[3.5] FACETANK THE WORLD | Instant Leech! 8k+ life, 2.5m+ Shaper DPS Double Strike

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eSubaRainmaker wrote:

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Sedes_Cruentes wrote:

Hi PsychicMuffin!

First of all I would like to say that I am in love with the idea of facetanking the balls of the Shaper;-D So I chose Your build 3 weeks ago and I have copied it the best way I could since then:-D After 3 weeks of playing I am level 60+ dual wielding noob in act 8 so please forgive me my lack of knowledge and be indulgent after reading the question I am about to ask.

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PsychicMuffin wrote:

Yeah I strongly feel like dual bloodseeker is the way to go. Shield costs us a lot of DPS and we're already instant leech, so screw shields. Rare offhand cuts instant leech by half...so that's a no go for me. Updates in the "what's new" section of the guide, including updated PoB link. A few small changes like helm enchant and amulet, plus auras to make up the lost damage.

You recomend 2 Bloodseekers for instant leech but when I remove Bloodseeker from off-hand in PoB, the main hand Bloodseeker shows:
Life leech/On hit rate: more than 40k
after putting second bloodseeker it rises to over 80k



If our life pool is 8k than only one Bloodseeker leeches 5x more than our entire life pool. So what is the point of leeching 10x more with 2 Bloodseekers? There are claws on the market with Life on Hit with higher damage. Wouldn't it be more diversified to use one of that with damage higher than Bloodseeker; something like 200-300 physical damage + gain some % of physical dmg as elemental (extra cold) damage?

Regards!



P.S. Once again, be indulgent;-D

Hey, I see your point in here, very interesting question. I am not quite sure how leech works exactly, but I imagined there can be one issue with that, you are obviously totally correct and no matter the enemy or curse on us, we should still leech more then our life is no problem. But the fact that our leech is instant, and not limited means, that we just hit, and boom... our life is instantly full, there is no delay, and I think that might be the issue, because if our off-hand is non leech weapon, there can be like a 0,2sec window where we simply have no leech, so it would be like "get full life every 0,2 seconds, depending very heavily on our attackspeed. So maybe that is the reason to go second bloodseeker? To have no delay before we leech again? Or have the minimum delay possible between the leech instances after hit? I think that's how it works. Then maybe if you tank something big like shaper beam, that can do a lot of damage in a very short time, then you might feel that your second hit simply doesnt give you leech and your life might just go up and down periodically. You need to understand that we are no slayer, so the leech doesn't stay, once our life is full, in instant after we hit, there is no leech coming, until we hit again with instant leech weapon. So .. what do you think about that point of view?

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unleashed666 wrote:

power charges via corruption. personally im going for impale banner + HoP + hatred (+enlighten 3-4)
in case impale banner sucks im testing the increased dmg taken banner

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unleashed666 wrote:

well.. inc dmg banner it will be. it also gives adrenaline.. good to get a snapshot for VDS minions

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Napster4 wrote:

guess im gonna try this one out :D

but thers one thing i dont understand, does the damage on full life support gem work since we dont have slayer overleech and thus with bloodrage on constantly degen?