3.5 Chaos/Cold Storm Brand - Uber Elder✓ 10k EHP ✓ Budget ✓ HC ✓ Hierophant or Occultist

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Rheavon wrote:

Some things I noticed. I don't think you want to be using Elemental Focus for this build.

To start with after importing your build and looking at the config, you have uses Power charges turned on, but you don't generate power charges anywhere, and you have use Frenzy charges turned off and you do have ways of generating those. (This also makes Auxium belt less than ideal since you don't have any way of generating Power Charges, more on that later)

So doing this has your Total DPS at 358023, Turning off Elemental Focus, adding Increased Critical Strikes, and going to config to turn on enemy is Shocked increases this to 405897.

Now I am doing a few other changes as well that may or may not be of interest to you.

The build I am aiming towards will be running the Chaos Impresence, Swapping Temp Chains (which isn't as useful on bosses) for Despair, and adding Purity of Elements to the build. With Purity of Elements (or a different Purity depending on your Watcher's Eye) it opens up Watcher's Eye Physical Damage taken as X Element.

With Purity of Elements you are going to be gravy for resists, so lets talk about those power charges. Wait for it, Its not just for people who can afford Headhunters anymore, Lets add Skyforth!

Here is a link to the PoB with the changes I made https://pastebin.com/DyVyBP9Y

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Rheavon wrote:

Some things I noticed. I don't think you want to be using Elemental Focus for this build.

To start with after importing your build and looking at the config, you have uses Power charges turned on, but you don't generate power charges anywhere, and you have use Frenzy charges turned off and you do have ways of generating those. (This also makes Auxium belt less than ideal since you don't have any way of generating Power Charges, more on that later)

So doing this has your Total DPS at 358023, Turning off Elemental Focus, adding Increased Critical Strikes, and going to config to turn on enemy is Shocked increases this to 405897.

Now I am doing a few other changes as well that may or may not be of interest to you.

The build I am aiming towards will be running the Chaos Impresence, Swapping Temp Chains (which isn't as useful on bosses) for Despair, and adding Purity of Elements to the build. With Purity of Elements (or a different Purity depending on your Watcher's Eye) it opens up Watcher's Eye Physical Damage taken as X Element.

With Purity of Elements you are going to be gravy for resists, so lets talk about those power charges. Wait for it, Its not just for people who can afford Headhunters anymore, Lets add Skyforth!

Here is a link to the PoB with the changes I made https://pastebin.com/DyVyBP9Y

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aremboldt wrote:

I like your changes, except they increase the budget of the build tremendously. Also, as someone else mentioned, elemental focus is only for Bosses, which can't be shocked. I don't think the shock chance from Call of the Brotherhood allows you to break shock threshold on high end bosses. Could be wrong though, in which case yes, your build adds a lot of DPS. Dropping the Temporal Chains adds a lot of risk to your character while mapping, and your version drops a lot of ES nodes, taking ES down to 7872. Without playing the character, I am not sure how comfortable that would be on high end bosses like U.Elder, but I don't have much experience on Elder.

I'm definitely going to save your POB building template, since it's amazing for a higher budget end game version of this build. My only gripe is wondering if 600k dps is worth the budget of the Skyforth and the Impresence vs just going another build such as a more traditional Arc scaling build.

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AXPcikle wrote:

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Rheavon wrote:

Some things I noticed. I don't think you want to be using Elemental Focus for this build.

To start with after importing your build and looking at the config, you have uses Power charges turned on, but you don't generate power charges anywhere, and you have use Frenzy charges turned off and you do have ways of generating those. (This also makes Auxium belt less than ideal since you don't have any way of generating Power Charges, more on that later)

So doing this has your Total DPS at 358023, Turning off Elemental Focus, adding Increased Critical Strikes, and going to config to turn on enemy is Shocked increases this to 405897.

Now I am doing a few other changes as well that may or may not be of interest to you.

The build I am aiming towards will be running the Chaos Impresence, Swapping Temp Chains (which isn't as useful on bosses) for Despair, and adding Purity of Elements to the build. With Purity of Elements (or a different Purity depending on your Watcher's Eye) it opens up Watcher's Eye Physical Damage taken as X Element.

With Purity of Elements you are going to be gravy for resists, so lets talk about those power charges. Wait for it, Its not just for people who can afford Headhunters anymore, Lets add Skyforth!

Here is a link to the PoB with the changes I made https://pastebin.com/DyVyBP9Y

You should never ever click shock in PoB. It's not accurate since it was changed to scale by %max life done with a single hit. The only time that box is accurate is if you're an elementalist with bastion of ruin and 150% shock effectiveness.

I agree with skyforths though! I'm heiro so I was going to combine that with the aura nodes in templar area, the heiro ascendency for 10% less reservation, and an enlighten to cram in auras while still having a decent amount of mana for MoM. Herald of Ice is too good not to run for mapping!

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aremboldt wrote:

I like your changes, except they increase the budget of the build tremendously. Also, as someone else mentioned, elemental focus is only for Bosses, which can't be shocked. I don't think the shock chance from Call of the Brotherhood allows you to break shock threshold on high end bosses. Could be wrong though, in which case yes, your build adds a lot of DPS. Dropping the Temporal Chains adds a lot of risk to your character while mapping, and your version drops a lot of ES nodes, taking ES down to 7872. Without playing the character, I am not sure how comfortable that would be on high end bosses like U.Elder, but I don't have much experience on Elder.

I'm definitely going to save your POB building template, since it's amazing for a higher budget end game version of this build. My only gripe is wondering if 600k dps is worth the budget of the Skyforth and the Impresence vs just going another build such as a more traditional Arc scaling build.

You can double whatever PoB says because you are attaching 2 brands to the boss.

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muera wrote:

And what about shade of solaris wand?

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muera wrote:

And what about shade of solaris wand?

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aremboldt wrote:

Hmm POB is not correctly accounting for both brands in it's calc? Is that a bug?

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Rheavon wrote:

Ya, it does break budget a little bit, but not nearly by that much. Skyforth is cheaper than buying a 6L for instance.

I was not aware that the enemy is shocked button didn't work right. That is rather disappointing, but at least it might be relevant for Syndicate fights since Chill does add survivability.

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Rheavon wrote:

Ya, it does break budget a little bit, but not nearly by that much. Skyforth is cheaper than buying a 6L for instance.

I was not aware that the enemy is shocked button didn't work right. That is rather disappointing, but at least it might be relevant for Syndicate fights since Chill does add survivability.