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kevinbrightblade wrote:
Any tips for taking down Hall of Grandmasters? I keep getting killed with full ES so ... go back to a life build for the map?
A bunch of the guys in HOTGM are using cull, so you need to have more than 10% life remaining. I drop an aura to get my life back up, while still keeping it below the LL threshold.
Also. There are some guys that Ball Lightning won't kill, they regain more life per hit than it deals, so you'll need to swap to another skill. I'm seriously considering dropping BL & Slower Projectiles for Arc & some other green skill... culling strike maybe... on my next attempt.
Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD
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Posted bygrimjack68#6087on Jul 21, 2020, 4:48:47 PM
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demonprince13 wrote:
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grimjack68 wrote:
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demonprince13 wrote:
Hello. I don't understand one. if i go to LL, how should blood magic work?
Your profile / characters are private, so we can't give specific advice.
However.
When you transition to LL, you swap your shield for a Prism Guardian, which has
blood magic built in. So your 3 big aura reservations, Zealotry, Discipline, and Wrath, in my case, go in the shield and now reserve life instead of mana.
Additionally, we add clarity and precision by using a blood magic gem, in another gear slot. I'm using my gloves for this - to reserve even more of our life, leaving more mana to be used for other things.
So we are using blood magic to reserve most of our life, which is what gives us the Low Life status.
Hope this helps!
Hello again. maybe I asked my question wrong. if I take CI life is down to 1. Does blood magic still work?
No. The progression is:
Life -> CI -> Low life
They are mutually exclusive.
Initially you'll take a bunch of life gear / nodes. When you switch to CI, you respec out of those nodes and drop life gear for ES gear. When you switch to LL, you'll need to add in chaos resistance and the tree nodes that add damage when on low life, and drop the CI node.
Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD
Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.
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Posted bygrimjack68#6087on Jul 21, 2020, 4:53:01 PM
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demonprince13 wrote:
Hello again. maybe I asked my question wrong. if I take CI life is down to 1. Does blood magic still work?
No, you cant be LL because 1/1 is always 100% life. Cant reserve anything with life. Why you even wanna go CI if you wanna be LL?
While you can’t reserve life, it is possible to be CI with PA active with certain item combos. Not worth it for this build though.
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Posted byBeerLeague#4791on Jul 21, 2020, 5:51:28 PM
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TheRealDeria wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but has anyone considered using Profane Proxy (ring) to cause one of our Skitterbots to apply conductivity (at +3 levels, no less) instead of having to use the curse-on-hit setup with storm brand?
It seems like we might be able to do something useful with those 2 gems (ie: make storm brand more effective via swiftbrand support or something else fun).
I'm not sure I could do this with MY gear since I'm not massively resist-capped, but it seems like a potentially useful idea.
Not worth giving up enfeeble as an aura around the character. You also lose a pretty massive chunk of ehp from the ring.
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Posted byBeerLeague#4791on Jul 21, 2020, 5:52:36 PM
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grimjack68 wrote:
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kevinbrightblade wrote:
Any tips for taking down Hall of Grandmasters? I keep getting killed with full ES so ... go back to a life build for the map?
A bunch of the guys in HOTGM are using cull, so you need to have more than 10% life remaining. I drop an aura to get my life back up, while still keeping it below the LL threshold.
Also. There are some guys that Ball Lightning won't kill, they regain more life per hit than it deals, so you'll need to swap to another skill. I'm seriously considering dropping BL & Slower Projectiles for Arc & some other green skill... culling strike maybe... on my next attempt.
GC and icicle can both do it without any issues. BLs problem with whatever the max block / recovery on block guy is that it hits a zillion times a second and he out regens it. Basically need to one shot him.
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Posted byBeerLeague#4791on Jul 21, 2020, 5:54:00 PM
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hi Beer, i know you already answered this in some point of the discussion but i don't remember where.
what is the condition to us to drop awakened lightning pen and use awakened add lightning damage?
another thing, how much Dying Sun influence in our damage after getting the helmet enchant that give ball lightning an extra projectile?
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Posted byAn1m4ls_#4320on Jul 22, 2020, 9:21:01 AM
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An1m4ls_ wrote:
hi Beer, i know you already answered this in some point of the discussion but i don't remember where.
what is the condition to us to drop awakened lightning pen and use awakened add lightning damage?
another thing, how much Dying Sun influence in our damage after getting the helmet enchant that give ball lightning an extra projectile?
Would need an extra 40-ish% Pen from gear to switch.
Easiest way would be boot pen enchant, double pen watcher's eye and wise oak. You can fit in by dropping dying sun.
The helm enchant and dying sun do not increase single target dps (outside of the AoE increase on dying sun - which is quite powerful), but they increase clear massively. If all you care about is bossing, you dont need either - I would recommend at least one, if not both for QoL with clear though.
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Posted byBeerLeague#4791on Jul 22, 2020, 10:06:04 AM
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BeerLeague wrote:
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grimjack68 wrote:
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kevinbrightblade wrote:
Any tips for taking down Hall of Grandmasters? I keep getting killed with full ES so ... go back to a life build for the map?
A bunch of the guys in HOTGM are using cull, so you need to have more than 10% life remaining. I drop an aura to get my life back up, while still keeping it below the LL threshold.
Also. There are some guys that Ball Lightning won't kill, they regain more life per hit than it deals, so you'll need to swap to another skill. I'm seriously considering dropping BL & Slower Projectiles for Arc & some other green skill... culling strike maybe... on my next attempt.
GC and icicle can both do it without any issues. BLs problem with whatever the max block / recovery on block guy is that it hits a zillion times a second and he out regens it. Basically need to one shot him.
Is it reasonable to use either of those with just a gem switch, or are we going to need a gear switch as well?
Just for HOTGM, I'm thinking we should be able to clear it without a fully optimised GC / icicle setup.
Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD
Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.
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Posted bygrimjack68#6087on Jul 22, 2020, 1:38:43 PM
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grimjack68 wrote:
Just for HOTGM, I'm thinking we should be able to clear it without a fully optimised GC / icicle setup.
Just gem swap would be fine. the max block guy doesnt spawn every time anyway
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Posted byBeerLeague#4791on Jul 22, 2020, 2:45:55 PM
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Sorry if this has been said already, but I'm trying to figure out how to deal with mana problems. I have all auras, except I don't use aspect of the spider yet. I have 1107 total mana with 747 of that reserved (leaving 360). When I lay all 19 mines, I have 56 mana left. After I detonate the mines, it takes like 7-10 sec for the mana to come back. Depending on map mods I can get into some trouble in that time! If I add aspect of the spider, I only have 106 mana which allows me to put down about 6 mines.
Any recommendations? What should be my target for how much mana I have left after all auras are up (including aspect of the spider)?
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