Thank you very much for the explanation and giving myself a lot of options for the large cluster jewel :)
My pleasure.
To add on the clusters jewels, you can also look for a curse based medium jewel with Master of Fear and Wish of death.
Master of fear gives unnerved: 10% increased spell damage taken for the monsters. It's basically as strong as 2*5% increased damage taken provided by Brand loyalty when 2 brands are attached to the ennemy, but works more reliably since the brands do not need to be attached to unnerve. You do loose the brand attachment range.
On the other hand, you gain culling strike which is more significant than a second Chip away.
The first cheap away brings 25% activation frequency, which is a 10.4% more damage given the reference PoB passive tree. The second chip away is then a boost of 9.4% more damage.
Culling strike is a 11.1% more damage boost.
I'm not saying the curse jewel is objectively better, I'm just giving equivalent options (a bit more consistent damage but less range on the brands attachment. Also it's good to cull bosses since often the last part of the fight is the most dangerous). I don't know about the price of the jewels, maybe you can save money here.
Ok Brand loyalty is bugged out and you get 5% increased damage taken on a single target from ALL your brands (not only the attached one) when you use brand recall...
Thank you very much for the explanation and giving myself a lot of options for the large cluster jewel :)
My pleasure.
To add on the clusters jewels, you can also look for a curse based medium jewel with Master of Fear and Wish of death.
Master of fear gives unnerved: 10% increased spell damage taken for the monsters. It's basically as strong as 2*5% increased damage taken provided by Brand loyalty when 2 brands are attached to the ennemy, but works more reliably since the brands do not need to be attached to unnerve. You do loose the brand attachment range.
On the other hand, you gain culling strike which is more significant than a second Chip away.
The first cheap away brings 25% activation frequency, which is a 10.4% more damage given the reference PoB passive tree. The second chip away is then a boost of 9.4% more damage.
Culling strike is a 11.1% more damage boost.
I'm not saying the curse jewel is objectively better, I'm just giving equivalent options (a bit more consistent damage but less range on the brands attachment. Also it's good to cull bosses since often the last part of the fight is the most dangerous). I don't know about the price of the jewels, maybe you can save money here.
Ok Brand loyalty is bugged out and you get 5% increased damage taken on a single target from ALL your brands (not only the attached one) when you use brand recall...
This is interesting: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2826715/page/1#p23095502
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Chip Away doesn't count Brand Recall, a skill with the Brand tag, as a Brand skill. This results in Brand Recall failing to negate the conditional effect of Chip Away on active Armageddon Brands or Storm Brands when Brand Recall is cast ("25% increased Brand Activation Frequency if you haven't used a Brand Skill Recently").
I tried to tell you it's broken hah. Likely unintended. But definitely a nice addition.
So Chip Away always has 25% activation frequency. This would explain why it always has good numbers in PoB.
Ok I have reached 70, have all the gear and things were working great.
I followed the directions and did the following mapping:
1) Cyclone on right button
2) Arcane Cloak on left button
3) Brand Recall on another mouse control
I also followed the activation sequence:
1) Cast 3 Storm Brand's
2) Get Cyclone to the max
2) Cast the rest of the Brand's
4) Continually hold down Cyclone, Arcane Cloak and Brand Recall
I also activated 'Blood Rage' and Righteous Fire and then just went around killing thing. Everything worked fine, until I died. Now as soon as I hit left button for 'Arcane Cloak' it drops me out of Cyclone (which was working before).
I did some experimenting and I believe it has to do with how the left mouse button works. If I move the 'Arcane Cloak' to another control, it seems to work.
Can anyone help me on this as it has put an end to my carnage :(
Ok I have reached 70, have all the gear and things were working great.
I followed the directions and did the following mapping:
1) Cyclone on right button
2) Arcane Cloak on left button
3) Brand Recall on another mouse control
I also followed the activation sequence:
1) Cast 3 Storm Brand's
2) Get Cyclone to the max
2) Cast the rest of the Brand's
4) Continually hold down Cyclone, Arcane Cloak and Brand Recall
I also activated 'Blood Rage' and Righteous Fire and then just went around killing thing. Everything worked fine, until I died. Now as soon as I hit left button for 'Arcane Cloak' it drops me out of Cyclone (which was working before).
I did some experimenting and I believe it has to do with how the left mouse button works. If I move the 'Arcane Cloak' to another control, it seems to work.
Can anyone help me on this as it has put an end to my carnage :(
I've had this issue in the past if I press cyclone before cloak for someone reason. Cloak and recall should not be let go. Cyclone you can drop whenever you need to.
