[3.7] MoMMeme | facetank it all | >2.5M Shaper DPS, >13k eHP, >13k eHP/s recovery

Thanks for the replies. Just a little bit of clarification on leech aspect.

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Migski wrote:

(...) In leeching, you need the rings with "life gained for each enemy hit by your spells" mods on one or both (both is definitely better) cause there is NO other source of life leech for us except for the Atziri flask (which is a flask so can't be always active).

The life leech is granted by Illuminated Devotion ascendancy, so no need to constantly have Atziri's flask up for leech. The amulet I have posted in the guide came from different character I already had at the moment.

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nemrod10 wrote:

Hello,

thanks for you guide, i'm in love with this kind of character (bought celestian ball lightning).
I've spend lot of exp on him and even if i'm 71 i can clear some red tier easy.

I have a question on your excel sheet.
How do you find the dps for each baal (pledge version) on pob ?

Thanks and cheers :)

This is a little bit cumbersome unfortunately. You need to go to PoB and edit Pledge with 0%, 35%, 70%, 105% more damage, to get the damage per consecutive repetitions. Read the total DPS on the left and put it in the excel sheet. If you are also interested in recovery, you need to read the Skill Hit Damage (lightning only) from the Calcs tab too. But this is only for the ones that want to facetank Shaper as all calcs are done vs him in the sheet.

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Tehara wrote:

When using the 6L Pledge setup, can you combine the two cwdt setups into a 6L Cloak of Defiance?

Sure! Feel free to modify the links to your playstyle. Just be sure that the CWDT is at proper level to trigger exactly what you want.

Had to try this out.
For Shaperfarming this is awesome :D Thanks for sharing the guide. My first Ever kill :) Cheers

For The Vinktar Square where enemies can not be shocked anyways, I used Three Dragons instead of Mind of the Council to freeze instead of shock. Very nice against normal monsters, little to no effect against the bosses. Maybe even the guardians cannot be fully slowed.

This is going to be even more powerful in 3.8. Just look at the Hierophant changes in the patch notes:

Hierophant

Divine Guidance: No longer grants +150 to maximum Mana. Now grants 30% increased maximum Mana, and causes increases and reductions to maximum Mana to also apply to damage at 30% of their value.
Sanctuary of Thought: Now grants 50% less Mana cost of skills (rather than reduced). No longer grants 50% reduced Mana cost of skills while on full Energy Shield. Now grants 20% of maximum Mana as extra maximum Energy Shield (from 30%), and 1% increased area of effect per 50 unreserved maximum mana, up to 100%.

With 333% increased maximum mana (or even higher for the Pledge of Hands version), this would mean a 100% increased damage :O

And to top that off, over 80% increased AoE is easily attainable with 4000 unreserved mana

This build is absolutely buffed to high heavens. You are rewarded more for the investment into mana. You straight up get more damage with spell damage and Ball Lightning still scales in terms of damage with Area of Effect (albeit not hugely, but significantly enough).

Other then that, pure buffs all around. Great day for this build.

The buffs are really noticeable! I have made tentative PoB for 3.8:
https://pastebin.com/NyUqNJrv

With my current gear (I owe you some updates) I reach 14k eHP, >17k eHP/s recovery, and around 6M SDPS!!! And all of this with Pledge, which means fortify and 20%/4% block... Thanks to the changes, the clear should be much better too. The last ball is half the screen size!

Hi guys, im gonna try this build, any chance to swap pledge of hands for 2 one- hand weapon with mana stats? for example elemental damage, 7x + mana, critical chance, cast speed...

i dont really like staves and i dont know if this one is a must.i would like something with more movility.

thanks

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joavarper wrote:

Hi guys, im gonna try this build, any chance to swap pledge of hands for 2 one- hand weapon with mana stats? for example elemental damage, 7x + mana, critical chance, cast speed...

i dont really like staves and i dont know if this one is a must.i would like something with more movility.

thanks

Sure! You can dual-wield wands, which will give you even higher DPS at a cost of some survivability. Especially, the new gem level mods sound great. Regarding the gear progression I will go:
shimmerons -> void batteries -> multi-modded profane wands
Anyway, you should still be able to tank Shaper slams and balls, even without pledge.

EDIT: Here you have PoB with GG wands:
https://pastebin.com/LfwExLRd
Higher mobility, ~7.5M SDPS and the recovery should hit 20k eHP/s. No fortify though, and ~650 less eHP.