[3.3] HeiroFat: the Pen Is Mightier (HC, All Content, Perm IC, Boss Killer)

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radokk1234 wrote:

How is this build with uber trials and uber lab? I riped in every try so i skipped the trials and uber lab on every build.
Farmed already one pen and want to start this build when i get the 2nd one.

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Tannhauser1 wrote:

I use Combustion in Frenzy to ignite for the new fire damage gloves mod AND fire Pen too in Poet's Pen as before.

Also note new ring/Romira's Banquet corruption:

Huge extra Mana+Regen this league too on Helmet and Boots and Amulet

Next goal is to get Poet's Pen with Penetration corruption. Was able to get a double Anger Watcher's Eye yesterday (Pen+Fire dmg leech)

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Yo, wanna ask, u run it with base RF or use just Vaal RF? And if bas RF do u have enoght regen to handle it?

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Disconaut wrote:

so the base cost is "only" the 2 poet's pens, and rest of the gear can be random rares?
really??

what is the catch here?

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SilverSequence wrote:

I have done some, very preliminary, testing in the few min I have to play today. It appears that my assumptions about how pens work with IC on cooldown is not correct. Given this, and additional thought into it, I believe that this build's damage scales linearlly until 8 attacks per second. This is great news as it means that there is tremendous room to increase the damage and clearspeed using insanity gloves.

I would love to do further testing and increase the dps of the build, but unfortunately won't be able to this week. Hopefully someone out there wants to push their damage higher and is willing to test how on-cooldown skills (IC) work with pen triggers.

It looks to me as though the pen still trys to cast the IC even when it is on CD, rather than casting VD (even when off CD). If this is true, then the correct setup is VD -> Support -> Bodyswap in one pen and Unearth -> GMP + IC in the other. You want to get as much attack speed as possible, towards 8 attacks per second.

-Marcel