[3.4] ELE CLAW INQUISITOR | Farm Shaper on 3Link! + UberElder, UberAtziri | very Budget friendly!

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Huaojozu wrote:

EDIT: Eh, against Uber Elder it feels the same. The DPS is still high enough to pass the damage phases in 2 seconds of sustained attacks, and the things that killed you before still kill you, namely 2 balls. It's good to know that 90k DPS is enough though, for the future.

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endlessvn2604 wrote:

How can i rebuild to Magic Find? Swap all accessories and gloves/boots?

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/endlessvn2604/characters

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_Tiem wrote:

You just need to chip away at your rare gear. First your jewels are very weak. This build excels with flat raw ele damage. Lightning above all, but don't neglect fire and ice, it all adds to your ele damage pool. With some nice abyssal jewels that have flat life and flat ele damage, you can get around 6% more dps per socket. If you can get a jewel with 3 flat damage mods on them, you're looking at 10% more damage. This build can run 7 abyssal jewels (one belt, two gloves and 4 on tree). That's 70% more damage just through jewels. TBH, the jewels are likely the biggest source of dps. Don't just toss in some Viridian and expect insane deeps.

Your rings and amulet need work too. While technically a crit build, ele damage still takes precedent. You invested too much into crit multi given that you only crit about half the time. Invest more into some nicely rolled opals with crit chance, they will provide far more dps in the long run. Don't forget that a boatload of your damage, especially at high levels, comes from Inevitable Judgement.

You're also not running Wrath + Watcher's Eye with Increased Lightning Damage while affected by Wrath. That can bring up to another 60% increased lightning damage with it

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brawndo89 wrote:

It seems the main difference between our builds is you don't go into phase acrobatics area so you can get to 2 more jewel sockets. How is the survivability without those? Tbh I still feel super squishy so I'm nervous to spec out of those for more damage.

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_Tiem wrote:

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brawndo89 wrote:

It seems the main difference between our builds is you don't go into phase acrobatics area so you can get to 2 more jewel sockets. How is the survivability without those? Tbh I still feel super squishy so I'm nervous to spec out of those for more damage.

Way better. I'll concede that Acrobatics and Phased Acrobatics will result in more one off chance life saving moments from one shots. But 30% isn't all that great and you're putting everything onto to RNG.

My issue with Acrobatics is the cost. You walk around feeling paper thin because armor is quite elusive for this build given the constraints of the gear. So you end up feeling every little to mid range physical hit. Porcupines are MURDER. Seeing as how you're melee and the playstyle is to dash in with Shield Charge, loose a bunch of projectiles and zip out, that means getting up close and personal. Even mid sized physical hits chunk you out. Walking around with 1.5k armor may not seem like much but it does help more than people think. If you can get 2.5k you will feel strong as an ox.

Armor scales poorly and has gotten a bad rap because of that. But for mid ranged hits, it's actually exceptional. Throw on Cherrubim's for testing, which brings a boatload of armor (some 1.2k) and tell me how it feels.

Acrobatics is great for ranged heroes given their nature (they run with 5k life and almost no armor anyway, so the trade off is very small), but for melee, I'd never take it. The cost is just too high for another layer of BS RNG lol.