[Outdated] Lancing Steel Raider | SoftCore | Not league starter viable anymore

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lafkt84 wrote:

Hi

If i use % chance to gain onslaught for 4 seconds on kill on jewel
does it will interfere in a bad way

or it a good idea ?

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luki0910 wrote:

Will this be updated for 3.15 league? How about starting with that?

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SilverClown wrote:

Do you think this or the duelist version is more viable? Pro's and con's?

More projectiles x tankier?

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Leckarion wrote:

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SilverClown wrote:

Do you think this or the duelist version is more viable? Pro's and con's?

More projectiles x tankier?

The Champion version scales damage easier thanks to the ascendacies related to impale and get tankier with less gear investment thanks to perma fortify. Champion also can easily go for the low life approach with petrified blood and stack some armour. But is way slower movement speed wise and gets expensive real quick to attain the benefits of the raider ascendancy. I didn't really like Slayer when I tried, good damage but kinda squishy compared to champion.

Raider is more gear dependant but stacks damage with frenzy charges, has awesome movespeed, free perma onslaught from ascendancy nodes and has easier access to all frenzy nodes on the passive tree. Unfortunatelly she starts a bit weaker than champion because of the ascendancy bonuses from the champion tree and you'll only really put her ascendancies to full use after getting all 3 frenzy nodes on the tree and a pair of gloves with +1 maximum frenzy charges.

Deadeye has the best life and mana sustain potential if you plan on stacking life gain on hit and getting at least one source of mana gain on hit. If you're going for Deadeye it's mandatory to use poacher's mark in order to achieve its full potential. Unfortunatelly, similar to Raider, its gear dependant and to achieve the crazy high dps numbers raider can achieve going glasscannon, you'll need to invest into frenzy generation either through a Anomalous Blood Rage or a redeemer body armour(this is the same problem faced by the champion version in the high end).

In other words:
Champion is better for focused boss killing early on and has a kinda slow map clear simply due to its movespeed.

Raider is the most balanced of the options and the damage scales real quick as you get better gear. It's the fastest map clearing option.

Deadeye can achieve the best life sustain and clear but its costly.

There are also the assassin poison variant and the Ascendant variant. Both are not as good as the 3 above and assassin poison has been heavily nerfed, so probably wont work as well anymore.

In Ultimatum my league start was a Lancing Steel Champion and as soon as I got gear I deemed enough to surpass my champion with a Raider, I created a ranger and migrated my gear to the new character. Dropped the league with a 100 mil combined dps raider and gave away all my gear.

Hope that answers your question and have a great one.

Edit: Oh right, more projectiles mean more tankyness if you stack life gain on hit and leech rate on your character, so as mentioned above, Deadeye is the best option thanks to the +2 projs she has.