[3.10] OneShotKill Elemental Hit Ballista Hiero - 9.6 million DPS - EZ Boss Killer + budget friendly

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Miha1988 wrote:

Can someone please explain me why Flammability did not work as aura on my boots?

I used other random boots with 2 linked blue sockets and therefor it worked...

thanks

I think it's because you are using spell totem boots. Change them to the ranged attack totem boots, it will solve your problem. Or use regular (no totem) boots ;)

Thank you for the hint, I'm still not very familiar with all mechanics.

Another question.....

If I have a Ring with increased Cold damage or Lightning damage will this be converted to fire?

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Elua wrote:

I simply don't use any permanent aura, only vaal haste.
My Chieftain got unique passive tree and tons of fire penetration compensates this.

Spoiler

For sure, chieftain is great for this build, as your skilltree. But that tree is for lategame, cause getting pierce/chain with gem is bad idea and the way, you rush to acrobatics and pierce is along Point Blank.
So for the start, in my opinion, is better to use topic skill tree. Then reroll to yours.

Talking about the difference between ascendancies, in my opinion... Hiero is faster in mapping. Placement is great and 2 totems spread a bit better. But all in all both ascendancies oneshot packs.
Chieftain is fucking tank with good leech, great for bosses. Great build.
Thanks

Is there a Chieftain BOP? Im interested in trying this as my FB starter.

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Miha1988 wrote:

Thank you for the hint, I'm still not very familiar with all mechanics.

Another question.....

If I have a Ring with increased Cold damage or Lightning damage will this be converted to fire?

good question. i rolled a lightning wep opal ring and don't know if i can use it.

At 97 lvl hiero I see these problems:
- It's not HC friendly build, but nowadays nothing is with Betrayl.
- On Uber Elder I am running out of HP flasks quickly, and then there isn't any option to heal myself. The same problems i have on Cortex boss, which has many phases and big hits, so HP flasks are done quickly, and then no regen.
- if u want more defense, boost your dmg. If u kill all bosses quickly before they try to do something, you are safe.


I will try Chieftain next league, but I have problems with:
- you are placing one-totem and not two-totems like hiero. This will be pain on bosses like uber elder, cause they are kiling totems really quickly and you dont have time to cast totems.
- you are losing +1 max totem, so u have only 3 (not 4 like hiero), that's a huge dmg lose, which must be compensated somehow.

On the other side, Chieftain has more survibility, you can get life gain on hit (you have dont have healing issues), totems are fire immune.

I will try tree from @Elua. Thanks for that.

But actually this build is really STRONG. It's budget friendly on begin, and it grows with your investment to corrupted items. Of course on Uber Elder you must invest much more to gear, min 10ex.

I feel like im missing something with avatar of fire+ the combat focuses. If its all just gonna get converted anyway why do we need to use the lack luster jewels to do it?

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SoCal wrote:

Is there a Chieftain BOP?

Do you mean leveling trees and tips?

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Elua wrote:

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SoCal wrote:

Is there a Chieftain BOP?

Do you mean leveling trees and tips?

Ideally. I have some tree ideas from POENinja, I like the idea of bloodmagic and going the tanky route although I'll probably get frustrated from lower DPS.

I think leveling as AW totems would be ideal until the 2nd lab.

Edit: Also the idea of Scion as Hero/Cheif as you'd still get +1 totem and 1% leech with poor mans avatar of fire.

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dougch wrote:

I feel like im missing something with avatar of fire+ the combat focuses. If its all just gonna get converted anyway why do we need to use the lack luster jewels to do it?

Elemental Hit does all 3 elements as base damage. When it chooses one element it doesn't remove the base damage of the other 2, but rather, just prevents the final hit from dealing those types of damage. This happens after conversion in the damage calculation formula.

So if Elemental Hit chooses "cold", all fire and lightning damage is prevented. Since through Avatar of Fire you only do fire damage, you do no damage. Similar for Lightning damage.

So no Combat Focus jewels means doing damage only 1/3rd of the time. The jewels are therefore absolutely needed.