[3.2] Captain Americlast - Scion Spectral Shield Throw

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NewBlockader wrote:

The build is not for leagues. Shield throw is weak and compared to complete 1000 ex+ gear that ahfack promotes here you can do way better with chin sol and drillneck using barrage and lightning arrow. 1.5 million tooltip DPS that he advertizes here while using standard league items can be achieved easily at the second week of the league using cheap gear and chin sol/barrage or oni-goroshi/molten strike as effective single target DPS. Talking about the build, Most of the "one shot" videos are from 10% HP of the bosses too. The foundations of the build are shady, there are eye candy all over the build's description, it's like a gasino... by giving you a lot of eye candy and fancy tooltip DPS screenshots(that you can never have without spending 2000ex), the build tries to convince you that it's a kickass build that you were looking for but it's not.

The build had a nice concept but it didn't work. Don't fall into this money grab trap. crafting shields isn't expensive at all also. with 30ex worth of essences you can get 2500+ armor shield easily on a elder/shaped base. yes, you can get even better mods as suffixes.

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tainium wrote:

Did I snipe your purchase?

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blackdeath101 wrote:

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tainium wrote:

Did I snipe your purchase?

Nah, you're good. I only browse poe.trade during breaks at work to see what I can improve on and specifically remember that one in my search and the accuracy with frenzy roll. I'm moving to a new house now, so markets should greatly change by the time I can play again.. possibly next week. And maybe they will patch various issues like SST, crashing (a few times per hour), and OP red beasts.

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SyLizz wrote:

Currently playing this build as starter for the bestiary league.
I have to admit i had doubts too when it was taking sooooo long to kill a boss. But i made some change on my stuff. Bought this shield for an exa, this dagger for less than that, a few jewels for ex's. I spent maybe 6-7 exa on this build. Highest map i cleared is Torture chamber T12 (didn't find higher for now). Was pretty slow cause of elemental resist and enfeeble. T11 are really fast to clear.
Maybe if you want to kill the shaper, you'll need to spend 1000+ exa. Otherwise, you can just enjoy playing this build.

Thanks for this awesome build man. Keep it up !

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Ahfack wrote:

Just trying to make sure you saw what I posted on last page, try a princess sabre with 30% extra cold dmg on it. Could be nice single target damage for you and it's just 1 alch.

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blackdeath101 wrote:

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Ahfack wrote:

Just trying to make sure you saw what I posted on last page, try a princess sabre with 30% extra cold dmg on it. Could be nice single target damage for you and it's just 1 alch.

Yup, I saw your post. I'm not really worried about my own character for the time being. I'd rather hold out for a starter shaped weapon once I start playing again. Only 5-10 chaos for similar stats but added WED, crit, multi, etc. Use that to build up currency to craft my own and upgrade into the other stuff. That with EF instead of crit strike should help a good chunk. But too much stuff going IRL for now.

http://poe.trade/search/oresikiomomete

On a side topic, have you looked into Cameria's Avarice Gavel? DPS loss compared to the above weapons, but pair Cameria's and Lightpoacher's together could be really interesting for AOE clearing. Maybe some weapon swapping for AOE vs ST? Would probably have to re-work the build though to get the most chance to freeze though for the increased rarity and icicle procs.

http://poe.trade/search/okomotatohotew

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tainium wrote:

So the cost to craft a good weapon is roughly...
15c for a base
??c worth of alt/aug/regals
2ex clean
2ex multimod
??c for more mods

Total 5ex and lots of time to maybe get something decent? Wow, I'm not getting into crafting any time soon!

I'll add Might of the Meek once I have enough good gear to cap res with Hrimburn, Gloomfang and the loss of Sentinel.