:51 AM
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Is the new combustion gem better than elemental focus for TV? I know elemental focus have 20% more fire damage than combustion support but combustion allows TV to ignite. Ignite does 40% dps. Is that ignite damage more than the 20% extra dmg from elemental focus?
tl;dr: Is Combustion Support better than Elemental Focus for TVs? |
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Worked out another two of the regularly seemingly harmless enemies that are now suddenly hitting for 30%-60% of all ES/MOM/Health.
- Shrouded One (Magic enemy that's completely shrouded in a cloud & shoots a shock ball or shock trap of some kind?). - Cannibal Fire Eater (They stun instantly and then burst my DPS down so quickly, I didn't bother sticking around to work out what sort of damage they did). There are other's over on reddit starting to come across the same. Warband enemy mobs and unique bosses are 1-hitting Jugg characters with 10K life & 60K armour. It seems to be a combination of enemies with 3.3 buffed elemental damage stats like "Incinerate" and then having a fast attack or projectile, causing a shotgun-like instant death. |
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alright guys, i seriously think 3.3 it's combustion over elemental focus.
My kill speed dropped after 3.3 but after switching to combustion, i'm seeing the same kill speed as before if not faster. Using level 80 TVs, the boss on lair only transformed once. With the new dyadus changes, it makes sense to use combustion for the ignite. -19% fire resistance + ignite which works with our burning support and new dyadus is a no brainer. Build is not dead. Give combustion to your TV set up and see boss melt. |
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"You are really looking for a rare helm with Life / Mana / Elemental Resists. Unless you have currency to spare, in which case look for an Elder helm that works as a pseudo 6 link for your spectres, and move your spectres to your helm from your chest. *Or*, if you are still running Tukohama's Vanguards and want to fit a tanky Animated Guardian, look for a +2 Minion Gems helm, also with life / mana / resists, then pair up AG with Empower 3+ / Minion Life / Fortify. Also. Bone helms are ideal, with their increased minion damage implicit, but expensive, and certainly not required. Ahn's is ... complicated. The mechanic with that is, if you are playing with Reckless Defense jewels to increase your block to max, you can use Ahn's to decrease the crit damage you take as a result of the Reckless Defense jewels. The caveat is that you need to be at zero power charges, so you either need to make sure you have no way of generating power charges, or you need to take other gear to reduce your max power charges all the way to zero. Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD
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For AG use One Dyadus, one Razor of the Seventh Sun Midnight Blade,Speaker's Wreath, Combustion suport.
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" Better is tough to quantify in this case, however... Flesh offering is what you want active *most* of the time. Bone offering is what you want active if there is a decent chance of taking a big hit - so tough bosses, guardians, shaper, etc, you would want BO up. So, you probably want both of those on manual cast. However, there is another danger, where hard hitting packs or something like Beyond monsters spawn without any warning, where you might take a hard hit and a CWDT / Desecrate / BO combo could save you from taking the NEXT big hit that would kill you. Hardcore players are far more likely to fit BOTH, so they have both scenarios covered. Of course, they are also likely to just drop Flesh Offering and run BO all the time, so your mileage may vary. Furthermore, there's some ... evil tricks you can play with the entire CWDT bit. If you have a pseudo 6 link helm, that frees up your chest for a 6L CWDT setup. COnsider CWDT / Unearth / GMP / LMP / Spirit Offering / Bone Offering, for instance. This will create a bunch of corpses, refill your Energy Shield with Spirit Offering, then swap to Bone Offering and max your block. As for Convocation, it's only really neccesary for tough fights where you need more methods to position your minions - shaper is a good example of this, where you want to be able to pull them out of the beam, or keep them inside Zana's shield during the bullet hell phase. As mentioned above, for fast movement, they will teleport to you if you get to far away anyway. Also, Solar Guards get pretty quick in any case. Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD
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"Agreed, there are some tough critters in the temple. I had an architect one shot all my spectres, which hasn't happened to me for leagues, and that was against malformation Piety with extra projectiles and elemental weakness. We really need to test out some of these new critters as spectres. :) Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD
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